The presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote . On in vote, the yeas are 62, it is nays are perform and the nays are 38. The motion is not agreed to. The clerk will report. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 151 s. 1599. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk s. 1599 a bill to provide antiretaliation protections for antitrust whistleblowers. The presiding officer without objection, the senate will proceed to the motion. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that the committeereported substitute amendment be agreed to the bill as amended be read a third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its Business Today it adjourn until 9 30 a. M. Thursday july 23. Following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date and the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. Following leader remarks the senate resume consideration of the motion to proceed to h. R. 22, postcloture. Lastly that all time during the adjournment of the senate count postcloture on the motion to proceed to h. R. 22. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell so if theres no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. The presiding officer the Senate Stands adjourninged until complicated confusing. Filmmakers talk about there documentary test of enemies of the 1968 debate between conservatives William F Buckley and liberal gore the doll. Very unlike today. Today i believe there is someone saying the numbers are bundling hot salacious topic number two. And then i dont think think that was the norm in syria the time. Them moderator. This thing with these men embarrassed by this. Five or more minutes in time. Really everybody at abc just a back and let the fire burned. On the nightsunday night at 8 00 oclock eastern and pacific on cspan q a. A federal grand jury has indicted dylan ruth the suspect in last months shooting. Federal hate crime charges. He was accused of killing nine people during a bible study in charleston and was charged on 33 federal counts. Atty. Gen. Loretta lynch spoke about the indictments at a briefing at the justice department. Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for coming. I am joined here today by the head of the Departments Civil Rights Division and mark juliano Deputy Director of the fbi. We are hear to announce as federal grand jury had South Carolina has returned a 33 indictment against dylan storm ruth charging him with federal hate crime and firearms charges for killing and attempting to kill africanamerican parishioners at aa manual African Methodist Episcopal Church in charleston, South Carolina because of there race and in order to interfere with there exercise of there religion. As set forth in the indictment several months prior to the tragic events of june 17 ruth conceived of his goal of increasing racial tension throughout the nation and seeking retribution for perceived wrongs that he believed africanamericans had committed against white people. To carry out these two angles of fanning racial flames and exacting revenge ruth further decided to seek out and murder africanamericans because of there race. An essential element of his plan was to find his victims inside of a church, specifically an africanamerican church to ensure the greatest notoriety and attention to his actions. As alleged he set out the evening of june 17, 2015 to carry out this plan and drove to the manual African Methodist Episcopal Church in charleston, South Carolina. His destination specifically because it was an historically africanamerican church of significance to the people of charleston, South Carolina, and the nation. On that evening he found his target. Africanamericans engage in worship. Met with welcome he joined them in there bible study group. The parishioners had bibles. Dylan ruth had his 45 caliber glock with eight magazines loaded with hollow points. Engaged in religious worship and bible study dylan ruth drew his pistol and fired on them ultimately killing nine people. The state of South Carolina is prosecuting ruth. We commend the South Carolina state authorities for there tremendous work and quick response. It is important to note that South Carolina does not have a state crime a hate crime statute and as a result they do not reflect the alleged hate crimes in the federal indictment returned today specifically charging ruth with nine murders and three attempted murders. This federal hate crime law prohibits using a dangerous weapon to cause Bodily Injury or attempting to do so on the basis of race or color. The shepherd a bird act was enacted specifically to vindicate the unique harms caused by racially motivated violence. Also charged with nine murders and three attempted murders under a 2nd federal hate crime statute that prohibits the use or threat of force to obstruct any persons free exercise of there religious beliefs. This indictment contains allegations of the defendants guilt. As you will recall, this federal grand jury indictment followed an announcement that i made a on june 18 to 2015 that the department of justice was conducting a hate Crimes Investigation into the shooting. Immediately following that shooting the experience prosecutors from the u. S. Attorneys office along with attorneys from the Civil Rights Division began working with the fbi, atf, and state and Law Enforcement officials, including the lawenforcement division the Charleston Police and the Solicitors Office for the ninth circuit of courts and i would like to thank the Law Enforcement for their dedication and hard work to ensure that this investigation was conducted thoroughly and expeditiously. He