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"Um, I landed. I went to the bathroom, sent an email to my parents to let them know that I was alive and then was rounded up by Colonel Mark Dougherty because there was a national guard leadership that wanted to know about what did we see? What did we do? Kind of begin to fill their situational awareness with what we had done that morning. So assassin I got scooped up and taken to the readiness Center to go brief a number of general officers who were trying to, um gather information and then continue to respond, Uh, to be able to protect our nation, um, which was as a first lieutenant? One of the first experiences that I've had. I had never seen so many stars in my life, and it was a dark room and there were, you know a few bright lights in our faces, and they were asking pointed questions, and I was really glad that sass was doing most of the answering and most of the talking. Do you remember the questions that they were asking one or two of them? Um They were really just very focused on. You know. What did you see? Um, and it was kind of a What's the state of the of the cap at that point in time, So, uh, they just want to know. So what's going on with With the X cap that we put up assess mentioned, you know, and told them about the tanker and told them about the quince that were in the high look, and there was just it was really basic information, and there wasn't There wasn't anything really earth shattering about what we were able to to tell them, But when I walked out, I mean, because it was a really unusual day. This is one moment of levity who walked out and assassinate you guys. I didn't say Did I know? Sorry? Did just fine. And then we got you know, we we had another, um, we needed to get airborne again. We were low on people and the base had shut down. So they really weren't letting anyone on base and they weren't really letting anyone off base. So we didn't have that many pilots that we could fly. So it was a very quick turn for us. I mean, I don't think that we were on the ground for more than an hour. How are your emotions? At that point, I was starting to the adrenaline was draining away because after the you know, after the initial After the initial intercept or or attempted and take off, and, uh, sweep of the Northwest. We I had brought down a lot of Well, General aviation aircraft, turning them away, getting them to land and that had become somewhat routine. So it wasn't as we weren't getting complacent. But the immediate threat had gone down. And this time I was taking off with a full load of bullets and aim nine. So which are what the aim nines that are the heat seeker missiles. So I I actually had missiles on board this time Did you have a chance to eat during the day? Yeah, when you when you look back at that day, and you think about all that you went through what goes through your mind? Well, you know, it's interesting, because, um, okay when I took off that day We didn't know what would happen if we fully Sassen I fully expected to to intercept flight 93 to take it down. So the experience of the moment it's very different from the reflective experience. Um, because reflecting on it, 10 years from now, I didn't change history. Um, I didn't keep that I didn't keep the Pentagon from from being hit. Um so The experience of the moment. And did we actually change the course of events? Kind of two different things. So, uh, how you, um How do you resolve those? Uh, is, uh, I don't know that you that you really do. A couple weeks later, when we had gotten into the routine of the combat air patrols and whatnot, Uh, our group commander, um Jeff Johnson, who is now our wing commander, Just a tremendous tremendous man had gone to the Pentagon for some briefings of What the D C guard had done because it was really unprecedented from from September 11th from 9 11 for the next. I think it was three weeks, the D. C. Air National Guard owned and controlled the cap, the Combat Air Patrol. So when fighters flew in from Langley, or from anywhere else we actually owned and we were the cap commanders so we would then come it. Fighters that were in the cap to go intercept or Investigate. If somebody else came in, which was a very unusual control structure, Um, so he had gone to the Pentagon, as as part of the lessons learned in the hot wash, which, because, as you remember, at the time, it was, how could this happen? And so there was intense, Um, analysis and study of what What were the failures that led up to that point and what was our response? And how did we learn and he came back and he gathered all of us into the mission briefing room and and told us the story of what someone has said to him when he was, um when he was walking to the Pentagon because they saw him and they saw his flight suit. And so I was patches and started asking. So you're from the D C guard. And they had been in the Pentagon when it was hit. And so they had been this. You know, this individual had been part of the evacuation out of the Pentagon and for the folks that were, you know, coming out of the East side. I mean, they still had a child developments that are there and the women were handing out babies because they couldn't carry enough babies. Out of the out of the child Development Center. And so they were just trying to, you know, to have to evacuate these kids you can imagine. I mean, I'm a mother now, myself and so to imagine, Um, what that must have been, like, you know, As you're saying these Pentagon workers and service members, you know, rushing out of the Pentagon and trying to get these Children safe to a place of safety. And the accurate smoke was billowing up. And I mean the smell of the jet fuel and all the burning debris and the burning flesh and the ashes falling falling down and nobody knew. There was There was no information for this individuals as they were evacuating the building. Was there another one coming in? I mean, there have been two that had hit the World Trade Center and then We flew over and full afterburner come.
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"It would typically take about 20 minutes to start the jet get the avionics in the system's going go through all the pre flight checks to ensure that all the systems were operating properly program the computers in the aircraft and that's not even including the time to look at the forms and do the walk around of the airplane and whatnot, so we usually planned About half an hour to 40 minutes from the time you walked out the door to the time that you actually took off And as a new guy, I was very concerned. I mean it. I was going to do everything right now is going to do everything by the book because attention to detail and ensuring that you execute perfectly is part of a fighter pilot Creed, and that was what I was, you know, learning to do. So, what was demanded of us that morning was completely um You know, seat of the pants is far as I was concerned. Explain the term scramble the aircraft. Um, a scramble start is, uh, where and it specifically towards how we execute the mission. Now, scramble start is where once you once the horn goes off. You can run to the jet started expeditiously and be able to get airborne within a minimum set of minutes. And that's in single digits, not even double digits. So it's a very, um, quick reaction to some kind of external threats so that you have time to be able to get airborne and be able to turn that threat around before it gets towards whatever. Uh, whatever you're trying to protect the president. The United States is in Florida. The vice president is at the White House. The transportation secretary is ordering all planes across the country. To be grounded and a second Another plane. A third plane hits the Pentagon. Where were you with all that happened when it was clear that there was a that there was a threat to Uh, to the D C area, which we immediately assumed once at second aircraft had hit the World Trade Center. Why did you assume that Because Washington, D C is the heart of, uh of the United States. That's the nation's capitals, the center of the through Free world. So, um, as As ominous as those two aircraft hitting the World Trade Center were it was very clear to us that it was we needed to get airborne to be able to protect Washington D. C As imaging before the challenge for us was how did we get authorization to be able to get airborne? Uh, National Guard units have two separate chains of command. We have a federal chain of command, but in order for that federal chain of command, which then mobilizes us into the active duty Air force And then there are specific. Um, uh, lines that go up, Uh, through the activity, air forces to the secretary of defense and the president, you have to be mobilized. Make that happen are other tended command, which is a standing in a command is the is the station commands the civilians, So we go through the governor. Well, um The D. C international guard doesn't go to the mayor of Washington, D. C. It actually goes up through the secretary of the Army and ultimately, to the president of the United States. So we were having to work our civilian chain of command to, um, activate that to try and get permission to become airborne as a young wingman. My job was to, uh I mean, like I said, I was standing around waiting for someone to basically tell me what to do so that I could support what we were trying to be able to get airborne. So what I basically did was I took her. Um, we had data transfer cartridges for the F 16 and think of it like a very large floppy disk or very large thumb drive because there are so many computerized avionics on the aircraft, whether or not that's, uh weapons, information, navigational information, etc. To That we that we are able to program