Finishing up the inheritance here when Michael First joined as a fellow and you know, at the end of the day, he would come by either my office or his office and his endless curiosity for for how this would play out, his love of the wonderfully ambiguous nature of dealing with the iranian. The questions of whether or not the specifics of the deal led to a much greater political kind of reconciliation, a subject that my great colleague, mark, will take up in a moment. He was also wonderfully into the weeds. And wonderfully competitive in that way that somebodys whos been a reporter all his life can be. When i r reported in the book after i wrote after i had done the inter hans than the United States had been involved in a lengthy cyber saab technology, that was really the first use of a cyber weapon by the United States against another state, i think michael was probably the first person who called me the day they ran the excerpt in the paper. And his mind had moved three chess steps out
Matters. If those three things factor in, are there those. Here on the phone lines 2025853881 for republicans, 2025853880 for democrats agend r independents, 2025853882. If you want to make your thoughts known by computer on do so as well. Roof us on twitter. Send an email to a journal at cspan. Org with the upcoming e leningsz, more stories about what people think and political people think about the future of the senate. I did highlighted in the New York Times this morning. Take a look at kansas. It says the probability forecast models fluctuate from week to week. They are based upon different methodologies. The Huffington Post forecast gave republicans a 54 chance of winning control of the senate. The New York Times model says 66 . The warrant post election lab prediction was 95 . The Election Consortium gave democrats a 49 of maintaining control. This highlights the current rates between pat roberts and greg orr saying here in kansas, the independent greg orman has certain the lead
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Was sworn in today by Vice President joe biden at the Justice Department. It is about 20 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Loretta Lynch and a Vice President of the United States joe biden. [applause] Vice President biden i first time i came into this room during the nixon administration. I remember walking into this building and thinking about the majesty of this place and how much we rely on it. For all of our basic rights and protections. Your whole family is here today. I hope you will forgive as we used to say in the senate a point of personal privilege. I am so happy to meet your dad. Dad, stand up. [applause] this is a man who never thought it paid to be silent in the face of oppression and prejudice. So many people, so many people not only in your home state of North Carolina and into the country owe you so much, not just for your wisdom but the courage it took back in those days to speak out as you did. A baptist minister who always taught his children that anythin
Mr. Scarborough we will close the formal part of our press conference. If you have a question, we are glad to entertain. I kid you not call for taking time out of your busy schedules to cover this information. God bless you all. [inaudible conversations] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the Supreme Court hears arguments today in two cases regarding samesex marriage. The case is from michigan and ohio will determine whether states are required to issue licenses to same sex couples. And whether states must recognize marriages performed in other states. Well be live outside of the court and possibly comments from the dispenser. Beginning at 4 00 p. M. , we will bring you the audio of the arguments. That is live on cspan3. Coming up, the swearingin ceremony for the new attorney general, Loretta Lynch. Then Charles Grassley speaks at the National Press club at the department about his de