it has become the french/american alliance. the french and americans signed a treaty in 1778. it gives washington what he covets, which is french naval support along with american ground troops. they can try this new a life out, this new over alliance out, is later that summer when a french fleet arrives in their dance at harbor. -- narragansett harbor. there is an assumption among people like the american commander, john sullivan, from massachusetts. he is known for his bravery and enthusiasm. he is not known for being moderate or temperate. but washington puts him in command of the operations to take back this island thinking that when we have the french fleet and american army, we can in a combined operation dislodged the british, hessians, and loyalists in the town. of 1778, they have come up with a plan that will be a combined french bombardment on the city. the americans are expecting not only a bombardment but also the use of french troops. that is what sullivan is hoping for an planning for. the problem is there's not a lot of communication between the .wo, the marquee

the rig american elections. the germans attempted to buy a newspaper, "the smart set." he replied by saying not only would he not sell, he said i am german-american. he actually said "i never understood the contradiction of the two sides of the hyphen before." for reasons i will be happy to talk about. private americans began to take up the cause. the moment we called preparedness is as much a movement of american private citizens as it is of the united states government. wilson, because of the presidential election, wanted to move slowly because there was opposition in congress to major military reform. it became a private matter. some of you know about the plattsburgh movement in upstate new york. theodore roosevelt and general leonard woods. that is a private movement where young men volunteered, and in some cases paid, in order to go to upstate new york and be yelled at by retired army officers. roosevelt and wood did not think this would create the nucleus of an american army. what they hoped it would do is

let's protect americans. right now, this bill, it's as much of a threat for our privacy as anything i've seen in a year. i've been in this committee room when we talk about americans privacy . as a young law student we found out where even parts of our government had overreached in destroying people's privacy. but we've always said whether it's j edgar hoover or anybody else we have a right to our privacy as americans. we fought a revolution for that. we've upheld a constitution for that. let's not vote down a significant part of our own constitution. >> there's two reasons we are filibustering this. we think the forms are not being able to vote on our reforms. senator wyden and i have a bill, senator lee has a bill and they overlap between the two bills but we insist there be at least debate which means votes on whether this should be more adequate reform. a big thing is if you are going to look at americans information, you ought to get a warrant from a judge. yes. announce whoyou are and what network, plea

and we will do it with american heart, american hands, and american grit. [applause] pres. trump: we want every american to know the dignity of a hard day's work. we want every child to be safe in their home and night. and we want every citizen to be proud of this land that we all love so much. fromn lift our citizens welfare to work, from dependence to independence, and from poverty to prosperity. [applause] pres. trump: as tax cuts create new jobs, let's invest in workforce development, and let's invest in job training, which we need so badly. [applause] pres. trump: let's open great vocational schools, so our future workers can learn a craft and realize their full potential. [applause] and let's support working families by supporting paid family leave. [applause] pres. trump: as america regains its strength, opportunity must be extended to all citizens. that is why this year we will embark on reforming our prisons, to help former inmates who have served their time get a second chance at life. [applause] pres. trump: struggling communities, especially immigrant communitie

american economy. it's going to provide better tools for workers when they have that capital that they can work with that makes them more productive. that enables them to earn higher wages. and with all of the need for more workers that this is going to generate, it's going to continue to put upward pressure on wages because that's what companies are going to have to do in order to attract and retain the employees that they need. so i will say, mr. president, i think we are well on our way to seeing the fruits of this reform. i think it is going to be extremely constructive. i am thrilled that our legislation has already begun to have tangible benefits for the people that we represent, and i'm convinced that the best is yet to come. i yield the floor. mr. cotton: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from arkansas. mr. cotton: it's of the highest importance that we reauthorizations title 7 of the foreign surveillance act, especially section 702. it's one of the best tools we have for protec