and his office testermans efforts on this case as well as the dedicated attorneys from the Departments Civil Rights Division. In particular i would like to extend my thanks to Scarlett Wilson for being a cooperative and effective partner. We have a strong relationship with her and we look forward to continued collaboration is the parallel state and federal prosecutions work their way through their respective court systems. Thank you for your attention. Are there any questions . [inaudible] we are working with the solicitor both cases will proceed through the court system and we will both work to reduce any unnecessary burden to the family. There are any number of factors that we will consider how to cases are progressing and essentially how the judges arguing the case. Both cases are in their early stages and have yet to have motions. So at this point in the difficult to say how that will impact the schedule. There is no specific statute but hate crimes as i have stated are the original domestic terrorism and we feel that the behavior that has occurred here is the type of behavior that fits the federal hate crimes statute and has vindicates their purpose and we have a defendant that was alleged to have had of harvard discriminatory views to have sought out an africanamerican house of worship one that was particularly noted because of its age and he also sought out africanamerican parishioners as well, implemented in several statutes and we think that this is exactly the kind of case that the federal hate crimes statutes were conceived a to cover. This is the original domestic terrorism. 2015, if you look at the essence of the case brought forth, the fact that these people are dead today because of their race. Could you speak to where we stand and what that says . This is obviously a tragic situation and a troubling situation as the allegations in the indictment reflect the mindset of this young man and his specific purpose purposed to target individuals for death because of their race. But also to target individuals who are engaged in religious worship as well and i think that we have to remain vigilant about these matters and certainly at this point we dont know much more about the defendant. The investigation is ongoing into a host of matters including those motivations, but i think that the message that should be clear to this is that the federal government and the state partners are committed to investigating these matters fully and thoroughly and where we have racially motivated violence committed to action. It seems to me they targeted emanuel ame specifically because it is a historically africanamerican church. How do you know that that is why he chose that church as opposed to any africanamerican church. How do you know the National Significance of the church remapped. Im not going to comment specifically on the evidence that will come forth at a trial except to note that we believe that the evidence will support the allegation that they chose emanuel ame because it was an Old Historic Church and historically significant as one of the oldest africanamerican churches not just in South Carolina but the nation and that he was looking for the type of church and the type of parishioners whose deaths were the drop rate notoriety for his religious views, i should say. I know that you used the language because of. To what extent are all other factors being precluded. He hates his motherhe hates others. What impact does that have . Hopefully he would not receive information like that although we would act off it if we did. You also have the possibility of multiple chargers, the charges here alleged racially motivated violence in the murder and attempted murder and also the federal hate crimes statute that prohibits using violence to essentially prevent anyone from exercising their religion. That is not tied to race that is tied to the exercise of religion. We see here for example an activity that supports allegation of more than one intent as well. With respect to issues that you raise about the defendants state of mind all of that will be taken into consideration in this case goes forward and im not able to speculate as to what impact any other factors would have on the case. You suggested that this was a seven month plan. Can you elaborate on how detailed this plan is, whether he made trips to the church prior to that time . Thank you for the question. It was several months prior to the june 17 incident and im not able to go into the evidence right now that would show the action surrounding that at this point. Should there be federal domestic terrorism . For the average person that sees the way that people in Law Enforcement talk about different types of killings with different words, what distinctions should they make when they talk about a shooting in chattanooga a hate crime. Does it matter and should there be domestic terrorism . As to what laws should or should not come as a result of this, im not going to speculate at this point in time. The nature of the case but i think people may feel that because we have such a strong emphasis since 9 11 that when we talk about matters and dont use the terminology that somehow we dont see those kinds of serious and i want to be clear that nothing could be further from the truth than that. This type of crime racially motivated violence for which the federal law was specifically enacted to cover is of grave importance great importance to the federal government. We have devoted considerable resources from the beginning of this case to make sure that this interest was explored and is the evidence that supported it and the allegations were brought because this is