Well timed. That is how it landed. A book about the Oil And Gas Industry and a big chunk of the book was about the craziness and the corruption in the ukraine. Then it was the playing field. I didnt intend it to land it that way. Well, now of course mr. Trump is being impeached for a second time. And it is kind of uncanny, a lot of the things that i wrote about in the book that came out in the first trump impeachment. The whole reason that i wrote the book is because we were consistently underestimating the sway of this one industry. How much sway it has over politicals and governments here and around the world. I thought there was a need for a explainer and how the industry could explain. If something is happening that does not make sense on the surface it helps to look at the industry and see if they are maybe The Hidden Hand, when politics fail or governments are bad. This is a place to look. One thing to say here is the hidden power that is making it possible or impossible and call
That was so controversial they forced a secret vote on whether to keep her in power, a vote cheney ultimately won by a lot. Meanwhile congresswoman greene who built her public reputation as a supporter of anti semitic Conspiracy Theories and straight up Political Violence she got the opposite treatment. Republicans publicly rallying around her after she reportedly apologized for some of her past statements. Democrats are not so forgiving. They are going to force a vote on the House Floor Today that could strip greene of her committee assignments. I want to start with Garrett Haake on capitol hill. What are we going to see with this vote today . Reporter some of that will depend on how congresswoman greene chooses to handle herself going forward. Ill be curious to see if the apology she made Behind Closed Doors to republicans is the kind of thing she might repeat on the house floor in public. We do expect this vote to go forward this afternoon stripping her of committee assignments. Dem
1. 9 trillion. Thats what the democrats want in the covid Stimulus Measure. Its more than double being planned on the party of republicans that want to leave out some things like the hike in the minimum wage and help to cities and states that now have a lot of people wondering, all right, how is this going to eventually get done . We know as well that talks have been going on behind the scenes to get a couple of republicans on board. The president of the United States says he has that does explain why theyre sticking to that 1. 9 trillion number. Were going to explore that. Separately republicans are meeting to discuss what will happen to liz cheney as far as her future leadership in congress and Marjorie Taylor green and the Conspiracy Theorys that couldnt land her out of some Committee Assignments that shes had. So lets get to this right now with the Stimulus Measure and where things stand at this point. The 1. 9 trillion figure you heard about. David spunt with more. Good afternoon.
Lets go outfront. Good evening, i am erin burnett. Outfront, Breaking News on several fronts this hour. At the white house, the president meet whiting on stimu. It is a promise from biden to work across the aisle. We expect to speak to reporters after the meeting, well bring you that as soon as it happens. There at the microphone outside the white house. On capitol hill, major deadlines loom in the Impeachment Trial of former president donald trump. Democrats filing, and trump has to give his papers by tomorrow. President trump may add new lawyers to the defense team. If he does, theyll join the Brand New Team as of last night, two attorneys known for high profile, controversial cases. David schoen and bruce castor. David said i represent all sorts of Reputed Mobster figures, alleged head of russian mafia, straels mafia, and a guy the government claimed was the biggest massive ee owes oh in the world. Castor is a prosecutor that declined to prosecute bill cosby. Cosby was eventually co
Makeshift camera from home when i had to broadcast from home because i was in Covid Quarantine back in november. Because i had to do that back in november, i knew i could do this again so i just wheeled the whole setup back out again tonight. The roads are not fit for manor beast nor Cable News Hosts so, again, apologies for things looking a little higglety piggelty. Ill be back in the studio tomorrow night. January 2009, barack obama was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States with joe biden as his Vice President , in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. The Great Recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying Wall Street Collapse. The economy had been Hemorrhaging Jobs for months at a rate not seen since the Great Depression when President Obama was inaugurated. Unemployment was headed for 10 . The Wall Street Collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. People were hurting. People were very scared. And o