the committee is also expected to take a deeper drive dive into the lies that led to supporters violently storming the capitol. we are by the president of the united states! he personally asked for us to come to d.c. that day. and i thought, for everything he is done for us, the only thing that he is asking me is it is hard to know right now just how much east trumpy detail we heard on thursday moved the needle among the 20 million americans who tuned in, according to nielsen s rating data. whether it was learning that former attorney general bill barr thought that trump s elections were quote, bs, or whether ivanka trump agreed. or that trump reportedly told his staff that vice president, quote, deserve to be assassinated. or even the never before seen footage of just how violent trump s riders were. the full impact of the hearings has gets to play itself out. still. congresswoman liz cheney had a stark warning for recalcitrant republican politicians who continue
winfield. one of the ten people killed in a mass shooting of a grocery store on may 15th. yesterday, the president and first lady were down in uvalde, texas where they met for hours with families of the 19 young children and two teachers who were killed in last week s school shooting. which of course came just ten days after buffalo. as biden left the church service in uvalde, he was met by a crowd of people chanting, do something. he responded by telling the crowd, we will. the president sounded a very similar note in the commence speech this weekend at university of delaware, telling graduates that the country can and must do something. let s be clear, evil came to the elementary school classroom in texas, to that grocery store in new york and far too many places where innocents have died. in the face of such forces, we have to stand stronger. we must stand stronger. we cannot outlaw tragedy, i know. but we can make america safer. but let s be honest, optimism is in sho
Kevin mccarthy needed 15 rounds. Ainsley Kevin Mccarthy said i will not run, Steve Scalise said im out. Jim jordan cant get votes. Who else is there . Newt gingrich or lee zeldin. Lawrence mccarthy is saying to give jim jordan some grace here. Hes only been at this for a couple days, i had three months to prepare and get a consensus and it took me 10 rounds. Ainsley what dont they like about jim jordan . Lawrence i had a representative on and i try to get representatives to say what about jim jordan do you not like . Go on record. They keep saying, we want to handle this Behind Closed Doors. Part of the method they are talking about, they want to do it Behind Closed Doors in the caucus and jim jordan wants them on the record to face constituents. Brian couple of things going on. Number one, the reason why Appropriations Bills were not done, moderates have a different view than conservatives and he said before you become speaker, wo out things that stopped us before and get a consensus
[applause] thank you very much. Im glad you liked the president. I like him too. [laughter] mr. President , mrs. Johnson distinguished guests, you have done me a great honor and coming here today and made me a very happy man. This is an important hour for the nation. For those of our citizens who have completed their to her of duty tour of duty and moved to the sidelines these people are our responsibility and are entitled among other benefits to the best medical protections available. Not one of our citizens should be abandoned we dont want these people to have anything to do with charity or have them have an idea of hopeless despair. Mr. President , i am glad to have lived this long. [applause] at the signing of the medicare bill, it puts this nation right where needs to be. Your inspired leadership and responsiveness forwardlooking congress, have made it possible for the state to come about. I thank you for coming here. It is an honor that i have not had for quite a while. I will sa
About wilbur mills. Mills told me that by the end of this week, he thought he would have something in shape to come down and discuss with you that he could present in the way of a packet that could be of interest. I told him i had read some articles lately that were a little bit disturbing that indicated something that was happening on the medicare and, indeed that, well, you know better than to the attention to those stories, and i said, i agree with you, wilbur. I just wanted to be reassured and he said, you know you cannot Read Everything you want, and this bill ultimately it has to have the mills stamp on it, and i said well, the president s view is that whenever you want to talk to him, that door is just wide open. He is happy to see you, and he said you just tell him again, as i told you lately last week that just as soon as i am ready to sit down and be able to present think to him that i could spell out that would make some sense and that would represent what would be of intere