Ladies and gentlemen, how is the day going so far . Pretty cool, huh . Cool, thats a great word. Okay. Well, it is my distinct honor to introduce your next speaker. You know, my notes here say that our next speaker is the most accomplished pilot in the senate and has flown all over the world. All around the world. All around the world and over it, too. He is chairman. Epw committee, 12 years total, as Ranking Member chairman, married for 57 years with 21 kids and grandkids. And thats all really great and important stuff. But let me tell you when you are a political leader in the United States of america, seeking truth, standing for truth, speaking out for truth, writing about truth, is a wonderful a tributte. So i would like to bring to the podium one of the great champions for truth in our country today, senator jim inhofe. [ applause ] did they mention this thing about the drawing . No. Just for a second here. Were going there will be a drawing later on and olympia, you have a bunch
Here on cspan, we bring you more live coverage of the state of the state live from michigan. Members of the house and senate gather for the state of the state from republican governor rick snyder, who was sworn into office three years ago. Just a reminder as we wait for his speech to begin, we will re air some of the state of the state speeches we have covered in the past couple of days. Night, beginning on c span two, among the speeches you will hear, colorado, idaho, and indiana. That all gets underway tomorrow night at 8 00 eastern. Tonight, waiting to hear from Governor Snyder live from lansing. F sergeant at arms. Mr. Government, the governor of the state of michigan, the honorable rick snyder, the first family and the lady weight entrance into the joint convention. Will these special committee please escort the governor to the rostrum. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, please be seated. Thank you. Thanks, folks. Please, be seated. Thank you. Members
Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Friday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern president obama speaks about changes to government surveillance programs. Well bring it to you live from the Justice Department here on cspan. Later a panel reacts to the president s speech. Well hear from a former c. I. A. Analyst. Live coverage at 2 00 p. M. Eastern also here on cspan. When gow behind the scenes as a photographer, you are there to seerks not hear, not listen and not repeat anything that you hear and its kind of a mutual agreement because we are let into meetings. When you are behind the scenes that are sensitive. I was there when president obama same a rally and at the time the hurricane had just come up the east coast and was up in the north and he was on a secure phone talking to a fema director trying to organize it at the same time of the campaign. Really unique time to be in there and hear him in a really heated or serious conversation about what was going on o
National captioning institute] reminder the Senate Hearing and most of our programming available on our Video Library at www. Cspan. Org. News that david bidder of louisiana will run for governor of that state in 2015. Ites the next Gubernatorial Election is november 15 one week before his term ends. Should he lose, he could keep his seat and decide whether to seek reelection. They write that if he wins, he would have the right to appoint a successor to serve on the final year of his senate term. Although the house and senate are out, pro forma sessions only today, snow in washington is canceling the federal government work today and also a number of events we had planned to cover for you. We did earlier cover a discussion looking at the security and politics of the winter games in sochi, russia which kicks off february 7. A russian expert said no matter how secure the olympics are in russia it only takes one person and a bride to get past the. Here is a look. Heard a lot of discussion
Interfered in our election. And breaking news overseas, 1 Million People take to the streets of hong kong protesting a controversial bill of an extradition to china. The vote now postponed the city at a standstill. We will be live on the ground in just moments. How about this one, what is the deal . President trump boasts about his agreement with mexico on stopping migrants with experts concerned that the reality on the ground means that very little can actually get done. But the president says theres a plan on a single piece of paper. Thats the agreement that everybody says i dont have. No, because im going to let mexico do the announcement at the right time. This is one page of a very long and very good agreement for both mexico and the United States. Without the tariffs, we would have had nothing. As we speak, the House Intelligence Committee is digging into the issue that special Counsel Robert Mueller himself said was the number one thing he wanted all americans to take away from