29 Burst results for "Majority Party"
Mark Levin
The Problem in Israel Isn't Minority Rights, It's Majority Rights
"The radical leftists in Israel rising up they had a day of something or other today It's supposedly going on They're very violent They're trying to block members of their Knesset from actually getting to the Knesset and doing their jobs The media the other parties are trashing the majority party because they're trying to bring the judiciary in line with the judiciary of most Democracies now I've heard some of my friends I won't name them so as not to embarrass them Who said that this goes too far or to slow down because it doesn't fit with the American system for instance in the American system the Congress doesn't have the power to override The Supreme Court and then you lose minority rights The problem in Israel isn't minority rights The problem is in Israel's majority rights The problem in Israel's democracy So it's not the same problem When you have a tyrannical court that destroys separation of powers that enables 1515 lawyers really a panel of lawyers three lawyers at a time To make military strategic decisions to make all kinds of decisions unrelated to what any court does you've got to reign that court in So it's not about minority rights It's about in this case majority writes not being respected the elected government not being respected Furthermore in Israel there's no party that has control over that country Their system unfortunately in many respects is like the Italian parliamentary system You've got a cobbled together parties in order to have a government So even Likud represents about what 34 35 36 seats at about a 120
Bloomberg Radio New York
"majority party" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Meta is, the Nvidia is, right? What replaces it? Exxon proctor and gamble. And Berkshire Hathaway. We're just a few. So there's an interesting rotation that's going on in the markets right now. That will likely continue well into this year. How much attention do we have to pay to Washington D.C.? I'm so jaded by this whole debt ceiling thing because, you know, I remember back when Adam Johnson was here at Bloomberg. He did a special when the U.S. got downgraded. And everybody poured into treasuries. So it wasn't a horrible fate that we expected. Now they're doing it again. And I think everyone believes they'll eventually find a solution. It's totally political, but it could cause some ripples in financial markets, right? Yeah, you could. It could. I mean, when you start playing around with the full faith and credit, that's hostage that you don't want to take. Because some people want to take that message. Gladly sell. Yeah, not a good outcome. But the interesting thing last time that we went through this, we actually ended up in a really good place, right? So we saw the deficit come down after that. What the credit rating agencies didn't like was the process. And this process isn't going to get any better this time. If anything, it'll be worse. I think the thing that we should be looking for is a resolution through the most unusual ways, which would be a discharge petition, which is where basically because of the what happened a couple of weeks ago in the house and because of these factions that exist in the majority party, you could see basically a coalition of the willing, cut a deal, go right around the party leadership and take it to the floor for a vote and get it done. You know, Hans, one of the things I have been asking is just kind of, who are going to be the leaders of this market to the extent we do have a sustained move upward here. I mean, over the last 12, 15 years, it's been technology. But it just feels like that might not be the case here. How do you think about market leadership going forward? Yeah, this gets back to the whole idea of this rotation going on within the market a new leadership emerging. And I think it's more of the average stock versus the favored stock. If you proxy that for the S&P equal weight versus the market cap weight, that equal weighted version of the index has done very well over the last couple of years last year. It outperformed the market cap weighted by about four or 500 basis points. Pretty noteworthy. And it's doing the same thing this year. If the narrative is correct around China reopening, we don't go into recession. If you're escapes recession, which is the story this morning. And we escape it, or at least have a mild one. Then you're going to want more of the cyclical names. Energy, I think, will be one of the standouts, industrials will be another one. Materials. And that's very different from the communication services, the text of the past four or 5 years. Yeah. I mean, energy, I'm just looking at ExxonMobil up 64% on a trailing 12 month basis. So that was certainly a leader question is for a lot of folks like me that I missed that trade. But you know, we've got crude oil up again here at 84 $82 a barrel hands. Olsen Hans Olsen, CIO, fiduciary trust company. He's based in Boston. But he's in here in New York for some unknown reason, nefarious reason I'm sure, but he joins us to come to New York. I know. There's a lot of reasons a lot of ways to get in trouble here. So that's what I'm just calling out anyway. Join us in a Bloomberg interview. Stay safe. We appreciate it. Let's head down to Washington D.C.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"majority party" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Let's head down to Washington, D.C. world of national news with Amy Mars. Thank you, Paul, and one of its first acts as majority party in the House Republicans voted to repeal billions of dollars of funding from the IRS about $80 billion in place to help taxpayers and catch tax cheats. The congressional budget office says cutting those funds is actually going to cost the government more money, $114 billion more because of the additional revenue that will not be generated by the audits. At this point, the legislation is designed to send more of a message than anything else and will be a bargaining chip for raising the debt ceiling and funding the federal government, it will likely die once it reaches the Senate, and if it does make it to President Biden's desk, he's already said he'll veto it. Newly sworn in, Republican congressman George Santos previously admitted to fabricating much of his life story, now he's being accused of breaking campaign finance laws. Sara of gauche of the campaign legal center filed a complaint against Santos telling CBS News, that complaint filed with the federal election commission alleges the possibility of a foreign actor funding Santos campaign. That possibilities doubly the case here because as we know mister Santos is wanted by Brazilian authorities. So he has some connection overseas. Gauche also questions how Santos made a $700,000 contribution to his own campaign considering he reported earning only about $50,000 a year. Georgia is major college football's national champion for the second year in a row, the bulldogs won the title with a 65 to 7 blowout of TCU in last night's college football playoff national title game, 15 and O bulldogs, the first team to repeat since Alabama in 2011 and 2012, Georgia quarterback stetson Bennett led the charge with 6 total touchdowns TCU finished the season 13 and two. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts
Bloomberg Radio New York
"majority party" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Storms are rolling in off the Pacific Ocean, causing a stream flooding that's killed at least 14 people, sheriff Bill Brown is urging administrators and Santa Barbara county to keep schools closed. We're really kind of asking everybody in the county to shelter in place. Santa Barbara sheriff Bill Brown is one of several local officials pleading with residents not to go out as the storm passes through. In Washington Karen Republicans are making their first moves as the majority party in the House. They've moved to repeal billions of dollars in IRS funding. Money that was used to catch tax sheets, the move is likely to die once it reaches the democratic controlled Senate. While also in D.C., Nathan, the Justice Department is reviewing classified documents found a President Biden's Washington office and office he used after serving as vice president. The White House says it's cooperating with the inquiry and handing over the documents to the national archives. It comes as former president Trump is under investigation for his handling of classified material. To markets now Karen futures are moving lower now, a rally fizzled yesterday after fed official signaled interest rates could eventually top 5%, but San Francisco fed president Mary Daly told The Wall Street Journal she's not sure exactly how high they'll go. I think something above 5 is absolutely in my judgment going to be likely. But when I say absolute and going to be likely, I still have uncertainty bands around that. In addition to Mary Daly's hawkish remarks, Atlanta fed president Rafael bostic said rates should exceed 5% by early in the second quarter. On a corporate news now, Nathan, where Microsoft is in focus, Bloomberg news has learned the software giant is considering a big investment in the creator of a viral artificial intelligence bot called shat GPT, Microsoft could invest as much as $10 billion in OpenAI, the company behind the bot. And we're also learning about a possible healthcare deal, Karen sources say CVS Health is exploring an acquisition of oak street health, which runs primary care centers for Medicare recipients. Shares of oak street health right now are up 32% in early trading. And shares abroad calm Nathan fell after it was reported apple is pushing to use homegrown ships instead of its devices. The move would drop a key Broadcom part as soon as 2025. That's the 5 things you need to know to start your day brought to you by interactive brokers. And futures this morning are lower. S&P futures down about 8 points or two tenths of a percent Dow futures down three tenths of a percent or 105 points, and NASDAQ futures down to tenths of a percent or 16 points, ten year treasury down 5 30 seconds. 3.55%, they yield on the two year 4.23%. Nymex crude oil is up 7 tenths of a percent at $75 13 cents a barrel. Straight ahead, your latest local headlines plus a check of sports and this is Bloomberg. I'm staring at 6 31 on Wall Street. Let's bring in Michael Barr for a look at what else is going on in New York and around the world. Good morning, Michael. Good morning, Nathan. Thousands of nurses at two
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Lesley Stahl: The Nation Was 'Embarrassed' by House Speaker Chaos
"I think you need to be very careful and be aware of the people who either on our side don't seem to recognize the wind that it was or of course the usual suspects in the mainstream media. Like this lady, the historic chaos in the house of representatives this past week, embarrassed not only a party, but an entire nation. A small minority blocked the house from electing a leader or even swearing in its own members. Vote after vote a would be speaker could not bring himself to stand aside in favor of a colleague. Yes, it was only for a few days in January. But if members of the incoming majority party can't bring themselves to support a new leader, then one wonders what happens when Congress faces tough decisions on budgets, taxes, defense, or raising the debt ceiling. Actually, governing. I love that. Then one wonders. It doesn't sound like you're wondering, Wesley, you seem pretty convinced that the entire nation was embarrassed by these 20 Republicans.
