sway president trump to pull out of the iranian nuclear deal. we will hear from senator ben cardin. i have this hour, some big news from the milken conference, the ceo of fannie mae and jane harman are among our guests. ♪ david: 30 more days. president trump has extended a temporary exemption for steel and aluminum tariffs for the eu, canada, and mexico to get the white house time to deal with another trade priority, china. secretary mnuchin had to beijing this week. we now welcome edward alden, senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and the author of failure to adjust, how americans got behind in the global economy. thank you for spending times with us today. edward: thank you for having me. david: what are they going to beijing with? what is on their agenda? edward: we are now five weeks into this tariff fight with china and we don't actually know. they are looking for concessions from china to avoid china being hit with tariffs on $50 billion or more in imports. we have not seen a specific ask. there are some things such as lower automotive tariffs and foreign investme

. stay away from negotiations, john. you're hurting your country. ben cardin will join us in a few minutes. i want to give him time to step into place with a couple things that are happening. so you've got bob menendez that we showed you from new jersey, democratic senator saying he hopes the president of the united states has a plan. i would ask democrats, if he does, would you want to be part of the plan? let's bring in senator ben cardin. so glad to have your time. thank you. let's start there. if the president decides that he wants to de-certify the iran deal or wants to renegotiate it, how much do you see democrats being a part of that? >> let's be clear. the bad guy is iran. the activities that have done outside of the nuclear agreement, the support of terrorism, the ballistic missile violations. we want to make sure iran never gets a nuclear weapon. that's in national interests. there's disagreement the path the president is chosen not certifying. that isolates us with our allies against iran. the bottom line is we want to do everything to make sure iran is not a nuclear wea

before i let you applaud, i need everyone to remain seated, don't move. senator ben cardin is about to appear and i know you want to be here and welcome him but first, our gueststhanking for a great discussion. [applause] we are going to do a set change but again, don't move. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> thank you for remaining and we are delighted to welcome senator ben cardin. you have always been incredibly generous to cfis. your last time here was a year ago in october of 2016 and you gave an inspirational message about transformational leadership in international but my with dr. hamry favorite time when you were last here was in november, november 17, 20 16, a week after the election and we were hosting a transatlantic forum on russia. it could not have been a more timely moment. you gave us such an inspirational message about the need for transatlantic values and unity, protecting democracy from a malign influence. it surprised no one that shortly after that, you were

senate foreign relations committee member ben cardin gave the keynote address on congress's role in imposing sanctions against russia. he spoke at a summit hosted by the center for strategic and international studies, and following his remarks, he took questions from the audience. this is 50 minutes. [inaudible conversations] . >> time for the grand finale and we are absolutely delighted to welcome senator ben cardin to csis. senator, you have always been incredibly generous to csis. your last time here was a year ago in october much 2016 and you gave a really inspirational message about transformational leadership in international affairs with dr. hamry, but i have to say my favorite time when you were last year was in november, november 17th, 2016, it was a week after the election and we were hosting a transatlantic forum on russia so it could not have been a more timely moment and you gave us such an inspirational message about the need for transatlantic values and unity protecting democracy from malign influence. and shortly after that, were you instrumental in drafting and supp

. trump's medical records. we'll talk about the breaking news much more with senator ben cardin from the foreign relations committee and our reporters and experts are also standing by. first let's go straight to the white house. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta has the latest. the president is clearly irate that these mueller questions have now been made public? >> reporter: that is right, wolf. the anger is not going away. the president tweeted but it but would not talk about the leak that the questions special counsel robert mueller has for mr. trump in the russia investigation. on the subject of collusion, when it comes to the president, there seems to be some confusion. >> no comment in the oval office, president trump tweeted his frustration over "the new york times" obtained more than four dozen questions expected to be asked by special counsel robert mueller in the russia probe. so disgraceful that the questions concerning the russia witch hunt were leaked to the media. no questions on collusion. i see you have a made-up phony crime and collusion that never exist

