The question today, is the doing a precedent on residential power . The impact on the Obama Presidency, colin call in. The lines you can join us on our social Media Networks and send us a tweet at cspanwj. Mail, journal c span. Org. We will begin with the front page of the wall street journal this headline this morning from the front page of usa today an analysis piece by susan page and Stephen Dennis from rollca ll. Com has this we will get your calls and comments, the impact of all of this on the obama residency and presidency in general. First the comments of senator john mccain, following the hour long meeting with president obama yesterday. Heres a portion of with the Arizona Republican had to say [video clip] tivee had a produc conversation. Now a resolution is going to be before the congress of the United States. We want to work to make that resolution something that the majority of the members of both houses can support. A vote against that resolution, i think, would be catastr
Overseas at a time when most of his staff members, i think just wanted him distracted to get him out of the white house, to get him away from the pressure of washington, d. C. , but these foreign trips usually have not gone well. This morning we have him actually just quoting data well, hes reading a script, very carefully. Reading a script carefully. Talking about how good the u. S. Economy is. So and there are some numbers that are really, really well. We are in the middle of a tenyear, right now, recovery, and the numbers just keep Getting Better for our economy, but for President Trump yeah. And this impeachment, the numbers actually are staying the same, or actually getting worse. We got this new poll coming out that out this morning that were going to talk about. Oh. That actually shows still the majority of americans think not only should he be impeached but believe the president of the United States should be removed from office. Thats something that did not happen for years wi
From the Hillary Clinton campaign and Bernie Sanders campaign. First we face a new reality. Unmistakable there is a new nbc news wall street marist poll that the Sanders Campaign has been feeling, clintons advantage in iowa disappeared for the most part. Sanders is only four Percentage Points behind the democratic frontrunner. That is within that surveys margin of error. If clintons behavior is any indication, she is feel something pressure from sanders, after hitting him on gun control and shadow banking during her interview on face the nation sunday. Clinton made her case against sanders in waterloo. We both have had a chance to support legislation to try to rein in the gun lobby. President obama and i were in the senate and we voted no senator sanders voted yes. That is a big difference between us. In addition to her turning up the heat on sanders, clinton is up with a new Television Ad in iowa and New Hampshire presenting herself as the only viable candidate who can keep the white
Good morning. Its tuesday, march 8th. Im jonathan capehart. 150 delegates are on the line in four states today and the close finance the race for the republican nomination suggests every single one matters. Today, republicans hold primaries in michigan, mississippi and idaho. Along with the caucus in hawaii. And their outcomes will give clues as to if the nomination fight will all the way to the convention in july. The michigan primary shows donald trump in the lead for the biggest prize today. Trump is ahead by 13 points. 36 to ted cruz at 23 . John kasich at 21 and marco rubio at 13 . Below the 15 threshold to qualify for at large delegates. With just hours to go before todays vote in mississippi, ted cruz won the surprise endorsement of the states governor. Republican phil bryant rallied to his side which he attributed to in part with his friendship to former texas up governor perry. But trump goes in today the heavy favorite as cruz and rubio made the same exact argument to those i
From our nbc headquarters in new york. Day 608 of the Trump Administration and the pressure is being turned up on Christine Blasey ford. She is accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were both at a high school party. She must decide if she will testify before the Senate Judiciary committee on monday about her allegation. In a letter from her attorney today, chairman senator grassley of iowa wrote, quote, you have stated repeatedly that dr. Ford wants to tell her story. I sincerely hope that dr. Ford will accept my invitation to do so either privately or publicly on monday. I must remind you that consistent with Committee Rules dr. Fords prepared testimony and biography are due on friday, september 21 if she intends to testify on monday. But through her lawyers ford has requested that the fbi investigate her allegation before she testifies, a request that grassley has already rejected. He did offer to send Committee Staff to california to speak with ford. Tonight