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Good morning. I am John Friedman and im based in washington dc where the Government Affairs a global apartment shared partnership. Ge is one of the leading technology companies. We have 50000 customers and 130 cussed countries. I dont see him, but i had the honor on tuesday of attending the white house water summit. Peter, marianne, you were there as well and probably others. One of the interesting things i heard was from john, president obamas scientific advisor and he said while members are al...

Legislative branch, but people in the white house, people in the legislative branch, and people in the judicial, should take a page out of his book. This government sucks. I hate to say that. We have no moral compass and, you know, a lot of people in this country like to go and say that theyre conservative or theyre liberal and theyre only just tags. They dont pay any attention to what these people are doing. They do nothing but make excuses, they make a lot of roblems that, you know, that reall...

A senseless act of violence and destruction. You can feel the pain here. Its palpable. The water we see running toward the center reminds us of all this life who left under the power of those who believed that destruction is the only way to solve conflicts. That silent cry of those who suffered in their own illogical violence of hate and revenge. The logic that could only cause pain and suffering, destruction and tears. Water falling also symbolizes our tears. Tears shed for destruction of yeste...

You. Thanks for inviting me back. Host our two questioners, reporters david and susan. We hear from the congressman about your statement. You just released a statement calling for unity in the party. Rep. Flores yes. Host this party has been fractured. How does it become unified and then well turn to susan. Rep. Flores i think today was a significant emotional event for the republican conference in the house. I think any time you have one of those significant emotional events it gives you a chan...

Of year. Reporter the one survivor Philip Sanchez told authorities when tossed out of the vessel he swam towards bodega rock and waited for help. We got him warmed up and to the hospital. Reporter no one aboard had on a life vest. This is where you need to have a life jacket on and you need to understand what kind of weather youre getting into and be extremely careful. Reporter one was pronounced dead after pulled out of the water. It was too late. None of them survived. The grave concern coming...

8 00 this evening. For today, mitt and miss rain chances. Rain chances at 30 today. Todays high, 85. Rain chances back by thursday and friday. Ten minutes from now its amelia segal in kingstowne, virginia, but now its Melissa Mollet with traffic. Good morning, chuck. Nice to see you again this morning in the 6 00 hour. Taking a look at the map here, our first slowdowns of the morning. Were looking here at d. C. 295 past 50 southbound slow as we widen out here a little bit looking pretty good oth...

In all but the closest one to Eastern Kentucky was in atlanta. Requiring kentuckians to make a 14hour round trip drive simply to attend. So its pretty clear from the location of all these listening sessions the e. P. A. Did not want any real input. Thats why i convened a listening session in pikeville that resulted in the powerful testimony ive shared with my colleagues today. Since the obama e. P. A. Would not come to kentucky, i brought the voices of kentuckians to e. P. A. We held three panel...

Mr. Franken madam president . The presiding officer the senator from minnesota. Mr. Franken i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Franken madam president , i have eight unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. I ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding officer w...

Good afternoon. Borisjohnson has been defending the latest restrictions aimed at tackling the rising number of coronavirus infections. As some critics warned that not enough was being done to help business as furlogh comes to an end. The labour leader accused him of being out of touch. Sir keir starmer said the Prime Minister had lost control of testing and that, he said, was a major reason he is losing control of the virus. It followed the announcement of tighter restrictions in all four uk nat...

Holdout no more. Idea that the Merrick Garland decision was unfair and therefore it has to be made up by doing something which also wouldnt make a lot of sense which is saying to President Trump you cant get your nominee either. That just doesnt follow for me. The garland decision was consistent with history. The decision to proceed with a new nominee is also consistent with history and precedent and thats where i come out. Romneys announcement with cory gardner and Chuck Grassley saying they, t...