Assembly aS President of the united states. Itll be my last. Ive seen a remarkable sweep of history. I was first elected office of the united states of america as a u. S. Senator in 1972. Now, i know i look like im only 40. I know that. President Joe Biden Yesterday with a lighthearted start to his final United Nations address. Well bring you much more of the president s major speech to World Leaders straight ahead. Meanwhile, the former president , continues to take a much different tone on several Foreign Policy issues including Russias Invasion of ukraine. Well also play for you those comments. And well bring you the latest out of The Middle East as israel and the lebanonbased militant group, hezbollah, appear to be moving closer to an allout war. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 25th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And we have a lot to get to this morning, and well begin with president Joe Bidens speech at the United
Association is a nonprofit, Nonpartisan Organization founded by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy, dedicated to the preservation of the white house. And also educating american citizens about the white house and its diverse history. This evening, our guest is jim conroy, the author of jeffersons white house monticello on the potomac. Jim was a lawyer in boston for 38 years before he began writing about american history. His previous book is lincolns white house the peopless house in wartime, which won the prestigious lincoln prize. If you would like to ask jim a question at the end of our broadcast, please type it in the comments section of the facebook feed and we will get to as many questions from our online audience as possible. Jim, welcome to white house history live. James thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. Colleen we are honored to have you. The first question is the setting for your book. There have been numerous books about Thomas Jefferson and about his presidency. You have
thank you so much for once again letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts rite now. thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber, and we are tracking several stories for you tonight, including potentially remarks from president biden. but we begin right now with a mystery. consider that nobody really publicly has said they know exactly what secret deals were cut to make kevin mccarthy speaker. mccarthy isn t making it public even though there s been dribs and drabs in reports. house republicans actually say they are in the dark about what s been reported as a shod doe document, that there s a secret three-page addendum that includes mccarthy s most controversial conseeings to those so-called rebels. now controversial is one of those words that could mean different things to different people in politics, but that s reporting a lot of people in d.c. or people around mccarthy think it s controversi
Motion to impeach the irs commissioner. What should congress be focusing on . Emocrats, 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488003. You can also reach us on social media, on twitter and on facebook. There is a lot on the plate of lawmakers who are in session only until the end of the month. They will be out for all of october. One issue pointed out in the Washington Post deals with a bill to allow 9 11 victims families to sue saudi arabia. The house will vote on the bill to allow the families of victims of the september 11 attacks to sue saudi arabia over its alleged support of terrorism. The measure, which is likely to pass just in time for the 15th anniversary of the attacks, will be sent to the president s desk. The white house has resisted it over fears it could harm the relationship with saudi arabia jeopardizingcedent american officials overseas. Congress only has a couple of weeks to deal with this and other measures. We are asking you what we think you thin
Okay. Lets get started welcome to our rules Committee Meeting for september 18, 2014, name supervisor norman yee and ill be chairing this meeting im joined by supervisor tang and shortly supervisor campos will be joining us the clerk is alicia and the committee would like to acknowledge the staff at the sfgovtv josh and jim smith when record each of our meetings and make the transcripts visible i available to the public online well be calling a special rules Committee Meeting at the 2 30 or shortly after 2 30 held simultaneously so when i do it is pretty much having two meetings cellular mainly because we wanted to have this item heard but we forgot to put it on the regular agenda we will also madam clerk please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices speakers card to be submitted to the clerk and the agenda will be on the september 30th board of supervisors agenda also otherwise stated item one. Item one is a motion confir