The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. On the wiegand nomination. The question now occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 82, the nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas t. Cullen of virginia to be United States district judge for the Western District of virginia. Signed by 17 senators. The
Academys response falls short. Plus former Vice President joe biden comes to studio 57. Hell talk about the Trump Administration, his memoir of family and loss, and his political future. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. I have been waiting all my life, and now i just dont know what the hell to say. Democrats pull off an upset in alabama. Doug jones turning deep red, alabama blue, putlled a stunnin race. When the vote is this close, its not over. Lets go home and sleep on it. Well take it on tomorrow. Cbs news has obtained Text Messages between two senior fbi officials that raise questions about impartiality. Peter a sexist smear, thats what it is. A political senator. Mr. Trump, claims she would do anything for Campaign Contributions. Only if your mind was in the gutter, would you have read it that way. All that Prince William and prince harry at the european premier of the new star wars movie. And all that matters i feel like hundre
Permanent flu vaccine. And pink and sheryl crow are two of the women speaking out against the lack of female representation at this years grammys. The outcry after the Recording Academys president said female artists have to step up to win more awards. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This committee voted to put the president s personal interests above the national interest. Republicans vote to release a secret memo alleging fbi bias. To make the case that this is the most shocking document in the history of mankind, i believe thats hyperbole. The white house says it had no part of the decisionmaking process that led to the departure of deputy fbi director Andrew Mccabe. Many of us have been concerned about the highest levels of the fbi becoming too susceptible to politics and political influence. The russian fighter jets flew dangerously close to a u. S. Navy plane over the black sea. Coming within five feet of their plane. A radio host
Former chairman of the Republican National committee michael steele. Look at that christmas vest. Celebrating baby jesus birth. And White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein. Wheres the hanukkah music . Would you like to why dont you sing it for us . Its too early. I dont want to do that. No. I dont want to. Front page of the New York Times has a lot of Great Stories here. Fascinating stories. First of all, sign ups jump for obamacare. People are voting with their feet here. If republicans believe theyre going to repeal this law without having something in place to replace it, they are making a mistake that will crush them in 2018. Mark it down, republicans. Just mark it down. You dont take away you can make them better. You can replace it. You dont have a plan to replace it right now. Health savings accounts and that stuff, that aint going to cut it for the people who already know they have health care. Well talk about this in a second. But the suspect in the berlin
Convictions against two of the men who killed her sister. Wow. And all those years later, 2001 and 2002 to get those convictions to get that justice for those little girls. And that was doug jones, wow. They would be in their 60s now, rachel. They are the kind that women that delivered that state for the democrats. God bless you, man. Well done. Thank you. Thanks. Well, President Trump put it all on the line in alabama and i mean he put it all on the line and he lost. He sided with the craziest, most unprofessional and hateful advisers in american politics steve bannon and the president locked himself in an embrace with an adoesed child molester and the president of the United States crushed last night by the newest face of the resistance to out of control trumpism. We have come so far and the people of alabama have spoken. They have said we republicans now know donald trump can find a way to lose elections for republicans anywhere any time. Republicans now know that Donald Trumps supp