Mike emanuel is on capitol hill where it was more than just pomp and circumstance today on the first day of the new congress. Good evening. The 115th congress is up and running but there was some drama after president elect trump criticized an early move by House Republicans. Last night behind closed doors, republican lawmakers voted to reform the outside office of congressional ethics as it considered its rules for the new congress. This morning Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy was forced to defend a move he opposed. It doesnt get dissolved. I am not in favor of dissolving it. I was not in favor of moving forward in the rules package with it because i thought we should take it by itself and a bipartisan manner because there are people on both sides of the aisle that would support these reforms. The Ethics Committee will still be there. The trouble came this morning when president elect trump flexed muscle on twitter. With all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make the
Because he has not yet discussed it with u. S. Intelligence officials. He says hell get around to doing that sometime next week. This week he was way too busy. Hanging out with don king. Dramatic action against russia for its alleged interference in our president ial election. President obama hitting of russia with sanctions. 35 operatives ordered out of the United States. There will be consequences for aggressive activities from the russian government against our personnel and in efforts to interfere with our election process. President obama had multiple conversations with putin, both in private and public, warning russia not to do this. People dont understand that cyber warfare is a battle space. Putins Spokesman Says they are considering retaliatory measures of their own. If in a statement just in, donald trump says he will meet with members of the Intelligence Community next week. There is no bigger and better thing in america than our democracy. I dont think youre going to see a
Expensive. Im brig business. Its wednesday, april 26th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. White house reaching for an old playbook slamming a federal judge who blocked an executive order. This time its judge william orrick, temporarily halting enforcement of president trumps executive order on sanctuary cities. President says his order would withhold billions of dollars from jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement. Orrick found San Francisco and other jurisdictions suing to overturn the order to face harm if it were enforced and cited the legal challenge to the executive order is likely to be upheld. The white house at first steered clear of attacking judge orrick then overnight this statement went straight at him. Called the case one more example of egregious overreach by a single unelected district judge, adding todays ruling underminds faith in our legal system and raises serious questions about circuit shopping. We are confident well ultimately prevail in the Supr
So guess who hes up against . Last night in a surprise videotaped address to the international ted conference in vancouver, pope francis had a message for world leaders. Quote, act humbly. Quote, allow me to say it loud and clear, the pope said. The more powerful you are, the more your actions will have an impact on people. The more responsible you are to act humbly. Humility is in short supply. Of course for the man living at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. Lets watch. There has never been a presidency thats done so much in such a short period of time. We had a massive crowd of people. Heres a picture of the crowd. Now, the audience was the biggest ever, but this crowd was massive. Look how far back it goes. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe. That speech was a home run. They loved it. They gave me a standing ovation for a long period of time. They never even sat down, most of them, during the speech. The Business Commu
He tweeted this. First the ninth circuit rules against the ban and now it hits against on sanctuary cities. Ridiculous ruling. See you in the Supreme Court. Bill im joined by sean spicer. Thank you for your time today. You had a strong statement, too, on screen this is what you said. San francisco and cities like it are putting the wellbeing of criminal aliens before the safety of our citizens and those city officials who author these policies have the blood of dead americans on their hands. I know you think the president will win this case. On what grounds . On the same grounds the court ruled. The court agreed with the president s interpretation of the authorities that he has given under u. S. Code. Where they differed is the interpretation of the intent of it which is outside of what they should be looking at. U. S. Code makes it clear this president has the full authority to do whats necessary to protect this country and to present grant money in a way he sees fit. The idea that an