Congressman Weldon News Today

im looking forward to everybodys going to see you played out. yeah. we are going to test you on live television, see if you can throw a football. >> all right. oh, my god. totally better than you, mr. krav. agha. no problem. and i have a softball. well see if you can throw that all right, hannity, ill see you tomorrow night at our children here tomorrow. have a great show. all right. im laura ingraham. this is the ingram wrangle back in new york city tonight. divide and turn out. >> th...

a small audience at the january six hearing on capitol hill with what ended up being a 12 minute snooze fest that was very heavy on rhetoric. >> the president of the united states trying to stop the transfer of power, a precedent that had stood for 220 years even as our democracy had faced its most difficult test. >> oh , i get it. so now bennie thompson cares about the transfer of power and making sure it works okay. remember, hes the same benneton who voted against certifying george ...

Their old homeland, that works, too. >> yes, and theres an understanding that instruments of national power and the ccp understands this. its not just about the military. >> information is a key aspect of an instrument of national power. that seems like the chinese government understands at times better than even our own government. so you have people who have been investigated who are active with newspapers. and if youre reading the newspapers, youre a member of the asian-american community . t...

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A waste of taxpayer resources that congressman weldon, i think about whats happening at the border. the cartels are running all those people through . we have horrific crime all through urban america, chicago, oakland, st. louis, baltimore, et cetera, et cetera. how much is this costing this kafkaesque show trial on capitol hill? its costing all that focus the attention it should be on everything that you just discussed and you have people who are struggling to make ends meet. they are seeing in...

You are in "the situation room." 30 hours from now the u.s. government will grind to a halt unless congress comes up with a compromise to keep the money flowing. one hour from now, the house and senate leaders will be back at the white house to try to break the deadlock with president obama. as the clock ticks the anger growing across the country. and with libyas rebels on the run, losing ground to the regimes forces, can moammar gadhafi still be persuaded to leave? i will ask former u.s. congre...

Now. they are safe and being transported back to the capital or will be transported back to the capital. they will ultimately be release. >> thats good news for them. you will stay in touch with us on that. thank you. thanks very much for that information. former congressman curt weldon is also in tripoli right now. he is hoping to get a meeting with the libyan leader moammar gadhafi. hasnt happened yet. weldon, first went to libya with a congressional delegation back in 2004. says he will tel...

Tripoli just a few minutes ago. he told me the prime minister took a telephone call in the middle of their meeting and the prime minister told former congressman weldon that hair had been an air strike in which there were 50 civilian casualties. the congressman couldnt var foo that. the prime minister offered him no evidence of that. this is in line with what we have heard from government officials here before of saying there have been a huge number of civilian casualties, without offering any e...

Will. the sort of situation for former congressman weldon, he doesnt know when this meeting is going to come through or if it is going to come through with moammar gadhafi but what he has told me is that the stakes right now are incredibly high. he still intends to deliver this message, that moammar gadhafi must step aside. he is not sure. he believes that the regime is in confusion. they dont know which way to step. if the leader here, gadhafi, goes for that, then that will open the door to man...

Eyewitnesses in the hospital, it certainly sounded like an air strike and there are no other planes in the skies of lib ya other than nato planes. >> ben wedeman in benghazi for us. thank you, we will check back. the u.s. says moammar gadhafi is no longer the legitimate leader of libya so why not recognize the rebels? why one u.s. official says it raises serious concerns. and a former u.s. congressman in libya armed with a message for the libyan dictator. will he get to meet with him face to...