A president s judicial nominee but it created a new rule of the mcconnell rule absolutely no hearing or no vote for a nominee in Election Year period no coffee 7 outs and Many Republican senators agreed with him including the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham of South Carolina who at the time said quote verbatim heres what he said quote i want you to use my words against me if theres a republican president in 2060. And a vacancy occurs in the last year of the 1st term you can say Lindsey Graham said lets let the next president whoever it might be make the nomination continue to quote and you could use my words against me and youd be absolutely right and of quote. Well in our other top stories irans president has warned of a crushing response to the u. S. After it made a unilateral move to reimpose sanctions has an rouhani vowed never to yield to american bullying claiming that washingtons latest move to pressure to iran has left it isolated from need to
More advanced weapons we have no intention of letting that happen the president s executive order announced today gives us a new and powerful tool to enforce the u. N. Arms embargo and hold those who seek to evade u. N. Sanctions accountable today i will take the 1st action under this new executive order by sanctioning the are a ministry of defense and Armed Forces Logistics and irans Defense Industries organization and its director. Beggin terrine explain the internal political divisions over how iran should respond. We had foreign minister javadoc the reefs say that these new sanctions are nothing new that the intention of the United States was to bring the population to its knees and they have failed but what the real question is how iran will respond to the United States and how the United States decides to impose the these u. N. Sanctions as they see it now within iran this lots of political differences president Hassan Rouhani and his reformists are defending the deal domesticall
First, democratic representative al green of texas, then scott perry of pennsylvania. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is thursday, october 1, 2020. The senate convenes at noon, and the house is in at 9 00 a. M. Eastern, which means we will be with you for two hours. We begin taking stock of tuesdays first president ial debate. With criticism pouring in from both sides of the aisle, the commission on president ial debates announced yesterday it would make changes to the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues. As we wait to see with those changes will be, we are asking you what you would suggest. How would you alter the debate format, if all . Phone lines are split up as usual. If you support the trump pence ticket, 202 7488000 202 7488001. If you support the aydin harris ticket, 202 7488000 biden harris ticket 202 7488000. For independents, 202 7488002. O text us, 202 7488003 twitter,lso find us on cspanwj. You can start calling and now as
Our fight for democratic. Step vasant has more from minsk. The pressure is for sure its been a delicate balancing act until now in the past 6 weeks since the start of the political crisis both the opposition and europe have been very careful not to alinea. Russia because they were worried that belarus and look at shanghai would be much further pushed towards russia than already is the case but now patience is. Meeting between look at shanghai and put in last week resulted in a stronger bond between the 2 leaders put in has reiterated his support again for the embattled well russian leader has promised money one and a half 1000000000 u. S. Dollars so now the opposition but also europe is feeling that russia cant be engaged in a dialogue any longer so they are now putting up the pressure the European Parliament has also adopted a resolution saying they wont accept look at the formal president or any longer after the 5th of november thats when his term officially finishes the u. N. Says N
Whos to say out the gate that new ideas are not needed in our debate and finally i want to echo needas concluding words about people , its about democracy and id introduce the term resiliency. To kind of complete the thought that i opened earlier. One of the most exhaustively written about and i think also exhausting in effectiveness policy lanes is that of punishing bad guys. We have been in search for a quartercentury or more of tools that will work to punish bad guys, whether that bad guy Vladimir Putin or al qaeda and we go back and forth between overuse of sanctions and overuse of diplomatic finger wagging and what is enormously refreshing and if i may say so fundamentally george s kennan about what nina has written is that it is selfcritical about the way that we are not resilient in the face of challenges that are going to be there whether theres a Vladimir Putin behind them or there isnt so i find that very refreshing. Its an unfortunate description of an unfortunate reality bu