become american. this is their country and they have a stake in it and they're going to fight for it to become better and that's something we have to remember and draw inspiration from going forward. >> and i want to end on a positive note. with every crisis comes opportunity and it repeats. so there is an opportunity and that is that the mainstream, the majority of religious communities, ethnic communities do not share this nationalist agenda that we're seeing in the world whether we're talking about jewish nationalism, it's not about religion. it's about power. if we want to work for religion, then we have to work for the values and ethics that come from our religions and that is what we can share together. but we have to break out of our bubbles. we have to break out of our cocoons and engage each other. so i invite the evangelical community to have dialogue with us. there are still many segments have have never met with the muslim in the united states. so we need that dialogue. we need it now. num

together we can reclaim our heritage and we can do it with american heart, american hands and american grit. >> he addressed foreign-policy threats like north korea and reached out to democrats on immigration with a plan that includes a path to citizenship for dreamers and building a wall noting past administrations failures to deliver and telling them it is time now to get the job done. >> these four pillars will produce legislation that fulfills my ironclad plan to sign a bill for puts america first. so let's come together, set politics aside and finally get the job done. >> democrats were unpersuaded offering little if any applause safe moments that highlighted special guests. massachusetts congressman patrick kennedy delivered the democrat response. heather: is that it? you are done, thank you so much, appreciate it. democrats plainly refusing to stand or even clap despite policies helping all americans. >> african-american unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded. >> the congressional black caucus among other democrats showing no emotion, seemingly unhappy about the ec

if you say yes, then you are an american. and i think that dreamers are american. are you with me on that? [applause] we come together to reaffirm our values, reaffirm dreamers, and ultimately reaffirm america. that is what makes this country exceptional, it is the commitment to our values. tonight i close with my favorite yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. i'm so blessed to be with you with the dreamers and americans. i want to say that i am a dreamer. are you a dreamer? [laughter] [applause] >> we are all dreamers. thank you so much. >> we have had some awesome speakers, some champions that are going to stick with us. as the senate deliberates how they are going to vote, i think it is important that we make our voices heard. the next person who will talk to us about why it is so important that we are out here we are going to have a lizabeth from the constitutional accountability center. >> how are you feeling? i know you have a hearts and fiery spirits, but you also probably have cold little toes and fingers, so i will be fast. and

it was a unifying speech and the overall theme was it is one of americanism, americans regardless of race, party, and a better place, a better future and i love the fact that every person sitting in the box he was referencing was highlighting their story, the policy he put in place and positive impact of that agenda. the parents of the girl slain by the ms 13 gang members and the north korean gentlemen holding up his crutches, those were two powerful moments. donald trump as always when it comes time with his joint address, saudi arabia pulling last night, he hit a homerun. >> i have seen good and bad in both political parties but right now what the president is doing and has led the republicans to do is focus on issues the do matter and that will rally people to vote and affect everybody. the problem with democrats is they are wrapped up in identity politics, bernie sanders's biggest complaint was he didn't talk about climate change, that is an issue i will give them that. that affects people as it does the tax-cut. >> democrats are complaining about climate change and donald trump

heart, american hands and american grit. [ applause ] we want every american to know the dignity of a hard day's work. we want every child to be safe in their home at night. and we want every citizen to be proud of this land that we all love so much. we can lift o our citizens from welfare to work, from dependence to independence and from poverty to prosperity. [ applause ] as tax cuts create new jobs, let's invest in workforce development and let's invest in job training, which we need so badly. [ applause ] let's open great vocationalschos can learn a craft and rea realie their full potential. [ applause ] and let's support working families by supporting paid family leave. [ applause ] as america regains its strength, opportunity must be extended to all citizens. that is why this year we will embark on reforming our prisons to help former inmates who have served their time get a second chance at life. [ applause ] struggling communities, especially immigrant communities, will also be helped by immigration policies that focus on the best interest of american workers and american fa

