Later, travel writer and tv host rick steves talks about his role as an Advisory Board member of the National Organization for the reform of marijuana laws. Host good morning. It is tuesday, june 11, 2019. Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee sought again to shine the spotlight on the Mueller Report. Onay they will vote whether to seek action against attorney general william barr. Throughout the day on cspan, will be covering it all. As you do, we want to hear your thoughts and your reaction. Here is how. For republicans, give us a call 8001, for ther democrats, 2027488000 and for 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media. It is facebook. Com cspan. A lot of moving parts here is where we are right now. Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee, former white house nixon counsel john dean testified. Here is one of the headlines about the hearing. The house hearing detours into watergate is what the notes. Gton post yesterday, the Justice Department and the Judiciary Co
And im just working as we are doing all across the United States to take apart the prohibition against marijuana, one state at a time. And in 2012, i was a co sponsor and lead spokesperson for the law that legalized taxregulated Recreational Use of marijuana in Washington State. And along with colorado, we were the first states to actually legalize marijuana for Recreational Use. And because of that, ive got a personal insight into how it works. So every two years, i go on the road and talk up the wisdom of taking the crime out of the equation. And dealing with marijuana as a health and education challenge, and civil liberty. Youre on the road here in d. C. Today. What are you doing in d. C. Who are you meeting with . Ive got a busy schedule meeting with legislators who are interested and should be more interested in moving out of the state by state legalization realm and into the federal realm. You know, i think 47 states now in our country have some kind of Legal Marijuana. And the f
Spplus, a major freeway in the east bay is shut down this morning. Well have details on why and how long that closure is expected to last from ktvu. Fox twounews this is mornings on two. And good morning to you. Welcome to mornings on two. On this saturday march 16th im Claudine Wong and im Christien Kafton. Great to be here this morning having you here i always love working with you guys. This is always a fun time. And you brought good weather with you yesterday was unbelievable. Unbelievable. Rosemary i went to go pick up my son yesterday at baseball and it was like summer weather. We were all saying, we need to have coolers out chairs. I mean, it catches you off guard just a little bit in San Francisco. Nice. Its going to be gorgeous for the Saint Patricks day parade today. We do have the nice weather continuing. Not quite as warm,ubut we lost the wind, which is a good thing. Heres a look over San Francisco as well. Take a look at that beautiful golden sky. We have a just about 12 h
predawn attack. the target, an apartment building hundreds of miles from the front lines. and abortion rights advocates score victories in the unlikeliest of places, attempts to impose new bans fall short in a pair of red states. are they one-offs or warning signs for the republican party? we start with federal prosecutors poring over hours of new testimony from vice president mike pence. one of the few people with firsthand knowledge about former president trump s efforts to block certification of the 2020 election. pence s testimony came less than a day after a judge rejected trump s last ditch effort to block it. i want to bring in nbc s ryan reilly who s been covering all of the developments for us. also nbc s vaughn hillyard with the former president and his supporters in manchester, new hampshire, brendan buck who served as an aide to republican house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and an msnbc political analyst, and carol lamb is a federal former rather for
for too long marijuana possession has been used as a weapon against underserved community. whenever you look at the challenge that we face with crime in our society, it is the wrong signal, 30 days before the election. the pardons are about marijuana. expunging criminal records for people out of jail. no one is left serving time in federal prison solely for marijuana possession right now. but this is also about much more than marijuana. as some critics did seed on old tropes that stigmatize, sean hannitiy attacking as a hail mary jane. and you just heard that from a republican governor, mr. hutchinson, linking personal marijuana use to what he sees as general crime in society. that is actually the whole point, though. marijuana is no longer a crime at all in much of our society across 19 states here. some liberal. some less so. and the scare tactics about pot as a dangerous drug on par with heroin or crack have truly lost their punch in today s society. you know we re div