The republican senate. We are living through one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership in our countries history. Did you hear that donald trump . You have created one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership. We are going to this last portion of the conversation because the senate is about to gamble back in after their weekly caucus meetings. Senators continue work on the 2021 Defense Authorization bill with votes scheduled later this afternoon for five Senate Coverage on cspan2 a senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Enzi madam president , i rise today to discuss our federal finances and the need to address our unsustainable fiscal debt and deficit. The federal budget has already been on an unsustainable path before covid19 reached our shores and before the pandemic and our governments response to it, which has accelerated what i believed is a coming day of reckoning. I recognize the unprecedented crisis presented by th
Bay bridge . Yes, it sure is piercing traffic stacking up at the toll plaza. Before 6 00, it is getting busy out of oakland and emeryville into San Francisco. We are not seeing the brake lights across the upper deck into the city. The other busy spot is into the allatoona out of tracy. It is still slow from 205 over toward the 580. The wind advisory still in effect for the Allatoona Pass area. Russia has just registered the worlds first covid19 vaccine. President Vladimir Putin says he believes it works quite efficiently and gives people immunity. He says he has given it to his own daughter but International Experts are questioning it safety. They say it has not gone through the largescale testing that is necessary to determine if it is really safe and effective. Russia plans medical workers, teachers, and other risk groups will be some of the first to be inoculated. Tracks in sad news, stock futures have jumped nearly 200 points in the green. Will bring you the numbers right after ope
Well going to watching the world winter and im a nice across the mesa Goodness Gracious so everyone was out there on Capitol Steps across the country in state after state saying we want our rights back we want to go outside we want to not have to really be you know at home all the time. And then washington like passes actual things that violate peoples rights they passed things that actually you know it was real there was a show negligence an extension of the old patriot act like that actually does violate u. S. Citizens rights regardless of what you know fancy lawyers want to say in congress or you know people justify that kind of thing and nary a peep or rally 8 the interesting thing about this is that it did hit certain news wave cycles but it didnt get a lot of attention so i think that a lot of americans arent necessarily aware that this is happening and what i did see on social media was a few libertarian groups kind of speak out against it but thus far it. It can a fail like a t
History to be afforded this honor. He was of course one of five people who died after the violent attack that looted and desecrated our Capitol Building on january 6th. Were also one week out from the former president s second Impeachment Trial, this time on the charge of inciting that insurrection at the capitol. We now know how house Impeachment Managers plan to make the case to convict the former president and what his own attorneys plan to offer as a defense. This morning those House Managers filed a sweeping, 80page pretrial brief that lays out in rather stark terms the events leading up to that riot that day, noting quote, trumps singular responsibility for that tragedy. After losing the 2020 election, President Trump refused to accept the will of the american people. He spent months asserting without evidence that he won in a landslide and that the election was stolen. President trump announced a save america rally on january 6th, promised it would be wild. Summoned a mob to was
Greetings and sell you. Welcome back everyone to another start of another weeks worth of hawk watching here on our t. V. You know there is so much out there to cover so today lets kick things off with a story about coverage a little too much coverage if you will im talking of course about the news that last week both republicans and democrats in the u. S. Senate joined together to pass the usa freedom reauthorization act of 2020. Not surprisingly the usa freedom reauthorization act as nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with codifying indorsing in the ultimate legalising once again the National Security and surveillance state that we all call this curry. Version of the United States of america you see after expiring back in march the freedom act reauthorization restores government powers that lets Law Enforcement collect tangible things tens of all things related to National Security investigations without a warrant requiring only approval from a secret court the pies a cou