members are tracking news out of the white house and overseas. congressman gregory meeks, democrat of new york state, member of the foreign affairs committee. thanks for taking time out of your memorial day. good being with you. we learned president trump s adviser and son-in-law jared kushner discussed creating a backchannel between the trump cane and the kremlin in this meeting last december. many republicans have come out saying they believe that this kind of backchannel might be a good thing. i wonder if you agree with that. no, it s puzzling to me. you know, when you are talking about backchannel when you re not yet in office, there s another administration that was in place and you re talking about doing it in the facilities of an adversary and on top of that when russia had played a tremendous role in our intelligence, all the
driver over for dui or a staffer tries to bring a firearm in. they have a permit or open carry and it s a problem in the direct of columbia and on capitol hill and sometimes random people go through security and they have weed or marijuana on them and get busted for that. there is kind of a zero tolerance policy. there s a bigger issue with something that might lead to terrorism than somebody with marijuana with them but they re pretty strict up here. bill: thank you, chad. back to shannon also on capitol hill. shannon: we ll check in with mike emanuel tracking news if he news feature. we don t think there s ongoing continuing threat as chad said and you reported the center is open and thousands of people are
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keep many of the programs. let me ask this, candy, the president says essentially we re doing this in a safe responsible way and then condemns the leaks. at a time people are seeing this administration subpoenaing, tracking news reporters records to try to track down the leaks, does that add their apples and oranges to a degree, but does the aggressive government role, does it add to the suspicions people will have about are they really not listening to my phone call, are they really not going into my e-mails in a way that oversteps hunting for terrorists? i do think it still goes to the trust issue. and it s very hard to govern whether you re a congresswoman or senator or president if people don t trust your judgment. essentially you heard what the president said. you elected us, you need to trust us, we re doing this within the confines of the law, i m very protective of both civil rights as well as civil liberties, et cetera, et cetera. but i do think that it s a
some protester and we have been hearing about more arrests taking place. earlyer, some 700 protesters all but stopped traffic and this afternoon, the plan is for protesters to hit seven different stops across new york. this is however a nationwide movement and we are tracking news out of dallas where there were more arrests overnight. police trying to reign in protesters there. in l.a., an early wake-up call and small crowd just began to gather. marches planned across california today. oakland, san francisco, but now, let s head back into new york city. we have our reporter on the scene. when we last left you, you were going to check what was going on with police activity. what did you find out? you can see there is a very large police presence here and here is what s happening. the group of marchers from this morning, you had about 700 people that marched to wall street. they have now