before we ever get to the aircraft so we can take this data cartridge and then plug it into the jet and turn it on and download Had the mission profile. Call that navigation information, etcetera. So what I was doing while my leadership was trying to energize the chain of command upward to get authorization to launch I was programming. Basically programming the Jets. So his program of the death transfer cartridges and it was just based off of you know where. What's what's in the D. C area? Um, where's the capital? Whereas the National Mall are their critical infrastructure? Um, well, the little airports Things like that. So that's what you're doing. Do you remember what you were thinking? During that time period so much going on? Um, I was focused on expeditiously expeditiously loading up those cartridges and then trying to free myself up. So that I could then, um do whatever the next thing necessary was. Do you remember if you had a moment that morning to kind of absorb everything that was happening? It's This doesn't this sounds counterintuitive, But when I wrote when the magnitude and situation hit me, I really lost all emotion. I didn't have an emotional reaction at all. It was really much more focused on what are the things that I need to do to enable us to protect her capital. Water, the things that I need to do, um, to facilitate us getting airborne. Uh, the most time that I had for reflection was, you know when I finished up, loading up the data transfer card to the DTC s standing at the ops counter and observing what leadership was doing and trying to anticipate What the next step might be, so that I could be of more use. So we had Lieutenant Colonel Phil Thompson dog took over duties as the supervisor of flying previously. Um, uh, Dan Kane Raisin, Who is our weapons officer had been acting as a supervisor of flying. But dog took over to free raisin because he was also our weapons officer. To free raise enough so that he could begin to manage and prepare for what? We. You know what we anticipated that being able to get airborne? Um, are we Commander General literally came down and was standing there at the office desk, trying to get information again, trying to energize the chain of command. One thing that was very special and unique about our again. Our situation. Being there at Andrews is that Because Andrews is also the home of Air Force one. We had established a relationship with the Secret Service in the air traffic control tower, because when Air Force one moves the Secret Service owns Fairfield so that they can provide better protection for the president. So we had established a relationship with them in order to be able to manage the impact to our daily flying activities. And so one of the things that was going on was that, uh, Can Kayne Called the Secret Service called the guys in the tower, folks that he knew through a personal relationship to say, Hey, we're here. We can help have someone tell us what to do. And having general literally begin to address that relationship as well. Um, also, you know, uh, and flying with the phase and the training that we're in when we train we don't train with, you know. Real bombs that have explosives on on them. As a matter of fact that the the We either trained with no weapons on board, and we were able to simulate, uh, that actual weapons, employment or we train with, you know, very small concrete projectiles, which you know, um, can mimic the actual, um, fall profile of real weapons, so we realistically had nothing. That we would be able to do if we got we would we would take her We would take off on armed. So the other things that we did, which was very out of the box, but realizing the seriousness of the situation, uh, Raisin called down to the bomb dump, Which is, you know, located far away from any population on the base, because that's where the things that go boom live. Right? So if something happens, you want that? Very isolated. And so the guys that live down there, they got no television. They got no radio. I mean, they're living in a world where to them. It's just another beautiful Baloo Tuesday morning, and then they get this phone call. Says. Hey, I want you to build up some real aim Nine heat seeking missiles or what are you talking about? Trust me, do it. Um so he so.
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"So we can't operate. We can't function like this so critical staff. Only people started started going back to their I guess regulation offices to work. And then once the president got back, and we Dave the order, the immediate order of business was to get him and, uh, address to the nation. And then following that he wanted to meet with the principles, security principles. They're called and which he did do in the Uh, Um, in the back down in the P Ark. And then things felt orderly, in the sense that this is how we conduct Cabinet meetings, this society Vietnam and the place. We normally conduct Cabinet meetings, which would be the Cabinet room, But then it became. Then we get into the rhythm of, you know, Here's how the White House works. At a high level, and I don't remember being um I don't remember being tired, leaving but I do remember being physically physically. Not emotionally physically exhausted. Uh, when I finally did get home, which meant I really must have been in a report pressed way emotionally exhausted as and so is everybody but we were all back the next morning, it five o'clock. 5 30 Real. Likely a P. Ock is an acronym for The apartment. I don't know, Steve, you're going to have to. I never knew what it was Presidential blah, blah, blah, The operational center. It's the bomb shelter. We have an acronym for everything. But all I knew is I would never be able to find my way there. And I couldn't to this day and without an armed somebody taking me there. I don't. I couldn't tell you where it is other than on the complex. Where will you spend the 10th anniversary of September? 11th? You know I well, we I think, probably in New Orleans. One of the strange things that didn't occur to me until the first anniversary was how much I didn't know was going on. I did not have the perspective No one who is in doing what we were. Doing that day was seeing what The American people public was saying they were, uh, when I watched the coverage on the first anniversary, I couldn't stop crying. I was shocked. I'm not. That is an emotional feeling. I feel to this day far more. Um, uh, gripping than heartbreaking. Than I did on September line. I just didn't I didn't see it. We weren't watching TV. We weren't watching. Uh, people jumping out of buildings. We saw the building collapse. We had to go right back to work. We weren't didn't see Mayor. We didn't see every all the chaos that the American people saying it, it frightens me to the core. To think what America must have been feeling watching that we we, We just weren't exposed to it. So I my kids are now they hate to watch this with me because I can't keep myself control. But they're now 13 and 16. And it's important that they understand and we watch it together. And as I understand it, there will be much coverage of commemoration of the brave were the responders and those That we lost that day and That's a good will never be closure, but it's a it's uh, unifying place for all Americans, part of a series of interviews conducted by C Span for the 10th anniversary of 9 11. These interviews conducted its September and August 2011. Major Heather Penney of the Air National Guard The morning of September 11th 2000 and one How did it begin for you? Well, it was, uh, it was in, uh, ordinary Tuesday morning. As far as we were concerned, the one 21st fighter squadron of which I was a part. We had just participated in a red flag deployment for the previous two weeks and had returned back home that early. You know, it's Saturday, so the commanders had given the vast majority of the full time force, which Really was not that many folks at that point in time a pass for Tuesday to be able to return for Monday to be able to reconnect with their families. So Tuesday was really the first time that we were kind of getting back to work all of our traditional who had been deployed to red flag. We're back off doing their normal civilian jobs, and so we were just kind of settling back into the groove. And, um, planning out the week. So that morning on Tuesday was really just an average morning getting up eating my Cheerios, uh, driving into work. It was really just very normal at about a quarter to nine, when the first reports came of a plane hitting the first of the two world trade centers. What was your reaction? I was in the middle of a long range scheduling meeting with the other five full timers. Uh, they're the fighter squadron. So we were planning out the week and really planning out the month as well. Looking at what our training priorities would be our check right priorities, looking at a range. Edged times transitioning the Jets into a new phase of training in a new phase of flight. And so we were working just through a lot of the administration details of getting back into our training rhythm. Uh, when a knock came at the door, and another person, you know, opened up the door and hope their head in and said, Hey, somebody Flew into the World Trade Center, and we all looked at each other. We looked outside the windows. And as everyone remembers in Washington, D C. It was a crystal in September morning. I mean, just blue skies very clear day It was lovely, and we all kind of look at each other, really puzzled because normally the weather the weather patterns in D. C are not that different from what they are in New York. And we all kind of laughed for, like, Wow. What kind of bozo really pork, his instrument approach, you know, going into New York..
