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AP News Radio
Feinstein's office details previously unknown complications from shingles illness
"There are new details about complications from an illness involving senator Feinstein. I'm Lisa dwyer. The office of democratic senator dianne Feinstein says she is suffering from Ramsay hunt syndrome, a complication from the shingles virus that can paralyze part of the face, Feinstein's office said she contracted encephalitis while recovering from the shingles virus earlier this year. Feinstein, who was 89 years old, had not previously disclosed those medical details, though she said in a statement last week that she had suffered complications the longtime California senator returned from a more than two month absence on May 10th, Feinstein has faced questions for several years about her declining health and her mental acuity. In February, Feinstein said she would not run for reelection in 2024. Feinstein has been a senator for more than three decades. I'm Lisa dwyer
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
McConnell's Secret Plan: Stop Radical Judges & Biden's Spending
"All right, now I want to switch over to the judiciary committee. I'm writing a column for the post about leader McConnell and he got a lot of nicknames like cocaine Mitch in midnight Mitch and the grim Reaper. They ought to call him Mitch. Didn't I already tell you the answer, McConnell? Because he told the Democrat. He's not going to help them pass judicial nomination. And dianne Feinstein said it's not even a problem. You're on that. Committee, what is the situation? Well, he was just a tie though on the debt ceiling matter. Since then, McConnell said it earlier this week that we don't have a secret plan in the Senate to bail out Joe Biden. I'd go a step further. We don't have a secret plan to have a secret plan. Like no one is sitting around thinking that if we get to this day, okay, Mitch McConnell and Republican senators are going to swoop in and undercut House Republicans and save Joe Biden. It's not going to happen. Senator McConnell and I and Republican senators have said since January, the American people send a Republican majority of the house to put the brakes on Joe Biden runaway spending. The sooner Joe Biden gets on with it and sits down with Republican House members. The sooner we can raise our debt sale in a responsible fashion. Now, to your point about senator McConnell and judges. When Sarah Feinstein came down with a case of shingles, she was not able to attend anymore. Democrats began to climb, oh, this is paralyzing the judiciary committee. We can't confirm any of our judges. We need to do her the courtesy of temporarily removing her from the committee. Never been done before as far as I know. The only reason it would be necessary, the only reason it would be necessary to replace our temporarily or permanently is so the Democrats can confirm judges on a party line basis. We have confirmed or I'm sorry, we have voted out of committee numerous judges over the last three months in senator Feinstein's absence on a bipartisan basis. The only thing her absence has prevented Democrats from doing is confirming radical, unqualified judges on a party line basis. And senator McConnell several point was why would we encourage the Democrats to do that?
WTOP
"senator feinstein" Discussed on WTOP
"Agendas are at work that are going after senator Feinstein in that way. I've never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way. On Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller, WTO, B news. A Michigan pipe layer who also modeled for covers of romance novels has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the capital riot. Logan barnhart pleaded guilty to assaulting an officer and dragging him into a crowd of rioters. During his sentencing, the 42 year old expressed remorse for his actions, telling the judge, he didn't recognize himself in the video shown in court of him assaulting the officer. Barnhart was also sentenced to three years of supervised release. He's being ordered to pay a $3600 fine. We're learning more about what Supreme Court Justice clarence Thomas did and did not disclose on his financial reports to the Supreme Court in an investigative report ProPublica says the justice sold a string of properties in Georgia to a company owned by Texas billionaire Harlan crow. The 2014 sale of a single story home that Thomas mother lived in and two vacant lots down the road is the first known instance of money flowing from the Republican mega donor to justice Thomas. You'll remember that Harlan Crowe is also the person who gave a lot of extensive travel to justice Thomas and his wife Ginny and paid for it with thousands of dollars of expensive vacations and overseas trips and yacht excursions. ProPublica says the sale of the house was not listed in Thomas's financial disclosure statements, just like those two decades worth of luxury trips paid for by
AP News Radio
After calls to resign, Feinstein seeks Judiciary replacement
"After calls to resign, senator Feinstein is asking for a committee stand in. I'm Lisa dwyer. Senator dianne Feinstein is asking to be temporarily replaced on the judiciary committee while she recovers from a case of shingles, her announcement came shortly after two House Democrats called on her to resign because of her extended absence from Washington. The long serving California Democrat says complications have delayed her recovery, and she has provided no date for her return. At 89, Feinstein is the oldest member of Congress. Feinstein's decision to seek a committee stand in during her recovery comes amid increasing anxiety within her party. There are lengthy absences damaged democratic efforts to confirm president Joe Biden's nominees for federal courts in a narrowly divided chamber. I'm Lisa dwyer.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"senator feinstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Right back. All right. Okay. By Marco Rubio looks really uncomfortable. It's like, man, this is about to get really tough. And it did get tough. Is that water under the bridge because he was still a candidate Tim? In a certain sense, yes, I mean, you know, she out politics are fluid, right? And if he is running for vice president, she was part of the Trump administration. So Trump has shown that if people come back and grovel to him, that he will potentially throw them a bone, but the story that she has to tell she may have one in the Republican primary, but I just think the lane of not Trump is very small, and it has shrunk. And the message that you're hearing from her there in 2016, I don't even know that we're going to really hear that from a viable candidate in 2024. I believe that someone has to stand up to Trump in the primary, but I do think the cast of characters that you're going to get are going to be pretty lame and weak in terms of drawing contrast with the president. It's to be seen, but she's said, before she was running, that she was going to support Trump in 2024. And will not run if he runs, now she's running. I don't know what she's. I don't know what the plan is to be honest. And to think boy, the first debate is less than 6 months away. If I have this right, 6 months away in Milwaukee, how big is this field going to be? Boyd Matheson? I think it's going to be, I don't think it's going to be huge. I think there's a lot of folks who are going to look at it and figure that there's just not a clear path there and stay on the sidelines and I do think Nikki hey, that was actually in the room that day that she introduced Margot Rubio way back then. And I also thought it was very interesting today that she actually alluded back to that. She ended by talking about Napoli, and the fact that it's always hurts a little more when you've got spiked peels on. That's right. And kind of took a little shot of the former president. So I think the field will not be there's a lot of names obviously being floated there, including another south carolinian senator Tim Scott, which would make the South Carolina early primary for the Republicans really interesting. But in terms of getting there, I don't think we're going to see a 16, 18. Like we did in 2016 or with the Democrats in 2020? The other big breaker today in the world of politics brings us to California. It was dianne Feinstein, maybe you guys are not surprised because a lot of folks have been waiting for this. She's not running for a 7th term. Now this opens up Elaine to potentially more candidates, but we've already got Adam Schiff. We've already got Katie Porter. Tim, this is going to be an important one to watch and I suspect a very expensive race. Yeah, always, always an expensive race in California. Senator Feinstein has had an incredible career in public service, she came into the Senate as a reformer. And it's a big announcement from her today. Obviously, like you said, we've seen some people who got ahead here in representative Schiff and representative Porter. It is going to be a tough primary. It is an expensive place to compete. And at the same time, the test of being able to raise money is infinitely more important in a state like California. So we'll see very early on who's able to separate themselves in that pack. And to think I didn't have time to bring up Kerry Lake. She spent two days in Iowa. Over the weekend. Boyd Matheson and Tim Hogan stay right where you are. We're going to have some final thoughts as we go back to where we started. The fastest hour in politics
WTOP
"senator feinstein" Discussed on WTOP
"Reporter Tom Waits takes a look at how shift compares to other candidates that are considering the run. Also in the race for Senate Orange County congresswoman Katie Porter and congresswoman Barbara Lee for the Bay Area, senator Feinstein is 89 and the oldest member of Congress, she told reporters earlier this week that she's going to make her decision on whether or not to seek another term in the next couple of months, Professor of politics, Jack pitney says the race may be getting crowded and shift could be the early leader. Early on, representative Schiff is a favorite. He has a national profile stemming from his role in the impeachment proceedings. He'll have no trouble raising a great deal of money. Repeatedly declined to announce her plans, but Democrats expect the 89 year old Senate veteran to actually step down. Democratic California congresswoman Katie Porter already has entered the race. Democratic California congresswoman Barbara Lee, a longtime liberal leader, allegedly told her colleagues she intends to run, but has not officially announced yet. Stay tuned. Here at home, the former loudoun county superintendent was in court on Thursday asking for a judge to dismiss criminal charges against him related to two sexual assaults by a student, one student at two different schools, but the judge in the case has denied his request. His own Mikhail and Ellie reports from the courthouse. The argument from Scott ziegler's attorneys was essentially that Virginia's attorney general had overstepped his authority in convening the special grand jury that leveled the charges against ziegler that argument didn't work with the judge, he called it a narrow reading of statutory language. Ziegler is facing three misdemeanors in connection with how the louden county school system handled two sexual assaults by one student in 2021
The Tech Guy
"senator feinstein" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"Yeah, I mean, if you look at the body, it's a much smaller body. They don't have the FX's are designed for continuous shooting. They're going to probably do different formats, higher quality, less compression. 14.22. Let me start four two two, ten bit. It's pretty good. You can a 120 K you know, I think what they've done is is the same sensor. So I think what they did is say, well, we could put a lot of these features into a DSLR, or mirrorless. And what do you call it mirrorless? Yeah, mirror. Yeah, mirrorless. Do mirrorless. But I think that really, if video is your total purpose, I would say you want the FX. Well, thank you, Leo. I've been following you since I was a little kid on tech TV. Wow, wow. That's great. You know, what do you shoot video for? What do you shoot it for? Political purposes. We don't have to go down that road. Campaign commercials, things like that. Exactly. Exactly. So you probably want the FX because then you can do the really dark kind of low key scary picture. How senator Feinstein doesn't want you to know. Yeah, I think it's personal. Nonetheless. Oh, you should have left, though, then you're okay. Then I'll give you the good advice. Good, good for you. That's awesome. That sounds like you're getting busy seasons coming. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. All right. Well, that's why I have the money to upgrade to a camera. Nice. Get a good one, Andrew, do some good work. There's a lot to be done before November. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Take care. Bye bye. Senator Feinstein doesn't want you to know how much money she's taking from the, I don't know. George Soros. Okay, mister mister Wilkinson. Take this away, please. It's all yours. 7 27. All yours. Thank you so very much.
