celebrate the great cooperation between the national constitution center and c-span. c-span, has inspiring non partisan mission, to bring unfiltered information about the u.s. government to american citizens, and that coincides with our mission, which i want all of you to recite along with me, to inspire our guests and our c-span viewers. the national constitution center, is the only institution in america, chartered by congress, to disseminate information about the u.s. constitution, on a nonpartisan basis. beautiful that was so well done. i was so thrilled when my friend and colleague, the head of c-span, susan came a few weeks ago, about three weeks ago and she said, we ve got this great new book on the presidents, let s just launch it at the national constitution center. and it s an honor to welcome back, the founder of c-span, brian lamb. he is america s, greatest interviewer, i was honored to be interviewed by him, for my peace on the book, as well as my colleagues, and
if you buy a home today in america, there s a one-in-five chance that you will end up living under rules imposed by what we call a board of directors, usually elected by you, the local resident. this board has very broad powers, and based on certain guidelines, well, they dictate just about everything in the community from the color scheme, how many cars can be in the driveway, how high your grass can be. and a lot of states? guess what, guys? they have the power to take your home if you don t make your monthly dues payments and assessments. very, very important to understand this. in some cases, people really enjoy homeowners associations. why? because they protect them. in other cases, i must tell you, they are a nightmare. they can be totalitarian regimes, but most totalitarian regimes, while they have their downsides, they also can be clean and orderly. this is karen and james. they bought a home in an hoa-managed neighborhood and one day found themselves in the mid
to. let s begin with that dismissed fbi director in our news4 scoop late this afternoon. james comey is being invite today appear before the senate intelligence committee early next week according to the top democratic on that committee. we want to see him next tuesday or as soon as he can. reporter: you think he comes before your committee as early as next tuesday. that s been our request and i would hope he would want to tell his side of the story. reporter: unclear if comey would appear in a formal public session or in a closed session. the intelligence committee operates behind this secure door on the second floor of the heart senate building. they want to meet with the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. the longtime federal prosecutor for maryland began his new role last month and issued the memo laying out the reasons for firing james comey. look this is a shock to the system and it really smells to high heaven. reporter: senator chris van hollen testif
hi, good morning everybody and welcome to news 4 midday, i m erica gonzalez. we begin with something that will impact you not for just one day, but several days. rain for the next few days. it s going to look like this. gray, rainy, chilly. storm team 4 meteorologist is here with how much more rain we can expect today. yeah, rain all over the area right now. radar lit up and it has been all morning. you ll want the umbrella for the rest of the day today. we have rain over the forecast for the next few days. no sunshine until sunday, maybe peeks tomorrow at best. here s what we have now, mostly light to moderate rain. that s where we see more moderate rain by the yellows and oranges. it s all moved into charles county, the heaviest, but that steady rain has been continuing all morning. and as we go through the rest of the day, scattered showers staying in the forecast. make sure we have the umbrella, ev showers, even through tonight hours, we re looking at showers through th
for firing comey. they demand a special prosecutor be appointed to look into russia s interference as presidential election. the liberal group moveon.org helped organize this protest. they say that by firing comey, the president has created a constitutional crisis. how do you feel about the firing? our bruce lesh and has our reporter: do you support what the president did? trump isn t a politician. the guy was growing up. he is gone. that s what happens in business. it almost looks like a cover- up. it s very nixonian. what was your reaction when you heard the president fired the fbi director? what this means is not a cover-up. it s still an investigation. trump should have just fired him earlier. i think th covering up the investigation, which i think it starts with the country. a key figure in all of this is the new deputy attorney general, the second in command at the justice department. we are apart from politics. rod rosenstein. so who is this guy?