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July 7, 2022
If you lost your property. i mean, theres no price. you can go online or call now when 893 for four one five the same time frame 75% you, kyra, this is on the drop in your synchronizing anytime, anywhere. mike lindell just a drop of retired people. court document and that hell discover tim ryan may be the most disappointing democrat in the united states congress. he represents youngstown, . noning valley in ohio and for a little while he posed as someone who understood the trials of the people h...
July 7, 2022
Going to go aheadd and recruit people without even having guardsop because thats how badg the recruiting is getting. butet at the last second, an up backlash that has decided to scrap that program. but all the branchesre, theyve talked about it in congress, theyve talked about it in newspapers. ngress, in n all struggling. >> i mean, the air force hasnt t missed its recruiting goal since 1999 and theyve alreadyhi projected to do that this year. the army was only at 40% of its recruiting goal jus...
July 7, 2022
>> so you want to help there be one democrat out of the entire us congress who was even sort of interested in the issues that bedevil the american middle class, but turned out not to be tim ryan city vance is running against tim ryan for senate in the state of ohio. he joins us tonight. you know, i almost feel bad bringing you on to point out what a total fraud your opponent is . but i shouldnt i cant resist.t >> shouldnt he be required to campaign with joe biden? >> well, i wish im actuallyca i...
February 15, 2019
Government advocating and hoping another branch steps? >> and also, by the way, may not step in. >> right. >> it is not -- you know, we dont know how this will be resolved in the courts. and if you look at brett kavanaugh, for example, the core belief that he has expressed as a judge in the d.c. circuit before he was promoted to the supreme court was expansive executive power. and that was not a small reason why he was appointed to the supreme court. so the idea that the courts will step in and ...
February 15, 2019
Opposite of either. and i dont think that the courts are going to be fooled by that record. it is as clear cut a case of a president seeking to bypass a congress where he could not achieve his legislative goals as ive ever seen in public life. you know, im talking to you today from munich, the security conference here is brought together world leaders from around the world. you know, they think the national emergency is a president who is destablizing the united states and at the same time unrav...
February 15, 2019
Presidents interest in a national emergency. so i think thats exactly ha happene what happened. and you can tell in the body lang withitself of mitch mcconnell hes where he is because he thought it expedient to make sure that the government didnt shutdown. think thats what youre seeing. im hoping that there are folks working on the president now to try to get him to understand that take this as a temporary win, build on it, and there are reprogramming dollars that you could access throughout the...
February 15, 2019
Global warming and climate change, they see sea levels rising in florida where there are u.s. military bases. u.s. military personnel at risk because of climate change, whats to keep them from declaring a national emergency on the very same basis that the president is doing it today? >> well, those hypotheticals are usually based in strange facts that youd have to look at some time in the future. what i look right hie right now what is the emergency -- >> congressman, its very similar. in that c...
February 15, 2019
To help manage blood sugar, and start making everyday progress. glucerna. amazon is abandoning plans to build a new headquarters in new york city. this exposes a big divide among democrats. the new york governor andrew cuomo and bill de blasio supported the projects but some progressives like new member of congress alexandria ocasio-cortezcelebrated the decision to take the new jobs somewhere else. >> we should not give away our infrastructure, schools, teacher salaries, firefighter budgets to...
February 15, 2019
President truman tried to get congress to give him the authority to seize the mills and keep them going. and congress said, no. he did it anyway. and in one of the most famous supreme court opinions of all time, in 1952 the steel seizure case, the supreme court said president truman, you cant do that. that unless the president acts with specific authorization under the constitution, a president cannot act in this way. this is one of the profound issues of how america is governed. congress has th...
February 15, 2019
Conventionally think about it. so you have this total mismatch in the debate. you had the mayor and governor lecturing the skeptics about 25,000 jobs, 25,000 jobs. when the nature of the pushback had nothing to do with the job creation. it was about a different set of issues that are more central on the left. >> its a mistake to give alexandria ocasio-cortez too much credit. she was a supporting player rather than a central figure. however, when you look at this and look at her introduction into...