Rage for Justice Report
"senator feinstein" Discussed on Rage for Justice Report
"What had happened and that's when he wrote a letter to the editor because he was outraged when he saw that. He called her attorney and he ended up writing a letter to the editor about it. In the letter of the interview, he said, how can this happen in America? We see this young, healthy kid who's got a lifetime of blindness and disability. You'll never be independent, never live on his own. We wanted to give him $7 million to compensate him for that. And it's out of our hands. 250,000 all he got. He was really outraged. Your story, Scott was what motivated me to fight all these years to try to change this as well. I mean, and motivated so much so many of us at consumer watchdog. Your wife and you took your story around the country to argue against caps. You took it to Washington, convinced senator Feinstein caps were a bad idea. So we didn't have a federal cap, but this has got to this victory today. That we're now going to have the legislature finally acknowledge that Steven's pain and suffering isn't worth $250,000 that there isn't a one size fits all cap that should be static that fits every victim. That's got to mean something to you. Well, right, like we've mentioned, it's been a long time. And that's why we have the initiative, obviously. And it's good that our opponents, in this case, came to at least some of their senses and decided that perhaps a somewhat of a compromise was in the best interest of everybody. Let's talk about that compromise for a minute. What's in it?.
Today, Explained
"senator feinstein" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Tall kopen is on the Washington D.C. beat for the San Francisco Chronicle that's senator dianne Feinstein's hometown paper. And she recently wrote a deeply sourced report in which colleagues of Feinstein say she's different. Tall, what's going on? What was brought to our attention we feel like is significantly more than simply a little bit of slowing down. And really a pattern of short term memory issues that exceed what might be ascribed to perhaps a little forgetfulness. So for example, we spoke with a California democratic member of Congress who said that they somewhat recently had a multi hour long interaction with the senator. And this is a member of Congress who has known the senator for over a decade. And they were sort of expecting sort of a detailed rigorous policy debate because that's what she always was sort of up for. And not only did that not take place, but they had to introduce themselves to the senator and then do so again multiple times over the course of the interaction because she was seemingly unable to recall parts of the conversation that had already happened in the span of this interaction. And we spoke with two senators who have served with her for some time who say they get the sense that she can't always place them when they encounter each other. We spoke with Senate colleagues, the California democratic member of Congress and three former staff members of the senator who all have seen very up close what the situation is and we're in agreement on their assessments that they do not believe that she's really up to the job anymore. The job that includes representing nearly 40 million people in California, it was reporting that we just felt we couldn't ignore. How has dianne Feinstein made her mark in the Senate up to this point? Well, there's no denying that she has had a tremendous career and not just in the Senate. I mean, going back in San Francisco politics, breaking barriers as a mayor of San Francisco. This is the body of supervisor Harvey Milk because it was taken from city hall. Her role in the assassination of Harvey Milk. The president of the board of supervisors, dianne Feinstein spoke. Both mayor moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. She was a path breaker for so long, one of the first women along with Barbara boxer ever to represent the Senate for California. And that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you're about to enter so help you, God. I will. Thank you. And then in the Senate, I mean, she's worked and been a leader on so many issues, including gun violence prevention. She has been a leader on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She served on the Senate intelligence committee. She's still serves on both of those committees. The report released today examines the CIA's secret overseas detention of at least a 119 individuals. And the use of coercive interrogation techniques in some cases amounting to torture. And every single one of the conversations that I had for this piece was painful and the people I spoke with really felt awful about having to even have these conversations because they respect and revere her so much and many of them are voicing these concerns in part because they wish that she could have a dignified cap to her career and not be remembered for a public embarrassment. They want her to be remembered for this legendary trajectory in politics. U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi for comment, she is both a colleague and a friend of Feinstein. They're both from the Bay Area. How did she respond? She defended senator Feinstein, and spoke about her record for in delivering for the people of California called her tireless. She used the word unconscionable to describe what she characterized as a tax. We don't believe them to be attacks. The people speaking with us were voicing concerns and very specific details in our interactions. But speaker Pelosi called it unconscionable for these to be raised at this time in particular senator Feinstein lost her husband in February. He passed after a long illness. Senator Feinstein issued a statement saying my heart is broken today. My husband was my partner and best friend for more than 40 years. I am going to miss him terribly. While our reporting absolutely takes into account the sad situation with her husband, the reporting also indicates that these issues predate that situation and while certainly stress and grief can exacerbate things and we don't have the ability to say to what degree that the situation with her husband does not explain the episodes that we were told about in the piece. In a statement to KCRA tonight, the senator wrote in part while I have focused for much of the past year on my husband's health and ultimate passing, I have remained committed to achieving results and I'd put my record up against anyone's. Tall, if senator Feinstein is struggling with memory loss. To such a degree, how is she getting her job done well enough to keep being reelected? She was last reelected in 2018. She has the right to serve through the end of her term in 2024. You know, in the Senate, she's just over halfway through her 6 year term. In 2018, she faced her first real challenge in a long time from a Democrat Kevin de Leon. He came close to defeating her, but she has had a storied career. She has a very strong reputation in California. It was remarkable that he came so close to defeating her, but there was one sort of candidate forum and she got through that without any major slip ups or anything of the sort. And won her seat again. And I don't think anyone on Capitol Hill would deny that she has a very experienced and skilled staff. But especially the former staffers I spoke with said, it's increasingly difficult for that office to operate at full strength because she does need to sign off on things and she does need to understand everything they want to put out every letter they want to send every statement, every bill they want to sign on to. And the former staffers I spoke with described an increasingly difficult time doing that because they would brief her on something and then perhaps the next day she wouldn't remember. Or she couldn't follow complex threads and the staff at least believed it was in part because of these issues and not because it was too complicated to be understood. Does anyone know if she plans to run again when this term is up? We don't know at this time she has filed paperwork with the FEC, the federal elections commission to be able to continue having apolitical operation. It's sort of a formality. It doesn't necessarily commit her to running. So at this time,.
