We want to go outside of washington today to get your thoughts on your congressional partys leadership. The numbers are on the screen. You can also go to social media. The phone lines are open. We will get to your thoughts in a moment, but first we want to show you what the majority leader in the senate, Mitch Mcconnell, had to say on the floor yesterday about their new majorities majoritys legislative priorities. [video clip] this november people did not ask for a government that tried to do everything and sales and they didnt ask for government that aims to do nothing and succeed. They asked simply for a government that works. They want a government of the 21st century. One that functions with efficiency and accountability, competence and purpose. They want to washington that is more interested in modernizing and reminding government then adding more layers to it, and they want more jobs, more opportunity for the middle class, and more flexibility in a complex age with complex demand
Many under the control of things ganga that kidnap people and extort people and now mexico is a very dangerous safe place. As president obama hosts mexican president pena nieto at the white house, we speak to a mexican journalist living in exile who just exposed how federal police in mexico were involved in the disappearance of 43 students in iguala, guerrero. We will speak to Anabel Hernandez. First, we go to boston where jury selection has begin in the trial of accused bostomarathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The new u. S. Congress convenes today with republicans in control of both houses for the first time in eight years. Republicans now have 246 seats in the house, their largest majority in nearly 70 years. The new congress is also more diverse than ever before, with a record 104 women, including utah representative mia love, the first black republican woman in congres
We will speak to mark potok of the southern poverty law center. Then to narcoland. Now in mexico, there many, many under the control of things ganga that kidnap people and extort people and now mexico is a very dangerous safe place. As president obama hosts mexican president pena nieto at the white house, we speak to a mexican journalist living in exile who just exposed how federal police in mexico were involved in the disappearance of 43 students in iguala, guerrero. We will speak to Anabel Hernandez. First, we go to boston where jury selection has begin in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The new u. S. Congress convenes today with republicans in control of both houses for the first time in eight years. Republicans now have 246 seats in the house, their largest majority in nearly 70 years. The new congress is also more diverse than ever befo
We will speak to mark potok of the southern poverty law center. Then to narcoland. Now in mexico, there many, many under the control of things ganga that kidnap people and extort people and now mexico is a very dangerous safe place. As president obama hosts mexican president pena nieto at the white house, we speak to a mexican journalist living in exile who just exposed how federal police in mexico were involved in the disappearance of 43 students in iguala, guerrero. We will speak to Anabel Hernandez. First, we go to boston where jury selection has begin in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The new u. S. Congress convenes today with republicans in control of both houses for the first time in eight years. Republicans now have 246 seats in the house, their largest majority in nearly 70 years. The new congress is also more diverse than ever befo
Sedition. Before votes to commit sedition, months of lies about the election. Now cory bush has introduced a resolution to expel the lawmakers who sought to invalidate the election results. Thats twothirds of the House Republican caucus of the she specifically mentions ted cruz, josh hawley and congressman mo brooks, who led objections to the electoral college. Brooks even more specifically and directly incited that protrump crowd on the morning of the terrorist attack, telling them this. Today is the day american patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. Now theres a growing call for these republican lawmakers to face at least some consequences for enabling and inciting this deadly delusion and attack, as democratic senator joe manchin and republican senator pat toomey told me yesterday. Whether they should resign or not, i dont know how they can live with themselves, knowing that people have died because of their words and actions. Theyre going to pay a big price for this. I