Ed the presiding officer does any senator wish to vote or change his or her vote . If not, the yeas are 81, the nays are 15. And the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to a sroes on the rayes nomination. Who yields time . Without objection all time is yielded back. The question occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer the yeas are 77,s the nays are 19, and the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the soto nomination. The senator from vermont. Mr. Leahy i ask unanimous consent to yield back the time, all time. The presiding officer without objection, all time is yielded back. And the question occurs on the soto nomination. There is there a sufficient second . There there appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer does any sena
And amazon makes a big move about the future of health care. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. The capitol our backdrop. Donald trump will Tell Congress and the American People tonight how he thinks were doing as a country and by extension how he is doing as its leader. In his first state of the union speech, count on the president to take a victory lap on the economy that has continued to grow. But he also comes to this end of pennsylvania avenue tonight saddled with remarkably low Approval Ratings and a country deeply polarized. At a luncheon, he acknowledged the divide, telling us he would consider it a great achievement if we could make our country united. Hallie jackson has more. Reporter tonight, the most traditional of speeches for a president whos anything but. White house officials tell nbc news President Trump has been working on the remarks since december, scrawling notes by hand on each draft. Hell pay special attention to economic progress in the last year, even a
Agency. I want them to go through the normal classification and declassification process. Kellyanne. Exit question. Oneword answer. Is the president going to release the memo today . Well, the president just one word probably not. Okay, thats two. Close enough. Republicans on the hill voted to release the secret memo which they say reveals shocking abuses at the fbi and doj and which democrats say is nothing but a partisan effort to delegitimize the very body that is investigating the president. The vote was along party lines. As was the following vote to stop democrats from releasing their own rebuttal memo. Folks, it does not get more blatantly partisan than that. This has been his mission, protect the white house, throw up distractions. Its about setting a narrative. Its about the Defense Strategy that says, when the facts are really bad against our client, who they view as the president , put the government on trial, and thats what theyre trying to do. Chairman, can i just ask you
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