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Important that is for a young person to not only have dreams and believe those dreams are possible. If i worry about anything, i spoke about this last night, Young Americans arent dreaming or arent believing the dreams are accessible to them. You mentioned mitt romney who until three weeks ago was the leader of the party. Mitt romney going to disappear or does he have a continuing role . I hope he doesnt disappear and hope he has a continuing role. First of all, very few people have done what he has done, run for president and be the nominee of the party. And get crushed. Thats not accurate. He got 47 . He won a lot of states. He didnt lose 491. He won places and has a lot of supporters. But he has been successful at life. And i told him this, too. Mitt romney is a role model as a person, a father, husband, community leader. He has a lot to offer the Republican Party and our country and i dont know what that role is going to be but im excited because he has a lot to continue to contrib
Secretary of defense leon panetta visits the Walter Reed Medical Center followed by david coombs, Bradley Mannings of turning. The hearing on the republic of mali. The Supreme Court will look at what was passed in 2008 by a majority of 63. Theyre going to say that this president. They decided it was constitutional for them to establish i. D. S they did not say all of those states. Correct. Let me finish. You are misrepresenting what i am saying. When i hear these accusations that black people, voter i. D. Laws a disproportionately affect us. If white people can go through all the laws, what are you telling back people . They are less than . That is what bothers me about rhetoric. We always have to make special there has to be a specialist when we deal with minorities. It there too feeble mind it appeared we need to make concessions. They cannot follow the rules. We treat people like victims, i do not think they want to aspire. Defense secretary leon panetta visited the Walter Reed Medi
A report on military Sexual Assault. Senators john mccain and as a grim talk about the obama administrations response to the benghazi this libyan attacks and later the house hearing on the humanitarian crisis in the Central African republic. On the next washington journal the head of the center for politics of the university of virginia talks about political tv ads. He wrote a recent article in political about the more than two and a half billion dollars expected to be spent on ads this year. We will talk about the effectiveness of sanctions as a Foreign Policy tool. So jennifer de pauley with Civic Enterprises take your questions about u. S. Highschool regelation rates. Washington journal is live on cspan every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern peaking join the conversation at facebook and twitter. Almost 5,000 students and did this years cspan student can video competition on the most important Issue Congress should consider in 2014. We talked to the top five winners about the documentarys.
Impeachment trying to focus congress and the country on his covid stimulus bill. Good to have you with us. Much of the u. S. Is facing a dangerous deep freeze. Ice and snow are falling from West Virginia to texas and wind chills have been recorded as low as 42 below zero in colorado. Right now more than 5 million americans are without power as temperatures plummet. Texas is particularly hard hit as the Southern State isnt used to these harsh conditions. President biden had already declared a federal emergency over the weekend and the governor has now deployed the national guard. At the same time, tornadoes have been spotted along the east coast. This is the scene in georgia. Reports of storm damage also coming out of North Carolina as well as search and rescue efforts there for missing persons. Travel has been affected by dangerous icy roads and multiple airports across the u. S. Have also been closed. School districts are canceling inperson classes and some Vaccination Centers will be