in fact the archetype of the original domestic terrorism and i think that sometimes people focus on the terminology. As i have mentioned since 9 11 there has been a refocus on that type of case. But it should in no way signify that this particular murder or any federal crime is a of any lesser significance. How will you you determine whether or not he is a candidate for the Death Penalty . The department of justice has a process by which we consider it to tenants in determining whether or not to seek Death Penalty. Its a detailed and thorough review process and it involves the defense counsel in consultation with the victims family and it involves a review of the factors that we would utilize the Death Penalty to determine whether or not we feel that we could prevail on this factors and ultimately after this review process, which is both at the u. S. Attorneys office level, it is here and ultimately comes to my desk where i make the ultimate decision whether or not to seek the Death Penalty in any case. I do want to be clear that no decision has been made as to whether or not to seek Death Penalty, but we have an obligation to fate and translates the defendant on notice and to allow the council the time to begin to prepare to make those submissions. [inaudible question] there is a review that would be there into the procedures that would allow us to miss the fact that he had applied to purchase addon. This is a matter of grave importance and something that is very disturbing and frankly heartbreaking to all of us who are reviewing this matter and that investigation is ongoing and i look forward to receiving the results from it. Yesterday you said you were looking at this brand. Are you monitoring the investigation . As noted that matter is under investigation by local authorities. And we have local investigations as well. Can you talk about what your views are as we received some letters from members of congress and there is an applicable federal law here and is that something that you are going to open an investigation into . There are some inquiries that have been made, the department of justice, and at that point we are going to review what steps to take at the appropriate time. That is an Ongoing Investigation and an open matter so im not able to comment at this time as to what charges may or may not result. But what i will they is that the department of justice, as well as other federal agencies are actively involved in knowing everyone in person that is subject to the region providing them with the tools necessary to protect their personal data. Your reaction to how they were responded to this . I think from the beginning the families of the dems of the shooting have provided an example to the country of what to grace and spirit looks like and i think they are an inspiration to us all. I think we do not know how many of us would be able to find that kind of forgiveness in our hearts so soon after such a terrible heartbreaking loss. In particular i thought what was very hopeful for everyone watching that is to see that the families allege that they were angry. But they did have anger toward the person that had taken their loved ones, but they were able to still move to forgiveness. And i thought that was an incredible lesson and message for us. Your office began the investigation into the death of eric garner. When can we expect the resolution . I cannot comment on the timing except to say that it is still ongoing and we are moving ahead with that investigation and thorough and efficient manner. Even that this is part of it do you think youre properly organizing resources to focus on the domestic terrorism threat to we are tracking a number of threads on u. S. Soil and abroad. And certainly the death of any american or anyone is a matter of grave importance to us here in the federal government. Without commenting on how we allocate resources, i would say that we take all threats seriously, whether they come from a foreign domestic terrorist organization, a domestic Militia Organization or simply an individual that post threats online. We take all of those matters seriously and devote what we feel are the resources necessary to protect individuals who come under those threats and if we learn of it too late to vindicate their interest in bringing the killers to justice. Thank you all. On the next washington journal, we talked to this congressman about the recent thaw in u. S. And cuban relations and effort to pass a spending bill. Also congressman brad sherman, a member of the Financial Services committee on the fifth anniversary of the doddfrank ananta regulations and a recent cdc report on heroin use in heroin related deaths. We are live with your phone calls at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time on cspan. Considered underrated by many historians Caroline Harrison was an accomplished artist that took up china painting and carried that interested the white house, establishing its china collection and she was interested in womens issues and helped to raise funds on the condition that they would admit women. She was the first president general of the daughters of the American Revolution until she died in the white house from tuberculosis. This sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans original series first ladys influence and image examining the public and private lives of those that build the image of first lady. Sundays at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. Coming up next, mike mccaul talks about how the use of social media by extremists has changed Counterterrorism Operations in the u. S. We will also hear from former Reagan Administration<