Reporter for the wall street journal. Good morning to you as well. Lets start with the new large hearings which will happen on wednesday live on cspan. To will get each of you weigh in but we want to hear from jerry nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on fox news and was asked why hes putting Robert Mueller through a congressional hearing. [video clip] we want the American People to hear directly from special counter mueller what has investigation found. The president and attorney general and others have spent the last few months systematically lying to the American People about what the investigation found. They said it found no collusion, it found no structure and, it exonerated the president all three of those statements are absolute lies. It found a great deal of collusion and a great deal of obstruction of justice by the that itt and it found refused to exonerate the president. We think its important for the American People to hear the fact because this is a pres
So i said, a colleague and i conducted a survey of washington officials. Because everyone is always surveying americans to see what they think of washington, we said, lets survey washington to see what it thinks of america. So we surveyed officials and what i will call members of the policy community, that is the contractors, who often are interchangeable with officials, people who work in think tanks, everyone involved in developing rules and regulations. So i said, we want to see what they thought of americans. In fact, my original title for this book was what the government thinks of the people. But publishers never like my titles, they always say my titles are no good. All right. So at any rate, i sent out so we wanted to find out what officials thought of us ordinary americans. She said, well, thats kind of interesting, but she said, Everybody Knows that ordinary americans are a bunch of idiots. Why do you need to do a survey to find that out . Well, to me, that confirmed everythi
With . Prof. Ginsberg absolutely. This is a true story and those who live in washington have probably heard versions of the story. I was at a dinner party and sitting next to me was a pretty senior hhs executive, someone whom i have known for a long time, very nice person. And she said to me, well, what are you writing these days . So i said, a colleague and i conducted a survey of washington officials. Because everyone is always surveying americans to see what they think of washington, we said, lets survey washington to see what it thinks of america. So we surveyed officials and what i will call members of the policy community, that is the contractors, who often are interchangeable with officials, people who work in think tanks, everyone involved in developing rules and regulations. So i said, we want to see what they thought of americans. In fact, my original title for this book was what the government thinks of the people. But publishers never like my titles, they always say my titl
About 2 gallons working this afternoon on an executive nomination. Expected to vote on limiting debate on the next defense secretary. The chaplain of the house of representatives, father patrick conroy, will open the senate with prayer. The guest chaplain let us pray. Righteous god, deliver your people from evil. Set our lawmakers on safe paths, protecting them from dangers. Preserve them and their loved ones, keeping them from stumbling. Provide our senators with counsel, even in the night sessions, that they may prevail against the evil that seeks to destroy our nation and world. As they trust your loving kindness, may their hearts rejoice in your salvation. Lord, deal bountifully with them and the members of their staffs. We pray in your marvelous name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of americ, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and
Ahead, after a week of president ial tweets and statements, charges of racism and a renewed debate on who comes to this country, we want to focus on the issue of ilLegal Immigration. There are an estimated 40 million u. S. Citizens who emigrate here legally and are officially americans. Our question, does it make the u. S. Stronger or weaker . A reminder, were focusing on the issue of those who come to this country legally. If you say stronger, 202 7488000. If you say weaker, 202 7488001. You can join us on social media, including twitter, at cspan wj or facebook, journal cspan. Org facebook, facebook. Com cspan. A pew researchom poll. 91 of democrats see violence in the next war of words. Toxic wordsk of between President Trump and his foes, there is worry now of violence. Supporters from both sides could act on the politically charged rhetoric with violence. Democrats were more worried than republicans. They want politicians to cool it while majorities in both parties say that offici