House correspondent, Weekend Today cohost Peter Alexander, Garrett Haake on capitol hill, brendan buck, former Senior Adviser to house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and former Maryland Democratic congresswoman Debra Everets and former senator claire mccaskill. Peter first to you. Lets start with the covid Relief Package. The white house releasing a statement after that monday meaning with republicans saying the president is open to reconciliation, but the republicans are in the conversation. So where do we stand . Are democrats on the Progressive Side getting nervous hell compromise too much, or are all saying hell go big even if it means going it alone . Reporter when everybody was said and done last night, it was clear President Biden, this white house wasnt really giving much ground here. They say that the meeting was substantive and productive but at the end of the day he said they had to meet this moment. The decision is whether to go big and go it alone or scale back this
321 democrats, 191 republicans, one independent, with four vacancies. We take you live to the u. S. House here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. A call of the house is ordered to ascertain the presence of a quorum. Members will record their presence by electronic device. The speaker pro tempore on this roll call, 384 members have recorded their presence. A quorum is present. The chair has examined the journal of the proceed offings january 3, 2020, and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, the journal stands approved. Members, please carry your conversations off the floor. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Payne. Mr. Payne i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition . Mr. Hoy
Page. The president and his allies spying onat lead to his campaign, democrats have dismissed that claim and they claim President Trump has been politicizing the Justice Department and President Trump has hyped this report for over a year saying this was going to be historic and expose a lot of wrongdoing and to some degree, he was right because this report is a black eye for the fbi. Host how so . Guest it found the fisa application to surveilled carter page was riddled with errors, keygs from they left out information, they had information that contradicted other things they put in the report and they left that out, they did not present that to the judges. There were all kinds of errors and they found for one of the renewals, and fbi lawyer had doctored evidence to make sure wiretap mr. Ion to page got renewed. Ort 17 inaccuracies admissions, was their explanation from leadership on why these mistakes were being made . Guest there is no explanation nor is there an explanation from Mi
Were grateful for your service and your input today is going to be invaluable. I will now ill make an Opening Statement and turn it over to the Ranking Member. Also before i begin on my comments here, i would like to take a moment to express my condolences to the families and friends of the sailors killed in pensacola last friday, the three sailers dedicated their lives were taken from us far too soon. We need answers about the shooter and how this happened. Certainly at this point, the president and all of us must require the kingdom to give full and transparent cooperation with the United States investigation so we can understand what happened, identify any problems with the vetting process for our military Education Programs and importantly, bring the killer to justice. Since october 1st, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities throughout iraq, these protests largely driven by youth have called for political reforms, an end to corruption, improved service del
University of baltimore law professor discusses the articles of impeachment introduced by house democrats. Brooks i, congressman mo discusses impeachment and afghanistan. Host this is the washington journal for december 11, the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing with the Justice Departments Inspector General on the report released this week will start at 10 00. You can watch that on cspan 3. Also look at it at cspan. Org. If you want to download the radio app, follow along and listen to the hearing. The house Judiciary Committee which will mark up two articles of impeachment starts at 7 00 this evening. You can see that on cspan 2. You can watch at the. Org and listen on our radio app. We will take your calls on the two articles of impeachment laid against President Trump, one on abuse of power and the other on obstruction of justice. Here is how you can let us know what you think. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. And independents, 2027488002. If you want to text u