been successful in concluding issues on the international stage. >> all right, senator ben cardin, enjoy the memorial day weekend. appreciate you being here this morning. >> thank you. >>> we're following a lot of news, so in the words of chris cuomo, let's get after it. >> i've decided to terminate the planned summit in singapore on june 12th. >> the vice minister saying that we reiterate to the united states we are willing to sit down with them at any time. >> we need to make sure that when we have the meeting, it's going to be something that's productive. >> this was an unannounced visit. emmet flood was not on the list. >> that looks like advocacy. it doesn't look like a neutral investigation of the facts. >> i don't see what the problem is with the president having an interest in transparency. >> disgraced movie producer harvey weinstein turning himself in. >> many of these women feared the power that mr. weinstein had. >> this is huge news. he could be facing decades of jail time. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day. it is friday, may 25th, 8:00 here in the east. dav

issues, jobs, that's going to be our message going into the midterm elections. >> senator ben cardin, appreciate you being here today, thank you. >> thank you. >>> president trump vowing to fix the, quote, dumbest immigration laws in the world. the president's words. he talked about ms-13 gang members in a way that has a lot of people debating this morning, calling them animals in the process. we're going to dive into that immigration debate ahead. (vo) what if this didn't have to happen? i didn't see it. (vo) what if we could go back? what if our car... could stop itself? in iihs front-end crash prevention testing, nobody beats the subaru impreza. not toyota. not honda. not ford. the subaru impreza. more than a car, it's a subaru. burning, of diabetic nerve pain these feet... ... made waves in high school... ...and built a career in construction. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and he prescribed lyrica. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depressi

, iran and israel and senator ben cardin will be joining us later in the show with his reaction and following the latest episode in the alleged pay to play scheme. why michael cohen says stormy daniels' attorney has the wrong guy. we are breaking down the numbers and looking at the final episode out of the pentagon on their investigation into that deadly ambush. four american soldiers killed back in october. what it says about who is to blame and what will change now. that report coming out in just about two hours from now. i want to start with kelly o'donnell. my fellow overnight shifter at the white house. a little brighter in the day. talk about what is next now that these returnees are home. when will we find out more about their medical condition and when will they be reunited with their families? >> we are both caffeine fuelled. we know in the seven hours or so since the three men have been back on mainland u.s. soil and beginning their return to the life that had been left behind we have had very little information. we are not getting specifics. typically in a situation like

peace is unclear. here with reaction, democratic senator ben cardin, a member of the senate foreign relations committee. good to see you, senator. you called the decision to call off the singapore summit puzzling. why? >> well, first, it's good to be with you. the crisis on the north korean peninsula is caused by kim jong-un and north korea by violating internatial norms. i think everyone understands that the only way to resolve this is through diplomacy. there is no military option without extreme risks, so it's puzzling that the president has now thrown diplomacy off track. there's always a risk of a miscalculation. a miscalculation can have extremely dangerous consequences. i think most people believe the president is doing this for negotiating reasons. i'm just puzzled by it. >> yeah, "art of the deal," he's always said you've got to know when to walk away from a deal. but let's talk about the north korean to the cancelling of the summit. unusual to say the least. they say they're willing to meet face-to-face with the u.s. at any time and then adding we highly appreciate the fac

is ben cardin of maryland. senator, thanks so much for being here. >> alisyn, it is is good to be with you. >> will you vote to confirm gina haspel? >> i am reviewing some of the documentations. there are a great deal of documentations available to all members of the senate. but i share senator mccain's concerns. i thought that the nominee missed an opportunity. or maybe she didn't, on her response in regards to how the interrogation techniques crossed the line. she refused to say that. >> what are you waiting for? what are you looking for in the documents you're reviewing? >> well, there's a lot of documents. i spent a good part of yesterday in the classified room going through documents that are not available in the public because of the sensitive nature. there are additional documents only available to the intelligence committee. i'm asking to see some of those documentations. i like to do a thorough job before making my decision. i share the concerns of senator mccain. >> listen, i think everybody applauds your due diligence. but what could be the deciding factor. what could y

