Forever, forever, large portions of forests. Im sure that is a canadian issue. If i lived in canada, they would be protesting. I dont. We dont need to build a pipeline there. They will use precious Water Resources and create waste pits that will be polluted with the extract, except for the part that which is shipped south to be processed and shipped overseas. So i really dont see this as something we should preempt the laws of the United States. 2. 5 million comments. Republicans dont care much about the comments. 2. 5 million comments that are still being evaluated, raising concerns about various aspects of this project. But here, i will say, bad legislation, good politics, we are trying to help someone get elected to the senate who is currently a member of the house, the senate is potentially moving ahead with this bill. The house, with very little notice, zidded they would bring up this bill that we have passed in one version or another eight previous times. And use of the house of
Clinton its Editorial Board sat down with the democratic frontrunner and pressed her among other things about how much some of her plans would actually cost. The daily news specifically asked clinton about the tab for programs involving reigning in College Costs and providing for paid family leave along with infrastructure investment. Clinton said that would cost about 100 billion a year over ten years. At that point the daily news pointed out the figure totaled up to a trillion dollars. Clinton acknowledged that would indeed be the price tag. Now, according to the transcript provided by the daily news, clinton called this a heavy lift, but also described it as affordable and said theres a way to pay for it. For example, clintons website says the college aspect would be paid for by limiting certain tax expenditures for high income taxpayers. The Editorial Board said it was endorsing clinton for being what it described as more than just a realist. It wrote of new york democrats and i am
Hostilities. This week the white house shared some of the new rules theyve been able to institute, like direct mail service to cuba for the first time in half a century. Including a letter from president obama himself to a 76yearold letter writer there. And an end to the requirement that cuban Baseball Players have to defect to the u. S. In order to sign with Major League Baseball teams. Something front and center when president obama and cuban president raul castro attend a baseball game together between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban National team scheduled for tuesday. But despite those changes lots of political issues remain unresolved, including the trade embargo which congress controls, the Guantanamo Bay detention center, also under congress purview and cubas oppression of political dissidents. Nbcs Chris Jansing joins me now from havana. Give us a sense of what the agenda will be for the president in cuba this week. You do have this sense of history ayman. When the president
To go in at half strength. We need a real unification of our party. After a tough primary, thats going to take some effort. And House Minority leader nancy pelosi taking the podium to blast donald trump as to what she calls his poisonous rhetoric. Whether its insulting president obama, women, immigrants, muslims, lgbt americans, theres not a dimes worth of difference between what donald trump says and what the House Republicans have been saying all along. Lets get straight over to cnns senior political reporter manu raju. You have very interesting reporting of what was going on behind closed doors when paul ryan met with house members this morning. We heard from him from the podium. He wants to merge and unify our common principles. What is he hearing from members . Thats a similar message that he had at this 9 00 a. M. Meeting with the House Republican congress. This is the first time that paul ryan has met with his Conference Since making those bombshell comments on cnn last week tha
To demand the shutdown of the government, basically. But when chris murphy held the floor in the senate last night for 15 hours, he not only held the floor for that truly remarkable length of time, he also did something that is basically unheard of in the modern history of filibusters and even long speeches in the United States senate. Which is that at the end of his 15 hours, last night at 2 00 in the morning, senator chris murphy of connecticut, he won. By virtue of that filibuster, he actually got what he was asking for. I mean, overall, he was there to protest gun violence in this country r. Test. In the specific what he was asking for were senate votes on two things. Senate vote on blocking people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy guns. A senate vote on closing that loophole for background chen checks. That that loophole that says you can avoid a background check if you buy a gun online or at a gun show. Thats what he was asking for in speck, votes on those two th