Odonnell. I feel like were doing sideline reporting of a major Football Game or something. Kelly, let me start with you because i know in the last hour there have been a lot of fluid motions going on behind the scenes, but break it down, the expected plays well see through this hour. Well, there are some critical nuggets to report, thomas. Ive been able to report in the last half hour that House Speaker john boehner has signalled to fellow republicans that he is prepared to rely on democratic votes if necessary to pass something. Now, that means the senate has to come to a deal, and we expect that could be announced within the hour. Right now Senate Republicans have been going into their own team meeting. I was able to talk to a number of them as they were headed into that meeting. They expect to sort of get the lay of the land and find out what the next steps will be. Im also told that at least going into that meeting there had not been a final decision made on a key sort of procedura
Africanamerican to be elected to that chamber ever. He has a busy and active agenda before he arrives. Whats going to happen before he gets there . We will be looking inside his file of facts. If its saturday here on up, that means its time for up against the clock. Get ready to test your knowledge against news and pop culture. Thats later. But, first the government had been closed 16 days. A default was a mere hours away wednesday night when the senate planned to avert and fund the government. President obama quickly signed it. He expressed his hope the Opposition Party had learned an important lesson. One of the things i said throughout this process is we got to get out of the habit of governing by crisis and my hope and expectation is everybody has learned that there is in reason why we cant work on the issues at hand, why we cant disagree between the parties while still being agreeable and make sure that were not inflicting harm on the American People when we do have disagreements.
Unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party. They are undermining our alliances, cozying up to russia. What happened to the Republican Party . We cant just put walls up all around america. Walls dont keep out threats like terrorism or. [applause] or disease we do not pressure the attorney general or the fbi as a judd july to punish our political opponents. You need to vote because our democracy depends on it. Dana the former president taking a shot at fox news while criticizing trump for his attack on the media. It shouldnt be democratic or republican to say that we dont threaten the freedom of the press because. [applause] they say things or publish stories we dont like. [applause] i complained plenty about fox news. [laughter] but you never heard me threaten to shut them down. Or call them enemies of the people. Dana President Trump quickly responding during his speech in north dakota. Yeah, very popular guy here was just interviewing me. You know who im talking about, great g
Ben carson to do these democratic debates just because he was so fascinating to watch, even getting out on to the stage was always an adventure. We didnt have time to show the full beauty of that moment. His name had been called several times prior. He was greeting people as he went out to the stage. Hopefully they will be more organized down in miami tonight. Lets hope so. So three weeks from today, this is the big news and well get to the debate and preview whats happening. Former special Counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to testify on his report before lawmakers on capitol hill. Congressman adam schiff and jerry nadler, the chairs of the house intelligence and judiciary committees subpoenaed muellers testimony for backtoback hearings on july 17th. Mueller will appear in open sessions before both panels and later his staff will answer questions in a closed hearing. All this despite muellers insistence that he has nothing more to say which chairman schiff reacted to last night. The
And chief of naval operations, admiral john richardson. Thank you all. Thank you, admiral. Over many decades and times of war and peace, mark esper has answered the call of duty. He has never failed. He hails from uniontown pennsylvania, the hometown of his personal hero. The legendary former secretary of defense, and great one, george marshall. He attended the United States military academy at west point, graduated in 1986, receiving a commission in the infantry. Soon he earned his tab, his ranger tab, and fought with the famed 101st Airborne Division in the gulf war. He was awarded the bronze star, and the combat infantryman badge for a service. A brave guy. They all told me hes a brave guy. I knew that anyway. In total, mark served in our nations military for 21 years. He completed his final act of duty active duty assignment right here in the pentagon and army staff and returned six years later as the Deputy Assistant secretary secretary of defense for negotiations policy. Over his