Have pushed opening arguments late into the night when few were watching. And relenting house proceedings automatically into the record and fopgsly getting the moderate senators early on in the proceedings about having witnesses. With a lot potentially right now, i want to get a quick read on things from manu raju. Are there any type of negotiations taking place . Whats going on . Reporter the republicans are lunching in their side of the senate and the democrats on their side. So theres not much interaction between the two sides at the moment. But we do expect after this dinner break, which is breaking up, each side is eats pizza right now, the members are going to come back in and debate this amendment to debate Mick Mulvaney. Im told from two Democratic Senators that there are probably going to be three more amendments at least. On each of the three other witnesses who the democrats have called for, including john bolton, robert blair, a top aide in the white house and Michael Duffy
What are we watching . Not quite sure we know. We were in the Russell Senate Office Building all day today on the Fox Broadcast Network and just listening to it and watching on the monitor, write out the window just yet. I do believe the audience who came to this process for the first time today probably heard some things that have not heard before and probably have some questions about it. If, however, youve been following this, i dont know if you learned a lot new today. The question becomes who is the audience . I think the audience is still the three or four republican senators. Mitt romney, lisa murkowski, senator collins out of maine. Thats where the votes will come from that determine whether this goes for a long time or whether he is led to impeachment. Tucker so youre saying that group of senators, three or four perhaps, will determine the length of the trial. Not only the length but ultimately will determine guilt or innocence. I think thats the audience for the house impeach
Declared himself a war time president , he was asked why he hadnt followed through on one of the steps that he announced yesterday. Enabled i guess is probably the best way to put it the defense production act but you didnt pull the trigger on it. No, because we hope were not going to need that. Youre getting calls from the democratic leadership to pull the trigger. Whats the rationale or not doing it . First of all, governors are supposed to be doing a lot of this work and they are doing a lot of this work. The federal government is not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and shipping them. Were not a shipping clerk. Lincoln, roosevelt, not so much. Trump said today that he would back the states in their efforts to procure their own life saving equipment but added he would only pull the trigger, quote, if we need something. Its hard to imagine a more urgent need. The cdc suggesting Health Care Workers use bandanas or scarves as makeshift masks as a last resort. In th
It could send us an email or tweet. The question we are asking this morning is in a word how would you describe sequestration . 202 is the area code. You can also join us at email, journal cspan. Org. In the but some of the headlines from outside the beltway, beginning with to the boston sunday globe. A focus on afghanistan. In arizona, the arizona republic, the gallup poll has been asking many of you what you think of sequestration and we found this. In a word, how would you describe sequestration and the larger the word the more often it is used. From disappointed and good to scary. The Washington Post focusing on the politics of sequestration, obama sees 2014 as the key to his legacy. Theyre right they write she is a republican from washington state, here is what she had to say from sequestration. These devastating acrossthe board cuts imposed by the president will affect the lives of so many hardworking americans. Yet this week the president traveled 180 miles to virginia instead o
Well discuss all of that. Well go to executive editor mark preston and cnn political analyst keertsen power. Mark getting latebreaking information now. Mark, lets talk about this. Youve been talking to your sources and first i want to put up these tweets. This is about trump, talking about carrier air conditioning. Reached a deal to keep about 1,000 jobs in indiana, and he says this. I will be going to indiana on thursday to make a major announcement concerning carrier ac staying in indianapolis. Great deal for workers. And then he says big day on thursday for indiana and the great workers of that wonderful state. We will keep our companies and jobs in the u. S. , thanks, carrier. What do you make of this . Big victory for donald trump. He said he was going to do this. We should clarify that carrier said today its about 11,000 jobs. 2,100 jobs in two factories that they were closing out there, but still the fact of the matter is, even if hes able to save half of those jobs, thats more