[inaudible] thanks for joining us on former congressman tom davis. The book by Craig Shirley is an awardwinning author. This book a new gingrich i enjoyed the book, its an easy read. You learn a lot not just about new but the history i think we tend to forget memories are short. We still have a saying the public courtroom if there were five cabinet with four drawers the second drawer our needs good ideas. I think that was running jo joke. It was but he was the guy. So much of what he introduced to the public was a part of the organization lack of corruption and part of the ideas. Part of the was gingrich a part of that . It was very much pretrade as regular principles. In many ways the contract was a referendum on Ronald Reagan which was bill clinton. Everybody was confident in that context today, the media portrays the media be in one way but you offer nuance of being how he got into politics, to replace the people who are in power, tell us about his first race. He was a conservative,
He continues with the Florida House speaker Richard Corcoran who discusses the impact of Hurricane Irma on the states finances. Host good morning. It is wednesday, december 6, 2017. The house and senate returning today as they were to stave off a Government Shutdown that would begin just after midnight on friday. Unless a spending deal of is reached, we will talk about where negotiations stand in this morning, but we are less than a week away away from a december 12 special election in alabama. Republican congressional leaders split on whether to support republican roy moore and after steve bannon rallied support last night for the former judge who has been accused of Sexual Misconduct, we are opening phone lines to republicans only in this first hour to hear from you about your support or opposition to roy moore. Phone lines are open and republicans who support roy moore, 202 7488000 is your number. Those who oppose, 202 7488001. Alabama republicans with any opinion on roy moore, 202
Nothing attached to it, except funding government through the 22nd, they are meeting with speaker ryan in the next hour that second ter meet nothing two days with speaker ryan, Freedom Caucus a decision come to about whether to support this, this is important because if this group of conservatives get onboard with the plan, speaker ryan has to go to to pass this to pass this spending bill. Really things are on the wire, we have the house really needs to pass this bill in the next 48 hours or so to get to the Senate Passage vote,iday so were Holding Tight trying to see what the Freedom Caucus will do. De to host what are concerns of the Freedom Caucus and you have any of the vote ow count at this point . Are they leaning one way or the other . They started whipping the vote count clean cr earlier this had a lot of undecided, the count wasnt looking good, to postpone a d meeting that would have set up the vote on this. Afternoon. Happen this we are hoping to get Freedom Caucus says they
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Does not traffic in any nonsense these allegations about Robert Muller are just false there are no problems with his tame that cannot easily be overcome he had one or two people a added dismissed from the time they have appropriate authorizations from the department of justice whether respect to the few conflicts of interest there are and this investigation of the prosecutions native births aid the United States but attack by a foreign power that is their fate with our election and we need to find out who in the United States was cooperating with that effort and i cant think of anyone better to do that than Robert Mueller i believe you tim a couple times when you said of the f. B. I. And i phone to be straight as an arrow. On wednesday didnt he attorney general Ron Rosenstein told the House Judiciary Committee he sees no evidence to warrant firing mr mohler i guess you agree with that well absolutely yes the raw data as they number two man at the department of justice appointed to that