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Advocated by the obama administration. In a statement posted to her website yesterday, devos clarified, quote, i am not a supporter, period. Adding, have organizations that i have been a part of supported common core . Of course, but thats not my position. Sometimes its not just students who need to do their homework. Along with the selection of nikki haley for u. N. Ambassador, trump now has two women in cabinet level positions after selecting five men for the first five. Betsy devos is a major...

Actually work on. If they want to move something into the senate that only takes republicans to pass. There are a lot of road blocks in the way, not the least of which that theyve declared publicly, the president himself, that theyve moved on to tax reform, which really isnt that small of an issue to move on to as well. So work will continue. I think the scope of that work and what that actually means Going Forward is still to be determined, because kate, i can tell you, i spoke to the house way...

Coming from republicans, but i have yet to hears from some of the bigger voices. Were going to reach out to them and see if we can hear from them. Where does the Freedom Caucus stand on this and do they back with the leadership of the Republican Party put forward to the public just moments ago . More on that in a moment for you. A few more of the headlines her here. Resolve to repeal obamacare has never been stronger, paul ryan saying that he doesnt want to be about the opposition. He wants to b...

We begin this hour by the prim minister. This hour mr. Trump is scheduled to speak by phone with two more foreign leaders. The president s of indonesia and colombia after border wall and immigration travel ban. Kristin. Well, the last time that the leaders of japan and the United States played golf together was 60 years ago, president eisenhower played golf with the Prime Minister of japan back in 1957, at the time it was held as triumph of diplomacy between former world war ii enemies. Six year...

Up a phoney collusion with the russian story. Found zero proof. So now they go for obstruction of justice on the phoney story. Nice. Its possible well hear more from the white house during an off camera briefing from the Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders later this hour. We will of course monitor that. Our other top story right now, a change of tone up on capitol hill. In the wake of the shooting at a congressional baseball practice. The majority whip Steve Scalise is in ...

Me when we were just starting the show and we would go out on book tours, and everywhere we were across america, people would come up to us and they would say, i had your father at columbia and he taught me and he would stay after class for an hour explaining a point or however whatever we needed from him, and it could have been an accountant in des moines or it could have been an investment banker, you know, in, you know, san francisco, or a mom in seattle, it was incredible the people that he ...

Plus, Senate Shutdown . Democrats threaten to grind government to a halt unless republicans share their secret Health Care Bill. We have no idea whats being proposed. Theres a group of guys in the back room somewhere. Will there be a public hearing soon . And the best political minds will be here with insights on what happens next. Hello. Im jake tapper in washington with the state of our union is on retreat. President trump awoke this morning at camp david for the First Time Ever. Hes spending ...

It doesnt exactly make a whole lot of sense. Reporter no, boris, it doesnt. Mixed messages seems to be one of the themes, one of the themes to describe the way this white house operates. The Washington Post reported on wednesday that special counsel, Robert Mueller, is investigating the president for possible obstruction of justice. On thursday the president took to twitter to blast this idea that he is under investigation. He called the new focus on obstruction of justice foe phon which is the ...

Washington post story that ran with five unnamed sources, without identifying the agencies they represented, saying that the special counsel had broadened out his investigation to include the president. Weve had no indication of that. The president was responding to that particular statement from the Washington Post, again, with five anonymous sources. Again, without even identifying the agency. So no, the president is not under investigation, has not been. So the president said, i am under inve...

Ground there. Two hours later they came back with an aircraft and started bombing the u. S. Backed Coalition Forces and the u. S. Shot down the plane. It said that u. S. Is not looking to get into an escalation, the Coalition Said with, the Syrian Regime. But they pledge to protect those Syrian Democratic forces that are going against isis in the area. So again, were learning that the syrian jet had initially dropped bombs and fighters who were working against the assad regime. Where does the co...