[inaudible conversations] good morning. Im michelle easton, president of the Clare Boothe Luce policy institute, and i want to welcome you all to this special lunch featuring Wayne Thorburn and his great new book called red state an insiders story of how the gop came to dominate texas. Now, you may be wondering why is the president of the Clare Boothe Luce policy institute introducing a guest . Well, it was almost 42 years ago when i came to washington, d. C. From new york after graduating from college. My first job was at Young Americans for freedom, and my first boss there was Wayne Thorburn. [laughter] and ron robinson who asked me to do this introduction, ron and i have been friends with wayne and his good wife judith for decades. And wayne, by the way, was a very good first boss. Wayne joined Young Americans for freedom as a College Student in 1961 and eventually rose to become executive director when i worked for him. After running Young Americans for freedom for a number of year
If you live in baltimore, we want to hear from you. Where are changes needed Going Forward after the protests in baltimore. You can join the conversation on twitter or facebook, or you can also spent send us an email. I want to show you the front page of the Baltimore Sun this morning. The article on the front page says masses of mostly peaceful demonstrators marched on city hall. Officials on wednesday began their own offensive to prevent violence from flaming again on friday. That is the latest from the Baltimore Sun. Discussion continues in the paper today about what to do next, how to avoid this type of situation from happening again. What changes are needed . That is our question for all of you. The candidates for 2016 are weighing in. Here is what Hillary Clinton had to a yesterday. [video clip] Hillary Clinton there are Police Departments demonstrating strategies, and we need to learn from those examples on build and build on what works. We can start by making sure funds for sta
To the fbi about the money. Nbc justice correspondent Pete Williams has the latest. Reporter the charges are a bolt from the blue involving hastert, a public official for more than 25 years and House Speaker from 1999 to 2007, the longest serving republican in that post. The rule and it stands as approved. Reporter since 2008 hes been a lobbyist in washington, but prosecutors say for the past four years he has paid 1. 7 million in apparent hush money. Court papers say the payments went to someone identified only as individual a from yorkville, illinois. The papers say he agreed to pay that person 3. 5 million, quote, to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against individual a that occurred years earlier. The documents do not say what the prior misconduct was or whether individual a is a man or a woman. Prosecutors say he started making withdrawals of 50,000 at a time then cut them to 10,000 when questioned by the bank. Prosecutors say when asked about whether he was trying
Republicans initial offer, having mitt romney be president. [ laughter ] there is that. Good morning, everyone. Its tuesday, october 8th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, we have the former Communications Director for george w. Bush, Nicole Wallace. Karl bernstein. And in washington, White House Correspondent for bloomberg news, julianna goldman. And Pulitzer Prize winning columni columnist, Eugene Robinson, along with willie, joe, and me. So were going to show these polls. Wow. Well start there. Youre surprised by those. Ive got to say, its the blame is more evenly spread out than it usually is in these matters. Really interesting. Im very interested to see what everybodys take. Americans are increasingly unhappy with the handling of the Government Shutdown by all sides, as joe alluded to. According to a Washington Post abc news poll, 70 disapprove of how republicans have handled budget negotiations. 61 disapprove of the democrats. And 51 are unhappy with president obamas role.
Out here, missouri and Northern Arkansas where they are getting not only freezing rain, but an icing event, too, and that is going to be pushing into our area again late tonight, and here we are at 10 00 p. M. And watch what happens as we move into the tomorrow morning as well as throughout the overnight period, and freezing rain developing and some of us way down to the south will stay all rain and when i return, i want to show you which roads are impacted the greatest from the storm system, and ice disruptions for morning rush tomorrow, and i will be back in a couple of minutes. All right. V. J. The threat of ice brings threat of Power Outages and they have workers standing by to see if if branches and power lines do come down, and the roads are Team Coverage is adam tuss where he is in leesburg where the crews are gearing up. Well, storms coming in means that ddot and vdot and the other area areas are going to be using this brine here to use against the storm. And another thing they