Graciously come back to the festival this year to talk about his latest book, a memoir of time leading the 1990s investigation into whitewater and the matter during the 10 years of bill clinton. When you have been in the whitehot center of the public eye has he has judges probably needs no introduction but i will give you a quick snapshot of some of his distinguished career in law and public service. Is a graduate of George Washington university, Brown University law school. He was the us solicitor general. He was dean of the pepperdine law school. He was chancellor and president of baylor university. Hes been a very distinguished private attorney with firms in california, texas and washington dc. He also is something called [inaudible] even though we have a very bright crowd and this is the annapolis area, i bet if i asked you or if i said the three names you are not allowed answer, can i bet no one know soon they are, but if i said the names Archibald Cox, ken starr and bob mueller y
Firing means that the buildup or hearing the buildup or investigations may be totally justified, i take nothing away from that, distracts from things like getting cost Efficient Health care act together. Then of course tax cuts are contingent on that together. We were just talking about the cook report that was out yesterday that seems to show republicans now have better than even chance of losing the house and losing 24 seats, what it would take. There is easy precedent for that, in recent elections no less, than you can understand part of my concern. I laid out there, im going to be looking through that prism here, to frame this debate. So, it is not so so much pros and cons. You heard that to death, that you want to shoot yourself im sure. Im looking at prism of you and your money. Things a lot of folks want to see, including yourself might not. So, what is the fallout on all that . Blake burman with the very latest on all of the above. Blake. Reporter to your point, not just taxes
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Tonight. It will bring two more warm days after some showers right on through the Early Morning hours. Then here comes the cold. Ill show you when the cold moves in and tracking our snow chances for the weekend. You can track them yourself with your nbc washington app. Download the app today and stay ahead of the weather. To politics now. We begin another National Battle over health care reform. The new republican plan to replace obamacare is meeting with opposition even from republicans. Tracie potts on capitol hill now with new details on what the plan means for you and your family. Reporter were going to tell you what it means for you and your wallet. First, whos opposing this plan . You would expect democrats not to like it. But democrats, conservative republicans, even some moderate republicans opposing this plan before it even really gets started. Tonight we still dont know what it costs. Its called good obamacare republicans introduced their own plan. This will be a plan where y
I think the salient points made by our memo still exist and they are still true. A little bit of it is creating so much dust and clout that people just give up and saying, you are saying that, i am just going to tune out. That may be part of it too. Martha it seems like one of the Big Bones Of Contention would be whether or not it was essential to the fisa surveillance. You have argued that it was essential, that without it, they would have not received the authorization for the warrant from the fisa court. Do they have you said that there is other information about carter page. You said they are basically three things. You have yahoo news article, the dossier, and other information about carter page. Can they argue that other information was substantial enough . They didnt make that argument to the judge. If you have enough without the dossier, then why did you
include the dossier . If you have enough without the dossier, why did you, in your court filing, lead with the dossier . Lawy