Franklin, its great to see you. Thanks for your time tonight. Thank you. That is our show for this evening. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. We have what we call a quorum here at the last word. We have three senators joining us tonight. Well, okay, wait. Adam schiff, who is one Election Night away from becoming the next senator in california. Hes going to win. Because republicans cannot win statewide there. Hes going to join us. Sherry brown, who actually is currently a Senator Running for reelection is joining us. And the big, Big Winner In Texas Last Night on his way to the general election in november. Senator cruise. Cruz only one by three points last time. This could be the time. Its senate night here. You might be able to hash out a plan for Immigration Reform in an hour. And later, actually, Andrew Weissman and Melissa Murray are going to join me and we did something unusual for tonights segment, alex. We rehearsed it. We rehearsed for an hour in from a Liv
Mr. Mcconnell mr. President , are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are, sir. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings your honor the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i move to proceed to the motion to reconsider the motion to invoke clove on Senate Amendment number 5082 to h. R. 5325. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. And the motion is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell i move to reconsider the motion toip voke cloture on Senate Amendment number 5082 to h. R. 5325. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All in favor say aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the
I want to have a conversation about recent policy changes and an approach that i have long called for i would explore with you a host of issues relative to the department including my reit recent fbi i also want to discuss with you at another example of stonewalling at the administration and using the department as a tool for its resistance. The people are now aware that they have used nongovernment service for official business over 2000 emails containing classified information with some containing with what we describe as topsecret, sensitive, compartmented information and other related to special access programs. The department and the fbi have refused to officially confirm basic information about the scope and nature of the investigation to this committee. Apparently the fbi is conducting an investigation relating to the mishandling of that classified information. Given the politics involved, the potential for improper influence over the work of the investigators and career prosecu
There. And, by the way, when i was there, there was a man there, former secretary of defense, National Security adviser, brzezinski, and his daughters on morning joe shes a very nice lady, and her father was in this meeting, and he looked over at rumsfeld and he said, would you tell the president to stop saying dead or alive, that we want bin laden dead or alive. Dead or alive is incendiary and kissinger was across the table and looked at rumsfeld and said, i agree, we dont want bin laden alive, okay . But anyway, so heres the situation. With iraq, the first war in iraq was an amazing situation because the muslim arabs supported the west and we went as a unified group to push saddam out of kuwait, okay . I actually went there after the war and even saw the oil fields that were still on fire. The egyptian ambassador to the United States went to the rose garden and announced the support of aour arab friends who would work with us. Talk about the second iraq war. The second iraq war was p
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