millions of green cards and naturalization applications. the volume of benefits request received various. in any given year, they administer a broad range of programs which he receives millions of benefit applications and petitions. in 2018 alone, more than 8 million immigration benefits were requested. that was actually a decrease from the number you requested during fiscal year 2007 10. despite the huge volume of receipts, they still managed to naturalize nearly 757,000 u.s. citizens during fiscal year 2018. more than in any of the previous five years. 2010 also saw them adjudicate more immigration benefits than ever in its history. is to be commended for those accomplishments. to be clear, benefits to be probably adjudicated. everyone here would agree with that. it is important they abide by the mission to throw it at request from immigration benefits. is also important for the agency to adhere to the rest of its mission. to administer the nation's lawful immigration system. while protecting americans and securing the homeland. immigration benefits should not be delayed for ne

areer stationary. a lot of them are actually snowbirds and things of that nature, so they still move around a lot, and they actually still have to find places to where theyure out are living at verses where they vacation at or live part of the year. whether they can vote there. let me give brett a chance to respond to that. guest: one of the policies that pamela advocated for, going to the dmv and register to vote, that is automatic voter registration. that is what we are advocating. it doesn't happen in all 50 states. it should. she is right. that is a type of policy that would increase access to the polls. in regards to being stationary versus not, i will give my own personal example. in three years in college i lived in four different cities. they were all within 10 minutes of each other. i lived in richmond, california, oakland, berkeley, albany. that means four different voter registrations. for someone dealing with the full course load of college classes plus work and trying to figure out where to register to vote, that is different. that is not saying anybody else does no

year 2017. despite the huge volume of receipts the last few years us cis naturalized 757,000 new us citizens during fiscal year 2018. more than any of the previous 5 years. fiscal year 2018 also saw us cis adjudicate more immigration benefits than ever in its history. and immigration benefits to be probably adjudicated. everyone would agree with that. it was important us the arias abide by its mission, to adjudicate requested benefits. it is also important the agency adhere to the rest of its mission to administer, safeguarding its integrity and promise, by protecting american securing the homeland and honoring our values. immigration benefits should not be delayed for the various purposes nor should they understand as we have seen during other administrations. as we have seen many factors contribute to the volume of benefit requests and the time it takes to adjudicate them, what factors increase volume? presidential elections have led to increases in naturalization applications, those who want to vote apply for naturalization for the election and administered of action can increase

a financial nature, if you have a financial motive or illicit financial dealing, am i right? >> yes. >> but it culs involve deception. if you are lying about something that can be exposed, then you can be blackmailed. >> also true. >> in the case of michael flynn, he was secretly doing business with turkey, correct? >> yes. >> and that could open him up to compromise, that financial relationship. >> i presume. >> he also lied about his discussions with the russian ambassador. and since the russians were on the other side of that conversation, they could have exposed that, could they not? >> yes. >> if a presidential candidate was doing business in russia and saying he wasn't, russians could expose that, too, could they not? >> i leave that to you. >> well, let's-- let's look at dmitri peskov, the spokesperson for the kremlin, someone the trump organization was in contact with to make that deal happen. your report indicates that michael cohen had a long conversation on the phone with someone from dmitri preskov's office, presumably the russians could record that conversation, could t

reason he left the gop itself was because he was so disgusted at the due police tis nature at many of these republicans who in private would sound off on the president and tell them how worried they were about what he was doing to the american public and then two minutes later see them on fox news lying through their teeth about the president and providing him all the cover he needed to continue -- enabling him to continue doing and saying these things. >> congresswoman edwards "new york times" columnist thomas friedman weighed in on the democrats, the 2020 campaign, it is a fascinating read. i encourage everyone watching and listening on sirius satellite radio to read it. but part of what says in the article, he writes i'm struck at how many people have come up to me recently and said, trump's going to get re-elected, isn't he? dear democrats there are not complicated. just nominate a decent, sane person, one committed to reunifying the country and creating more good jobs. my colleague brian williams, he asked thomas friedman on the 11th hour wednesday night expand on what democra

