Court of appeals judge for the ninth circuit. Confirmation vote is expected later today. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Our father in heaven, how great you are today, lead our lawmakers in their work. May they be messengers of unity and hope. Make them productive servants who strive to honor you. Remind them to act with justice, love, mercy, and humility. May they speak words that bring life, as they seek to live with integrity. Sovereign lord, strengthen our senators to seize opportunities that bring peace, hope, and freedom. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. 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. Mr. Mcconnell madam president. The presiding offic
70 degrees that was the forecast high with nothing but sunshine and low humidity making it very comfortable. 70 the high so far today. In trenton the temperature 66. In wrightstown we have 68. Down the shore pretty comfortable you can see in Atlantic City 65 and of course down through wildwood 66. So dry for now. But not for long. We do have High Pressure sliding off the coast. It will allow this moisture to move toward the northeast. You can see the front right now over chicago. When a meteorologist cease that over chicago we know we have about 24 hours before that moves toward the delaware valley. Moat of this moisture will go through our northern and western suburbs and toward the north and east and it will be quite spot spotty. Some clouds on the increase tomorrow. Maybe a spotty shower but not after a very beautiful day. Tomorrow looks like its going to be another 10 across the region. So this evening, we have fair skies, if youre going out tonight no problems, 64 degrees. Once th
This is Al Jazeera America, live from new york city, im Randall Pinkston, pope francis now is in southeast cuba in the city where fidel and brother rual castro grew up and celebrated mass this for tens of thousands of cubans, this is the first time a pope has ever visited the city and pope francis is credited with helping u. S. And cuba restart diplomatic relations after more than 50 years. David is live for us in havana and david im sure you have seen many incredible sights during your visit there watching the pope, such a busy day he has had, what has been most impressive for you . Well, you know, im telling you its hard to think of a more impressive sight than hundreds of thousands in havana and he is 150,000 gathering had gathered there and just the sheer numbers of people who turn out to see this pope, not only here in cuba but across the region and mexico and honduras and nicaragua and a pontiff coming to cuba with a new relationship between the United States and cuba so pope fra
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[inaudible] the role that [inaudible] have had in strengthening the Iraqi Kurdistan . You repeat that . Yes. If you could please comment on the role that exxon, the oil company exxonmobil. Yeah, sorry. Okay. Thank you. Exxon is one of a number of Large International Oil Companies that have signed exploration and production agreements with the regional government. They did that under threat from baghdad, that they might lose their positions and privilege to develop oil fields in parts of iraq. P. M. They need a Banking Sector they need to be involved in regional trade, but oil is king, and exxon has played a leading role. Seems like a good place to leave these things. David, once again, you have given us a comprehensive sweep of the kurdish issue as well as the politics of the entire region. Again, the book is othe kurdish spring a new map of the middle east. And here with author david phillips. Please join me in thanking him for his insights today. [applause] booktv is on twitter and f