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"Fact, they drew the wall. Now I see the war between man's temporal house where the state would reign and his spiritual house for God would rain. God gave us reason grew the wall. Let's see that wall crumbling in some ways, Senator Danforth, Republican under deigned fiscal the minister refers to the Republican Party is the first religious party of the United States. I saw the changes during the seventies seventies. The Senate I entered. There was no partisanship. The center was broad. My colleague was Chuck Percy. Many of them well, you will remember. But by the end of that decade, it was beginning to change. The money was beginning to pour in politics was becoming more electronic, more episodic and as ideologues relieving Beijing ideologues began arriving with Ronald Reagan in Washington. Former U. S. Senator Adlai Stevenson, the third on C SPAN two's book TV in 2012. He died this week at the age of 90 current Illinois U. S. Senator Dick Durbin, remembering Stevenson as his friend and partner and countless causes over the years, adding Like his father before him, madly was most at home in the cerebral world of politics. Thanks for listening to Washington today. And for more top Washington stories subscribe to our evening news letter Word for word with a c hyphen span dot org. Forward slash Connect to subscribe. And I hope you have a great night. Yes. From the White House East Room. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. AFL CIA president Liz Shuler, along with United Food and Commercial Workers, member Jocelyn Cruces, joined President Biden to discuss labor unions. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States, accompanied by the secretary of Labor, president of the AFL CIA, Miss Elizabeth Schuler, and United Food and Commercial is worker member, Ms Jocelyne Cruises. Hey, I believe.
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"At the same time, the president and this administration has a responsibility to do everything we can to protect people in the United States in this country, and as our health advisers have recommended additional booster shots, we are working to implement that our views we can do both. I'd also note that there are in addition to access to vaccine doses. One of the reasons that we have invested in areas like manufacturing critical vaccine inputs expanded fill finished. Is because sometimes the issues are also about distribution channels about having enough personnel who are trained to distribute the shots. Manufacturing capacity. Certain access to certain components that go into vaccines were working through those as well. But we are doing both. We think we can do both, and we will continue to do both from the United States. White House press secretary Jen Psaki. President Biden plans to give an update on booster shots and other next steps for tackling the coronavirus pandemic, especially the highway transmissible delta variant. On Thursday. Also, the Supreme Court today says it will be returning in October for in person oral arguments with the start of the the New Year, the first oral arguments in person since the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic. The sessions will not be open to the public due to health and safety concerns. But live audio feeds of the arguments will be provided. Washington today continues in a minute. Sunday night. On Cue a day Jessica DeLong was chief engineer of the historic fireboat John J. Harvey on September 11th when it was called back into service to aid firefighters following the attacks on the twin towers. In her book Saved at the Seawall, Mr Long tells the story of the community of Mariners who came to the rescue of thousands. The maritime evacuation that delivered nearly half a million people to safety is an increase. Terrible example of the goodness of people that when you are given the opportunity to help you have the tools you have the skill set. You have the the the availability that people over and over again made the choice to put themselves in harm's way, Um, for the sake of fellow humans, and that is very instructive and something that we really need to continue to remember Jessica DeLong. Sunday night at eight P.m. Eastern on cease bounds Cure day. You can also find Q and a interviews wherever you get your podcasts. Mhm..
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"And new digital technology so doctors can monitor patients remotely in their homes. And we will do all this in a way that is right and reasonable and fair. Mr. Speaker, Some will ask why we don't increase income tax capital gains tax instead. But income tax isn't paid by businesses so the whole burden would fall on. Jules, roughly doubling the amount that the basic taxpayer could expect to pay and the total revenue Mr Speaker from capital gains tax amounts to less than £9 billion this year. Instead, our new levy will share the cost between individuals and businesses, and everyone will contribute according to their means, including those above state patient the pension age. So those who earn more Those who earn more will pay more. And because we are also increasing dividends tax rate, we will be asking better off business owners and investors to make a fair contribution to in fact, the highest earning 14% will pay around half the revenues. No one earning less than £9568 will pay a penny and the majority of small businesses will be protected with 40% of all business. Is paying nothing at all. The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons. He was followed by the main opposition leader, Keir Starmer from the Labour Party, who criticized the prime minister for breaking a campaign promise and not proposing to raise taxes more on the rich. This is a tax rise. That breaks a promise that the prime mister made.
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"They live there the rest of their lives in the center of this community course. Little Italy is contracted since the days that the Dallas Saunders who were living there, but still a real community, still with some of the restaurants that were around when Nancy Della Sandra was growing up, and how important was the Catholic faith to her, and the family, but really fundamental ST. Leo's was was the local church. It was where babies were baptized. It's where Children went to school. It's where Funerals were held, and those who had passed away were mourned. The family was hardcore Democrats and Nancy Pelosi, even as a child was deeply partisan. You have a couple little stories that illustrate that one was the toy elephant. So Nancy Della Sandra as a little girl. Her parents take her to the polling place on Election Day. As I'm sure that was a familiar place for her to go even as very young, a poll worker offered her a little stuffed toy elephant. And she wouldn't take it because she understood that elephants stood for the Republican Party, and that's not who they were. And you know, even as an adult. She had the similar, really strong partisan feelings she as a young mother with four Children. At that time, they moved to San Francisco. They were looking for a house to rent. There were a lot of landlords not eager to rent to a family that had four little Children. She finally Wonder how she liked it had a backyard. It had a swing said they were just about to sign the lease when she discovered that the reason the house was available was because the owner had taken a job in the Nixon administration. And she said, there's no way I could rent a house from someone who was going to work for Richard Nixon, and she didn't throughout her success and failures as speaker. How Did this real sense of part is this deep partisanship play out for her? You know, I think it is, uh, it was fundamental in Baltimore, Baltimore was a Democratic city. You didn't need to worry about Republicans so much needed to worry about the Democratic primary. Same thing is true in San Francisco, where she moved and became very active in politics, chair of the democratic of the California Democratic Party, and then a candidate herself. And you know, when you see her operate in Washington today, there is a you know it. As we become such a partisan town. You can see the effects of that. I think I think she's never been in a situation where it was where bipartisanship was the rule of the day. Not that she's never cut bipartisan deals. Of course, she has. But that is, I think, is not the instinct that she grew up with, and therefore does it contribute to the hyper partisanship? You know, I think that the thing that her strongest admirers say is that she is a master of our political system. And I think one thing that her critics might say is that she didn't try to change things about our political system. So she excelled in this very partisan atmosphere. She became one of the parties. Most successful fundraisers, you might say perhaps the effective big money is something that someone would like to familiarize her to reduce. But she took the system that she faced, and she worked it with the kind of mastery that we haven't seen since figures like Sam Rayburn or London Johnson. Susan Page is USA Today's Washington bureau chief. She's discussing her book, Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In the Lessons of Power on C Span's Q and a on the fundraising you report in your book, a pretty I popping figure of how much she's raised leadership close to a billion dollars right up there. She may have gotten over it by this point. That is a stunning amount of money, and she's used her California base as an important way to raise money. She raises money from Hollywood and from business. She even got a contribution from a businessman in New York named Donald Trump. When was that? Well? That was years ago when Donald Trump was still a Democrat, although he was giving to some Republicans that that Time to, But it was the first time they met. Charlie Rangel, the legendary congressman from New York, introduced them at a time she was on a fundraising call, and he remembered that and when she was when she was elected speaker, he senator congratulatory note, and even years later when he was in office, and she had become his his the face of the Democratic opposition to Donald Trump. He still saw her as as a potential ally. I remember I interviewed him