Mac thornberry to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend lauren lash, st. Patricks episcopal church, washington, d. C. The chaplain let us pray. Gracious and loving god, we give you thanks for the gift of this new day. As we set out to do the work you have given us to do, please open our eyes to those who are suffering in the world around us. Following your example, help us to care for the poor, the sick, the broken, and the disfraveraged disenfranchised. Give us grace to care for all your people as if they were our own brothers and sisters. In all that we do, o lord, that your love and peace guide us. In your holy name we pray. Amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section a of House Resolution 604, the journal of the last days proceedings is approved. The chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to
Thank you very much. Have a good day. Bill good morning. Fox news alert. The first round of trumpordered sanctions against iran set to be imposed at midnight putting the ball in tehrans course. He is willing to meet with its leaders only months after pulling out of the iran deal. First, a crackdown in caracas. They make it clear the u. S. Had nothing to do with a public Assassination Attempt. Something else here. Bill hemmer, hope you had an awesome weekend live inside Americas Newsroom. Sandra always too short. Good morning, everybody. Im sandra smith. Chaos in venezuelas capital. Invest Gators Raiding hotels and seizing drones. Two drones exploded as president maduro spoke at a public involvement. John bolton denying any american involvement. There is no u. S. Government involvement in this at all. If the government of venezuela has hard information that they want to present to us that would show a potential violation of u. S. Criminal law well take a serious look at it. In the meant
Absolutely. I would be honored to do it. Were going to break this sucker down. We have all of this covered with our nbc correspondents at the white house and around the world. I want to take you first to the Korean Peninsula where Kelly Cobiella is in seoul standing by. Kelly, i want to slow this thing down. North korea is issuing new threats, saying there is a, quote, reduce the whole of the u. S. Mainland to ruins. Thats what they could potentially do. Reduce the u. S. To ruins. Yeah. New rhetoric, intense rhetoric from north korea today. There are a couple of reasons for that. North korea, in fact, today, stephanie, interestingly, saying that the u. S. Is being rhetoric. Heres their problem. First of all, it is this antinuclear sorry antimissile Defense System in south korea, which has now gone operational, according to the u. S. Military. They say that it can now shoot down a or intercept a north korean missile. The other thing that has them angry today are these continued u. S. Mi
Michael steele, the former Senior Adviser to jeb bush and john boehner. Mike, to you. On the hill on monday trying to whip up support. Where do things stand on health care . Reporter Vice President mike pence was on the hill yesterday. Hes due on the hill again today, trying to find support among wavering house members. Its still touch and go. It does not appear that Republican Leadership has the votes necessary at this point, early on a wednesday morning, to move forward by putting this new health care bill, this new iteration of the Republican Health care plan on the hill. Weve heard from many members trickling out of this meeting. We are in the basement of the capitol. The Republicans Holding the closed door meetings. Arms being twisted. People being cajoled. Were told that President Trump himself has been on the phone with some wavering members. Congressman lou bar leta, a republican from pennsylvania. Told reporters he had concerns that were allayed by a long conversation, in his
Abandon its nuclear ambitions. The threat of the north Korea Nuclear threat on seoul or tokyo is real, and it is likely only a matter of time before north korea develops the capability to strike the u. S. Mainland. We call on countries to suspend or downgrade diplomatic relations with north korea. North korea exploits its diplomatic privileges to understood its Illicit Nuclear programs and constraining its diplomatic activity will cut off a flow of needed resources. We must increase north koreas isolation. We must have sanctions on dprk entities and tighten those already in place. All options for responding to future provocation must remain on the table. Diplomatic and financial levers of power will be back up by willingness to counternorth korea aggression with military action if necessary. These comments come just hours after President Trump made that startling remark about the possibility of a, quote, major, major conflict with north korea in a interview with reuters. He warned ther