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Tomorrow morning. >> it takes a village, apparently the read bills now. thank you very much. now joining me via phone is the host of the program laura ingraham. welcome to your program. thank you so much for calling in for us. >> laura: hey, tammy. im winding my way through the mountains of colorado. if i go in and out, sorry about that. >> sounds nice. >> laura: i just got off the phone with a white house source. he said that -- this is their point -- they were really in a no-win situation. the...

Morning. >> tammy: it takes a village to read bills. joining us is the host of this program, laura ingraham, laura, welcome to your program. thank you for calling in for us. >> laura: hey tammy im winding my way through the mountains of colorado. if i go in-and-out, sorry about that. i just got off if the phone with a white house source and he said that, and this is their point, they were really in a no win situation here. they had to sign this because if they didnt, you know, pain inflicted on ...

Viewpoints. >> dana: so when you have friends -- i dont have children so i dont have to worry about it directly. but do you hear theres rising anxiety about social media? >> for sure. i have three, twin 14-year-old sons and a 11-year-old daughter. yes, especially with the 14-year-old, its more and more something to talk about. we have a litmus test that you can pick someone and how would you feel if pastor simmons said this? its helpful. its not necessarily the solution. theres still nuance thin...

Officials say the president has been deeply engaged in the writing process and we should say we do expect the president to stick to the script tonight. that will be the easy part but hell have his work cut out for him in trying to make a bipartisan pitch to the public that is really more divided than ever. the speech itself according to white house officials will be touting his first year as president, the gop tax cut plan, with his hopes of arriving at deals on immigration and infrastructure so...

Be his voice as its described. theres certainly a lot of other voices involved in this process. h.r. mcmaster, gary cohn, the head of his economic team here at the white house, and the vice president as well, the guy leading the writing process, the senior adviser here at the white house. this will be an interesting room because well be watching the president. but for those, including the president who are looking back in that chamber a lot of people he has clashed with over the course of his fi...

Coffee mugs here in chesapeake. "the glass castle" is a very famous memoir that spends seven years on the bestsellers list. a story about an unconventional family moving around the country. the kid were told from the perspective of jeannette walls who wrote the memoir and is an incredibly powerful story that throws you into a moral conflict. at one point these parents seem like they are the best aaronson at one point they seem like the worst parents. that is the conflict in the jury that you go ...

He claimed credit for that famous, weird, still unexplained incident at the republican convention last year where the trump campaign intervened in the platform writing process on one issue and one issue only and they wanted the party statement about russia invading ukraine to be watered down to make it more pro-russia. so, again, "the washington post" is now reporting that a federal grand jury in the eastern district of virginia issued subpoenas related to manafort and those subpoenas specifical...

Even if they were going to vote against legislation they didnt like, they participated in the legislative writing process, at least in committee and now in the writing the obamacare. doesnt look like democrats to want participate in the rewriting or am i mistaken. do you want to participate? >> first of all, lets do it. lets find a way to reduce the -- >> senator lamar alexander almost exclusively uses the word repair, not replace. could you work with him if he said, i want to repair this thing,...

How much did you know you were going to say after you said, "i have cancer"? there is such an improvisational feel to the next couple of minutes. >> yeah. i mean in my writing process, its very much in the moment and live on stage. i go on stage with bullet points typically. that particular set i probably wrote out more than i normally do because i thought my life might be ending. it might be my last performance. so i wanted to give it a little more home work than i normally do. im a drop out. i...

Want answered. how do we do the trick? how much did you know you were going to say after you said, "i have cancer"? there is such an improvisational feel to the next couple of minutes. >> yeah. i mean in my writing process, its very much in the moment and live on stage. i go on stage with bullet points typically. that particular set i probably wrote out more than i normally do because i thought my life might be ending. it might be my last performance. so i wanted to give it a little more home wo...