The democrats a multitrillion dollar socialist manifesto. Jonathan it is going to be a mess. Republicans negotiating with themselves, simultaneously negotiating with democrats. Tom its got to get to the end of july here. Kevin cirilli, we will talk to him through the morning, but the calendar urgency here is extraordinary. Jonathan as this week grows older, this week its a whole lot busier. Lisa we are heading into the fed meeting today. At 10 00 a. M. , we get Consumer Confidence data for july. Very interested to see how much this has been affected by the end in pandemic cases across the country. Starbuckst, visa and reporting earnings. 10 of s p stocks report results today for the second quarter, another eight percent tomorrow, 12 on thursday, so a big earnings week. , hashing out the stimulus. I am really interested in the mechanics of it. Shifting to the house, demanded to take that 200 of additional stimulus the republicans are proposing and adding on the prorated aspect they are
Good afternoon, everyone. First off, id like to thank the Clermont Institute for sponsoring this panel and for sponsoring all of its panels here at the american Political Science association, and thanks to all of you for coming to hear whether congress is still dysfunctional. I suspect you already know the answer to the question, but maybe well provide a fuller background and explanation about whats going on these days on capitol hill. Its no secret to political scientists that congress is a mess. Its no secret to the members of congress that congress is a mess. And nor is it a secret to the American People that congress is a mess. Routinely, congress polls very poorly when people are asked whether they approve of the job its doing, and this trend is bipartisan whether democrats or republicans control congress, most people assign it a failing grade. The trend is also long standing. Over the past Decade Congress has not once achieved an Approval Rating above 30 . It wasnt always this wa
this is it, the official kickoff for the 2024 battle for the white house, and one state has the first shot at shaping the race. it s decision time in the bitter cold heartland. iowa has a huge, huge role to play here. this starts here. there is no way iowa is voting against trump. the first votes in a presidential contest that is testing american democracy in extraordinary ways. are you ready? will the former president and unprecedented legal peril get one step closer to a white house comeback? 2024 is our final battle. it s iowa s choice. tonight, after months of anticipation, the republican race gets real. donald trump aiming to drive home his dominance over his gop rivals. we got to be sure that we put this thing away. ron desantis and nikki haley. our best days are yet to come. engaging in a heated showdown to be the top alternative to trump. nikki haley is running on her donors issues. i m the only one running on your issues. he is going to
this. but this week we saw one of history s great split screen moments. on tuesday, at the exact same time that former president trump was being arraigned in florida not only were fake electors from trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election, not only were those fake electors testifying before special counsel jack smith s january six grand jury, but at the same moment congressional republicans were holding their own bizarro hearing about january 6th. at the exact same time a former president was arraigned on federal criminal charges related to unlawfully hoarding documents, witnesses were testifying in jack smith s other sprawling federal investigation into that same former president all the while that former president s congressional defenders were hard at work whitewashing the january 6th insurrection. all at the same time. that sort of wild convergence belongs in the history books. and while the arraignment and investigation of a former president is clearly of utmost impor
party. i ll tell you what it says, election deniers and conspiracy theorists, it s clearly their party now. tonight rudy giuliani under oath in atlanta as his legal situation looks increasingly precarious. reportedly donald trump is having trouble finding top-notch legal assistance. governor desantis suspended him for speaking his mind about abortion. now warren is fighting back, filing a lawsuit against desantis. we begin the reid out with the downfall of liz cheney. she was defeated by her former ally and friend harriet hageman. wyoming has drawn a line in the sand that if we put you in power, you will be accountable to us, you will answer to us, and you will do what is in our best interests. if you don t, we will fire you. [ cheers and applause ] okay. so when liz cheney, the daughter of the two-term republican vice president dick cheney last run in 2020, she won by a resounding 73%. her loss yesterday was a stinging rebuke for cheney, whose family has deep r