The Pi Day bill went up for a vote today and passed 391-10. Now Congressman Jason Chaffetz explains (via Twitter, natch) why he dared vote against the hallowed number:
cooperate with representative chaffetz who you quoted earlier as saying he has requested that the fbi turn over any memos, any recordings about the conversations between president trump and former fbi director comey. i think the question that we posed to sean spicer today and other people at the white house is what kind of recordings are there? have they seen these memos? and to what extent is there documentation of at least three conversations that we know already that they have had based on president trump s own letter when he fired fbi director comey week ago. brian: so far sean spicer hasn t said much after the president s tweet that there may be recordings. he has not commented on that. where do you expect to go today. that s exactly right. i spoke with multiple administration officials last night and they don t really have an explanation for what happened beyond a denial. we haven t heard donald trump s side of the story what he says was said during that
are we going to be talking about this for the next eight days? and probably for the next 48 years maybe. if hillary clinton is elected, this is sort of a preview, i think, of what we ll see in terms of investigations. representative chaffetz has already talked about that and the oversight they want to take in terms of investigating hillary clinton. so this is just an appetizer. it s sort of up to us what we talk about, isn t it? whatever interests the american public. stay with us. coming up, the fbi is using special technology to sift through thousands of e-mails linked to a top clinton aide. officials say it s unlikely there will be a resolution before the election. and stunning information about the insecurity within the north korean regime right now. secret recordings show the distrust goes back decades.
thanks for having me. kevin mccarthy dropping out of contention. who does that leave to fill the speakership? you ve got people like representative chaffetz. you ve got people like representative webster. i think that the other two people to watch are trey gowdy and jeb hensarling the latter being a rising tea party star from texas. he is also the chairman of the house financial services committee. but dara, i got to be honest, lots of pressure on representative paul ryan this morning, despite him being adamant that he doesn t want the job. but so watch obviously paul ryan, too. but if he said he doesn t want the job, what is it going to take to get him back into the race and possibly, you know, take the leadership? lots of conversations happening last night. and meetings scheduled for later this morning with the republican conference. where all of this is expected to be hammered out. he s got to remember that yes the politics of this are fascinating. but on november 5th, our
population has quadrupled and many of the offenses the punishment doesn t fit the crime. gr the president s visit is unprecedented for a number of reasons. the strikes a change in tone. in 1980 we had 500,000 people behind bars. now we have 2.2 million. before, there was such a tough on crime attitude that it impacted policy and the war on drugs, which many would say would be a war on poverty and people of color, especially. so this week as president obama engages in what could be kind of called a parade a criminal justice parade from philadelphia, the commutations now to the prison he s sending a signal that he believes america is a nation of second chances and that we have unfairly labeled so many people without giving them a true opportunity to succeed and move on with their lives. interesting when you hear from representative chaffetz who is also chimed in saying the federal prison system has grown exponentially in the last few