Speakers as well as an Awesome Group of participants in the room itself. Let me also welcome our viewers on cspan. Obviously they play an Important Role in Public Service and to better understand how washington does and does not work. But im going to be hyperbrief because youre going to get more than you want of me throughout the day, but im going to very quickly introduce my my partner in crime, or maybe better partner in countering crime, lenny hainesworth who is Vice President at Northrop Grumman. Northrops been a wonderful partner of gws, of our center in particular. Not only todays event, but multiple reports weve done together, and i think play a Critical Role in advancing our National Security and our national interests. So ill leave it at that. Lenny, please. Thank you. Thanks for the introduction. Good morning, everyone. On behalf of Northrop Grumman, we are just very pleased and honored to cohost todays event in partnership with gorge washington university. Frank and gwu in g
[cheers and applause] john kasich when you went to college in the 1970s you appreciated a peaceful protest every once and a while. Yeah. You do. First of all, when you are in the arena, and you are struggling and leave your family to go on the campaign trail and deliver a message to america because you believe that you are the best qualified person to be president of the United States and you put it on the line, i want this crowd here tonight to give a great response to a very great, talented and fine United States senator, marco rubio for the effort he has done. [applause] john kasich tonight we arrived in cleveland. We went to a restaurant. We thought we could sneak in and grab a quick meal. When we walked through the restaurant, people started to cheer. My reaction, please dont do that because youre going to make me cry. But to have people believe in you and to believe that you can bring people together and strengthen our country, i have to thank the people of the great state of ohi
Coup. I want to make something clear. The u. S. Does not arm members of the National Guard, make that decision lightly. That is in response to the severity of the threat in the coming days and on the inauguration. So what about the president . He made his first Public Comments on this yesterday. Did he take any responsibility . No. He denied any role in the violent attack. He claimed that his comments to that crowd were completely appropriate. Well, many in his own party strongly disagree. Several members of Congress Planning to break ranks joined democrats in their vote to impeach, including the number three republican there, representative liz cheney, the number three republican in the house. The number one republican in the senate, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell perhaps the most powerful republican on the hill, he is signaling that he may turn on President Trump, too. Indicating that impeaching trump will make it easier to get rid of trumps influence within the gop. He has n
1974 by republican whos came to him and said this is done. Your time on the stage is over. That is essentially the equivalent position to where donald trump is now exempt hes already been peexd once before. So even to get close to something in history, you have to morph it into something way more serious than anything like what were seeing now. Yep. Anyway, thank you. Much appreciated. And thanks to you at hole for joining thus hour. Things are moving very fast now. Im not sure that even yesterday at this time when i was talking to you here on this bat channel at this bat time. I dont think even yesterday i could have imagined that i would be telling you tonight what i am about to tell you. But here are the facts. Heres where we are. Document the house of representatives is voting on a resolution to urge mike pence to act in accordance with the 25th amendment to the constitution to urge a majority of trump cabinet to vote with him to remove President Trump from office. Now, this 25th a
Withdrawn. Amendment 5745 is agreed to. And the bill as amended is considered read a third time. The question occurs on passage of the bill as amended. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the pr the presiding officer on this vote the yeas are 272, 72, the nays 25, the 60vote having been achieved, the bill is passed. Mr. Schumer thank you, madam president and congratulations to the third circuit, theyre gaining an outstanding jurist as of now. Can we have order, please . Oh, that was the c. R. We did the other thing earlier. It is a great bipartisan bill that is going to help a whole lot of people and were keeping the government open with ample time. Please erase the last remarks and put this in that place. I ask that the senate proceed to s. Con. Res. 45, submitted earlier today and is at the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk s. Con. Res. 45, pricing for providing for a correction in the enrollment of h. R. 6633. The presiding officer the senate