Washington journal program. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Secretary of state mike pompeo appeared today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify about his 2021 budget requested. He was asked about President Trumps tweet about delaying the president ial election. From earlier today, this is just shy of three hours. The committee will come to order. Good morning, everyone. Today we have with us secretary of state mike pompeo to discuss the state departments fiscal year 2021 budget request. Though, if history is any judge, secretary pompeo, you will face a wide variety of questions which i know you can handle. The United States and our allies and partners continue to face serious foreign challenges that will test us for decades to come. China is our chief competitor. Russia too remains a key advair. The efforts of these nations to sow discord and undue the free and open Intern
It is good to be back with you for this second hour. At this hour, is a former Tabloid Publisher the star witness in the people versus donald trump . What david pecker revealed about his close friendship with the former president and the catch and kill scheme before the hush money scandal exploded. Plus from the courtroom to a meeting with japan. Trump prepares to host another International Leader as the campaign tries to show theyre just doing business as usual. And standing by for a judges ruling. Will trump be held in contempt for violating a gag order . Well tell you what happened during a heated hearing this morning. And code name, plazic echo. What a newly unsealed document reveals about the documents case and a witness who warned trump to just give everything back. Our nbc News Reporters are following the latest developments. We begin outside the courthouse in Lower Manhattan with vaughn hillyard. Vaughn, david pecker was the only witness again today. He was questioned about con
Mateo, 37 half moon bay. Cloud cover in place does north, just off shore. Temperatures to come up here. A cold morning anyway you slice it. Light rain to the north, snow mix further north as well. Cool to mild, highs due to the cloud cover will be very chilly to the north. Towards the south, 6 01. Sal, or we all right . People are back, steve. We saw on the bay bridge toll plaza, get filled up for the First Time Since tuesday. Right now it is filled up there. We can show it to you, backed up for a 1520 minute delay before you make it onto the span. And the carpool lanes are moving well. The fasttrack lanes are slightly better than the cash ones. But does seem as if we are back to normal. Also looking at a commute here on the san mateo bridge, looks good heading out to the peninsula. If youre talking about peninsula traffic, not much to say. 101 and 280 are doing well. 101 in gilroy, actually more like morgan hill, but morgan hill traffic on northbound 101 is not good because of a crash
It does come down in the short run, come out and the long run, that will be declining his share of the economy for the next several years, but after 2018 net debt will start rising is a share of the economy which is are we will be putting forward more balanced measures on both the revenue side and the expenditure side to assure that that debt is continuing to decline as a share gdp. A lot of you are focused on, understandably, on agriculture growth which is what i have been focusing on so far. It does matter as well have echoed the shared. Matters. You work for companies the sold to consumers and the income matters. Matters for the short run recovery. Matters for the sustainability of our economy over the long run and for the Political Support of the type of market oriented growth in hansen policies. Thats why they guy room like that is a is important to reflect on just how large income inequality has bell of the last several decades and why is important to take steps to make sure that
Right and the defense marriage act and the decision not to defend it in court. And he talked about restoring civil right and the vote to exfelons. This is 20 minutes. Our next guest is a special guest and we appreciate having him here as we always do. I commend general holder for his willingness to speak to us candidly and openly every year. The fact that our parting gift is going to be a baseball cap speaks to how many times you have been here because all of the gifts we give out have already been given to you. We will give you something you might be able to use. But we have all familiar with general holder. He was sworn in as the 82 attorney general on february 3rd 2009. He was named to be the Deputy Attorney general in 1997 and served as the United States attorney for the district of columbia. He was nominated to be an associate judge for the district of columbia. He was a litigation partner at covington in washington. It is a pleasure to have you to here address us. General . [ app