And you are watching Aljazeera America live from new york. Im jonathan betz, and we deal with the heated debate on capitol hill as president obama defends the deal. Harsh criticism from both parties, many who dont believe that iran will hold up their end of the bargain. Libby casey did the senators get the answers they were looking for . Reporter jonathan, they certainly did get answers some of which they general winnley seemed to be after. They had real questions about the details of this iran deal. And that was laid out to great pain today. Some in congress, and especially republics will be satisfied by anything the Obama Administration has to say. [ applause ] it was the first opportunity for the chief u. S. Negotiator to publicly defend his iran deal before congress. The alternative to the deal that we have reached is not what we have seen some ads on tv suggesting disingenerously. It is a better deal some sort of unicorn arraignment involving irans complete capitulation. That is a
Branches of former representative Mickey Edwards and former chief assistant new york u. S. Attorney andrew mccarthy. They outline the constitutional war powers for each branch of government cover limitations of the power and whether congress should be more involved in the authorization for use of military force. By my clock we are at 12 15. Good afternoon. My name is nick has merit, Deputy Director of the Federalist Societys article i initiative. The initiative is dedicated to the development of a series of rolling practical goals of congress that stemmed directly from poor constitutional principles. Todays luncheon dish is one of the many that the Federalist Society is playing here on capitol hill and across the country. On behalf of the initiative, i want to thank you all for joining us. At the outset, and also like to thank senator ron johnson and his staff were sponsoring the room for todays event. As you may have noticed from your program and from our panel appear, we are playing
Lets kick off with first word news, with mark crumpton. Mark an encouraging sign for texas, as it struggles to return to normalcy. Hasus christi ship channel reopened, after being shut down nearly a week. Port Officials Say the reopening is a step toward resuming operations at seven refineries, and transporting that fuels to market. The channel was closed when harvey slammed into Corpus Christi last week. Are inan 1500 people louisiana, and officials expect that number to rise as more people are a black evacuated from flooded communities. 1000 people were flown to dallas from a shelter in beaumont, where residents have no drinking trump will visit texas for the second time on saturday. Officials in houston expect most of the floodwaters to receive by late today, or early tomorrow. Gone, theater is rebuilding can start. And of this an estimated 136,000 structures were flooded in harris county. Up 10 sinceces are a gallon after the nations largest refineries shut down due to flooding fro
His parents arpz birthcase. A look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Investigators are looking into whether the las vegas shooter actually scoped out other music shows prior to sundays massacre. Gun control Takes Center Stage following the Las Vegas Shooting. The National Rifle association announcing its in favor of tighter regulation of bump fire stocks. The norah has said ought to take a look at that. We didnt say ban. We didnt say confiscate. President trump could begin to dismantle one of the obama administrations biggest agreement, the iran nuclear deal. They have not lived up to the spirit of their agreement. Republican congressman tim murphy from pennsylvania caught up in a sordid scandal after admitting he urged his former mistress to have an abortion. We move on to the next chapter as well. Tropical storm nate takes aim at the u. S. Gulf coastline. A state of emergency declared in louisiana. Anybody who is taking this storm lightly is making a serious mistake. Ha
The Foreign Relations committee will come to order. Two housekeeping issues, if i could. We have a number of people in the audience, some of whom like to express themselves. We thank you for being here. Senator corker in the past when there have been interruptions, on occasion, ive been able to have people arrested but we stopped that. So please dont do anything that causes you to have to be escorted out of the room because hen the process continues with being arrested, its fairly unpleasant, id hate to see you go through that. Secondly, we have a vote, we have two votes today, which is unfortunate. What weve talked about doing is adjourning the hearing at about seven minutes to 6 00, everybody rushing down and voting on the tail end of the first vote and the second vote, therell be no spoking before the second vote. Then if we could hustle bam. I know general mattis has a meeting hed like to attend and others want to complete our work in an appropriate way. With that, id like to thank