WCPT 820
"senator feinstein" Discussed on WCPT 820
"Time for a pop quiz Who is hotter My hike boyfriend Allen or my bike boyfriend Adrian Alan Alan I'm sorry I'm sorry Adrian Adrian listen You're underwear But it's Alan I'm going to make Adrian Mike and his underpants tomorrow That can help By the way Adrian warns me now that I've cycled black I'm never going to go back I am now fully in an African American cycling club and I'm not my favorite I'm not going back He's the one that said it It's true They talked about it last week's meeting Doug and Seattle you're on with frangela high dog Hi actually my name is dove Oh dove I'm sorry Like the birds That's great And say something a little bit different I was watching the old dirty rock the old comedy show And the big boss said that his lawyer's name was Francis callier I'm wondering was that a shout out to Francis Why yes it was Aw All right All right We know all these people that have second city Oh I did not know that It's a magical thing I toured I was very Friends with we're Friends with Tina Fey Amy Poehler Rachel dratch Right All of those people are most of the writers They're your comedy cycling club I mean that's just telling you Right The reference was that the company only had like one black person In the leadership position and that was actually true of second city also So that was it was an inside Inside Got it And inside inside Okay All right Financial I want to get your take on this you know we talked about it yesterday I think it was in the San Francisco Chronicle first about dianne Feinstein about senator Feinstein being no longer fit to serve claiming her memory has been rapidly deteriorating I mean I don't know the reality but I gotta say this feels a little misogynistic in that there's a lot of senators in their 80s and strong Thurman served till he was a hundred And reportedly had no faculties left by the time he was so I don't know I just know that he did have slaves still He did have slaves Okay my point is Right So this is the interview Democrats that have interacted with her and all that And I do think 88 is her term is up in 24 but also her husband was dying and then died and so like she released a statement saying the last year has been extremely painful and distracting for me flying back and forth to visit my dying husband who passed just a few weeks ago There's no question I'm still serving and delivering for the people of California I'll put my record up against anyone and Nancy Pelosi said senator Feinstein is a workhorse for the people of California respected leader among her colleagues in the Senate I mean I don't know what you make of it but it does seem like how old is chuck grassley a thousand I mean yeah it just seems there's a lot of senators up there and they're late 80s and I just wonder what you make of this I think we'd make these decisions as voters Right And that unless we see somebody like I don't know looking directly into an eclipse or posing up to our enemy or taking on a 20 to 30 boxes of covert you know top secret material out of The White House or just displaying a profound misunderstanding of what it means to I don't know be in public office So you're just spit bottling conspiracy theories You're just spitballing That's completely fictional I'm just spitballing completely If there was somebody who was exhibiting signs of actual mental deterioration in a position of authority than I do think that there comes a time where we have to go get a Doctor Who say didn't ride in on a clan horse or whatever Like a real doctor to do an event At this point I mean I've heard this talk for a while I haven't seen anything as a person on the outside as a voter that suggests that this she's in any way incapable of serving Well so it doesn't feel I have no idea where that's coming from outside of some weird exactly And it seems like you know her terms up in two years I mean and quite honestly I think Lawrence O'Donnell talked about this Pretty much all senators rely very heavily on their staffs I mean the fact that like you say Angela I just it would seem like she could serve for two years in dignity and she has a great staff as far as we know And I don't know but I just pick a problem like the 8 senators that are all in their late 80s or whatever How will the cinema Because to me we're gonna be focusing on attention on people who need to step down and mansion Yeah Well you know dianne Feinstein is not spewing conspiracy theories on the Senate on the floor You know what I mean So before we look at Diane Right Let's look at some other people Yeah yep absolutely 46 minutes after the hour we roll along with the final segment I know Already.
WCPT 820
"senator feinstein" Discussed on WCPT 820
"Time for a pop quiz Who is hotter My hike boyfriend Allen or my bike boyfriend Adrian Alan Alan I'm sorry I'm sorry Adrian Adrian listens You're underwear But it's Alan I'm going to make Adrian bike in his underpants tomorrow By the way Adrian warns me now that I've cycled black on never going to go back I am now fully in an African American cycling club and I'm not my favorite I'm not going back He's the one that said it True Okay They talked about it last week's meeting Doug and Seattle you're on with French high dog Hi actually my name is dove Oh dove I'm sorry Like the birds That's great Say something a little bit different I was watching the old 30 rock the old comedy show And the big boss said that his lawyer's name was Francis callier I'm wondering was that a shout out to Francis Why yes it was Oh All right All right We know all these people that are out for second city Oh I did not know that It's a magical thing I toured I was very Friends with we're Friends with Tina Fey Amy Poehler Rachel drag Right All of those people are Most of the writers They're your comedy cycling club I mean that's just telling you Right The reference was that the company only had like one black person In the leadership position and that was actually true of second city also So that was it was an inside Inside inside Got it And inside inside okay All right Frank I want to get your take on this you know we talked about it yesterday I think it was in the San Francisco Chronicle first about dianne Feinstein about senator Feinstein being no longer fit to serve claiming her memory has been rapidly deteriorating I mean I don't know the reality but I got to say this feels a little misogynistic in that there's a lot of senators in their 80s Strom Thurmond served till he was a hundred And reportedly had no faculties left by the time he was so I don't know I just know that he did have slaves still He did have slaves Okay my point is Right So this is the interview Democrats that have interacted with her and all that And I do think 88 is her term is up in 24 but also her husband was dying and then died and so like she released a statement saying the last year has been extremely painful and distracting for me flying back and forth to visit my dying husband who passed just a few weeks ago There's no question I'm still serving and delivering for the people of California I'll put my record up against anyone and Nancy Pelosi said senator Feinstein is a workhorse for the people of California respected leader among her colleagues in the Senate I mean I don't know what you make of it but it does seem like how old is truck grassley a thousand I mean yeah it just seems there's a lot of senators up there in their late 80s And I just wonder what you make of this I think we'd make these decisions as voters Right And that unless we see somebody like I don't know looking directly into an eclipse or posing up to our enemy or taking on a 20 to 30 boxes of covert you know top secret material out of The White House or just displaying a profound misunderstanding of what it means to I don't know be in public office So you're just spinning Conspiracy theories You're just completely fictional I'm just spitballing completely If there was somebody who was exhibiting signs of actual mental deterioration in a position of authority than I do think that there comes a time where we have to go get a Doctor Who say didn't ride in on a clan horse or whatever Like a real doctor to do an event But at this point I mean I've heard this talk for a while I haven't seen anything as a person on the outside as a voter that suggests that this that she's in any way incapable of serving Well so it doesn't feel I have no idea where that's coming from outside of some weird exactly Yeah And it seems like you know her terms up in two years I mean and quite honestly I think Laurence O'Donnell talked about this Pretty much all senators rely very heavily on their staffs you know I mean the fact that like you say Angela I just it would seem like she could serve her two years in dignity and she has a great staff as far as we know I don't know but like the 8 senators that are all in their late 80s or whatever How will the cinema Because to me if we're going to be focusing on attention on people who need to step down Kristen and Manchin Yes Well you know Diane Feinstein is not spewing conspiracy theories on the Senate on the floor You know what I mean So before we look at Diane Right Let's look at some other people Yeah yep absolutely 46 minutes after the hour we roll along with the final segment.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"senator feinstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Popular with consumers and my constituents So I am going to support this bill in mark up here today in this committee But I expect the bill sponsors will continue to work to address some of these open questions that I and many others have expressed about the bill Tom what do you make of that There's clearly bipartisan support for big tech reigning in big tech in some way But will there be actual agreement on how to do that Yeah I think there's a lot there's a long distance from getting out of committee where we've gotten so far too actually seeing this put into something more substantial and make its way through the Senate There is bipartisan support I know there is debate about how much the support is or is it in favor And I do think that you do see people who are advocating on behalf of the tech companies trying to send the message that this will hurt consumers it's hard to see exactly where the consumer gets hurt when if you're one of the advocates of this legislation the argument is that you're giving more choice You're doing away with or you're undermining the subtle ways in which a Google for example puts forth its products or gives them a little bit more prominence or the ways that Amazon might encourage subtly or overtly it's user or sorry it's the businesses on its marketplace from having to use its products and also there's questions about the extent to which Amazon uses the data that it collects on these businesses to advantage its own products It knows what sells It knows what flies off the virtual shelves And it's hard for us to it's hard for Amazon to make an argument that it doesn't use those that information to its advantage And Google is very much in the driver's seat when it comes to how the page is laid out And what you see and ditto for Apple when you come when these apps come preloaded they get they get preference They show up and they're right there for you And I think the intent behind this is to level the playing field a little bit more And if you're a lawmaker knocking big tech gives you some political points and that's kind of crucial for some in an election year Adam as somebody who worked at Alphabet slash Google for many years you know you said earlier you think consumers are going to be hurt by this but on the other hand it seems almost obvious What Tom says there Of course Google preferences its own products And isn't that a conflict of interest Well frankly in Tom referred to this I think what you saw the hearing today was frankly a pretty good debate over what's at stake and there's two competing visions You saw senator Klobuchar voice of concern that as Tom said big tech services has allegedly crowded out services like Yelp and Spotify made it harder for those services to reach customers But then you did have people like senator Feinstein as you exerted in even center per DIA who had a really interesting moment in the hearing where he said look consumers like that they can go to Amazon or Google search for a local restaurant or product and within a few clicks it's theirs They appreciate the convenience of integrated services So if you saw those two opposing viewpoints going at it in a frankly a pretty substantive way during this hearing today And the sponsors of the bill are clearly trying to help some companies other senators argued that millions of Americans.