The then what is really important. If i could say one thing, the statement by the military yesterday in the history of this nation was absolutely original, what the joint chiefs of staff wrote in a one page memorandum excuse me, a twopage memorandum. A one page memorandum to 2 million people. It was extraordinary. Francine they are trying to figure out if there are enough republicans in the senate to impeach the president. Mitch mcconnell, i believe, is the only person who can recall the senate. Is there any chance that he would do it . Tom we will talk to our experts about that. That gap in the senate versus a Democratic House is about 17 votes. That is a lot of votes. Francine lets get straight now to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. The house has voted to demand that Vice President mike pence use the 25th President Trump from office. The vote was largely a symbolic asset because hours earlier, hence told nancy pelosi he would not comply. This sets the stage to
Democrats gained control of the senate in the upcoming election. Senator marco rubio joins the chair Lindsay Graham and others at a News Conference to talk about the proposed amendment. Can you hear me with this on. Thank you for being here today. A year and a half ago before the debate was going on about the court and the nomination, we predicted to expand the packet. I chuckle when i hear people say if they move forward we are going to go ahead and pack the etcourt. They were going to do that anyway. Our institution to solidify the institution requires stability and thats why weve filed this amendment over a year and a half ago. I dont think you have to wait to hear directly from joe biden or any of the people around the country i dont think you need to wait to hear from them whether they will expand the court. I think we already know the answer and that has become pretty apparent throughout this process. It is our hope that eventually we will be able to get a vote and maybe we can w
Pressures for boeing, downgrades at Credit Suisse and ubs renewed congressional scrutiny, shares tumbling 10 on the past week. Opioids on trial in ohio for Drug Companies reaching a last minute settlement ahead of a landmark First Federal opioid case. And Mark Zuckerberg speaking out, why the facebook ceo tells nbc news it is more important to be understood than it is to be liked. Shares of boeing under pressure, having its worst day in more than 2 1 2 years, losing almost 7 friday. As we said, Credit Suisse and ubs cut the stock to neutral from buy today boeing under scrutiny following the revelations of the emails from 2016, which called into question the safety of the 737 max jets Flight Control system. The board met over the weekend, expressed regret over the message, continuing to investigate. Dennis muilenburg is scheduled to testify at house transportation next week reuters suggested this Board Meeting in texas may consider things like job cuts and some other kinds of trimmings
Morning. Education secretary rick perry calling it a deliberate attack on the Global Economy. Plus oxycontin maker, pharma filing for bankruptcy this morning. First up, though, a series of attacks on two of the Worlds Largest Oil Facilities in the news the u. S. Is rejecting that notion saying the scope and the precision of the attack suggests the launch was made by the houthis but, in fact, originated by iran. Iran calling the claims baseless and unacceptable guys, weve been talking all year long about what it could take to produce a true supply shock. I think theyll come back 5. 7 Million Barrels. Look theres a temporary inability to get permian oil. You can only ship so much. You have one harbor who can handle it, two others. Corpus christi not yet i guess what im saying it cant. Were pumping too much and it does remind you if we had even more pipelines, we could just turn the spigot on its not the Strategic Petroleum reserve. Its the permian. There are a lot of key questions. One,
Would begin the first in a series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. In this hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas in our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to form a Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter , justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be fair, independent and impartial and that we must also believe that our courts are fair, independent, and impartial. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice it might take a second but we intuitively understand that. It means that as the Supreme Court recently explained both th