criticism that it s not happening quickly enough to be useful. if we look at the front page of the sunday mirror, it s very critical 0ur blood on your hands, boris. that was a translator who did get out, but this is a translator who is in hiding from the taliban, who hasn t been able to get out of kabul airport and fears for his life and his family s life. take us through this, faiza. his family s life. take us through this, faiza- this, faiza. this is a story of a translator this, faiza. this is a story of a translator that this, faiza. this is a story of a translator that hasn t - this, faiza. this is a story of a translator that hasn t been . this, faiza. this is a story of a i translator that hasn t been able this, faiza. this is a story of a - translator that hasn t been able to translator that hasn t been able to get out, someone that stood along while his troops, british troops thatis while his troops, british troops that is hiding from the taliban. have thought he woul
i was shocked that the former president obama left so many vacancies and didn t try to fill those positions. i ll tell you why. i ll tell you why. i was in charge of the whof what we did the last two years of the administration. i will give you full credit of that and take a bow. that laugh you just heard from the leader mcconnell there is a pride to republicans. mcconnell s right. he did this. he manufactured this. but it is for this reason i think he has his loyalty to president trump. right. and so let s bring it all full circle now. because you ve been talking about impeachment this morning. and you look at the underlying facts that have been presented and many wonder why hasn t this moved the needle with more republicans, more conservatives? one explanation is they are willing to excuse, to overlook a tremendous amount because they re getting what they want from the federal judiciary. so the lesson, the takeaway is
supports it, you support it, what itself the problem? why hasn t this come up for a vote? well, this is an extraordinary measure. i was spearheading the last effort on sentence reform eight years ago. my partner was sessions, durbin, sessions, now we have a more amazing coalition, not just president trump endorsing it, construct grassley, my co-senior and corey booker and the major police organizations and aclu and others, we have reached a moment where we ought to move together on a bipartisan basis and solve a problem, it s up to senator mcconnell. he will make the decision about whether this will be a priority in the closing days. if he doesn t do it in the closing days, do you think he will do it in the new session in the republicans will still be in the majority? they will be in the majority. the stars don t line up the way they have in this circumstance very offer. let s seize this and make sure something is done in the new
why is that? right. so the ceo of amtrak just gave a conference call to reporters and i do, you know, it was troubling because that question was asked and he did not answer it at first. he was pushed and he finally answered that there was no positive train control on this track. and for people who don t know what that is, essentially it s technology that automatically slows down a train if it s going too fast, faster than what the speed limit is. in a curve in particular. this was a curve in the track, wasn t it? exactly. we know along the track the speed limit is 75 miles per hour, but what we don t know what was the speed limit as the train was approaching that curve and was it going to speed limit? to your question why hasn t this happened yet? it comes down to the almighty dollar. and a lot of these people who own the actual tracks, amtrak does not own the track, they ve been pushing for congress to delay, delay, delay the deadline and it really comes down to it s an expensiv
non-nuclear activity. but i do agree that the agreement has worked so far, and i think that s been a positive. the president during the campaign used to say it was the worst agreement ever. still says that, although he and his administration believe the iranians are in compliance. as you know, the house majority leader kevin mccarthy is saying he plans to combine a house passed north korean sanctions bill to the senate, russia s sanctions legislation, passed by the senate one time 8-2, then 97-2. what s the problem? why hasn t this come up on the floor of the house of representatives? korea has come up on the talking about the russia sanctions, i understand that, and passed overwhelmingly. what the majority leader gave out. however, leader pelosi and i along with chairman ranking member engle introduced the senate bill as originally passed and would be for that. that could be brought to the