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Lauren Boebert: The Establishment Is Scared of the True Conservatives
"But the problem for the establishment GOP as you well know being up there is if now there's some play because where the majority party the Republicans after 2022 And yet the freedom caucus people like you who vote conservative grows people like you and like minded congresswoman boebert can all of a sudden dictate the path of the Republican Party going forward Is that freaking him out a little bit I think they know that And that's why they are getting involved in primaries all over the nation because the freedom caucus is getting involved through the house freedom fund and other members are getting involved in these primaries making sure we have true conservative people who will actually read the constitution We'll debate the constitution with us Look at the constitutionality of everything that we are doing up here And it's more often than not the establishment endorses the other candidate Opposite of what the freedom caucus members are endorsing And so they do know that we will have influence and we will be able to direct a lot of what this conference does if those numbers land correctly and we get the right amount of people up here So every single one of us I truly believe we came up here with the mission the squishes included with the missions to actually fix problems and say you know I don't like the way things are going up there I can make it better But then you get here and then the people who have already been here say well this is how we do it here So just go along with it and do it this way Well Dan I didn't like the way things were being run in Washington D.C. That's why I came here So I'm certainly not going to come here and say yeah tell me everything you've been doing and I'll continue doing that No way I'm here to do something completely different Shake it up and actually take a stand for our country
Bloomberg Radio New York
"majority party" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Elections who were joined now by Greg Jerome Bloomberg government elections reporter Greg thanks for being here We spent the second half probably of 2021 maybe longer talking about the looming midterm elections As the cycle already begun oh yes politics never sleeps in Washington D.C. around the country among political professionals It seems like the next election begins once the last one has ended And yes we have the stakes are very high We have a 50 50 Senate that's going to be closely contested in the 2022 midterm election And one of the smallest house majorities in U.S. history with Democrats defending a narrow 5 seat majority in that chamber So there's a lot to watch in the coming ten plus months as we approach the November election Before we start picking through some of the races that you're following I wonder what this means for Democrat efforts here in Washington those who already have jobs the conventional wisdom is a tight window at the beginning of next year maybe January February to get anything done on Capitol Hill Is that how you see it Yeah I mean usually legislative majorities take the odd numbered year to try and pass a lot of legislation because there is as you mentioned the limited window to pass things in an election year Because the realities of campaigning kind of take hold and there's more limited schedule And you also want to in the odd numbered year the majority party in any legislature wants to pass things that have time to take hold among the electorate It's one thing to make headlines for passing things in Washington but does that really filter out into the states and the districts to the voters that are actually going to decide that the electoral fates of the members of Congress So Democrats with their slim majorities are trying to parlay those narrow legislative maturities into passing legislation that they hope that will rally their supporters have come to the polls because in midterm elections more of the energy and enthusiasm usually lies with the opposition party in midterm elections since World War II the average result in House elections has been The White House's party losing more than 25 seats Democrats have just a 5 seat majority And so they are certainly the underdogs to keep control of the House So we get history is clearly not on the side of Democrats as we walk into this midterm election year Most insiders agree the house is very much at risk But that the Senate might be easier for Democrats to defend particularly in light of governor Christina's decision not to run for Senate What's your take on that The Senate is a bit trickier to predict in the house not only because we're still so far out from the election but one third of the Senate is up every two years And so senator elections depend on the partisan distribution of those seats that happened to be up in any two year cycle And in this coming cycle we have 34 Senate seats up for election 20 of them are held by Republicans and 14 by Democrats So Republicans are playing more defense than Democrats in the 2022 Senate elections But most of the Republican seats that are up for election in 2022 are in safely Republican states for the most part Republicans also have more retirements than democratic senators 5 to one But again they're most of the Republican retirements are in strongly conservative states So I think that the race for the Senate is probably more of a toss up Greg you mentioned the R word those who are retiring and you've been compiling a list of lawmakers who are retiring that I saw on the terminal those not seeking reelection It's a pretty long list Which party will have more seats to defend because of retirements Well in the Senate you have 5 Republican retirements in just one democratic retirement that of Patrick Leahy of Vermont from the safely democratic state But the 5 Republican retirements by and large are coming from Republican friendly states So the races in those states may be decided in the primaries more than in the general election There are some states to watch in the Senate for Republican health seats like in Ohio for the seat of retiring senator rob Portman a state that used to be very politically competitive as lean Republican especially in the era of Donald Trump leading the Republican Party Pennsylvania where Republican pat two means returning is also a state to watch But there are retirements on the house side You have much more many more retirements on the democratic side than in the Republican side In fact 17 of the last 21 House members who have announced plans to retire seek other political office or resign have come from the Democrats Most of them are from safely democratic districts but you do have some members of Congress on the democratic side represent politically competitive districts that's going to be there going to be hard for the party to hold in the 2022 election Did I hear you right in that Ohio and Pennsylvania then could help decide who controls the Senate Absolutely Absolutely They'll be critical to deciding who controls the Senate Ohio as I mentioned is a state that was long a bellwether national politics That's still a state to watch but it has crept over to the Republican side the last few election cycles Pennsylvania one of the closest states in the 2020 election will be critical for deciding which party controls the Senate after 2022 The departure of rob Portman just to stop down on that for a moment is a pretty big deal when we talk about the lack of compromise and this new era of partisan bickering He was one of the last negotiators on Capitol Hill We wouldn't have the infrastructure law without him Will there be another rob Portman left in the Senate Yes we are seeing kind of a dwindling I think of senators members of Congress who even if they have strongly Republican or democratic voting records very bipartisan minded a compromise minded records you could say that about rob Portman of Ohio You could say that also about Richard Shelby of Alabama You got a veteran appropriator who's retiring after the 2022 election Like Portman Shelby has a decidedly conservative voting record but that hasn't precluded him either one of them from reaching across the aisle to form compromises with Democrats on some key issues So maybe we shouldn't be talking so much about who controls the chamber But the important cultural shift that will take place political culture Yes that's right We have a the Senate is very polarized very evenly divided of course being a 50 50 Senate It's going to be interesting to see after the 2022 election what kind of Democrats and Republicans are going to join the 118th Congress in 2023 With a lot of these states with a lot of states and districts the primary election rather than the general election that is the determinant.