The sojo forum we begin with a warmup act from a great libertarian comic. Back by popular demand, dave smith, whose great podcast, part of the problem, i faithfully listen to, here he is, libertarian comic, dave smith. Dave, please come up. Dave oh, thank you, gene. Wow, what a great event. Wow, libertarian comic even sounds boring to me. I heard that intro and i was like, this sucks. Will this guy talk about the budget for a long time . Ok. Obama, the great debate about obama, is he great or not . I dont know. This will be a lot of fun. I cant wait to see how you guys do. Personally speaking i do think obama is great at lots of things. Like killing people with sky robots, hes amazing at that. Hes best ever, id say. Spending money, hes like a god. Spending other peoples money, hes like m. J. In 1996. Just like untouchable. Im sorry. This is more a libertarian event. I think you brought in the lefties. Finally theyre laughing. Its been years they have been suffering through trevor noah.
Today, use our senators for your purposes, enabling them to live worthy of your name. May the words they speak bring edification and unity as they build bridges of cooperation. Give them the wisdom to depart from strife, remembering that soft answers turn away anger. Inspire them to avoid contention in their search for common ground. Give them cheerful hearts and optimistic spirits. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President , i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call dispensed with. The presiding officer
Find that last couple of sentences to get that out is certainly on the descent, which for me took a little longer without just as scalia on the bench, although it sure was there. So really quickly we have the television died going side going to be no justice quickly on our digital side because that is a big push at cnn and something that really interests me to be able to do that because now in the old days ive been in journalism for a while. Now if we put a story about Justice Scalia up, we can maybe link to some of the oral argument and then maybe link to the interview he gave with Justice Ginsburg for the talk that they gave and maybe a little bit about his sons memorial at the memorial service. It is a totally different world and it is fascinating that push on the digital side now. You actually need to get on air with a tv camera and finer view of the morning for decisions, for example. Ironman correspondent is pamela brown, so she is ready to go in front of the cameras out there wi
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Florida. Were a border state, so im going to ask about immigration. I know that Washington State and florida have several things in common in terms of being border states [laughter] and i have been to canada, and i do love it up there. I wish i was back there. But florida is different in that we have a large immigration problem here that has now gone to another level. The representative bilirakis has decided to look the other way here in Newport Ritchie when weve had New Buildings built to house some of the immigrants that came here who were underage immigrants on the trains that obama let come here. And theyre now expanding their facilities here. And i just, i look at the situation, and i think my husbands been out of work for a year, and he was a plumbing mechanic for 30 years, and finding a job here is going to be much more difficult now that the president has decided to do this. Host okay. All right, ann, well leave it there and have the congressman weigh in. Guest well, a lot of a