May our lawmakers live with such faithfulness that they will be your redemptive instruments at a time when truth seems a rare commodity. May you find delight in those who by faith trust you to make the crooked places straight and the rough places smooth. Lead our senators to a fresh dedication in their service you to and humanity. Grant that justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore amen. Please join me in the please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of americ, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask to speak in morning business for 30 seconds. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley veterans, meaning our veterans of war, our veterans who are
His unwavering dedication to those who serve our nation with their lives earns the trust and devotion of the armed services. His career began early at william mary. Not many known that he drove the Williamsburg James City School Bus when he was a student and he was assistant troop leader for our local boy scouts and that senator norman was one of his boy scouts as we discovered last night. After graduating from william mary in 1965, he joined the cia as an Intelligence Officer and was the first career officer to scale the agencys ranks to become its director. He served with president s of texas a m university from 20022006. When president bush called him back to washington to serve as secretary of defense. As secretary, he led our armed forces at a time when the country was in the midst of two wars and a global fight against terrorism. In 2009 he accepted president obamas request that he continue to lead in the cabinet, becoming the first secretary of defense to serve under president s
Foreign policy and efforts for diplomacy. As always, we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is monday, july 29. In the house has begun the annual august recess. The Senate Begins is in today. We begin with the latest on the twitter feud President Trump sparked over the weekend with Elijah Cummings of baltimore. After opponents but cried becried the attack as racist, his ownt trump racist attack this afternoon. Ive us a call, 2027488000 republicans, it is 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. A special line for baltimore residents, 2027488003. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good monday morning. You can call in now. We showed you the front page of the washington times. President trump sets off racism debate. Referring to the tweets saturday afternoon in which he called baltimore rat and rodent infest
Good friday morning to you. 6 00 right now. Thanks for starting your day with us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Lets get you caught up on whats happening weatherwise. Meteorologist kari hall has a look at a beautiful forecast. Yes, its a clear start. We can see that in the live camera over san jose behind us and a smaller view of that frame there, as our temperatures start out in the mid40s. It is in the upper 30s in dublin right now, and were also seeing mid40s in San Francisco, a few clouds moving by now. But we are headed for sunshine again today, and a look at our highs that will reach into the mid60s this afternoon. 66 in hayward and 68 in san jose. And some mid60s for much of the south bay into the east bay. But then tomorrow, slightly cooler. More clouds coming in. The north bay will have spotty showers. Mostly late morning into the early afternoon, so ill be tracking that and talk about whats ahead for the rest of the weekend. Mike, you have one crash now in the east b
Prisons and landscape visits the white house on the 7th annual china trade fab brings the countrys exports closer to business, bonners and consumers, enough. As the jo, his big event attracted interpreters and from across the country, the just on one minutes past midnight on sunday morning, kate and the russian capital miners pizza scotts here with all the lights just as a new day gets into way. Thats our top story. The rest and 5 minutes to so get up for off has called for reform of the un to give emerging nations mostly on the global. It was easy to find me during the session. Its high time to reform the existing Global Governance architecture as soon as possible. It hasnt met the requirements of the iraq for a long time. The expansion of the Security Council is also becoming more and more in demand exclusively, through the illumination of under representation of the countries of the world. Majority, asia, africa, and latin america. Well, when the Russian Foreign ministers spoke befo