Was expected to have a Ceremonious First Day back for 2017. Instead, it was full of action republicans have ditched a plan to strip the Office Of Congressional Ethics of its independence. The reversal was prompted by a public outcry and a dressing down from donald trump on twitter. And in the past hour, the President Elect has also tweeted that Onjanuary 11th in new york he will hold his First Official News Conference since his election. Heres Laura Trevelyan with the latest from washington. The house will come to order. As the Brand New Congress convened on thursday, instead of celebrating the republicans dominance of washington, lawmakers were the centre of the debate. It is over their behaviour is policed In The Name Of avoiding corruption. On monday night, republicans in the House Of Representatives tried to gut the independence of the Office Of Congressional Ethics by bringing it under the control of a house committee, prompting an outcry from democrats and government watchdogs. D
the us defence secretary is one of the most powerful members of the cabinet, as you said. it s somebody who s expected to be constantly available, yet this us defence secretary not only kept the white house in the dark about his cancer diagnosis, he also kept them in the dark about the fact that he was in hospital being treated for it. his deputy, to whom he assigned some duties whilst he was in hospital, wasn t aware of herself that he was being treated in the hospital at the time. all of this of course at a time when the united states has interest and conflicts in the middle east and in ukraine, the middle east and in ukraine, the sort of matter is that very much affect the us defence secretary. congress wasn t informed of the defence secretary s hospitalisation until friday last week.
think we saw any trump alternatives emerge? yeah, i think for mike pence, i think we were probably all surprised how he came out speaking. this is the person who for four years as vice president and who when he was in congress wasn t really and the governor wasn t known as someone who looked like a puncher, right, on the debate stage. we ve seen him debate tim kaine and kamala harris and, you know, largely people said he didn t do that well in those. so this was a different mike pence. he was kind of in cleaning up his legacy mode. he was willing to jump in and fight a lot more than we probably expected. the problem is this is a different republican party, he would probably rise in the polls. he still may, we have some time to figure out so, but the people that don t like him who are the trump supporters are not going to like the things that he said last night, right? his legacy building was about jibs. january 6th. they will like the abortion question, but they won t like january
regarding any future prosecution if a republican were elected president? it would make sure that he was never brought up his attorneys believed, on charges related to his foreign lobbying. i wasn t shocked it. just proved what the whistleblower s evidence provided is that this plea agreement was a sweetheart deal of hunter biden. and i m glad that the judge refused it yesterday. it shows that no person is above the law. even if their last name is biden. ainsley: what did you think about house speaker mccarthy talking about this impeachment inquiry? he says let s inquire. let s get the information and then determine if there s room for an impeachment. it s exactly what we have said all along is that we are going to follow the fact. that s, in fact, what we have within doing in the house ways and means committee the oversight and judiciary committee are doing the same thing. there are so many onions to this layer, and every time you peal off one layer it continues to get closer t
recently stated that about 50% of the objects they are seeing worldwide resemble the objects we are seeing on the eastern seaboard. spheres, traveling anywhere from stationary to 2.0 mach and making extremely sudden accelerations and sudden movements. i think it s extremely important to say that congress wasn t fully aware of how big of a safety aviation issue this was. one of the biggest successes out of this hearing was that they acknowledge this as a national security and aviation safety risk. and i encourage others to go to safe aerospace.org to sign up and show congress just how many people support this conversation. steve: the conversation started and you were part of it. ryan, thank you very much for joining us today and telling us your story. thank you. steve: all right. 12 minutes before the top of the hour, janice dean is outside our world headquarters on this very warm thursday. who is that with you? janice: oh, you know daniela, she has been our intern for the summe