Mallicoat. She was all of those things. Hello everyone. Im heather holmes. The trailblazer for women in politics, not only here in california, but washington, d. C. Thats what senator Dianne Feinstein was. She was 90 years old when she passed away. Flowers have been placed on her statue at San Francisco city hall, where she served as mayor for nine years before being elected to the us senate. President biden is one of Many Political and cultural leaders to publicly mourn feinsteins passing. The flag there at the white house has been lowered to half staff. The president today calling feinstein a pioneering american and a cherished friend. And our greg lee looks back now on feinsteins long story political career. Trailblazer, icon and broke many barriers along the way. She served 30 years in the us senate. The first woman to represent california in the Upper Chamber and the longest serving woman senator ever. Most of my positive energy toward this job. But her political career began deca
Well, would we like it to be a bank holiday, or would it simply cost too much money . Theres one estimate that said it would cost the economy £4 billion for everyone to take a day off work, that being said, as, as Andrew Pierce was saying in the last show, weve got two Bank Holidays in may and none in april. Couldnt we just make one of them . Yeah. Do swapsies that last yeah. Do swapsies that last may. Bank holiday. Why do we have it . Yeah. If you did a direct swap, surely that would work. Although, interestingly, when i did a quick sort of straw poll amongst people this morning and you say have you ever celebrated Saint Georges day . They go , no, no. You know, for they go, no, no. You know, for many people the day passes by without them almost acknowledging it. Acknowledging it. Its like because we havent got that sort of focal point of celebration. I think so often celebration. I think so often for people. Well, right across the United Kingdom , its, its the United Kingdom, its, i
Good morning, everybody on the eclipse day. How are you doing . Shannon welcome back to new york city. Bill i escaped the swamp. It gave me a hard time. Shannon glad you made it here. Im shannon bream. President trumps speech comes tonight. Defense secretary james mattis is tight lipped on what the president has decided but will have broad impact beyond afghanistan. The president has made a decision, as he said. He wants to be the one to announce it to the American People. So ill stand silent until then. Until that point. Once he announces what the strategy is, we can get more precise on afghanistan troop levels, what well do. Shannon doug mcelway is live at the white house. The president doesnt have a lot of good choices here. He is facing the same difficult choices his two predecessors faced. He is facing the longest war in u. S. History now stretching into its 16th year, as you said. There is no clear victory in sight. The instinct is to pull out to save american lives and treasure.
More short conversations that occur over the next few days as the president makes his final decision. But that he has wrapped up the formal interview process interviewing six judges monday and tuesday of this week. He spoke with one of them twice which accounts for the seven conversations that the white house was talking about earlier in the week. It was throwing us off a little bit. We didnt know if he had seven candidates or conversations. He had six candidates and seven conversations. Im told that judge Raymond Kethledges stock is rising, an appellate judge appointed by president bush in 2000 , 51 years old. He could sit on the bench for three decades, a district constitutionalist. Got his law degree at the university of michigan. Not the typical harvard or yale pedigree. Im told by some there is a bit of concern his judicial record is a little light but he does appear to be a reliable conservative judge. Also still in the running is Bret Kavanaugh from the d. C. Circuit court of ap
On nato allies ahead of his highstakes summit in brussels next week. With that good morning, hope youre having a wonderful Independence Day. Im leland vit art in americas newsroom. Im molly line in for sandra smith. President trump saying its time to pay their fair share for defense spending and that some nato countries havent lived up to their commitments but some leaders are pushing back. This is a week ahead of the annual nato summit where the leaders of nato countries, including the president of the United States, get together in brussels. There has been questions about the United States commitment to nato especially since the Trump Administration took over and the president has been outwardly critical of the nato countries failing to meet their defense spending targets. Its long been a criticism of the United States. Long complaining about european over reliance on American Defense and reluctance to spend its own defense spending money on 2014 nato countries agreed to spending 2 o