[applause] Mike Huckabee i will be funded and fueled not by the billionaires, but by working people across america, that will find out that 15 and 20 a month contributions can take us from hope to higher ground. [applause] Mike Huckabee rest assured, if you want to get a million dollars, please do it. [laughter] but i know most of you cant. Im just going to ask you to give something. In the name of your children and grandchildren. I walked away from i own income to do this, so i am not asking for some sacrifice i am unwilling to make. I dont have a Global Foundation or a taxpayerfunded paycheck to live off of. I dont come from a family dynasty, but a working family. I grew up bluecollar, not blue blood. I ask you to join with me today not just so i can be president but so we can preserve this Great Republic and some so that your children and grandchildren can still go from hope to higher ground. [applause] Mike Huckabee i still remember when my dad took me to the dedication of the newl
Than name. I dont understand how anyone can look at these young people and think we should break up more families, or turn away more hard workers with talent to help us build the kind of country we want to see. So i will fight for comprehensive Immigration Reform and a path to citizenship for you and for your family across our country. I will fight to stop partisan attacks on the executive action that would put dreamers, including those with us today, at risk of deportation. And if Congress Continues to refuse to act, i would do Everything Possible under the law to go even further. There are more people, like many parents have dreamers, and others, with deep ties and contributions to our communities, who deserve a chance to stay, and i will fight for them. The law currently allows for sympathetic cases to be reviewed. But right now most of these cases have no way to get a real hearing. Therefore we should put in place a simple, straightforward, accessible way for parents of dreamers an
Of 2014. From you what ar you would Like Washington to do or not do. Talk about the debt limit and the house senate with or the white house the Affordable Care act and the between the 14 elections but we framed it. And 14 i want washing to you fill in the blank from there. 202585threat 882 for 2025853882 for independents. About 1300 comments since we can d it yesterday and you send us email to. Journal cspan. Org. Year. Orning and happy new facebook had over 1300 comments on this question since we posted it last night. Let me give you a couple of them. Here. Raves has one word he says work. Thats a comment he posted on up book and thats followed by bill. Take a 60 pay cut. Susan ts followed up by ohnson thats some of the comments made off facebook. On twitter people are responding. That he wantsying to see republican control of the house and senate. Only two of the ways you can respond in 2014. We give you the option to fill out the blank. 2025853881. Of the newfirst call year heres br
Washington journal continues. Host joining us now to talk about political stories to watch in 2014, Shane Goldmacher of National Journal. He is their congressional correspondent. Good morning help new year. When it comes to the agenda when Congress Gets back in session, whats on the list . Guest they are coming back. They are coming back after three years of the at least productive legislative work in congressional history. Theres a lot on their agenda. Unfinished business. The first thing the senate will be taking up, is the effort to reextend Unemployment Insurance which expired at the end of this last year. 1. 3 americans lost their long term Unemployment Insurance. Democrats trying to push to reextend. They will be taking up confirmation of janet yellen as the next chairwoman of the federal reserve. She will be the first woman to hold that post. Because he rewrote the filibuster rule, shes almost guaranteed to be confirmed. They took the key procedural vote. In the house, its not c
Behind the president , in the curated camera angle crowd were Wearing Masks for the most part. Here is some of what the president had to say about the pandemic. We built the greatest economy in the history of the world. We were forced to close it because of the china plague that came in, and now weve opened it. And by the way, your state should be open. Your state should be open. [ cheers and applause ] my administration is following the science, protecting those at highest risk while allowing those at lower risk to safely return to work and to school. Go back to school. Go back to school. You ever see the statistics on young people . I dont know. They just they have a great immune system. Lets get some of that immune system. Trump again cast doubt on mailin voting, again urged his supporters to vote by mail if they wish but then go to the polls to make sure their vote was recorded. He attacked Kamala Harris, saying she could never be the first woman president. Had this to say about jo