particularly the government conducting repeated, warrantless searches for americans even if those americans are the subject of any investigation the government can read those private communications. i want to put this issue in context. however you're the cia and nsa conduct warrantless searches of 702 data for americans. that's just for content. the conduct of the searches where they conduct tens of thousands of warrantless searches for communication records, the fbi is conducting the searches so frequently that they do recoat. this bill might have some marginal effect on one of those searches. the hospital is not just fake reform. it's a setback. (i remake, we finally made some headway with collection of communication that are neither to were from a porn target that are simply about a foreign target. i went after the issue for yea years, and the abusive collections. finally the government realized was going to far and they put limits on it. now, it looks like they want to get back in the business. the other body, the house, basically creates a path to going back to about collection which e

americans -- many more british, german, and french were more badly wounded than the americans because they were not there very long. but men were horribly disfigured. the first war where a man could be shot in the face and survive. before, if your face was blown away, there is no survival. but because of new technologies and ambulances that could move fast and antibiotics, they were able to save these men, get them to the hospitals. but the faces were so badly damaged, they could not be sent back to the front. because their comrades could not bear to look at them. so that is when plastic surgery was invented, as a way of helping the soldiers get back to the front. even then, their faces were so badly damaged, people had to make alloy masks to cover over. the image we were looking at a i don't know if it will go back -- one soldier, i showed four stages of his recovery. he had no nose. it was a british soldier, actually. at the end, he almost looks normal. but to the end of his days -- he died in the 1970's, i think -- his family members say he considered himself hideous. even though t

i'm actually san jose's fourth vietnamese american council member, but i'm the first american born. so there is a change in e guard, change of generations. and i think it's important for more, you know, asian americans to get out there, not just be elected, but to run for office, make the attempt and to just create this normalcy around asian american candidates. >> okay, so we have a question from our facebook community for the panel, and this one comes from praise santos. and the question is, "is the passive tendency of asians in our current climate of racial tension in the united states benefiting us in the immediate but hurting us in the long term?" vincent, we'll start with you. >> well, i actually don't accept that premise. i think that asian americans are much more active and outspoken than often is understood. you know, certainly the myth of asians as being passive across the globe is easy to debunk, and you could see that in the elections in south korea, you could see that in protests like occupy central in hong kong. and even in the united states, i do think that asian amer

americans. the other side talks about protecting americans. let's protect their fourth amendment right. we could protect them against terrorists if we amend this legislation with the u.s.a. rights act and protect their rights under the fourth amendment. every american's data is being seized by the justice department, the c.i.a., n.s.a. we've asked them how many times that's been queried. they will not tell us because the information is massive. and all we're saying under the u.s.a. rights act, if you want to go into that information on americans, get a warrant from a judge, not a query. can't go search it. get a warrant under the fourth amendment or stay out of that information and still go after terrorists under 702 and under fisa. we need to have this amendment to make the bill better to protect americans overseas and at home. and that's just the way it is. i yield back, mr. speaker. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized. >> i referee:. the speaker pro tempore: t

the problem was american. sort of see and i continuously ask questions about between the split problem as policy. still see that split in america today. >> why was there, why is there america?n >> i think when we think about it, from the beginning of this racial we've had equality. of course, the beginning of that manifested in ty its way. when we think about it in its have to lest form, we ask the question, why does this racial inequality fit? only two answers. either racial inequality exists wrong there's something and inferior about particular groups of people and that's why to be in re likely prison. that's why they're more likely to be unemployed. likely hy they're more to be poor. they're lazy, more criminal-like. r there's something wrong with american policy. there's something about -- something persisting like racial discrimination. that's why we have racial inequity. americans refuse to believe their nations have racial iscrimination, that it is pervasive. so the only other explanation racist inequal

