Mr. Cornyn i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be rescinded. The presiding officer without objection. Morning business is closed. Under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations, which the clerk will report. The clerk nominations, federal Energy Regulatory commission, norman c. Bay of new mexico to be a member. Cheryl a. Lafleur of massachusetts to be a member. The presiding officer under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to the vote to invoke cloture on the bay nomination. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from virginia. A senator madam president , i have eight unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. I ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed to, that the requests be printed in the record. And i also ask unanimous consent that time be yielded b
I mean, i wonder if this is actually i dont want to say progress, but i mean, [laughter] im not trying to be funny. [laughter] okay. Im this is just outside your point of view, as in i wonder im listening to everybody talk about how [inaudible] a very good stereotype attached to you, and now heres just one bad case. I guess, i dont know if michael, who just was indicted is an indian, so, i mean, this is yeah. This is the second one. [laughter] i think already we will be available to sign the book if youre interested in that, and thank you so much. That was fantastic. Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next on booktv, pretty ser prize winning author examines the inner workings of Continental Congress and army and britains political and military reaction to the cart of the war. This is about an hour. [applause] thank you for that gracious introduction, and thank you, all, for making it out on a not so pleasant evening, whetherwise at least. I
He was just he was having fun with the crowd. You say that as a guy who lived and worked in florida around jeb bush and knows jeb bush and knows his personality and that was his dry as you say, his dry humor that perhaps didnt translate to the rest of the country, but i think in that crowd jeb still is the standard bearer are please clap in that jeb pose at the end. Do you know how else he is a standard bearer is jeb bush said during the campaign that donald trump was the chaos candidate. It is hard to imagine how this country would be different if everybody in the republican primary voted the way i did and voted for jeb bush. What a difference. I mean, you know, people go to the ballot boxes and they think, oh, it doesnt matter, they are all the same. They are not all the same. Its hard to really imagine, but now would be a good day to stop and say, okay, we are in the middle of impeachment for a president who extorted a foreign leader to interfere in americas elections and Everybody
Plus, ebola, isis, terror. Is barack obama responsible for the sense that people have that the world has gone crazily unsafe . What does it mean for the midterm elections and the rest of his presidency . We have great historians and analysts to weigh in. Also, Edward Snowden says he would love to come back to america for trial. Ill tell you why that can and should happen. And on the eve of halloween, can you resist a plate of cookies, a bowl of candy, a bag of marshmallows . What your selfcontrol says about you and your prospects for your whole life, from the psychologists who led the famous marshmallow test. But first, here is my take. When news flashed that a man had shot and killed a canadian soldier in front of the war memorial in canada, what most people were wondering, but not saying out loud was, is it another radical muslim . And it was. As was the man who ran over two canadian soldiers in quebec, martin rueleaux couture. And so it is why i have said before, we have to be hones
Around lets call it with the russians that would allow jerad a direct line into moscow outside of u. S. Government control or communications. That was friday night. This is tuesday night. It was still the story. White house reporters wanted answers to today. And during the white house bereaving which to be candid had its ugly moments sean spicer did not deny the story. He merely went after how it was reported. Im wondering sean if you can tell us when the president knew, whether the president knew at the time that Jared Kushner was seeking to establish back Channel Communications at the Russian Embassy to the russian government. And if he didnt know at the time when did he find out. I think that assumes a lot. I would say that mr. Serbners attorney has said that mr. Kushner volunteered to Tell Congress what he knows about these meetings. Did the president discuss it . Im not going to get into what the president did or did not discuss. What your question assumes is a lot of facts that a