tally a landslide. by his own standards these numbers represented a clear victory then and i respectfully suggest they do so now. every single avenue is made available to president trump to contest the results. he took full advantage of each and every one of those avenues. president trump was denied no course of action he wanted to take. he took his case to republican governors and republican secretary of state as he criticized many of them. to republican state legislatures, to republican appointed judges at every level. and in the case decided after the supreme court s latest rejection, a judge appointed by president trump wrote, quote, this court has allowed the plaintiff the chance to make his case and he s lost on the merits. the electoral college yesterday cast the formal vote to make joe biden the next president of the united states. confirming the 306 vote victory he secured five weeks ago and with that we finally got the recognition of biden s win that we have all b
thank you, everyone. welcome to detroit. i can think of no better place than michigan to discuss the future of this nation and the big ideas that will define it. we are the state that helped create the right to a public education and home to the first public land-grant colleges that created new opportunities for so many in this country. we are the birthplace of mass manufacturing and home of the american organized labor movement against that gave so many a path in the american middle class. [applause] that putday, the state america on the path to opportunity and prosperity will be central to getting our nation back on track. our path to taking back the right white house runs right through michigan. [applause] it is so critical that we elect a democrat as president. we cannot do that unless we win right here. repeat whatwe we we did in 2018. [applause] we elected lieutenant governor gilchrest. the attorney general [applause] . [applause] secretary of state, jocelyn ben
richard haass. and nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. also with us, the founder of the conservative website, charlie. liz cheney, one of two republicans serving on the committee, went on fox news yesterday to defend the committee s work. here s how she responded to a question about why capitol police weren t better prepared for the attack. it s an entire focus of the investigation. you will see in our report. you ll likely see in upcoming hearings, so it is certainly something we re going to be focused on. but what we aren t going to do, brett, is blame the capitol police, blame those in law enforcement for donald trump s armed mob that he sent to the capitol. kevin mccarthy decided not to participate in the committee, that, somehow, the house of representatives cannot investigate the single worst attack on the capitol since the war in 1812. cheney discussed the committee s interest in interviewing ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas.
(202) 748-8000 and independents on (202) 748-8002. the headline in the face eyeing powers. back. congress gave final approval tuesday to the sweeping rollback. in the front page of usa today on thoseis they write this there it is on your screen. that was that was at the heart of the debate. it is actually paid to 15 215 has been changed so they cannot collect if your phone companies will hold on to the information. it is required to get a court order to obtain the information. this represented a major victory for privacy advocates in congress. the senate majority leader majority leader mitch mcconnell foxcatcher to renew the patriot act without any change in. republican, daniel. [dial tone] sorry about that. wrong line. are you there? caller: i am here. good morning. freedom can live to fight another day. our security has an opportunity to not shrink. i know there was a big battle waged into the extension of the provisions in the patriot act. i really hope that senator
commissioner sass? present. we have a quorum oh, i m so sorry, commissioner breslin, i m so sorry. we re not trying to write anyone help. we need all the help we can get [laughter ]. that is exactly right. thank you, secretary. with that, we ll go to discussion item 1. item 1 discussion item opening remarks. president scott. yes, would i like i would like to be sure that we all understand what this meeting is about today. there are a couple of features that are not customerary for meetings of this board. there will be no public comment unless after the closed session which is scheduled later for today. we have a hard stop on the forum at 4:00. at which time the board will go into closed session to her member appeal. after that we ll reconvene and go through protocol of whether we disclose or don t disclose and if those of you who are familiar with the sunshine ordinance understand why we do all of that. so that will be the time if there were any general co