italy. and we ll recap an eventful day on capitol hill where senate republicans blocked a democratic led bill to protect fertility treatments for women. and the former president was also on the hill for the first time since his supporters attacked the capitol. we ll go through trump s meetings with top republicans in both chambers. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 14th, flag day. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for being with us. and we ll begin this morning in italy where the second day of the g7 summit is under way, and in just moments president biden will hold a joint appearance with italy s prime minister, leaving president biden and the other g7 leaders will meet with pope francis. following that gathering the president will depart italy and head to california where he has a couple of major fund raisers. during yesterday s events the president and his ukrainian counterpart, volodymyr zelenskyy, signed a ten-year bilateral security agreem
By Tom Lamia Recently in this series of essays that now may be aging out (launched January 2017), I have written about Steven Breyer, Susan Collins and Jared Golden. Only Collins and Golden are Mainers, but all came to mind when thinking about something important, or at least relevant, to our current troubled times. Troubled