White house sprekts Sarah Sanders was asked about senator sanders single payer Insurance Plan during todays white house briefing. She was also asked about President Trumps recent law making deals and the future of potential tax reform deals. This is a half hour. Good afternoon. I want to start off by reiterating the messages that fema administrator brock long and the president s Homeland Security and counterer terrorism officer made this morning regarding the ongoing relief efforts in the wakes of hurricanes irma and harvey. Life sustaining operations are still under way and we encourage everyone in the designated areas in florida, puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands to register online at disaster assistance. Gov. Thats the quickest way to register for federal assistance. As i said yesterday, the president was pleased that members on all sides of the aisle came together last week under his leadership to deliver critical relief to those effected by the storms and he has continued t
Let us pray. Lord god of hosts, be with us yet. Last we forget that our work on capitol hill matters to your kingdom. Lord, with the military response against syria, we are reminded again that internal vigilance is the price for freedom. Continue to provide our lawmakers with opportunities to serve your purposes on earth. Mayday take seriously the responsibilities entrusted to them in their stewardship. All the legislative branch. Remind them that you know the pressures they must confront as they strive to serve you and country. Best so upon them the blessing of your presence that will guard their hearts with your piece. Lord, give them the confidence that in following you, they can be certain of ultimate triumph. We pray in your holy name amen. Join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam president. Majori
The heaviest snowfall theyve seen in two months. A low moving storm dumped more than a foot. 150 Flight Cancellations and delays at minneapolis st. Paul airport. Nbc meteorologist bill karins has been tracking those storms. It looks bad. Impressive. Ten inches in minneapolis. Winter has arrived and in a big way through the middle of the country. The wind chills are brutal this morning. All of this mess is now sliding to the east coast. Thankfully not the snow and ice. The storm itself is actually located over lower michigan heading up towards just north of buffalo. These storms in the winter that track up into canada drag warmer air to the east coast. Thats why were not worried about a big snow or ice storm on the eastern seaboard. Its going to be warm enough for severe thunderstorms, maybe damaging hail and wind. Watching areas of alabama and northern georgia. Twa warm air up the east coast. All the cold air has been stored up towards alaska, fairbanks, all the way up towards central
A lot coming up this our and interesting stuff happening on the floor of the senate. We will look at the floor and Senate Majority leader harry reid introduced the Nuclear Option which would allow, Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell responding to senator reid, all of certain motions in the senate to pass by majority vote, 51 votes rather than 60 votes. Republicans are not happy about it to say the least, think that getting ugly. We will talk more about it has the power goes on. The thick argument from the republicans is democrats are trying to say a change the subject from obamacare with which mcconnell said majority leader promised he wouldnt break the rules to change the man he may as well have said if you like the rules in the senate you can keep them. You get the reference. That is interesting. Rich edson will come up and we will have Dan Henninger on. Mack breaking news, anything you can talk about. Lets go. Changing the filibuster rules in the senate. We are going to do it. Talk abo
Investigation by the Justice Department for very serious allegations of child sex trafficking. I swar im not going to spend more of my life than i need to in every twist of this nasating story. I feel the need to update you tonight because the sheer bizarreness of this story continued to advance in what appeared to be an accelerating pace it started off weird and is getting deepspace weird first of all, there is this guy. A local republican elected official in Seminole County, florida. Joel greenberg his own considerable criminal troubles appear to have at least dove tailed with this newlyreported investigation joel greenbrerg was elected tax col collector in 2016. He moodately sat out on a course of behavior that started off like a fire hose of scandal and ended up like a tsunami of scandal. I cant even cram all of it into another lengthy news segment here just looking at the high points. Local investigations and audits found starting basically as soon as he took office, he spent mill