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Then the u. S. Punishes north korea for the sony cyber attack. Is it enough . Senator Robert Menendez on the new sanctions. And a new year a new gop congress. I had hoped to make hup a oneterm president and he hoped to defeat me last fall. Senator Mitch Mcconnell returns to washington as majority leader. He tells us what he has in mind for divided government. Plus two new members of the house join the senate responsible opreservinging the hard won republican majority. And a congressmans satirica...

What i want for everybody. Harris you are wearing a sweater vest. David blended wool, goodwill, never a sweater vest. Harris glad youre here. Meghan i certainly love the energy. David its a good day. Meghan its going to be a great show harris will begin with setting the tone in washington with a speech. President trump says he will offer an optimistic position and to speak to all americans as he lays out as agenda to all americans. His speech will provide more issues on obamacare and tax reform....

Leland but thousands are still in shelters as dozens of towns and much of houston remain underwater. In some places the water is still rising. The president now asking for billions of dollars more in federal aid. Were going to get an update on femas efforts and hear from some ordinary americans doing extraordinary things. Boy, if theres been anything to take away from this week, it is how americans, specifically texans, rise to the occasion. Its been incredible. Welcome to americas news headquar...

What actions should the Border Patrol take to keep young migrants safe . Im Frances Rivera at nbc headquarters in new york. Heres whats happening. We begin with new reaction from democrats on day eight of the partial Government Shutdown and the detail of how low the president was willing to go to end his own shutdown. Nbc news learned trump backed off on his original demand of 5 billion for the wall, revising that figure down to 2. 5 billion. Democrats rejected that figure a week ago and are doi...

Him to speak. The next real chance for a breakthrough may not come until the new congress convenes next thursday with democrats now in charge of the house. That brings me to cnn at the white house. Boris, judging by these tweets this morning, the president threatening to close the border and cutoff aid to Central American countries, he appears to be digging his heels in. Reporter thats right, jim. No small thread here from President Trump to shut down the border entirely. We should point out a s...

Candidates . And representative yaex y x alexandria ocasiocortez she is shocked about who is lining up outside congressional hearings. Ill talk to one person responsible for putting those folks there. Walk dithers, the Green New Deal the cofounder of wahlbergs is here. First, good news for president trump, amazon fought headed to new york city. The business behemoth cancelled its decision to open its Head Quarters in long island, queens, not government incentives were enough to offset a frosty r...

The Senate Committee and may 2 for the house in the. The democrats want the report released april 2nd. Mueller released it last week followed by barrs own four page to congress which included 74 word from mueller. In the meantime, we have witnessed the largest inoculation effort since the eradication of polio. Listen, i need your full attention. Im going into the weeds on this. The president has aggressively attempted to conflate both the findings of muellers report and the origin of the underly...

The former white house aide painting trump clueless about north koreas paranoia. It remains unacceptable for north korea to have deliverable nuclear weapons. So is socalled romance diplomacy the best way to get to that point . Im not going to comment on that. Okay. Then nice try. Okay. Back to that story a little bit later, but President Trump today very much aware it is a big week ahead in the house impeachment inquiry. On twitter a tome of president ial complaints, many of them wandering far f...

Hakeem jeffries were val demings, she was a sheriff in florida and jason crowe from colorado who an army ranger. If it turns out shes going in that direction youre talking about a Law Enforcement and jason crowe bringing the National Security bona fides to the whole ukraine scandal the president created. So well see her announcement and then following that there will be a debate on the floor over the resolution to refer the articles that will allow republicans one last shot in the house to compl...

The parallels between a drawn-out clash for speaker in 1923 and one in 2023 suggest that not much has changed in Congress over a century.