This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago. Bill clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course, not even close. I apologize if anybody was offended. In a tweet concerning the audio, Hillary Clinton said this is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president. Billy bush also released a statement, obviously im embarrassed and ashamed, thats no excuse. This happened 11 years ago, i was younger and less mature and acted foolishly in playing along. Im very sorry. Tomorrow is trumps meeting with paul ryan signing a bill to protect the rights of Sexual Assault survivors. The chair of the National Committee Reince Priebus said, no woman should ever be discussed about in these terms or talked about in this manner ever. Joining me Charlie Sykes, linda chavez, and ms. Chavez, i guess ill just begin with you in
responding to this. Well, i have said from the moment he announced that this man can be described in one word, and that one word is vil
Question. Why isnt adam schiff saying, yeah, lets go look at it . Instead just like yesterday when he said hell go look at it. Let me finish. He was almost about to sign the invitation for comey to come testify, but suddenly, there are stipulations. There was no reason to have stipulations. Same thing today. He was invited jack, youre rewriting jack, youre rewriting history. Stipulations, what are you saying let me answer the question. I know this not because ive talked to him, but because ive read the documents and read the public reporting which you can read as well and you probably already know, which is that he was willing to sign the letter. In fact, he said today, hes willing to have comey and rogers come in behind closeddoors testimony, but he also wants a guarantee that clapper, that yates, and others are going to testify openly and that hasnt been assured. Even today, he still hasnt gotten assurances from nunes thats going to occur. And jack, let me also ask you, if you were d
conference, australians have worked very hard to have this christmas together and we want to protect that. but, kim, it s proving very hard to do just that. yeah, the timing for all this couldn t be worse. selena wang in tokyo, thanks so much. americans are getting their covid vaccines, but not at the rate health experts would like. cdc reports more than 500 million doses administered in the u.s., more than a million and a half a day, but the pace of vaccinations is down 19% compared to last month. meanwhile doctors and nurses on the front lines of the pandemic will be spending a second christmas treating patients, many infected with the omicron variant. according to the health and human services department, more than 70,000 americans were hospitalized with covid as of thursday. u.s. regulators have authorized a second antiviral pill made by merck to treat mild to moderate covid-19. the food and drug administration authorized pfizer s antiviral pill on wednesday. and more america
she grew up here in houston. i represent the family. family member rs still here. i ve spoke within the family members. we claim brittney griner all the way. that s houston, texas. and we are praying for her family, her wife, and i take issue with any family members who want to make a prayerful comment should be allow and the very fact that brittney s wife wants to speak for her. i support it in the way it s done and the way she wants to do it. we live in a democracy and we re fighting against autocracy. we re fighting against a vile, inhumane and immoral leader. a terrorist. that is what i call putin. so unfortunately, the timing couldn t be worse. i believe all this may have even been orchestrated. i want to make sure her legal
any sense of clarity about this. as you say we only learned about this from the russians on saturday. very little has been said since. the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken in a press conference alongside the president of moldova, and speaking in generic terms, of course the u.s. government would provide every possible assistance to anybody in such a situation including those who find themselves in russia. her family is asking for privacy. she is a two-time olympian, seven-time wnba all-star but could face a jail sentence up to ten years. the timing certainly couldn t be worse. there is no doubt about that. the u.s. government is actively involved in applying some crippling sanctions towards the russian government and the russian economy. obviously the american government is trying not to further inflame the situation within the region because the