they want to narrow the american footprint in south korea, concentrate the americans into one zone and get them out of the center of seoul. previously the largest base has ended up being right in the middle of seoul. when it was originally constructed it was outside, but seoul has grown so rapidly that the base is now in the center. and fora minor curator the koreans to have a large garrison of foreign troops stationed in your capital. >> does the south korean government support the u.s. presence? >> it certainly does. in a perfect world, the koreans would wish the united states was not there. they would wish they could manage their own security on their own. view thatdely held the u.s. presence is needed but now the competing interests of china and north korea, formerly of the soviet union. the koreans would certainly like to live in a world where the americans could be gone. there is that tension of meeting the americans but not necessarily wanting them. said it is impossible as long as the kim regime is in power. give us a history of the kim regime. leader is kim il-sung who was a g

that means it's good for american workers, good for american families, good for american business. that is the objective of immigration reform. there's a lot of important issues to deal with. is fact that we have ignored this issue for some time, we have a number of undocumented immigrants in the united states now that have to be addressed. i think dan's dark view of all of the enforcement things that need to be included in this bill i think are belied by what happened. and the truth is that donald trump has dramatically increased immigration enforcement. who is it that he is not able to enforce this against? where is the argument for more enforcement laws or language? he seemed to have no trouble rounding up and removing people in the united states. so let's set aside those kinds of political issues and focus on the fact that 122 of these kids that he's talking about are losing status every day. and they do deserve an opportunity to be in the only legal country they have ever known. host: explain what your group as? >> we are 15,000 immigration lawyers from around the country repr

and american families. yes, the bad news is that if this passes, they will do it again. and at some point if you listened a general mattis and others, that the continuing resolutions are no way to fund the american government because it does not provide the ability and the security that we need for our troops and our american families. >> i would like to thank the chairman. i want to comment on your question in particular. i want to emphasize the fact that we are a nation of immigrants and of laws. think the congressional black caucus has always stood by laws that we find to be moral. illegal immigrants have been thrown against those of us of when it isemocrats not factual. we support family reunification. and we support the opportunities for people to become citizens and we support people the opportunity to access the citizenship pathway through the u.s. let me tell you the real life story of those of us who have experienced disaster in this window of 2017. many of them colleagues here from the virgin -- u

and waves of american soldiers going off to fight. the main symbol of america at this time was uncle sam. even though uncle sam had been a symbol of the united states since the war of 1812, it really came to the forefront in representing the american war effort. if you look at a lot of the american posters, a lot of the images are in multiples. you can see all of the soldiers marching and airplanes flying. especially the airplanes, because when the americans went to fight, we did not have any airplanes really. [laughter] we used british, french, and italian airplanes. so, artistic license could be taken in producing the posters. but when the posters were more colorful and more action -oriented, they tended to get more information out to the people. the next poster on exhibit that we see is a recruiting poster for the united states marines. it is pretty basic. it wanted them to join up. it represented the marines as the fighting force that would lead the american effort during the war. the spirit of 1917 -- this was equated to the spir

come in and take american jobs. the numbers shouldn't get so high that it is unmanageable. donald trump has articulated a sound basis for reform the sound basis just debit overall. this is a decision about how many people come in and do they are going to be. host: a quick response? member of my a organization so it can't be bad. our goal is to have immigration laws that are predictable and that can match up our needs as families and businesses with the immigration system. we don't have now. yes, i have a question for the man who is for the merit-based system. if there is a man who comes and wants to bring his wife, will you deny her? thank you for this question. , you qualifydoctor for a primary beneficiary and you can bring your uneducated spouse. you can bring uneducated, unmarried children but you are law or dad orork aunts or uncles are cousins. it stops with the family -- you get married and you have children, that is the family -- that is the family you created. but the family that created you goes back. need

a better deal for americans. policies that lead to the employment of americans. policies that help to rebuild our steel industry. that bring strength back into our shipyards. so that we can provide the jobs . we're not talking about minimum wage jobs here. we're talking about jobs that are at the higher echelon of the middle wages. of middle america. we're talking about skill sets, welders, pipe fitters, steam fitters. we're talking about engineers that design these ships. we're talking about marine architects. we're talking about the financing of these. we're talking about thousands upon thousands of jobs spread out across america and all we need to do is to go back, visit the past, bring it forward into law, and make sure that a strategic national asset is used to bring jobs to america. it would be nice if 100% of that oil and gas were on american-built ships. but frankly the american shipyards don't have the capacity to do it. now probably never would they have the capacity to build all the ships that are necessary. right now, at a facility in texas, a company

