It is free. It is easily accessible. It is all there at cspan. Org. Matthew green, John Nance Garner, who was speaker of the house from 1931 to 1933 and president s vice said the speaker of the house drop is the hardest job in washington. Do you agree . When the framers created the position, what were they thinking about . A kind of model of the speakership where it was a position that had some parliamentary responsibilities, so its job was to preside over the chamber and make sure the rules were being followed fairly, but they also understood could take onion other responsibilities. It is telling it is mentioned only once in the constitution and says the house shall choose it speaker and leaves the rest up to the house to determine what the speaker responsibilities will be. Over time, has it evolved as the institution changed or a combination . I think it is a combination. Certainly the larger context with which speakers have to operate, the house itself, national governments, the lar
That sentence recommendation of nine years infuriated the president. As the story goes, the president directed attorney general william bar to intervene. The next day, the Trump Administration retracted the sentencing memo and suggested a lighter punishment. And then, the Prosecution Team withdrew from the case in protest. And all four of them left the case, wanted them resigned resigned from the department of justice. Since then, more than 2000 former federal prosecutors have demanded that at attorney general william bar step down. But that is not deterred the president. Yesterday he continued to fight for his buddy roger stone. Have you pardon roger stone . I have not given any thought but i think hes been treated very unfairly you look at roger stone for a tweet, somebody has to stick up for the people. Napolitano some yeses stick up for the people, political firestorm overshadowed the original case. But is the president correct in calling for less prison time . Here to discuss his
That sentence recommendation of nine years infuriated the president. As the story goes, the president directed attorney general william bar to intervene. The next day, the Trump Administration retracted the sentencing memo and suggested a lighter punishment. And then, the Prosecution Team withdrew from the case in protest. And all four of them left the case, wanted them resigned resigned from the department of justice. Since then, more than 2000 former federal prosecutors have demanded that at attorney general william bar step down. But that is not deterred the president. Yesterday he continued to fight for his buddy roger stone. Have you pardon roger stone . I have not given any thought but i think hes been treated very unfairly you look at roger stone for a tweet, somebody has to stick up for the people. Napolitano some yeses stick up for the people, political firestorm overshadowed the original case. But is the president correct in calling for less prison time . Here to discuss his
It will slowly lift throughout the day and others will get some sun and clouds but 40s and 50s, very mild air mass in place. Cloudy drizzle throughout the day. Rain returns late saturday into sunday. Low 60s including san jose is 61. We are starting in the east bay steve but we are going to try to touch all the commutes. The each bay commute has a little bit of a delay here. You will also see some slow traffic on the east shore freeway. 33 minutes better than yesterday at this time getting out to the bay bridge is backed up for a little bit. Coming up we will touch on the san jose and the south bay commute. Now it is 7 02 pellets go back to the desk been we are working on a couple of developings story. One is in east san jose. Thats where a rescue operation is wrapping up after car ran off the road and into a creek this is the scene on clayton road. It took rescue teams about two hours to bring the driver back up the slope. Based on how far he went out mail slide, for him to be awake a
We will give some breaks. Very mild. Low 60s. East bay north, though, i dont think so. Visibility is okay. We will keep an eye on things. Not too bad, yet. Mid50s even for some, a cloudy day. South of that, low 60s. There is slower traffic out there, steve. There is some traffic driving out towards the dublin interchange. Not that much, but a little bit as you can see the traffic is still getting slower. This is a look at interstate 880 at the bay bridge toll plaza is a little bit of a backup. Topping our news this morning is not clear when a trial will be scheduled in the u. S. Senate following impeachment of President Trump in the house of representatives. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is refusing to say when she will send the impeachment articles to the senate for the trial saying she will only do so when she is sure the trial will be conducted fairly. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has said that he is correlating with the white house on the terms of the trial and declares that