want to break it down, it will determine the state of our economy in weeks and months and years ahead. first we need to look at the constitution. let s take a look. who is responsible for spending and borrowing? raising taxes, is it the president? obviously not, article i section 8: the first part of that. it is not a suggestion. it is not ambiguous this say choir power that legislature has, when you look at history, back to britain and the parliament with the king. this was something that the framers of your constitution looked at, they wanted this power not to be with the king or this presidency they created or executive branch. they are supposed to execute the laws passed by congress, they gave this power to congress, to the people who are directly electioned in congress. senator of the time chosen by state legislators and house chosen by the people, you, we the people have some say so over the finances of our country. do you feel that way today? this is explicit. we don
want to break it down, it will determine the state of our economy in weeks and months and years ahead. first we need to look at the constitution. let s take a look. who is responsible for spending and borrowing? raising taxes, is it the president? obviously not, article i section 8: the first part of that. it is not a suggestion. it is not a ambiguous this say choir power that legislature has, when you look at history, back to britain and the parliament with the king. this was something that the framers of your constitution looked at, they wanted this power not to be with the king or this presidency they created or executive branch. they are supposed to execute the laws passed by congress, they gave this power to congress, to the people who are directly electioned in congress. senator of the time chosen by state legislators and house chosen by the people, you, we the people have some say so over the finances of our country. do you feel that way today? this is explicit. we d
Morning, gary. Not as gloomy. Were not talking about well i just will say this. Theres a little bit of sunshine from time to time today and a lot of clouds too. Any sun would be great because clouds is overcast. More surprise Christmas Day. Thats my Christmas Gifts to you. Listen i wont make a big deal out of this. Its possible. I mentioned this yesterday we could have a few evening snowflakes around. Ill be more specific coming up in a few minutes if you stay with us and ill give you the full forecast. It does not look like accumulation. All that looks like it take place back to the west of us for Higher Elevations back to western virginia and West Virginia and western maryland too. They could pick up 2 to 4 of snow today and this evening. It could be a White Christmas out there. Not for us though. Look, we have rain streaming up to the south along a fr frontal bound write down th there. And it looks like later on this afternoon and this evening some of this comes and into rain if it
And the men and andly served fbi. White house is backing his reason for firing comey. The president when giving recommendations made a decision to accept their conclusions and to remove director comey and begin restoration of confidence. Bill gave incriticized comey for recent investigations related to the 2016 president ial election. Its something that had to happen. Jim comey is a bright guy. Hes ethical guy. But the bottom line is when he made a prosecuteive opinion in an investigative matter he made a mistake. While democrats blamed comey for Democrat Hillary Clinton losing election, after holding a press conversation on the fbi investigation into her emails before the election theyre questioning his fi firing. I told the president m mr. President with all due respect your mistake. The first question the administration has to answer is why now. There are now worries about the fate of the investigation into russia influencing the election. Termination and removal of james comey race
Im not the expert sally son. Tucker barnes, erin como, theyre our sdmerts morning. Erin whats going on. Hey, well, ill tell you what, tucker will have a look at forecast in a second and as you make your way out good news 270 earlier crash involving tractortrailer cleared by falls road and heavy residual delays linger past father hurlry boulevard and look at metro blue line delays to Largo Town Center earlier malfunction to king street. Impacting green line and yellow rush plus. Full look at traffic and forecast coming up in the next few minutes. Back to you guys. 7 00 starting top story. Shockwaves reverberating after james comey is fired. It took comey and everyone else by surprise. Live from capital hill now. Good morning. This was a shock here at fbi headquarters. No doubt. The agency itself is now being run by comeys deputy. As far as comey himself he certainly angered both democrats and republicans at times during his tenure here at the fbi. Timing here was such a surprise. What a