Mr. Richard bender. ,e grew up in new york city Iowa State University in 1967. In 1970, he joined the staff of the Iowa Democratic party where, in addition to campaign activities, he was an architect of the modern democratic conference. He became a special assistant in 1975 and was on senator tom harkins staff until 2013. He was the senior legislative onistant who focused appropriations, taxes, economic development, and infrastructure. Inoughout his years congress, he remained involved in the iowa caucus system and helped many of the various efforts to replace iowa from its first in the nation physician. Anybody deserves the name of being the midwife of the Iowa Caucuses, it is probably richard bender. Richard i will has always had caucuses, going back to statehood. 1972, the National Convention delegate was selected by party leaders. Caucusesending the were not doing the attending in order to promote a particular candidate. , awas more of a social event place where people active in th
This Christmas Eve. Thanks for joining us today. Im dara brown. It is a state of emergency in some parts of mississippi right now. The storm system could affect half the nations population over the next 24 hours. Nbcs kirk gregory has more. Reporter rare december tornadoes tore through southern mississippi ripping roofs from businesses and pulling walls from their foundations. In the town of columbia, thousands were left without power. Two dozen homes damaged. Vehicles thrown on to their sides. We had reports of debris falling out of the sky off to the north and east of columbia. Reporter weather chaser brendan clemons. Trees were all completely snapped, buildings destroyed, ambulances flipped on top of another car. Reporter in louisiana much of the same, downed trees and debris from damaged homes strewn across yards. As the massive system marched eastward it brought torrential rain to the panhandle of florida. More than six inches fell in tallahassee and as the front moves to the nort
Whistleblowers. It was certainly the appetizers the section on the maintenance of discipline and good order and dutch gone on to beat my prime concern but one whistleblower remains defiant. We are coming over all of the allegations made. In addition to these crocs terminations. Go. The Garda Commissioner has strongly rejected claims by gawd of whistleblowers that the penalty points system has been abused. Speaking of global it companies dave Martin Cullen said the was no evidence of corruption or malpractice. He criticized the inquiry saying the accounts committee was not the appropriate forum for guard the tomb a criminal complaints about their colleagues. The commissioner said that it would take legal advice ahead of the riposte appearance at the committee of two of the whistleblowers next week. The Garda Commissioner on to the accounts committee today that the message that although the hump in weaknesses in the penalty points system has now been strengthened and is subject to greate
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
conference! hooray! our economic challenges are not going to be solved overnight. but by monday? you have a plan? we re going to have to tackle spending in the tax code to make it easier for entrepreneurs. trimming the defense budget, tackle entitlemententitlements. we have to seize the moment and seize it soon. let s do it. all right. good morning. it is thursday, june 30th. live look at times square. it looks like it s raining, but it s not. with us on set, time magazine analyst mark halperin. visiting professor at nyu, harold ford jr. we were watching the president s speech. you want to hear more? sure. is everyone good? no. why? the phillies are owning the red sox. willie. it s going to be tough to come back on the yankees. two and a half games. digging themselves a hole. isn t this a long season? that s right. they have until november. it s a long season. it s funny how it goes back and forth. yankees-red sox, red sox-yankees. that could