I was a wide eyed congressman and he was a top aide for house speaker, tip oneill. We became friends. He taught us a whole lot. I know that tip a tremendous influence on jack. It is clear that he shares the same work ethic and sense of duty. He shares another thing bipartisanship. Speaker oneill was renown for sitting down with president reagan and trying to work problems out. Jack was heavily involved in that and continues to be. He is a bipartisan person who wants to be successful at working with both parties. You mentioned the issue with trust. There is no straighter shooter than jack lew. He is one of the most honorable, honest, and decent men in washington. When he gives you facts, they are backed up with research. From the time i knew jack when he started in tip oneills office, he would always outline both sides of the argument and give each without bias. He would tell you where he came down, but he always let you make your own judgment. That has propelled him to an extremely suc
Hello, everyone. Great to see you. Im john berman. Im kate bolduan. This morning after much anticipation president obama is asking congress for formal authority to take on isis. The white house has now sent the authorization for use of military force, a lot of words on capitol hill they sum up as umaf sent to lawmakers on capitol hill. Thats coming six months after the mission against isis actually began and there are critics who say its long overdue. Its the details within that are sure to stoke controversy. It would limit the operation to three years. It limits the use of Ground Troops saying there will be no enduring offensive Ground Combat operations. What does that mean . It would not restrict the battlefield to iraq and syria but it would repeal the 2002 military authorization for the war in iraq. Lets get to it and bring in White House Correspondent Michelle Kosinski and chief Congressional Correspondent dana bash who are working both ends of pennsylvania avenue on this one. Mic
Making sure we are not making a mistake. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as attorney general, you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last, let me just say in my six years here, in addition to not working with us on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform, you have been one of the few senators to the president were to attempt to overriled that, what actions would you take . On your previous question, i would note that federal prison population has already dropped 10 or more per krenltd and will drop another 10,000 this year. What is happening is reducing the federal population. This law only dealt with the federal prison population. And that represents the most serious on finders. Our federal dea and u. S. Attorneys are prbting more serious cases. Prbting more serious cases. With regard to the torture issues, i watched them for some time. And have been co
Purpose or reason for doing this. Because the department of justice should be above reproach for the good of the country, attorney general sessions should resign. Dana were following all the developments, special report reporter is standing by with in depth analysis. We begin wiin washington. Have we learned any more to substantiate reports that there was con tack between the trump team and russia . Reporter the leader of the House Intelligence Committee addressed calls for attorney general sessions to recuse himself. Its a slippery slope. All the countries in the world basically have embassies here. All those countries, a lot o adversaries, but we all meet with them, senators and congress men meet with those ambassadors on a regular basis. Certainly the attorney generals in no position to oversee any investigation or prosecution involving any of the koupber intelligence issues concerning russia. Reporter at issue here is this exchange during the confirmation hearings between then sena
Reporters, former communication chiefs and republican strategists all here to weigh in. First, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway. I said before had that the president s war against the media is harming the country, like a slow acting poison. Today conway and i had a blunt conversation about that. But, first, i asked her about scaramuccis arrival. Kellyanne, good morning, thanks for being here. Good morning, brian. Thank you. I know you and Anthony Scaramucci had a chance to talk off camera. What was your conversation about . What is going to change at the white house now that he is running communications . Here we are at cnn studio were very happy to come and take questions from, i think, an outlet that has been incredibly unfair against this president. I guess you made a business decision to do so and were here to connect the American People with the president s message and answer your questions as respectfully as i can. I think sean spicer should be and the president invite