senator ben cardin. i have this hour, some big news from the milken conference, the ceo of fannie mae and jane harman are among our guests. ♪ david: 30 more days. president trump has extended a temporary exemption for steel and aluminum

foreign relations committee. as i mentioned, democrat ben cardin we love to have on the program of the great state of maryland. when you hear nancy pelosi, does that tone speak for democrats like yourself? >> i just got on air and i didn't hear exactly what she said. but i can tell you this. we want diplomacy to succeed. we understand that president trump has a different way of conducting foreign policy. i don't agree with his style. but at the end of the day we all want diplomacy to work. >> harris: yeah. just to step back, because this is making news now, and she is a top democrat in the house. and she is saying that kim jong un must be having a giggle fit over the fact that this didn't work out. that is a tough tone. >> well, look, the perpetrator of the crisis is kim jong un in north korea. they are the ones violating international norms. we recognize that the successful path is through diplomacy. we must make diplomacy work. i think president trump at times has made the temperature too hot. where he should have used more diplomacy. so i don't necessarily agree with the style h

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from maryland senator ben cardin, who has served on the foreign relations committee. >> good morning, or afternoon. . morning somewhere. i'm matthew goodman, i hold the simon share here, and i am delighted to welcome you here on a beautiful day. thank you for coming. welcome also to our online audience, we always have a good crowd to watch from their desk. delighted to have you as well. a few administrative points -- oh, sorry, one immediate thing -- this event, which in case you are in the wrong place, is on russian sanctions and roughly four years after they were first imposed. i want to thank the foundations which made this event possible. it is part of a series we do on economic statecraft. we haven't delved into this topic before, so we are delighted to have the opportunity. if you could silence your phones, please, and if there is any kind of security event, follow me. there is an exit out the back or down the front, depending on where the problem is. the rally point is around the corner at national geographic on m street. one thing about the run of show today, we -- in a minut

. democratic senator ben cardin sits on the foreign relations committee and joins us live now from capitol hill. good to have you. it cannot have escaped your notice that the europeans are quite anxious about what is going on, not only facing the threat of terrorists but maybe also sanctions on their european companies if they trade with iran. good to be with you and i think we really do not understand how this is going to unfold. many of us disagree with resident trump and his strategy here but the bottom line is how do we ensure that iran does not start up we ensure that iran does not start up its nuclear programme and how do we deal with their other activities of the we need to have unity and u nfortu nately of the we need to have unity and unfortunately the decision from the president makes it difficult to have that unity. the europeans are looking for reassurances, does congress play a role in that, specifically when we talk about air bus, they will trade 100 aeroplanes with iran, there are an arrogant components on that. would it face sanctions for example and is there anythi

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interested and that was the end of it. okay. so right now let's bring in democratic senator ben cardin of maryland, a member of the foreign relations committee. senator, welcome on this sunday. i want to get your wraeks react this new report. what does it add up to if anything in your mind? >> good to be with you. it really cries out for why the mueller investigation needs to be able to be -- get to its conclusions and not interfered with by anyone. this is certainly very important information to understand whether there were contacts with foreign governments to try to influence our campaign. we now have more information about contacts. it is very relevant and that is why i found the president's tweet this morning particularly again saying stop the witch hunt to be just wrong and outrageous. >> can you put the report about this previously unreported meeting, put this in the context of what we have learned in the transcripts from donald trump jr.'s testimony before the senate judiciary committee? >> well, we're finding inconsistencies. the timing of the report of contacts appear to be diff

apprentice. it is extraordinary to see a senior democrat ben cardin, i hope there is a strategic approach. what day is it finally going to reveal itself to everybody in washington there is no strategy? he doesn't know anything about anything. he is on red. he is unstudied. he is unprepared. he knows not the first thing about the threat to history the north korean regime provides. there is one silver lining to this and that would be the exposure of the 18 dumbest members of congress which would be the 18 republicans that signed the letter nominating trump for the nobel peace prize right at the inception of the meeting that's not going to happen. but the result is this. the world is more unstable. the world is more dangerous. kim jong-un is the leader of a slave state. it is nuclear armed. it is directly threatened the united states. it has 12,000 artillery pieces ranged on seoul and the estimates on conflict for the first day of the second korean war, over a million killed. donald trump's lack of seriousness destabilizes this world at the great peril of the world and the american people. t

