[applause] [cheering] members of the joint convention, the governor of the great state of michigan. [applause] [cheering] thank you. Good evening, michigan. The home of the best football in the country. Am i right . The National Championship wolverines to the detroit lions. I am excited to be here tonight between two leaders that have gotten a lot done over the past year. My best friend and my good friend the Senate Majority leader. [applause] i want to acknowledge the minority leaders matt hall and aaron. Thank you for your leadership and a happy early birthday to you. We delivered a balanced budget focused on the Kitchen Table issues of 2023, and i know we are going to do that again this year in 2024 and i want to acknowledge so many incredible partners that i have. Lieutenant governor gilchrest. [applause] our attorney general. [applause] and i always want to make a point of acknowledging to incredible Public Servants who lead groups of Public Service and to show up on the front lin
Republic thrive. Get informed straight from the source on cspan, unfiltered, unbiased word for word from the nations capitol to wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters the most is your own, this is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Now we head to the midwest for remarks by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer who is in the middle of the second term. In the state of state address talks about Economic Development, reproductive rights before joint session of the legislature, the state house has been evenly split since november with 54 democrats and 54 republicans. Governor whitmers address runs just under an hour. [applause]. [applause] [cheering] members of the joint convention, the governor of the great state of michigan. [applause] [cheering] thank you. Good evening, michigan. The home of the best football in the country. Am i right . The National Championship wolverines to the detroit lions. I am excited to be here tonight between two leaders that have gotte
We need borders. And by the way, i want people to come into the country. But i want in the coming legally. They have to come in through process. [applause] me . Se [indiscernible] well, i think the only car jihad is the woman car. She is nothing else going on. Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were would not get 5 of the vote. The only thing he has going is the woman car. And the thing is, women do not like her. Look how well i did with women tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. Announcer washington journal is live every day with news and policy issues that affect you. Coming up wednesday morning, spotlighting the polling website real clear politics. Our guests include the cofounder and the executive editor of real clear media group. Both join us to discuss how real clear politics got started, and talking about the role in the media marketplace, and the role of the media in the campaign. Also joining us, the National Political reporter, reviewing pr
Thats not why i do it. I do it because my brain is bad. The way i see the tweets youre talking about, hes basically giving voice to a lot of people who have felt that they were voiceless. Hes communicating with people in this country who felt like they have not been listene to. Thats whats going to matter at the end of the day. Did we improve peoples lives . Did we solve the problems the American People need solved . Are we addressing the concerns of people who are tired of being tired and who cares what he tweeted on some thursday night if we fix the big problems. Thats the way i look at this. Good monday morning to you. Its monday, december 5th. Were getting into the holiday season. Counting down to christmas. For christmas we have a huge story in europe. Whoa. Here we go. Brexit, brexit. Another italy. I retweeted when you talked about austria that was seen as a positive for the eu. Italy last night. Boom. The hammer comes down. The International Community is reverberating with that
This weekends violence at that White Nationalist rally in charlottesville. A man plowing a car into a crowd is expected to appear in court. James alex fields faces several charges. Now 19 others were injured in the crash. Uva headlights system says nine have been discharged and ten are in good condition. This is video of fields driving away from the scene of the crash. The suspect lives in ohio and traveled to charlottesville for the rally. His High School History teacher said fields sympathized with nazis and idolized adolf hitler. Two troopers died when their helicopter went down on saturday. Officials say theres no indication of foul play there. The ntsb is investigating. Lets get right into the white houses slow reaction on this. Rick, let me start with you. Initial reaction to what you saw in the last 48 hours . What happened in charlottesville is disgusting and a vile presentation of hate and bigotry and perpetrated by people who were very specific. They were neonazis, White Supr