It off of him. The family here tonight. Good evening, and its great to be back with you after the new year, and we begin tonight with the new congress where republicans are in control of both the house and the senate and soon, the new republican president. But its the president elect whose voice was heard today, or at least tweeted. Mr. Trump weighing in on a move by members of congress to try to dismantle an ethics board who worked independently to oversee congress. It happened under the radar, and it made big news as mr. Trump becomes president in 17 days. He sent a clear message to his fellow republicans, and they listened. Abcs mary bruce leads us off from capitol hill. Reporter tonight, donald trump urging republicans to fall in line with his Campaign Promise to change washington. Its called drain the swamp. We are going to drain the watch. Reporter but late last night, behind closed doors, more of the same. House republicans gutting the office of government ethics to make sure th
Died after being involved in an accident near the strip. It happened saturday night near las vegas boulevard and hamilton. Police say the accident involved a vehicle and a moped officers say when they arrived on scene they found a 24 year old man witnesses say a vehicle struck him, then took off. Officers were with the driver of the vehicle and arrest him. For the valleyespecially the holidays are upon us slow down be aware of your suurondings so you can get home safely officers say were factors in the crashthe male ws taken into custody a suspicious downtown the suspect, still on the lose. Maryland parkway and Bonanza Police say a man Apartment Building when he was shot point off before officers arrived. Witnesses told police he may have been driving an older model gray nissan or a toyota pickpick up truck if you have any information about can call police or leave an anonymous tip at 7023855555. Metro has identified the officer that was shot earlier this week as 52 year old gregory se
Argue is to get spending in washington under control so that we are are not up their borrowing more and more money all the time and war of our countrys assets and resources can be deployed towards things that would yield a return that will put more people to work that will grow the economy and expand their standard of living in the quality of life for the people across this country. Time is short. The clock is running. Time is wasting. We need to get this done. In the near term except the nine bills that are sitting here in the senate that have been passed by the house that would put a lot of these services and programs that impact people that have been expressed so many times by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle they would put funding back in place for those and secondly lets get together, the president s democrats and republicans here in washington d. C. To talk about not only raising the debt limit but what we are going to do to address the underlying debt. You senators t
Muchneeded reforms for this program that last year supported almost 11 million americans with 137 billion of american taxpayer money. I have closed with one remark. If you work somewhere in the federal government today, i would hope if youre seeing fraud, if youre seeing manipulation, if youre seeing things that are not right, that you will follow the lead of these four courageous women in bringing it to the attention of senator levins subcommittee, permanent subcommittee on investigations or my office. With that, senator carper, i thank you. Thank you so much. Im going to go out of order to ask senator levin who chairs the subcommittee under which this investigation has taken place and ask him just to make a statement. I will make a short statement after that. Then well turn to our witnesses. Senator levin . Thank you very much, senator carper and first let me commend senator coburn for his leadership and his and his staffs hard work in uncovering the abuses that are the subject of to
Its a Public Service for americans. We hope hes okay. Wondering if masks caused him to contract the coronavirus. I know and like low wuie and hope hes okay. But even after hes gotten the coronavirus and Walking Around capitol hill without a mask, which is how he got coronavirus, even after his staff is complaining to politico that hes operating in a dangerous way and forcing them to be in the office and mocking and ridiculing anybody who wears a mask, he goes on and cant just say you know what, i need to wear a mask. And now, hes its like right out of plandemic where hes trying to blame the wearing of the mask for what he gets. This is what jake sherman put, from the office, jake, thank you for letting our office know louie tested positive for the coronavirus. When you write your story can you include the fact that louie requires full staff to be in the office including three interns so that we could be an example to america on how to open safely. When probing the office you might want