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"senator feinstein" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"And it didn't go away. Right, because people are putting it in. But I love so much is what's in the news right now. Parents standing up and being upset at getting mad at their school board. And they act like, well, that's the Republicans. That's the Republicans. Have you met the Republicans? They could never organize protests at school board meetings in small towns in America, let alone a loudon county, but which one by 20 or 30 points to a Democrat, but it's also comedic to me when Terry sometimes I'm astonished at what adult politicians say I guess with senator Feinstein said something when she was talking to Amy Coney Barrett when she was getting on the federal appeals court or whatever. It's like they don't understand the basics of America the situation with the Feinstein. She said something, it's like she never heard of religious liberty. Then you have Terry mcauliffe saying that parents shouldn't have anything to say with what their kids, you're like, how do you not understand that we the people were the government? We could teach our kids whatever we want. We choose to send them to public schools or texts, because we have time to teach them. So of course we're going to tell you what we want them to learn. It's kind of basic. It's called representation for our taxation. Right. So the idea that a guy like Terry mcauliffe could be that out of touch that he would say something like that. It's hard for me not to be astonished by it. Well, how about this guy goes sends an all but one of his kids to private school and says my public schools raise my kids and then we should not have a say, well, you did have a say. You moved them out of public school and you want everyone else to deal with it. Just like what's going on in Glasgow. You want us to ruin our lives, pay double them out for gas. Pay double the amounts to heat our homes, while you fly over in a private jet to go to your yacht. What is that powered by solar panels? I don't think so. The audacity is unbelievable. Listening TikTok, I'm thinking there's probably a spot for you at Fox News. I think he's good album. He's ready to go professional. We're gonna.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"senator feinstein" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"Was at an event last week. In oklahoma studied talking to an amazing political candidate who former green beret senior. Nco we started talking about bragging. The green berets. And i literally just received a text about thirty minutes before this reception from a very good friend at brag and and i think it went according to you and i want you to comment on what this means for america. So this is the person i've been working with for long long time and i'm not gonna give you the all. The context context the last line of this text. Is this good talking about fort bragg. Home of the green berets our political situation. Right now sucks at fort bragg cut at fort bragg what does this mean for the security of the country well i think china's going around A high fiving one another. I think putin's gotta be laughing. Iranians have to be positively giddy over this. The fact is we've taken action over the last twenty years and accelerate in the last few years that have detail caused our combat. Rain is to deteriorate rows in the garbage dump We are getting rid of good soldiers. Because they don't want to take a vaccine they don't necessarily need we are Demoralizing are people Among the veterans community there are a lot of us. And and you know this as well as anybody dr gorka. The military american military today is largely a legacy organization. You know there are very few folks coming in. You don't have a father or mother or uncle or grandfather who who served. And that's that's why these guys doing or or one of the things that leads to do it and a lot of these veterans are telling people. Don't enlists right now. Don't become part of
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
"senator feinstein" Discussed on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
"Senior. Senator dianne feinstein is eighty eight years old. She has already voluntarily resigned from her position. As the chair of the senate judiciary committee and now the possibility that senator feinstein might at some point have to leave the senate for perhaps health reasons has become an issue in the recall campaign. And i want to stress. That senator feinstein is in good health so this is entirely theoretical but it is now a political issue. And here's what larry elder said about replacing senator feinstein. They're afraid i'm gonna replace her with republican which most certainly would do and that would be an earthquake in washington dc. He's right about that. It would be an earthquake. He's right about all of that. Governor larryelder could make senator mitch mcconnell de majority leader of the united states. All it takes now for the democrats to lose control of the senate is for the democrats lose one senate seat. Just one larry. Elder is the kind of republican who could never come close to winning a majority vote in the state of california but he can win thirty three percent of the vote and in this recall election. That's more than enough to make him governor. And that means the recall election is now about to people. Larry elder and gavin newsom republicans want to remove gavin newsom and democrats want to stop larry elder the democrats. Tv ad campaign is about gavin newsom. And larry elder but they don't mention larry elder's name. Here's what you need to know about..
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Democrats Aren't Talking About the Worst Possible Outcome of the California Recall
"Larry elder gets to be governor. Two weeks from now after the recall Everybody in the liberal media has gonads no big deal. If larry elder becomes governor he's only going to serve until november twenty twenty two and will have no power anyway because the democrats control both houses of the legislature in california. So what if larry elder becomes governor await a minute. What did that caller just remind us. If something happens dianne feinstein. Who's sick as a dog. And she either is incapacitated. Or you know god forbid dies. We don't wish her will if senator feinstein can't complete her term. The governor of california governor larry elder or his biden would say elder gets to appoint the replacement senator and surprise. There's no more fifty fifty senate and that's the end of vice president. Kamala harris breaking all the votes and the votes and this would be just an interesting turn of events. So let's keep our eye on that california
Adams on Agriculture
"senator feinstein" Discussed on Adams on Agriculture
"Thumped epa for Supposedly not doing a robust enough analysis On the impact of the rfs on endangered species of all things and so So now epa has to go back and revisit how they analyze the impacts of the orifice on habitat for endangered species. And so that may be part of what is slowing these. These proposals down is now. They have to go back and do that. Same sort of of analysis for the twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two proposals. We we just don't know we're not hearing a lot from the white house or epa on the real reasons for the delay on these proposals. That's the case. You may not like it but at least they could give that as a reason and you know as you said the way it is now. You don't know we're talking with jeff. Cooper president and ceo the renewable fuels association. Meanwhile jeff here we are again. Competing legislation being introduced in congress for and against the rfs. Yet that's right. We saw Last week For senators including senator feinstein a democrat from california and senator toomey a republican from pennsylvania Introducing legislation to Supposedly eliminate the corn ethanol mandate under the rfs. That's that's their words Of course there is no such thing as a corn ethanol mandate under the The renewable fuel standard you know allows many types of renewable fuels to comply with the standard and doesn't dictate that it has to be corn. Ethanol it just so happens that corn ethanol has been the lowest cost and most efficient way to meet the rfs But that doesn't stop these folks. This is the same legislation. Mike that a have introduced in the past. I think this is either the fourth or fifth time. They have introduced this bill and let me be clear. It has zero chance of going anywhere. it's dead on arrival But these senators want to send a message that they don't like the rf and and you know okay. We get it you you you don't like the s But the reasoning and the rationale they use is just ludicrous and the myths and misinformation. That is coming from the senators Is really just beyond the pale. So fortunately on our side we we do have a number of of supporters and friends in congress That are trying to move the ball forward with renewable fuels and defending the orifice And and like you said they are introducing their own legislation to benefit the industry and help expand and grow renewable fuels moving forward so this will continue back and forth nothing new there. We don't expect really any of this legislation to to get legs and take off It's just more noise but certainly something we got to keep an eye on. And where are we on the battles to keep around sales of fifteen. Yeah that's that's the the other big issue and again as you know the recent dc circuit court decision Throws out epa's rule that finally allowed year round e fifteen In here we are in the middle of the summer when when e fifteen sales had historically been banned So our goal and so far.
Midlife Mixtape
"senator feinstein" Discussed on Midlife Mixtape
"When i was calling somebody had given me the great suggestion to just program your representatives into your phone. As in my case it was comma harris. Senator harris senator feinstein and i have them all programmed in so when i was sitting in the car i would say call senator harrison and i headed both for california and dc. And just say you know hi. I'm a constituent. this is important to me. I wish you would do this. And then the next day or two. I'd be sitting in traffic. And i just do it again. Because they do look at the volume of calls they wanna know what's on the minds of their constituents and importantly if you have a representative who is tuned in on climate change and doing stuff about it. Those calls still matter. Because you're telling them that. Yes you're on the right track. Keep pushing for the changes that you're making and i know a lot of us you know worry. I'm in this blue bubble. Everybody who i've elected to office has the same general viewpoint. An idea what what can i do. How does this make a difference. But the fact is you are saying to them. Yes keep going. Keep going so whether you're listening and you're in a location where maybe your elected. Representatives are not taking action on this or they are either way the calls letters all that stuff can make a difference. Oh absolutely you know. I think it's important recognizing climate change. It's if not a part of an issue right. I mean isn't well about already. You're in no. I mean here. In south carolina charleston. It is flooded. We had sunny day flooding beautiful day. High tide that whole beautiful city is flooded and a lot of people in my state which is a red state. They think about this. We talk about it you know. And it and it's just bringing it up to the forefront that hey you should be thinking about this too and take away this political component. And what's have that conversation. Let's have that difficult conversation about..
