A senator mr. Daines i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Daines i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its Business Today it adjourn until 9 30 a. M. Wednesday, march 18. Following the prayer and pledge, the journal be approved the morning business be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings approved to date and the time for the two leaders reserved for their use later in the day. Following leader remarks, the senate be in a period of morning business for one hour with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each with the time equally divided with the democrats controlling the first half and the majority controlling the second half. Finally, following morning business the senate resume consideration of s. 178. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Daines if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that the senate stand adjourned under t
Or saturday and then the work begins. The Supreme Court pick, a confirmation would reshape the american legal system. This fight will reshape the final six weeks of a president ial election. The president cam pans in ohio. Joe biden in wisconsin. The president thinks a court fight is to his advantage making it a Campaign Issue helped in 2016 but the democrats believe a high court with three trump justices with the votes to unmake obamacare and undermine roe v. Wade, democrats think the issue works in their favor. The first test is whether the president and leader mcconnell can win the votes. It would take four republicans to block that and there are two already. Biden making this case in the appeal for two more to step up. My appeal to those few senate republicans, the handful who really will decide what happens. Please, follow your conscience. Dont vote to confirm anyone nominated under the circumstances President Trump and senator mcconnell have created. Dont go there. Uphold your co
Issues. America votes 2014. Tonight, an american citizen held prisoner in north korea for nearly six months is on his way home. Jeffrey fou was arrested in may after leaving a bible behind as he tried to leave the country. He was suspected of proselytizing. And he was flown to guan. It gives hope to others held in north korea. Mike viqueira at the white house. Reporter this is a great deal of mystery around this, and eve the United States government has been very tightlipped throughout the day. We learned that mr. Jeffrey fowle, from ohio, has been released by the regime. He was held after leaving a bible on a table in a hotel. They are not saying how this came to pass, but we know that the defense of defense plane was sent there, and there was something of a rush to pick him up at the airport where mr. Fowle boarded the plane on his way to freedom. The United States has no formal diplomatic relations with the north korea regime, john. We have to go through sweden, and they handle all
How serious is this situation and is bellevue prepared for this . Well, first of all, you know, it is not a confirmed case, but if it is confirmed obviously there is always the concern, since he has been back in new york 10 days although very unlikely to be infectious, there will be concern and im sure the public, the department of health will be doing the circle of contacts around him to make sure that theyre all people who will be monitoring that irtemperatures just on the slight chance, if he is confirmed. Gerri right. And as a matter of fact, weve already seen headlines tonight that kind of checking of the circle around him has already begun. Now, you say he is probably not infectious. How do you know that . Well he apparently has been check his temperature up until now. As soon as he developed symptoms and a fever, according at least to the news reports he immediately called Doctors Without Borders who notified the Health Authorities or who are bringing him over to bellevue. He kn
Before, he needs to put politics aside and rebuild trust. And rebuilding trust not only with the American People, but with the American Peoples representatives here in the United States congress. Bill wow what about that trust . Chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor. How are you doing, reverend. Bill. Bill and john boehner to a lesser degree you make the case this today is all about whether or not the president accepts the results of tuesday night. So how is this going to go . Well its like this. This is such a large group as to be, it is so big it is insignificant. Real deals get cut when you have oneonone, one on two, small groups working together to hash out what the overall plan is. This is obviously symbol little. Were talking about 16 people. Nothing real is going to happen here. This is about the president showing some optics. He need to do that, given the fact that earlier in this week he essentially said, this was not a valid election return because of all the peel