Page 4 - John Ossof News Today

Have john ossof and warnock hot on this provision. >> yeah. >> i dont mean to oversimplify this, but what will joe manchin accept? what will kyrsten sinema accept? the white house is focusing really intently on joe manchin because they believe it is easier to get a deal with manchin than anybody else. again, the house of representatives also a four-seat margin, not paying attention to that, that will come creeping up in the coming days. the infrastructure bill is also laying out there unpassed b...

Published January 13, 2021 at 9:50 AM EST Listen • 14:11 On this West Virginia Morning, there is precedent for a 50-50 deadlocked U.S. Senate to work together, but in this hyper-partisan, extremely divided climate, can that happen? We explore this in a conversation with a Marshall University political science professor. Also, we share the latest in state news. Lawmakers and advocacy groups, pushing to remove West Virginia’s attorney general, shared new details ...

Listen • 6:04 Then U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (left) chats with then Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in October. Their roles are now reversed. The U.S. Senate is now locked in a 50-50 tie with equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats. This new balance comes after the Georgia runoff election wins by John Ossof and Reverend Raphael Warnock. This is only the fourth time in the history of the United States this has happened. Reporter Eric Douglas spoke...

Federal authorities arresting members of the federal emergency management agency and former president of a major disaster relief contractor accusing them of bribery and fraud. the alleged crimes occurred during the recovery of hurricane maria. cbs reporter in puerto rico tweeting potus is accused the puerto rican government of being corrupt and they are in some ways and have been but todays corruption arrests involved three individuals, two of whom for the federal government, one who is an energ...

Been made into one. >> youre right, shep. sounds like republicans intend to make her the focus of this falls campaign. an rnc spokesman telling fox "theres no politician in america that is more disliked than nancy pelosi. any democrat should be panicking that she wants to be speaker again." sources at the national republican congressional committee said theyre working on ads like this one. >> theres no play in the playbook on the republican side that seemed to work here again. that was on thing ...

Decemb meanwhile, connor lamb has said he will not support pelosi and is calling for new leadership in both parties. republicans are still trying to tie him to pelosi with ads like this one, as they look to the playbook that they used against john ossof down in georgia. mr. chairman, thank you so much for being here tonight. very much appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> lets start with, you tweeted a week ago, go, nancy, go. but all of all the things that you can do to try to effect policy, marath...

Arkansas governor mike huckabee tweeting about pelosi. the president writing "i certainly hope the democrats dont force nancy p out, that would be very bad for the republican party." and huckabee going on there to say "many dems called for ouster pelosi as house leader. this would be tragic for republicans. stay nancy, stay." what would it mean for the republican party if nancy pelosi were to be replaced? >> i think howard is right, she has been an effective speaker for the democrats. she has ra...

Tedious, they need to have more buy-in from republicans and democrats if they want it passed. >> john, how does it benefit republicans to keep it so secret? >> first of all, i dont think they are. thursday well find out a lot about it. the cbo will score this thing. there will be a lot of debate about it. the only people that arent engaged in the process are the democrats for two good reasons. one is, theyre going to oppose it no matter what. theyve made it clear theyre going to oppose this pres...

Its a failure. we should all agree on that. thats why an. >> we should probably, first of all, thats not true. that doesnt mean we should get rid of health care for 23 million people. >> more choices. >> john is right. obamacare is failing. under its own weight. this was passed and sold to the american people if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor which isnt true. you can have greater choice and lower cost which isnt true. if many areas of the country, have you one choice for insuranc...

And were back now with my panel. symone, we were talking about john ossof made this about health care. people are wondering if he should have gone harder against president trump. what do you think is the strategy here? because we saw sean spicer before the break saying he doesnt think the president has seen the bill. >> look, i think we can argue what ossoff did or didnt do right all day. but we can put a bin in that. folks need to fight like hell to keep trumpcare from becoming law. it doesnt s...