She announced her candidacy for president back in january 2019 in oakland, california. She withdrew from the race in december of last year. Joining us from los angeles is an l. A. Times political reporter , and in philadelphia, covering politics for politico, holly otterbein. And i want to begin with you, holly otterbein. I wonder if you could walk us through the process of what led to her selection. Sure. A debaten during between biden and sanders. Biden broke the news that he was going to choose a woman as his Vice President ial nominee. That kind of kicked everything little while, a later, in april, he announced his Vice President ial search committee, which included four people, including former senator chris dodd, who has been a longtime friend and ally to biden. He took an important and powerful role in that committee. And, you know, over the next few months, they did lots of interviews. They did lots of intensive vetting. Recently, they ended the search with biden, of course, ta
Cspan library. She is from california and attended Howard University here in washington, d. C. , earning her logic refrom the hastings law school, was the District Attorney in San Francisco and law on to earning her degree from hastings law school. She announced her candidacy for president back in january 2019 in oakland, california. She withdrew from the race in december of last year. Joining us from los angeles is an l. A. Times political reporter , and in philadelphia, covering politics for politico, holly otterbein. And i want to begin with you, holly otterbein. I wonder if you could walk us through the process of what led to her selection. Sure. A debaten during between biden and sanders. Biden broke the news that he was going to choose a woman as his Vice President ial nominee. That kind of kicked everything little while, a later, in april, he announced his Vice President ial search committee, which included four people, including former senator chris dodd, who has been a longtim
Well. A lot of Public Policy as well. A bit about your funding if you might and only because people will ask are you directly affiliatedwith the coke brothers . Yes, we sure are. With charles coke, david coke passed away last year but yes , we are very much in affiliation and were proud of that affiliation. When it comes to matters of policy one of the key ones taking place on capitol hill is the matter of a relief package. Various price tags being thrown around from the senate and the house side and when it comes to those price tags, you have some concern about whats being suggested . We do. But congress has appropriated and the president signed into law trillions of dollars in spending already. Much of that needed by the way. This is an unprecedented situation with the pandemic that has an economic hole that is unprecedented in our nations history so much of that was needed, was necessary and we supported but at this point, its difficult to justify another multitrillion dollar spendi
National association of latino officials, Arturo Vargas discusses issues important to latino voters. Then later tim phillips discusses his groups role in campaign 2020. This is the washington journal for july 24. The house is expected to come in at 9 00. New York Democratic congresswoman because youre cortez and other democratic colleagues took to the floor of the house yesterday to discuss the issues of sexism and harassing comments. The congresswoman calling it a cultural issue. In light of that, in our first hour, we want to hear your calls about what you think on sexism particular lay in politics. You can let us know on the phone lines. For women it is 202 7488000. For men it is 202 7488001. If you want to text us, do so at 202 7488003. You can also post on our Facebook Page. What occurred on the house floor yesterday, the Washington Times writes this saying it was the representative responding on the house floor on thursday to representative ted yohos comments about her arguing th
Republican from house judiciary, with us tonight on how this will hit the 2020 election. He was among the few chosen to grow these powerful ceos. Also with us tonight black voices for trump 2020 member jack brewer on this new fight, attorney general william barr says its possible, nancy pelosi endanger the lives of federal officers by tweeting they are Storm Troopers as these officers put themselves on the line working to stop mob violence. 188 injured so far. They are enforcing the very same laws led by nancy pelosi and congress that have been enacted. After major blowback, pelosi tried to deny she said that but we have her tweet in that debate. Also this new fight, were going to ask trump 2020 Campaign Senior advisor to larr if the democrats and the media are explaining it with ultraviolent writing in a cnn host says its not fair being reported. A federal courthouse has been bombed in portland, the shockwaves are so powerful they can be felt far away, wait till you hear what other de