What we are talking about is an emergency. Thats what the house said overwhelmingly yesterday. On june 11, six or so weeks ago, by a vote of 933, the senate supported the sandersmccain bill, and it was funded through emergency funded as a cost of war. This bill as senator coburn indicated, is about onethird of the cost of what we voted on in the original sandersmccain bill. Mr. President , let us defeat this point of order, let us stand with the veterans of this country. Let us reform the v. A. And let us go forward. Thank you. The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Coburn ill be very quick. What our colleagues should know is over the since 2009, the v. A. Budget has increased 57. 58. 7 , a 7 increase in the number of providers and 17 in the number of veterans using those providers. The problem is not money at the v. A. The problem is management, accountability, and culture. So were going to borrow 12 billion from our children and reward the poor behavior and charge it to
That yesterday. In burlington yesterday, independent senator Bernie Sanders officially launched his 2016 president ial bid. Promising a revolution. We will begin there with your thoughts on the center for the campaign. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. And independents, 202 7488002. Send us a tweet cspanwj, facebook. Com cspan, or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. The Burlington Free press this morning, courtesy of the museum, has this on their front page. Bernie sanders launches his quest for the presidency quoting him, we began a Political Revolution turko cspan covered we begin a Political Revolution. Cspan covered that yesterday. Here is a little of what he had to say. Senator sanders host we will get to that in a second. We apologize for that. As we said, cspan cover the campaign the official launch of this event where the senator was in the hometown of burma. Here is a little bit of that speech. Senator sanders this Campaign Starting today, is going to send a
Jason picked that. He was in 60s, and 70s. Jason i was into rub irband man. I like eclectic tastes. Pete it is good if it is good . Rachel do you like latin music. Jason i dont know. What am i supposed to say. Pete do you have a good one for us . Absolutely. Thank you very much for joining us this morning. We have a big four hours. We start with this. President trumps legal team blasting articles of impeachment. Jason the attorneys slamming House Democrats case as managers argue for the president s removal. Rachel Garrett Tenney live in our Nations Capital as they prepare for this weeks trial. Garrett . Reporter essentially the start of the opening round of the impeachment trial with both sides laying out opening arguments tuesday. In the opening trial briefing, interest was a release saturday. House impeachment managers claim President Trumps conduct is the framers worst nightmare. The evidence overwhelmingly establish he is guilty. Seven democrats argue that President Trump used his
Obama a quote, sub human mongrel. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. We start with the worsening situation in ukraine. A situation the white house now calls, and im quoting, completely outrageous. President obama is expected to address the recent killings later today. Hes reacting to clashes yesterday in the ukrainian capital of kiev. 26 people were killed. Hundreds more injured. In the latest crackdown by Government Forces against antigovernment protesters. Those demonstrators have been entrenched in the citys independent square since november. Our phil black is in kiev. First of all, what sparked these latest violent clashes . Reporter wolf, its really something of a surprise, because they came at a time when the general mood was thought to have relaxed just slightly after months of crisis here. But ultimately, what triggered it . It was a group of opposition, a grout opposition protesters marching peacefully to the parliament. They came up a
For our american viewers, newsroom with Brooke Baldwin starts right now. Thank you so much. Let me pick up where you left off. As you heard, the family of the ebola patient who died on u. S. Soil claims he did not get the medical care he needed because of his race. But my next guest says human error cost Thomas Eric Duncan his life. First, let me remind you how massive this outbreak has gotten all around the world. To the map we go, there have been five cases treated in the u. S. Overseas, several countries in western africa and now spain are battling infections and of course that number could grow. In a speech today before the world bank group, cdc director dr. Tom frieden says timely reaction is key to stopping the spread. I would say in 30 years i have worked in public health, the only thing like this has been aids. With he have to work now so that this is not the worlds next aids. We can do that, i think exactly as was said by all of the three president s. Speed is the most importa