Isabel wilkerson entered. Washington journal continues. Host we are back with richard , who is here to discuss with us the history of president s Court Roosevelt packing attempt. Good morning. Lets start with information for our cspan viewers. What does the constitution say about the size of the Supreme Court . Guest nothing, really, except that there shall be a Supreme Court and achieve justice. The number of justices is left of congress to prescribe. Host the only people who can decide on how many justices sit on the Supreme Court is the congress of the United States . Guest thats right. By ordinary legislation subject of course to the president s veto. Host what size did the Supreme Court start at . The constitution requires a chief justice. How many were there . Guest six at the beginning. It was an even number. In those days the nation was divided into judicial circuits. In those days the Supreme Court justices had real duties in each circuit. With respect to any given circuit. Co
With winds. Consistently all morning long having been to that 30 mile per hour range while 20 mile per hour wind gusts down into the east bay and even right along the coast in Half Moon Bay. As i mentioned winds do gradually afternoon, this is by 02 30pm right here. Definitely a noticeable difference but this is also going to be our peak temperature hours of the day. So still some high fire danger even with that lighter breeze winds continue to come into the evening tonight and leading into tomorrow for a much calmer rest of the weekend just around the corner. Now 70s and 80s are some of our current temperatures look at alameda right at 80 degrees to start this morning. Were already off to a pretty warm start for a lot of areas in this sets us up for just a downright hot afternoon, 90s and even if you triple digits, inland with solid 90s right along the bay and 80s for coastal areas. Robin all right, thank you john we have some heavier traffic rolling into San Francisco right now so pr
Protection, he wants 1200 stimulus checks, that is what he wants, not Speaker Pelosi democrat state bailout commonality this, the markets reaction, selloff tuesday in a reversal this morning, the dow will be up 200, look at that and nasdaq up about 100 points, that is a reversal, heres another blockbuster, declassified documents show in 2016 the cia director john brennan personally briefed president obama on Hillary Clintons alleged candidate trump to russia. His notes made right after you briefed obama showed clintons during up the scandal to distract from her email problems and obama knew all about it, by the way the broadcast network did not cover this at all. 0 coverage on a blockbuster story, maybe mike pence will bring this up at the debate tonight. This is a major event. We are less than four weeks to the election and senator harris has a strong chance of becoming president given joe bidens age, he will be 78 on eggnog ration day, she will have to answer the question that biden
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With china while his father was a sitting Vice President. This as big tech remains under fire for blocking user access to this story. Coming up to discuss, steve bannon is here, georgia congressman doug collins and parler founder and ceo john mace joining us coming up. Were standing by for he retail sales this morning, ahead of the numbers, markets are mixed. Dow down 19, nasdaq up 15 and s p 500 right now down about three quarters of 1 point. Markets yesterday finished in the red, off of session lows by the end of trading, dow industrials gave up 19 points, nasdaq was down 54, s p lower by 5 points yesterday at 4 00 on wall street. The state of real estate, who is leading the push to flee big cities like new york to make a home in the suburbs . Plus flying right into your fridge, one airline is selling sky high meals in stores. Its making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets are higher, take a look, the fq100 is up 41, cac is up 55, and the dax