We might not have even known there was a whistleblower complaint. The president will be held accountable. It will be done in a fair way. Lou lies all. While congress and the senate are wrapping up their twoweek recess undeterred by the pelosischiff subversion effort in d. C. The president staying hard at work as he has since the day of his election. The markets are booming and the economy continues to roar. The economy is doing better than almost any economist dreamed possible. The unemployment report numbers are the lowest in a half season to youy. Wall street today rallied on the numbers. All the major indexes up more than 1 . The president loves it all. Touting the strong economic performance. We have the best economy we have ever had. We have the best job numbers we have had in 51 years. The best unemployment numbers that we have had a half a century. People understand that. People are working, they are making money. If you look at one very important number that was just announced,
That is of concern to the committee, not just the house,. Ut the Judiciary Committee was a served their, it bipartisan committee. They have to Work Together and create common cause with National Security. As we have seen over the past few years, the committee has become partisan upon both sides. We can blame the current ,hairman in the former chairman but that may be part of the climate at play and will unfortunately play into the dynamics. That partisanship we see in the hearings and on cspan coverage, does that carry down to the level of the Staff Councils as well . Mr. Jaffer it didnt used to. When the chairman and Ranking Member would come in, they were new to the committee. It has gone through these phases of being partisan, bipartisan, and partisan. Phase where not only is it happening in front of the cameras, but devolving to the staff level. They are not far apart, but given the current dynamic in public, it is hard to imagine it is bipartisan. Linked to the redacted report, th
Socalled wall street tax, placed on the sale of stocks and bonds. So will this appeal to voters even those who hold stocks in their Retirement Savings . Well, im not sure it is going to. It is all about how you brand it; right, david . Hes branding this or at least as they are mulling it over they are branding it as a tax on wall street, but it isnt. Think about how many people have equity and Bond Investments on main street. If you have a 401 k , if you have a pension, if you have any equity related investment, this is going to hit you. Now, it may seem a little bit less extreme than the wealth taxes that sanders and warren are proposing and hes in a tough spot because he needs to go a little bit more left, but he needs to make sure he wont cannibalize his base and this could very well do that. Well, okay, okay, lets just forget the notion of how weird it is that you will get your poll numbers to go up by proposing a new tax. David good point. Thats a little hard to grasp. I dont like
The two hour barrier in austria . Welcome to bbc news. The United Nations say around 100,000 people have fled their homes as Turkey Presses on with its offensive against kurdish forces. There has been heavy fighting and both civilians and dozens of kurdish fighters have lost their lives. Turkey wants to create a 30 km deep buffer zone running a50 miles, so around 600 km, across the syrian border. Turkeys president erdogan vowed to press on with the assault to defeat kurdish fighters who he regards as terrorists, and then to settle millions of Syrian Refugees there. And then to settle millions the of Syrian Refugees there. Pentagon has said in the hour the pentagon has said in the last hour us troops have come under fire in syria. 0ur International Correspondent 0rla guerin is there and has been watching the military activity. Well, through much of the day, weve been hearing heavy outgoing artillery and mortar fire. Now, the turkish Authorities Say they have advanced into Northern Syria
The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair reserve the right to reset the hearing at any time. The president ial oath of office requires the president of the United States to do two things. Faithfully execute his or her office, and protect and defend the constitution. That old, of course, cannot be honored if the president does not first defend the country. Our National Security is jeopardized, in our country is then thefended, ability to faithfully execute the office becomes smooth. The duty to defend the nations foundational to the responsibilities. But what of the second responsibility to defend the constitution . What does that really mean . The founders were not speaking of course of a piece of parchment, rather they were expressing the obligation of the president to defend the. Nstitution to defend the rule of law, a principle on which the idea of america was born that we are a nation of laws, not men. If we do not defend the nation, there is no constitution.