2018 Obviously News Today

its the harshest sentence handed down for involvement in the january 6th attack on the capitol. the leader of the oath keepers just told hell serve 18 years in prison, and the judge didnt mince words. there is one week to go until the nation potentially defaults on its debt, and still no deal. lawmakers are huddling in the capitol, trying to hammer out a last-minute agreement. no, thats not what is happening. most of them are headed home for a long holiday weekend. and not before add...

we have teams on the ground as we prepare for the eventual landfall. we are in florida, and carlos suarez is in tampa in gulfport, and carlos, as weve been discussing, tampa, that is where the real worry is because theyre worried about storm surge and a lot of the residential areas there are vulnerable. >> reporter: that is exactly right, jim and poppy. the concern is the forecasted five to ten foot storm surge with hurricane ian. we are in gulfport. that is about a half hour drive out...

>> breaking news out of georgia, democrat raphael warnock and democrat jon ossoff has won the senate runoff election. >> this is the new georgia. this is a state changing like the country is changing. >> this is a new georgia project. you have black genius in grassroots genius on display, and black joy. >> we vote! >> we win! >> welcome to the new georgia, welcome to the blue georgia. >> republicans taking another step to prevent what they believe is voter fraud at the polls. >> 48 sta...

It goes like this. the word cog be different but generally speaking if the election were hold today, would you vote for the democrat or republican candidate in your district. no names are mentioned. just republican or democrat. lets look at 2018. obviously we have had democrats big leads, plus nine and ten on all of this. democrats wound up winning 40 seats. so we know d-7 and up. 20 14 2014, two midterms ago, 45 to 43 and 49 to 43 and d plus two and d plus six. where we have a republican gain o...

2018. obviously in 2020 it was joe biden. so careful. weve got to pick the right candidate because the only thing that matters is beating donald trump. and if john is that candidate, even though i may not like his views or his personality, no, love you, john. im still going to vote for him because he can win. connor lam was the poster child for electability. he was conservative, but it was okay for donors, especially liberal donors around the country to give him money because he was going to bea...

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Trend. we have seen an uptick in 2017, 2018. obviously this year. whether that will continue certainly hope not. i wouldnt jump to conclusions to say were facing a big epidemic. we do have more mass shootings than days. its people shot. half of the time, no one is killed. 75% of the time, mostly one victim. im not going to say theyre important. they are. but theyre not mass killings. people get confused. in terms of mass killing, people killed, this year weve had 18. >> three in the last week. >...

Ended on a soft note for 2018. the wall street journal says in breaking news, as the economy expanded at an annualized 2.6 rate in the fourth quarter of 2018. obviously well below the 3% that donald trump and the trump administration was predicting and that they were suggesting tax cuts would provide to the united states for some time. lets bring in mika, right now our next guest. >> yes, member of the house foreign affairs committee, congresswoman from virginia and former state department spoke...

>> you dont know that though, sir. >> theres no claim in any indictment that they changed a single vote. >> did you know before friday what those indictments were going to be? we havent finished this investigation yet. i guess im trying to figure out -- there are a lot of views that you come along because of your ideology. what does this get you in your ideology to not -- to disbelieve our intelligence agencies in their conclusions and to not support the investigation of whether russia is actual...

Checks, even challenged some lawmakers saying they were too scared to take on the nra. as we witnessed just two wooengs ago there he was again with the nra effectively embracing them. at least to this point none of those broad proposals that he initially seemed to support have been put into effect. >> philip bump of the "washington post" tweeted that more american school children have died in their classrooms than servicemen or women died in combat in 2018. obviously donald trump has been our pr...