the way the founders thought senators should had be elected. the state legislature chose and voted for reed smoot to go to the united states senate to represent the state of utah. in his 30-year career as a senator, reed smoot rose to the most powerful chairmanship in the senate, chairman of the senate finance committee with jurisdiction over the federal government s two ways of raising revenue, bringing money into the treasury, taxation and tariffs. with the stock ■çmarket crashin in 1929 and the country entering the great depression reed smoot had the worst idea any chairman of the senate finance committee ever had. it was an idea that would end his career in the senate. the house ways and means committee had the same jurisdiction in the house that the finance committee has in the senate, taxation and tariffs. the chairman of the house ways and means committee, willis hawley, loved reed smoot s very bad idea. that idea also ended chairman hawley s career in the house of
made of what about debate night in america begins june 27. good seven hello and welcome to our viewers, joining us from all around the world and everyone streaming us on cnn. next, i m rosewood church, just ahead. us president joe biden and donald trump will meet face-to-face. one week from today for the first presidential debate, we will show you how the two candidates are prepping for the event and extreme weather conditions in the us leading to a fires, floods, and mudslides. we will tell you when we might get a break from the record heat plus russian president vladimir putin touches down vietnam just hours after signing a mutual defense pact. with pyongyang from redlands this is cnn newsroom with rosemarie have you with us? we ll end just one week. us president joe biden and former president donald trump will face off in a live debate right here on cnn. both men are preparing for the pivotal showdown in what could be a defining moment in this year s presidenti
their other posts. it shows video of biden watching a parachuting demonstration with other world leaders. and if you only saw the moments that they decided to post of this video, the video makes it look like biden is confused or wandering off, the caption, what is biden doing adds to that impression. if you watch a longer version of that same moment or you watch it from other angles, you can see that biden is clearly watching other pair shooters out of frame and giving them a thumbs-up. but rather than include that context, 90 minutes after they posted their video, the new york post reposted it. making him seem even more out of it. and of course, hours later the video got the fox news treatment . during a parachute demonstration, biden got dazed and confused, how shocking and started to just wander off like that. as other leaders looked on in agony fox news, looked on in agony nevermind the fact that they are quoted on the record. the next morning, the story was the fro
between president biden and benjamin netanyahu after the israeli prime minister accused the white house of withholding military aid. plus, we ll have the latest from vladimir putin s state visit to north korea and the pact that he just signed with kim jong-un. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 20th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning with the race for the white house. and exactly one week before president joe biden and donald trump meet on the debate stage, we ve got new polling that shows that the sitting president has moved into the lead. for the first time since october the latest fox news survey finds biden ahead of trump, 50% to 48% among registered voters. now, to be clear, that 2-point difference is within the poll s margin of error. but this new survey marks a 3-point swing towards biden for last month and a 7-point swing for march. that number matters. the change is being driven
better results to debate night in america begins june 27. good seven hello and a warm welcome to our viewers, joining us in the united states and around the world. i m anna coren sitting in for max foster just to hate extreme weather in the us with fires, floods, mudslides, and a tropical storm will tell you when there will be a break from the record, breaking heat plus us president joe biden and donald trump will meet face to face. just one week from today for the first presidential debate. will show you how the two candidates are preparing for the event and russian president vladimir putin touches down in vietnam just hours after signing a mutual defense pact with north korea it s those thursday, june 20th, 4:00 p.m. here in hong kong, 3:00 a.m. on the southern gulf coast of texas, where more than 2 million people are under a tornado watch, right now due to tropical storm alberto the national hurricane center says, alberto has been strengthening and will continue to bri