The Nicole Sandler Show
"senator feinstein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Yeah hi it's slap everybody in the face what you know he. He made a big deal about not wanting to politicize the court which is already politicized right brier but if he doesn't retire then the put the court won't it won't be politicized anymore. It'll just be taken over completely right it already. You'll be a court anymore right. I know it's it's just horrible. it's just horrible. I can't even. I mean you know. I i was saying to just before the show that i mean. I'm having trouble for the first time in my life looking forward to something. I don't feel hopeful. I don't feel like there's a solvable way. I mean how are we going to address these things if if cinema and mansion and whoever in and my stupid senator feinstein god are against ending the filibuster or even changing the filibuster or temporarily using it for voting right right. There are some saying for certain things when it comes to voting rights. You can't use the phillies compromise if they won't do that. Where's the hope. What are how to. How do we deal with any of this and again. I'm going to tell this to death because nobody else is. If if the if the republican legislators are going to overturn election results then how do we ever. How do we. What's the solution had fix. I know right the yeah. I mean i was gonna say the only way around it as if again we come out for a second time in such massive numbers that they can't they can't fuck with it they can fuck with it can't that's what they're doing now that's exactly what they're doing now. It's so exact votes. The numbers don't matter because they're going to stay just like they say in opposite world. What's up is down. They're going to say well. These these results are no good. We're going to throw them out and give you our own rate. That's with this. I don't see how we get around this. Somebody tell me hello anybody. Tell me how we get around. This is not going to happen in the courts because the supreme court will first of all the supreme court will gut any voting rights laws. We put into place not that we shouldn't do it. I'm not saying you know. Oh so what's the point. Yeah but count on them doing what they did to the original voting rights act right. So there's that's why the courts are going to end up helping us. We have to do this in congress we have to we have to. I don't know how will in congress. I don't know how we do this. I have no answers right. I wish somebody smarter than me would tell me what what we could do me too if anybody knows a bring it all right. So we're going to get to your tweet spot. But you know what. I haven't played like a good parody song in a while and and our friend. Lauren mayer. Who does our show open our segment open in case anybody didn't know this is lauren..
C-SPAN Programming
Garland confirmation is a stage for 4 of GOP's 2024 hopefuls
"App. Federal Judge Merrick Garland is president Biden's nominee to become attorney general. He testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. The hearing lasted most of the day We begin with committee chair Dick Durbin of Illinois. This hearing will come to order today. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to be the 86th attorney general of the United States. Judge Garland I wanna welcome you and your family. I want to welcome you back to the Senate Judiciary Committee. I know this return trip. It's been a long time and planning on you're here. Finally, this will be the Judiciary Committee's first hearing of the 117th Congress. Before I turned to my opening remarks. I'd like to just take a few minutes to make some Acknowledgments. I want to welcome my friend, Senator Chuck Grassley as the committee's ranking member. When I first came on the Senate Judiciary Committee 24 years ago, I was the ranking member on subcommittee with you, and we dealt with the issue of bankruptcy. Now Illinois and Iowa sit next to each other. And so did Urban Grassley. We have our differences. But Senator Grassley and I have worked together on important legislation over the years, most recently on criminal justice and sensing reform. I look forward to continuing that work in this Congress. I want to recognize the outgoing chair and ranking member Senator Lindsey Graham, who will join us remotely this morning, and Senator Dianne Feinstein. Senator Graham, as is true of Senator Grassley. Well, we don't always agree, has always been a welcome partner on many issues. Including one of the most challenging issues, immigration, Senator Feinstein. I want to come in for leading the committee Democrats with Grace and resolved over the past four years. I know she will continue to be an important voice on this committee on a host of issues, including in her new capacity as the chair of the Human Rights and Laws subcommittee, which I was proud to charity and past Congresses. I also want to welcome our new committee members who either be here in person. I see one in person and one probably remote senators Padilla And also on the Democratic side, Senator Cotton on the Republican side. I look forward to working with each of you. There's some historic first in the Judiciary Committee this year, Senator Padilla, our new senator from California, will be chairing the subcommittee on immigration, citizenship. Border safety. I'm honored that he's the first Latino senator to chair that subcommittee, and we look forward to his leadership. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey will chair the subcommittee on criminal justice and counter terrorism. He's the first Black senator to chair a judiciary subcommittee. And we could not imagine a better choice at the helm of this particular subcommittee to all of our other members who are returning to serve on the committee. Welcome back. I want to thank all the committee members for agreeing to hold this committee hearing and vote on Judge Garland's nomination. It is a great honor to serve on this committee. The Senate established the Judiciary Committee by resolution on December 10th 18 16, making it among the very first standing committees of the Senate. This committee has seen many consequential debates and approved many important nominations and landmark legislation in the committee's history. There has only been one prior Illinois senator to serve his chair Judge Garland Lyman. Trumbull, who led the committee from 18 61 to 18 72, and during his term of service was a Democrat, a Republican, a radical Republican and a Democrat. Again. He was the most bipartisan senator, you could imagine His tenure was also distinguished by passage. Of historic legislation, the 13th 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. The Freedman's bureau acts of 18 65 and 18 66 Civil Rights Act of 18 66. The last of these was introduced by Trumbull ultimately became the nation's first civil rights law. As chair, Trumbull saw a nation torn apart by original sin slavery and widespread violence and injustice that continued even after the 13th amendments. Passage is African Americans throughout the nation face race. System. Our nation is still dealing with the consequences of these injustices. People of color face systemic racism, and we're still working to rid this nation of the horrific legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. This committee could make a difference. We have the jurisdiction and the opportunity to do it through legislation, oversight and nominations, including this nomination of Merrick Garland to service our nation's next attorney general. There have been few moments in history where the role of attorney general and the occupant of That post It mattered more Judge Garland should you be confirmed, and I have every confidence you will be. You'll oversee a Justice Department at an existential moment. After four tumultuous years of intrigue, controversy and brute political force, the future of the department is clearly in the hands of the next attorney general Under attorney general Sessions and successor Bill Bar. The Justice Department literally became an arm of the White House committed to advancing the interest. The President Trump his family and his political allies. It came as little surprise then that the U. S Department of Justice became the Trump Department of Justice General Bar stated clearly that he believed the attorney general was the president's lawyer, not the nations. And what were the results too many in the department's senior roles cast aside the rules law trump appointees in the apartment sidelined career public servants from Lyon attorneys, two FBI agents Limited their roles disregarded their nonpartisan input override, overriding their professional judgment and falsely accusing them of being members of the
KQED Radio
"senator feinstein" Discussed on KQED Radio
"The morning fog, otherwise daytime highs upper fifties to the low sixties. This is the California report. Good morning. I'm Lily Jamali. The rate of hospitalization stemming from covert 19 statewide appears to be slowing down. Governor Gavin Newsom said it a briefing yesterday that since the week after Christmas hospital admissions for people with covert 19 have risen, but only by 6%. That's among the smallest. Increases we've seen over a two week period in some time. It's just a point of some optimism a little bit of life. But Newsome says it's too early to tell if California avoided the worst of a holiday, Serge Death rates related to Corona virus are still setting records and the rate of tests coming back positive remains high. The inland Empire, Los Angeles and the Central Valley continue to be major hot spots and update on stay at home orders is expected today. But the governor says those regions and the Bay Area are unlikely to see orders lifted any time soon. Well is Corona virus vaccines continue to arrive in the states. Some regions are starting to move from an emphasis on covert testing. Two campaigns focused on administering those vaccines. California reports Saul Gonzalez has more on how that shift is playing out in L. A So Lily. For months, coronavirus testing in Los Angeles has been synonymous with the enormous parking lot of Dodger Stadium. Since May of last year, More than a million L. A residents have been tested at the drive thru facility, sometimes waiting an hours long lines. But covert testing and Dodger Stadium ended yesterday as L A transitions to more of an emphasis on the distribution of Corona virus vaccines. A vaccination center will soon be set up the stadium where it's hope, 12,000 people a day will be able to get a shot when the facilities fully operational. L. A County health authorities acknowledge that the shift from testing to vaccination Will mean a reduction and testing capacity for the region. But it's supposed to triple the number of people getting vaccinated daily. As of last week, only about a third of the vaccine shipped to California have actually been administered Lily on the central coast. The California men's Colony, a state prison in San Luis Obispo, is currently suffering from one of the largest covert 19 outbreaks in the California prison system to date. Take you ladies. Alex Hall has more state data show over 1120 people incarcerated at the California men's colony have tested positive for covert 19 in the past two weeks. That's about a third of the prison's population. A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the agency is responding to the surgeon cases by increasing the frequency of testing. Conducting contact tracing and using isolation and quarantine measures to slow the spread. The prison is also testing staff at the facility twice a week with a positivity rate of 7% for the California report. I'm Alex Hall in Fresno. We are now a week away from Inauguration Day when California's junior senator Kamila Harris, will make history. As the first woman to become vice president. Journalist Dan Marine has a biography out today called Carmela's Way. Marine is the president of the Sacramento Press Club, and he's followed Harris his career over the years earlier, I spoke with him about Harris is life and her path to power. We started by discussing her victory four years ago in her race for the U. S Senate. She won on November 2016 the same night, Donald Trump won, and she made clear from her acceptance speech that she was going back to Washington to fight Donald Trump. There were other Democrats around the country who suggested that there could be compromised that there would be a way to accommodate Donald Trump. That was not what Kamila Harris did from day one. So she arrived in Washington in 2017, and that's what she did, Um, we remember her cross examination of Donald Trump's first attorney general Jeff Sessions. Where he really stumbled. She be funneled him happened with Brett Kavanaugh. Now it was less even performance on bread cat, but you know, it's kind of a classic prosecutor's question. At the end, she asked him whether there was any law that governed men's bodies. And of course, there is no law that governs. How men deal with men's bodies. It was It was kind of an extraordinary episode and her ascent. You know she was. She was then almost certainly running for president. She had it yet announced her presidential campaign, But but we knew he says, yes. Yeah, we know it was apparent that she was gonna run for president. As somebody who covers the state. I cover energy policy and issues surrounding some of our utilities pretty closely and as California's junior senator, it occurred to me at times that she didn't make those state focused issues part of her identity, and she didn't really seem to make it a meaningful part of her agenda either. And I just wonder, you know was that part of the plan in a way to really focus on building more of a national profile instead. I think there's little doubt about that the issues that matter to the Central Valley water, for example, she ceded those sorts of issues to Senator Feinstein, the senior senator who spent a lot of time mired and Water politics in California, Kamila Harris is as a United States senator showed little interest in water is an issue and she put her name on a bill or two, but it wasn't the focus of what she was doing. She was really playing on a national stage that was journalist Dan Morain, author of Kama was Way. More of.
