Out. A little bit of brinksmanship, or brinkmanship, i should say, as joe corrected me. Less is more there are a couple more brinks, a couple senators youve got to wonder about. Okay, then. What happens with Susan Collins, what happens with lee from utah, who said hes undecided lee who mike lee . Oh, mike lee. Who wanted got two first names its confusing i dont trust people with two first names. Do you yes, generally. You do . Yeah. I think its confusing. Well youve got three, youre fine. Ive got three, three names some people say andrew ross, two first names, even though no, im talking about when your last name is a first name. Chris christie . Theres a lot of them, bill george, ted david. I just made that one up. I dont really think there is a person by that name. All right, lets look at what else has been happening in the markets. The tenyear note, one weve been paying attention to, too. Earlier this week you saw the tenyear pushing above 2. 4 , but now were back below 2. 36 . A cou
And as part of our 50 state Capital Cities tou, we host good morning, its thursday, october 26. At the white house this afternoon, President Trump is scheduled to give a speech on the growing opiod epidemic and the federal response. Well talk about it today on the washington journal. We begin with a story from the 2016 campaign thats back in the news. New reporting this week tied the socalled dossier to President Trumps connections to russia to the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National committee. The president and his allies prove the dossier is a purely partisan document while some of the president s critics view it as standard Opposition Research that raised real red flags. We want to hear what you think this morning on the washington journal. Phones are open in our first halfhour, republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 20 7488000. Independents, 2027488002. Datch up catch up with us on twitter or facebook. And a very good thursday morning to you. The story well be talking
Commemoration and reflection. Our speaker today is gordon kray. Gordon and i go way back to our days when they were on campus. He was from massachusetts and i was from lexington. Both of us had spent our lives in virginia. He studied history at william and mary. We were sticking cigarettes and the mouths of sculptures. Gordon has gone on to be a prominent sculptor. For many of you, if you have been to st. Matthews cathedral, you will see his culture there. You will also see one of his sculptures in washington, d. C. Most prominently in colonial williamsburg. You will find it in front of the red building at the college of william and mary. It looked worse for wear by 1958. It was put on display in front of the library. This was dedicated in the fall of 1993. Introduced by people who have been walking on the street. Now he has taken his talents to sculpting james monroe. In watching gordon work and being aware of the intensity with which he understands the person he is sculpting, it occu
Officially called the state of the union the first time around for a new president. Inside the house chamber, First Lady Melania Trump has just taken her seat, were told, along with ivanka trump and jared kushner. We want to show you this extraordinary picture recorded a little while ago, the president seen on camera practicing his speech or at least thats what he appears to be doing inside the beast, his president ial limo. A lot of buzz over what the president might say including from the president. We learned a potential nod, a compromise on immigration may be afoot. Chuck todd is here with our team. Chuck, this suddenly came up with Network Broadcasters today, maybe ill talk about the immigration bill. He talked about what he might do about socalled dreamers, kids brought here by their parents, not on their own. It felt almost offthecuff at one point. He said maybe the time is right, maybe theres a point where you could do a big immigration bill, as he called it. He used the word c
Before we see him play. Have him get reevaluated. How big of a blow is this . Gentlemen, its on your mind. I was talking to mike beforehand. Mike, they did it this. They won a championship with the guys most of the guys on the squad. But then they kind of came up short the next year. Right. Were those guys. They added kd. The other big man in the middle. Yeah. It hurts but you know what, maybe this fires up the team. Maybe the other players say, all right, its time for us to step up like we stepped up a couple years ago. Right. When we made it to the nba finals last year. Im going to ask jason, were going to have him on later. Look, does the coach sit down with Draymond Green and say no more technicals. We need you. No more technicals. This is it. We need to have you. Six weeks left in the regular season. We will talk to jason in a moment. We start with the news of the day. President trump after his address to congress return today twitter this morning after taking a day off yesterday.