with my colleague. David Jackson for USA Today just before the midterms in 2018. And at this time, many of Trump's aides and strategists were alarmed by the possibility that Democrats would gain control of the House. They understood all that would mean in terms of investigation says it turned out even in terms of impeachment. But Donald Trump President Trump in this interview aboard Air Force One was not that concerned. He said that that was he could work with them that he can work with the Democratic counts because they would also want to get things done. Of course, things turned out a bit differently. And we will talk about some of those is our our progress is before we get into more of her pathway to power a bit about your book. How long ago did you started? I started at about 2.5 years ago. And you write in the book that Nancy Pelosi granted you 10 interviews. How difficult was that negotiations? So there wasn't I was grateful that she that she gave me everything. I didn't have a deal with her beforehand before I signed the contract for the book on interviews, but I interviewed over the years occasionally, uh, for news stories. Um, I thought she would probably talk to me a little bit. She agreed to talk to me once a quarter, so every three months I would go up and have a interview with her in the In the speaker's office, which I thought was a lot. I thought that was a lot of interviews or somebody who is the speaker of the house. And some of those interviews took place on big days. On days she had a dispute with L. C in the squad that blew up on the day impeachment hearings begin in the House. Big days important days to be there, But I was worried after the first interview that I would never get a second because when I came in for the first interview she gave me Dove bar. You know those ice cream bars that are coated with chocolate, and she had one and I had one. But I bit into mine in charge of chocolate, scattered on her pristine carpet, cream colored carpet and made kind of a mess, And I was worried that she would never invite me back. Fortunately, she didn't invite me back. But she never again offered me anything to eat. Lesson learned, Uh, in those interviews overall, you write in the introduction that she's a tough Interview. How so? How did they play out? So she's very disciplined and she knows what she wants to say. And she is not embarrassed to say it over and over again. So there are a couple quotes that she gives that, uh, you know about Abraham Lincoln, the importance of public sentiment or about from Ronald Reagan about the strength of an immigrant nation, and she is perfectly happy in an interview to tell you exactly what she said that day at a news conference. Or three months ago in a speech, um so the the effort to get things that are new and different, more spontaneous, more insightful, um was was tough, but she did get, uh, the interviews got better than more of them. I had and I kept finding things, uh, that she didn't know about about herself and I think that I think that helped. I think that helped the interview's become more productive. One of those was a patent that her mother had been granted. She was not aware of She. Her mother was this great entrepreneur who created this machine. There's aluminum machine to give women facials, and it was called beauty by vapor. Um, and she submitted a totally official looking scientific drawing for patents twice for this machine, which we found. On the We found that that an application and in fact, one of my sons went on eBay and found a Nancy D alesandro beauty by vapor machine, which he bought from me off eBay and which still work. I wonder if she's ever seen one? Yeah, I don't know. I showed that tour and the patent So as we go forward in her pathway to power, she went to school here in Washington, D C. Trinity College Catholic College and then right after that, what did she do so she went to work for Senator Brewster Daniel Brewster, who was a one term senator from Maryland who had hired two people for his office. When it opened up, he hired Nancy Dalesandro as a reception. 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"But the economic future they have to invest in this infrastructure which this budget resolution starts to do in dramatic way. And I think a thoughtful way. Um, on education, Mr Mr Early in Iran Education. Committee. The rest of the developed world has spent 10% education in August 10 years the U. S has spent 2% on childcare and the education working said since the U. S. Right that last and affordable child care. Dead last, uh for working women, in particular working families in 1974 only 14% of women. The Children have full time jobs. 1994 94 or 74%, and it's almost 85 we have to provide with the rest of the world has done is affordable early education, and this bill will do that. And when seven personally that I think is really important for us to get After that. We've talked about an oversight committee and former chair Elijah Cummings was so great on this is the cost of forms. I take a pill every day because over $100 in the United States in the EU, uh, $60 on average, Australia thirties. When I asked the pharmaceutical executive why that was his honest answer ways because we can That's not fair. And then lastly, Competitiveness, Mr Morelli and the chairman's point. Um, so we're doing it to pay for this the way we did one because Eisenhower was president. We're going to make everybody pay their fair share. Wealthy people and corporations, So I just want again. Thank you, Um, Children your within, uh, General McGovern for your leadership on this. I think it's extremely important and what context of the last 50 years. It's not paying too much spending too little for these important issues. Are you back? Thank you very much, Miss Ross. Um, thank you, Mr Chairman. And thank you, Chairman your meth and ranking member Smith for being here. Um, this budget resolution represents the biggest investment in our people in a generation. It invests in housing. It invests in healthcare. It invests in childcare and for the next generation. It invests in universal, pre K and free community college, which in the 21st century is going to be a game changer for how we work and how the next generation provides for their families. It also puts the full force of government behind climate change. Again an investment in the next generation. The resolution looks to the future. Yes, it's a statement of our values. But most of the discussion here today has been about the past. I'm concerned about the future. I'm concerned about our Children. I'm concerned about their Children, and I'm so proud. That the house and the Senate could agree to put forward a budget resolution that focuses on the future. I will support the rule. I will support this resolution and Mr Chairman, I yield back. Thank you, Mr Need goose. House Rules Committee on C SPAN radio. Thank you, Mr Chairman. I'll be brief, You know one of the benefits of being the newest member of this committee as I get to hear all the debate before I commence with my remarks, and I think today's debate has been illuminating. However, there's one concern I have, which is so much of the discussion has been divorced from the underlying investments that we are poised to make within the build back better budget reconciliation plan that we are debating today and I think it's important. For us to bring the debate back to that core tenant that at the end of the day is the underpinning behind. Why we're here today. So ranking member and chairman your meth I want to say thank you for both of you for being here. I'm just going to go through a couple of the investments and I guess I'd like to get a better sense as to whether you support them or whether you oppose them. So my understanding is that this bill includes Herculean investment. As my colleague, Ms Ross explained in community colleges making community college is free for every American community colleges in Colorado state that I represent in Kentucky in southeastern Missouri across our country, Mr ER, meth Chairman Do you support that? I totally support that, Mr Smith. We have a process called a plus in the state of Missouri, where you go through certain parameters with receiving certain amount of tutoring, community involvement and academics and you get your junior college paid for so the state of Missouri already has a process that their funding themselves and doing that I would like to point on the child tax credit. Um I'm going to get to that. I appreciate you answering my question Sounds like a great program in Missouri and Boy, would it be wonderful for every other student in the United States of America to be able to access free community college, which were poised to do as part of this reconciliation bill? My understanding is that this bill also includes expansion for the first time in 55 years. A various Medicare benefits specifically Vision so that senior citizens can go and buy eyeglasses when they need them Dental benefits so that a senior citizen can go to the dentist and hearing benefits so that they can get a hearing aid. Mr. ER, meth. You support that totally. I don't know how you again respond to the growing senior population in the country and and so many of whom rely on Social Security for a succinct Difficult part of their or all of their income. Um and and deny them the ability to have care for the basic senses that allow you to live your life in a dignified and enjoyable way hearing, gentlemen, and and here and the vision can't see you can hear and you can't eat then you're not going to have much of a retirement. Yes, very important, Mr Smith. The concern under fiscal crisis would definitely make the programs that are most vulnerable depend on such as Medicare and Social Security, the most vulnerable and when you have $68 trillion worth of reckless spending that only threatens Medicare as we know it, and that is a huge concern. We need to make sure that Medicare does not go and solvent. Which is already projected in years to come. Continuing to expand to an already threatened and solvent program is a huge concern, and we need to fix it before we expanded Congressman Jason Smith to make sure I let you finish your answers. But I take that That's a note that you don't support. The expansion of Medicare is a very important program.