american families deserve better. they deserve a government that designates the health -- that doesn't use the health of our children as a bargaining chip. they may have temporarily funded chip, but if they have no access to community health centers, it means nothing. families deserve a republican majority who won't spend months trying to sell them out to health insurance companies that want to go back to the days when some people were just too sick to cover. american families deserve a , whether our neighborhoods are urban, suburban, or rural. they provide the most care to the sickest among us. families also deserve a true budget that addresses the opioid epidemic. american families deserve better than this joke of a c.r. that lets republicans continue their dangerous and immoral business as usual. in a few weeks, we will be right back here again. republicans control the white house, the senate, in the house, but still can't meet their most basic constitutional responsibility, funding the government, especially healt

that's un-american. it's unpatriotic. we always have a responsibility to find common ground in the minority or the majority. can't find a, we must stand around, that's our responsibility to the american people as well. open toonstantly finding solutions that meet the needs of the american people but to do so that does not go to the lowest common denominator but to some kind of vision, a better future, a better deal, better jobs and better pay, a better future. who can disagree with that? weeku spoke earlier this that if democrats take back congress, you would want to work on a fair tax system. tell us more about what you mean. is that a repeal and replace of the new tax law? >> it may have to be. mr. crowley and congressman sanchez are on the ways and means committee. we have always said that you cannot do this tax bill without having it being bipartisan. want to recognize that we should perhaps lower the corporate rate. you need sustainability in a tax reform. it has to be bipartisan. instead, they can up with something

to narrow the american footprint in south korea and concentrate the americans into one zone and get them out of the center of seoul. the garrison has ended up being right in the middle of seoul. it was outside of seoul, but seoul has grown so rapidly that the pace is now in the very center. to ais a minor irritant large group of foreign troops stationed there. >> do they support the u.s. president? >> certainly does. in a perfect world, the koreans would wish the united states was not there. they wish they could manage their own security affairs on their own. it's a widely held view that the u.s. presence is needed to balance the competing interests of china and north korea and the soviet union. the koreans would certainly like to live in a world where the americans would be gone. there is that tension up americans but not necessarily wanting them. >> you said it's impossible as long as the kim regime is in power. give us a brief history of the kim regime. >> the kim regime initially is the guerrilla fighter against the japanese was very young, he was an officer in the red army, he was b

but there is something special about the american soldier. my i think, as i end comments here, that is one message that i wanted to impart. and everyone here who hwas worn the uniform regardless of service understands that, and every family member understands that. the greaten i had privilege of legal the pentagon, i saw that up close. it was not a decision i ever made as secretary of defense, or as a united states senator, that i did not think about my experience in vietnam. some were big decisions, some were not big decisions. reflect ons tried to the experience that i had in vietnam. the people that i learned so much from in vietnam. all overo were from the country, many uneducated. many came from very tough backgrounds. but you learn something from everybody everyday. now, i'll end this way. old firstn sergeant in vietnam was said to me, from lake charles, louisiana, sergeant rose. he said, just always remember, chuck, that every human being in life, no matter where they are from, or their station in life, has a story to tell. and every h

very un-american . he didn't know about jean's dna of course, but he certainly was convinced that nature, not nurture was what mattered most. he told jefferson that he had, this is a founding hospital in france and had observed babies who were only four days old. he was struck by the great inequalities among these little babies. some, he said were ugly, others beautiful. some were stupid, others smart. they were all born to equal rights, he said two very different fortunes, very different degrees of success and influence in life. society, he said was inherently unequal. and unlike jefferson, he believed the aristocrats would inevitably rise from the elites, he didn't use that term, the more modern term, elites would rise to the top and republican america would not necessarily be the best and wisest. they were moreto be the richest , most attractive, the most ambitious and the widely used. adams did not disparage big government as jefferson did what he did see it as the unrestrained power. and perhaps th

