Host front page of the Washington Post has this story. Robert costa reporting along with Philip Rucker and karen tumulty. Mitt romney is moving quickly to assemble the National Political network, calling former aides and donors over the weekend and in a single of his seriousness of the launching a president ial campaign. Romneys message is that he almost certainly will make what would be his third bid for the white house. His aggressive outreach comes as representative paul ryan, romneys 2012 Vice President ial running mate and the newly installed chairman of the house ways and Means Committee announced monday that he would not seek the presidency in 2016. Romneys activity indicates that his exploration of interest friday to a group of donors in new york was more than the release of a trial balloon. Instead, it was the start of a deliberative effort by the 2012 nominee to carve out space for himself in an emerging 2016 field, also likely to include former Florida Governor jeb bush, new
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Is about 50 years old at that time, the spurt that it needs for growth. Over the next 2025 years the population of wheeling will almost triple. Watch all of our events from wheeling saturday at noon eastern and sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan 3. The deadline for the student cam video competition is tuesday. Produce a 57 minute documentary on the three branches and you to win the grand prize of 5,000. Former president ial candidate mitt romney spoke last night at the Republican National committees winter meeting in san diego. This is his first public speech since the media reported the former governor is exploring a third president ial bid. This is cspans 20 sixteen rd to the white house coverage, it is 15 minutes. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. , thank you so much. What great friends. Thank you. This is a friendly crowd. Ive got to tell you. Thank you. Why dont you say hi . Again, it is just the gratitude that we express, such deep appreciation for
Eastern time. Expected to be grilled by senate jured issuary members over the next two days. Coverage today at 10 00 a. M. On cspan 3 and look for coverage tomorrow on cspan. This morning, we will begin with Loretta Lynchs nomination and what you all think the role, the priorities for the next prior to should be. Also, send us a tweet cspan tweet cspanwj is our handle or facebook. Com cspan and send us an email. Journal cspan. Org. We will get to your thoughts here in just a minute. The priorities for the next attorney general. First on the phone this morning is dale clintston lets again with Loretta Lynchs career path. How did she get to this point of being nominated to serve as attorney general . Guest its really interesting. She is a longtime federal prosecutor, the daughter of a baptist preacher and a librarian and went to law school but was in private practice. Didnt like it that much. It wasnt fulfilling one friday night, i believe, in 1990, she had she collapsed from exhaustion.
We can get independent people who know what they are doing and who know math. They can report on whats going on here. And they dont have lets say they are immune to political pressure. We got to get reality. We are not going to get it from internal personnel. Lets get around them and get the people who will tell us the truth. The br real estate cht commission is intended to be independent of government but i think the gao and the Inspector General raldz are actually doing a very good job identifying areas for improvement ideaing ideas for manage yearlying improvement. The problem is those xwrochltsdz rarely get made. To the extent that congressional action is necessary to make some of these changes. There is very little glory in eliminating a program, especially if people face layoffs. There is less glory in that. To some extent, its not that we dont know where to cut, that we dont know which programs work and which ones dont. We do have some Good Government reports that help guide tho