Reopen after a weekend shutdown that moved into a third day. Welcome to washington today on cspan radio. It is monday january 22. Thanks for being with us. We have a new countdown clock. 17 days until the government funding runs out. The c. R. Expires on february 8. In exchange for ending the stalemate, republicans have promised to take up the daca immigration issue. Here are some of your other headlines. Steve scalise returned to the capitol after surgery that was part of his recovery from a gunshot suffered at a congressional baseball game ractice. The Court Ordered pennsylvania lawmakers to redraw their congressional map ahead of the 2018 Midterm Elections. In israel, Vice President pence announced the u. S. Embassy will open in jerusalem before the end of the next year and he said the door is open for palestinians to enter negotiations. We begin with this headline. Heres how this transpired earlier today. Senator schumer i expect the majority leader to abide by this agreement. If h
He talks about the 2016 president ial race, which began with the entry with ted cruz and rand paul. This is just under an hour. Dave cook i am dave cook from the monitor. Thanks for coming. Our guest is senator mike lee, and it is an opportunity for what the senators new book calls a compliant press corps that is all too willing to blame republicans for anything and everything. [laughter] i guest tells of a unique childhood where his dad served as solicitor general under president reagan. Starting at age 10, he began attending Supreme Court arguments. Fellow Mormon Harry Reid was a friend of the lee family, and as the story goes, once locked a preteen mike lee in a garage. Overcoming scars that might have caused, senator lee earned his bachelors degree at Brigham Young university. He clerked for several judges, twice for samuel alito once when he was an appellate judge, and later on the Supreme Court. Our guest was in private practice in 2010 when he stunned the political establishment
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watered down version and with a five-year time limit and less compensation for the victims. that s why the, in city mayor was on the steps of city hall with other congressional leaders to call on the leadership in congress to get rid of the other bill and permanently reauthorize this act. never forget is more than a slogan. more than a bumper sticker. it is a sacred promise, to take care of those who risked their lives to take care of us. congresswoman maloney says if this bill went to congress tomorrow, it would pass with bipartisan support, by the way so the idea now is to pressure leadership to make that happen. and senator jill brant said give your congress person a call. call them, e-mail them, flood their inbox. let them know how you feel. yes. thank you, rick. investigators say they re 90% sure it was a bomb that took down the russian airliner that crashed in egypt last week, kill all 224 people onboard. one investigator is now telling
first this monday from the news deck, dr. ben carson admits when he couldn t remember a detail abxltw3g#[gmoç his pastd his co-author just made something up. but dr. carson is accusing the media of lying. part of a biased witchhunt to bring him down, as he puts it, because he is a threat to secular progressives. all from ben carson. his admission comes after the wall street journal raised questions about his life story. the journal is cosponsoring tomorrow night s g.o.p. debate on the fox business network. it reports on carson s claim in his autobiography that a professor at yale named him the most honest newport a class called, perceptions 301. reps for yale say there was no class perceptions 301. something dr. carson now admits. and the course#7ók was called psychology 10. when you write a book with a cowriter and you say there was class, a lot of times they ll put, a number of something on it, just to give it more meat. give it more meat. made something up for t