Next comes from hall from arkansas. Caller good morning. This is term limits just smoke and mirrors. We need to get rid of the lobbyist and big money. Thats the core of the problem. As long as we got lobbyist, suitcases full of money, this is what youre going to get. Host kermit is on the line for independents. Caller hello. Host youre on washington journal this morning. Caller im against term limits. The permanent stance and lobbyist will end up forming the country. You can have term limits but first you have to get corporate money, big money out of election process because theyll just end up running the country. These people come and go and theyll laugh at them and run the country. The lobbyist is staffed. Host Justice Briar recently discussed the term limit case. Its term limit constitution . Lets look at the text. Can arkansas say that its members of congress can serve no more than two terms or four terms or whatever. Well, lets look at the text. The text says that you have to be a
Sheer a center, politics editor at role call. To you first, sheer a. Youve been watching a lot of same players in washington for a lot of years. Should we expect something. I dont expect at this time. I didnt think they did a good job faking it. This was not a ernest kumbayah moment by any means. I think more importantly, Mitch Mcconnell has his own agenda for the next two years. He wants to make impact as majority leader. President obama more importantly wants to have a legacy item in his second term. He wants to fill something with the second term fill the president obama president ial library and i think that will be immigration. Will be interesting to see how that plays out with the more conservative house still than the senate. Jon it is interesting, jamie, you got to wonder if he really is intent on doing something with executive action through immigration. He has got to wait until this lameduck session ends, right . Because, if he is true to his word, if he is waiting for republ
Ruhle. Guess what weve got . Breaking news. President trump naming his new fbi director just one day before his old one is set to testify. While there are new revelations that President Trump reportedly asked his director of National Intelligence to intervene and get james comey to back off the russia probe. What the intelligence head is testifying this morning. And never leave me alone. James comey reportedly telling attorney general Jeff Sessions, keep me away from trump. Plus new details on what james comey plans to say tomorrow and will President Trump live tweet the whole thing. Mr. President , what message do you have to jim comey ahead of his testimony . I wish him luck. We are just one day away from the big comey hearing. In just an hour, another hearing with four of the top Law Enforcement and intelligence officials in the country. Russia will be a focus there. Remember, its infrastructure week, if you forgot. But first, the president trying to change the conversation naming h
And now we await the next court filing. Today the president was one of five who have held the job and in ways both very real and unspoken he was the outsider at a service for a lion of his party. Tonight well look at this day of high emotion and genuine sadness in the nations capital. The funeral for our 41st president , George Herbert walker bush. Remembered as a peer, a warrior, a father, a grandfather, and of course as president. As the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters back here in new york. And following this day that we will chronicle for you later when donald trump was one of five president s present in one place, this was also day 685 of the trump administration. That meant the president and the members of his team have now had a full day to absorb the impact of the mueller teams latest court filing on Michael Flynn, which raises the possibility that this investigation has more tangents and involves more