Hc 5 News Today

Department. Lets toss things over to jake tapper and the lead. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We start with breaking news. Two american hostages have been released by hamas. And any moment we expect to hear from the Secretary Of State Antony Blinken after a spokesperson for the Israeli Prime Ministers Office confirmed that Judith Rannan and her 17yearold Daughter Natalie are now back from the gaza strip. Lets listen into Secretary Of State blinken. Held...

The jordan forces wanted him to do. They wanted him to vote present but he voted for mccarthy. That is essentially a no vote on jordan. The next vote that were going to be dipping in for will be Congressman Ken Buck, another nay on jordan. His issue also different, kasie hunt, again, not a moderate against jordan, ken buck a very conservative republican from colorado, his issue is elections and whether or not joe biden actually won the election fair and square. Big picture, jake, i just think we...

Need to cut spending anywhere. its also just a fact, this isnt an opinion, once these opinions go into place, they dont go away. they get more expensive over time. i hope you hang out with us. were waiting for president biden. chad pergram gets the ins and outs of what everybody is saying. hi, chad. >> its interesting to watch these members file in. this is a room in the basement of the capitol. its called hc 5, this is where the democratic caucus has its meetings. this is the biggest meeting si...

0 will -- 700,000 -- the president paused and held memorial, how does he intend to mark this next terrible mile stone and what >> the president said many times, he feels incredible responsibility for everything happening in the country, including our fight and battle with covid-19. thats why he is focused on this. his number 1 priority since the first day he came into office. i note that we saved according to outside experts tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives because of the action...

Times in this room on several occasions earlier this year, kept rank-and-file democrats impact. and mostly huddled at hc 5 in late july following the all the hearing with robert mueller. jared never wanted to forge -- pelosi rebuffed nadler in this very room. the two pronged approach may satisfy liberals but simultaneously infuriate them if nothing gets done and opens the doors republicans to portray all democrats is dabbling in impeachment. nancy pelosi will get a near full when democrats meet ...

The surge started under obama. we passed in the house and got it passed judiciary committee back in 2015 but they did he ever did anything. steve: what do you make of the tone on capitol hill yesterday. for instance it, looks like an intern used the f word. f you president trump. and then have you got members of the -- one or two members of the congressional hispanic caucus heckling the president of the united states. >> i saw like six of them. they knew exactly what they were doing. republicans...

Reagans friend chip after the tragedy in beirut in 19282/83. >> i was there that day. i was in the embassy that day. >> wow. >> well, when the news that day hit washington, d.c., richard reid writes about it in his reagan book. tip oneill tunnel called all the democrats to hc-5 and they all sat there and they were sure that this tough liberal speaker was going to be giving them talking points on how to attack the republican policy that obviously turned into this abject failure and cost the lives...

Wants, and we got a heads-up. im going to give you over to the hallway. i think were going to be seeing governor pence come down here. down the hallway here. and just to give you kind of a sense of where we are, were in the basement of the capitol building, the room designation is hc-5, kind of like classrooms in school, some of these rooms. this is where the gop conference meets. this is a very -- were down here a lot because they do this regularly. youre going to see him walk down the hallway ...

Isnt like a house that you say heres my offer, screw it, walk away. >> i dont think thats what they were saying. >> i think they were awfully reckless yesterday with this first offer. >> let me play devils advocate. although i do agree with what youre saying to an extent. look at the other side that theyre dealing with. the republicans theyre dealing with. many of the same people that theyve been dealing with for the past four years. so what would you do if you knew who you were up against? woul...

And they were constantly scheming trying to figure out, okay, how do you get around scarborough, around matt salmon, largent, you know, the usual suspects. hes just made it so much harder for boehner to go back to hc-5 and say, come on, guys, were going to have to meet halfway, hasnt he? am i missing something here? >> you might have thought that having known the storm clouds over grover norquist and hearing the uprising and all the fury over that that obama was going to have to give them some s...