conference. one of the issues the president s team has been dealing with this week the determination by his own energy department and the scientists there that the covid pandemic likely began with a leak in a chinese laboratory. last night, fbi director chris wray told me in the most straightforward way of any public official so far that the bureau has reached the same conclusion. the biden administration are still not on board. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is with the president tonight in baltimore with the latest, good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. white house sources say they are not fully embracing any single agency s findings because there isn t consensus yet about origin. leaving questions unanswered about when or even if that will happen and what it will mean for china. with two federal agencies declaring its most likely covid originated in a wuhan lab, the white house is facing questions about why there haven t yet been consequences. the pres
In to start legislative work today. You can continue watching this and both of last weeks Senate Health Care Committee hearings on the individual Health Insurance market on our website cspan. Org. Live coverage of the u. S. House. Prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conro y. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god we give you thanks for giving us another day. As members of the peoples house return to washington, delayed by the storms that have blown through the southeast, we ask your blessing upon them. That they might be all the more focused in their work and as modeled by so Many Americans in their efforts these past days in helping their neighbors prepare to Work Together to address our nations most pressing needs. Continue to bless those who are recovering from hurricane destruction and those fighting still the storms of wildfire that plague our western states. Blanket those who fight to overcome these Natural Disasters with your spirit of strength and endurance and pres
Two women who escape the Las Vegas Massacre take the field as ball girls. But we begin with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is. Two republican senators condemn President Trump. I dont know why he debases our country in the way that he does. The people of this country didnt elect somebody to be weak, they elected somebody to be strong. And when he gets hit, hes going to hit back. There are a lot of barking dogs in washington, mr. President. You dont have to kick every one of them. To all three of you, knock it off. A late october heat wave sweeping southern california. I thought my face was going to burn off, it was so hot. Air scare at the San Francisco airport. An air canada flight failed to respond to orders to abort its landing. The faa and air canada are investigating. In honolulu, police can fine pedestrians for looking at Electronic Devices while they cross the str
Sond like a stand falling down and glass shattering. This hep pooing that shoppers heard was gunfire inside of the Roosevelt Field mall. I looked at my right and we saw 5 to 600 people running the scared. Nassau county police say the suspect seen here in handcuffs attempted to rob a highend jewelry store. The subject entity of the section of what we believe to be the store. Reporter police say security tried to stop the suspect there was struggle and his gun fired. During that robbery, the perpetrator fired one shot that shot injured a mall employee, shot in the shoulder area. The 67yearold mall employee who when that corridor outside of the store is in serious condition. The mall was filled with people shopping for christmas. It was about 1 00 in the afternoon. Some left their wallet and merchandise at the registers and took off running. I left everything there. All my clothes, i cashed out on. The cashier started running. Cover hiding in scores and closets. This man helped a mother a
Conservative. And if you look at the size of our budget deficit go back about six years budget deficit peaked out at 1. 4 trillion. And its been coming down since then. Its down by about 2 3. But we still have a big deficit by historical standards. And we need to continue to work on that. Three things, i think, we need to do. We need tax reform that lowers the rates, broadens the base and helps raise money for deficit reduction. We need entitlement reform that serves old people, poor people, frankly saves these programs for our kids. Find way to save money in the entitlement programs so theyll be around for our children and grandchildren. The last thing we need to do is look at everything we need to do and get a better result for less money. Everything we do. Including how to secure our border in a costeffective way. This is going to be a good hearing. Thanks very much. Thank you, senator. Youll enjoy our hearing next week talking about the 30year deficit and those projections and cert