President trump is now underway. It has been a day of accusations and anger on the floor of the senate. Democrats are charging the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, with orchestrating a coverup, saying he is trying to force senators to hold the trial late at night when americans wont be watching. Well, tonight mcconnell is backing down after objections from several moderate members of his own party as democrats continue to push for witnesses to be allowed to testify. Its been an extraordinary day of public debate and behindthe scenes maneuvering in a place that likes to call itself the worlds greatest deliberative body. Chip reid leads off our coverage tonight from capitol hill. Reporter the impeachment debate began today before the senate even convened. Mcconnells resolution is nothing short of national disgrace. Reporter democratic leader Chuck Schumer lambasted Mitch Mcconnells plan to cram 24 hours of opening arguments into just two day, forcing much of the debate to happen after m
In 1986, he testified, i have needed mr. Sessions help in those cases and he has provided that help every step of the way. Is that correct . Is that what he testified . Senator sessions, yes, that is correct. Senator cruz lied it to the truth. The civil rights cases that i questioned, before he claimed to have personally handled, this is senator sessions, the guy we are talking about confirming or not, they were not what mr. Hebert was talking about and that quote in 1986. He worked on a number of cases in the Southern District of alabama and he spoke about how he interacted with senator sessions generally. It to be clear, mr. Hebert had explained to this committee that two of the four civil rights cases that senator sessions claimed he was personally handling, mr. Hebert litigated himself personally. They were filed before senator sessions was the u. S. Attorney. He was not involved, nonetheles nonetheless, senator cruz attempted to conflate how senator sessions and mr. Hebert acted g
Congressional budget office. It could be weeks before we have all the answers. Well have much more on the policy and the politics in just a moment, but first to the big news on jobs. The april numbers are just out, showing unemployment has dropped again to 4. 4 , now the lowest in ten years. Employers added 211,000 jobs last month. So, lets bring in cnns chief Business Correspondent and cohost of early start, christine romans. Christine, peel back some of the numbers. What do they show . Well, they Show Confidence among employers to hire, quite frankly. Lets look at the jobs added here. You can see 211,000. The president to get to his promise of 25 million jobs created over the next ten years would have to stay above 208,000 every month. So, he definitely did it this month. Theres a little bit of weakness over here in march, but it looks as though employers were confident again coming up here in april. The Unemployment Rate. This is whats really fascinating. This is the number everyone
It could get muddy here too. Im gregg jarrett, the house voting to approve the gop plan letting President Trump and the republicans take a victory lap in the rose garden. Now the fight shifts to the u. S. Senate where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are getting ready to express their deep concerns about this measure, some have already. Brian live from new jersey where the president is spending the week and brian, im guessing he may swing a golf club or two today. [laughter] well, no confirmation on that and it could rain, in fact. We will see, gregg, good afternoon to you. This is a situation where the president is optimistic about this House Health Care bill but like you said, the senate and others democrats, Senate Republicans an democrats less optimistic about this bill particularly because its Senate Republican that is are speaking out against this bill primarily for two reasons, one is the premeditated, im sorry, in terms of preexisting conditions, this Health Care Bill state
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