Billions . Well check that one out. See what happened here on this tuesday, december 26th. From abc news, this is world news now. Yeah, that electric bill. That one, yeah, ive had some bad ones but never quite that bad. Happy boxing day, everyone. Welco welcome gio benitez in for kendis. That was a holiday slow clap for you. Good holiday . Yeah, it was nice. We hope you all had a good hoyle holiday as well. Hope everybody on set had a good holiday. Im glad we still have the christmas tree. Were keeping it festive as long as possible. Were going to start this half hour with President Trump delivering a video message. The president tweeted that hes getting back to work today and claimed that making America Great again is happening faster than anyone Kenneth Moten is traveling with the president in florida. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. President trump spent his first christmas as president with the first lady and other family members at his maralago resort. My fellow americ
Constitutionally. So i dont think its merely that. And in suleiman the government actually created the words that were, that were being advertised. So isnt that substantially different . Because the governments not creating these words. Justice sotomayor the court indicated that thats the monument course. Im talking about johanns. Thats right. But in suleiman though, a private organizes fraternal order of eagles put its name on the monument it created the message, then donated it to the park. In johanns, yes, the message was espoused beef, its whats for dinner, but even then the secretary of agriculture didnt write ad copy. Sorry, the government had control, it just was not at every step of the way saying this is how the message must be. But at the end of the day, it had final approval. But to return to Justice Alitos hypothetical and what the test should be, the test can include other elements. And even if suleiman and johanns could be read as just a twopart test for all sorts of reas
But i no that the chairman wants to face this headon and i no it is a challenge and the political environment. And i did want to breed of that we obviously not met the challenge with the budget as currently configured. I want to specifically ask you general austin, something that was troubling to me. It has been a determination that operation freedom signal is a new Contingency Operation. Do do you see it as a new Contingency Operation . It is a continuation of our efforts, center. So in terms of the types of things that we are doing we are continuing to train and advise and assist the Afghan Security forces but in terms of how we account for the funding that we are allocating to that that is a different issue. Well, the reason i am asking is i am told that there is an effort underway of naming a new lead Inspector General in afghanistan as opposed to the special Inspector General on afghanistan. I think if that determination is made i want to make sure everyone understands that will i
Violation of the right to free speech. Your argument first this morning, john walker vs. The Texas Division of the sons of confederate veterans. Thank you mr. Chief justice. May it please the court. Messages on texas plans plates are government speech. The state of texas etches its name on each license plate and texas law gives the state sol control and Approval Authority of everything that appears on a lance license plate, texas is not abridging free speech rightsful motorists me remain free to speak with a Bumper Sticker or window decal but the First Amendment does not mean a motorist can compel any government to place its imprimatur on a battle flag. One of the problems of the standard whether it is regarded as offensive to many people. Is it government speech to say mighty fine bourbon to advertise a project . Yes the government can approve the messages just because it has endorsed messages or is accepting and generating revenue to proven gait the messages doesnt defeat the fact it
Back. The communicators. Nmed [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] visit ncicap. Org] guest good morning. We are welcoming you here today to talk about the president plus commission on Election Commission which a little over a year ago issued recommendations, and here we will talk about progress being made and where to go from here. My role is very simple, to introduce the commissioners and quickly introduce and then turp it over to them. Turn it over to them. Thank you. This past year, you have actually been and honor privilege and pleasure to work with bob and nate and all the pleasure to come up with our series of recommendations and best practices. The truth of course is that bob and i have battled over many very partisan battles over more years than bob cares to admit. And it really was a tremendous opportunity for us to be able to come together over these issues. Because republicans and democrats agree th