Newsradio 600 KOGO
"senator feinstein" Discussed on Newsradio 600 KOGO
"Washington I'm Marilyn Haider. Congress today overrode President Trump's veto of a defense bill, which the president called pathetic. The bill, among other things, gives the troops of 3% raise. Senate Republicans again blocked a vote on increasing stimulus checks to $2000 Senate Republican leaders have been critical of a house passed bill increasing direct economic recovery checks from $600 to $2000, blocking attempts by Democrats to immediately consider the stand alone bill for the cost of the cash act. We could do another round of assistance to help small businesses keep their employees on the payroll. And still still have almost $200 billion left over. Senate Republican Whip John Thune says the measure is not targeted the family's most in need. President Trump has urged the GOP led Senate to increase payments. That's Sharon Halpern reporting, San Diego County health and social reporting 58 more covert deaths and 4478 new cases. We have four cases of variant first found in the UK Variant is also reported in Colorado and Florida. The conservation groups Sea Shepherd says to fishermen were injured when they ran their small boat into a larger vessel being used by the group and efforts to protect the endangered the key to Corpus. The attack is the latest round and escalating spiral of protests by fishermen who used band Gill Nets and Mexico's Gulf of California. That is the only place that Akita is found. It is the world's most endangered marine mammal. The two fishermen were treated on shore fishermen on the other. Boat threw gasoline bombs and fishing weights at their vessel. The president vetoed a bill that would have gradually ended the use of large mesh drift Gill nets used exclusively in federal waters off the coast of California. The president says the bill would have increased reliance on imported seafood and worsened a multi billion dollar seafood trade deficit. Senator Feinstein, who co authored the bill, says the president's veto insures more whales too often sea turtles and other marine species, but species will be needlessly killed. Dozens of TV shows base in Southern California are butting put are being put on extended hiatus is due to a spike in covert infections in Los Angeles County, while Disney owned 20th Television and ABC signature have extended their production brakes on 16 shows. None is expected to return before January. 18th Warner Brothers says several serious productions won't resume filming next week is scheduled. The studio hopes to return the week of January. 11th and Universal TV has also pushed back production on six comedies and is looking at January 11th as return date for most of it shows. All.
KOGO's Evening News
Who would replace Kamala Harris as California Senator?
"We still have 12 weeks before the November election, Voters will decide between President Trump on my vice President Mike Pence against former Vice President Joe Biden and current Democratic vice presidential nominee California Senator Kamala Harris. But in Harris are victorious. Governor Newsome will have to appoint a new senator to serve the next two years here in California, and well, there's been early speculation on names like State Attorney General Javier Becerra and San Diego State Senator Toni Atkins. Another elected officials told the governor he's interested. Mayor of Imperial Beach Search, the DEA sent a note to the governor with a picture of him in a business suit with a surfboard and water, nothing his intention to seek the appointments If the Democrats win because Pamela Harris may become our next vice president, I notified Governor Newsome like everyone does not is via Twitter that I'd like to be on the collection left to be the next U. S. Senator put out Open seat. And I think it's important to have someone who's not from the insider circle in Sacramento on someone that's ready to help clean up California and fight for our planet and our ocean from day one. Well and yes, I think it was the announcement that color base attention picture of you in a business suit with your surfboard. Right. The water's edge. Kind of embodying what it means to be from Imperial Beach. Yeah, you know, and you're a bitch, maybe small. What? We're mighty, You know, I've seen the names of some of the more high profile candidates and you know the reality of California's in trouble countries in trouble, And so we need someone who's used to doing things without a lot of resource is gonna support. You could get things done quickly, and that's experience. I've had thereby be in that experience that we need for the next senator from California and as the native Senate, California someone who rested 500 California the lifeguard for the state and for the city of Baby, I'm ready for the job and just look forward to being considered by Governor Newsome. Well, obviously you've worked with the governor, and in fact, you've worked as high as going to the White House when it comes to the sewage issue along the border, with the issues coming out of Mexico to impact San Diego County Imperial Beach, the city of San Diego. Everywhere else here with its impact that profile of yours with that fight has gone to the highest level. Yeah, so you know, unfortunately, because sewage issue is continuing to happen. I ve had to reach out from everybody from the president of Mexico, too. You know, President Trump We've met Got Governor knew someone. The governor of Baja California. So yeah, felt the times were like more like an international diplomat rather than a mare. But that is good practice good experience for what it takes to be an effective senator. To give you credit. Since the minute she was in office, she has support our first queen of the border. She's put a lot of attention on period Beach. In fact, her California director came to Imperial Beach to visit her stop is in very involved in this issue, so she's been great on the tissue as well as Senator Feinstein, but it's time for a new direction and and that's what I'm putting My My name in the hat or handed the ring And you know there is a perception out there at some points where you know, San Diego geographically being where it is. So we feel that the state of times may forget about us or things like that. You know, putting San Diego right back up there and kind of raising our hand and saying, Hey, what about us? Yeah, you know, Right now we have two senators from Northern California from the Bay area, So obviously we need a lot more Southern California repetition and the fact that Southern California needs a lot of help. We've seen that during this covert Christ of some of the highest rates, obviously in the country in Southern California, especially here in South San Diego and along the border, So we're in trouble have the highest rate of unemployment in the state along the borderlands question. Imperial County so We're in trouble. We need to get someone to replace Senator Harris. She gets elected vice president who's fighting for California and every California and not just the ones who can write campaign checks, right? I think that's important to make sure that someone who works for every California In every corner of state and every family and put families and kids first for California
Mornings on the Mall with Brian Wilson
FBI, SEC looking at lawmakers' stock trades after coronavirus briefings: report
"The justice department is reviewing those stock trades made by some lawmakers after corona virus briefings Dianne Feinstein Burr and I think Kelly Loeffler also are being being investigated where are we with that what do we know well according to published reports that the FBI has started asking questions about senator Burr's trades which were made after a confidential briefing although not a classified briefing and certain members of the product about the virus itself and of course there was a senator Feinstein's husband he gauged in expensive trade she personally did not that that that's almost irrelevant in the story my guess is nothing will happen for many of this yeah even though Congress passed the law back in two thousand twelve making it specifically in legal for members of the Senate and house decreed on confidential material non public information it doesn't appear that these meetings are going to meet that standard it could be classified briefing need being that would indicate that aside the politics of this are pretty ugly it's pretty obvious that bird did in fact trade on not non public information and I think it was material I think Burke who is not running for re election widely in North Carolina who has been analysis of the president and has allowed mark wanted to run the Senate intelligence committee hi Burgess figure he's on his way out so why not make a few Bucks pretty disgusting behavior but I don't think the justice department will ever pull the trigger although if they were going to they certainly picked on the public interest yeah now and and can you spell that this sort of colors in the lines over what we've seen the last few years you mention with the Senate intelligence committee thank you know Republicans are in charge is there but we just haven't seen a lot of traction from that Intel committee to get at the root of the problems in our government and now you're looking at a guy who just betrayed his oath of office in order to enrich himself well I think the present really a classic example of the never Trumper with power in the Republican contact he's he's practically a democratic civil servant of the weighted resistance as function is trump took the presidency of Birkhead heated front from the beginning he has obstructed getting to the truth about the Russian hoax although there was getting in plain sight you never heard him say anything supporters about the president during that entire three year pokes Burke is not well white in the White House as you might imagine he he is well liked by his fellow senators interestingly enough but that's the nature of the club pretty pathetic guy and he will not be missed by those of us who care deeply about the country and then exit aria which was singing this tune on stock trading is pretty disgusting and it's shameful actually but I don't think anything criminally legal will come from it yeah sad Joe the justice department is now saying that anyone caught intentionally spreading the corona virus could face terrorism charges is this something that they can make stick are they probably could I think there's enough public anger at anybody taking advantage of this situation you see new cases where somebody spits on lotus road beds doubles in a in a a grocery store or supermarket ending you know that often produce has to be destroyed and then the person is arrested this could be considered a terrorist act under not only federal law but under most states now have anti terrorism statute because it's designed to do harm in a political situation etcetera etcetera if it yeah I doubt if there will be any of the cases brought because again talk about limited resources and what we have to do but if anyone knowingly we're spread the virus Bob well somebody worked in a hospital it took advantage of access the bios or anything like that I have no doubt that would be a prosecution individuals doing something like this you know we'll see how I've got the prosecutors are I would do it if I regret it but you know I'm not there
