schumer. good afternoon everyone. some of you are probably wondering what is left to be said after listening for all of this for the last two or three weeks. as you know i am rather parsimonious, i thought it was best to wait until this is behind us before having a more open discussion with all of you about what we have just witnessed. let me start by saying, i don t think any of you doubt that this was the most partisan exercise. we all fully remembered and it s been said numerous times, roughly a year ago you should not go forward with an impeachment. as it was not bipartisan. i watched it very carefully over the years, our leadership position was overlapped and even before that we were working together on appropriation bill act in the early days. i m pretty sure she did not want to do this. but the fact that she was pulled into the distraction what appeared to be a political instinct a year ago underscores that this was a purely political exercise. now, having been dragg
Today. If you are a recent College Graduate, there is a special line for you. Can catch up with us on all of your favorite social media. Happy memorial day weekend. I want to start off talking about commencement addresses. They are leading some of these papers in the last several days. Page of thefront Washington Post metro section on graduation at the naval academy. Defense secretary chuck hagel was the speaker. Sexual offense in the military. Storyw york times had a about Janet Yellens speech at nyu. There is a picture of the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve there. Abramson connection that was getting so much attention earlier this week. The Washington Post about her commencement address at Wake Forest University. We are asking you to call in. Message be tor the graduates of 2014 . Who would be your Commencement Speaker if you could pick . Some powerful quotes from governor Martin Omalley who spoke at the university of maryland. He had a jab at Climate Change deniers. Of the quote t
Cottage. Paul marcs life at the white house with more. This video really just came out last hour or so. It was released to fox news and other media organizations across the country. As you mention, it came from the attorney of lava parnas who is a former associate of rudy giuliani. This video appears to be taken in 2018 and it made have been recorded on a cell phone. It bounces around disc because it was being taken discreetly. It appears to be showing President Trump saying get rid of her. And saying she may not be supporting the president. The video is about an hour long and you can see it is just raw footage here. We asked the white house about this on friday because the report was about the existence of this tape in the comments about yovanovitch. The presser told on friday that every president in our history has the right to place people who support his agenda and policies within the administration. We reached up to the white house to see if they have any additional comments but w
Nothing to compare what we are doing. I think, i hope the Republican Senate if we went and got the single greatest Health Care Plan in the history of the world, we would not get one democrat vote because they are obstructionist. If we had even a little democrat support, just a little bit, like a couple of oath, you maybe. And you could give us a lot of the votes, and we would even be willing to change it and move it around and make it even better. But even better. Shannon we are life on capitol hill. Good morning, peter, what can you tell us . Shannon, as of now, it looks like the bill is going to be more moderate than the house version. The senate bill that nobody has seen yet that was written by a very small group, apparently took more medicaid money as part of the Affordable Care act, and it would aim to give a lower income americans more money for their health care, but beyond that, we are told the details can keep changing for the next half an hour or so, and republican senators a
White house. Anthony scaramucci goes to war against leaking in his first week on the job. Kellyanne conway is here with reaction. But mike emanuel is live at the white house on the battle over obamacare. Mike, arent they usually on vacation by now . Pretty close. Good evening you, sean. Finding 50 votes to Pass Health Care reform nomadic reform is proving to be a challenge. We do have some breaking news. Mitch mcconnell has just posted the details of the Republican Health care plan thats a skinny repeal plan, getting rid of the unpopular parts of the obamacare, four g. O. P. Senators came out late saying that there would be a no on the socalled skinny repeal plan. John mccain, lindsey graham, ron johnson and bill cassidy wanted assurance from paul ryan that it would go to conference to hammer out a more comprehensive plan. Weve got to improve on this. A Conference Committee would enable us to do that. We will see with the house comes back with. For senators, thats kind of a big deal. T