of the nature of epstein's conduct and when they became -- when he became aware of what is clearly now criminality and real sexual deviance. what do you think when you see that tape? do you think anyone at the white house is concerned about those images? >> they are concerned because it's a relationship the president does not want to talk about at all publicly or privately. whenever he's asked about it, in either circumstance, my sources say he dismisses it and says he had a falling out with epstein and leaves it at that. but the footage reveals did he have some kind of relationship within the culture of palm beach back in 1992 and throughout the mid-and early 1990s. there are just so many questions that hang out there that why was he steep at mar-a-lago. what was the extent of the relationship? and as reporters always say, are there other documents? this video tells us a little bit. what was the extent of this financial relationship that fell apart about a decade ago according to the president? it was a big reporting target. everybody is working hard who's a nonpartisan reporter t

came from. came to the u.s. as a child and became naturalized as a citizen in her teens although he now says he wasn't blooezed with what he heard. >> i was not happy with it. >> i disagree with it. but again, i didn't say that. they did. >> but i was not happy when i heard that chant. >> his initial attack led to sharp reviews from democrats and even some republicans including a formal condemnation in the house. in the wake of the rally congresswoman omar is concerned not for herself but for all people of color. >> he's telling them that this is not their country and what we tell them is that this is. >> 2020 democratic presidential candidates weighing in on this story. tweeting you'll never understand what makes us strong that's why the american people are going to vote you out in 2020 and obviously a message to the president. in the white house. >>> for more this afternoon we're joined by lauren ride. woodrow wilson. lauren, thank you for being here. the president today claims to disenvow the chant do you think voters believe him can you believe how much has changed since we talk

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country will naturally revert back. >> no. this is going to take awhile because he exposed something that was there beneath the surface, and he has elevated and legitimatized hatred in this country. everyone, almost everyone here has ancestors who are from somewhere else. >> yeah. >> he is saying that it's a winning strategy for him, this whole otherizing. how dangerous do you think this is, isha? >> it's deeply dangerous. first of all, again, it seemed to me, you know, for want of a better word, moronic, oxymoronic that you had people chanting "send her back" when this country was built by people from other places and enraged by her speaking out. whether you like it or not, some of the things she said, this country is built on the principle of free speech. so it's almost like they're criticizing her, but they're actually criticizing the essence of america, you know, for all this that she's anti-american. you're actually criticizing the essence of what makes this country great, our diversity and the fact that you can speak your mind. and it's -- it's so dangerous, this otherizing. yo

qualify as an obstructive act, it would naturally obstruct the investigation and any grand jury proceedings that might flow from the inquiry. a fact-finder would need to consider whether the act had the potential to delay further action in the investigation, chill the actions of any replacement special counsel or otherwise impede the investigation. we know from the footnotes of the mueller report this part of the probe was going on the longest. i mean, we have an interview with don mcgahn, who is a witness in this obstruction probe a week before mueller went into the doj and said he was done. >> i think that's right. the obstruction charges, mueller identifies ten possible areas for obstruction. the democrats have broken that into five areas but it's really three. the effort that involves getting mcghan to fire mueller, the effort that involves having sessions unrecuse himself and present any investigation of the president. and witness intimidation and pardon dangling, these have always been very clear just based on the evidence that's contained in the report. and now mueller ha