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"majority party" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Gold 1754 the ounce crude surged one and a half percent $80 52 cents a barrel I'm Charlie pallet That is a Bloomberg business flash This is Bloomberg sound on with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg radio I want to dig a little deeper into this question of getting rid of the debt ceiling Imagine a world in which we were not having this conversation right now Or next week or next month Replacing it may be a better word than eliminating the debt ceiling as we consider the Democrats strategy this time around in the reluctance by this White House at least at the moment to talk about alternatives to raising or suspending the debt ceiling the treasury secretary Janet Yellen was to ask about this because she has indicated support for getting rid of it who could blame her Asked about if I George Stephanopoulos here on ABC this week Listen We've had deficits for most of the post war period And that means raising the debt ceiling It's a housekeeping true There's really we should be debating the government's fiscal policy when we decide on those expenditures and taxes Not when the credit card Bill from comes do It's coming due on the 3rd of December Bloomberg politics contributors Jeannie chanson and Rick Davis are with us for the hour As we assemble the panel thanks for being with us on this holiday both of you I know you work every day but thank you anyway Jeannie We've talked about this before but to actually hear the treasury secretary articulate that Why not make that the long-term strategy You get legislation put it in reconciliation lift the debt ceiling and then announce to the world That we have saved you forever from the debt ceiling Wouldn't that be a great world and happy Boston Marathon day Joe Oh and you And you know I think the get part rule that Ed talked about is one that many people have suggested of late we should be revisited It was 1995 when it was repealed but it was in place from 79 to 95 but you know there is a flip side to that that other people have talked about And that is the fact that that would make a lot of sense if Congress was very strict in terms of what in fact the cost estimates were so they were binding in other words that treasury couldn't borrow more than Congress said So there's other aspects of this But indeed it seems you know to people you know who run their households It seems crazy that we do this in this weird two step process of spending and then allocating spending and then two years later another Congress has to come in and authorize the raising of the debt ceiling I mean it's ripe for what we're sitting through now Rick Davis it was only two months ago Alan blinder former vice chair of the fed of course wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal a simple rule could end debt ceiling shenanigans it was the very one that you're talking about So why not Yeah why not I mean you go through all this effort to pass a budget The budget by its nature as approved by the House and Senate carries with it spending that by definition unless it's someday a budget that is actually less than current spending which it never seems to be Then it's going to require debt ceiling increase So why don't make it automatic That's part of what the get part rule wanted to do in the house But that's just a house It still takes 60 votes in the Senate and that's where we got bully stuff last week So I think you're right I mean I have a surprise to learn and I thought I'd been around to track a few times to know better that we're only one of two countries in the world that continue to require a vote by their legislature to increase the federal spending over a certain debt amount I think we ought to just get with it swallow the poison pill of debt It's all political And the only reason they haven't done it already and I think maybe now is the time to take a step back and say you know what let's shove all this into that reconciliation And be done with the politics of debt limit increases Isn't there an opportunity here though Rick for Democrats to do something as the majority party now and take credit for it You could run this in ads forever Well you know maybe I mean like I'm not sure the American voter wants to see an unlimited credit card given to their federal government And look at the conduct that majority leader Schumer did when 11 Republicans change size and voted for the consideration of the debt limit increase He viscerally attacked them So I would say if there was an effort to try and solve this problem in a bipartisan way it had a huge setback last week And so you know maybe the Democrats have got to figure out another way to do it Reconciliation seems to be the only alternative and maybe they ought to swallow the pill and fix this for good I wonder if you see that's the kind of inevitable ending here Genie and how you feel after a weekend of political commentary just about the politics We went from feeling good about something happening I felt like the end of last week to really come and back into work with a hangover this morning and boy we're gonna do this all over again here can infrastructure and reconciliation be handled at the same time as this conversation we're having No it's Groundhog Day You know we're in 5 or 6 weeks out of doing this all over again and you know I think they could There are so much that is up for grabs here You know you just talk about you know reconciliation in this build back better You know you hear Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin sniping at each other You know Sanders saying one or two people are stopping Democrats from moving forward Manchin saying this isn't in entitlement society How do they bridge that gap that you add to that You've got to now lift the debt ceiling You know there's just so much on their plate And as we've always said the longer this goes the more chaotic it is And I would just point to the latest quinnipiac poll This has got to be a real concern for The White House and for Democrats as we march into the midterm election and of course the Virginia governor's race is coming up in just a few weeks We're going to get sort of the preview of what this is likely to look like The chaos that the Republicans wanted is actually in Washington right now Glad you said that Jeannie.
The Erick Erickson Show
"majority party" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"You can only do this once a fiscal year. The senate parliamentarian however gave the senate democrats a chance for second. Bite the apple by saying if fundamentally changed the federal budget they can then do a second reconciliation package. That's what they're doing so they've already done one. Reconciliation now. doing second reconciliation. The problem is that they want to spin three point five trillion dollars with it and they wanna fundamentally transform the united states with what they're doing from the green new deal to they're now calling it a human infrastructure plan they would do a bunch of expansions of existing federal programs now. The senate parliamentarian has ruled expansions of existing programs are not new policies therefore they can do these things. Because they're just growing medicare they're growing medicaid. They're growing other government programs. That's reconciliation it. Passes the senate. It has to go to the house. If the house changes anything they have to otter. What's called the byrd rule in the senate on reconciliation. Why because they change so that is going to go back to the senate. If something has changed it suddenly becomes filibuster unless it again it. Here's to the byrd rule. So the senate in other words is able to run roughshod over the house. House members hate it as much as republicans and democrats in the house can't stand each other. They view each other as opponents and the senate as the enemy and it makes them livid that they have to adhere to the byrd rule which the house doesn't have and yet they're stuck reconciliation. That's conversation number. One conversation number two is the debt ceiling. The congress has decided that the federal government can only take on so much debt. There's been a movement for a while to get rid of the debt ceiling. Just let it go up as needed. But no one's ever been able to agree with it because it allows the minority party a weapon against the majority party to accuse them of raising the debt of the united states voters. Ketchup stand that. We keep raising debt even though voters would even hate more if we raise taxes but it becomes a political fight. The democrats have to raise the debt ceiling because they want to spin five point five trillion dollars between their reconciliation. Package in a bipartisan infrastructure. Bill and as a result of this they're going to hit the debt ceiling. Janet yellen the treasury secretary says she expects will hit the debt ceiling sometime in november so congress has to vote to raise the debt ceiling now the way the media and the democrats talk about this is that we will default on our debt if they don't raise the debt ceiling that he is the key. The federal government is required under the constitution to outer the debts of the united states. Full faith and credit clause and if they can't raise the debt ceiling they can't take out debt therefore they have money coming through short of tax revenue. There's not enough tax revenue therefore they can't pay the debts..
