Coney barrett and later a look at the how the Affordable Care act is an issue this Election Year with the good morning. Its the washington journal for friday, october 16. Both president and joe biden held separate town halls. A variety of topics were the stuff discussed. Show you short bits from both of those town halls. In our first hour, we will ask you to comment. Us a callt to give and you support President Trump and mike pence, 202 7488001 is the number to call. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. Maybe watch the town halls, you are undecided at this point, give us a call at 202 7488002. If you want to text us this morning, you can do that. You can post on our twitter feed. Our Facebook Pages available as well. Usa today offering a breakdown of some of the topics at the town halls you saw last night. Here are some of the breakdowns from that. When it comes to President Trump with Savannah Guthrie, they became heated at one point. The president called the moderator so cute and c
Lunchtime. Still breezy enough as you can notice though just not as windy as this morning as and winds remaining with us enough into the early evening that yeah, fire danger is still of concern today, especially when youre talking temperatures as warm as we will have them again. 60s 70s and even some 80s to kick off this morning. Berkeley conquered Fairfield Beach at 77 degrees falling out of the 80s in berkeley just minutes ago. Alameda at 75 right now. Later todays daytime highs still in the upper 90s inland, mid 90s by the bay and some mid 80s right along the coastline. Robin. All right, thank you for the update lets update the morning commute which is off to a very quiet start to like what i see out there and checking the drive into San Francisco. So lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza there it is traffic nice and smooth here at the pay gates easy going across the upper deck and no major issues there downtown San Francisco, heres 92. Its our busiest yes, we have a bi
A 3rd trump nominated Supreme Court justice looks virtually certain the impact on the 2020 election is a highly politicized question mark and well get one on one perspective from 2 men who come from very different partisan camps but who share experience working in the senate will begin with david brown democratic strategist former majority counsel to democratic senator patty murray on 2 congressional committees and he is in washington ok it is get right to it David Mcconnell said hell have a vote on the nominee well we havent before election day. I think hes going to do everything he can to push it through before election day because i think the stakes larry are incredibly high and fraught for the republicans if they went after the election when you know if that only speak believe doll trouble be a losing president and Senate Republicans will have lost their majority in the senate but the reality is this is a this is a dangerous political calculus for the majority leader because what h
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President ial hopeful Amy Klobuchar led off the days venomous assault. This isnt a rush to justice, this is a rush to put in a justice. We are dealing with a president who doesnt think truth matters, and he has allies in congress who in the past defended our democracy but are now doing his bidding. Yes, judge, i think this hearing is a sham. More than 9 million americans have already voted, and millions more will vote while this ill legitimate Committee Process is underway by replacing Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg with someone who will undo her legacy, President Trump is attempting to roll back americans lives for decades to come. Lou the democrats, the party of hate. The radical dems made no arguments today against judge barretts credentials, her character and capacity, but they did define the confirmation hearing as a litmus test for the future of obamacare. Its a topic that law professor Jonathan Turley says is entirely inappropriate for the senators to even discuss. The assumption b