snomination . Nomination . S here are the numbers online. Also find us send us a tweet cspanwj. Here are the headlines in the morning papers. The Washington Times this is the headline in the Baltimore Sun have line in roll call the headline in roll call Meredith Shiner joins us. How unusual is it to have the president s pick for defense secretary block at this stage . Guest it has never happen before. A senate has never filibustered the president s pick for defense secretary. The most bizarre thing, and the thing that is most frustrating to people watching this outside washington, is that a former senator hagel is a former is a former republican. With 58 bouts, and the reason why it was 58 was because majority leader harry reid had to switch his vote to know to bring the vote back up again after the senate comes back from recess. You have a lot of republican senators who said as recently as last week that they did not want to see the choice filibuster. Even if they wanted to vote no, h
Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer today will be offered our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, thank you for giving us another day. Quicken our spirits so that we will know the blessings of living together in unity and peace. We have our personal aspirations and ideas of what is best. Grant that we might know the satisfaction of sharing our Common Concerns and experiencing the joy of mutual accomplishment. Bless the members of the peoples house with success in bringing fruition to all efforts, to work toward Common Solutions to the issues facing our nation, solutions which seems so distant in these days. During the days of the coming week, may the American People be able to communicate their hopes for the efforts of their congress men and women. May they understand, as well, that a unified nation is equally the work of each of us where we live. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and g
A rally in florida earlier this afternoon. Trump renewed his calls for a special prosecutor to look into his opponent. He said Hillary Clinton ran the state Department Like a failed leader of a third world country, and he predicted the fall out i just beginning, watch. With the administration rigging the system its a rigged system, folks to protect her vast criminal behavior, the real jury is going to be the American Voter on november 8th. Reporter the Associated Press reported of the 154 nongovernment people they reviewed who clinton met with, 85 had ties to clinton charitable donations. Critics say that suggests access to the secretary of state resolved around money. However, the Clinton Campaign calls this story utterly flawed, stuart, and say clinton took over 1,700 meetings with world leaders, stuart. Thank you, blake burman. 263 days, thats how long its been since Hillary Clinton has held a formal News Conference as this email controversy continues to escalate. Her Campaign Manag
For legislation right now to protect mueller. Lawmakers seem ready to clash over this controversial memo about Justice Department and fbi. The House Intelligence Committee meets today at 5 00. The president will make a decision. The president hasnt seen it. This is such a hamfisted setup to undermine rod rosen stein so they can fire him and appoint somebody who can fire mueller. Its all about treating the Justice Department as an extension of the trump tower security force. The white house, not weighing in on whether the president will address one of the biggest cultural flash points, the me too movement. No, i wouldnt say im a feminist. I mean i think that would be maybe going too far. Im for women, im for men, im for everyone. The powerful and politically charged performance. This years show also had a message. You brought the flames and you put me through hell i had to learn how to fight for myself we come in peace, but we mean business. And to those who would dare try and silence u
Rothman, chair of africanamerican studies at Princeton University eddy glove jr. And shannon petty piece. Joe, so we start its only monday and we begin that way. Right. Well, yeah. And of course you didnt show the rest of the tape where we kept explaining to donald trump that putin assassinated political opponents and assassinated journalists just didnt seem to care. Didnt matter how far we pushed him. That was revealing. That was in december of 2015. I remember i think it was somebody over at the National Review said that may have been the most telling interview of the entire 2016 campaign. I think they were right. It was because it suggested there was something untoward in that relationship with putin. And that, of course, moves us forward not only to whats happening in russia, not only with franks remarkable reporting about corruption from Paul Manafort and how oligarchs and russians connected with manafort and manafort with the campaign, but also whats happening later on capitol hi