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"There's so many of them out there, and I didn't want this to be actually what I really wanted this to be. Because, unfortunately, I just couldn't get it done in time, but it just wasn't enough time between the contract and delivery. I wanted to get this published in somebody around the last week in our Children. So the Joe Biden could stand up with the third debate and take my book and waving it, Donald Trump and say the president, This is the book you should be reading. That didn't work out that way. So, um, but I do know that it's a longer than that Sweet. S so we would ever read it right. But as it happens, a senior member of the button, see, remember, but in Cabinet told me the other day that you know the other day that he has ordered the book from Amazon and he's going to breed it with interest, and I can't ask you to do this, but my hope would be You know, maybe ones up on someone else's bin said table at night, so we'll see. I'll tell you. The interesting thing is my shattered piece wound up on the bedside table somehow. Off Henry kissing his wife. And she loved it. She wanted summer, she said. Henry, You've gotta read this book. So we read it and loved it. So his results of the paperback edition the Centenary edition When Harry Evans did the preface, I tried to get into Eclipse wouldn't do that, but he gave me a wonderful blurred we were able to put on the jacket, so I'm hoping things like that can happen. But you never know. You really write a book. You throw it out there, and hopefully someone will like it. And talk about it. And, you know, read it, And there we are. So that's my hope. Injury. And then if not going, right, the next one. I'm only 76 years old. I got plenty of time for more books, Right? Okay. Anyone else have people signed off? All right, everybody, Thank you so much. It's been a pleasure. Thank you, David. Patricia. Thank you again. You just just wonderful for doing this. This brutal event took place on January 8th hosted by the Overseas Press Club, David Andelman, a past president of Overseas Press Club. Discussing his book, a Red line in the sand diplomacy strategy and a history of wars that might still happen. He was in conversation with Deborah Amos, foreign correspondent for NPR. And treasurer of the Overseas Press Club. W. C. S B from Washington BOOK TV..
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"Now this distracts us from doing the work of this country and taking on the issues that desperately need to be addressed and putting my ideas up against the administration's ideas that right now are killing jobs, and I think harming the economy. We need to be having those discussions. Not, um Rehashing old news and continuing to drag ourselves through the mud on that first Western is the top of member on the house. Natural resource is committee Republican from Arkansas. Fourth District Do always appreciate your time, sir. Thanks so much. Thank you, John. And that was from this morning's Washington Journal on C SPAN. Radio. WCS PFM Washington We're standing by to bring you a live virtual event hosted by Si esa es the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and this will be a discussion about U. S policy towards Mexico. We see that the technically this event is starting is being put together and we expected to begin live shortly and then also live today on C SPAN radio at 11 this morning, Republican representative of Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene will be holding a news conference. Yesterday, the house voted to 30 to 1 99 to remove her from assignments on the House. Education and Budget committees also live today. Now the House is back in session and right now is working on apprentice ship and worker training programs. And they will be in that debate for a while Later today, the House will be considering the Senate version of the 2021 budget resolution. And when that happens, we will take you to that house Debate Live. The houses live on C Span. Tall vision c span dot org's and with the free C SPAN radio APP. The Senate early today approved that 2021 budget resolution. It includes the reconciliation instructions to Senate committees to write their portions of a bill based on President Biden's $1.9 Trillion covert relief proposals. By February. 16th. Also early today, senators past several amendments to the measure, including one that would reduce the number of people eligible for direct payments and another that would prevent an immediate increase to the federal minimum wage. This latest effort on another relief package is being done through a process known as reconciliation, and that allows budget related legislation to pass by a simple majority. As we wait for the C s. I s discussion discussion on the U. S and Mexico policy to begin Just a few minutes from this morning's Washington Journal as we asked you to tell us your top news story of the week, thieves up First out of Wake Forest, North Carolina Republican Steve Good Morning. Good morning. My time stories your obsession with Marjorie telling Green Why are you so obsessed with? What did she do to you? I'm asking you. What did you do to you? Dressing me specifically, Steve. Yeah. Four days in a row. You have trashed this woman like she is. But I have no idea what your problem with her is. But four days around you brought it up two days ago to a guy yourself. Out of the book that you were talking to that called in the CIA and unprecedented move by the entire house to strip a member of their committee post. It was certainly a Losey event, and it was the focus of house proceedings Yesterday it was the focus of a Republican conference meeting. Two days ago. It's been in the news this week from this morning's Washington Journal. We now join live a discussion on US Mexico relations hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The C S I s moderator is Daniel Runde, and he is speaking virtually with Martha Barcena. Mexico's ambassador to the U. S. And seeing your life on this now I think it's time to spend, uh, to spend. It is the time to spend more time with my family. So I am happy with this. But I'm sure that we will keep in touch on not only with you, my dear friends, but with all the friends off Mexico. Well, let's start. Ambassador you. You joined the foreign service in 19. I mean, you might nine You must have been 10 years old when you saw your service 21, but you've sense of in various capacities. Several ambassadorships. Could you tell us what would ever want made you what? Prompted you to join the Foreign service? And could you also were there a lot of women in the Mexican foreign service in 1979? Well in my generation, we were 50% women 50% men, So I think it was one of the first generation. It was equal equal number. What made me join the foreign service is I always had a great interest in international of hers and in history. It was also a classical ballet dancer on did I wanted to become a dancer, a professional dancer. I was a professional dancer in the Mexican company National Company. Uh, but then I You started to have a lot of physical problems. So I thought that it was better to rely on my head and not on my head on my body. So I finished University on bonds Since I was a child. My grandfather used to take me to come on. He would Show me what did you study political science and the promise he and he was the doctor of high motorist with it. A great foreign minister of Mexico, a great director general of UNESCO on And he told me here, you started to become a diplomat like my friend. Hi, motorist with it. I said what is her diplomatic? I was like, eight years old. You represent your country and you do it well with intelligence as high motorist, bullet. So that remain in my mind when I joined the university, you know, there have bean a moment at economic which wasps the Romany strikes, So the calendars off the high schools and number not compatible. You have to wait like for a year to go in tow. Into the university. So I went to a private university make Mexico they just with one and they didn't have the career off international affairs off international relations. But they had a communication, which I thought it was a very attractive career to study because you had a very broad number off issues that were addressed. There was in that time it was more based on humanity's and philosophy that on technical on technical issues. And since then I focus on the studying the international aspect of communication. Freedom of expression at international level on bond you you may remember the young people will not remember but the wasp at those kinds of discussion off the new new World Economic order. Beyond the Non Aligned Movement were also speaking about the new World Information Order in the famous bandana conference, So I got into study all these matters and in your time when the Foreign Ministry You know, maybe call for exams, toe join the Mexican foreign service. Then I decided to join and I passed success and and I don't live more than 40 years. Sometimes taking a leave of absence is to follow my husband who Who is also career diplomat, retired double deuce ESPN from Washington. On Bond..
