All across our country and thank you to senator murphy for organizing this important action this evening. Back to school bring such great memories of my own children of my son and daughter i remember them packing crayons and paper in their backpacks going off to meet their new teachers and catch up with friends to talk about what they did during the summer. It is always such an exciting time of year for them. Unfortunately, it is not the same now for their children, my grandchildren. I have two grandsons and a granddaughter that are now in school. The first new question that was asked when buying their backpacks was do you want a Bulletproof Backpack . Do you want a Bulletproof Backpack . That was one of the questions to buy their backpacks for school. Ee i also think of two weeks ago when my youngest grandson who was in School Started second grade. My daughter and i were talking about the fact in addition to all of the excitementtroun and Energy Around starting school there were chang
Vote the presiding officer is there any senator in the chamber who wishes to vote or change his or her vote . Seeing none, the motion is agreed to. The yeas are 49 and the nays are 44. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas p. Barber of michigan to be an under secretary of the treasury, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of thomas p. Barber of michigan to be under secretary of the treasury shall be brought to a close. The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk should call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer is any senator in the chamber who wishes to vote or change his or her vote . Seeing none, the
transports. breaking tonight, federal judge appoints a special master to review documents in the raid on the mar-a-lago home of former president donald trump. also denying a request from the government to exclude reportedly classified documents. what does all of that mean going forward. the panel breaks that down go plus with the fentanyl crisis, the attorneys general from more than a dozen states and urge the president to declare fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction to help protect americans from a mass casualty event. we begin with the fight over migrant buses and no flights. the white house correspondent kevin corke has the latest on what happened on the border and martha s vineyard. good evening, kevin. a border battle to be sure between white house and blue states against g.o.p. resident governors who supporters say are simply forcing the blue states to live with the consequences of their preferred border policies. if you live in a border town in texas and arizona or
Winners and losers. Angry because the misery index for some members is more important for the misery index in my district or the northeast. Five years ago, we were about a month of month after Superstorm Sandy. We had political handtohand combat to get what the rest of the nation has gotten almost automatically with every Natural Disaster in the whole course of our nations history. But no, Superstorm Sandy, there had to be an offset. We barely got the help we needed. And this is all tied in together because we still have people suffering in new jersey and new york and the northeast from the aftermath of sandy. Its tied to this, federal Flood Insurance. Its critically important. Why should it be that the concerns of my district and the people that i represent have any less of an influence on what happens here . Im angry and im disappointed that i have to fight with my own party on these issues. Im not at all sorry to stand up as strongly as i can for the constituent who deserve this, ha
Enforcement, and lets see what happens, shes being totally protected. Shes being 100 protected. Now maybe well all be surprised. And maybe our laws will work the way theyre supposed to work. But you know what, folks . I think if something was going to happen on the crimes that have been committed, i would have assumed it would have happened already, dont you think . Lou dont you think . Well take all of that up with former Reagan White House political director, republican strategist ed rollins here in just moments. Also tonight, federal prosecutors have convened a grand jury to look into possible wrongdoing by the wife of orlando terrorist omar mateen. Her name is noor salman. She could be charged as an accessory to 49 counts of murder and 53 counts of attempted murder after failing to notify authorities about her husbands plans to carry out a terrorist attack. Well be talking about the administrations failure to win the war on terror with House Foreign Affairs Committee Member congres