The outgoing chairman, mike johnson from louisiana from indiana mike johnson from louisiana and jim thanks from indiana. Im going to do a quick interruption of them and then ask questions but we will take questions from the audience. If you would like to ask questions, please submit them to chris see hris. Gavin at a. Org. We will put them up. I have a bunch of my own questions as well so we will try to get to them as they come up. Representative jim thanks is chairman elect to the committee and representative thinks is inn his second term representative of the Third District covering the Northeast Corner of the date including four lane. Thanks service in the Armed Services committee on education and Labor Committee and Veterans Affairs committee. He is the father of Young Children so we always like to have, no about peoples families. Representative johnson is the outgoing chairman, the second term representing Fourth District of louisiana covering the northwest part of the state inclu
Provider. Up next, laura olson, for a political newspaper in allentown, pennsylvania. She talks about the 2020 president ial race in the keystone state where President Trump won by less than one half percent in 2016 and now the Political Climate has changed, the polls, and the governments response to the coronavirus pandemic. This is about 10 minutes. Joining me via zoom is laura olson, from the morning call, as we talk about the Battle Ground states in 2020. Lets first go back to 2016. What are the lessons for the democrats and republicans as they gear up for the Fall Campaign . Well, pennsylvania is going to be a very close state again. 2016 was a long night. We had a final vote margin in the race of 44,000 votes. So, that was all eyes on whats going to happen here. It was a pretty much unusual change because democrats had done well at president ial races, even though it was a swing state and the republican turnout in the rural areas where the turnout he was able it flip some democra
another act of violence targeting a member of congress. two people in virginia, in democrat jerry connolly s district office, are attacked by a man with a metal baseball bat. this is a gentleman with a long history of mental illness. he has been engaged in bizarre behavior in the past, including violent. he decided today for whatever reason to come to us and inflict more of the same. a trump justice department special prosecutor investigating the fbi over the russia investigation for bias issues. his report after four years. not recommending any indictments. i will speak to andrew weismann about the results. mike pence and florida governor ron desantis making big moves ahead of expected announcements to take on donald trump. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. this afternoon, the second big showdown between president biden and house speaker mccarthy over the debt ceiling. a critical moment says the treasury secretary, as the president is about to leave for a
nina s got a lot of ideas for the future. and since anyone can create a free plan at fidelity, nina has a plan based on what matters most to her. and she can simply focus on right now. that s the planning effect. from fidelity. tomorrow morning, members say the house republican steering committee will meet to select committee assignments. by this time tomorrow night we could learn about the deals. carol: kevin mccarthy made. some of the agreement is public knowledge. what do we know about the side deals? gop leaders are not committing to releasing a public list of every concession kevin mccarthy made in his quest to become speaker. despite the fact that they have called for a more open and transparent government. some of the concessions were explicitly spelled out in the house rules package, which republicans did pass last night with the support of every republican except for one. some of the other promises that were made were done through more of a handshake deal. go
Has come into the newsroom just hours ago. It is of course of the president of zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. He is standing next to the man who has placed him under house arrest. Theyve been holding talks in harare but we dont know the outcome of the talks. So we dont know if that means president mugabe will step down or not. Meanwhile on the streets of the country, in particular the capital, there are still troops but the situation is being described as calm at the moment. Meanwhile other countries are becoming involved in what is happening in zimbabwe. South africa has sent a special envoys. They were in the talks in harare. In another emergency meeting, in botswana, the Southern African Development Community has its own emergency meeting and we received an update about this particular meeting which ended with the recommendation of an extraordinary emergency summit. Frankly, another meeting, following that meeting. It is to be attended by all heads of state. In other words we really have