Inauguration coverage. Speaking of congress, republicans at the house retreat this weekend have decided upon a plan they will vote upon next week to extend the debt limit by three months with hopes of using the federal budget as a way of tackling spending. What do you think of that strategy . You can call us at 202 5853880 for democrats and 202 5853881 for republicans. 202 6280205 for independents. Send us a tweet at twitter. Com cspanwj you can send us comments on our Facebook Page and our email at journal cspan. Org. From the Baltimore Sun a story about the weekend retreat and a detail about the plan. Writing debt limit vote set. Heres what they write host attending the retreat and writing a story about it, jonathan strong from roll call. He is their staff writer. Jon, can you give us a little bit of the thinking by house leadership as to how they came up with this as a plan . Good morning. Im happy to explain it. One of the parts of this plan thats been a little misconstrued, its no
Dont have. If we stopped testing right now, wed have very few cases, if any. Im sorry. If you dont test, you dont have any cases. We tried to explain this before. What does he mean cases like officially, because people still have it. And theyre dieiying of it. Thats the remarkable thing. Thats incredible. The United States has 115,000 people who have died 117. 117,000 people who have died of coronavirus. And donald trump keeps saying that if we dont test for the coronavirus lets just stop testing. Then it will magically go away. We wont have any more cases. Actually, testing for the coronavirus does not kill people. Thats just like saying, you know, pregnancies are pregnancies would be driven down to zero if we stopped having pregnancy tests. So we have brought along willie geist to explain what the president of the United States was trying to mean yesterday. Willie, please explain it for us. Well, i think he meant exactly what he said, and how do we know this . He said it before. He j
And how ap preesh yapreciative i am of all of the people who came together in a tragic situation, a horrific situation, and one that has touched the heart and soul of every person who lives in this community. Authorities say that 21yearold dylann roof was arrested in shelby North Carolina during a traffic stop. Earlier they the released this picture of roof from police surveillance. They say that he spent an hour in prayer before shooting the people. The people included in the shooting were three males and six females. Three people survived the shooting, and among those killed were the churchs pastor the reverend Clementa Pinckney and he was also a South Carolina state senator, and prominent civil rights activist. The shooting at the church is being investigated as a hate crime. A friend of the pastor who was killed says that it was. Anyone who would go into a church, and of course, race is a factor, and this is a young white male and historically africanamerican church, and commits th
Good saturday afternoon, im craig melvin. We are tracking the aftermath of the blockbuster snowstorm that socked the northeast. Heres how it looked from space. Check that out. Right now the storm is being blamed for at least five deaths. About 650,000 homes and businesses do not have power right now. Dozens of cars and drivers are still being rescued from the long island expressway in new york. Meanwhile, in plum island, massachusetts, homes are in danger of being swept right into the ocean given the high tide, combined with the howling wind and snow. Bostons mayor along with the governors of new york and connecticut are urging people to stay home. Its clear we still have a lot of work to do. Please stay home so we can allow our crews easy passage to the streets. Stay home, please, unless you have urgent business to be out on the roads. This is going to go on for a number of days. This will not all be done today. No rest for the weary, not even news reporters. I thought i would borrow
Learned that theres no reason why we cant work on the issues at hand. So hopefully thats a lesson that will be internalized and not just by me but also by democrats and republicans not only the leaders but the rankandfile. Thanks very much, everybody. Mr. President , will this happen all over again in a few months . Well for the first time in 17 days the federal government is up and running this morning, a final congressional vote last night, capped an ugly drama on capitol hill where partisan politics drove the nations economy into the very brink. In the end lawmakers avoided defaulting on the federal debt but nevertheless theres plenty of damage to go around. 87 House Republicans joined democrats in supporting legislation to fund the government into early next year while raising the debt ceiling to cover whats already been spent. Not a single democrat opposed it. On the senate side 18 republicans opposed the bill among them ted cruz, mike lee, rand paul and marco rubio. For those Tea