americans believe we should. we know that men and women, even of humble circumstances, who come to the united states determined to make a life, to make a future, and to help their families have made a profound difference in our country in terms of its past and its future. and they come from every corner of the world. senator lindsey graham was at that same meeting on january 11. he spoke up when the president uttered these infamous words which have been reported. and he noted that when it came to his family, they came from one of the countries which the president described and they came with little or nothing to offer, but they wanted to be part of america. they came here and made a business, made a life, made a future and brought to the senaten extraordinary member representing the state of south carolina. many of us can tell the same story. my mother was an immigrant to this country. she was brought here in 1911 at the age of 2 from lithuania. lithuania was not exactly a prosperous nation in those times. it was

american astronauts fly our soyuz spacecraft. russian-made rd-180 engines are being acquired by the u.s. to deliver payloads for nasa and the pentagon. furthermore, the rd-181 engine is used to deliver cargo to the international space station. there are plans for joint implementation of large-scale projects that could serve as communication to the international space station. in september 2017, russian space agency and nasa signed a statement on cooperation in creating the deep space gateway lunar station. one could say, in space, we cooperate better than on the ground. russia effectively implements the mega grants program, attracting leading foreign scientists on research and scientific rate through in our country. over the six years of the work, 160 world-class laboratories were created with plenty of grant recipients being american scientists have moved back in their days. the ties between russia and america across the pacific ocean were always unique. starting for the russian-american company and its activities in alaska, to

with half a know, million american troops in south almost become an american colony. north vietnam was battered. united states had been heavily bombing in and around hanoi, the capital, and along the ho chi minh trail and they by it and it had slowed their ability to mount in the south. o the war was at a kind of stalemate. hue was kind of an oasis in this that it is the traditional capital of the it's where am, inside the citadel, which is a huge fortress which forms the half of the city is the palace, the old site emperor's reign, so it a cultural and religion center for centimeter. war.d been bypassed by the there hadn't been any real fighting in the city other than the saigon regime cracked down on buddhist protest as few earlier the city had been fairly quiet. > how close to the north vietnamese border is hue? >> it's in central vietnam. if you look at vietnam, it's an elongated country that's pinched at the center, almost as if someone had a belt around its tightened it. it's only 10 miles from the sea to the laotian border. at the time, i'm not sure how many mi

so the productivity gains of the american workers have not gone to the american worker. instead, they've gone to the privileged few, to millionaires and billionaires, big corporations, to subsidize the lifestyles of the rich and shameless. that's the america that we're dealing with right now. some may explain it as a result of tpwhrobalization. some may say it's fully negotiated trade deals. some may say it's the outsourcing of good-paying american jobs. some may say it's the rise of automation. certainly all of those factors are implicated. but the decline in unionization has been a significant if not decisive reason, that so many people have been struggling to achieve the american dream. and now the supremes in their wisdom want to give us another raw deal right wing hit to benefit the wealthy and the well off to the detriment of hard working americans. so let's hope that justice kennedy does the right thing, that five justices on the supreme court see themselves to not interfering and overturning settled law for the purpose of continuing a march to benefit the privile

that's what americans want. that's why they're so proud of this tax reform that was done right before they went home for christmas. it's producing results. we're seeing, again, as bob dole would tell you, good policy produces good results. we're seeing an economy is grower faster than under obama because of regulatory reform and tax reform. >> shepard: chris, is there anyone that you can think of that would step forward the way bob dole did in those days? >> as you ask the question of governor barber -- hailey, good to be on the program with you as well, sir -- i don't think the problem is a lack of leadership. it's a lack of followership. there's certainly people, mitch mcconnell in the senate and paul ryan in the house who offer plenty of leadership, but the problem is that before the leaders could get their caucuses to follow them, if not everybody, certainly the vast majority, the problem is you're seeing right now with the potential government shut down on friday, you have various caucuses that are saying,