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on the nature of the president's act and inferences that could be drawn of his intent. >> when you talk about the president's pattern of conduct that concludes 10 possible acts of obstruction that you investigated, is that correct? >> that would conclude the 10 possible acts of obstruction. >> i direct you to the report of how it is characterized. >> for each of those ten potential instances of obstruction of justice, you analyzed three elements. >> obstruction act, and corrupt intent, is that correct? >> yes. >> you wrote on page 178, volume 2 of corrupt intent. actions by the president to end a criminal investigation into his own conduct to protect against personal embarrassment or legal liability could cons substitute a core example of corruptly motivated conduct, is that correct? >> yes. >> to the screen again, with the evidence you did find, is it true on page 76 of volume 2 that the evidence does indicate a thorough fbi investigation would uncover feedbacks uncover facts of the campaign that the president could have understood to be crimes that would give rise to legal and pe

fake news. [ cheers ] >> peter, with that in mind, weren't his comments today just a natural extension? >> well, look, he has repeatedly asked americans to believe his version of events, his narrative that he is setting over not just the viewpoints or recollections of other people who happen to be in a room, but the very videotapes or audio tapes we've seen. we saw him deny that he called meghan markle the new duchess in britain nasty, he denied that the facility in texas that vice president pence saw was crowded and troubled. he denied that he had said, even a small thing like whether he called tim cook, whether he called him tim apple or not. he did, the audio is very clear and he denied it at first. don't believe what you hear or what you see, believe what i'm telling you. look, a lot of people who believe in him believe he's telling a larger truth. they understand he might not be completely honest, but what they see is someone who is speaking truth to power in a way. that's why they react to his vision of an america that is under siege by this multicultural immigration-he

back" chant aimed at a naturalized u.s. congresswoman, but he let that chorus continue. >>> trump's involvement. newly unveiled search warrants show the fbi believed that candidate donald trump was involved in phone calls aimed at covering up an alleged affair with a porn star on the very day that hush money payments were made. >>> tonight in a television first, cnn will draw names for the democrats' next debate live. all designed for full transparency, as you'll learn who will be on stage with whom the same time the candidates do. >>> looking to escape? the world's most dangerous drug lord was just moved to a super-max prison, but he's escaped from tough places before. could his associates already be looking to bust him out? >>> i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >>> president trump now claims he's not happy that his campaign crowd broke into a chant of "send her back" after he slammed a congresswoman who is a nationalized u.s. citizen, but the president let the ugly chant continue a full 13 seconds last night. he later encouraged the crowd to, quote, tell them to

light on the nature of the president's acts and the inferences that can be drawn about his intent. does that mean you have to investigate all of his conduct to ascertain true motive? >> no. >> and when you talk about the president's pattern of conduct that include the ten possible acts of obstruction that you investigated, is that correct? when you talk about the president's pattern of conduct, that would include the ten possible acts of obstruction that you investigated, correct? >> i direct you to the report for how that is characterized. >> thank you. let me go to the screen again. for each of those ten potential instances of obstruction of justice, you analyze three elements of the crime of obstruction of justice. an obstructive act, and an official proceeding, and criminal intent, is that correct? >> yes. >> actions by the president to end a criminal investigation into his own conduct to protect against personal embarrassment or legal liability would constitute a core example of corruptly motivated conduct, is that correct? >> yes. >> to the screen again. even with the evidence you

capitol hill. the nature of those objections are cause for concern. we're hearing that junior members are concerned they're not going to get a chance to ask questions. that sounds a little like members like they're getting their television clip. pulling out the narrative of this important report. this is going to be one of the most important congressional oversight hearings in a generation. members need to be focused on putting their egos aside and confronting the task at hand. >> we're learning the officialing at the department of homeland security -- they're announcing these deportation raids are going to begin this sunday. they suspect that could endanger the entire operation. >> it's not just a danger, what would you be doing if you were on the other side of this, you would be collecting your own -- you're the subject of a raid. what does the law say about, whether i have to answer the door? do i have an iphone so when someone comes in and raids my house and takes away a crying two-year-old. i'm putting that on an iphone. what lawyers are out there that can counsel me duri

is trying to back off his rally "send her back" chant aimed at a naturalized u.s. congresswoman, but he let that chorus continue. >>> trump's involvement. newly unveiled search warrants show the fbi believed that candidate donald trump was involved in phone calls aimed at covering up an alleged affair with a porn star on the very day that hush money payments were made. >>> tonight in a television first, cnn will draw names for the

