Sen. Brown thank you, the housing and Affairs Committee will come to order. This hearing is in the virtual format. Sorry to those of you who have to hear this every time, when you start speaking there will be a slight delay. Please click the mute button until it is your turn to speak or ask questions. You should have a little box on your screen labeled clock that shows how much time is remaining for witnesses. You will have five minutes for opening statements, and for senators, the fiveminute clock still remains for your questions. You will hear a bell ring to remind you that the time has most expired and it will ring again when the time has expired. If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next witness or senator until it is resolved. Fortunately we rarely have technical problems but one never knows. To simplify the speaking order process, senator toomey and i have agreed to go by seniority for the hearing. Last february, as the world came to the collective realization we w
How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
program that cuts back on medicaid in order to have tax cut for wealthy people, but we do need to deal with the cost of the individual market and the premiums. one way to do that is to make sure that the cost sharing is a predictable payment to the insurance companies to cover the cost deductibles and co-pays. another thing we can do is improve subsidies for lower income families. democrats and reins cpublicans o that together. democrats and republicans can bring down the cost of prescriptio prescriptions. we could follow a canadian mod e. we could organize the patient as value reimbursement rather than just volume. do you accept the idea that repeal and replace of obamacare is a mandate for the republican majorities?
there is an agreement here, i m trying to think of this almost like middle east peace, first negotiate the the cease-fire and then agree, the democrat agree obamacare needs major reforms and here s what we re willing to talk about. what are you willing on your end to
LAWTON, OK — Two former Lawton police officers readying for trial for the December 2021 shooting death of Quadry Malik Sanders are hoping the Stand Your Ground Defense will lead