The protests much Michael Brown. Iisrael has carried out 100 airstrikes. Today there has been an outpouring of support for james foley and widespread condemnation from the Islamic Group who murdered him. Foley was abducted 15 months ago while working in syria. Since then his family has been waiting and hoping for his return. The Islamic State group claimed in reaction to american air attacks they beheaded foley. He was strong, courageous, loving to the end. We just hardly recognize our little boy. He justhe was just a hero. You know from the videos his last wor last words were i wish i could see my family. So jim had a big heart. Just, i just, thats what we shared with president obama. You know, we pray that jims death can bring our country together in a stronger way, and the values that jim hold dear. Held dear. Jim would never want us to hate or be bitter, and we cannot do that. So we are just very proud of jimmy. President obama spoke earlier today about foleys death. He was forcefu
Donald ritie, thank you for ing with us on america history. The senate jority leader i not a position in the constitution. How did the job evolve . That puzzles a lot of people. We once had a former speaker of the house contact us and say i was the president pro perso ray in the pro tempore but not the majority leader because e speakers of e usee the nate majority leader as their equivalent, their functional equivalent on the senate side. Ofourse the speaker of the house is written ito the constution, and the president pro tempore is. But no mention of a majority leader or minority leader and thats because the constitutn did n ancipatepolitical parts. I think they thoughat it was probably gng to happen, but they didnwant to encoure litica parties. Theyake no provision for it. And for most ofthe history of thesenate we had no jority lead. Om 1789 until 1913 there was noajit leader ofth senate. There re chairmen committees who wld sort of take care of things on the floor, there were th a
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , december 18, 2012. I hereby appoint the honorable nan s. Hayworth to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the house will receive a message. The messenger madam speaker, a message from the senate. The secretary madam speaker. I have been directed by the house sflat that the house that the senate has passed a bill in which the concurrence of the house is requested. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 17, 2012, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whi
25th phone call between President Trump and ukrainian president zelensky. A growing number of republican senators are considering acknowledging there was a quid pro quo on that phone call. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a new interview saying there is no deadline to finish the investigation, telling bloomberg any case made to impeach the president , quote, has to be ironclad. Now we are just going to continue to do a few more depositions and then move quickly to the public stage, but its about building the strongest case we can more the public and for the senate. Do you city point think there is enough evidence to bring forth articles of impeachment against donald trump . Yes, i do. Never before seen documents from special counsel Robert Muellers investigation of the russian interference into the 2016 election have been released today. We got a new poll as we do most days of the week, it shows 49 of americans now support impeaching and removing the president. This is not about democrat
Heres all you need to know about the current state of play in politics. Zero republicans in the house voted to investigate evidence of abuse of power thats just piling up. Despite all their cries for a vote to open up the process, they voted against any process at all. Heres the problem in this. The gop is ignoring an obvious wrong. Its bad for them. But if the case cant be made that this is a consensus situation and not just a partisan exercise thats about who has more numbers and where, hamilton warned us democrats may be very wary about paying for their own principles come election time. With this weighing on their head, lets bring in chairman of the House Intelligence Committee adam schiff. Mr. Chairman, thank you so much for joining us on prime time on an important night. My pleasure. And happy halloween. You, too. Everything is kind of spooky these days. The resolution today passed. Why do you believe it makes this process fair for the minority . Well, we followed the process tha