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"Administration nominees at 10 A.m. Eastern. The Senate Finance Committee hearing for Janet Yellen, to be secretary of the Treasury. Janet Yellen previously served as chair of the Federal Reserve and at 3 P.m. Eastern, the Senate Armed Services Committee Confirmation hearing for Lloyd Austin to be defense secretary. If confirmed, retired four star General Austin will be the first African American secretary of defense Watch live coverage of the confirmation hearings on C Span on demand at C SPAN. Doubt Orig or listen on the C SPAN, radio APP. W. C. S B from Washington up next door. She's been radio afterwards. This week. Adam Gentleman, he was deputy chief of staff for former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada. And he argues in his new book, Kill Switch that the modernization of the U. S. Senate is damaging American democracy. He's interviewed by Wall Street Journal congressional reporter Kristina Peterson. Adam. I know that you were a longtime staffer for former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. What in your experience working in the Senate? Because you don't want to write this book? Well, it was really the whole experience of having spent time there and having institution just Appear very different in the way it worked day today from what I'd read and what I'd expected and what I've learned to expect from the Senate on DSA specifically leaving when I did after the 2016 elections made things feel like they were just horribly horrifically off track on guy think that What I wanted to do was find a way to bring some resolution to the conflict that was experienced in between the Senate as I had come to expect it and the Senate as I experienced it when working there, I knew that the filibuster was a common feature of American politics and knew the top down. Leadership control was what the Senate had come to feature, but I didn't know why. And when you ask around People lean on sort of circular answers about, you know being this way because this is the way the Senate decided it should be the wisdom of the ages. Senators over time making it this way, and those answers just didn't really sit well with me, and I wanted to investigate them. And so that process of asking those questions chasing down those answers is what led to this book. For those of us who are not Senate procedural nerds. What exactly is the filibuster and you spend a lot of time in the book talking about how it changed over time? Could we maybe start there was just an overview of What it started out as and what it has become. Yeah, sure. So in the beginning, there was no filibuster in the Senate, as originally created, did not have a filibuster and In in fact, was designed to not encourage obstructionist debate. I want to be clear that you know, extended to be thoughtful, debate, unstructured debate. All these things were intended in the original Senate. But the idea of using debate to obstruct or block a bill with any frequency was not contemplated. Not only was it not contemplated the framers make clear that they did not want this to happen. Jefferson's original man Manual of congressional procedure had a whole set. Shin on order and debate and explained that senators should not debate superfluous Lee or beside the question on the Senate contained rules to shut off debate if it if it started taking so long, eh? So this was the clear intent of the framers was to, you know, have a thoughtful chamber where people could have their say we're the minority on any issue would have a platform to make their views known, try to persuade people to their side. But at the end of the day, when reasonable senators could kind of agree that this debate had run its course it was supposed to be able to end debate and move quickly to Up or down vote at a majority threshold. The supermajority didn't come till much later. I'm sure we'll get into that. So then, after all the framers had passed away John Calhoun in the middle of the 19th century really starts to innovate the modern filibuster as we know it. There was some efforts and obstruction before him. Some historians argue that the first filibuster as we know it took place before Captain arrived. But what Calhoun did that was truly innovative was to marry. The tactics of obstruction in Congress to the principle of minority rights on he took Madison's protections for minority rights, which Madison definitely did believe in. But Calhoun blew them up way out of proportion past anything that is never would have imagined. So In this era and so the 18 thirties 18 forties on a little bit into the 18 fifties, the filibuster emerged and it was sort of what we would associate with the Jimmy Stewart type filibuster, where senators like Calhoun would take to the Senate floor. Coordinate with other senators just have passed the baton and they would debate At length to block a bill that they oppose on the Senate floor, right right physically on the floor, talking to for the purpose of delay, like they had to be there to make the delay happen. What's really important to emphasize at this point is that first of all, it didn't have a name. Yet there's this new tool was so alien to the Senate that it actually took several years after Calhoun passed away for the term filibuster to emerge sometime in the 18 fifties 18 sixties. So this was a new thing. Nobody was sure what to call it. It was definitely new to the Senate. Um, e think you mentioned that it somehow relates to pirates? Yes, that's right. Well, there's a Dutch terminal. I do have to pick just one to mispronounce it, but Virgie boot there. Uh, it's it's a Dutch term for piracy. There's a lot of piracy going on in the Gulf at the time American level. What's that? All primacy? Actual piracy? Yes. Pirates in boats, stealing stuff taking over land. Um, there's pirates off the coast of Louisiana. It was, you know, in the news at the time it was. It was a hot topic of debate. There was legislation addressing yet. So this word on Ben, the Dutch were that I horribly mispronounced. Think loosely translates to free boater on so it was sort of a amalgam of these words that led to the term filibuster. But even in the beginning, it's sort of important toe note that the connotations were sort of, you know. Um, we're piracy. It was it was hijacking. It was, uh, you know, illegality. And so you know, even in its inception, the whole concept was this idea of something new coming into the institution to sort of hijack it and mess with the rules. Adam, gentle, soon kill switch the Rogers, the modern Senate and the crippling of American democracy. Um So, But in this era all through the 19th century, it's really important to emphasize that this was a tool that could delay bills but could almost never stop them altogether. And the ethic was still very strong within the Senate that the majority should prevail..
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"These fans Washington Journal Every day. We're taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day, and we'll discuss policy issues that impact you coming up Wednesday morning a discussion about the House impeachment vote against President Trump for his role in the attack on Capitol Hill with Texas Democratic Congressman Al Green. And then with Utah Republican Congressman John Curtis, Watch these fans Washington Journal Live at seven Eastern Wednesday morning and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, Facebook comments, text messages and tweets. On the latest episode of C Span's podcast, the weekly look at what happened after supporters of President Trump's storming the U. S Capitol during a joint session of Congress, forcing lawmakers to flee for secure locations After the capital was finally secured. Both bodies went back to work certifying the electoral votes here is Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. We know that we would be part of history in a positive way today, every four years when we have Demonstrate again the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next and despite the shameful actions of today, we still will do so we will be part of the history that shows the world. America is made off House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Just one of the voices you'll hear on this episode of the weekly and you can find it wherever you listen.
