A lot of people leave cities and go further and further out to get opportunity. The supreme courts jurisprudence undermines the government being racially conscious to counter that. Host we want to thank you for your conversation this morning. The house is about to gavel in and we will bring you up to the floor for a live gaveltogavel coverage here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. May 16, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable mary e. Miller to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and
Late. Good afternoon. The president this morning met with general mcmaster general mcmaster is helping lead the team that is organizing the president s upcoming foreign trip. The president has been focused on meeting with the team, getting ready for the various stops he will be making. The president has seen a great desire for america to reengage and be a leader once again in helping solve the worlds complex problems. Hes already made moves behind the scenes with leaders and in public statements to show that america is reasserting its leadership on the world stage. These visits are another important part of this american resurgence. The president will further our strategic objectives in the region my creating new opportunities that will strengthen the United States and our allies weakening our enemies. Many of you are interested in the logistical aspects of this trip. We will have for the briefing struck the week. Throughout the week. I would like to announce that thepresident has invi
Outside, maybe a few sprinkles. This rain is going to be moving in later this evening pretty steady overnight and into your saturday morning. Until we get there, commute not too bad. Warm 50s. Cant wait for the gender reveal, melissa. Im excited. A lot of boy guesses. Georgetown pike at towlston road. This car off of the roadway here. Not sure whats going on in the woods there, but it looks like the crash is outbound. We just spoke with the chopper. Traffic is getting by. Westbound 370 to the ramp at 270, partially closed. Outbound 4 afterward, lanes are blocked outbound because of the wires down. Inner loop and outer loop of the beltway, everything is looking goo travel times coming up. 6 02 now. Authorities across virginia are searching for a missing 8monthold baby girl. Khloe johnson was taken in virginia. Keir johnson, her mother, is missing as well. They may be in johnsons car, a 2013 black kia optima. It is 6 02. Breaking news now out of Northern Virginia where crews have just pu
From sally yates . And boots on the ground. Is the United States about to up the ante in afghanistan. Well see if sean spicer comments on that, too, at todays briefing. Our team is here. Nbcs Peter Alexander is at the white house. Peter, i know you are standing by waiting for that briefing to begin. What do we expect sean spicer to address . Well, we think among topics addressed today is the issue of Michael Flynn following the former acting attorney general sally yates after testimony before the subcommittee yesterday. Whats notable is 18 days passed between the warning from sally yates to the whi hse council and president actually firing his National Security advisor. Yesterdabefore the testimony began, sean spicer, press secretary here said simply he was not going to relitigate that issue, one he addressed many weeks ago. Now with new information from the former department of justice official well certainly be peppering him with more questions about that. Also, more importantly, thi
Adviser, basically saying, from my experience with him at the Defense Intelligence agency, you could probably find somebody better to be your National Security adviser. But the narrative that the white house is going with today is the fact that the leak should be the story, as to who it was that leaked flynns name after he was caught up in surveillance. President trump asking in a tweet last night, quote, ask sally yates if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after schecks plained to it the white House Counsel. Then tweeting biggest story is on surveillance. Why doesnt the media report on this, hash tag fake news. Well get a chance to ask sean spicer about all of that when he comes out. He is half hour late. We expect we will be coming out in the next few minutes. Maria well circle back when that occurs. Right now the Senate Intel Committee is meeting about what its docket lists as quote intelligence matters. This after a morning of testimony from nsa dire