4 00 in the morning campaigning. He said loretta, im going to sleep the day after i leave the presidency. I dont know if thats president obama though. There was work to be done. I still think, when i look at Immigration Reform which i believe well see something happen this year, at least an effort to try to move it forward on the floor, weve got small things, the debt ceiling weve got to get past right now, weve got tax reform. I know my michigan colleague, the chair of the ways and means, david camp, is anxious to do this, bacchus is anxious to do this. Let me interject. Pure politics here. This is also a chance for him to say this is what democrats are for, you know, income inequality raising the minimum wage. Were much different than the republicans. Hes going to be thinking about helping democrats. Absolutely. Hes thinking about the Senate Midterms which the outcome of those races is far more important than the speech. But just to take issue with the idea, the question is whether d
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Yeah. I think thats a good point. On Paul Manafort, the former Trump Campaign chairman convicted yesterday on eight felony counts, bank fraud, tax fraud, stealing literally millions of dollars from american taxpayers, not reporting income on tens of millions of dollars, is there a chance hell still cooperate with the Special Counsel Paul Manafort . He has another trial coming up next month. Right. Look. If youre Paul Manafort, i mean, youre looking at possibly some serious jail time. There is an incentive. But i think what you are seeing is the president telegraphing directly to Paul Manafort, if you stay put, if you do not as he said, if you refuse to break, if you see that tweet that he he contrasts Paul Manafort with Michael Cohen its very clear that hes telegraphing to Paul Manafort that if he doesnt break with him that perhaps theres a pardon in the offing and you can see, also, by the way, Paul Manaforts legal t
snomination . Nomination . S here are the numbers online. Also find us send us a tweet cspanwj. Here are the headlines in the morning papers. The Washington Times this is the headline in the Baltimore Sun have line in roll call the headline in roll call Meredith Shiner joins us. How unusual is it to have the president s pick for defense secretary block at this stage . Guest it has never happen before. A senate has never filibustered the president s pick for defense secretary. The most bizarre thing, and the thing that is most frustrating to people watching this outside washington, is that a former senator hagel is a former is a former republican. With 58 bouts, and the reason why it was 58 was because majority leader harry reid had to switch his vote to know to bring the vote back up again after the senate comes back from recess. You have a lot of republican senators who said as recently as last week that they did not want to see the choice filibuster. Even if they wanted to vote no, h
Highly paid tech workers driving up rents, forcing out longtime residents. What about the status of your future employment . Most jobs pay less thanes 20ds an hour. The jobs that built the middle class are disappearing. For all the convenience, Technology May be one big reason why. A fascinating look at this topic this week. How does this technology we all use and love add up to the growing challenge of income inequality . Seen 10x personalities overachievers, making all the money inventing someone. The people who make it and sell the products making much less. Thats where the fast growth is. Technology. Is it hurting employment prospects . I would say, perhaps, the first thing no. Really, technology has always driven prosperityy. Prosperity based on innovation for hurns of years. The guys who made the buggy whips were upset for a while. And now we have a car industry. Technology always displaced a certain way of doing things before but always moved progress onward. Generated new jobs,
The russians, with ambassador Sergey Kislyak. There he is. Whose conversations with Michael Flynn got the former National Security adviser fired. Flynn, by the way, subpoenaed by the senate tonight. So, no, none of this is going away any time soon. And were going to report on it right now. Lets get right to cnns david chalian, chris cillizza, acheen th athena jones, pamela brown. Pamela, youre first. First on cnn now, the former fbi director james comey sent a farewell letter. What does it say . Yeah, he did, he sent this farewell letter today a day after he was fired by President Trump which was a shock and really sent shockwaves throughout the bureau and this is what he said in his letter. He said to all, i have long believed that a president can fire an fbi director for any reason or for no reason at all. Im not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was execu executed. I hope you wont, either. It is done and i will be fine, although i will miss you and the mission deeply