The senate signed off saturday night and President Joe Biden signed the bill into law. I Government Shutdown has been a very day. At least until midnovember. Today we want to hear your reaction to the news. If you are a republican, call us at 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. If you are a federal worker who want you to call in at 202 7488003. You can use that same number to send us a text message. Include your name and where you live. Again, that is 202 7488003. You can find us on facebook. Com cspan and on x and instagram at cspan wj. Were going to be talking this morning about the averted Government Shutdown and we want to hear your reaction. After the votes were counted Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer the democrat from new york gave remarks praising the bipartisan nature of the agreement that was reached but he also criticize maga republicans. [video clip] it is been a day full of twists and turns but americans can breathe a sigh of relief. There w
The next Government Shutdown may be less than 48 hours away. The u. S. Senate has figured out a shortterm solution that wont pass the republicanled house. The ball is in speaker Kevin Mccarthys court but a significant number of his members seem to be making the rules. Good morning, it is friday, september 29, 2023. Welcome to washington journal. We will continue our conversation about the looming Government Shutdown, to days until the end of the budget year. You can call in, democrats, 202 7488000, republicans 202 7488001, independents 202 7488002 and if youre a federal worker, 202 7488003 use that line if you want to send us a text as well. We are also on facebook and we will look for your comments and we are on x an instagram at cspan wj. We thought we would have a two hour show because the house was going to go into session at 9 00 a. M. Eastern but they are not. The House Rules Committee is meeting this morning at 8 00 because there is a new stopgap measure, continuing resolution a
Plus, new developments in the fight to free an american pastor imprisoned in iran because of his christian faith. It was a meeting two years in the making. President obama sits down with sayed aborghinis wife. She sits down with us. Americas ae americas news hq starts right now. We begin with the latest threat from isis. World leaders condemning what appears to be the execution of one of the japanese hostages. Attention is now focusing on saving the remaining captive, but as the u. S. And other nations vow not to give in to terrorism, isis is changing his demands. Peter is here with us with the latest in washington. Peter . Isis wants to trade their japanese prisoner for an iraqi prisoner behind bars in jordan. The kidnappers have dropped their 200 million ransom demand and instead want to swap their prisoner for this woman who is jailed in part for her role in bombings in jordan a decade ago. So the terms are different and a new question emerges. Is this trade something the japanese a
Lawyers recommended that that change be made and now looking back he says that apparently that is what he did on his computer. What have we learned about the issue of gross negligence and that change . Well, first of all the fact that he is trying to claim dana his his political bias against donald trump had nothing to do with his ultimate conclusionses that just does not pass the smell test and i think that you saw the smugness of him throughout the hearing and he never once apologized by the way for what he had done in the Text Messages. He acknowledged that the Text Messages were there. This was his opportunity to go and explain that that was not what he said or to apologize and he did neither, which is very telling. Dana it is the first time that we are hearing from Peter Strzok Strzok publicly, he has been behind closed doors as members of the house have been investigating this and listen to what one of your colleagues, trea gowdy had to say and he is speaking of bias in this soun
birthplace of winston spencer churchill, where the famed 20th century statesmans with born, grew up the son of lord randolf churchill and his mother was an american, jenny jerome churchill and this is, you know, his family has lived in this castle, lived in this castle for many, many centuries before he came along and it is an honored place. and so think about, you know, a mt. vernon or a mount pelley or a montecello in the united states, birthplace and home of a famous american, well, this is a birthplace and from his growing up clears, the home of winston churchill. dana: sip bowllism of our greatest alliance there with the u.k. and theresa may and her government struggling trying to figure out how to implement