Rep. Yarmuth good to be with you. Joining us in the questioning is cristina marcos, who covers capitol hill. And the correspondent covering capitol hill for the wall street journal. Let me begin with the results yesterday in new orleans. In which john bel edwards, the democrat, winning with 51 of the vote. This is a state that donald trump won by 20 Percentage Points in 2016. He campaigned there in three separate occasions. It follows the election in your home state where andy beshear defeated the republican incumbent in kentucky. What does this tell you7 rep. Yarmuth well, it tells me that President Trumps endorsement does not mean a holland. I think there were probably extraneous factors in both cases. I know in louisiana a lot of former convicts had their Voting Rights restored recently. That could have played a role. In kentucky, we had a very unpopular governor, matt bevin, who has tried to undermine the Affordable Care act here, which would have taken Health Insurance away from 9
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Committee will come back to order. Well now begin a period of fiveminute questions from the members. I recognize myself for five minutes. I want to ask you both about some of the questions you were asked by my colleagues in the minority. First, if i could ask you miss williams and colonel vindman, you were asked a series of questions by the Ranking Member at the outset. Were you aware of the fact that and then there was a recitation of information about burisma, the bidens. Is it fair the say you have no firsthand knowledge of any of the matters that were asked in those questions . Thats correct. That is correct. Miss williams, you were also asked a series of questions about the Vice President s schedule and whether he could have made the inauguration, was he traveling or the trip to canada. Lets be clear about something. You were instructed the president told the Vice President not to go before he knew the date of the inauguration. Is that correct . Yes. Thats correct. So at the time
Starts right now. Everything is all right. Breathe. Youll see, everything is all right. Lauren good morning. Halfway through the week. Happy wednesday. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl you may need to breathe as we look at the markets this morning. Lauren its that bad. Cheryl a little bit of pressure, folks. Good morning. Im cheryl casone. Lauren lets take a look at your money. The dow is down 99 points right now in the premarket. It was down triple digits yesterday. The nasdaq hitting an alltime high, the third in a row. Nasdaq down 34 this morning. Cheryl no comments from chinese authorities on stalled trade talks. We had a lot of pressure in asia, all of the major markets there in the red overnight. Lauren those comments from the president , you know, making europeuropean investors nervouss well. The German Market is down 12 this down 1 this morning. Cheryl lawmakers are getting ready for round two of this weeks impeachment inquiry later today after four witnesses testified yesterday wit
Those people waited in line, followed the law at the bridge and once it was ruled out it was placed in mpp. And they want to follow the law. I heard from cvp individuals that when they processed numerous crossings back and forth for their proceedings in the United States that added a strain on ports of entry. Do you believe mpp has been crossed affected or yielded efficient processing of asylumseekers . I dont believe it is more efficient. Court of entry are busy places. Mexican residents, has really congested the ports of entry in the movement when asylumseekers, people have to go very early in the morning. It caused a lot of delay. Mister knowles, i would like to hear based, how has the broader admission and morale been impacted by remain in mexico . I would like to say historically our more out has been extremely high because people are drawn to the protection work which is also protection of our country and we have done a very good job and received very high marks from every admini