CNN's The Daily DC
Pelosi not yet ready to transmit Trump's impeachment to the Senate
"For the past several weeks. There's been one burning question dominating this saga. When Will Nancy Pelosi? The speaker of the house transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate and therefore launched the trial process in the Senate. While this morning Speaker Pelosi finally addressed at that point. Take a listen now in terms of impeachment. You'll keep asking me the same question. I keep giving you the same answer. As I said right from the start art we need to see that the arena in which we are sending our managers is that too much to ask of course addressing that point in an answering that question or two different things. A Pelosi later added that she's not holding onto the articles indefinitely and that she would probably transmit them soon soon. I've got to fantastic guests to help me make sense of all of this political gamesmanship in a few minutes will be talking with CNN. National Security and legal analysts. Susan Hennessy but I I'm joined by my colleague. CNN Politics Congressional reporter. Alex Rogers Alex. Welcome to the PODCAST. Thanks so much for me so it seems to me. After days. Days Days of stasis on this story we did learn in the last twenty four hours several things one as I just said speaker. Pelosi said she's likely to transmit these soon she's not going to hold onto them forever. To President. Trump actually asserted yet again today. He's opened. Witnesses named some witnesses. He's interested in of course. Course which are total non starters For the Democrats in terms of Adam Schiff or Joe Biden or hunter Biden or the whistle blower but is has said and he's going to really leave this to the Senate. We learned that Mitch McConnell the majority leader in the Senate went to the White House and briefed the president on what the contours of this trial is going to look like. So it sounds like the president has more information about Mitch. McConnell's vision of how this trial is going to play out then speaker. Pelosi does which is why she's still hanging onto the articles as we're recording this at least and Finally we've learned that there seems to be a strategic divide going on between the president and and his advisors and or some of his advisers and certainly the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell in terms of whether or not he wants some very vociferous defenders from the House Republican Conference To join in defending his case in the Senate McConnell of course worried that Too partisan partisan of abroal may upset the apple cart with some of the moderate center. Republicans that they need to keep on board with the plan here so all of those. Those things have emerged in the last twenty four hours and yet Nancy Pelosi is still holding onto the articles of impeachment. What does that mean soon when you expect her to send these to the Senate or she said today today I'll send them over when I'm ready and we're still trying to figure out what leverage she has Senator Majority Leader Mitch? McConnell said yesterday that she has none he has the votes. It's a simple majority devote Democrats are hoping that there are four Republicans to join them. But now we've talked to Susan Collins. Lisa Murkowski Mitt Romney and all of them are on Mitch McConnell. Donald Seidel Miss. So we're wondering here. What Nancy Pelosi is looking for if there's any possible signal that she could get from The Republican leader. She says that she just wants to see the rules. Mitch McConnell says let's just go back to the nineteen ninety nine precedent under Clinton and. Just run with that now she. It seemed to me when she walked into a press conference. Today Should two main message point. She wanted to hit when it came to the issue of impeachment. One was. She's not buying this whole Mitch. McConnell nineteen ninety nine Clinton enroll. She thinks he's not portraying how those were set up namely the Clinton rules were devised in a bipartisan agreement. And I think there was one hundred hundred nothing vote supporting them. In the United States Senate That was hammered out with the blessing of the leaders. Trent Lott and Tom Daschle. Nothing like that is going on with McConnell when Schumer right now is Pelosi's point number one so she doesn't By his argument that this is playing by the Clinton rules. That was one thing she wanted to drive home but number two it seems she wanted to sort of list Her reasons that she thinks she's been victorious in this decision to hold onto the articles articles namely that it has put the issue of documentation and witnesses front and center in a way that if the articles had immediately gone over in December. Maybe they weren't. What do you make of that? I mean her point is that there's a number of witnesses who have not been Who have refused to testify and the Clinton Peterman process? All of those witnesses had already talked before that that evidence was already out there But the thing is that she right now is losing not only those moderate Republicans Republicans at your needs but also Democrats. There's a number of them who've said in the past couple of days that let's just let's just get this started senator. Dianne Feinstein said if we're going to do it she she she should send them over. I don't see what good delay does. She's later walk that back. Other Congressmen have also Adam Smith at today on CNN. Basically said let's transmit these articles goals that's during the Senate trial and then he later said I misspoke wait. I missed how Senator Feinstein walked back to her comments. What did she say? Because it's all those comments my eyes widen so I I missed the walk back. She said today that those comments are now being taken out of context okay. I don't know if that's a real walk back. They're not out of context are they. I don't know vow. The the thing though is what does holding the articles now do for the Democrats. Are they really going to be able to change the rules. Or they can get these witnesses upfront. No Mitch McConnell has the votes. And he's ready to go he's made that crystal clear what What do you make of this concern concern that? McConnell has apparently expressed that Having some very vocal House Republican conference members who were Lord Diehard trump supporters at all costs be part of his defense may upset the apple cart of sort of the Republican unanimity. That you just described that he's been able cobbled together. How is how big of a concern do you sense? Is this for McConnell. So we have some reporting from Sarah Westwood Phil Mattingly came out today. There's there's this struggle between some of president trump's allies who think that a legalistic argument by Patsy. Baloney the White House counsel so is Not going to be good enough. You need to win this. It's it's not only trial but it's somewhat theater have your most for syphilis. Allies Congressman Jim Jordan Congressman Mark Meadows. Some of these people who can articulate the president's argument in different style. Then you also have Senator Mitch McConnell's view. It appears where those those people are going to turn off exactly the Republicans that you need. You Need Susan Collins. Lisa Murkowski the people people in the middle so the president right now is receiving this conflicting advice. And we don't know yet. I don't think the decision has been made on who is going to defend the president and the trial yet. Yeah no we have not heard that decision we know that Pets Bologna and his team. The White House counsel on his team Have put together a plan and that there seems to be one but we don't yet know exactly who will be doing the defending of the president. And I think that the president who we know consume so much Fox News and sort of has this echo chamber constantly feedback loop in in. His mind doesn't always necessarily think the way McConnell does about Are we just doing a full on brawl with the Democrats here or is there work to be done with your own party here and McConnell's clearly trying to make the case Mr President don't lose sight. Yes you're going to be acquitted but you've got to still keep your party on board. I think right now if you just run the nineteen ninety nine Clinton trial rules you will see each side making their argument and then a couple of days of questions from the senators and then you vote whether to dismiss the whole thing right then there or then to also get into the witnesses that Democrats think will bolster their case my final question for you before we go to break you say that Democrats will boast of their case. What about the fact that Donald Trump is still out there saying he wants them? Witnesses I Mitch. McConnell sort of in a no witnesses camp. He doesn't necessarily want to see Joe Biden or Hunter Abidin or the whistle blower called. So there's a difference there too is they're not of course There are some Republicans who want to see honor Biden. They WANNA Have I think Senator Ron Johnson said this week the full gamut of witnesses. But you've also seen Senator Susan Collins who you know really the crucial senator here say a that it would be inappropriate inappropriate for president trump to say to China investigate on our Biden Susan Collins once witnesses But we we don't really think that means also hundred I think we've that means you know people with firsthand evidence other people who testified before the house. Yeah actual impertinent witnesses to this What these articles of impeachment are about and therefore pertinent to this trial? Alex let's take a pause and our conversation for the moment legal analysts Susan. Hennessy will join us right
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Justice Watchdog Testifies Before Congress About His Report on FBI’s Russia Probe
