Today, president obama will be giving a speech on the criminal Justice System taking place in newark, new jersey. We will have live coverage of his remarks at 4 20 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. The House Veterans Affairs committee will be hearing from speeched Witnesses Today on alleged misuse of the Veterans Affairs Department Program to relocate workers. Live coverage on cspan2. All persons having business before the honorable the Supreme Court of the United States will be admonished to draw near and give their attention. This week on cspans landmark cases, we will discuss the historic case of schenck versus the United States. In 1917, the United States entered world war i, patriotism was high and some forms of criticism of the government were a federal offense. Charles schenck who was general secretary of the philadelphia socialist party handed out and mailed leaflets against the draft. This is the flier that was produced by Charles Schenck in 1917. 15,000 copies of this were produced an
Heard from james comey happened when President Trump was still his boss. I have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi as part of our Counter Intelligence mission is investigating the russian governments interference in the 2016 election and that includes links of any individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and the russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. With respect to the president s tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, i have no information that supports those tweets. Comeys Upcoming Senate intel testimony will be his first time speaking in public since he was fired by President Trump and its the First Time Since he has reported the President Trump called him a nut job. Today the white house was asked about reports that comey will testify that the president asked him to back off the Flynn Investigation. Did the president engage in obstruction of
And as americans, we all have uh duty to confront injustice even when it i am nats from the white house. As of now, no comment from the white house. Dwrojoining me, nbc correspondent pete williams. Pete, any word at the Justice Department . No, they say theyll have a statement sometime later, greta. This is surprising given the president hasnt done anything here yet on sanctuary cities, and for that reason there was a question about whether this lawsuit is too soon or whether the cities had to wait until something actually happened. But the cities argued the city of San Francisco and nearby Santa Clara County argued they were already being harmed merely by the threat that they would lose money because they have budget uncinty and the judge said thats good enough for me. So, this goes back to the president s january 25th executive order, one of the ones on immigration, it directed the department of Homeland Security to in essence draw up a list of sanctuary cities and then directed the
Election season. What have we seen so far . Weve seen a special election in kansas for a house seat. It was a district that donald trump won by 27 points. What was the margin in the special election . Republicans won but it came down to 7 points. That was 20 points in the democrats direction. Think about that. The democrats in kansas, they made up 20 points in the special election. Again, we dont know what the final number is going to be here, but donald trump won montana by 21 points. Lets say it landed at 6 points which is where it is right now in montana. That would be a gain for the democrats of 15 points off the donald trump margin. We also have, dont forget coming up in georgia in the suburbs of atlanta, you have a district down there that donald trump won by just one point. You have a runoff there coming in a few weeks. Democrats, theyll be sorely disappointed if they dont win that one. They want to be able to see in all these special elections at a very minimum, they want to se
Elections. Republicans and democrats greeting their newest members. We saw rick scott of florida next to Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. Jumping the gun perhaps just a bit, basically business as usual after a midterm, not so at the white house. Much like two years ago, they are having a tough time in this transition. Just in the last 24 hours weve seen the following. Multiple stories of in fighting and a potential shakeup. A first lady call for theous or of a top official. And. One senior white house official, quote, this is a week where things could get really dicey. To break it all down, nbcs chief White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson stuck around and na Yamiche Alcindor. Youve got this story about john kelly, how long does general kelly have and what about the others . Let me start with that first question. I dont know and i dont think anybody really does, and if anybody tells you they know theyre probably wrong. The only person that knows is donald trump, and i dont mea