Last night, the president attending the grid iron dinner. He joked about how the presidency has aged them. In two years, he will join the presence club. Involving former president s, first ladies, and their staff. We will get to your cause and comments on cspans washington journal. Should taxpayers continue to support former president s . 202 7488000 democrats. 202 7488001 republicans. If youre an independent, 202 7458002. By the way, we will also take your comments on our twitter page, cspanwj. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. For some background on what is the former president , passed back in 1958 to maintain the dignity of the presidency. Based in part on how poor henry truman was when he left the presidency. It provides pensions and funds for travel, office space support staff. Their annual pension for former president , about 200,000 per year. A widow of a former president receives 20,000 per year. Tarini parti is joining us from politico
Inside a look at the founder. He flew to the site immediately. Fox friends begins right now. And right to that fox news alert. Marine Sergeant Andrew tahmooressi a free man this morning after 214 days in a mexican prison. Tahmooressi has been released and is back inside the United States this morning. Peter doocy is live in washington with how it all went down. Good morning, peter. Good morning. You just a heard anna say this marine spent 214 days in a mexican prison for what he says was an innocent mistake. A uturn across the border with three guns in his car. But now Andrew Tahmooressi is back home a private jet picked him up just after 9 00 last night. A a few hours after a judge released him on humanitarian grounds because he has posttraumatic stress. The tahmooressi family has a lengthy statement out this morning. To all those across the country who walked shoulder to shoulder with us as we fought for andrew, it has reminded us that at a time of much discord americans can come tog
Remaining. Also moments ago, the white house in its first oncamera press briefing in eight days revealed this about the president s part in forming said legislation. Has the president seen the draft of the Senate Health care bill . I dont know that. Thats i know that there was some chatter today. I know the president has been on the phone extensively with the leader and with key senators so i dont know if hes seen the legislation or not. But i know that extremely hard and the president has been giving his input and has ideas, feedback to them and hes very excited about where this thing is headed. Do you know if anyone on the staff has seen a draft of the bill. I dont. I know that they are up there working hand in glove with them so to the extent that its i dont even know you know, where we are in terms of a final plan. I know that the saf has been working very closely with the leader staff, with Senate Finance and others, so i dont want to get ahead of an announcement from senator mcco
Raids, overzealous prosecutors and a flair for big flashy press conferences, we have learned the hard way how some prosecutors have weaponized their power to criminalize the routine practices of politics and government. She joins me now exclusively tonight. Good to see you once again, patty, thank you for being here this evening. Thank you. Martha the Chicago Tribune has an oped that is pushing back. They are saying that you are revising history somewhat in this oped. Are they right about that in terms of the timeline . They say president obama wasnt even in office when this happened to your husband and they also say that the claim that the charge about selling the senate seat was overturned is not exactly accurate. How do you respond to that . Its true that it was under the Bush Administration when my husband was arrested in december, but it was the Obama Administration and their Justice Department that made absolutely sure that my husband didnt get anywhere close to a fair trial. The
Carolina, its a last word 2020 special, the Kamala Harris town hall. Here now is lawrence odonnell. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Welcome to the Richardson Center for the arts on the campus of Watford College right here in spartanburg, South Carolina. This is a crucial state on the way to winning the democratic nomination for president. South carolina will be the fourth state that votes in the democratic primaries and the First Southern state that votes in the democratic primaries. And as everyone in this room knows, South Carolina has picked six of the democratic president ial nominees in the last seven elections. Tonight South Carolina voters will have the chance to let president ial candidate Kamala Harris hear whats on their minds and listen to her make the case that she is the democrat who can make donald trump a oneterm president. From her First Campaign running for district attorney, of san francisco, to her most recent Campaign Running for