The meeting will come to order. What were going do do is have our Opening Statements of senator reid and myself and then well recognize dr. Wilson for a very important introduction. All right . We the Committee Meets today for the nomination of general john e. Hyten to be Vice President of the joint chiefs of staff. We thank him for being here today. We welcome your family who is here and your friends, dr. Hyten. They can be introduced at the time you are recognized for your Opening Statement. And we have our boring seven or eight questions you have to respond to first. Have you adhered to applicable laws, recognitions or any conflicts of interest . Yes, sir. Do you agree if confirmed to appear and testify before request before this committee . Yes, sir. Do you agree to provide documents including copies of electronic forms of communications in a timely manner when requested by a duly constituted committee or to consult with the Committee Regarding the basis of any good faith denial or
House budget committee, discusses federal spending and efforts to avoid another government shutdown. And at 9 30, emily martin of the National Womens law discusses efforts to close the gender pay gap. Host political reporting that House Speaker nancy pelosi will meet with Steven Mnuchin to discuss finding ways to avoid budget cuts and raise the debt limit as congress possibly faces another federal shutdown later this year if these issues are not resolved. This is the washington journal for july 10. Part of his political many credit him for the rise of and airdparty system recent poll showed many respondents say the current twoparty system is broken. That is what we want to get your sense of in our first hour of the washington journal. When it comes to the twoparty system, do you think it is broken . Call us and tell us why. If you consider yourself a political independent, 2027488000 is the number to call and everyone else can call at 2027488001. You can post your thoughts on twitter a
His exercise to block from that account is in ability he shares in common with all twitter users. In holding that this was a First Amendment violation, the District Court made to critical errors. The District Court incorrectly concluded that donald trump was wielding the power of the federal government when he blocked plaintiffs from the account. Second, the court incorrectly concluded that the account was a forum from which plaintiffs are being excluded. Are you arguing that the only thing independent of his presidency in the account is his blocking or the account itself . Are you maintaining that position or just the blocking . When you are trying to analyze whether or not state action is being evoked, you look at the particular conduct at issue. You ask whether the particular conduct at issue is wielding the power of the government, whether privilege orr Authority Given to the defendant by virtue of their office. This twitter account is a designated public forum then . Is it a publi
Committee. We uphold the secrecy and the confidentiality of intelligence programs to keep our nation safe every day. When sure that our Intelligence Committee has the tools and resources to protect america both at home and abroad. So, i am pleased that the senate is considering our intelligence authorization bill as part of the nda. Our bill is a three year fiscal year in the making. In may the senate Intelligence Committee unanimously passed the bill with the voter 15 zero when we see that one more time. We unanimously passed the authorization bill 15 zero. I appreciate vice chairman warners work the collaboration to achieve that unanimous support of all 15 members of the Intelligence Committee the bill is genuinely bipartisan and protects United States strengthens our National Security supports the activities of men and women who are serving in uniform around the world and around the globe. I would remind the president and the members that it is 15 members of select committee of inte
Manhattan, no word yet on whether that might be on the Auction Block for the former president will have to put up four and 54 million in six days to make good on money that he has to pay upfront in that fraud case back what is remarkable about this is donald trump has tried and stretched stretched far and wide to get some help on this but he is getting zero help on this. Welcome everybody, im neil cavuto, this is your world. The score right now to eric showing outside the trump tower on the pickle hes in and help he needs. Reporter it is a pickle can a big pickle, 450 million worth and donald trump has six days as you say next monday, the coming monday is the deadline for him to come up with that billiondollar half A Billion Dollar bond a potential or potentially lose this gleaming power behind me, trump tower. This of course all comes back to the case that was the Civil Fraud Will in which a judge Arthur Engoron ruled that the former president and the Trump Organization had to fork ov