speed. at a stake out we heard from ben cardin, and i think it's interesting what he had to say, because he in some ways echoed what we heard earlier from eric swalwe swalwell. he said he doesn't think there's any reason by diplomacy isn't the answer. he doesn't understand why we would walk away from these talks. he called it puzzling. and he says i haven't seen anything to date that would change the need for direct discussions. so i think that it's interesting that this is how this is breaking down with republicans immediately rushing to embrace president trump when they had previously said that him going ahead with the meeting was perfectly fine, and well, and democrats saying hey, what does this mean? why are you no longer going through with this? we still need to be focussed on the diplomatic discussions here. i think one concern that democrats i think are going to start to raise quickly too is whether the statements coming out of north korea, the early indications were they're on the more belligerent side. we could reenter the conversation that you'll remember just a few mo

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panelists, i have an instruction. everyone should remain seated. senator ben cardin is about to appear but first join me in thanking our guests for a great discussion. [applause] quick set change up her but again, don't move. i will be right back. the houses back next week to debate a number of bills related to law enforcement coinciding with the national police week. pick up a they will five-year farm bill which includes new requirements for food stamp recipients. in the senate, republicans will hear from the president at their weekly party conference went on tuesday where he is expected talk about the economy and his upcoming reader with the north korean leader. floor, senators will consider more of the president's circuit court nominees. it is also possible they will take up a disapproval resolution to reverse

, but i'd like to see it done at one time. >> that's quite a reversal. joining me now is ben cardin of maryland. he sits on the foreign relations committee and will question mike pompeo later this morning. thank you for being with me. >> thank you. >>> is the president right? is the phasein approach okay? >> i think it's unrealistic to expect that overnight we'll see the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. what we need to do is have a game plan that starts with the phrase and ends with denuclearization with inspections. that clearly is what we're going to be looking to, so i think diplomacy is the right way and i think we need to be realistic. >> senator, here's the problem. as you well know the freezes in the past administration to administration have completely have utterly failed and that's why this administration was demanding denuclearization immediately. that may have not been the right card to play in the negotiations, but the secretary of state mike pompeo who's coming before your committee today, he says the opposite of what the president says. listen to him just yesterd

government. that's democratic senator ben cardin. elmer putin wants to make the world safe for russian attackers he which means compromising every democratic center of power he can find and crushing democracy closer to home. that's a former senior state department official. i think fundamentally there is an aversion to our whole system and an aversion to democracy. vladimir putin doesn't believe in it and he sees it as threatening to him personally. i think it's almost in his jeans, in the russian genes to do what they did in meddling with the u.s. election and they will continue to do it. that's james clapper, now retired director of national intelligence. clapper summed up all of this in one neat soundbite and that is, they're in to do us in. in other words, russia may not have aspired to incinerate the united states physically, although it certainly has the wherewithal for doing that, but rather it hopes to undermine our democratic institutions to set americans against each other, conquer our nation by exacerbating divisions and dysfunction. there is almost nobody on the u.s. politi

. russia is trying to bring down our way of government. that is democratic senator ben cardin. wants to make the world safe for russian autocracy, which means compromising every democratic senator of power he can find and question democracy close to home. that is a former senior state department official -- i think fundamentally, there is an aversion to our whole system, an aversion to democracy. putin does not believe in it, and views it as threatening to him, personally. i just think that it is almost in his genes, and the russian genes, to do what they did, meddling in the u.s. election and they will continue to do it. that is james clapper, now retired director of national intelligence. and clapper, he summed up all of this in one, neat soundbite, and that is they are in to do us in. in other words, russia may not have aspired to incinerate the united states physically. although, it certainly has the wherewithal of doing that. but rather, it hopes to undermine our democratic institutions to set americans against each other, conquer our nation, by exacerbating divisions and dysfun

