Determine the temperatures are similar to yesterday. Rain may set up for the weekend. 50s and 60s and very low 70s. It is 4 01. You heard me. I heard you. Trust me. I heard it at 3 01 when the alarm off. The traffic is busy if you are driving on the past. It is not stop and go. Someone told me, just because it doesnt show everyone moving well, there are a lot of people up at four in the morning. I believe it. Westbound 580 traffic is moving well but there are trucks coming in from the central valley. There are no major problems but you would be surprised at how many people are on the road. Traffic is moving well. This is a look at 880. It is a little lighter on 880. At the toll plaza, it is lightly traveled heading into San Francisco. At 4 02, lets go back to the desk. Two people are arrested after entering an offer in leading the police on a wild chase. It started before 7 00 last night when the Oakland Police tried to pull over a white dodge pickup truck the truck was driven by a man
York about 3 15. He is scheduled to be here in manhattan to his Election Night headquarters. Not to one of the trump buildings that bears his name, but the times Square Hilton hotel where security here is tight and trump trying to make history himself. Born in queens, new york n1946, donald j. Trump attend the new York Military academy, fordham university, then graduated from the university of pennsylvanias wharton school. Through the 70s he built his empire through development, first working for his father then taking over the company. In 1977, he married his first wife ivana. Trump became a New York Times best all author with his first book the art of the deal. Also landed on forbes billionaire list more than once. Trumps personal life well publicized after divorcing ivana he married and divorced marla maples, then married model melania. Five children between the three wives. The 90s and beyond trump marched by bankruptcy filings over the Atlantic City casinos bearing his name. He fi
The irs targeting of political groups. In october, chaffetz introduced legislation to impeach koskinen. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the hearing on examining allegations of misconduct on irs commissioner John Koskinen part one. I begin with myself. The constitution sets forth a system of checks and balances and grants each branch of government tools to shake sure no one gets too much power. The power to write the laws, power of the purse, impeachment power and other powers. They allow congress to expert oversight over branches including rooting up corruption, fraud and abuse by government officials and taking further disciplinary action on behalf of the American People when warranted. The duty to serve as a check on the other branches including against corruption and abuse is a solemn one and congress does not and must not take this responsibility lightly. That is why this committee scheduled a hearing
Salami slicing. Very small increments advancing interests by building up islands, adding another weapons system, making small moves, none of which is egregious enough tow cause the United States to use massive hard power but would we slowly tip the balance in chinas favor. We dont have a strategy to counter that. Deterre our hard power capability, the weapons you have described, this is a deterrent to world war iii, not to intelligent gradualism. We need a better policy. From florida, independent line, cliff for our guest robert daly, good morning. Good morning. Good conversation. Me e you have alreadystng to taken s steam out of a comment that i was going to make, but i will i make it anyway so we can reiterate. Im not probably going to be as friendly and optimistic as the answer has been given. Ussian im referring to the russian situation when they were doing their thing with georgia, uzbekistan and we were passive and we o watched and they watch how we react or no reaction. I, for o
And all i am trying to do here, paul, is identify a problem and a course and possible solutions for the American People and hope that bubbles up to the grassroots political process so that you all in government and think tanks can get the job done that you know needs to be done. There is no question that things can go bad. Thank you, everyone, for coming. I really appreciate this. If anybody wants any information about that, crouching tiger. Net. Thank you so much, peter. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] James Thurber explores the challenges of partisanship in government next on book tv. Welcome professor James Thurber from american university, coeditor of a new book called American Gridlock the sources, character, and impact of political polarization. Good morning. Morning. Good to see you. Why are we so polarized . There are variety of reasons. Sorting going on. It is a phenomenon where people mo to e th we have a phenomenon, if