Quorum call quorum call mr. Sanders madam president. The presiding officer the senator from vermont is recognized. Sorry. Mr. Sanders thank you. Madam president , since last week the senate has been quote, unquote, debating the presiding officer senator, were in a quorum call. Mr. Sanders i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sanders madam president , since last week, the senate ostensibly one of the great deliberative bodies in the world, supposedly, has been quote, unquote, debating the 740 billion National Defense authorization act. Its been a very, very silent debate because of the 700 amendments that have been filed to this bill. There has been no roll call votes on any of them. I do understand that in the managers amendments have been accepted, and thats fine, but weve had a vigorous debate but nobody in the world has heard that debate because theres not been one amendment here on the floor. And knowing the way the senate does
Propalestinian protesters from the campus of Columbia University in new york. Dozens were arrested after Ivy League School decided it was finally time to call in the reinforcements. Hello, im jonathan hunt, live in los angeles with continuing coverage of the campus. Chaos across country. The situation at columbia escalated about 24 hours ago when the protesters broke into historic Hamilton Hall building. And just a few hours, officers in riot gear entered that building and swiftly made arrests. Columbia university has, of course, been the epicenter for propalestinian protests that have now spread to campuses around the country. Hundreds of students have been arrested nationwide and upcoming commencements are in danger being canceled. Lets get straight to fox news Correspondent Richardson for the latest on how it all unfolded at columbia. Good evening, rick. Good evening, jonathan. Columbia university is given the all clear after School Officials told students to shelter in this past ev
Across this country. You are looking live right now at the scene on the campus, ucla, one of the jewels in the crown of uc system. And tonight, it is the scene of ,outright lawlessness. Propalestinian protest is have been camped out there in the center of the ucla campus for several days now. And this evening, l. A. Time, a group of Counter Protesters showed up and those two groups have clashed to repeatedly. We have seen firecrackers thrown into crowds of people. We have seen people attacking each other with large paw poles. We have seen fistfights. What we have not seen for the last hour or more that this has been going is one single officer from the Los Angeles Police department. This lawlessness is playing out on the campus of a Public University and not a sign of los angeles law intervening. We have seen people hurt. We have seen at least one person taken away by ambulance. We seen other people on the ground. Weve seen people Pepper Sprayed. We have seen people clearly suffer phys
Manchin sympathetic to Economic Growth. Two modern republicans will be there too. Erin hatch, pat toome you in pennsylvania and toun. The highenergy president will travel to as many as 14 states barnstorming high cuts. Now, before we tell you about todays market rally consider this. In unanimous sanction sanctions on north korea. Diplomacy continues. The military option still on the table. Irma, yes, was disruptive specially in the keys, two third of florida remains without power, millions face the frustrating way to get back home but it was not the catastrophe in economic terms that it could have been. Put it altogether. Look at this. Another move up for stocks at the opening bell after a 259point gain monday, the dow will come within striking distance of new record high today. Yes, it is another very big day. Varney company is about to begin. I regret to say, keys hit very hard, all three of the keys hospitals including Emergency Rooms are closed and dawn to dusk curfew till in place
Aisle together tonight in a big meeting for tax reform. Its a push just hours from now at the white house, and airports are beginning to reopen, fuel trucks are starting to make deliveries in south florida. But in the hardhit florida keys, fema says a quarter of the homes are destroyed, millions still without power. We are on the ground with an update on the rescue and recovery effort. David well, the dow is now just about 20 points shy of a brand new record driven higher by shares of pfizer, goldman sachs, caterpillar, but the s p and nasdaq already getting the job done. Nicole petallides, we have traced back all those losses from last week, and were on our way to new highs. Whats driving the market . Im taking a look at the record close for the Dow Jones Industrial average. The record close, 22,118, looks like we beat that by a point. The s p 500, any gain there, gain would be a record. Again, we hit that as well. And watching the nasdaq as well which was close, but i dont have that