Look at you. How cute is that . How cute is that . Always a happy day for us when we can Welcome New Members. Put your left hand on the bible and your right hand up. Contrary to what you might think. You want to stand on the side . Speaker pelosi [inaudible] he is so receptive to them. Thank you. Speaker pelosi the baltimore naval academy. The baltimore naval academy. Ladies and gentlemen, this is my beautiful wife rebecca, my oldest boy is 13, finishing his last week of school. And our youngest, who is three years old and had a little mishap on his way over here. Thank you all for coming, and i appreciate this. That of speaker, thank you. Speaker pelosi congratulations. Madam speaker, thank you. Speaker pelosi congratulations. This is my wife, chris. We have one son and we love girls. Right hand up. Speaker pelosi its an honor always to Welcome New Members of congress. Would you like to introduce your family . Rep. Tiffany thank you for taking the time today. Speaker pelosi my honor.
Norman withan ralph the latest on the House Democrats impeachment inquiry. At 8 30 am, more on the inquiry with Virgin Islands delegate stacy plaskett. Host good morning on this friday, october 18, the end of the legislative week in washington. We will begin with your top stories from the top five days. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, your line, 2027488002. Text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can also go to twitter at cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your thoughts in. Minute the newspapers dominated with headlines about the following fromes, u. S. Withdraw syria and we are learning from press reports in europe that sporadic clashes are ongoing in a battleground despite turkeys announcement. The Vice President in turkey yesterday announcing what they called a ceasefire. We are learning it sounds like possibly. As began, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney in a briefing yesterday wasts ukraine aid mishandled withhel
President of the National Press club. Pleased to have you all here. Nice capacity in the lounge. Please dont forget to put your phones on silent or vibrate so they dont disturb the proceedings. You can follow the proceedings today on twitter, on mpclive. Also, if you have a question, i will call i will call upon you but you must rise. You must identify yourself. And i will call upon you in addition to the questions i have already, some of which of course have been developing in just the past few hours given the events of earlier today. You noticed that leader pelosi is here leader schumer is on his way here and he will join us very shortly, as quickly as the streets can clear for him. But we want to get things started a little bit before excuse me before we get going. A couple other decor rum items. I understand mostly most of us are journalists, but we understand that some of the people here are indeed members of the club, guests of our speakers. We do have a bit of decorum. No applau
Bennett is known as being quiet i mean, softspoken. Hes a quietly confident person who does not need to yell to make his point. And to see him out there with no notes, to see him out there with no staff, to see him speaking from the heart like that in a way that absolutely blew up, all the more powerful because of his because of his personality. Because of his quietness. And thats what makes it the hollywood moment. It is the mr. Smith moment. Because he is, as you put it, mildmannered. When you were talking about it. And softspoken. It wasnt a person anybody expected this from. Let me give you one more technical detail about this that was fascinating for me and that is that when a senator rises to speak there is a microphone that is attached to their desk and they pull it right out. It looks leek a pen. It looks like a black pen like this and they pull it right out and they drop it they actually tend to just drop it right in the pocket of the suit coat. Right . Thats what ted cruzs mi
I always have regrets for every show. My great regret for this show is i didnt play more of it, so im glad youre going to spread out into it. Also the fact that Michael Bennett is known as being quiet i mean, softspoken. Hes a quietly confident person who does not need to yell to make his point. And to see him out there with no notes, to see him out there with no staff, to see him speaking from the heart like that in a way that absolutely blew up, all the more powerful because of his because of his personality. Because of his quietness. And thats what makes it the hollywood moment. It is the mr. Smith moment. Because he is, as you put it, mildmanner mildmannered. When you were talking about it. And softspoken. It wasnt a person anybody expected this from. Let me give you one more technical detail about this that was fascinating for me and that is that when a senator rises to speak there is a microphone that is attached to their desk and they pull it right out. It looks leek a pen. It l