complete without a trip to the seal called in these. harbor seals and rare grey seals bost in the evening sun as laid back as most everything else some speak of the green knight and . time now to disclose the winner of this week s a drop now we have asked you what you would take to a desert island here s some of the answers our viewers sent in oh no for india is from sri lanka would take his wife with him and francisco martinez from venezuela his middle and danielle sierra from hunter s. chose a special japanese and knife and christina kind of from bucharest would take sunscreen quite a wise choice but the winner is linearly intel from germany who would take her cat with her very cute cat. congratulations you ve won yourself
lastly, bost said his office never determined that the communications were threatening enough to warrant a call to the authorities on this shooter complaining ten times to his republican member of congress in the state of illinois. here now is a message from the president of the united states earlier today for wounded congressman steve scalise. congressman steve scalise is a friend and a very good friend. he s a patriot and he s a fighter. he will recover from this assault. and steve, i want you to know that you have the prayers not only of the entire city behind you but of an entire nation and, frankly, the entire world. america s praying for you and america s praying for all of the victims of this terrible shooting. let s go to our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. that was the president s message
flynn will invoke the fifth amendment in response to a subpoena requesting documents about his ties and contacts with rush shachlt we ll talk more about this a little later on. flynn was also accused in a letter today, elijah cumming of lying to security clearance investigators back in 2016 about being paid by russian media. those payments were for an appearance at a now well chronical dinner honoring vladimir putin in december of 2018 for our tea, russian television here. here with us tonight discuss it eli, wall street journal, bost in globe columness, ethics chair at the pointer institute. and plit skoliticpolitico, mich. mike, you ll get the first question tonight what just
the president calling for a cap how much class time students spend taking standardized tests of the he is holding a meeting at white house today with school officials to outline the new plan. most states agreed to the common core standards in 2010 but there has been growing criticism that the feds are too involved in what some say should be a state and local decision. the federal bost does not require common core but the administration had backed it with financial incentives. obama saying that the government is partially responsible for making testing so important. i also hear from parents who rightly worry about too much testing. and from teachers who feel so much pressure to teach to a test, that it takes the joy out of teaching and learning, both for them and for the students. i want to fix that. don t fix it. stay away from it. we ve had enough bureaucracy. we have enough meddling. we re seeing unintended consequences but, tony, my
types of abuses. in fact others in the military have said this is part of their culture. martland said there was understanding that the u.s. military does not get involved because it would undermined the authority of the local bost government. meanwhile government officials laugh it off. the mother tried to stop it. another afghan official beat her up. that is why he took matters intos his own hand. the pentagon is responding to with a statement, that said we never had a policy in place to have any military member ignore human rights abuse. that is lawyer speak. those are lawyers at the department of defense trying to cover their own tails. that is all it is. to think we ll send american military personnel with the principles we have in this country overseas and allow child rape on u.s. bases? this is one of the stupidest things i ever heard the department of defense do. they need to back off and keep martland in the military. the military says it can t condone vigilante justice.