His examining politics podcast and news of the day. We will take your calls as always it you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host this is the washington journal for august 5. The flag at the u. S. Capitol at halfstaff after the shootings that resulted in multiple deaths in dayton ohio dayton, ohio, and el paso, texas. President trump expected to make statement at 10 00. Some are calling for the president to strongly condemn White Nationalism and some are calling for the senate to come back into session. In the first hour of our program this morning, we are asking you how washington should respond to the recent Mass Shootings. Here is how you can let us know. Republicans, 2027488001howdem. And independents, 2027488002. If you are a gun owner and want to give your thoughts on how washington should respond to the 24 plusf the last hours, you can join us on twitter and post on our Facebook Page. On the senate side, several members of the senat
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The Foreign Relations committee will come to order. Two housekeeping issues, if i could. We have a number of people in the audience, some of whom like to express themselves. We thank you for being here. Senator corker in the past when there have been interruptions, on occasion, ive been able to have people arrested but we stopped that. So please dont do anything that causes you to have to be escorted out of the room because hen the process continues with being arrested, its fairly unpleasant, id hate to see you go through that. Secondly, we have a vote, we have two votes today, which is unfortunate. What weve talked about doing is adjourning the hearing at about seven minutes to 6 00, everybody rushing down and voting on the tail end of the first vote and the second vote, therell be no spoking before the second vote. Then if we could hustle bam. I know general mattis has a meeting hed like to attend and others want to complete our work in an appropriate way. With that, id like to thank
Session. Senator flake, if you will continue. Senator flake thank you mr. Chairman. We talked before the break about an aumf. E need i mentioned how few people were actually here. Than 100use, fewer members of the house were there was passed. 1 aumf 23ody on this panel but only members of the senate were here to vote. Simply helps. We have to have a situation where the congress is more involved here. Newderstand, say that a aumf would be welcomed but not required. Just for the benefit of everybody here, no administration would ever aumfde that you need an because the absence of it would suggest that what we have been doing for 16 years would be illegal. Certain activities we have undertaken. I think we all understand the administration will say that no aumf or no new authorities are needed by whether or not they are needed to provide a legal basis, they are certainly needed politically and we cannot continue to go on in a situation 70 of the house and the senate has never voted on an a
[apple pound devil pound [gavel pound] were glad to be back in session. Senator flake, if you will continue. Senator flake thank you mr. Chairman. We talked before the break about an aumf. E need i mentioned how few people were actually here. Than 100use, fewer members of the house were there was passed. 1 aumf 23ody on this panel but only members of the senate were here to vote. Simply helps. We have to have a situation where the congress is more involved here. Newderstand, say that a aumf would be welcomed but not required. Just for the benefit of everybody here, no administration would ever aumfde that you need an because the absence of it would suggest that what we have been doing for 16 years would be illegal. Certain activities we have undertaken. I think we all understand the administration will say that no aumf or no new authorities are needed by whether or not they are needed to provide a legal basis, they are certainly needed politically and we cannot continue to go on in a s