americans are dreamers too. really do we know that the disagreement over the future of these dreamers is already led to one government shutdown and it could lead to another one in two weeks' time hansa progress been made. hello grant well not really because the whole trump underlined again his proposal for offering the citizenship to the eight million undocumented migrants but only in exchange to the financing of his u.s. mexican border while also under the condition of ending the green card lottery and limiting family reunification for the ones who already have a green card for the united states he calls it the migration chain and this is a very important topic the immigration plan he proposed yesterday because as he already mentioned the next set line for the shutdown is see eighth of february it's not even not even two weeks the immigration policy is probably the most important parking change that we're gonna see and we're going to hear during the next week and experts are commending here that some democrats

three out of four americans want to have dreamers stay in this country. why is that? because d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s. are awesome, right? our brothers and sisters have been so inspiring, and i just wanted to say her smelly thank you for your voice. thank you for your courage, .hank you for your bravery you have inspired me, and this nation, and we the people, have your back! as senator merkleyyou have insps nation, and we the people, have your said earlier, we the people will win. pass the dream act now! >> thank you, elizabeth. now, our next speaker is an awesome lobbyist -- they are just awesome. woo! >> thank you, thank you so much. we have been fighting on behalf of children with complex clinical needs, and i come here tonight as a mother speaking about chip, the health insurance for 9 million children across the country. we have been asking congress to please find chip for months and months, -- to fund it, and they said no. all of a sudden, they are saying, yes, we will find chip, but with strings attached. take it or leave it. that, my friends, is a false choice. we res

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, american men and women themselves. this legislation will improve transparency and public oversight of fisa 702, section 702 by requiring the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to conduct declassification review and publicly release the fisa section 702 minimumization procedures every year. mr. speaker, the most important reform contained in this legislation constitutes the most substantial reform to the program since its inception. under this legislation, the f.b.i. will be required when conducting a criminal investigation of a u.s. person to obtain a warrant from the fisc prior to accessing the content of the communications that were required using 702. 702 information is collected for the purpose of foreign intelligence -- collected for the purpose of foreign intelligence operations and this critical requirement closes the possibility that f.b.i. investigating americans for traditional crimes will be able to use 702 information in such domestic investigations. in addition to the numerous safeg

policies that need to be reformed to protect americans. finally, codifying daca that only congress has the authority to do under the constitution. that we do it in a constitutional way. and as the president has mandated, we think it is a very fair and generous package when it comes to immigrants. finally, this is a historic opportunity for the american people. all of these issues, i believe, the american people fully support. as bob said, whether it is the border or interior enforcement emma a -- enforcement, a legal wall, we are not talking about daca or 20 million legal -- illegal immigrants in the country five or 10 years down the road. this bill provides a permanent fix. this is a national security issue. i now yields to mr. labrador. rep. labrador: the purpose of our legislation is simple. it helps president trump keep his promises to americans to fix our broken immigration system. this was a significant promise. he never would have been elected without making a promise. now it is time for congress to deliver. the bill is strong but a

heart, american hands and american grit. [ applause ] we want every american to know the dignity of a hard day's work. we want every child to be safe in their home at night and we want every citizen to be proud of this land that we all love so much. we can lift our citizens from welfare to work, from dependence to independence and poverty to prosperity. [ applause ] as tax cuts create new jobs, let's invest in workforce development and let's invest in job training which we need so badly. [ applause ] . >>>let's open great vocational schools so our future workers can learn their full potential. [ applause ] and let's support families by supporting paid family leave. as americas regains its strength, opportunity must be extended to all citizens. that is why this year we will embark on reforming our prisons to help former inmates who have served their time get a second chance at life. [ applause ] struggling communities, especially immigrant communities will be helped by immigration policies that focus on the best interest of american workers and families. for decades american workers

