Im gigi stonewoods. And im frances rivera. A new week and a new phase of the impeachment inquiry on Capitol Hill House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff early as th congress on a twoweek recess. The members most focused on impeachment will remain in d. C. Through the break. At the white house, President Trump is mounting a fiery defense, lashing out with nearly 80 tweets throughout the weekend, last night directing his ire at the whistleblower saying, quote, i deserve to meet my accuser and that he wants schiff questioned at the highest level for fraud and treason. The president also adding that he wants to meet not only his accuser, but also the person who gave the information ending with was this person spying on the u. S. President big consequences. Meanwhile, a cbs news poll finds that the majority of americans now back impeachment with 55 voicing approval of the inquiry. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell has more from d. C reporter the ukraine call whistleblower, unseen, unidentified,
New survey on credit card use and consumer debt. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host the house and the senate come back into session today after a 5 week after a 6week break. This is the washington journal for september 9. Several state attorneys general will announce they will investigate google over antitrust concerns. This as another group of attorneys general plan to investigate facebook over its practices and congress expressed concerns over these two companies and discussing more regulation of these companies. What do you think about this new round of investigations . Do you think larger tech firms need more regulation. If you say more regulation of these companies needed, 2027488000. If you say no new regulation needed, call at 2027488001. If you say less regulation is needed, 2027488002. You can post on our twitter feed at cspanwj an facebook, you can post there, too, at facebook.
They each took 16 threesecond puffs of ecigarette liquid without nicotine. What they found was that it temporarily damaged that persons blood vessels. This is the artery before the ecigarette, and this is the artery after. After vaping the blood flowed slowly, in some cases the effects lasted for minutes. Researchers are calling for more review to see if this behavior, repeated enough over time, could possibly have lasting effects down the road. I think its so clear that theres a shortterm risk that if you extrapolate a bit, it only makes sense to think that there is a longterm risk. Certainly decreased circulation to the heart muscle is going to result in heart damage. Our thanks to gio benitez. Ecigarette maker juul is saying this study called for vaping that is, quote, unrealistically high in volume with limited time between puffs. And the president of the Vaping Association says shortterm changes dont necessarily say anything about longterm use. Weve seen a lot about vaping in the
south carolina continue to recovery from rains wind and cataclysmic flooding. ian slammed into south carolina just shy of category 5. the current death toll of at least 45 people likely to come in the days as search and rescue cruise go through blocked floodwaters, as of this morning, 1.3 million homes and businesses still in the dark. according to the latest estimate ian may have caused as much as $47 billion in insured losses which could make it the most expensive storm in the state history. the figure comes from core logic, that s a research firm that estimates losses from natural disasters. the estimates, combined ensured losses through private insurance, which typically covers wind damage. and fema s national flood insurance program that covers water damage. their estimates as of thursday, wind damage, $20 billion to $32 billion. flood damage, $6 billion to $16 billion. so the low end of the combined estimate would be $28 billion. before we spend, let s ask ourselves, is
impact of the second amendment. host: carol anderson, it is july 3, 2022. what is the july 4, 17 76 celebration mean to you? prof. anderson: it means that we are so precariously pert as this democracy that we are heralding on july 4, 1776. we are in a perilous time, to me, as perilous as it was when the continental army looked like they were getting their butts kicked, as perilous as it looked when the south attacked fort sumter and launched the civil war. we are in perilous times where our democracy is hanging by a thread. host: why do you say that? prof. anderson: we ve got what i call a land, sea, and air attack happening on american democracy. the land attack is the assault on voting rights. the sea attack is the attack to wash away the teaching of real american history. and the air attack is the loosening of gun laws while having a narrative that the insurrection was legitimate political discourse. and well seeing that there was all of this violence and threats raining d