The republican nomination for his old senate seat. Last night, he conceded to former football coach Tommy Tuberville. Here is his concession speech. Good evening. You for yournk support over the years. We fought a good fight in this race and we have taken our case to the people of alabama and the people of alabama have spoken. They want a new leader, a freshfaced in washington. I think we are going to have that. I love this state, it has been an honor beyond words for me to serve it. I grew up in the country, a little house of 1000 square feet, no central air, my dad had a country store. He struggled to take care of us through that process and managed to get out of it is shirt. I worked construction two summers, sold dictionaries, did other things to work my way through college. Great day, i find myself in politics, studying the issues. My wife and i met at college and got involved in republican politics. It has been an adventure for me. Tommy to congratulate tuberville. He ran a reall
Last night. Meantime, cnn has learned investigators are struggling to bring officer sicknicks kill tore justice. Cnn security correspondent Josh Campbell is starting us off this morning in washington. Josh, so remarkable to be back at the scene, just a month after officer sicknicks death. Reporter thats right. Laura. And this was the Scene Of The Crime, this was the same building that former officer sicknick protected for over a decade inside at various time with the Capitol Police. A solemn ceremony as you mentioned last night, a hearse arrived at the east steps of the capitol carrying the remains of the fallen officer. Once inside the rotunda, two officers escorted his remains and an American Flag into a table at the center. We saw members of congress and his former colleagues with the Capitol Police file in, paying their respects. A very solemn, a very quiet moment, again, for this fallen officer. Now, we got word just before 10 00 p. M. Last night that the president s motorcade had
Education and Budget Committee assignments that she holds. Moments ago democrats said this about House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy. Why would Kevin Mccarthy continue to associate himself and the republican conference with someone who leader Mitch Mcconnell has characterized as a cancer . The last time i checked, cancers need to be cut out and not allowed to metastasize. And Kevin Mccarthy has the ability to do the right thing he should. But greene will not be the only urgent topic the republicans will need to address when they meet here in a few hours. Wyoming congresswoman liz cheney is on the fence of being ousted for voting to impeach former President Trump in his second impeachment. She has been shoring up support behind the scenes. That includes from Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell. Republicans are facing a critical reckoning. Will they encourage, quoting one gop senator, the coux of their party or those who vote their conscience like liz cheney or try to get away with
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Barragan of california who serves the 44th district. Washington journal continues. Host joining us is former representative from indiana, david mcintosh. He served from 1995 to 2001. He is now the president of club for growth. Thanks for joining us. Guest great to be with you. Host remind the viewers about the mission of club for growth. Guest we are the leading Advocacy Group for limited government and free market economic policies. We push for those in congress. We also have two Political Action committees that support candidates for congress and for senate who are champions for those issues. And we have been very active this year in the republican primaries in supporting candidates that we think will be great future leaders and strong supporters of progrowth, free market economic policies. Host what kind of spending have you done in previous cycles . What do you plan to do for this one . Guest in the last cycles we averaged probably around 15 million to 20 million. This cycle i thin