WLS-AM 890
"majority party" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"It. So you have Middle East in flames of massive inflation. You have an economy that is in the doldrums, even though we should be in the greatest period of economic growth of our lifetimes and bar none. We're expecting that GDP growth this quarter was going to be just astounding, and instead we got job growth that was three quarters of a million jobs under what it was supposed to be this month. All of that is happening. They're pushing for radical social policy that shifts the nature of deal between individual Americans and the federal government. They're invading religious freedom rights. They're invading the ability of corporations to operate as they want to with regard to With regard to free markets. Like this is this administration's a bleep show, and the consequences are obvious to everyone. And so they are deeply reliant on Joe Biden. So the media for basic they're not. Basically they just are the PR wing of the Democratic Party. That's all they are. The establishment media understand there is no distinction whatsoever between the DNC press office and the actual press. There's no distinction. They are the same. The same people occupy the same positions, which is why they move so smoothly from one to the other. You'll see people working for the New York Times and then suddenly they just pop up. Room right there in the Biden administration is here on CNN all the time. It's not rare. So they've decided that there are going to misdirect away from the chaos that has been engulfing pretty much everywhere. They're going to miss directed toward this Liz Cheney story now. As I've been saying, Does anyone know who the number three house Minority party leader was Like five years ago. Keenan Person having trouble Are you Yeah, because no one cares. Who cares with the number three is in the House Minority Party, and I'm How about the House Majority Party? How about the House Minority Party? But Liz Cheney's getting all sorts of press because Liz Cheney was voted out of her position as the number three. Not the number two and number one she was voted out is the number three in the House Minority Party. Specifically because the Republicans in the House were getting frustrated with the fact that Liz Cheney seemed to have a peculiar production for the strange new respect offered by the media. Two months ago, they voted on whether Liz Cheney should stay should exactly the same position on January six then, and she does now should exactly the same position. Donald Trump, then that she does now should exactly the same position on the veracity of the 2020 election. Then, as she does now, But you withstood the vote and then so pretty easily with the support by the way of Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader. Then what happened? She decided, you know, be a great idea. I'm gonna go into the media and pretty much every day. I'm just on Lee going to talk about how Trump sucks and how republicans who supported Trump kind of shock and how the 2020 election is legit and January 6th is the worst thing that ever happened. And all of this Now when you're the House minority leader. When you were there when you're the house number three, I should say. Have a couple of jobs. Okay, and those jobs are sometimes in conflict. Your job's to Congress person has to vote on issues. Liz Cheney when she votes is quite good. Totaling 94% of the time by the way with Donald Trump when Trump was president. So she actually had a better record of voting. The Trump and the New House number three who is the kind of aspiring house number three at least a panic from from New York. Cheney is much more conservative and voting represents to panic bar None. But it's not just about your voting record. It's about Can you raise money for the party? And do you help orient the communications of the party toward taking down the opposing party? Or are you directing all of your fire internally? You're spending all of your time getting MSNBC and CNN and the Washington Post in New York times exactly what they want. No, there is a difference between how you message and what you message I have said many times on the show that I agree with Liz Cheney's basic Basic take on January 6th. I grew their basic take on how the election of 2021. I don't think I was decided by voter fraud and regularity. I think that if there was rigging it was by the media, which lied consistently for years. I think that Trump's behavior between the election and January 6th was pretty egregious. I talked about it openly at the time. I talk about it openly now. I agree with all those things, But let's be real about this. The threat to the country is not coming from a president who has not been in office for four months, is banned from Twitter and Facebook and has been relegated to starting a blogged and then blasting out e mails about how much he hates Liz Cheney. It's kinda bizarre emails. Okay? That guy is not the deep threat to the country. The threat to the country is an authoritarian left that is taken over every major institution in American life is on the move at the top of the American government is creating inflation, unemployment and chaos in the Middle East. This That is the threat. Why is this training? Not talking about that? Okay, That is the specific reason why she was ousted again. She'll the same positions that she does now two months ago, and she's arrived. The boat Then she decided to use the intervening eight weeks to do nothing but crap on Republicans and Republicans predictably, were like you know what? We don't need you in house leadership. It's not a thing that we require. You know any other Republican who's a better fund raiser than you and doesn't spend all their days trying to give Joe Scarborough all sorts of fever dreams. Try. Try not to do that if you're in house leadership. So Cheney has been doing this thing where she basically has made herself a hero of the Republic. Strange new respect recipients from the left. She has done so by suggesting that the reason that she's being asked from House leadership is not because of our lack of what we would call in Hebrew cycle or lack of common sense. The reason she's being ousted from house leadership is because specifically she took this position. What a combo right. She did take a position that is fairly unpopular with the Republican base, but she could survive that. You could. She absolutely could survive that position if she did not make her top priority. The The consistent weird Take at the great threat to the country is a president who is no longer in office. And it is not Widely influential via his blogged, Okay, like there are greater threats to the country. Right now, you may have noticed. But Liz Cheney has decided that she kind of went into this thing without next strategy..
Everything Everywhere Daily
David Rice Atchison: President For A Day?
"Rice was a democratic senator from the state of missouri. He served in the senate for twelve years from eighteen. Forty three to eighteen fifty five. He had a reputation for being extremely pro. Slavery he owned. Slaves supported all of the slave state issues in the run up to the civil war and when the war finally commenced he served in the confederate army as a brigadier general commanding missouri troops. So he's not the finest of people to sit in the upper chamber of congress. Quite frankly if it wasn't for the events that i'll be discussing this episode david. Rice atchison would probably be mostly forgotten to history i. I came across his name years ago and children's book of fun facts which said that he was the president of the united states for one day. This fact has been repeated on and off for over one hundred and fifty years in fact the words president of the united states for one day are on his tombstone in missouri as sort of a testament to his greatest achievement. So is this true. Was david rice. Atchison really the president of the united states for a single day to answer the question. We need to understand exactly what happened in the election of eighteen. Forty eight week party. Candidate zachary taylor comfortably. Defeated democrat lewis. Cass and free soil candidate. Martin van buren incoming president. James polka made a pledge to seek a single term in office and he honored that pledge by not. Running taylor was a career military man who had never expressed any political opinions prior to the election. And in fact he had never voted. He had a great deal of success as a general during the mexican american war which led to his popularity in calls for him to run for president. He wasn't fact recruited by both the whigs and the democrats. The two major political parties at the time to seek office prior to the passage of the twentieth amendment to the constitution the president and all members of congress would take office at noon on march fourth. This lengthy lame duck period made more sense when everyone had to travel by horseback. And that's why was eventually changed. Nonetheless march fourth was the date everyone took office in eighteen forty nine march fourth landed on a sunday. Zachary taylor being a devout man. Didn't want to have his inauguration ceremony. Take place on the sabbath so he postponed one day until monday. March fifth is vice. President millard fillmore also delayed his oath of office until march fifth according to the law at the time which was the presidential succession act of seventeen ninety to the next person in line to the presidency after the vice president was the president pro. Temporary of the united states senate. The vice president is technically the president of the senate. The president pro temporary is the person who presides over the senate when the vice president is not present. The president temporary was david rice. Atchison at the time the position was actually a competitive election today. The president pro temporary is just the senior ranking member of the majority party in the senate. So the argument is that because neither zachary taylor nor millard fillmore didn't take the oath of office on march fourth and waited until march fifth that they weren't president from noon on march fourth until noon on march fifth. That means that the next in line would have been the president pro. Temporary of the senate david rice. So is this true and does this argument. Hold water. The answer is pretty clear in the answer is no and there are a whole bunch of reasons. Why this is the case. I while the constitution does stipulate that the president and the vice president must take the oath of office it only says quote before he enters upon the execution of his office unquote. This is legal hair-splitting but it means before president can do anything presidential e- sign a law. Appoint officials signed a treaty etc. They must i take the oath of office however they can still be the president before taking the oath to illustrate the point. President kennedy was shot at twelve thirty pm on november. Twenty second nineteen sixty three. He was declared dead at one thirty three. Pm and lyndon johnson took the oath of office on air force one at two thirty eight pm. The moment president kennedy was dead. Or at least claire dead. Lyndon johnson became the president in the same way that someone becomes a king the moment the old king dead even if they haven't been coronated. The oath of office is just a way to legally unlock the powers of the presidency after becoming president. As i said this is legal hair-splitting and for all practical purposes it doesn't really matter but for the twenty four hour period before the oath of office zachary. Taylor was the president. If there was an emergency you could have quickly taken the oath of office in private and without a public ceremony and dealt with the crisis as president. The second argument as to why atkinson was never president is that he never took the oath of office. Either if taylor is in president. Because he didn't take the oath of office than atkinson also can't be president by the same logic. The third argument is that he officially wasn't the president pro. Tempore e of the senate. He was the president pro temporary during the previous session of congress. His term expired on march fourth at noon. Just like the presidential term. Did he needed to be reelected again. On march fifth which he was moreover. This wasn't the first time that this had happened in eighteen. Twenty one james monroe delay taking the oath by a day for the exact same reason yet known assumes that someone else was president for a day at johnson himself never claimed to be president at the time. No one seriously thought he was the president. And there's nothing in the congressional record to indicate that he was there are no constitutional scholars presidential historians or even atkinson's owned biographer. Who thinks that he was actually president at best. If you applied a very strict rule to the taking of the oath to become president then you could maybe say that there was a one day interregnum where there was no president but it doesn't follow that atkinson was president.
