As always, well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Good morning, its monday, october seventh, 2019. The house and senate are on recess but if peter and inquiry continues this week with hearings in the house intelligence and Foreign Affairs committee. President trump is set to hold to bring Major Campaign rallies this week in minnesota and louisiana. And this morning we will begin by asking for your thoughts about what it means for the country to go through the president ial impeachment. What lessons should be learned from the efforts to impeach residents in and clinton. Phone lines set up differently this morning. If you lived through the nixon impeachment, you can call in at 202 7488000. If you lived through the clinton impeachment, 202 7488001. All others can call in at 202 7488002. You can send us a text message this morning. If you do so, please include your name and where you are from. Thats 202 7488002 th
The federal judiciary. Probably the longest legacy that donald trump will have will be his Lasting Imprint that he left in terms of the judges he has nominated. He has confirmed 150 federal judges, including two Supreme Court justices quite famously. It is not just the number of the judges at the historic nature of how ideology clean extreme how ideologically extreme they seem. Point is we can win at the ballot box at 2020 and defeat donald trump and win back the senate and yet all of the priorities may well be facing certain power because we have a judiciary that is hostile to the progressive ideas because trump will have any so many trump style judges that will be with us. Host how you activate the grassroots and how are you funded . Lobby andtry to oppose some of trumps most extreme judicial nominees. We were highly involved in the cavanaugh fight last year. We are active right now in trying to defeat some of his more extreme lower Court Judicial appointees like stephen manatt she w
With the best overall entry. Deadline is january 18. Contest details on our website studentcamp. Org. Next, fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Francis Collins testify on medical innovations. They appeared before the Senate Health innovation and Pensions Committee on issues including the Opioid Epidemic, rare disease funding and research into treating addicts nonmedically. This is an hour and 50 minutes. Good morning, the Senate Committee on health and education will come to attention and order. Another bipartisan hearing which is what most of our hearings are which is what bernie and i created on the witnesses. I would say every member of this committee would probably agree on the subject in witnesses today. This is a hearing entitled implementation of the 21st century cures. Progress and the path forward for medical innovation, we will hear from Francis Collins, and doctor Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of food and drugs. We all have as i mentioned a hearing next wednesday on another i
Very good. Under foggy conditions. Its cold. If you are stuck in that, we did a live shot on the nine with Chris Griffin who is the track announceer at the fair. It was freezing. We were on the third floor. It was cold. June 30th is the last day of what was an incredible rain year. Thats the rain year. Goes from july 1st to june 30th. We start a new one tomorrow. The water year is from october 1st to september 30th. The weather folks we go at the rain year. Thats the way i started it and im not changing now. Its the rain year. Low clouds san jose. 59 degrees. Give way to sunshine and mostly sunny here. I didnt warm them up that much. San jose is running below average. East san jose is lower. Goes gown in the books. 77, 59, average is 81, 57. The record 100. Not that long ago. The record low 42 and 1896. Fog up and down the coast and making a pretty good push here along about local drizzle. Theres an on shore breeze. 50s for everybody and a few 40s. Even brentwood 58, 49, thats cold. 49
Will see the live Storm Tracker radar particularly for new southwest New Hampshire but theres still some light rain shower activity. That extends back here into the berkshires of massachusetts then into new york. These are the heavy storms i showed you during our early newscast that were headed toward new england. Theyre really struggling to make it into western new england. Continue to be heavy storms back here including a thunderstorm near new york. Temperatures out there right now are cool though. The dunts reasons all that high theyre normal for this time of overnight will be generally in the 60s back to 71 by 10 00 in the morning with a lot of clouds out there. But you will see in our future cast the storms try to make it into new england. They will weaken as they come eastward but there will be some rain shower activity particularly the first half of the day. Heres the good news the afternoon shows an improvement. When the summertime heat returns again this week. With that chance