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in-person interview. that's the kind of nature of it. and you used terms like a substantial body of evidence, significant evidence of the president's intent. my question, sir, is did you have sufficient evidence of the president's intent to obstruct justice and is that why you didn't do the interview? >> there's a balance. in other words, how much evidence you have that satisfied the last element against how much time are you willing to spend in the courts litigating the interview of the president. >> in this case, you felt that you had enough evidence of the president's intent? >> we had to make a balanced decision in terms of how much evidence we had compared to the length of time it would take to do this. >> you thought if you gave it to the attorney general or to this congress, that there was sufficient evidence that it was better than that delay? >> can you state that again? >> or that it was better than the delay to present the sufficient evidence, your term, of the president's intent to obstruct justice to the attorney general and to this committee. isn't that why you didn't

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someone who may have criminal exposure now because we don't know exactly the full nature and scope of her testimony previously. and now we point right at the president and say you're involved in multiple calls right on point. you're part of the criminal conspiracy. >> if i'm not wrong, the final debate was october 9th. all of this was happening on the eve of that final debate. >> what i think is significant, andrea, is that on october 7th when the access hollywood tape came out, it was all hands on deck for the trump team. one of the hands on deck was the russian federation. because the day the access hollywood tape came out was the very same day the russian federation dumped the john podesta e-mails through we c wikileaks. this coming together on the same day as the access hollywood tape, the release by the director of national intelligence and department of homeland security saying it was the russian federation and then the russian federation going to the defense of donald trump. now we learn the next day trump on the phone with his team saying pay off stormy daniels. it's part of one e

nature of america and what that is is tapping into i think some knee-jerk reaction and rhetoric that is about the concept of somehow the racist type of undertones of america that need to be uncovered. but at the end of the day what i believe is the contrast that will be shown is what she represents in regards to that member of congress and her extreme vision of america going forward, that i don't believe is good for america and i will stand opposed to it based on the idealogical difference of socialism, versus freedom of america. >> i hear you. call her out. no one is saying don't call a member of congress out when you disagree with statements they've made or policies they stand for. we've had many a member of congress, republican and democrat, who have been on my show to speak out against things that congresswoman ihlan omar has said. but the difference here is send her back is not vote her out. this is extremely different. >> i understand. you know, and that is obviously rhetoric that i don't engage in, nor do i support. but at the end of the day, the contrast in the position is what

natural result of a racist attack that the president launched on sunday. attacks so racist that even the house and senate refrain from criticizing the president, went so far as to call them racist. >> he keeps doubling down on it, though, and now he's disavowing it. >> some of the meekest, most supportive republican congressmen it's unsettling to have a crowd yell send her back about a woman who yes -- the idea that somebody who came to this country as a child as a refugee, she's a naturalized american citizen she's a duly elected member of congress. the idea that president trump should send her back to somalia is on its face xeno phobic, racist enoffensive. there was some brushback today even with some people in the white house telling the president, i don't think they told the president, he went too far, now he's trying to dial it back. he didn't speed up his speech so as to quell the chant. he stopped and let it go. once it died down on its own, he resumed talk iing. >> you do have some reporting. house democrats are growing frustrated, you say with the drama surrounding these con

suicide hugh hewitt says. there's more than 400,000 naturalized residents in pennsylvania, 200,000 more in michigan. vote her out, fine. send her back, nativist. catholics, by the way, remember. catholics can be swing voters in many states, hugh hewitt making the point there's history here. >> the president talked a little bit about the experts and other politicians who have told him what he should do in politics. he talked about it last night. he said a senator came in and said i won six out of seven races. the president said that's very good but i won my first race ever trying for the presidency. so he believes that he has the confidence that he won on a message that was very much out of line with what other people were telling him to do. he talked about all kinds of things that were incendiary and inflammatory and now he's surrounded himself with people that agreed with him. the voices trying to rein him in are gone and he's got people that believe in his message and he did pull off what was a miracle in 2016. by following his instincts and following his gut he will do the same