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"Orders recreational sports leagues. These are some of the types of businesses related to entertainment and hospitality that can be supported by the bridge fund. Tomorrow. Deputy Mayor felt Chick EO will be joined by Rebecca lender to discuss who is a member of the D. C. Event coalition to talk about the impact on those types of businesses and the bridge fun. Okay With that we can take a few questions from team with CNN, given that Capitol police chief son said that he pled with the Pentagon for extra help from the National Guard as the capital was being stormed. Do you think that's an accurate categorization of that? And what should have been done differently Is all of this was going down. Where was where was the failure? Now that we know more after what happened on the six? Well, I think that we will continue to Arm or and that there will be a comprehensive looks at what happened or what should have happened on. We are very much looking forward to those investigations happening, given that son said that the Pentagon thought that the optics would be bad if the national Guard was in front of the Capitol. What goes through your head when you hear that? Well for for our part, we saw the capital being stormed on. We thought all extraordinary help to the United States Capitol Police was warranted. What needs to be different, Given that there's already chatter of more events like this on the 17 also around the inauguration? What? What needs to change in order to make sure that something like this does not happen again. Is it more federal? I spent the first Part of my remarks, talking about some very specific changes that we've recommended to the federal government, the first being directed at the Department of Homeland Security in that letter outlines very specific suggestions. First, we think that the national Special Security event time period and security perimeter it needs to be expanded. We think further, uh, that Discussions among the branches of government and all federal law enforcement needs to focus on federal properties. Those were a couple very specific things that we've asked, We further have asked that Secretary of the Interior who, as you know, is responsible for the National Park Service, who's that is responsible for most of the national Mall and properties. In the downtown area that a federal that they not grant any public gathering permits. And we sent the ones that they have already granted. Yes, they're advisor in regards to the call that Pete's asking you about. The Washington Post is quoting that all three of you before us were on that call. Can you please describe the contents of that call, and you know the way that the United States Capitol police chief asked for help, and also, I have some follow up questions. Um, Stephanie. I won't get in to talking about the details of that call. I know there's been a lot of reporting on it. We stand behind. The comments that have been attributed to our administration, in the father of question is also reporting that days before that the U. S Capitol police chief had personally reached out to Chief Conte. Chief content. Can we ask you Can you please confirm that that conversation was had And was there any inkling of concern? Or, you know, suggestion or concern that United States Capitol police for not getting these Systems they needed for this event to cover this event beforehand. Yeah, eyes, the mayor stated. We stand by what was in the what was in the article Chief Son did reach out. But it was just for MPD, where we available to respond in the event that things got bad at the Capitol. And may I ask if Well, I was not at the I was not president. The previous news conferences following what happened at the Capitol, but I did watch And there were multiple news conferences with Secretary of Army was also here. Why are we only learning of these details now? After this reporting, I'm not sure I follow what you mean Stephanie, But I'm sure there were a comprehensive examination that you will learn even even more. But you are You all were part of that call. And today there's reporting that their significant concern with that call that there was request made by the U. S. Capitol Police for assistance and It appears, according to this, reporting that it was not made or granted due to concerns of optics. Why are we only learning about this now? So many days after? I actually don't think we're only learning about it now, that was that's been discussed since the day of the event. But the details of this call and an asset to follow up separately in regards to the inauguration. Sure if you are going as far as to request that these permits for gatherings be denied, or canceled when that requests that the inaugurations public events just cancel Period. If that transition power still going to happen, I think that that is, uh, transition of power happens when Joe Biden and Kamila Harris are sworn in and that even in my view should be public. Yes, chief content chief contact. I've talked to some people and I've monitored social media. Yeah, And they've made it very, very clear that if any pro trump people happen to come east of the river that might be a little bit of trouble is briefing from Monday morning from Mayor of Washington, D. C's office, Merial Bowser. This question is being directed to Robert Conti, who is the acting police chief of Washington, D. C. C SPAN radio WCS pfm Washington Do talk about that in the context of people in the neighborhoods trying to protect themselves from these pro trump demonstrators? E did a Facebook live? I guess a couple of days ago with one to counsel numbers just kind of discussing some of the some of the concerns that were that were relayed to us from the community. We had no No incidents where police had to make arrest. There were some complaints about people riding through through neighborhoods, but nothing more significant than that At this time. Obviously, you know, we're very concerned about our communities. We had MPD numbers. Still, while dealing with these issues at the capital, we still have MPD members available to respond to any emergencies in our neighborhood. I'm just glad we didn't have any seriously.
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"Answering a few questions on their legislative agenda agenda and other issues. The House is currently in session there in the midst of voting on procedural issues. Live House coverage on C SPAN television on Tuesday, January 5th. The balance of power in the Senate will be decided by the winners of the two Georgia run off Republican Senators, David Perdue and Kelly Leffler are defending their seats and the GOP's control of the chamber. Democratic challengers or Jon Ossoff's and Raphael Warnock. Follow the results and hear from the candidates in these final races of campaign 2020 live coverage on C Span, c span dot org's and the Free C SPAN, radio APP. Stay with C SPAN for our continuing coverage of the transition of power as President elect Joe Biden moves closer to the presidency with the electoral college votes cast from states across the country. Join us on January 6th live at 1 P.m. eastern for the Joint session of Congress to count the votes and declare the winner for president and vice president. And finally, at noon on January 20th, the inauguration of the 46th, president of the United States, our live coverage we 7 A.m. eastern, from the Statehouse to Congress to the White House. Watch it all live on C Span on the go. It's c span dot award or listen using the free C SPAN Radio AB. In just a few minutes. We'll be taking you to an inaugural address by the governor of Montana. This will be the first of two inaugural addresses will bring you today. The other state is Utah and that will be coming up in just a few hours and several rallies in Georgia today, vice president Pence will be appearing in about an hour and 15 minutes. And then president elect. Biden will also be at a rally later in the afternoon, and President Trump is traveling to Georgia as well ahead of tomorrow's special election. His remarks will be in our evening programming set hours. While we wait for the Montana inaugural address. Here's more from Washington Journal. We pick up where we left off earlier. In that joint meeting. Yeah. My My colleague Mimi Gardner had the killer scoop yesterday, obtaining this hour long phone call between Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Rapids, Burger and President Trump on bond. Various members of the president's team to your staff lawyers called a Mitchell. I'm a conservative lawyer on then. Some stuff on the secretary of state side, Andre. We haven't heard much from Republicans yet in response to the president's threats towards secretary of state asking him and and really warning him to find a critical missing 11,000 votes that are on actually missing. Um, you know, the results were decisive. Joe Biden won the election He won Georgia. There's been several recounts but also been, you know, quite a bit of litigation. Nothing. No election fraud has been identified. But I think the consensus the Republicans are split privately. You know, you have people like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warning Republicans. Did not sign on to the electoral challenge that it's not helpful for the party, especially before an election. Then you have other Republicans were treating this as a litmus test for the GOP base, and so a call like this hearing from the president's mouth, these conspiracy theories and debunked claims sort of bolsters their case and what they're doing. But I imagine we're going to see a lot of reporters asking senators and lawmakers on the hill today for their response to this, as Democrats are calling for a criminal investigation on Attempting to tamper with election results, which legal experts say is, you know, veers into questionable legal territory. Jackie Allen many of the Washington Post from earlier In the Mitch McConnell leadership era. Explain how unusual this Republican Senate split is Yeah, I think you know, a hallmark of the Trump presidency has been that Republicans in general have coalesced to many of Trump's whims and unorthodox policies. And unorthodox ways of doing things we haven't seen much push push back in general, and now at the end of his term is he's leaving the White House and 7 16 days. Joe Biden is the president elect won the election decisively. You're saying Republicans finally pushed back, and that's because I think you just Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell is realized. That there could be some potentially devastating and you know outcomes from the president's behavior right now, in terms of Republican control in Washington, he's you know, worried about these two runoff races, which again will determine the control of the Senate Senators David Purview and Kelly Loft or if You know if either if they both lose to the two Democrats running, Jonah softened Raphael Warnock Democrats will have you know full control of Congress on That's you know, including Roy blood, and they're up in 2022. So Mitch McConnell is has always been strategic and his maneuvering and that's what he's thinking ahead to. While the president is very clearly not getting much foresight to anything is it is really burning the White House down on his way out, Jackie Elevate E is joining us the author of The Washington Post Power Up column. Ah, good morning to have her this morning this Monday morning ahead of a very busy week in Washington. Let me get the phone lines. Calling Democrats It's 202748 8000 Republicans to 02748 8000 won independence to 02748 8000 to Jackie Alimony will be with us until about 8 45 Eastern this morning, taking your phone calls on chatting about the week ahead on in the day ahead. Jackie Alameda We're expecting to hear from President Trump today headed down to Georgia. What do you think he's going to say today? E think that that our long phone call that most of America listen to yesterday is a preview for what we're going to hear today, which is potentially problematic, And I think that's been the concern from Republicans. For this continued rhetoric from the president about election fraud that again we can't say this enough is unsubstantiated, that it might actually deter turnout. But, you know, look, I was in Georgia The Election Day Eve at the weekend before the elect leading upto the election in November, and the president went to.
