Inside the Daring Mission to save a stranded hiker on a cliff. Everybody sing. Ed sheeran is taking over the plaza for a special holiday concert today july 4th, 2014. C guthrie live3 c3 bienvenidos a today, esta im tamron hall. Raise your hand in youre in for someone. Usual gang. Usual gang increased outside on the plaza. A massive crowd of people, a good crowd but this is epic can we say . Theyve been out all night. You should have seen the disappointment when we showed up zpl were excited about ed on the plaza. Hurricane arthur, the storm raining on a lot of holiday parades and not o to mention barbecues and holiday parades as it moves from the outer banks. Kerry sanders is in Kill Devil Hills. Good morning, kerry. Reporter good morning, tamron. The light has been up for several hours giving emergency officials a chance to really do good assessment of the damage. As we take a look at a picture here. It was snapped on hatteras island, North Carolina highway 12. Perhaps went through th
Honorable john a boehner. Welcome to the United States capitol. Thank you for being here to continue a great tradition, one that dates back to before our country was even a country. The congressional gold medal represents the highest expression of the peoples appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions. The first recipient was general george washington. Pursuant to set a bill 309 we will present a gold member deaf gold medal to the members of the Civil Air Patrol. The Civil Air Patrol was organized six days before the bombing of pearl harbor. Members flew for the 4 million miles on Coastal Patrol. They summon help for ships and survivors in distress. They spotted any submarines, dropped bombs dropped depth charges, some 64 americans died during these operations. Those who have lived have quite the stories to tell. Many of them were with us today. Welcome these members to our capital. [applause] the presentation of the colors but United States armed force guard. And a
United states capitol. Thank you for being here to continue a great tradition, one that dates back to before our country was even a country. The congressional gold medal represents the highest expression of the peoples appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions. The first recipient was general George Washington in march of 1776. Today, pursuant to set a bill 309, we will present a gold medal to the members of the Civil Air Patrol. Whose valor and dedication saved countless lives during world war ii. The Civil Air Patrol was organized six days before the bombing of pearl harbor. Its members flew for 24 million miles on Coastal Patrol. They summoned help for ships and survivors in distress. They spotted enemy submarines, dropped bombs, dropped depth charges, some 64 americans died during these operations. Those who lived have quite the stories to tell. Many of them were with us today. Please join me in welcoming these american heroes to our capitol. [applause] ladies a
Instituted, this court had approved it. And there was this process of briefing in congress. And i dont think theres anything classified. You can tell me if it is and if you cant answer it. But could you just explain to me. If im a member of the congress, an ordinary member, not a member of some special committee, what exactly was i told . I dont mean what was in the classified briefing. What was i told about you better go read this before you vote for this. What memo did i get from whom . So, i think, there were memos from the chairs of the two intelligence committees. And they are in the joint appendix. They identified within the connection of the reauthorization, information has been provided by the im paraphrasing but information provided by the executive branch that was important for evaluation of the reauthorization of this authority in section 215. And it was up to me to go and figure out if it was worth it for me to go and read it as they were telling me i should. And i think of
They often cant do that. What often happens is the president acts through history, the president has acted and Congress Even where many of them may disagree with his use of power have been unable to muster the political will to check him. That creates a precedent for future action. A recent example of that is libya. In libya, we were involved in 2011 in bottoming libya. Many congress spoke out against that. The president was in violation of his war powers but no action evolved to curb his activity in that case. What weve seen over time is power evolving toward the president. This doesnt mean that the congress is no longer important at all in in area. They still have a significant role to play primarily flowing from the idea that they are the orally the branch of our government that is supposed to declare war. We dont declare war anymore. Thats become obsolete since the 1940s but we have modern day equivalents of that. Theres still a role for congress in determining when we use force. T