Quorum call quorum call quorum call the presiding officer the republican whip. Mr. Cornyn id ask the quorum call be rescinded. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cornyn madam president , in recent days ive come to the floor several times to talk about the humanitarian crisis on our southwestern border where a veritable flood of unaccompanied children from Central America mainly are appearing on our border and turning themselves in to Border Patrol because they realize that ultimately they will be released to a relative in the United States with a notice to appear at a future court date, and the vast majority of them will fail to appear for that court date and successfully end up staying in the United States not withstanding the fact that it doesnt comply with our law. But in recent days a Curious Division has emerged from our colleagues on the other side of the aisle on a fundamental issue that i want to highlight. On one hand, more and more democrats are calling on congress
I would not say that they were nasty. They tell you how much bush 41 was more engaged, dropping by the Briefing Room from time to time or seeing them in a casual kind of setting. And carter would do all of these things. And that was not the case with clinton, but the very first airforce one trip i took with clinton, he came to the back and was telling these southern eight stories in a funny voice, imitating royal folks. And you cant imagine that today. Obama does come back, but even then it is very, some lecturing. So i think that what we miss, though, to give him credit, he does more interviews than his predecessors, has less to predecessors. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] i am not getting these interviews. I am saying, give him credit for at least doing this. What he is not doing in the bread and butter of what the correspondence do is where you take a day in and the. [roll call] are two questions, how about this, that is where you hear the president day and day out about the m
To make sure we get it full discussion and i feel sure we will leave with a lot more to say but we have plans for together meeting. I appreciate everyone coming in on a surveillance Transparency Act especially when there is so many Football Games you can be watching. I will get us out for the tennessee game tonight. If you feel like you need to see the tennessee alabama game. This event is just important to us as the wch dinner. This means a lot to you, too. You have shown up by turning out on your weekend day and we appreciate that. The waca is devoted to two big things that we talk about all of time. We talk about access, press access and pushing together as a group to increase the access we get at the whitehouse to people and information. And that is our primary goal. We also try to help each other be better individual, com pet c com compe compe competiors and we will talk about about covering the whitehouse and how to get good stories. Helping us with that we have veterans of the w
Not a surprise to those of us who have been following him for many years. It was the opening of the debate and Governor Scott not coming out he did came out and the debate went on and they talked a lot about standard issue like jobs and education that we fact checked but it started with that pretty funny exchange. Are going to look at some of the big whoppers of the 2014 campaign. That floor to debate and many others, more than 100 we have covered, are available on our website at www. Cspan. Org. Lets get the calls before we get to those whoppers. From florida, jim, go ahead. You always depose republicans. You always say the dog whistle or the koch brothers. Paletta fact is a far left, far,. Far leftwing organization. But. That it was started by the st. Petersburg times its like reading the packages of pravda. Yourwas the last time newspaper endorsed a republican president . You cannot trust them. Host is there a wall between what you do at politicized and the Tampa Bay Times . Guest t
Steve i try to every day. Katie, good to have you. Good morning to you. Katie thanks for having me. Im glad to be back on the virtual vouch. Steve brian and i are sitting 20 feet next to each other if he gets angry he can throw one of the rockets of a ratchet set my way which was a continuing subject of topic yesterday as we wrap up the week. Tgif thank goodness its fox. Brian i have a nerf rifle. So glad you are with us today. Katie thanks. Brian again with a fox news alert. The man accused 6 punching Terrence Monahan and two other cops back on the streets without bail. Im not kidding. Campbell accused of attacking the highest ranking uniformed officer. Why . Do we know that . It was on tape. Brooklyn bridge march a peaceful protest and it spiraled out of control, katie. Katie during that chaos another cop has hit in the face with something similar to brass nic u. Number kels. Monahan says he is doing well. His officers are not. Morale has probably been as low as its been in a long ti