Looking at today, four states having elections. In the case what is happening right now in mississippi and kentucky quest for the gubernatorial mansion. Democrats hope to put under democrat control there, pick up two statehouses in the process. Kentucky, virginia, new jersey, mississippi, also have separate legislative elections on top of that. You have a host of propositions being debated and voted on across the country in key proposition measures. What powerful signals can come of today. Politico White House Reporter gabby orr, what she is looking at. What are you looking at . Gubernatorial battles in kentucky and mississippi is front and center. What happens in places like virginia, turn in legislative control of that body. That will be crucial. Absolutely. Neil, pretty much two things im looking at right now. Number of one the kentucky gubernatorial race. How will matt bevin perform in suburban lexington and other rural parts of kentucky . It is important to see whether his support
Number of russia related bills today, looking to corruption in that country and in their interference in u. S. Elections in 2016. This week, members will take up a resolution that special counsel Robert Muellers report should be available to the public and the congress. Live coverage of the u. S. House is here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org]. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by uest chaplain rabbi claudio j. Kogan, university of tech as Rio Grande Valley school of medicine, edinburg, texas. The chaplain god, source of all living things, we ask your pleasings from these representatives on the people who have devoted their lives to our affairs. Strengthen them with your courage, inspire them with the livers the prophet called, our souls in this land and all lands who cannot stand on t
guardian. let s just start with the nsa stuff, since it is the big issue right now. can we talk a little bit about how the introduction of the snowden leaks has changed the way we are doing business and how much harder were easier it has been? it has cut both ways. i have not been writing much on the snowden documents themselves, but i have been writing on related nsa issues in the midst of all the snowden revelations. i found as many people, less inclined to want to share information. there are probably at least as many at this point who now feel i do not know if it is emboldened or they just feel it is an issue that will get more attention and it is worth their while to share what they know with reporters, whether context or additional information and detail. i think on balance it has led to a greater amount of information that reporters are learning, even beyond the snowden documents. the government is behaving somewhat differently from the way it did. the nsa is set
and their predictions of the apocalypse. you say, just leave this to us, we will fix this. we promise we won t let you down. don t be so pessimistic. and then nothing. silence. the duke and duchess of sussex threaten legal action over photos taken by the paparazzi in canada. and jess phillips pulls out of the race to be the next labour leader saying the party needs someone who will unite all sides of the movement. its five o clock our top story donald trump will this evening become only the third american president to go on trial in the us senate. he s accused by the house of representatives of abusing his powers. but with the republican party in the majority in the upper house it s highly unlikely the president will be removed from office. proceedings get under way on capitol hill within the hour, but earlier, the president was thousands of miles away at the world economic forum in davos. here s what he had to say when he arrived. we are here meeting with world leaders
heroes.com. thanks for watching, our coverage continues. good evening. last night after president trump walked out of a white house meeting with democrats and gave a rambling, angry defensive and misleading press conference in the rose garden, i described it as not normal, as in not normal behavior for a president. after what happened today, though, i ve got say i think i was wrong, because tonight we know that by the standards of this president, that kind of behavior is normal, especially now that it s happened for a second straight day. it s normal meaning typical. it occurs with regularity and predictability. it happens over and over again. it doesn t seem like he can help himself. today at a press event with farmers and ranchers, the president of the united states, the chief commander in forces, dissolve into another airing of grievances about himself. like last time, it was something house speaker nancy pelosi said that set him off. the event started with the president