both from a democracy voting and then from the where we have the electoral college. so got a little confused with constitutional structure. i did not know that dentist are particularly good at reading body language. exactly. what you see i think here is partly you are seeing people that don t, a huge part of the republican caucus of folks who normally aren t in the news. but this is who the rank and filing republican party is. which is disturbing. people are acting like this is the moment of the party. every single day the republicans went on tv during those benghazi investigations and that is all
country. i want to play an exchange that was interesting. i learned something i didn t know from this exchange. by the way, i am a dentist. i read body language very well. and the last comment, this morning, you are a smart individual. we are not a democracy. we are a constitutional republic. that is why we have two ways both from a democracy voting and then from the where we have the electoral college. so got a little confused with constitutional structure. i did not know that dentist are particularly good at reading body language. exactly. what you see i think here is partly you are seeing people that don t, a huge part of the republican caucus of folks who normally aren t in the news.
not hit 100, but we re talking about highs in the upper 90s. not only here, down south, tennessee valley, midwest, another sweltering day today for some, fourth day in a row cracking the century mark. in atlanta yesterday, all-time high at 106. aren t you glad you are in an air conditioned studio? yes, i am and that root ball, an amazing effect. look at that? 6 8 , that thing is about twice your height. just a couple inches taller than willie geist. thank you very much. and this summer s hot and dry weather is prompting officials to snuff out a 4th of july tradition. fireworks. localç governments from utah t indiana are calling off this year s displays. officials fear a fiery rocket or sparks could ignite dry lands and spark wildfires. drought expecting nearly 3/4 of the country. tax or penalty?x÷ &h(lc% how the health care ruling has ratcheted up the rhetoric in washington.
look at the size of the root ball. i haveç covered a lot of storm. this is about a 12-foot root ball. more importantly, it took down the power lines, transformers, normally aren t that color. a light gray, so there was some kind of fire activity around the transformers, and follow the power lines down the street and another power pole that came down, not so much from the wind, but because it was dragged down as the weight of this big tree put its force on these power lines and it s down there. some of the homes still without power. and a big problem with the cleanup is pepco has told the fire company, fire department, don t mess with these trees if they are on power lines. that is slowing things down a bit. pepco hopes to get restoration times and days available at some point. the main power company in d.c. and the maryland suburbs, heat just goes on and on. today s high up around 100. heat index already 102 in washington. the next several days, we may
with people and their families, a lot of kids in the hallways, normally aren t and they re focussed on this. it looks like this flap has been contained for them to less than 24 hours but a damaging number of hours nonetheless. of course we always know there are other ways to get around it and one is to not fund that office. they have control over the purse strings. reporter: right. remains to be seen. you ll be following up to make sure that office can still operate independently because if it is just to refer things to the standing ethics committee, that s kind of a dark hole. that s a place that ethics recommendations never come out of, not in recent years. reporter: right, and that s, that was the reason for putting this office into place to begin with, this came out of all of those congressional scandals, jack abramoff and the lobbying scandal, bob nay and others. the congressional committee never lets any of this see the light of day so this office was created to combat th