do that in the case of donald trump. especially here recently and there s always going to be the noise, as jon said, about weaponization of the justice department and irs is coming for you, that noise will always be there. it s the job of the judges to blindly go forward and look for justice, and as you say, especially in the case of the 2020 election, everything around january 6th doing it consistently. still ahead on morning joe steve kornacki joins us. stepping away from the big board to sit at our table and talk about the republican revolution of 1994. joe might not something about that. and the connection to congress today. plus, kari lake is still refusing to concede her race after losing the governor s election in arizona. poor thing. we ll look at the new fund-raiser event. and plus, time magazine, photos of the year and former
The new majority in the 104th Congress was elected on a platform of smaller government, less spending, and a strong national defense. These ideals were embodied in the Contract With America, which explicitly calls for the creation of a bipartisan National Security Revitalization Commission to examine the combat readiness of the armed forces. Because of defense budget cuts, the readiness of the American military has been on the decline. Despite the evidence, the Clinton Administration has not recognized the growing readiness prob- lem. Notwithstanding his admission last November that one-third of America's combat divisions are at less than full wartime readiness, Secretary of Defense William J. Perry recently told a congres- sional committee that to label U.S. forces "hollow"-ill-trained, under-equipped, and demoralized -was "not only wrong, but dangerous. 991 But if the commission is approved and examines the readiness issue, it is likely to draw a very dif- ferent
against house resolution 767 on the grounds that the report accompanying the resolution fails to specify a waiver of a particular point of order and is thus in violation of clause 6g of rule 13. the gentleman is stating a matter for debate rather than a proper point of order. clause 6g of rule 13 is merely informational on any specified waivers to the maximum extent possible. as elucidateed by chairman solomon in the 104th congress any failure of the rules committee to specify waivers in a rule would not give rise to a point of order against a special rule that waves all points of order. the chairman would advise he is not stating a proper point of order. massachusetts is recognized. gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. madam speaker, for the purposes of debate only i yield
message. he was right about that. that s the problem. when donald trump says i want unity and community, i want that too. but, you know, it s like urban and i doing ads for pantene hair products. we aren t going to be credible. one of you has more hair. a statement of fact. back in the clinton case, we got pasted the midterms, the president is pretending he won the midterm election. he got paesed. first thing of husband mouth, bill clinton, first thing he said, again we are here in the sanctuary of democracy, and once again our democracy has spoken. let me begin by congratulating all of you in the 104th congress and congratulations you, mr. speaker. he hated newt gingrich. but he understood that he was the messenger. he had to be a unifying figure in his deeds as well as his
washington here in the nation s capitol. president trump getting ready to faface the nation and deliver h second state of the union address before a newly divided congress, and there is a lot on the line this evening. another shut down is looming and the president s original state of the union speech you may remember was cancelled by house speaker, nancy pelosi because of the shut down. the president is expected to renew calls for border wall funding, the very thing that led to the last shut down, contractors apparently have been at the white house this week, and we know the president is taking action on his wall because according to sources, the president and his son-in-law jared kushner had contractors at the white house to discuss specific construction for the wall with a meeting as recently as yesterday. and the new york times tonight reporting that the president has been complaining to his staff that the drafts of the speech that they had prepared are too gentle on the democrats