Barr will be testifying before the House Judiciary Committee about his job performance. We will begin our conversation with all of you on that. What do you think about mr. As attorneyrmance general . If you agree, 202 7488000. If you disagree, 202 7488001. You can text us at 202 7488003. Twitter. S on join us on the phone is todd ruger with cq roll call. Remind our viewers why this hearing is taking place. Good morning. This is basically something that used to happen all the time and does happen all the time. Its an oversight hearing you have the house which is the closest representative to the people of the United States in the government and they get a chance to bring in a Trump Administration official and have him sit there and answer questions. Its going to take about four or five hours to go through all the members of this committee. They get about five minutes to ask him. This is something that congress does routinely that allows them to get accountability for the Justice Departm
Argue is to get spending in washington under control so that we are are not up their borrowing more and more money all the time and war of our countrys assets and resources can be deployed towards things that would yield a return that will put more people to work that will grow the economy and expand their standard of living in the quality of life for the people across this country. Time is short. The clock is running. Time is wasting. We need to get this done. In the near term except the nine bills that are sitting here in the senate that have been passed by the house that would put a lot of these services and programs that impact people that have been expressed so many times by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle they would put funding back in place for those and secondly lets get together, the president s democrats and republicans here in washington d. C. To talk about not only raising the debt limit but what we are going to do to address the underlying debt. You senators t
In libya, militants are calling for the kidnapping of americans and attacks on europebound Gas Pipelines after the u. S. Snatched an accused bombing suspect off the streets of tripoli saturday. He is facing interrogation on board a u. S. Warship in the mediterranean. As of monday, he had not been read his miranda rights. On monday, libya summoned its u. S. Ambassador to answer questions about the capture, a top suspect in the 1998 bombings of the u. S. Embassies in kenya and tanzania. Libya says it had no prior knowledge of the operation while the u. S. Claims it provided assistance. Protesters in benghazi accused the Libyan Government of aiding the United States. The case of the kidnapping of our brother from tripoli is just an act against libya. We will not remain silent. We will go out with peaceful protest. A case like this one up as easily in libya. Maldives, the Supreme Court has rejected the first round of voting in a president ial election, dealing a blow to mamed nasheed. He w
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Youre raising huge amounts of money. Do you feel that you have violated that . Of course not. The family name may be affecting jeb bush. My brother is not going to be a problem at all. Time has made george bush look better to people. Call it the United States of amnesia. Jeb bush said this weekend he has learned from his brothers successes. I havent even learned about his brothers successes. So the senate floor could be held hostage by president ial politics. Weve got some people running for National Office trying to, you know, draw attention to their campaigns. Using the senate floor to campaign for president. Rand paul who is fundraising off of this. Marco rubio, ted cruz. At the end of the day, the senate has to function. Lindsey graham could be the first bachelor elected president in 130 years. And hes also be the first candidate to choose his running mate in an elaborate rose ceremony. Fred wertheimer who was president of common cause for 14 years and is now the president of democ