2018 Shepard News Today

Carried. joe manchin won his primary last night and he did not catch a break getting blankenship as the candidate. it will be a hard race for him to win. >> republican presidents especially do poorly in the first midterm. when they screw up on the number one thing that voters put republicans in for. get the economy moving. people feel good about the economy. it doesnt make logical sense for voters across the country, certainly voters in the middle will say we need to get nancy pelosi in here to ...

Government, the u.s. is suspending military exercises during the olympics. thats something, a suspension of those exercises that north korea has been pushing for a long time as have china and russia. the u.s. and south korea have agreed to disband them for one time and not gotten anything out of it, shep. >> shepard: thanks, rich. lets turn to michael ohanlan from the brookings instituted. he specialized in the u.s. strategy and the military forces. good to see you. >> good to see you. happy 201...

On this story. we appreciate it big day on capitol hill as lawmakers talking tax reform and some new comments about using taxpayer funds for sexual harassment settlements. speaker of the house paul ryan joins us live to talk those topics and how a democratic victory in alabama could foreshadow a tough time for the g.o.p. in 2018. ♪ ♪

She was asked how she would handle this given that isis and its followers are being pushed out of iraq and syria? >> i dont you to specify what steps you would take it confirm in the first 30 days to address the threats from our terrorism diaspora? >> making sure we use joint task force like in the departments and we are leveraging all the different parts. to be very clear and prioritize what the threat is, making sure where addressing todays threat and not yesterdays. >> she has a strong cyber ...

2018. >> shepard: john, president trump is leaving for vacation today, 17 days. the white houseworkers will be replacing the buildings climate control system. theyll do painting and patch a few holes. not so easy to fix the leaks in the administration itself. insiders have been passing along secret information for months now. the attorney general, jeff sessions said time to do something about that. >> a criminal who would illegally use their access to our most sensitive information to endanger o...

>> ill repeat, neither of the two supreme court justices that president obama put forward were subject to the 60-vote threshold. although i agree with senator manchin that judge gorsuch will get enough democrats, its not been a requirement. >> theres a number of democratic senators that are up for re-election in states that donald trump won on november 8. they might want to vote for judge gorsuch or they might get voted out in 2018. >> shepard: the president attends the national prayer breakfast...

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