Reporter . [inaudible]. Texas Governor Greg Abbott in response from hurricane after the category storm came to shore about 1 00 oclock this morning. In neighboring louisiana. About 35 miles from the texas border paredes joined by senators and ted cruz. [background sounds]. I want to thank everybody for gathering with us here today. Especially want to thank senators cornyn and chris for taking the time to join us today and being part of the Aerial Overview that we were able to take to get a better assessment of the entire region. As well as to work with here on the ground. Also want to thank the two local area congressman, and the congressman, as well as the governor dan patrick. In the state senator nichols, and local representatives stephen think all of them for being here. Of particular want to thank the county judge. Thank you for hosting us and for being with us. It is been a pleasure. And working with you through this pretty so thank you for being here. Of course. And mayor, i wan
More volcano warnings about an imminent explosive eruption. And on fire and small have all the days sport including rally for release the stars the town is coming together to raise money for victims of the australian brush fire. Just before we get into our lead story this out a bit to show you some live pictures from washington where u. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to announce the team who will lead the prosecution in president Donald Trumps impeachment trial the u. S. House of representatives to choose a vote to hand over the impeachment charges to the senate and the trial is expected to begin on thursday well take you live to washington once House Speaker pelosi begins. Media briefing. So russias Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his government have resigned it comes out the president Vladimir Putin used his annual state of the nation address to announce a plan for political reform putin says that parliament should choose the countrys Prime Minister but the president should
Spreads business on the table amid rumors three private equity players are taking a bite. Good morning thank goodness its friday its been a bruising week for the spanish equity markets before that, i want to show you how the european markets are faring off a tad, 0. 1 . We are pretty cautious going into the jobs report in the u. S. That will be very, very skewed number given the hurricane effect in the month of september. European markets one by one. We see a split picture cac 40 off by 7 or 8 points. The ftse mib off by 0. 7. The xetra dax holding on close to those record highs we saw earlier this week. Obviously i want to draw your attention to whats happening with the spanish market. The ibex is off by half of a percent again after it rebounded nicely yesterday it was up by more than 2 . And obviously were focusing on the banking sector, we did see that recovery trade yesterday, but it was very fleeting yesterday we did see that relief on the backs of these Companies Moving or mulli
Have focused more on the process instead of the people. I think it is a real sad moment when were focussed far more on the process of what time call was placed versus the fact that there was loss of military soldiers and there were individuals that were killed in action. We should be talking about the heroes. We should be talking about their lives and that hasnt been the focused. There are congressional leaders calling for an apology. Will there be an apology . Im sorry. Theres congressmen like Elijah Cummings calling for an apology from the chief of staff. I dont think that general kelly was wrong and i dont sympathy he should offer an apology. Where did he get that information . He was there. Everyone wants to narrow this down to a nineminute speech. This is something that took place over the course of the day. You have two different accounts. Im talking about when he raw and emotional accounts that anyone could give. I think he has a lot of credibility on this topic and a lot of cre
This afternoon. We ask you silence your devices as we begin. Everyone online is welcome to send a question at any time simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our discussion is Tiffany Bates for judicial and legal studies. She researchers and writes about the courts, judicial nominations and other constitutional issues. She was cohost of heritages potus one one podcast, a contributor to the daily signal, the Multimedia Organization and coordinator the media advocacy programs. Please join me in welcoming Tiffany Bates. Tiffany. Thank you and welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Thanks for joining us to celebrate free speech week by highlighting recent First Amendment victories for beer, fans and sports as we will discuss later on. I will keep my introductions short so we can get to what were all here for, the beer. This summer the Supreme Court reiterated the proudest boast of our jurisprudence is protect the freedom to express the speech we hate. While it has long been the core o