government." that is democratic senator ben cardin. " putin's once to make the world safer russian autocracy which means compromising every democratic center of power he can find a crushing democracy closer to home." that is a former senior state department official. andamentally, there is aversion to our system, and aversion to democracy. putin does not believe in it and use it as threatening to him personally. --is almost in his jeans genes to do what they did in the russian election and they will continue to do it. that is james clapper and he summed up all of this in one soundbite and that is, "therein then."t russia may not aspire to incinerate the u.s. physically but rather, it hopes to undermine our democratic institutions, to set americans , exacerbatingther divisions and dysfunction. there's almost nobody on the u.s. political spectrum today that takes issue with that. this is something we seem to know for sure. i would argue this is something that could get us into trouble because we have not looked very deeply at this question. a important function of intelligence analys

schumer and senator ben cardin didn't support it. fundamentally, have you gotten democrats on board with your new tough policy? >> look i think that is exactly what people often forget or want to forget is that this iranian nuclear deal was submitted to congress as an agreement because it didn't have support to be a treaty. that was a bipartisan opposition to weak terms in it. i think as we move forward there will be a lot of support for this new approach. i think people often play politics with this. perhaps on the democratic side of the aisle. but i think there will be support as we move forward. brian: we'll see. no doubt about it, you want to put pressure back on them, that move made them compliant to begin with. thanks so much, andrew, appreciate it. >> thanks so much. great to be here. brian: ten minutes before the bottom of the hour. she tipped off illegal immigrants i.c.e. was coming. one congressman wants to make sure oakland mayor libby schaaf or any other american never do it again. the brand new bill that inspired. >>> our next guest -- our birth rate hits lower and lowe

the majority of the senate. ben cardin voted against it senator schumer voted against it the house was not for it what they did is they didn't get the two thirds majority to reject it. steve: to make it a treaty. here is the other thing that's going on at the same time. remember, a year ago, people were suggesting, you know, it looks like michael flynn may have broken the logan act. where before the administration, he was negotiating on behalf of the trump transition team on behalf of the united states. it's against the law, according to the logan act. now it looks like john kerry whose fingerprints were all over the iranian deal, it looks like john kerry himself and it sounds like from his spokesperson, is he admitting that he is breaking the logan act. ainsley: he has been meeting with iranian leaders, our european leaders. of the president is condemning for engaging in what they are cawrlg shadow diplomacy. he tweeted about it. the president says the united states does not need john kerry's illegal shadow diplomacy on the badly negotiated iran deal. set one who create you had th

wonderful panelists, i have an instruction. i need everyone to remain seated. don't move. senator ben cardin is about to appear, and i know you want to be here and warmly welcome him. but first please join me in thanking curt and enola for a lovely discussion. [ applause ] i'm going to do a quick set change up here. but again, don't move. >>> and we're live with the consumer federation of america's annual forum today. we'll hear from the head of the consumer products safety commission. there will also be a discussion on the reliability of the electric grid and a panel on data breaches and the security of personal data. again, this is live coverage getting under way here shortly on c-span3. >>> good morning. never sure about these microphones. good morning, everyone. i'm bob adler, i'm one of the commissioners at the consumer products safety commission. it's my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce this morning's keynote speaker, acting cpsc

everyone to remain seated, don't move. senator ben cardin is about to appear. and i know you want to be here and warmly welcome him. but first please join me in thanking curt and olga for a wonderful discussion. [ applause ] >> we're going to do a quick set change up here. but again, don't move. >>> sunday on "q & a," university of virginia history professor, william hitchcock, on his book, "the age of eisenhower: america and the world in the 1950s". >> eisenhower, the way he carried himself and the man he was was a disciplined man, a great athlete when he was young. an organized man in every respect. very methodical. but that's how he ran the white house, too. he was extremely organized. and a lot of people, especially the young senator, future president, john kennedy, kind of criticized eisenhower's stodginess for being so disciplined and organized and predictable. but for eisenhower, it meant that when crises came, he had a plan. he knew how to respond. he knew who to turn to. he used to say, plans are worthless, but planning is everything. so you're always thinking, what's over the