$200 million to the people they sentence. it is friday, i m aim in my deede, let s get started. let s get started a there everyone, it is great to be with you. i m ayman mohyeldin. if anyone thought that there was even a miniscule chance that today s gop could possibly, somehow, stand up or even take down donald trump. well this week proved that ain t happening. two years ago, i won this primary with 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would ve required that they go along with president trump s lie about the 2020 election. it would ve required that i enable his ongoing efforts to unravel the system. and attack the foundation there are public. it was congresswoman liz cheney, perhaps the most prominent vocal trump clinic. giving her concession speech. she was defeated in the republican primary by this moment. harry segment. hageman is a trump back big lie endorsement and she will be the representative for wyoming in cheney s
A senator mr. President , i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Gardner i ask that the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Gardner i ask unanimous consent that the Committee Requests at the desk be prescriptived in the record. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Gardner i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of s. Res. 487 submitted earlier today. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk Senate Resolution 487 commemorating the 100th anniversary of the reserve Officers Training Corps Program of the army. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the measure . Without objection. Mr. Gardner i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, with no intervening
I want to thank each of the witnesses for coming today. I also want to thank you for your testimony and your time and commitment, each of you, fighting for this issue and fighting to see justice served. I am proud. I want to thank senator cornyn, senator blumenthal and senator schumer for joining with me and introducing this legislation. I am particularly grateful for chairman grassleys offer to expedite this legislation through the full judiciary committee. There are many times when washington doesnt work or facet work well and we gridlock. Im hopeful that this will be an issue in which we see some real bipartisan cooperation and we see both the senate and house of representatives act and act expeditiously. Seven decades is far too long to wait for justice. Grassleys full written statement will be admitted to the record without objection. And we will keep the hearing record open for an additional five business days. That means that the record will be closed at the end of business day
Live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. U. S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia tonight is being remembered as the conservative rock of the nations highest court. A live look at the white house. The president has ordered flags at the white house and across the country be flown at halfstaff. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Well get back to the passing of Justice Scalia in a moment. First, breaking news. Firefighters are just getting a threealarm fire under control in San Francisco. Lets go to abc 7s tiffany wilson. Thats right. Right across the street from where that fire began. You can see firefighters going into the building right there behind me. That threealarm fire is now out. The firefighters expect to be here overnight, though, watching and looking for any hot spots. And just making sure that nobody goes into these buildings. Early reports had as many as 50 people being displaced. I just spoke with the assistant fire chief who says its closer to 20 to 25 peopl
In the politicians versus the press spelling bee. And on friday, oscar winning director Kevin Costner will be here to present his knew book. I will present speaker with the honorary mug. [applause] thank you. You are developing a connection. A couple of final questions. If the situation was right down on the campaign trail, could you consider being Donald Trumps running mate . The press will have a field day with this one. Before i answer, i just want to mention many in the press will say that im sensitive and, you know, i should not be thinking about running for office because i get offended by what they do. Of course, theyll say that. But the reason that i expose the press is because i want the people of america to understand what theyre doing. Its not because im sensitive. I will continue to expose them every time they do something because as more people understand who they are and what theyre doing, it will negate their effect and until they have the kind of transformation that is