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well, if i might to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. it is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal justice reform that as attorney general you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal justice reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on text or the interrogation context and to defend enhanced interrogation practices. are you clear now that our statutes prohibit torture and if the president were to rover yid that clear legal authority what actions would you take? on your previous question i would note the federal prison population has already dropped 10 or more percent and will drop another 10,000 this year. what is happening now is reducing the federal population. this law only dealt with the federal prison ....
wbr id= wbr600 /> one thing, getting great health care for this country. that was a big chunk. and as far as subsidy is concerned, i don t want to make the insurance companies rich. if you look at their stock price over the last number of years, take a look at what s happened with the insurance companies. they are making a fortune by getting that kind of money. yes? wbr id= wbr893 /> how long can you [ inaudible ] we will see what happens with iran. we are very unhappy with iran. they haven t treated us with the kind of respect they should have been treating. they should have thanked barack obama. they were gone. they were economically gone. he infused $100 billion to $150 billion into wbr id= wbr1140 /> their economy. gave them $1.7 billion in cash. they should be, thank you, president obama. /b> they didn t say that. you said you would declare national emergency we are studying national emergency right now. believe it or not, doing national emergency as you u ....
this letter which is dated today is written from president trump s attorney to judge wood who will be overseeing a very high stakes hearing tomorrow in new york about all those ver sensitive materials that were seized by the fbi in the raid of michael cohen s office, of his hotel room and his home as well as the seizure of his phones and this is something that i don t think has ever been said before, at least not to to my knowledge on the news. the president of the united states is offering to make himself personally available for any review or screening of the evidence that the fbi seized of his lawyer. it s an unusual offer to say the least and with that let me get right to a well assembled panel. senator richard blumenthal, former senator byron dorgen and eugene robinson from the the washington post which has broken some of these stories your colleagues have. i ll go down the line. dealer s choice on which aspects of this you want to speak to and, senator, your view of wh ....
poor judgment. and those who met with the trump officials in 2016 now admitted she has closer ties to the kremlin than previously disclosed. was she lying all along. the nra connection. allegations that the russians may have funneled money through the nra. it is a cnn exclusive. and korean thaw, a historic meeting between kim jong-un and the south korea president, the two vowing to finally end the korean war and work toward denuclearize is. is north korea already dismantling the test site. wolf blitzer is off. i m jim acosta. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we re following breaking news, including a new report that russian lawyer at a 2016 meeting with top trump officials had closer ties to the kremlin than previously disclosed including working as an informant and sources say nra is setting aside documents related to the kremlin with allegations they may have illegally funneled money to help the trump campaign. and the breaking ....
footsteps trying to follow your lead for how to extract information from this man. we have double-teamed him, as has the world on this question of where did you get the information? and what strikes me as so interesting today, no reporters have caught up with that. there s no report in the new york times, the washington journal, the washington post, no one has figured out where michael avenatti got all this banking information about michael cohen. and we ve got little pieces of it and prospects of little piece of it. we have news organizations, including nbc news saying they too have seen financial documents that corroborate what michael avenatti reported p p we have these big companies corroborating what he reported saying yeah we paid that money to michael cohen. now we have the treasury inspector general reportedly investigating to find out if somebody released suspicious reports from the banking sector and if that s the way he got this information. if that s the ....