Armies of lobbyists and lawyers . Or does it work for all the people. Now the House Of Representatives is about to show us the worst of government for the rich and powerful. The house is about to vote on a budget deal, a deal negotiated behind closed doors, that would let traders on wall street gamble with Taxpayer Money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system. This is a democracy, and the American People didnt elect us to stand up for citigroup. They elected us to stand up for all the people. Thats the Bugle Signaling charge. Today the white house scrambled to contain the fod. Just minutes before the scheduled vote, the white house took the dangerous move of taking direct aim at the warren wing of the party by declaring
and campaign contributions, opening up the ÷÷naufloodgates. First you give the keys to the bank and then you bail the banks out. We are not having that. I think the vote today shows that, shows the unity of
President elect has nominated Ardent Obamacare critic tom price, a republican congressman from the state of georgia, Congressman Price is very tight with paul ryan, this is according to the House Speaker himself. Here is speaker ryan on local talk radio. What im excited about is tom price who is a very close friend of mine. Tom price is one of the architects of replacing obamacare, of fixing health care. Hes a surgeon, he knows how the law works and hes been the most passionate advocate for patientcentered Health Care Reforms that ive seen in congress and im really excited he is now going to be the quarterback, the point person in the new administration on reforming health care. So that was speaker ryan and as donald trump is adding to his cabinet, hes also making headlines again for one of his tweets. This is what he wrote nobody should be allowed to burn the
the momentum our campaign got in the last two weeks of the campaign i think was largely due to the fact that those obamacare pr
Greg thanks, joe. Thats the smartest thing you have said in eight years. [applause] [applause] greg all right, the u. S. Intel report released friday directly accuse russian president Vladimir Putin of ordering a campaign to influence the election. I wish they told us this thursday we could have skipped listening to this. First we cannot say they did not change in the vote tallies or anything of that sort. We have no way of gauging the impact that certainly the Intelligence Community cant gauge the impact it had on choices the electorate made. Greg what is with this guy over here . Its like he just saw one of my nudes on snapchat. [laughter]
this is serious. And its on tv. Friday President Elect trump met with experts to discuss the findings. What does russia really to . For one, they had to John Podestas email. How did they do it . First they found one of his passwords. What was one of his passwords . Password. [laughter] this may be the greatest achievement in espionage history. Righ
Spoke with Sergey Kislyak last july. It was during these conversations, im told by j. D. Gordon, they talked about improving relations between the u. S. And russia. It was dur thag time, erin, that j. D. Gordon says he went to the convention, Advocating On Behalf of the campaign for language in the gop platform that advocated against the arming of the ukrainians in their fights against the prorussian rebels. That is something the Trump Campaign denied they were doing at the time. It denied it was advocating for that language in the gop platform. Flash forward to december and according to a Senior Administration official, the president s soninlaw, Jared Kushner and the former security adviser, Michael Flynn, wret with the ambassador during a previously undisclosed meeting. James comey was making the rounds with house members. Democrats were not happy when the top democrat, adam schiff, who believes comey was not forthcoming on key details in the investigation into russia and the contact
Of an atrisk high school. Three victims so far. The suspect or suspects still at large. The school there is on lockdown. Well hand it over to jake tapper with more of this coverage. Jake . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Youre looking at live pictures from kptv in portland, oregon. Were beginning today with Breaking News in our National Lead. Youre looking right now at live pictures, as i said, about a School Shooting in North Portland at Rosemary Anderson high school, where at least three victims have been shot, three people shot according to the Fire Department. It is unknown if the people shot are dead or alive. Portland police say the suspects have fled. They would not say if they were still believed to be armed or if
they clashed with police. Nearby Jefferson High School and Portland Community college in lockdown, were told. Media have been told to set up at North Killingsworth Street and kirby avenue. Thats the staging area. Well update more on that story as soon as we know