WBAP 820AM
"majority party" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"Because of the optics because of the political correctness in my opinion. And that's bad. That is a bad look for everyone involved. So the story goes and in the letter goes as you are aware, the speaker of the House is not on Lee, the leader of the majority party, but also has enormous. Institutional responsibilities. The speaker is responsible for all operational decisions made within the House, Pelosi's office, of course, if you can imagine firing back at the Republicans on Monday earlier today, Claiming the security of the capital and democracy are not the priorities of these ranking members while saying the committee of Jurisdiction was briefed in advance of January 6th about security preparedness So the question is, Can the Republicans somehow pin this on Nancy Pelosi because that's face it. Pelosi has been going after the Republicans, as has Ah, lot of the other folks on the left, whether it's Chuck Schumer, other folks within the Democrat Party, Joe Biden, Kamila Harris, So the Republicans it seems to me they finally had it. And now finally They're going after Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats as they should, because you know what if they really were concerned about the optics, then I have a concern about their lack of concern about the intelligence preceding January. 6 the phone number is 1 800 to 80 WBF P wanted tender to it at 92 27 got a lot more straight ahead. Friends Brian Eskridge here and let me know if you agree with this car Prices are way too high these days. Lisa and get you up to 50% lower payments, and it happens with zero money down to learn more. Go to the website DM auto leasing dot com and North Texas.
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
Marjorie Taylor Greene removed from House committee assignments
"Center. All three Republican, U. S. Representatives from our state voted against removing Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments, even though two of them are making it clear they do not Support the Georgia congresswoman's more controversial ideas more from coma, score one. Hey, Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Spokane, Dan Newhouse of Sunnyside and Jamie Herrera Butler of Vancouver may not endorse Greens views, but they rallied around House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who called the move to strip green of her committee assignments unprecedented Never Before in the history of this house. Has the majority abused its power in this way, Never. McMorris Rodgers makes it clear in a statement. Greens positions are not her positions, saying many of greens comments are quote beneath the dignity of her office. Herrera Butler is more specific, saying in a statement that despite what Green has claimed School shootings are not false flag events. California wildfires were not ignited by a space laser and the presidential election was not stolen. But she goes on to say she would not set a precedent where the majority party now dictates the way the minority seats its members, she writes. Quote that is a route to
860AM The Answer
"majority party" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"The S and P and the NASDAQ touching new all time highs this morning following release of the January employment report. America's employers added 49,000 jobs Last month, the unemployment rate slipped to 6.3%. In an early morning boat. The Senate approved the measure allowing Democrats to ram the president's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan through the chamber without any Republican support. Vice president Kamila Harris was in the chair, casting the tie breaking vote her first. In a marathon session overnight. Senators rejecting raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour least for now. The amendment by Iowa Republican Joni Ernst's prohibits the increase in the federal minimum wage during a global pandemic that was approved on a voice vote. Over in the House Democrats taking the unusual step of stripping committee assignments from a member of the opposing party. In this case, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor, Greek lawmakers passed the resolution largely along party lines to 30 to 1 99 to remove green from the House education and budget committees have Republicans declined to act against her themselves. 11 Republicans voted in favor of removal. Republicans further one that Democrats were setting a dangerous precedent, with the majority party taking unilateral action to dictate the minorities Committee roster. Hours before the vote, Green delivered a speech on the House floor, where she defended her foray into the world of online conspiracy theories, but insisted she had more recently recognized the falsities and dangers of those narratives. Bernie Bennett in Washington, Johnson and Johnson applying to the FDA for emergency use authorization for its single dose Corona virus. Vaccine doctor Jesse Goodman. The FDA is former chief scientists will help We're right now. Be into a vory supply constrained period where the demand is outstripping the story generally. Wall Street, the Dow was up 95 points..
106.1 FM WTKK
"majority party" Discussed on 106.1 FM WTKK
"Still in session. One. Jack Hello him. Fox News, the U. S. Senate considering a rulemaking resolution that would make a coronavirus stimulus package filibuster proof. Have been holding what's known as a vote a Rama overnight. The minority Party gets tough force the majority party to endure endless amendments have been at an all night long no end in sight yet, and it puts senators on the record. The issues range from everything from tax increases on small businesses to the federal minimum wage to sanctuary cities, toe fracking even the U. S embassy in Jerusalem Fox's Griff Jenkins, the actual stimulus bill likely won't be ready for several weeks. In an unprecedented move. The House yesterday voted to kick Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from her to committee assignments over social media postings on conspiracy theories, which she now disavows. You only know me by how media matters. CNN, MSNBC. And the rest of the mainstream media's portraying me 11 Republicans joining the Democrats in that majority votes. The impeachment trial starts next week in the Senate. Former President Trump will not testify his legal team says trying to impeach a former president is unconstitutional. Johnson and Johnson asking the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use approval for its Corona virus. Vaccine candidate. Clinical trials have shown it's less effective than the two vaccines already available. J and J Vaccine is only a single dose and does not have to be captain. Extremely cold temperatures. State lawmakers in Wisconsin of her field a statewide mask mandate, saying the governor didn't have the authority. Wisconsin's governor, Tony Evers, responding with a new mandate, we will be issuing a new public health emergency, an order requiring face coverings in public places. Our fight against this fires isn't over. It's not going away, especially as we see mutations of this virus in our state and other America is listening to Fox News. Mm hmm. Right ends.
KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"majority party" Discussed on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"Use authorization for its covert 19 vaccine. CBS medical contributor, Dr David Vega says, though this vaccine might not have data quite a strong as Madonna and Visor with the dramatic reduction in serious illness from the virus of take 86%, as well as reducing hospitalization and Death from the virus to near zero. So those are all very encouraging features the U. S. House votes to strip Georgia Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor green of her to committee assignments. CBS is Natalie Brand says It comes after previous remarks and social media posts, highlighting conspiracy theories and violence. Republicans took to the floor, arguing that she had shown remorse, while Democrats say they did not hear an apology. Congressman McGovern of Massachusetts ahead of the vote, called it the moment where the institution must decide where the line is drawn, accusing green of encouraging violence and also saying she's part of a larger pattern of disturbing rhetoric. Republicans argued that stripping green of her committee sets a dangerous precedent, allowing the majority party to take power from members with whom they disagree. Huge financial settlement related to the nation's opioid crisis. CBS's Jim Crow Sula, the global consulting firm, McKinsey and Company has agreed to pay nearly $600 million for its role in the nation's opioid crisis. 47 states brought legal action against Mackenzie Mackenzie advised drug makers on how to sell higher and more doses of the addictive medications. The Minneapolis City Council approves $6.4 Million to be used for recruitment and training for the city's police department. It comes after the death of George Floyd and calls to defund the police, Minneapolis police chief Meritorious Arredondo. You're dealing with some unprecedented times right now in terms of our staff is, but I think it's important that we have as many tools as possible. Um, to make sure that we're getting to that level of staffing that we need to in order to properly serve our communities. This is CBS News brought to you by progressive insurance. You could save big when you bundle your auto, home, motorcycle, RV or boat. Visit progressive dot com. Are you more than $10,000 in.
WTMJ 620
"majority party" Discussed on WTMJ 620
"Stay friendly with his many based factions as he can hate all she's also got it, said Donald Trump would be president after January 20th. So I mean, you gotta you gotta listen to the whole body of work. Here's Here's the deal for the Marjorie Taylor greens, and and then the will handle whoever it is. Here's a quick rule. Don't be crazy. Don't be crazy. If you're not crazy. This won't happen to you. Now, if she believes this stuff well, she certainly doesn't sound like that because she's backpedaling on it. So apparently, she said it for a fact. Well, there's there's consequences to that stuff because she's backpedaling on and also did you not believe it when you said it. So what about this idea of the majority party being able to decide? Should that be a thing? Or should the party that has the lawmaker who may be saying something controversial should've beyond them to make a decision on whether or not someone should be stripped of opposed? Or reprimanded in her party could have asked her to step away from those they chose not to write. They chose not to. Therefore they abdicated that responsibility. It's going to go to the majority party. Yeah, Here's the deal. Elections consequences. You win elections. These these things won't happen. And frankly, if if this is the clothes with this if you are one of the people who stand up and give her a standing ovation for being a lunatic That makes you a lunatic. That's pretty simple. I mean, that's that's far as I need to go on that one. Come on, That's crazy. Also Liz Cheney, there is discussion about her last night during their caucus. They voted on it. And you never anonymously. Excuse me anonymously, she won in a landslide not to be stripped of any of her leadership. Gallagher had something to say about her. I certainly don't think that we should purge anyone from the party who has a different point of view. And while I disagree with Liz and some of my colleagues on the idea that impeachment was the right remedy, I certainly Defender, Right. Have that argument and going back to green for a second here, Zay. This fascinated me. I was talking to Rick. You're about this yesterday, Gallagher said he had never even He didn't know who she was. I never met her. It's It's the caucuses that big brand new too few weeks. He's like I've never I've never really had any moment side by side with her, which I guess makes sense. When you have that many people in the house that many people in the in the caucus, you don't have to meet a Marjorie Taylor Greene. You know, she's the woman in the drive through that wants to talk to the person for five minutes, but she doesn't understand why McDonald's so She's the woman that goes from the store that has a mask requirement, and it wants to argue about it with some woman that's making 7 50 out dollars an hour. She's the woman that acts like a lunatic at school board meetings. That's what Margie Taylor Greene is. Somebody decided in Kentucky. I believe right, Kentucky that she was a better choice than a guy who's a brain surgeon. Also a very strong conservative that Decision. That vote leads me to believe that there that little district little bit Looney Tunes just might take more. The Steve Skip Edie show next on WTMJ..
WGN Radio
"majority party" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Have toe understand that and I think she also has turn down service law. California Democrat Congressman Jackie Spirit Shirk that responsibility. I think the Majority party has the right to take action. Yesterday, Democrats introduced a resolution to remove green from her committee assignments themselves. A man put on trial for organizing the anti Vietnam War protests outside the 1968 Democratic convention here in Chicago, has died. Rennie Davis was one of the so called Chicago Seven activists protest turned violent leading to mass arrests. Um 3000 antiwar demonstrators clashed with police. Davis was convicted for inciting a riot. A judge later overturned the conviction. He was recently featured in the Netflix movie to trial of the Chicago Seven Runny Davis was 80 years old and now with WGN sports Here's David. It live. Bitter cold isn't supposed to arrive till later. But it got a head start of the United Center, where the Bulls were plagued by cold outside shooting and 107103 lost to New York. The Bulls went over eight from three point land in the first quarter and hold for 11 in the third. Zach Lavine 24 for the Bulls, who play without Otto Porter Jr again back spasms tonight. The Blackhawks their home taking on Carolina again and going for a split of the two games. Tonight's game here on W GM, starting with Chris Bones pregame. It's 6 30 Baseball along with bringing back th Nelson Cruz, the Twins ratting reliever. Alex Column A Been the White Sox closer, but left is a free agent, while the Sox were adding Liam Hendriks, King Felix on a minor league contract. That's the story in Baltimore, which is signed former Cy Young winner Felix Hernandez to a minor league deal. Hernandez is 34 the National Women's Hockey League has suspended the rest of its season because of issues with covert 19 2 teams. And already withdrawn David.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"majority party" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The same one where they had that vote on Cheney were told that she made a really heartfelt apology to her Republican colleagues. That they are going to keep from committees. But Democrats will be voting to strip her of those committees today, and that's really a huge president. That's being broken. You don't really see the majority party. The minority party lawmakers from their committees and Republicans has said that if Democrats do this today that they can expect that the next time Republicans are in power that they will use the same thing District Democrats from their committees. All right, so this debate isn't quite over yet. Let's turn to the latest on President Biden's push for stimulus. Is it full steam ahead now, with The budget debate beginning I mean, the two different things turning. Yes, Absolutely. The house is a house in Senate are going full steam with the Senate budget. I mean, remind you that sort of the foundation for this budget resolution that will become ultimately the vehicle that Democrats can use to pass the stimulus without any Republicans support me. I think the current debate that you're seeing in spite is still trying to look for some sort of bipartisan past forward candy nature to get Republicans. He's a couple Republicans on board with him kind of keep its promise for not just working for the Democrats, but working with both sides. You heard Republicans proposed. Hey, maybe instead of having the $1400 tax, we have a smaller amount. Biting wants to keep the $1400 checks. But he's thinking, maybe, instead of giving them to people who make up to $75,000 a year, there will be a cap Republicans proposed on leaving checks up to people. Made $40,000 a year and her paper in off the amount No one who making over $50,000 here would get anything under their plan. All right, Bloomberg Government reported. Emily Wilkens. Thank you for all this really appreciate it, Karen. Ethan. Thank you. It is 6 55 on Wall Street is time now. For the Bloomberg.
