Shovelready private sector infrastructure project. How many times were we promised in the stimulus bill that we were going to create x number of jobs that were shovel ready, and most of that 800 billion went to public employment, not to shovelready jobs. In fact, the president even admitted that. This pipeline is shovel ready. Its time toned th time toned tl delay. I yield. A senator mr. President . Id like to thank the good senator from iowa who i think has made the case so well. Mr. Hoeven and i look to his experience in Energy Issues and ag issues and his understanding of what it truly takes to have an alloftheabove Energy Policy. And as he said so well, its not only needed infrastructure but its jobs. Here we are talking about getting the economy going and getting people back to work. This doesnt cost one penny not one penny of federal spending. Yet it puts people to work and it creates hundreds of millions of revenue to help reduce our deficit and our debt. So were talking about p
Welcome the team home. Fox 5 morning news continues right now. Live look outside right now over washington, d. C. A very chilly start to your week. Weve already got some snow flurries that have happened over the weekend. And in some school districts, they are already having some issues. Well tell you about that in just a second. Good morning. Happy monday. Im wisdom martin. Im sarah simmons. It sure was a thriller last night and a long one at that. This years big game last the four hours and 14 minutes. The longest super bowl ever. Didnt realize. With the power outage. There you go. Now it makes sense. Thanks in part to a power outage that delayed the game over half an hour. There is your problem. We could have watched had it not been for that. As we look to the weather, we have one School Closing to pass along. Garrett county, maryland schools are closed today as people out there deal with some snow. All right. Okay. We have Tucker Barnes sitting over here. Youre not wasting any time.
Video before attacking a free speech event. Jenna amy kellogg in denmark but we begin with conor powell on new strikes against isis in libya. Talk to us about these strikes. Were these airstrikes a surprise to those in libya . Reporter airstrikes according to libyan and egyptian officials were coordinated between two countries. Not only coordinated but libyan officials said they were welcome. They had been requesting help and working with egyptians to help battle isis. Now the airstrikes were focused on an area called durna in the eastern part of the country. It has become an hotbed of islamic extremist activity as the country disintegrated last few years. Isis made that their home. Other extremist groups have well. The airstrikes follow beheading, release of beheading video of 21 Coptic Christians. These are some of the oldest Christian Communities in the middle east. They hail from egypt. They make up sizable part of the population, somewhere between 10 and 15 of egypt but they empha
Be the conspiracy theorist appears 3 million votes illegal aliens. The report is actual lay tweet. The person who authored the tweet wont explain how he arrived at his figure. He would also not say what the data is or where it came from or what methodology he used. Trumps press secretary backed him up and suggested a white house investigation could happen. Reporter does the president believe that millions voted illegally in this election . The president does believe that. He stated before his concerns of voter fraud and people voting illegally in the campaign. Reporter what evidence do you have . As i said, i think the president has believed that for a while based on study and information he has. Reporter wouldnt he want an investigation of this . As ive noted several times now, hes believed that for a long time and he won fairly overwhelmingly reporter im asking you why not investigate maybe we will. Do you believe there was widespread reporter how could he be comfortable with no, hes
Obamacare on day one of his administration. But does he have a backup plan in place . Executive action. The president with drawing the u. S. From a key trade agreement he says thats good for American Workers but what does it really mean for manufacturing job at home . Lets start with the briefing one of the most hotly anticipated in my memory for sure press Secretary Sean Spicer has become a punchline after a widely ridiculed statement from the Briefing Room podium on saturday. Spicer said in particular President Trumps inauguration featured the largest audience to witness an inauguration. That is false. Check out the two shots, one on the level from president obamas first term inauguration in 2009, on the right from President Trumps inaugural on friday. Spicer also claimed the Floor Coverings you see in the photo on the right were a first for this inauguration, gave an improper view of how many people were there, unfairly highlighting areas of no crowds. January 2013, Floor Coverings