Thanks, my dear. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Happy monday. There are only 100 people who serve in the United States senate. Like the how it is, the senate does all its work through committees. Thats where they work on legislation and oversight and investigations. There are a lot of internal politics about who gets on what committee and who gets to be chair of a committee. In some states, certain committees are very important and give you a lot of homestate advantage if youre on those committees. You can understand why a senator from iowa would want to be on the Agricultural Committee or why one from new york would want to be on the banning committee. But some of the committees, no matter where youre from, everybody wants to be on them because they are prestigious in all the right ways for everybody in the senate. And so even though there are only 100 u. S. Senators in total, 26 out of the 100 senators are on the Armed Services committee, more than one in every four
We have so much legally to break down. Right on time. Lets get to the news. The federal bean counters at the Congressional Budget Office are set to tell us how much the gops Healthcare Plan will cost. Exactly how many people it will cover in the democrats already warning that millions of people will be cast off their Healthcare Plan. But republicans are down playing the significance of what the cbo may find. Saying its gotten things wrong before. The cbo was right about obamacare to begin with. There will be eight Million People on obama kai. I love the folks at the cbo. One thing im certain will happen. Cbo will say, not as many people will get covered. This isnt a government mandate. This is no the what the government makes you buy what you think to buy. One of the founders of the conservative House Freedom caucus is still on board with the gop replacement plan. Bottom line if this is the plan that you have to vote on on the house floor, where will you vote . I dont plan voting for t
But it is roughly the population of all of these states combined. 24 Million People is the entire population of vermont, alabama, north dakota, south dakota, delaware, rhode island, nebraska, mexico, kansas and wyoming combined. And then some. Thats the number of americans who uld get thrown off their Health Insurance if this republican thing passes to get rid of obamacare. So that is obviously big and alarming policy news. Its big enough that it is also very big political news. Well have more about the policy side of it and political side of that coming up tonight. That was the news that sort of struck washington like a thunder bolt late this afternoon. Were actually going to start the show tonight on the subject of money. Lots and lots and lots and lots of money. Money obtained by means you would rather not have to explain. If you have illgotten gains, if you have money where you cannot account for its origin, not if you dont want to go to jail and its not a little money that were ta
Matter where youre from, everybody wants to be on them. Because they are prestigious in all the right ways for everybody in the senate. And so even though there are only 100 u. S. Senators in total, 26 out of the 100 senators are on the Armed Services committee. More than one in every four senators is on that committee because they all want to be on the Armed Services committee. I think they decided at one point, rather than make the Armed Services committee hard to get on to rather than make all the senators is compete, theyre just going to let everybody join. Everybody wants to be on that committee so everybody gets to be on that committee. 26 out of the 100 members of the senate. A couple months ago, at the end of february, beginning of march, a passel of National Security reporters from the Washington Post, they got in touch with every single senator who serves on the Armed Services committee in the senate. And they asked the one very specific question, they didnt want like full le
On friday january 27th at 6 30 p. M. In the green room at the white house. He had called me at lunchtime that day and invited me to dinner that night saying he was going to invite my whole family but decided to have just me this time. With the whole family coming the next time. It was unclear from the conversation who else would be at the dinner, although i assumed there would be others. It turned out to be just the two of us seated at a small table in the green room. Two Navy Stewards waited on us. The president began by asking me whether i wanted to stay on as fbi director, which i found strange because he had already told me twice in earlier conversations that he hoped i would stay. And i had assured him that i intended to. He said that lots of people wanted my job and, given the abuse i had taken during the previous year, he would understand if i wanted to walk away. James comey goes on. My instincts told me that the oneonone setting and the pretense that this was our first discuss