At the ceremony, we will hear from current House Speaker nancy pelosi and other congressional leaders. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi, speaker of the United States house of representatives. Speaker pelosi good afternoon, everyone. As the speaker of the house, it is my official and personal honor to welcome friends of Speaker John Boehner to the u. S. Capitol on this historic day. The presence of members from both sides of the aisle, from both sides of the capital, is a testament to the respect that all have for john, mr. Speaker. We are pleased to welcome two former speakers. We anticipate speaker gingrich, who is with us, and speaker ryan. Both of them are here. [applause] welcome and extend our gratitude to debbie, lindsay, and tricia, and the entire boehner family for sharing john with this congress and with our country. It is my privilege to invite the delivery of the invocation. I am surrounded by quadrophonic speakers. [laughter] dear god [applause] [laughter] w
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Your middle school vice principal, the lady who kept your frisbee, the guy your mom dated after the divorce, and three bill de blasios. So it was quite a field. [ applause ] senator Elizabeth Warren was the only candidate appearing in tonights debate who has been polling in double digits but to be fair bill de blasio also gets double digits. During tonights debate, beto orourke answered a portion of the current question in spanish. And then he answered the next question in irish. Tonights democratic debate featured questions sent in by viewers, which explains why Rachel Maddow asked cory booker why isnt chicago med on senator Elizabeth Warren said the next president needs to have the courage to take on the giants which was awkward because bill de blasio was right next to heir former representative john delaney appeared confused when asked to be the first candidate to give a closing statement. Even i forgot i was here [ applause ] i mean it might have been why am i here according to rep
Hows everybody doing tonight . In that case, lets get to the news tonight was the first democratic president ial debate between Elizabeth Warren, cory booker, your middle school vice principal, the lady who kept your frisbee, the guy your mom dated after the divorce, and three bill de blasios. So it was quite a field. [ applause ] senator Elizabeth Warren was the only candidate appearing in tonights debate who has been polling in double digits but to be fair bill de blasio also gets double digits. During tonights debate, beto orourke answered a portion of the current question in spanish. And then he answered the next question in irish. Tonights democratic debate featured questions sent in by viewers, which explains why Rachel Maddow asked cory booker why isnt chicago med on senator Elizabeth Warren said the next president needs to have the courage to take on the jieb giants which was awkward because bill de blasio was right next to heir former representative john delaney appeared confu