NewsRadio KFBK
"majority party" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK
"King of weakened from ABC News. I'm Richard Can sue the U. S. Senate today takes up its version of a measure that would allow a simple majority vote to pass President Biden's nearly $2 trillion pandemic relief measure. The House has already passed its version. The rules allow for minority Republicans to offer unlimited amendments, each requiring a vote. Senate Republicans will offer amendments in the initial Biden covert rescue plan designed to embarrass or put Democrats in a bind. That includes votes on whether taxpayers should give relief. Next the undocumented immigrants or raise small business taxes during the pandemic. It is part of political theater when a minority party can't stop in this case, Democrats getting a simple Senate majority vote on covert relief. A. B C's Andy Field, House Republicans and the Marjorie Taylor Greene matter. The House today votes on stripping the Georgia congresswoman of her committee assignments over her support of conspiracy theories and violent racist views. Florida Democrat Ted Deutch to promote harassment They dehumanized indeed. Value of large swaths of our population based on race and on faith. Indiana Republican Jackie Will Gorski says the Democrats can't do that. It is unprecedented for the majority party to take action to remove a minority member from his or her committee assignments for any reason. But Justice Department announced conspiracy charges against two professed members of the proud Boys extremist group. For taking part in the capital insurrection. Last month, Canada announced it was putting the group on its list of terrorist organizations. Will the US follow suit? White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki We, of course, have a review underway by our national security team to take a look at Violence and this type of concerning group activity across the country in Lafayette, Colorado, 95 year old Oakey Pain a resident of an assisted living facility, is in custody, accused of shooting and killing an employee. You're listening to ABC News now. Here's what's.
KOMO
"majority party" Discussed on KOMO
"FM. Oh, Phil. It's two o'clock. From ABC News. I'm Michelle Franzen race to vaccinate getting a boost Next week, the federal government will start sending shipments to pharmacies. There is also a rush to finalize another relief package for millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet in this pandemic. Republicans say the price tag for President Biden's rescue plan is too high. Biden says the stakes are too high to scale back after a 90 minute meeting with President Biden at the White House, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats are unified and their desire to pass a big, bold stimulus package He had a Democrats will work with Republicans on the proposal when they can vast majority. Of Republican voters support large parts of the program. We want to do with bipartisan, but we must be strong. Democrats are moving forward with an effort to pass Biden's $1.9 trillion plan, while Senate Republicans are pushing a deal roughly one third that size. Those officials the ABC News from Washington the House Rules Committee meeting, considering a resolution to remove GOP freshman congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from committee posts, Democrats say House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has failed to take action for greens past comments, including claims that mass school shootings were false flag events and promoted Q and on conspiracy theories, GOP representative Jackie Orlovsky says Democrats are overstepping its not the function of the majority party to make this determination unilaterally. It is unprecedented for the majority party to take action to remove a minority member from his or her committee assignments for any reason that vote expected tomorrow. Nearly a month after the violent insurrection at the Capitol ceremony today for fallen U. S Capitol police officer Brian Sick Nick, he was given the rare distinction of line in honor of the capital. Lease a sick Nick died from his injuries. A day after trying to fight the mob of Trump supporters who stormed the capital. You're listening to ABC News..
KTAR 92.3FM
"majority party" Discussed on KTAR 92.3FM
"Republicans say the price tag for President Biden's rescue plan is too high. Biden says the stakes are too high to scale back after a 90 minute meeting with President Biden at the White House, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats are unified in their desire to pass a big, bold stimulus package He had a Democrats will work with Republicans on the proposal when they can vast majority. Of Republican voters support large parts of the program. We want to do it bipartisan, but we must be strong. Democrats are moving forward with an effort to pass Biden's $1.9 trillion plan, while Senate Republicans are pushing a deal roughly one third that size. Liz officials. The ABC News from Washington the House Rules Committee meeting, considering a resolution to remove GOP freshman congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from committee posts, Democrats say House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has failed to take action for greens past comments, including claims that mass school shootings were false flag events and promoted Q and on conspiracy theories, GOP representative Jackie Orlovsky says Democrats are overstepping its not the function of the majority party to make this determination unilaterally. It is unprecedented for the majority party to take action to remove a minority member from his or her committee assignments for any reason. That vote expected tomorrow, nearly a month after the violent insurrection at the Capitol ceremony today for fallen U. S Capitol police officer Brian Sick, Nick He was given the rare distinction of line in honor of the Capitol. Police say sick Nick died from his injuries a day after trying to fight the mob of Trump supporters who stormed the capital. You're listening to ABC News. Arizona's new.
NPR Politics Podcast
Here's Why The Georgia Runoff Matters
"We are here to talk about the fact that georgia also is the site where control over. The senate will be decided in january. It all came down to this. We were hoping maybe it wouldn't but here we are Tell us just give us a refresher on. What exactly is happening here with these two. Run off raises. Why are georgians going to be voting in january of months. Yes so we had two senate seats up for election in november in georgia. Has this law where you have to win. Fifty percent plus one vote in order to win outright to avoid a runoff On our regularly scheduled senate race between republican incumbent david purdue and democratic candidate john off. It was a really tight race. But there was a libertarian and so ultimately neither of them one more than fifty percent so they're forced into a runoff and then we have our special election which was pretty much assumed to go into a run-off because there were twenty one candidates on the ballot and in fact that is what happened and we have republican incumbent. Senator kelly leffler who was appointed about a year ago defending her seat against democratic nominee raphael. Warnock who's a pastor of martin. Luther king junior's church in atlanta. And before we come back to these two races and what's going on in georgia kelsey. I feel like we cannot understate important. These outcomes are to what happens the next two years in washington. Yeah so democrats have a. What is shaping up to be an extremely narrow majority in the house and they are looking to control the senate with these two races. The this is what changes the balance of power in the senate and the bounce power in the senate is important regardless of the house because it has a lot to do with approving judges and nominees and the relationship between the senate and the white house has one that's really important particularly in the first one hundred days of an administration. One of the things that is also really really interesting about this is that these runoff elections are happening. After the first day that congress comes into session. We know that the end of the month is when the inauguration happens but congress comes into session at the beginning of the month and the senate will not even be able to organize until these are settled. So this leaves washington in kind of a frozen state until georgia has it say and kelsey. Even though best case scenario democrats would be fifty fifty. Is it's worth just just repeating again. That with the majority that vice presidential boat would give democrats that means chuck schumer and not mitch. Mcconnell would decide everything that comes up for a vote or not on the senate floor. Yeah the majority party has a lot of control in the senate. There are a lot of arguments about minority rights in the senate. And what what you know. What the minority party should be able to do That part of why we have a conversation about the filibuster. It is an opportunity for the minority party to kind of slow things down but the majority leader controls what goes on the floor. The majority leader decides whether or not a nominee comes to the floor. There is a lot of power in that. there's also a lot of power and being the majority party at the head of committees committees. That can you know. Send subpoenas or can work on tax laws or you know. They're the list of things that committee chairs can do is extremely long and something that often gets lost in the conversation because people think oh. Well you know. It's just a committee right. They're not. It's not a vote at the full level of the senate but there's a lot of policy that gets made at that committee level.
