This so call constitution crisis, record for the dow. First time over 29,000. 3 away from 30,000. Interesting times. Ince 1998. We will show you that live and talk about what is happening with impeachment and where we go from here. You are looking live at the house waiting to see House Speaker nancy pelosi show up there. Jeff is on capitol hill tonight. Setting the scene for this formal event. Well, we have not seen is this in quite a while. This is where House Speaker nancy pelosi and the impeachment managers and Cheryl Johnson the clerk of the house will get together. We will see in the speaker takes some question. Once they start the ceremony will taken 15 minutes. They will disappear and sign the paperwork and formalize it off stage. Then you will have the procession where paul irving, who announces the president for the state of the union, he will
escort Cheryl Johnson across the capital. Across the building mike stinger, the Senate Sergeant of arms will escort Cheryl Johnson the
It is very clear that the American People want a balanced approach for the deficit reduction. We have to make smart spending cuts. We can do that by closing tax loopholes and asking millionaires to pay a little bit more. That is basically what our proposal is and we will vote on it this afternoon. We want a balanced approach. That is what the American People want. By almost an 80 margin, that is what americans want. Even a majority of republicans want this. It is hard to comprehend. The only republicans in the country who disagree with this proposal are the ones who serve in congress. Today, to make it worse, they once again said they would filibuster any proposal that we ask. I went to the floor. They said a want to have a vote on a new proposal, one says that they want something else. Senator ayotte and senator graham and someone else wanted to cut federal employees among other things. I said im a fine. Lets have a majority vote on all three. Objection. And other filibuster. Unfortun
One, sequestration will cut essential initiatives, including 8 million from the breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program and 24 million for Reproductive Health services in title x. Two, the National Institutes of health will cut 1. 56 billion, cutting back research in areas such as alzheimers, environMental Health, links to Breast Cancer and Mental Health services. Sequestration hurts mothers. While the United States lags behind other industrialized nations in preventing maternal and infant mortality, sequestration cuts 4 million from the safe motherhood initiative, 50 million from the maternal and child health services, and incredibly, will deny lifesaving in immunization to 30,000 children. Three, sequestration hurts women as caregivers. Women are typically the caregivers, not just to children, but to aging parents. Sequestration would cut 12. 6 million from the National Family caregivers program, reducing services to 700,000 family caregivers. Four, sequestration will hurt the m
30. Und 8 00 there you can give us a call until then. If you have called within the last 30 days, please hold off doing so. These are the numbers if you want to reach out to us on social media a little bit of the mechanics of what happens today are played out in the papers this morning. Heres the New York Times some more in the papers this morning about the mechanics. But at the white house you saw a live picture going into our program this morning, thats our the meeting will take place between president obama and congressional leaders. Here to talk about that and other things, alexander balderson from the hill newspaper, their staff writer. Olton. Xander ba guest they will discuss sequestration and how to avoid it. Expectations for the meeting are very low. This is seen as a meeting for appearances sake. Some republicans argue that its after the deadline, that the midnight friday has already passed. So i guess thats another point of debate between the Republican Leaders on the hill an
The president should just go to war with isis terrorists and tell us about it later . How about the constitution that puts that authority in the u. S. Congress. Why elect people to congress if they dont decide which wars we fight. What happened to the republicans out there charging president obama with exceeding his authority . Did they want him to check with them on the Big Questions or not . Isnt the decision to go to war a big question . Is it worth having a vote on . Give me a single reason why the u. S. Congress should not have to vote on yet another war . Joining me, congressmen schiff and garamendi from california. Should the u. S. Congress vote on whether we go to war with isis . Absolutely. The president is talking about a multiyear campaign against isis. This is the thing congress should vote on. We ought to limit what the president can do and what he cant do. It ought to have a sunset date. I hope thats what well do in the next two weeks. Should there be a vote on whether we