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"On January the 20th Washington, D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Washington state police chief Robert Conte at a news conference today that member of Congress from Colorado, they're referring to is Lauren Bull, Bert, members of the group. Proud Boys, the all male far right extremists with ties. White nationalism say that they plan to come to Washington this week to roam the streets looking for counter protesters. Associated Press rights, according to U S. A. U. S defense official mural Bowser put in a request on New Year's Eve to have National Guard members on the streets from January 5th through seventh to help with the protests, officials said. The D C National Guard members will be used for traffic control another assistance, but they will not be armed or wearing body armor. Turning to the Corona virus pandemic, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlining some tougher restrictions to slow the spread as that new, more contagious strain of viruses circulating. In that country. Britain seeing over 50,000 new covert 19 infections per day for the past week. With most of the country already under extreme measures. It's clear that we need to do more together to bring this new variant under control. While our vaccines are rolled out in England, we must therefore go into a national lockdown, which is tough enough to contain this variant. That means the government is once again instructing you to stay at home. You may only leave home for limited reasons permitted in law, such as to shop for essentials to work if you absolutely cannot work from home to exercise to seek medical assistance, such as getting a covert test or to escape domestic abuse. The full details of what you can can't do will be available to govern dot UK Forward slash coronavirus if you're a clinically extremely vulnerable We're advising you to begin shooting again on you will shortly receive a letter about what this means for you because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease. Primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote permit provisions from tomorrow except for vulnerable Children on the Children. Of key workers. Everyone will still be able to access earlier settings such as nurseries. We recognize that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer as normal, the education secretary will work with off qual to put in place alternative arrangements. We will provide extra support to ensure that pupils entitled to free school meals will continue to receive them while schools are closed, and we will distribute more devices to support remote education. Completely understand the inconvenience on D stress. This late change will cause millions of parents of people's up and down the country. Parents whose Children were in school today may reasonably ask why we did not take this decision sooner. The answer is simply that we've been doing everything in our power to keep schools open because we know how important each day in education is to Children's life chances, and I want to stress that the problem is not that schools are unsafe for Children. Children are still very unlikely to be severely affected by even the new variant. Of coded. The problem is that schools may nonetheless actors vectors for transmission, causing the virus to spread between households. Today, the United Kingdom's chief medical officer's have advised that the country should move to alert level five, meaning that if action is not taken NHS capacity may be overwhelmed within 21 days. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London Total coronavirus deaths in the United Kingdom are now over 75,000 in United States deaths now over 360,000 and a new University of Washington forecast says. That will go to over 500,000 in one month, even as the vaccines are being rolled out. But today in New York nurse who was the first in the U. S to receive a dose of Fizer vaccine last month received her second shot, becoming one of the first in the country to be fully inoculated on Wall Street. The Dow was down 3 82, NASDAQ Down 1 89 S and P Down 55. And the Transportation Security Administration, saying over three million people passed through US airport security checkpoints over the holiday weekend despite public health warnings against traveling. That includes 1.3.
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"At noon. Join us as they swear in more than 60 new members. The House Alexis speaker and as both bodies begin their work live coverage Sunday at noon Eastern time. Watch the House on C Span and the Senate on C Span to watch online at C span dot orc or listen on the C SPAN, radio app. This is a re airs. He's been radio programming from Friday. W. C. S. B A from Washington join us on this episode of the weekly for Insight and Information. About six women who are part of the 117th Congress's freshman class. Here is representative Cori Bush, Democrat of Missouri. I realized well, someone acting to run and after this was have been murdered, asked me to run for office. I said no efforts. But then I realized that this is the only way that we get the change that we're seeing. The people that are out here on the ground, the people that are risking themselves that keep coming back after being brutalized after being arrested after all of these things, How do we get that heart into into federal offices? We have to run. And so I thought about my son. I thought about my daughter doing what my son to be The next hashtag. He was 14 at the time. I don't want my daughter to be the next and I couldn't bear that. So I decided to run. Cori Bush, Democrat of Missouri, just one of the members you will hear when you listen to the weekly find it wherever You listen to podcasts next, an event from December 8th as politico hosted a women's leadership. Virtual discussion participants included a Michigan Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer. Good morning. My name is Carrie Buddha Brown. And I am the editor of Politico. And it is my pleasure to join the women real community virtually for our capstone event powering forward the year ahead, and there's no better way to kick things off than a conversation with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. A Democrat who is in her first term and governor. Thank you so much for being here with us. I'm sure. Yeah, it's great to have you before we get started. I encourage all of you tuning in to follow us. Follow the conversation on Twitter, using the hashtag rule with us and share your questions and thoughts by tweeting at Politico Live. Let's get going. Governor. I want to start with the role of state governors in 2020. You were only a year into your first term serving as governor when Cove it hit. And on top of this, 2020 has thrust governors into the national spotlight in significant ways from fighting the pandemic to climbing out of a recession. Racial injustice, protests, of course, and a volatile presidential election as you reflect back on 2020 what has been the toughest decision you've had to make and why. Well, there's no question that there's no playbook for the nation's governors to be in the midst of a global pandemic, something that hasn't happened in 100 years on dealing with the recession. That's a company that but on top of it to have a federal government that was in such disarray around, harnessing the power intelligence and Will of the American people to fight our common enemy. And so these challenging times have. I don't know that I've even processed 2020 and I probably will in 2021 at some point, But I will say that you know, as one of the governors that has been trying to leave my state through this. I am grateful that I've got other governors with whom I can share information and thought processes, then share. You know the difficulty with which We are trying to make tough decisions. Think the decision early on to take kids out of school one that weighed heavily on me as a mom with kids in public school, ongoing that when you take 1.5 million kids out of Michigan schools, half of them will not get the meals that come to rely on for Monday through Friday. And so each decision whether it is not having in person dining or it is kids out of schools has all sorts of repercussions that we have to plan for and seek to mitigate. And so I would say each of these decisions is is tough. But that was maybe one of the first heard us once we had to make good. We're gonna We're gonna come back to that in a little bit Cove it and how you personally have handled Of being a mother who has kids at home. Learning virtually LFT. Here's some tips on how you how you manage that I would like to switch is quickly to the election Day Fallout. Michigan You know, Election Day we're month passed it. But the fallout continues one of my reporters here, Tim, Alberta, who is a Michigan native lives there now in records from Michigan. He had this pretty big piece in our publication two weeks ago, that really focused in on how Michigan became the center of these unsubstantiated voter for God claims. Uh, the speaker of the House of the Michigan House of Representatives. The Chatfield told him told my colleague Tim, Alberta, that the party his party made a mistake by not allowing for the pre processing of absentee votes which resulted in the backlog and a lot of the controversy that surrounded this election. So company after 2022 10, do you see a need to push for Changes to election law so you can head off any of the sort of similar problems going into the next election cycle or 2024. What are your plans around that? Well, I do. And I was pushing for that, and the Legislature only agreed to one day early processing. We were seeking to have a lot more time. Florida I think has 40 days or something like that, You know, certainly in the midst of a.