tonight with this really weird moment that happened last week at a house hearing. transportation secretary pete buttigieg was testifying before a house committee and as you woulde expect, for several hou, theyfo discussed infrastructure roads, railway, electric vehicles, energy prices, all of the usual stuff until one republican congressman on the committee suddenly took the transportation hearing off the rails. and that joke was for you, transport nerd, you re welcome. have a watch. now have president biden in office for 18 months and just recentlyfi we see the mainstrea media questioning president biden s mental state and for good reason. sadly he shakes hands with ghosts and imaginary people and falls offeo bicycles and even a the white house easter celebration, easter bunny had to guide him back intonn his safe place. end of speech, where he actually states, that is, if he sta stays awake. so my question for you, is, sir, have you spoken with any other cabinet member ab
world, it is wednesday, august 3rd and i m brianna keilar with john avalon this morning. good morning? in for john berman. good morning to you. and it is the morning after election night in america where democracy was one of the things on the ballot. primary races in five states setting the stage for what will be some of the most competitive races in november. also another test of donald trump s grip on the gop. in conservative kansas voters sent a dramatic message and a resounding defeat for efforts to eliminate state abortion protections. it s the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade that voters have weighed in on the issue. with 78% of the vote in as of tuesday night nearly 700,000 people have cast ballots in the primary and that number dwarfs the voter turnout in the 2020 presidential primary election. and remember when ex-president trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race on election eve? well, one of the erics won, cnn projec
Court justice. Joe biden once again would not answer, when asked if judge barrett is confirmed, what he back a move to add more members to the Supreme Court . A move that could change over 150 years of Court Composition and one that might help turn out the progressive wing of his party. Listen to joe bidens nonanswer here. Whatever position i taken that that will become the issue. The issue was the American People should speak. You should go out and vote. You are voting now, vote and let your senators know how strong you feel. Vote now. Take sure you in fact let people know. Your senators. Im not going to answer the question because the question is the question is the question will you shut up, man . Martha so essentially saying vote first and then i will tell you what my stance is on this. I think its fair to say that if President Trump had opened the door to expanding the court to ensure a conservative majority there would likely have been outcry from democrats on that. So we are goi
To achief the 60 votes needed to advance the bill. This is just over an hour. All, i want to start by thinking the folks who are here that served, the folks here representing the people who served, the families of folks that i hear of the people who served. On june 16, we passed the pact act in the United States senate, not by a small margin. We passed it with 84 positive votes. The Appropriations Committee should be able to address those issues. He wants to stop that from happening. While we have and im going to say republicans because they are the ones that flipped republicans say i dont have a problem with the cost, but im going to vote no because of some of the reason whatsoever that is political malpractice and we need to hold people accountable. Im going to tell you something. I have been in this business 25 years and i have never seen anything that has happened like happened yesterday and what compounds it and makes it that much more difficult is we in essence yesterday took ben
The folks here representing the people who served, the families of folks that i hear of the people who served. On june 16, we passed the pact act in the United States senate, not by a small margin. We passed it with 84 positive votes. The Appropriations Committee should be able to address those issues. He wants to stop that from happening. While we have and im going to say republicans because they are the ones that flipped republicans say i dont have a problem with the cost, but im going to vote no because of some of the reason whatsoever that is political malpractice and we need to hold people accountable. Im going to tell you something. I have been in this business 25 years and i have never seen anything that has happened like happened yesterday and what compounds it and makes it that much more difficult is we in essence yesterday took benefits away from people who have been impacted by war that we sent off to war and we turn our backs and say, no, we are going to find an excuse to v