Background checks. This legislation with desperately needed Immigration Reform. Still not clear what all of that means. Thats why were waiting to hear more from the president. Whats your sense . What are you hearing from white house officials about what does the president mean when he says strong background checks are needed . Reporter they are not going to answer that right now because the president will have to answer that for himself. Aids aren aides arent clear what he means by that. He has mentioned this in the past. Democrats have treed to strengthen the checks before. Lengthening the time of review from tree to ten days and requiring the checks for every firearm that is sold. The president seems to present a new idea of marrying legislation on gun reform with immigration refo reform. Two extremely difficult issues. We should mention this isnt the first time hes made a call for stronger controls like this. After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman douglas high school, he said the sa
Today . Well take it up. Much of the leftist media and Business Press were a agog overs inversion of the yield curb. Today, they seems declaring a recession in immediate offing despite more than 70s of country Biggest Companies quarterly earnings, higher than wall street has been expecting. And revenue of the companies in s p up almost 5 over a year ago. So what is the problem . The market sole off, and sole sold off, and sold off big, with us, jackie deangeles, what a day. It was, the worst steepest selloff of the year. We have seen a lot of volatility in august. Lou as is customary. But not with this wide of a band, this is something new. Yes, this is uncertainty, uncertainty over trade, worries about what is happening in other economies, in europe and asia and china specifically, weak data coming out of china. Also out of germany starting this fear mongering happening contraction of the economy in germany. Yeah. And speculation they will cause something that was compounded by invers
Such horror and heartbreak . You can join in on the conversation on cspans washington journal our phone lines are open and we are dividing them regionally. If you live in the central or eastern time zones, 202 7488000. For those of you in the mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. Two Mass Shootings within 24 hours. Injured,nd dozens more those shootings in el paso, texas and dayton, ohio. You can join the conversation online. Ae president tweeting on couple of these shootings yesterday including the el paso shooting, calling it not only tragic but also an act of cowardice. I know i stand with everyone in this country to condemn todays hateful act. There are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing innocent people. Texas, pointing out the saturday shooting in el paso was the 249th mass shooting incident this year. That according to gun violence archives. It defines a mass shooting as four or more victims killed or injured with a perpetrator in one location. It includ
Im not read he. Lou fake left wing media and radical dimms, pitching 3a, first russia collusion story, all of that blowing up their faces after the Mueller Report was released, then radical dimms returned to their always preferred tactic, calling President Trump a racist. That blew up as well. In desperation, radical dimms and the leftist media, and Business Press for the past couple of weeks have been driving the drum beat of imminent recession. , third r doing no better than first two for radical dimms, the stock market again rallying today. Bad news for the radical dimms, good news for ern el, no inverted yield curve there. And attorney general taking action to hold top officials as well as staff accountable when they make mistakes. And there were many almost unimaginable mistakes in the still mistea mysterious death of Jeffrey Epstein while in custody, many questions remain, attorney general barr firing head of bureau of prisons. Barr replaces the head with former director. Cakathl
Constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Without authorized to declare recess to the subcommittee at any time. I welcome everyones attendance herein t here and the hearing, Voting Rights act, Shelby County v. Holder. This is the sixth an verniversaf Shelby County v. Holder. Normally what i would do, id give an Opening Statement of five minutes and the Ranking Member would give one of five minutes. Miss clarke, one of of witnesses, has a 3 40 train, which would have been easy to accomplish were it not for the house of representatives schedule. Well go straight to her statement, and go back to the traditional i talk he talk, panel. Miss clarke is the president and executive director of the committee for civil rights law under law, one of the nations leading civil rights organizations. She previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the organizations work in the areas of voting rei rights and election law a