System is as secure as its ever before. The Registration System as secure as its ever before. Four years ago the obama administration, a little later than this, said there is a big problem and were going to declare the election structure a structure of National Significance and were going 0 it play a different role than we ever played before. No anticipation this was going to happen. Not much discussion. Election officials all over the country immediately said, oh, no youre not. Youre not going to just decide in october of Election Year that youre going to take over the election system and declare it a national a system of National Significance, a system of critical significance to the future of the nation. Of course it is. But it didnt become that in october of 2016. But the message was clear that we needed to build those stronger ties with local and state election authorities. We needed to do everything we could as we saw the efforts by some foreign actors and some people in their ba
Winter. Welcome to the program how we begin in lebanon where months long protests have turned violent Security Forces fired water cannon and tear gas on demonstrators in a faceoff that lasted several hours more than 200. 00 people were injured demonstrators say theyre tired of waiting for the government to fix the only going economic crisis then to hold a reporter from beirut. Rage in the streets of the capital in what might be a new phase in an uprising against lebanons leadership that is now in its worst months fears confrontations between antiriot police and antiestablishment protesters turned downtown beirut into a war zone this is the epicenter of a protest movement that until a few days ago was relatively peaceful running battles began when demonstrators who want the Political Class they blame for mismanagement and corruption to leave power try to Storm Parliament building secure. Forces responded with tear gas i feel like the message is square protesters to back off and that the
Violent in lebannon anger is rising as the economic and political crisis deepens. The war Rural Communities in afghanistan finding it ever hard it survived the bits in the cold winter. In sports are rich for its economy grego schools his 1st one in the cage in more than 3 years is devastating 42nd victory but now sets were remarks against the man who almost ended his career 18 months ago. Thank you for joining as the warring sides in libyas long running civil war are coming together in the german capital for a un backed peace conference chancellor Angela Merkel has invited leaders from 12 countries a spot of a month long diplomatic drive to stop the fighting but a number of countries have been left off the guest list including morocco qatar and libyas neighbor tenacious warlords highly for have taen launch an offensive in april to take tripoli from the internationally recognized government early attempts to negotiate a cease fire have failed including a summit in moscow last week ahead
Get this done up to this point, but him being home is the only thing that counts for success in this equation and wed like to see it done now. And now is really it was always now, i think, from the moment he was [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] including the secretaries of state and defense to immediately notify the white house and congressional leaders of any personal medical emergencies that would effect their service. Votes are expected at 6 30 eastern this evening. Live coverage of the u. S. House here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings on the motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote of the yeas and nays are ordered or the vote is objected to under the clause 6 of rule 20. The house will resume proceedings o
Walmart is in a slump. It reported a drop in Second Quarter profits and missed wall street earnings estimates and said growth for the full year wont be as strong as thought. On the bright side, more shoppers are shopping at walmart here in the u. S. And spending slightly more but costs are rising faster. Today, investors sent shares of the dow component down to a 52week low thinking walmart, the worst performer on the Dow Jones Industrial average for the day. Courtney reagan has more on the company that many consider to be a barometer of the consumer economy. Reporter while walmarts u. S. Comparable sales improved for the fourth straight quarter and sales traffic increased, it wasnt enough to keep the retailer from significantly lowering its full year earnings guidance. There are headwinds that cut into the quarter, many of which walmart expects to continue, including increased employee hours at now higher wages, lower reimbursements from prescription drugs. Walmart explains that shrin