Page 63 - Affirmative News Today

Move this forward without major changes. threes a magic number. you only have 52 republican senators. if three are not willing to move this forward, you have a serious problem. that makes the behind-the-scenes all the more important. the real quick is as republicans try and get this done as soon as this week in the wake of such a bad score, will anybody come on board no matter what changes are made. listen to what alaska senator lisa murkowski, another key, moderate, outstanding senator told my ...

The further this moves left, the father ur those move right. -- the further those move right. >> you hear them saying i need more time to go over the cbo score and the legislation. case in point, senator murkowski. take a listen. >> today i dont have enough information, i dont have enough data in terms of the impact to my state to be able to vote in the affirmative. so im trying to get the information. this is big stuff. so making sure that we get it right is something that i have said is an imp...

>> i dont have enough information. i dont have enough data in terms of the impact to my state to be able to vote in the affirmative. so im trying to get the information. this is big stuff. and so making sure that we get it right is something that i have said is an imperative. i dont think its asking too much to say give us the time to fairly and critically analyze these numbers. these numbers that were talking about, these are men and women. these are our families that are being impacted. lets p...

To a point to offer amendments, i would support that. >> reporter: at this point in time -- you said you studied the bill this weekend. i know youre going to study the cbo report. if you have to vote today, how would you vote? >> today i dont have enough information. i dont have enough data in terms of the impact to my state to be able to vote in the affirmative. so im trying to get the information i think that in fairness to alaskans, they deserve that information. this is big stuff. and so mak...

Affirmative. the cosbys defense, they asked for a motion for mistrial and that was granted. then the judge made this comment to all the jurors. probably one of the more courageous acts, the selfless acts i have ever seen in the justice system. i feel bad for you all. he also said im compelled at this stage to grant a motion for mistrial based off manifest necessity. so again, they have been deliberating for about 53 hours since they received this case on monday. they have been trying to come to ...

Sat down and wrote that letter? >> no, and -- he did not. he refused to answer those questions around that memo. so were left to our own deductions, but that didnt happen in the committee. a number of questions were asked. i asked one, others asked one about it, and he was very circumspect and very reluctant, which surprised me, to directly answer the question. >> did he -- >> i mean we can make a deduction, but he did not make an affirmative or a negative response one way or another. >> so he d...

Syria, achbld its enabling of iran and its destructive policy and stradie that is executing across the middle east. what it has done and continued to do in ukraine. he will confront that disruptive behavior. the president is looking for areas of cooperation. there are a lot of very significant security problem sets across the world. all of them would get easier, right, if russia were to come to the conclusion that it could best advance its interests through cooperating with the united states and...

Russian behavior and its enabling of iran and destructive policy theyre executing in the middle east, what its done and continued to do in the ukraine. he will confront that. but the president is looking for areas of cooperation. there are a lot of significant security problem sets across the world. all of them would get easier if russia were to come to the conclusion it could best advance its interests through cooperating with the united states and others to resolve those conflicts rather than ...

President trump in that letter -- in the process of firing jim comey, stating somewhat randomly to some peoples ears, he thanked jim comey for telling him on three separate occasions he was not the subject of an investigation. you had the republican chairman out of the box asking andrew mccam mccam mccabe as the acting fbi director, if hed heard that conversation. he said he cannot comment. then mike warner asked each of these individuals -- we had the directors of the nsa, the dni, the cia ther...

Mr. chairman. >> thank you all. were at the end of the day, and youve been great. i think the public is better educated, i least at hope about what russia d.seems to be bipartisan consensus that russia tried to interfere with our elections and differences in other places but in terms of housekeeping. you will provide to us, if you can, mr. clapper, i know youre a private citizen now, but if you can help us determine the pool of theme can request unmasking wed appreciate it at some later did. whe...