View of government. We are fund bide these Television Companies and more. Including cox. This syndrome is extremely rare. Heufplt. Friends dont have to be. This is joe. When you are connected, you are not alone. Cox supports cspan, as a public service. Along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. I. Host welcome back. We are joined by Alex Rouhandeh, a Congressional Correspondent for newsweek. Welcome. Guest thank you for having me. Host impeachment articles for Homeland Security secretary mayorkas were supposed to have been delivered to the senate today. They have decided to delay the delivery. What is going on . Guest we all thought that the house would start its formal proceeding of walking the impeachment articles over to the senate to begin things for the week, but Senate Republicans, particularly conservative members, spoke up and said they believe it should be delayed so it is not falling on the preceding on thursday but the last week of
Comments live. Then Alex Rouhandeh talks about news of the day on capitol hill, including the delay by House Republicans and bringing articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary Alejandra Mayorkas to the senate. And then jared bass with the center for American Progress and Christian Cooper of the foundation for research on equal opportunity to talk about President Bidens revised student loan forgiveness plan. Also, lisa curtis, Program Director for the indo pacific on the japanese Prime Ministers u. S. Visit, and the Security Alliance between the two countries in the face of threats from china. Washington journal starts now. Host good morning. Wednesday, april 10. Yesterday, the Arizona Supreme Court imposed a near total ban on abortion, citing an 1864 law that forbids the procedure except his ailing mothers life. It also punishes providers with six years of prison time. The first halfhour, we will get your reaction to the arizona ruling. Publicans, 202 7488001. Republi
fed chair jerome powell and what s going to play out. thank you so much. more breaking news, folks, a lot going on today. moments ago, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell had to be escorted away from the cameras after freezing in the middle of his opening remarks in the weekly leadership press conference. i want to watch that moment and talk. good bipartisan cooperation. and a string of anything else you want to say or do you want to go back to your office? do you want to say anything else to the press?
this executive order. you had some justice department lawyers showing up in court over the weekend and they clearly were not prepared to defend this just because they did not know, they did not know what this order was about and how to defend it. he did not have time to get their legal arguments ready. and we also saw, you know evan, i have to interrupt you. paul ryan has just approached the podium. this is the gop weekly leadership press conference. so let s switch to that. let s listen to what paul ryan has to say. we hear it from the people who have been denied choices. this law is collapsing and we need to step in and restore real choices and real competition so that we can actually lower costs for patients and families. second, under the congressional review act, the house will expedite five resolutions to block costly, harmful regulations, including turning the page on what has been a war on coal jobs in america. these measures will deliver relief from regulations that
completely agree osomethin, som we agree on is we need to secure our border. the physical barrier on the border is all about. we have security concerns given this age of terrorism and the fact we have drugs coming across our border, an opioid problem. lots of reasons our focus is on border security. thank you, mr. speaker. all right. we re going to break away from this press conference. it was the gop weekly leadership press conference. let s talk about what just transpired. i want to bring back in our panel. politics editor at the root.com, jason johnson. columnist for the daily beast, patricia murphy and cnn legal analyst laura coates and george turwiliger who was acting attorney general under george h.w. bush. thanks for sticking around. i want to start with what paul