with kate bolduan. sarah is out today and this is cnn news central all right any moment now donald trump will arise i ve at court as 12 new yorkers resume deliberations over his fate and future. the question they will have to answer did donald trump break the law? court will pick back pick up with two requests from the jury yesterday. they asked the judge to review those 50 least portions of the 55 pages of jury instructions. once again they also requested to hear key pieces of testimony, much of that testimony from david pecker, the man who published the national enquirer, including his direct conversations with donald trump about the catch-and-kill game to bury damaging news prior to the 2016 election, trump is charged a reminder with 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to stormy daniel s all to influence the 2016 election. easy again for me to say joining me now, it s bridging graz who is outside court? brynn, take us through what wil
Here on cspan this morning, newsmakers is next with democratic congressman adam smith. Then Elizabeth Warren and the nsa director speak at the annual wall street Journal Council meeting in washington d c then Clarence Thomas talks about the life and legacy of late justice antonin scalia. Host this week on newsmakers we are joined by the top democrat on the Armed Services committee, adam smith. And in studio, we have two reporters with us, jeremy herb kevin froml and defense one. Reporter we are shortly after the election. The first question i have for you is why did the democrats lose the presidency . Ist i dont mr. Smith dont want to answer that. By 12,000 votes in michigan, 10,000 votes in wisconsin. I will point out that the democratic candidate actually got more votes, just like Democratic Candidates for congress got more votes despite the fact that we got more seats. It is a razor thin thing and there are a whole lunch of different issues. I think the biggest challenge we have is
Iran. Let me welcome our reporters. Felicia schwartz of wall street journal. And jeremy herb. Sharjourney, your first. Mr. Herb what is the most important thing you want to hear from him on defense and Security Issues . Is there anything he can say on the issue vices that will satisfy republicans . Rep. Thornberry i do not really think it is a question of being satisfied. I think the most important thing he could do is acknowledge that some of his policies of the past worked as well as he wanted, and in fact, made things worse. In other words, some realistic viewpoint. If that could come through, that the president recognizes he has tried for some things, hoped for the best, but it did not work, then that is what i would like the most. I would tell me that he has a more realistic you going ahead view going ahead. If he comes, and tells us, ok, we are on the right track, etc. , then im afraid we will get more of the same. Mr. Herb we heard from the pentagon that they have taken. Ack 30
The issue of isis that will satisfy republicans . Rep. Thornberry i do not really think it is a question of being satisfied. I think the most important thing he could do is acknowledge that some of his policies of the past have not worked as well as he wanted and may have made things worse. In other words, some realistic viewpoint. If that could come through, that the president recognizes he has tried for some things, hoped for the best, but it did not work, then that is what i would like the most. That would tell me that he has a more realistic view going ahead. If he comes, and tells us, ok, we are on the right track, etc. , then im afraid we will get more of the same. Mr. Herb we heard from the pentagon that they have taken back 30 of territory from isis. What are the next us now about the talk of ramping up . To be have to see boots on the ground from someone . What do you think should be the next concrete steps . Rep. Thornberry there has to be somebodys boots on the ground. It do
This november 26. If you would like to join in the conversation, you can call in the line for democrats is 202 7370001 republicans the line is 202 7370002 and for independence 202 6280205. You can also reach out to us on social media. Twitter you can find this find us at the http twitter. Com cspanwj. Email you can reach out journal cspan. Org. Now to immigration, starting with the headline in this mornings New York Times joining us now to break down the issue is david harrison. Thank you for joining us by phone this morning. Biggest takeaways from the president speech in San Francisco yesterday . Despite think everything, the talk that immigration will get done this year, is is that president obama and the white house is committed to pushing for this. It seems the president has not of gettinghe idea something done in the next few weeks, even though it seems a lot of people on capitol hill have. That speech yesterday, the president seemed inclined to support breaking the Immigration Re