so even american capitalism is certainly aal hybrid. it is not an extreme, it is not an extreme ideology. what i try to do, i try to separate the idealogical argument from it all together and really think about it as a operating t system rather than n ideology. >> so out of curiosity what was the final return on investment for the may plower investors? >> they lost money. took 25 years. it took 25 years for the debt to be finally repaid. it wasn't debt. it was equity because they were shareholders. after a few years they realized convert at end of the seven-year term they needed to do something with the equity. at that time you have to have a prorat at that distribution of assets of plymouth. they didn't want to do that. the equity got converted into debt where you see like in private equity and other areas. for a long time the debt couldn't be serviced by the fur trading revenues. ultimately what had happened was a group of men in plymouth, they called themselves the undertakers andt these undertakersy assumed the debt from plymouth co

i support the american dream too but support border integrity and safety and security for americans and legal immigrants that were sent to our country, not to come the right way. beyond that, can you tell i'm fired up, it's my number one, steve. i spent the last three days in venice beach as well as west hollywood, california, arguably two of the most liberal places in this state. individuals i spoke to in speaking with them a lot of them were for a sanctuary city or a sanctuary state. until i explained what it was, and then all of a sudden their tunes changed and they thought you're right, it's not fair to legal immigrants, some that cut in front of them that didn't have to wait the time, pay the money, they are getting amnesty blanket covering over them. they didn't like it. but it's because the emotional black mail of the left told them they should support it. until you educate them and californians will change. i also have to tell you this in closing, there are far more conservatives in california than you would ever know by looking at twitter, by watching the golden globes, watchin

american history tv on c-span3. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> now, attorney general death sessions speaks to local -- attorney general jeff sessions lawks to local, federal enforcement, and discusses immigration and the status of those in the daca program. this is 25 minutes. >> today, welcome law enforcement partners and our colleagues. thank you so much for being here this afternoon. my name is tracy mccormick. it is my distinct pleasure to welcome our speaker today, attorney general sessions, who is here to discuss terrorism and immigration. i wanted to begin by apologizing that our u.s. attorney could not be here today. he had an unavoidable conflict. he passes along his thanks for all you do and for coming here this afternoon. attorney general jeff sessions has worked in and around the law enforcement for 40 years, and i am honored to be evil to p

the american dream. the president also listed how he is fulfilling key conservative principles tonight by appointing conservative justices and judges, honoring and helping events, energy independence, and one of the best lines of the night that stood out for me, the president said the era of economic surrender is over. it's best when the president can push aside the bias filter of the liberal mainstream media like he did tonight and speak directly to you, the american people. it was obvious during many moments tonight that the democrats will never give this president a fighting shot. his list of the compliments speak for themselves. after eight years of failure and a year of solid record success, you would think that the never-trump crowd, that they would appreciate america is now moving in the right direction. people are getting back to work, off of food stamps. the economy is growing. tonight's the night that the president was able to bypass everyone and go right to the american people, make his case t

the american people? speak it whichd shocked me. d i remember the day i walked in two years ago in the benghazi committee, saw the immunity agreement that were given to people in the clinton investigation, i didn't know who they would have given them to, i looked down on the justice department official slid that folder over to me and looked down and they gave cheryl mills immunity during the clinton investigation? her chief of l staff, lawyer, today when i read the material, i had that same shocked feeling. this actually happen from our justice department and fbi? that is how serious this is, that is why we are calling on every bit of that information we got to see today to be made public for you to see, journalists, most importantly, the american people. >> sean: matt gaetz, you saw these materials today. are you agreeing? it sounds like a few people wanted a fix, they fixed it so hillary wouldn't get in trouble on the email server scandal. we know felonies were committed. she rigged the primary. it soun