"As the house moves closer to impeaching president trump members of the Senate today questions the justice department inspector general about the origins of the F. B. I.'s Russia probe DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz is report found no evidence that the FBI's investigation of the trump campaign was politically motivated but he also told the Senate Judiciary Committee today that there were significant errors in the FBI's investigation although we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence of intentional misconduct we also did not receive satisfactory explanations for any of the errors or omissions we identified meanwhile the house Judiciary Committee is expected to convene at seven PM eastern standard time tonight to begin finalizing the articles of impeachment before a float of the full house likely next week Phil Ewing joins us now to discuss all of this he's election security editor for NPR infill Horowitz looked into the FBI's investigation of that twenty sixteen trump campaign and possible ties with Russia Republicans have highlighted that the FBI is serious performance failures as detailed by Horowitz what's been their line of questioning they want to drill down very closely on one specific part of the FBI investigation the surveillance that officials conducted on a one time junior foreign policy aide to truck came Carter page who was the subject of a number of renewals by the foreign intelligence surveillance court from twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen and what Horowitz discovered was as you mentioned there were many problems with air is affected a mission and practices by the FBI and the justice department in getting and then sustaining that surveillance the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham has stroll down very strongly on that as part of what's been a years long effort by him and the president in their supporters to tear down federal law enforcement the justice department the FBI in their view the problems with that case are emblematic of wider problems with the FBI and the justice department and that's been a leitmotif for some time yeah I want to ask you about Attorney General William Barr he's attacked this report several times in the past couple of days what impact hello do you believe his comments had on today's hearing well the ranking member senator Dianne Feinstein of California asked for what's the inspector general about those comments and he said that he didn't have any undue influence from the Attorney General before submitting this report but he also re stated that he believed there was an appropriate predication as he said for the F. B. I. in twenty sixteen to open the investigation into the Russian attack on the twenty sixteen election I mean there really wasn't attacked there really was skulduggery that took place which has been uncovered by investigators and has been the subject of so much focus since then if senator Gramm focused on the details here about the page story the Carter page story senator Feinstein and Democrats want to talk about the big picture that this really wasn't attack that it really was Russia and not another nation has and has become the subject of controversy more recently here in Washington and that the FBI and the justice department and other intelligence agencies were justified in responding to the information they were getting twenty sixteen and trying to figure out what was happening in that report about it to Congress and the American people as they have yeah you've mentioned the committee's ranking member senator Dianne Feinstein and Democrats have focused on the conclusion that ho it's found no evidence of political bias or improper motivation let's hear what she had to say I believe strongly that it's time to move on from the false claims a political bias and those who showed great interest in the question a politically motivated investigations against president trump should show the same concern about politically motivated dated investigations requested by the president or his Attorney General is this hearing today likely to bring any clarity to the ultimate poll well you know point of this report are we just talking past each other Republicans and Democrats the answer to your first question is no among other reasons because there are pages from the horror was report that are redacted and so there are still things about the story about Carter page for example that we do not know because they're continuing to be withheld by the government the other question which senator Feinstein alluded to in those comments you played is that there's another report about the investigation still pending from the justice department Connecticut U. S. attorney John Durham has been asked to do his own look at this he's already said in an unusual statement when Horowitz's report came out that he disagrees with some of the things that are in that report so we have a whole other chapter of litigating about this to look for to whenever Durin's work is complete okay my last question with you for the few seconds that I have with you the mark of the impeachment articles begin tonight what are you watching for well that's going to be a normal process but also very contentious all legislation whether it's naming post offices are impeaching the president has to go through the same practice so Democrats wanted to be by the book but we expect minority Republicans on the committee to make it as painful and drawn out as long as possible with procedural motions and other tech attempts to delay it that's Phil Ewing election security editor for NPR thank you Phil
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Source to Fox: Whistleblower did not have 'firsthand knowledge' of Trump-Ukraine phone call
"House so we have Nancy Pelosi in the last twenty four hours calling William Barr saying he's gone rogue we have Donald Trump talking about spies possible spies in the White House we have tried calling for Adam Schiff resignation. we now know that this whistle blower is a C. I. A. officer how did bar handle the complaint apparently pop but let me just give you step by step process here the administration initially blocked Congress from viewing the complaint citing presidential privilege and only released a redacted version of the report to lawmakers this week after the impeachment inquiry had begun the complaint also alleges that the White House sought to lock down details of the call by moving it onto a secure classified computer system that we spoke about briefly yesterday the complaint also details extensive interactions between Rudy guiliani the drunk trump's personal attorney and Ukrainian officials and I as I mentioned the whistle blower was a C. I. A. officer. I mean this is just in the last few hours actually all this information coming out this morning and now this morning and I told you this is going to happen Vladimir Putin has to be shaking in his boots the Kremlin is now saying that it is hoping dearly that the U. S. won't release details of the put the trump calls one. why what would be in those calls that would be so damaging I'm sure they were just talking about you know grab a beer right Latimer Putin. and Donald Trump so what is all this stuff meet. what does this mean as we take it out step by step and dissected today as we will. again what is it me. what better person to have on the air with us right now to kind of sort everything out boy there is a lot to sort out an attorney Michael Avenida Michael thank you so much for coming on our you. I'm great good morning good morning well I want to start off by saying this because you you put out a tweet this morning that I thought was fantastic because as you know a lot of people on the right are going after this whistleblower including Donald Trump saying well wasn't first hand knowledge what the hell does he know I want to read one your tweets and I want you to talk about because I think it's very powerful you said hypothetically a guy is sitting in a bar he overhears two other men describing the brutal rape murder they carried out two nights ago he has no first hand knowledge but he gets their license plate number and reports them to police doesn't mean he's not credible or the police don't investigate and you're and you're so right on that I want you elaborate on that for us. we are what we refer people understand is that this is the investigatory process right that's the stage of which were at we're not in the trial we're not in a formal impeachment Erin so the rules of evidence do not apply now the rules of evidence relating to here say or the rule of evidence related to here say it's a very complicated process and rule in fact a lot of judges don't even understand that related to the exceptions and when statements can be used and when they cannot be used but what's important is is worn out after that stage in this process people rely on hearsay police officers the FBI and others rely on hearsay all the time when they're investigating investigating crimes you know someone will will port today over heard somebody in a bar say something or in a restaurant or someone will have a friend who said that they overheard something that doesn't mean the police don't investigate that they don't look into it right so the fact that this witness this whistle blower supposedly had no first hand knowledge means absolutely nothing so what we now have a transcript of the call our actually not a transcript as I pointed out in the past now senator Feinstein is demanded the actual transcript because what was released was a summary we're now going to have other officials and witnesses first hand witnesses from the White House presumably they're going to be called to testify and there's going to be an investigation as to what really happened here whole idea that we're going to discount everything that that is that is in this whistleblower complaint because somehow it's hearsay is is ludicrous Sean Hannity last night on fox I saw that snippet we did this whole mock you know objection your honor hearsay sustained you know game over won't cuss words Sean we're not in a trial this is in a trial where in the beginning stages of an investigation. to determine whether the president of the United States abused his power and misuse the office and Michael let's not let's not even forget about this possible cover up I'm sure you've heard the administration initially blocked Congress from doing this complaint it is not out of the realm of possibility based on some of the evidence that's coming forward that William Barr might have sat on this for several weeks and done nothing other than try to figure out how to push this underneath the rug and Nancy Pelosi now saying he went rogue I mean what do you think about this. well very often the cover up is worse than the crime and I actually think that that's going to be the undoing of Donald Trump in this particular situation and in particular what I'm talking about is the moving of this transcript or summary from the one server to another server which appears to have been done to obstruct access to it to prevent access to it and to make sure that it never saw the
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