The Paul W. Smith Show
Biden edges closer to projected electoral victory
"Of state, the Great State of Michigan Secretary. Of state. Jocelyn Benson, Madam secretary. Welcome back. Good morning. I'm good. I'm inclined to say Other than that, Mrs Lincoln. How did you enjoy the play expression? 48 hours. The mitten. What do we do about that? I I understand the effort. We've all talked about the effort to get more people involved, make voting easier. It's after etcetera, but When do we know if we've gone too far, making it easy for people to vote and sometimes vote repeatedly or vote on behalf of dead people with Chicago became famous for We don't want to be famous for that in Michigan. How do we control this so that we don't have the end result that we're now experiencing. Really look at the facts in the data. I mean, the bottom line is here in Michigan. Every valid vote will count and only valid votes will count. And we've got plenty of kick your protocols in place to make sure that that happens in fact, now after the first tabulation has been complete, really in Michigan, we're going to see Continue You updated upload of information at the county in statewide levels, But that tabulation is done. And now boards of the county and state level comprised of people from both parties will review the procedures and counts of the entire election before the results are certified officials So we've Got a lot of checks and balances built in the process for good reason into really insure. People can have faith in the results of the election, regardless of how they go there. There's the lawsuit. Of course, there are a few of them now happening in Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania. Where else? I'm not sure. But there'll be others. I'm sure With his suit, which was filed, according to Beth LeBlanc, in this morning's Detroit News, filed in Michigan's Court of Claims wants Michigan's count stopped quote until meaningful access has been granted to observe the process. I've been getting notes and letters from people who are saying that they tried to enter TCF Center and volunteer is a poll worker in any capacity needed, but they were saying that no one except the press they believe security and attorneys We're allowed entry. And and they also went on to say that when they tried when GOP members tried to challenge all of a sudden, the people said, Wait a minute. It's a 6 ft. Covert rule. You've got to get away from me. But they weren't doing that to everybody. And, of course, if you're wearing a mask, it's not the legal answer there about the coded the 6 ft. And how in the world can you challenge or observe if you can't get within 6 Ft. Of somebody doing the counting? Procedures in place for challengers all across the state has been well established a uniform all across the state. And you know, we issued directive prior to the election on that to protect everyone's health and safety, but also ensure that the ability to observe the process within place on DH, So I've said repeatedly word a moment here where we knew and always have known there would be attempts to sow seeds of doubt in the process in the integrity of our process on DH if people were unhappy with the results of the election So that is a lot of what we're seeing here, But I stand by our work. I stand by the voters. I stand by the hard work of our election administrators, which has been very transparent from the beginning, and you know any conversations through litigation, otherwise in the days ahead, are simply just going to continue to reveal that truth. I'm very confident in that on so I hope everyone will simply just look at the facts in the data and accurate information moving forward and recognized that we're still in a moment where people are going to try to spread Misinformation is a way to undermine the truth on DH. Really? What What occurred in Michigan is a reflection of the will of the voters. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson with us on the pole over you, Smith, Sho W Jr and I guess another question I had was when they sue. Are they suing you? Are they suing the secretary of State's office or or or what? Yeah, People have have sued the state for various reasons. This is you know, as you mentioned, it's not just Michigan. This is unfortunately the escalation of the election litigation. Process has been really increased exponentially over the past election season on so we're you know, the attorney general in our office have been working together, took and make sure that we follow the law. We follow our secure protocols. We ensure transparency and all the rest. That's just important to me. Period on you. No way worked to ensure every ballot. Bout with counted by a pair of election workers, one from each majority party to prevent any political bias. So, ah, and a number of other secure protocols that were part of the reason why we took some time to ensure the account went smoothly and accurately. It's a bottom line, in my view is the public interest of the results of the election or an accurate reflection of the well of the people and I do hope that people respect that. However, we still got lots of Checks and balances in the processes I mentioned that will continue to review the procedures and counts just as we do in every election before they're sort of find official on network continues in the 13 days ahead, 12 now if
AP News Radio
The Latest: Manchin against high court vote before election
"The majority in the Senate is pushing for a quick vote on a replacement for the late Supreme Court justice Ruth pater Ginsburg president trump wants a vote by election day Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he will get it we're gonna vote on this nomination on this floor McConnell brought up why there was no vote in twenty sixteen after the death of justice Antonin Scalia right on the wall is asking Senate Republican or non usual favor McConnell says the president now has the majority party in the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says it's an exercise in raw political power and nothing nothing more Schumer says this could have a long lasting impact if his Senate majority over the course of six years steals two Supreme Court seats using completely contradictory rationales how could we be how could we expect to trust the other side again and Donahue Washington
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The Latest: Manchin against high court vote before election
"The majority in the Senate is pushing for a quick vote on a replacement for the late Supreme Court justice Ruth pater Ginsburg president trump wants a vote by election day Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he will get it we're gonna vote on this nomination on this floor McConnell brought up why there was no vote in twenty sixteen after the death of justice Antonin Scalia right on the wall is asking Senate Republican or non usual favor McConnell says the president now has the majority party in the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says it's an exercise in raw political power and nothing nothing more Schumer says this could have a long lasting impact if his Senate majority over the course of six years steals two Supreme Court seats using completely contradictory rationales how could we be how could we expect to trust the other side again and Donahue Washington
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Matthew Whitaker, President And Jeff Sessions discussed on Jim Bohannon
"General Matthew Whitaker. He was appointed. At that position. By President Trump who fired attorney general Jeff Sessions the day after the midterm elections Whitaker had served as chief of staff to Jeff Sessions in his new role. He would oversee special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation so far that investigation has produced several indictments it's also produced many questions questions about whether the Trump campaign played any role in Russian election interference during the two thousand sixteen presidential campaign Representative Nadler says Whitaker's appointment could undermine the entire investigation. With the very first thing, obviously is to protect them. Other investigation Whitaker has made no secret about his thoughts on the Muller investigation as a commentator and in his writings, he supported curbing, the probe presidents of dismissal of attorney general sessions and his appointment. Of Whitaker who's a complete political lackey is a real threat to the integrity of that investigation. And Nadler tells CNN it is imperative that the investigation be allowed to continue. That investigation is of utmost importance in making sure that we here to the rule of law, and the administration is held accountable counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway tells Fox News Sunday Whitaker is more than capable of overseeing the Justice department and letting the Mueller investigation run. Its course the president's point is it's not like he's putting a friend in there. He's known for his entire life. He's putting somebody who has been working at the department of Justice for thirteen months out in a very senior position as chief of staff attorney general sessions and Conway insists the president is not looking to derail the investigation. It would be a mistake to try to shut down the mall investigation because we've been so compliant, but Democrats are not convinced they say the president appointed Whittaker in order to protect himself should Whitaker. Take steps to end the pro before it is complete or quash the evidence. That might come from it Democrats in their new role as the majority party in the house worn this would set the stage for a constitutional crisis when that could lead to impeachment proceedings. Linda Kenyon, Washington in sports, the New Orleans Saints, Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City. Chiefs are the NFL's only one loss teams through the first ten weeks of the NFL season. Dallas snaps to game losing streak to earn a twenty seven twenty road victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. The patriots six game winning streak is over after the titans spirit. New England thirty four ten.
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Kushner rips Palestinian president, says Mideast peace plan "almost done"
"To forty eight forty eight forty eight text speak to forty eight forty eight forty eight to try babble for free that's spa k two four eight four eight four eight donald kushner president trump's soninlaw in mideast peace on voice says the administration will present that plan with or without input from palestinian president of us in his interview with the palestinian paper aisle coulds jared kushner openly questioned whether palestinian president mahmoud abbas has the ability to reach a peace deal he said he is quote not sure he also indirectly criticized bosses leadership saying the lives of palestinians have not improved and he added quote there's only a certain period that you can blame anyone other than palestinian leadership member of that leadership eric hot rebuked kushner saying he failed to mention palestinian rights or palestinian state in his interview giordani miller abc news to roussillon presidential and parliamentary election day in turkey scene in ankara is incumbent president cast his ballot sixty four year old now claiming victory securing an executive presidency with sweeping powers partial results show a prokurdish party has passed a critical threshold to enter the turkish parliament and maybe threatened the majority party's majority in northern thailand search and rescue teams we're looking for a dozen members of a youth soccer team missing and believed to be trapped in a large cave that flooded after heavy rainfall the boys aged eleven to fifteen were being chaperoned by their coach authorities say the cave can flood to his highest sixteen feet this is abc news komo news time is four or four time to check our aaa traffic every ten minutes on the fours with justin davis a working on a crash on eastbound highway two inside home ish this is.
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