Potentially get a few moderate democrats on board. Ryan under fire, conservative media turns on the house speaker. Why did the president ask people to watch a fox anchor say this . Paul ryan needs to step down as speaker of the house. We begin today with the white house being caught up in new questions in the growing controversy over russia and this time its the president s own soninlaw facing a senate grilling. I got a great team. Lets start right now with Peter Alexander who is live at the white house and this is all just coming out now. Now we knew Jared Kushner had had a meeting with the ambassador and what do we know about what the members of the Committee Want to talk to him about . Reporter we know that this is the Senate Intelligence committee that will interviewing Jared Kushner here in the white house aids close to the president telling me that kushner agreed to do this, he volunteered, in fact, to participate in this interview. What youre focusing on is some of the contacts
0 benghazi hearings. petraeus is supposed to have testified at those hearings on thursday. critics are questioning, why are we hearing about all of this later rather than sooner? what the fbi and the justice department say is that in the middle of this investigation and you have to remember, this starts out with an allegation that had nothing to do with david petraeus, it was thought. this was a woman in tampa, a volunteer at the joint command down there, who goes to an fbi agent who s a friend of hers and says, i m getting these weird e-mails that are threatening and intimidating. it looked to her initially like they were coming from more than one person because they were sent from more than one e-mail account. so the fbi opens an investigation into a potential cyber crime, a potential sort of cyber stalking case. that s how it all got started in late september. now, during that month and a half or so that the fbi is investigating this, it has to discover who the e-mails are comin
as you know over the weekend, santorum and gingrich opened up on romney and decided to make it a big issue in the closing days before the new hampshire primary. they will hit him hard on that and the sound that you just played will come into play in the news cycle today. it s a gaffe, a real gaffe and it expoeses him on an issue heading into south carolina and certainly the people in chicago that collect video the way that they do are laughing and smiling over having that piece of sound to use in the fall. i thought i heard someone say you could hear david axelrod s tail wagging. it was picked up on not two hours after it was aired. jon huntsman came out with this. i will always put my country first, it seems that governor romney believes in putting politics first. governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. that is pretty loud sound, but needless to say, jon huntsman already using it as an arrow. guys, on the panel, i want to ask, we talk about mitt ro
look, i think it right. and in the hours to come. as you know over the weekend, santorum and gingrich opened up on romney and decided to make it a big issue in the closing days before the new hampshire primary. they will hit him hard on that and the sound that you just played will come into play in the news cycle today. it s a gaffe, a real gaffe and it expoeses him on an issue heading into south carolina and certainly the people in chicago that collect video the way that they do are laughing and smiling over having that piece of sound to use in the fall. i thought i heard someone say you could hear david axelrod s tail wagging. it was picked up on not two hours after it was aired. jon huntsman came out with this. i will always put my country first, it seems that governor romney believes in putting politics first. governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. that is pretty loud sound, but needless to say, jon huntsman already using it as an arrow. guys
with a senior fellow at the center for american progress. washington journal is next. host: welcome. monday, july 27, 2009. we will start by asking you about health care legislation, the role of the blue dogs in the negotiations, particularly in the house energy and commerce committee. what should the blue dogs do? the question for you this next half-hour or so. as always, you can reach us at e-mail, it is journal c- span.org or twitter, c-spanwj. we will give you a chance to buy land. the issue of health care is dominating, of course, the newspapers here in washington. here is the front page of roll call. hopes fading for health bill. the politico this morning, new deadlines, new problems is there headline. and the arizona republic, they have pelosi health care bill will pass. speaker thous to overcome remaining obstacles. much the same story in the washington post reporting on some of the comments of speaker pelosi yesterday. pelosi vows passage of health- care overh