Bipartisan, very separate track. Indicted senator bob menendez facing democratic colleagues with overwhelmingly calling for his resignation, one day after he and his wife pleaded not guilty in court. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington where House Republicans are taking their Impeachment Inquiry against President Biden to the next level. With todays combative Oversight Committee hearing on capitol hill. For nine months republican lawmakers have tried to establish a connection between Hunter Bidens Business Dealings and the president. They have not proved any direct evidence so far that then vice President Biden profited off his sons work. Joining me now ali vitali, ken dilanian, mike memoli, and former fbi general counsel andrew weissmann. Ken, give us the latest on the substance today, including highlights from the witnesses. Reporter House Democrats are acknowledging that hunter biden essentially sold what they call the illusion of access to his father and based on h
Well take your calls and you can join the conversation on twitter. Nd is next. N journal [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] it is monday december 18, 2017. One week until christmas, and the selfimposed deadline for congress to pass tax reform. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Well spend the first part of the program asking you about the anticipated action on capitol hill this week and passage of the republican tax reform plan. Your message to congress as that. Et set to do heres how weve divided the phone lines for the conversations for the first part of the program. 50,000 a under that. Year. Year the numbers are on your screen. As always we welcome your comments on facebook, cspan and send us a tweet. Well get to your calls momentarily. The headline this morning. A look at the front page of the Washington Times and their preview of the days ahead. Host youre first up this morning. Welcome. Ca
Semester, Robert Woodson, remind us again about the role of affirmative action in education . Place . It put into guest the whole issue of race and affirmative action those of us like myself, a veteran of the civil rights action, we fought to end discrimination. We were trying to level the playing field. We wanted equal opportunity to achieve. Affirmative action was put into place in certain situations to be a temporary measure. For instance, in a town with 50 people inthere are the Fire Departments and police than i think you have to take remedial action to remedy that. But it should not be a Transportation System and that is what we have done. We have morphed it into a Transportation System. The gainsonsequence, of the Civil Rights Movement has been perverted and hijacked by people who are using this as a crygeon against those who racism at every turn. Host give us an example of those instances where you say it is being used . Yes go in the education system. The Obama Administration
Stupidity of the American Voter or whatever, but basically, that was really critical to get to the past. Holy sh good morning, its wednesday. Great to have you here with us on set. And washington senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein, sr. , such a heavy. I know. Weighted guy. I didnt comment that much. Former chairman of the Republican National chairman michael sillk and press secretary robert gibbs and Senior Analyst cokie roberts. Cokie, i can read the script. Why . We know what happens. Keystone. Keystone. Keystone goes down with one vote. With that, most certainly, if Mary Landrieu the woman i have been predicting will win by sixandahalf votes now. If she had any chance of doing that, i think that pretty much got wiped away last night. It was a hail mary. Nobody caught it. So the fact is she was already in a very tough race. Her opponent polls show him up by 16 points. Another by 20. So shes going to have a very hard time t. State h
Tonights Republican Debate was the night of the jackills as far as im concerned. Senators marco rubio and ted cruz did what they could to put up speed bumps. Lets watch that. Donald trump has mocked everybody with personal attacks. Hes done it to people sitting on the stage today. Hes done so about people who are disabled. Hes done it about every other candidate in this race. If theres anyone who deserves to be attacked that way, its donald trump. Twothirds of the people who have cast a vote in a primary caucus have voted against you. They do not want you to be the nominee. They will not turn over the party of lincoln and reagan to someone whose positions are not conservative. If we nominate donald, well spend the fall and summer with the republican nominee facing a fraud trial. Oh, stop it. The Hillary Clinton my my campaign and my foundation 100,000, and with Hillary Clinton give me a break. Her four times in a president ial race its a minor civil case. Donald, learn not to interrupt