Workers go on strike and join the protesters calling for the president to step down and plans changes to the u. S. Postal service are put on hold after accusations they would sabotage the president ial election. Everyone there was a coup attempt unfolding in mali soldiers of staged a mutiny at a military base near the capital bamako they have detained the president and the Prime Minister and it has sparked Widespread International condemnation the west African Regional bloc has ordered the closure of borders with mali the African Union is in fact a cli condemning the arrests the European Union says its rejecting all unconstitutional change in the country and is calling for a dialogue if so the french president emanuel was also quick to react to a surge in soldiers to return to barracks and while the u. N. Security council is to hold an emergency meeting on wednesday to discuss the crisis will be apparent to attempt plungers mali. Deeper into crisis has been months now of protests deman
Pruitt, who is the designate for the Environmental Protection agency, the Oklahoma Attorney general, who will also be who is also on the hill for his confirmation hearing today. Very, very busy week as we lead up to the inauguration on friday. Yep. Not just this, the president s going to speak, his final News Conference at 2 00. Janet yellen in San Francisco at 3 00. So its a packed afternoon as well as a packed morning. Lets get to john harwood in washington and see what youre seeing. Hey, john. Reporter carl, first of all, weve got 48 hours left before this inauguration, and donald trump is still trying to develop some political momentum heading into that day, pushing back this morning against reporting by nbc news, among others, that suggested that some of the job announcements that have come recently have been already planned by the Companies Involved general motors, hyundai, walmart, and not because of trump. He tweeted out this morning, no, it was because of me and complained of
Shot. Nonetheless he made it here and been a fantastic member of Parliament Standing up for his constituents. In wales since the election 22,000 more small business. Employment in wales going up by 52,000. Unemployment coming down private sector growth. We see Real Recovery in wales. It needs my honourable friend back here standing up for his constituents and for wales in the house of commons. I have here, mr. Speaker, a cutting from a york crest on the 24th of april 2010. Which says and i quote. David cameron last night dismissed claims the tory was put up the mps in the election november, last november. Why should the public believe promises he makes at this coming election . I have given the strangest possible answer. This time in government, we know what needs to be done. We know the changes and the truth is, both sides of this house have voted for a 30 billionpound adjustment. The labour front bench voted for it too. We have set out what needs to happen with departmental spending
Resources that would go to prosecutors, and federal agents to be able to investigate and prosecute crimes, are being diverted to the bureau of prisons. The bureau of prisons now takes up almost twothirds of the departments budget. Thats really untenable and unsustainable. So i believe that mandatory minimum sentences are an important tool. But we but that we need to use that tool effectively. Senator blumenthal . Thanks, mr. Chairman. At the outset id like to ask permission to include in the record a statement from senator patrick leahy, our colleague from vermont, in support of ms. Yates nomination. Without objection. And id also like to include a number of letters, i referred to them earlier, from colleagues, Law Enforcement officials, officials in georgia, in support of that nomination. Without objection those are included. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Let me just ask you about olc opinions, ms. Yates. Its been a tradition common to, i think, most recent administrations that olc opinion
Conversation. It could lead to collaboration and better results for our cities and our country. So thank you all very much. Thank you. Thanks for that ending. Thanks everyone for participating. [applause] Hillary Clinton obviously part of this discussion here at the center for american progress. This is questions continuing over emails she sent during her tenure as secretary of state. The House Committee on benghazi revealing yesterday the server that contained those emails was wiped clean. The committee learned of this from a clinton attorney after requesting the server be turned over to a third party as part of that investigation into the 2012 benghazi consulate attack in libya. Its not certain when the server was erased though Benghazi Committee chair trey goudie suggested it was sometime after october 2014, when the state department asked for secretary clinton to turn offer her public records. The Republican National committee, meanwhile releasing a Statement Today about ms. Clinto