Continues. Host joining us for his first visit to the washington journal is illinois Democrat Eric sorensen a freshman serving on the Agricultural Science Committee in 118th congress congress. Job prepare you for this job on capitol hill . Guest i realize that i has spent nearly 20 years of my career in the district i now serve. My hometown of rockford illinois. When my congresswoman announced that she was not going to run for reelection it was the news anchors on the others to the studio and they pointed to me is that you need to do that. I said, no, i am not a politician. But what happened after that were many sleepless nights where i would toss and turn and i talk to myself wait a minute, maybe my hometown does not need a politician, they may be meet someone theyve already been able to trust. I think i took that for granted being on local news for so long was what was the value of the trusts i had gained with the viewers . There 99 of the days but 1 of the days when there were lifet
Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The ambassador discussed ways russia could be brought to justice and accusations the pentagon withheld evidence of war crimes. This is an hour andn 15 minutes. The. [background noises] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Il for well over a year noticing the horror of putins illegal unprovoked invasion and the brutality he has inflicted on the people of ukraine. Russian airstrikes have destroyed schools, flattened apartment buildings, killed mothers and babies in maternity wards. We have witnessed bombs on children and caregivers of Government Protection attacks on civilian Nuclear Facilities and a systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure but it is a night here it does not let the current human rights organizations Russian Forces occupied village schools, airport hangers whatever they them find and converted into makeshift torture chambers with a beat, electrocute and threaten to mutilate ukrainian detainees. T
And infrastructure, which were my top two picks, so i am happy to be a part of that. I look forward to working with both sides of the aisle. Democrat Eric Sorensen is no stranger to caras. He used to work as a local meteorologist near his home in moline illinois. He told cspan about that work helping him as a congressman and how he first got into television. Rep. Sorensen i was the chief meteorologist at the tv station, might family was growing up, then i moved to the next town over and i put writz down in the community, became a meteorologist, and was known not only to track tornadoes to chase tornadoes but also to tell the kids when they did not have school because it was snowing. Little did i know through all of this time as a broadcast meteorologist that i was working in the same congressional district. What did you like about being a meteorologist . Rep. Sorensen it changes every day. And a lot of times when i went and talked to schoolkids about meteorology, we live in different w
[the star-spangled banner] ibly1 from the and from which is a tradition every weekend morning on fox and friends we can to the midterms because we are three days away. welcome to fox and friends on november 5, 2022. that is a live shot of capitol hill which could look a lot different in three days. i can t get it back. rachel: it looks like it pete: i ve been talking to myself with honey lemon and listen to you and lost at a diner in phoenix at half my family is sick but i am not sick. rachel: my old stomping grounds. pete: at 3:00 a.m. packed. will: do you like it? wish i always sounded like this? a little musky? a little like sam elliott and a western, feel like you are swaggering around. rachel: sounds like he is 50 going through some changes. pete: i wish i felt like that. that is how it is interpreted. rachel: cowboy or teenager, you decide. we start with this midterm blues which is ramping up. democrats resorting to name-calling and ramping up partisan attacks a