nature of the investigation. i don't think mueller will engage on that, because if we are saying -- as we are saying before, the clip we saw with bobby scott and rubber mueller, euler -- robert mueller, mueller refers to what the justice department guidelines are and what the legal framework is on this. he will say, look, nobody cares what i think. i know that is not true, but he will say it doesn't matter what i think, here is what is in the report. democrats will try every which way to goad him into staying that -- stating that. i'm doubtful robert mueller will engage in any meaningful, substance of way -- substantive way. host: i'm color, good morning. caller: -- caller, good morning. caller: the mueller report said there was no conclusion, and then the attorney general turned it over about the obstruction. barr and rosenstein both read the report and came to the conclusion that there was no underlying obstruction. it should have ended it there, but the democrats will not let it go. i heard you mention the president's tax returns. forirs is responsible everybody's tax returns, so wh

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comments you may have on the amendment and the nature of it. >> i have no comments about the amendment nature. the broadness of this, lack of specificity of this. the understanding of looking at it and saying what do we want? also as i stated in my opening statement, we are here again for show. this committee is run by press release. this is not the way subpoenas are supposed to work. this is not the way congressional oversight is supposed to work. for those of us who hope to be in the majority one day, quit ruining it for the rest of us because this is not the way subpoenas are supposed to work and oversight is supposed to happen. some of these have never even got to first request. the ones who have responded are now getting served with another subpoena. wow. let's keep going. i yield back. >> are there any amendments to the amendment? >> move to strike. >> the gentleman from ohio. >> move to strike the last word. >> the gentleman is recognized. >> mr. chairman, despite the fact that millions and millions of taxpayer dollars in 22 months were spent on an investigation and report that

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. he has four women, one who happens to be a somalian refugee who, of course, was naturalized when she was 17. so we'll see how this political guam but works for him. it certainly didn't work in 2018. democrats, as you of course know, flipped the house as the president was harping on that migrant caravan making their way from central america. democrats campaigned on things like the economy and health care. difference there versus 2020 is that the president wasn't on the ballot in 2018, although you could make the argument that it was a referendum on trumpism. but, yeah, in the absence of democrats presenting the country with a nominee, the president has settled on these four women as the foil that he so often seeks out and so often needs as he's on the political attack, peter. >> yeah. it's clear that that's an attack that he is not going to give up going forward. geoff bennett is on the steamy north lawn at the white house today. lots to talk about right here. we want to get right to our experts. joining me here now, national political reporter for bloomberg news, also fortunately

natural line is so the report discusses other constitutional mechanisms for addressing presidential misconduct. what are those mechanisms? clearly the report is referencing impeachment. >> will he say -- >> they need to ask. it's in the report. it's in a footnote. it's there. will he way in substantively on whether this is impeachable conduct? i doubt it. i think they should try. >> terry, we've seen hearings like this in the past. the watergate hearings, the iran contra hearings. this one does seem remarkable. there doesn't seem to be anyone on either side who is going to move one inch from the party line. >> that's right. what you have is a story telling competition. you've got the mess of facts. the country is kind of confused about them. the democrats came in with a difficult challenge. tell a new story to the american public about something they think they already know. >> jerrold nadler is back at the podium. you see jerrold nadler there with congressman collins as we wait for robert mueller to return to the hearing room. about another hour and a half of questioning is expecte

on obstructive act if it would naturally obstruct the i ve investigation. >> correct. >> i've got that now. thank you. >> thank you. the second element of obstruction of justice is the president of an obstructive act and connection with official proceeding, true? >> true. >> does the special counsel's criminal investigation enter the potential wrong doing of donald trump constitute an official proceeding? >> that's an area which i cannot get into. >> okay. president trump tweeted on june 16th, 2017, quote, i am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director which hunt. the june 16th tweet just read was cited on page 89 in volume two constitutes a public acknowledge by president trump he was under investigation. >> i think generally correct. >> president trump called white house counsel don mcgahn at home and directed him to fire the special counsel, true? >> i believe to be true. i think we have been -- i may have stated in response to questions. >> that is correct. president trump told don mcgahn, quote, mueller has to go. close quo

