Funding expires. Bills on energy and clean air and forced labor. Announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state in statuary hall at u. S. Capitol friday. The ceremony will only be open [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by conroy. Plain, father chaplain conroy let us pray. Ord, merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. E give you thanks for the life and work of justice ruth ginsburg. Americans be inspired to be their best selves because of her example. She rest in peace. Bless those throughout our ation who are suffering from the pandemic, fires, hurricanes, and flooding. Needs continue. Our political leaders to tend to those needs with sp
From other countrys militaries. Its about two hours and 20 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. All right. Well, good morning. And, maam, im honored to be able to moderate you this morning, so as she just mentioned, were going to be talking about secretary james new book. Ive read it, ive listened to it. Its absolutely amazing. I will tell you today, thats what were going to talk about. So, maam, first and foremost, just to kind of break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story. Well, throughout my life, and as you heard, be i have been at this business of our National Security for actually closer to 40 years. Time goes by since that bio was written. Ive been always a civilian and i have worked in congress. Ive been in the pentagon for several tours and ive been in private industry. Always working on defense issues. As i was making my way up and trying to figure out my career next moves through the ups and downs of life, i would always look up to the people above me and
Woman in congress could be sitting in this very room. Im really excited to bring up our next speaker. She has more than 30 three yeaf experience in National Security and defense, both in the federal government and the private sector. Shes an expert in the fence, government services, and has extensive leadership experience. She was the 23rd secretary of the air force. [cheers and applause] one of two women to hold the position. And i know she will probably talk but her new book. We have available in the bookstore here on the Convention Floor and i just got a cup and i look forward to reading it. Id like now to bring up ms. Deborah james and moderator colonel carol. [applause] good morning, everybody. Good morning. All right. Well, good morning and im honored to be able to moderate you this morning. So as she just mentioned were going to be talking about secretary james new book. I read it. Listen to. It is absolutely amazing i will say to you today thats what were going to talk about. S
restrictions on abortion access, to a key defense bill. what that can do to the chances of getting it through congress. later, without being able to say who left a pack of cocaine in the west wing. the secret service still says case closed. the question is why. good evening and special counsel jack smith decides to charge the former president for his role in trying to overturn the election. being able to show his intent will be critical. and showing intense could hinge on whether or not he really believed he had one. tonight, new evidence that smith is thinking along those lines, and is looking for evidence from people who would know, or might have heard him indicate that he had known he had loss. sources tell cnn that jared kushner, and former top aide, hope hicks, have both gone before the grand jury. and some questions asked whether the former president was told he had lost the election. this adds to the picture given by testimony from other members of his inner circle. in
along with joe, willie and me, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and president emeritus of the council on foreign relations, richard haass, back with us this morning. he somehow becomes even more distinguished. he does. amazing. erudite is the word that come comes to mind. yes. willie, we ll get to the whistleblower that comer couldn t find, and then must be humiliated, as they found him in the southern district of new york. oh boy. oh no. a spy or something like that. we ll get to the details in a little bit. seriously, the gang that couldn t shoot straight, they keep getting the political gun, aiming it right at their foot, right? it s absolutely crazy. willie, last night, of course, midsummer, one of the most fun annual traditions, not joey chestnut eating nathan s hot dog eating contest for the 16th time. 16th time, you have to love the guy. the home run derby last night, how exciting?