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january 6th is nothing more than russian collusion with another name and a new set of crazy, exaggerated, worse than september 11th, worse than the civil war, it s worse than the end of the world. that s his claim, which as you see, is focusing on what he views as criticism. it doesn t get into the questions he s going to face under the subpoena and potentially in court. what did he do, what did he know, why did he do it. i m joined by former u.s. attorney joyce vance and the washington post political reporter felicia somez. joyce, your view on the above and the president again exercising the privilege that is only the president to decide to free up this evidence? joe biden s white house cast ....
Short-term bill passed by the senate extending federal funding for highway and infrastructure projects for two years, $120 billion measure also provides a one-year extension on current stone loan rates. the justice department will not prosecute attorney general eric holder for contempt. the house voted thursday to hold holder in contempt of congress after he withheld information about the bungled gun tracking operation known as fast and furious. joining me now, reporter for the washington post, felicia somez and andyç kroul as well. good day to you. good morning. he finished one of the best weeks of his administration so far. when you look at what happened the last week, how does he pivot starting tomorrow? we have the sunday talk shows. what will he leverage and how is he going to do it? you re going to see the president s campaign aides go out there and make clearly the point, the issue over the ....
felicia, speaking of that point, july 11th, house republicans going to be holding a vote to repeal the health care law. and here s eric çcantor yestery on morning joe. there s no question that they ve the court s decision underscores now and delineates what s at stake in november. we re going to continue to try to fight and repeal this bill. game this out for me, cantor mentioning reconciliation as well in that statement. how can they get around the senate and if they can, later on a veto from the president? it s incredibly unlikely. back in january of 2011 when the house won the 112th congress came into session, one of the first acts was to pass this so-called repeal the job killing health care law act. they ve done that a half dozen times so far and this next vote they are holding on july 11th is their latest attempt to do that. the problem that house ....
Europe and asia. and those are really, you know, those are really the main forces behind the decline in cost of gasoline. certainly comes as a relief to those families who are scrapping to pull it together to travel, throw the kids in the car, and travel this summer. it is goobz d news on that fron. coral davenport, thanks again. president obama is getting political pressure here at home on the pace of the economic recovery and from republican leaders on his foreign policy decision making. this administration has a feckless foreign policy, which abandons american leadership. the only conclusion you can draw is that this president wants to kick the can down the road on all these issues until after the election. washington post political reporter felicia somez joins me again this morning. as we hear about that, hard to say, feckless foreign policy, and that was the speaker speaking earlier. but when we talk about russia or ....
Reporter felicia somez. felicia, i want to start with you. foreign affairs has become a larger part of the presidential campaign certainly in recent months. and we have heard mitt romney and other republican leaders take issue with the how of exiting afghanistan. how do you think this will all play out on the trail and as we ramp up to the debates this fall? what s interesting to note here is that there are many issues on which republicans can ding the president for having failed to live up to his promises. on the economy, for instance, the unemployment rate is certainly not where the white house would like to see it. but when it comes to afghanistan and iraq and foreign policy in general, these are areas where the president i think can rightfully make the case he has lived up to the expectations that he set out when he first took office. 30% of respondents in a recent poll have said that they do not believe that the war in afghanistan has been worth fighting. i think that is a point ....