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reopening old wounds. almost two years after hurricane maria one of the deadliest natural disasters in u.s. history. this woman owns a coffee shop in old san juan, the windows were shattered during the protests. >> a lot of us are still recuperating, getting back on our feet after the return cane and -- hurricane and then to be -- you know, to experience this is -- i have to say pret pretty -- yeah, disappointing. it's challenging and hard. >> reporter: businesses in the historic neighborhood are rushing to clean up. how crucial is the tourism industry to puerto rico? >> oh it's vital. it's completely vital to the economy of san juan. we are seeing thousands of people coming through every day that are feeding off of our restaurants, going into all of our shops so they're expecting a certain standard. >> reporter: for the first time this week, a royal caribbean cruise ship made its stop here in san juan. >> it's beautiful. i feel safe. i don't think -- >> reporter: despite the hurricane recovery, tourism officials say puerto rico ranked in nearly half a billion dollars in revenue dur

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, the fourth a naturalized citizen he should go back where they came t from. it's a racistrope and a familiar phrase in american history to have a president of the united states use such a clearly racist appeal is something we have have never seen in modern times. he added to that today by saying it was unacceptable for these members of congress to criticize the united states at least while he was president, that that shouldn't be allowed. of course, both of these, c sas acceptance of immigrants as part of our nation and the belief in free speech and ability to criticize our leaders, these are fundamental american principles. >> i don't know much, but i know the right to criticize our government was right up there among the framers' first tenants. david, i want to try to do your writing justice here. you wrote a very personal piece about this for the "washington post." it reads in part the spectacle of men and women at president trump's rally in north carolina on wednesday chanting send me back depressed me so much that i could only watch for ten seconds before turning the channel to

for the power grid. because so many power require natural gas. as robert said, the key infrastructure has been penetrated by the russians and the chinese. >> where does the title of the book come from "the fifth domain." >> so there are officially four demands of work, land, air, sea and space and the pentagon has named cyberspace as the fifth domain. >> you say in the book that the 2016 election was our cyber-pearl harbor. are we ready for 2020? >> no, we're not. and the reason we're not, we have 4,000 counties that all run election machinery. we have 50 states that all run their own election machinery. there are no federal security standards for federal election. and the states and the counties say, well, we didn't detect any attack. well, maybe that's because they don't have any detection equipment. they don't have modern sophisticated detention equipment because they don't have the money. when you don't have detention equipment, you can't detect when you're attacked. you can't detect when someone gets in and alters the voting rules, or does other things. the house has passed a bil

fully capture the context, nature and substance of this office's work and conclusions, end quote. is that correct? >> again, i rely on the letter itself for its

fact said "i probably love this country more than anyone that is naturally born." for trump supporters, who cares what the facts are. whatever he said or tweets is the news. trump broadened attacks to include all four members of the squad. omar and alexandria ocasio-cortez, ayanna pressley and rashida tlaib. >> you can't speak about our country the way they said garbage. they said things about israel that is so bad, i won't even repeat it. they can't get away with it. not right. >> they can't get away with it. trump's statement as a "washington post" points out is at odds with the constitution that grants every american the right of free speech. we will continue the attacks on people who shouted a racist chant is standard trump playbook where the republican party now faces a daunting possibility of having to own as the theme of the 2020 campaign that kind of rhetoric. real leaders are speaking up. they are not offering the mealy mouthed both sides that avoids confronting donald trump like we heard from mitch connell and other republicans. michelle obama issued a rebuke on tw