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Infrastructure forum in las vegas. Caucusing started yesterday and runs through tuesday. They hold the formal caucus es on february 22. Good afternoon. Its my honor to welcome you to move america forward, the first ever president ial forum on infrastructure. [applause] united for infrastructure is a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization. And it has been our honor for many years to convene and collaborate with leaders in labor, business, and government on this important issue. As we begin,...

Here to talk about the new documentary. Remind viewers when and why fresh water was contaminated. And 2014 the plant one the city of flint decided to have a new Water Pipeline coming from lake huron surrounding counties and cities. In the interim before the pipeline is fully constructe constructed, state officials in charge of the finances at the time decided to switch the city onto the river and turn off the t treatment water to the plant that was barely operational over the last 50 years. So w...

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Michigans contom mated water supply. As always well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning on monday, september 16. Well begin this morning with calls from some democrats to Impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh after the New York Times over the weekend corroborated, they say, previous allegations of Sexual Misconduct and revealed new allegations. Those allegations raising questions about whether Ju...

What is your take on that . California is one of them. California is a google based company. We want to look at how it is doing its business practices. Its important to do it in a very thoughtful way. I know that the department of justice and the federal Commission Also talking about doing investigations and competitive practices of these companies, and its good to look at this and make sure the companies are behaving. Im not sure breaking companies up is a good idea. Big companies with a lot of...

Operational under 50 years. What happened, what needed to happen for that to be successful and what did not happen in the wake of making that switch to the flint river . Hi a lot of upgrades that needed to happen at the plant. Tens of millions of dollars. The plant had not been operational in this way in nearly half a century. A lot of upgrades to systems that needed to be done. There was staff that needed to be adequately trained. Before they actually made the switch, there was not enough. They...

The u. S. Senate is about to gavel in. Senators today will continue working on executive nominations including the u. S. Investor nominee to the united arab emirates. Now to live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Holy god, who loves all and forgets none, thank you for the guidance of your sacred word, a light for dark times. Were grateful you provide wisdo...

Director of cbs 2 frontlines deadly water. Heres about the new documentary. Remind viewers of when and why this letter became contaminated. 72014, the city of france decided to join a new line. A new Water Pipeline that would, well water from lake aaron to other surrounding counties and cities. In the interim before this pipeline was constructed, state officials who were in charge of the finances in the city at the time, decided to switch the city of lent onto the flint river and turn on the fla...

Unmanned drone called the horn and also are more vehicles and fighter jets as it almost seemed that. The United Arab Emirates has been supporting the warlords Khalifa Haftar since 2014 in fact it has an air base in the eastern city of el manage to support have to the military campaign. Head live in the libyan capital tripoli thank you very much indeed lets go to rob reynolds out and washington now this is a report thats emerged in the New York Times what are the state department saying. Well the...