This is about 20 minutes. Mr. Biden thank you all for being here. [cheers and applause] thank you. I appreciate you being here on this gorgeous day in a magnificent, magnificent setting. I think about all the lives that were lost here. Please, all, have a seat. On july 4, 1863, america worked awoke to the remains of perhaps the most consequential battle on american soil. It took place on this ground at gettysburg. Three days of violence, three days of carnage, 50,000 casualties wounded, captured, missing, or dead over three days of fighting. When the sun rose on that independence day, lee would retreat. The war would go on for nearly two more years. But the back of the confederacy had been broken. The union would be saved. Slavery would be abolished. The government of, by, and for the people would not perish from the earth and freedom would be born anew in our land. Theres no more fitting place than here today in gettysburg to talk about the cost of division, about how much it has cost
Himself and i want to see what you could pull even from Something Like that. The first one i want to look at that i think gives you a gut sense of what he was thinking about at the time, what he was thinking of about america and what he thinks about when he thinks about the american government, its a memo that he wrote right after the constitutional convention. And leading up to it for a while, he had been one of the nations new leading nationalists, one of the earliest voices and loudest voices saying we need a stronger government. We need a stronger government. He was out there chiming away for this. You finally get the constitutional convention. You would think that hamilton would be like, yes, finally, we have a new constitution. Ive been wanting this all along and now finally were here. Okay. So to know what hes thinking, its a memo after the convention, he goes home and in a very lawyerly kind of way he sits down at his desk and says, what do you think is going to happen next . A
Morning joe starts right now. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, january 12th. Along with joe, willie and me, we have former u. S. Senator, now nbc news and msnbc political analy analyst, claire mechanic cast skill. Former assistant director of the Fbi Counterintelligence Division frank joins us this morning. His new book is the fbi way. Inside the bureaus code of excellence. So weve got frank here. Hey, frank, you know i went to law school. A country lawyer. Are we starting this way . I dont understand these strange words you jumble together. I would like to read a couple of federal criminal statutes because i think its a good place to start this show. Because i think with all of the ground noise thats going on, all the questions about who voted what, where, i think were missing the bigger picture. And i want federal authorities to know that the people of the United States of america are going to pressure them every day to hold these traitors, seditionists to the
His name is slightly altered, do. Its not, but i have great sympathy for an organization when they go back to an Intelligence Agency and get stiff arm three times in a row i dont know if thats the case, thats my point. I think it is relatively common, but again what it is in this case or in a case there will be cases the fbi closes. How do we spread that responsibility, share that with the state and locals so of the resources can keep an eye on it and how long . Right now the Fusion Centers frankly are not doing a great job of picking that up because we havent told them to do that. The jttf rules make it difficult, not impossible but difficult for the information to be shared so the mayor of new york or ray kelly or ed davis or the Cambridge Police chief can decide, you know what, this is worth my time and energy even if its not worth the fbi. We dont want the fbi making that decision. We want the state and local authorities making that decision because they know if they want to guard
Tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. Hoyer, for five minutes. Mr. Hoyer i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Hoyer thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, beginning this week literally hundreds of thousands of civilian workers are being furloughed and particularly at the defense in marylands fifth district, across the street, and around the country. That means as of monday morn