Alluding to this legal battle that mattis has in Congress Needs a special waiver to be considered for this job. The fact that mattis has retired from the military for three years and there is a statute on the books that requires officers in uniform to be out of uniform for seven years. Trump sending a little bit of a warning sign, a threat to congress, you better get this passed through. Meantime, donald trump will take to the road tomorrow to des moines, iowa. And he holds another one of these thank you rallies friday in michigan. Sunlen serfaty, thank you. Republicans are using a shortterm spending bill to speed up the mattis nomination. Theyre adding language to the stop gap funding make that opposes time limits on the debate over whether to grant that special waiver mattis needs to become defense secretary. They want him cleared to take over the pentagon when president elect trump is inaugurated. The federal government runs out of money friday. The house votes on the spending bill
Time. With us here in washington we have politic senator sam stein. Great to see you. Editor of the Washington Post, and New York Times reporter. Good morning. Sam, just on the bump in, you and i have a different view of that. Your view is . For people expecting mitt romney to be this anti trump persona in washington, d. C. , you know, it was always a bit what happened last night sort of proved that which is a man who two years ago said he would not have taken trumps endorsement if he had known about all the things that he said about the kkk, took President Trumps endorsement. I know he needed to do it to get to a place, but it was a defining principle of this modern mitt romney which was he was going to be a force against and a force against donald trump. And first step out of gate was to take trumps endorsement. Two things. First of all, a couple of days ago before anybody was saying in the Republican Party, now donald trump was saying it it was courageous for mitt romney to say we c
Guilty on friday morning, there have been some strange utterances coming out of the white house about this investigation that threatens to engulf the trump presidency. Specifically, strange utterances coming from white house lawyers about this investigation. We should have probably seen it as the first sign that mike flynns guilty plea was really rattling the white house. When white house russia lawyer ty cobb gave his initial response to that guilty plea as if he was beaming into this news story from some other distant backwards planet where this was good news. Mike flynn plead guilty to lying to the fbi and simultaneously agreed to cooperate without limit with the special counsels investigation on all other matters and white house lawyer ty cobb greeted that news by praising quote the conclusion of this phase of the special counsels work as if mike flynn issue was done now. Its like if you went to see a movie and as soon as the opening credit started rolling, you stood up and tried t
Evening, i am Martha Maccallum and recording to reports if you can persuade me there is anybody, somebody better who can win im happy not to do it. I dont see the candidate that can clearly do what has to be done to win. President obama calling essentially for the exact opposite, watch this. One of challenges that we have, we are in deficits of leadership and we need to do more. Martha he drew blood and deficits and democrat megan donor, tom scheier pulling fuller to the left, both of them gearing up now and iowa and from california, also has not moved out. He was the strongest Democrat Joe Biden right about his position in 2020 . Good to see you congressman, thank you for being here tonight. Of course, good evening talk to me about whether you believe joe biden is right here. I love joe biden and hes done a lot for the country, but we have the benefit of so many talented people considered running for president and i dont think we will go wrong if any become the nominee. It is not a ma