Associated press for him include arizona and wisconsin. The count continues in nevada, georgia, with carolina and pennsylvania, with legal challenges filed in all four of those states by the Trump Campaign. And although alaska has not been declared, the president is leading toone for that states electoral votes. The magic number is 270. In the popular vote, 71 million americans cast votes for the bidenharris ticket, while 68 alien voted for the trumppentz team, compared to 66,000,004 Hillary Clinton and 63,000,004 donald trump in 2016. And good evening. We are going to hear your voices tonight about alexion 2020, and get updated results. Thest want to let you know, michigan secretary of state will hold a press conference very shortly, Jocelyn Benson, and we will go to that live. So we might interrupt our normal flow of events this evening. Brawner. Us is greta begin with states that have not been called on this evening at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. We begin with alaska. You mentioned this, pe
The speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 224 and the nays are 194. The current resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the the gentlewoman from new york, ms. Velazquez, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 5078 as amended. On which the the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title. The clerk h. R. 5078, a bill toll amend the Small Business act to provide reentry counseling and Training Services for incarcerated persons and now other purposes. The speaker pro tempore will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commerc
Discussed the house floor vote on articles of impeachment. And alan durso which on his opposition to the impeachment of President Trump. Host the house of representatives is slated to vote for two articles of impeachment for President Trump. The president will stand trial in the senate and the new year. We will begin with your thoughts. Should the president be impeached and removed from office . Democrats 202 7488000. You can go to social. You can join us on cspan or facebook. Com cspan and you can text us your city and state at 2027488003. We will begin with a new poll out by fox. Trumps approval picks up. Found. Look at what fox takeob Approval Rating that from october ticked up from october. His Approval Rating is at 43 . Take a look at the impeachment question. In late october, 40 9 favored impeachment and removal from office. 4 said impeached, but dont opposednd 41 altogether. Say impeach, but dont remove and 41 say do not impeach the president. That is our question for all of do
Emily cochrane is a congressional report for the new york times. She joins us by phone. She talks about impeachment and other issues. Good morning, emily. Guest good morning. Thank you for having me. Host we will put your article up, which we looked at briefly, and it says this, new york democrats balance impeachment issue with local concerns. Tell us about this impeachment issue. Est so i went to three town halls last week. All three representatives of eventually came out for impeachment, the impeachment inquiry, one of them actually at that town hall. Sort ofe preempted any questions at the town hall with their own explanation of what the inquiry , where they stood, and opened the floor for questions, and for the most part, voters seemed satisfied with that explanation and instead wanted concerns,hem on local climate change, their personal policy platforms, and how that was going to get done moving forward. Host we featured anthony brindisi, one of the eight democrats who does not su
West virginia, new york, and california. As always, we will take your calls come and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is saturday, october 12. Welcome to washington journal as Congress Continues its recess over this long holiday weekend, we continue to track house and Senate Members at town hall meetings. The number of town halls is up this year, due to the increase in freshman lawmakers. Lawmakers of course are spending lots of time on local issues as well. Thesion is when question is, when lawmakers return to washington next week, can they balance impeachment legislating . Can they do both at the same time . Participateyou will tak in this program, we will take your calls over whether lawmakers can balance impeachment and legislating. Republicans can call 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independence, 202 7488002 is your number. Several other ways to take part in the conversation, you can send us a te