He described a conversation he had with blake himself. I had an opportunity to spend some time with jacob on the phone. Hes out of icu. He talked about how nothing was going to defeat him, how whether he walked again or not, he was not going to give up. My wife asked to say a prayer, and his mom said a prayer. She said, im praying for jacob, but im praying for the policemen as well. Biden also met with kenosha residents and Community Leaders and called for an end to violence during protests. And he criticized some of what donald trump has had to say. The words of a president matter, no matter the good, bad, or indifferent, they matter. But i made a mistake about something. I thought you could defeat hate. It only hides. It only hides. And when someone in authority breathes oxygen under that rock, it legitimizes those folks to come on out. Regardless how angry you are, if you loot or you burn, you should be held accountable as someone who does anything else, period. Violence in any form
Country. This is the georgia governors race between republican secretary of state, ultra conservative Republican Brian Kemp and the former democratic leader of the state legislature in georgia, Stacey Abrams. New poll from the Atlanta Journal constitution, as you see in the headline, it says they are deadlocked. Thats not hyperbole. Look, quote, the poll, conducted by the university of Georgia School of public and International Affairs has Stacey Abrams at 46. 9 and brian kemp at 46. 7 . That is incredible. Five days out in a statewide race, five days out from the election to be separated by 0. 2 percentage points. If neither of these candidates gets over 50 of the vote, brian kemp and Stacey Abrams will have to go to a runoff in december. So if neither one of them hits 50, we will not know who georgias governor is going to be until next month there. Is a libertarian candidate who is running in georgia as well. He has as much a chance of winning the governorship in georgia as i have at
Entering a ninth day with no sign of negotiations. Where are the key players right now . Plus, a new congress with new power. What will democrats do first when they take control of the house. And the way we were. A look back at the people and all those events that made 2018 a year to remember. Well, we begin withis morni with a partial Government Shutdown. Now in its ninth day, it continues grinding on with little happening on both sides of the congressional aisle. New members of Congress Take the oath of office giving nancy pelosi the chance to introduce legislation to end the shutdown. Meanwhile, on the republican side, President Trump making no public appearances in the last 48 hours. Instead, taking to twitter to not only fend off criticism of the show down but also the death of a migrant child in u. S. Custody. The white house is now sending its counselor Kellyanne Conway on the sunday morning talk shows to relay this message. Here she is on fox. Has the president directly contact
It made mother russia a lot smaller though it is still pretty huge too. It also sits on the border separating russia from europe. Ukraine is a word that literally means border land and the southern part of it stretches across the black sea, a key water route for ferrying oil and natural gas to europe, which is russias biggest customer for the stuff that keeps the lights on. Curb sha and ukraine havent been the friendliest of neighbors since ukraine declared itself an understood pen dindep. Ukraine also had a lot of old the old soviet unions military nukes which theyve destroyed when they went independent and to the delight of western fortune hunters ukraine boasts a lot of its own oil and natural gas which partly explains why modern day ukraine is so central to the many, many scandals that beeve all been living with since President Trump become the nominee in 2016. The Trump Campaign made a single change to the entire rnc platform, just one. Watering down language that called for the p
Then overriding his veto and all the successive efforts we have had to assert Congress Role to try to constrain a president from waging war since then. This is contested trorerritory, know, and fascinating territory in terms of modern american history. I wrote a book about it in 2012 called drift which explains my thoughts on the subject and what i think is the relevant history, in case you are interested in a deeper dive on the subject. I doubt you are, but just in case. This hour were going to be talking with democratic senator chris murphy about that vote tonight in the house. Again, the house passing that resolution tonight. Were also going to talk with senator murphy about whats expected on his side of the capitol now that the house has passed that resolution. In the house tonight this was a mildly bipartisan vote. Some democrats voted against the resolution. Some republicans crossed party lines to vote for it. In terms of the other side of the capitol, if and when there is a simi