Thanks, my dear. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Happy monday. There are only 100 people who serve in the United States senate. Like the how it is, the senate does all its work through committees. Thats where they work on legislation and oversight and investigations. There are a lot of internal politics about who gets on what committee and who gets to be chair of a committee. In some states, certain committees are very important and give you a lot of homestate advantage if youre on those committees. You can understand why a senator from iowa would want to be on the Agricultural Committee or why one from new york would want to be on the banning committee. But some of the committees, no matter where youre from, everybody wants to be on them because they are prestigious in all the right ways for everybody in the senate. And so even though there are only 100 u. S. Senators in total, 26 out of the 100 senators are on the Armed Services committee, more than one in every four
today in russia the country s critic of vladimir putin, alexey mulvaney was arrested again. he had been on his way to anti-government anti-corruption protests he helped organized today. we walked out of his apartment to head into downtown moscow and was scooped by police right at his apartment building. his wife tweeted this photo of him being taken into custody. it did not stop protesters from turning out in force today in central moscow and across the country as well in hundreds of sites across the country. lots of people turned out. thousands of people turned out in cities all across the russia. hundreds of people were arrested at multiple sites, including a lot of young people who
your show. other people have died. mr. mulvaney is threatened often and people should be worried about their security without a question, especially him. has there been a softening of the united states government role in trying to protect those dissenterds and trying to keep russia on the straight and narrow when it comeso the way they treat the protesters? well, i was heart understaen a statement by the administration condemning these arrests. i know a lot of individuals looking for asylum in this country. they are seeking that. that s a good sign. what i don t know is what the president himself thinks, president trump. i ve never heard him talk about democracy and human rights in any country, let alone russia.