there were several moments today that were just remarkable, nicole. tell me more. what does that say? does it say that everyone involved is an adult and there s confidence in the relationship? what does it say? i think we will see wha happens with the relationship because the reality is there are president biden was vice president biden under president obama who had a tense relationship at times with the pentagon and the u.s. military and we ve already seen that president biden, he has very strong opinion on military presence overseas. we have seen he made the decision against the military leadership recommendations to pu troop out of afghanistan. will this lead to a more open relationship, lea to more tension between the pentagon and white house as we saw under the obama administration, i rlly don t know what s going to
i m very glad to hear it. i mean, i think the report is all well and good for historians, but i think the thing the committee has to think about is our democracy is under threat. what is the relationship between officials and white supremacist groups and white nationalist groups that were participating in this. what are their relationships now? i don t think anyone has doubt that donald trump suborned people to attempt overthrow of the united states. that to me is a given. by the way, i would like to try the face in front of the supreme court as to whether executive privilege extends to a president trying to overthrow the republic. more importantly, we need to know what s going on now, what are the relationships. one of of the things that s so ugly and dangerous is the republicans who are trying to excuse what happened on
personal this was for her to brin this kind of project, this kind of investment to this community, the former president underscored that as well, saying this is something that can drive innovation. s driving the investment. you see the wk has already begun behind me in this south side jackson park area. theye really trying to have this be an inclusive project and you see that even i terms of e construction period. we kno that me than half of the ctracto that ve alread been award contracts for this project are eher wome or peop of color. the architect is o of the architects i a womanf color so there s that idea of intention all throughout the day, not only inreside ama s words b in wt we re seeing with the start of this presidential center construction. eddie glaude, i watched this speech and one of the things that jumpedut to me from the president, and i also, you know, this idea of a center, we don t call themibraries anymo because centers are wre young people go, it s where thin
debt accrued under a republican senate, republican house, and of course republican president. democrats are considering using the reconciliation process to raise the debt ceiling, a process that could take weeks. lawmakers have until october 18th to act before the u.s. defats on its debts. all this happening at critil momentor the president s enda. in a bit o a reversal in terms strategy, speaker nancy pelosi i sayinghe house will vo on t bipartisan infrastructure bil thsday, ev thoug the larr reconciliaon bill that contains major partsf the president s agenda isn t ready. joining coverage, jim heinz of connecticut, member of house intel committee. i want to get to all of that and we ll focus on the fact that all this falls on democrats because republicans are clearly not interested in governing. i want to ask about the news about general milley s testimony today. he testifies for a house committee tomorrow. i wonder your reaction to what you heard from him today. well, i was glad to
president biden against withdrawing troops from afghanistan, despite public denial that he to his knowdge was counselled to leave a small residual force behind. what amounted to defense of the president s authority as the country s commander in chief, general milley stressed biden was under no obligation to agree with recommendations from military advisers and issued forcefulesponse askedy republican senat tom cotton why he hadn t resigned after biden declined to take his advice. watch. senator, as a senior military officer, resigning is a really serious thing, it is a political act, i i am resigning in protest. my job is to provide advice. my responsibility is to provide legal voice or best military advice to the president and that s my legal requirement, that s what the law is. the preside doesn t have to agree with that advice, doesn t have to make those decisions just because we re gerals and it would be an incredible act of political defiance for a