for those joining us online, welcome you. and those joining us on future broadcasts of booktv. we ask you to turn ouf off your devices. and we remind you you can e-mail us online and we will post the program on our heritage home page for future reference when the event is over today. ryan anderson is heherin here l the discussion. he is a senior research fellow in american principles and public policy and if founder and editor of public discourse, the online journal of theing witherspoon institute. and the author of truth overruled, the future of marriage and religious freedom, and co-authored with princeton writers the book what is marriage, man and a woman. he earned a bachelor from princeton university and his doctoral degree in political philosophy from the university of notre dame. please join me in welcoming brian anderson. thank you, john, and thank you everyone for coming. we are in from an a treat today. people are trying to deny men and women are equal but not the
home about what she was going to accept in terms of witnesses, when she returned from the holiday season back to the senate, she essentially brought that 1999 clinton resolution to the floor, and she handed it to mcconnell s staff, essentially asking them, okay, show me what is going to change in this resolution and what is going to stay the same. we know the majority leader had made it very clear he was going to follow the, quote, clinton motto. but she wanted to see it in writing. she wanted to understand what does that mean in terms of getting witnesses sochlt what transpired was weeks of negotiations between senator collin s staff, murkowski s staff, lamar alexander s staff and leadership to go over word by word who was going to be in this resolution. so the expectation and we should be cautious here. we have not seen the resolution yet. it hasn t been released. but the expectation is that it will actually include a vote after the presentations of evidence by both sides
republicans speaking out about the don junior drama urging another shoe could drop at any moment. one top gop senator is threatening to subpoena a key player in the controversy. they are hours away from unveiling new health care legislation with members of their own party in revolt. the august recess on hold. will it revive hopes for passage or be dead on arrival? we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i m jim accosta. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. breaking news tonight, president trump is speaking out about the new russia controversy surrounding his son. mr. trump says he was unaware of donald trump, jr. s meeting with the russian lawyer until days ago. he doesn t fault don junior for seeing the lawyer after being promised dirt on hillary clinton. president trump is getting ready to fly to paris and leave behind a white house in crisis. the trump team is paralyzed and t
vote. after a string of high profile failures in congress, the vote marked the first legislative win for the trump administration and for the republicans who lost who control, rather, the congress. but that victory over-shadowed by a seismic shift in the russia investigation. focus on the former president s national security adviser, michael flynn. flynn pleaded guilty. you see him here leaving court there. pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi in the probe of russian election meddling on friday. with this, flynn is now the fourth trump campaign official to be caught up in this investigation. so far, and the second to plead guilty. so fair to say, a lot to talk about today. let s now listen to that moment just hours ago that moment when the tax bill passed through the u.s. senate. on this vote, the yeas 51. and the nays are 49. the tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. the vice president of the united states, mike pence, providing there. president donald trump tweet
believe, so he also had a big role in investigating president bill clinton, but of course the other big name that s going to be widely discussed over the next several days is also alan dershowitz. we re told by sources that dershowitz had been pretty reluctant to join the team, but the president pushed for him. he made clear he wanted him on. and dershowitz is saying even though he voted for hillary clinton, he is going to come because essentially he views it as vital to the constitution to make the argument. it kind of gives you a preview of what he ll be saying on the senate floor. all three of these guys on the screen right now are expected to present on the senate floor. of course dershowitz is coming under scrutiny for other reasons, and that is one of the reasons people tried to advise the president not to pick dershowitz. they dnidn t think it was necessarily in his best interests because he s come under so much skrcrutiny for th high profile clients he s represented i