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Tongs representatives witness the final capitulation. General of the army, Douglas Macarthur, Supreme Commander for the occupation of japan warns the authority. Pacific fleet commander and Admiral Halsey welcome him and his chief of staff of board. Escorts thetz general to the nimitz miranda deck for a 20 minute ceremony. It is sunday, september 2, 1945. Right now were on the o1 level of the battleship missouri. Ofnks to the events september 2, 1945, we call this the surrender deck. This is where the japanese sunday surrender ending world war ii. Behind me is where the table sat that day. The ship looked different. Big different than the canopy. This was rotated 30 degrees to starboard to make room for all the officials that would be on board. If you looked around and above is that day you wouldve seen thousands of ....
Reporting on the life and career of Robert Mueller. Washington journal is next. Host the flag halfstaff today in honor of john paul stevens. Democrats and the white house reached a budget deal allowing the government to borrow beyond current limits, green lighting additional spending in the coming years. As we take you through what that means for the fiscal house, we spend the first hour hearing about your personal fiscal house. Give us a call and tell us how much debt you carry and how concerned you are about it. Phone numbers different this morning. If you carry no debt, 202 748 8000. If you carry below 50,000 in debt, 202 7488001. Andou carry between 50,000 100,000 in debt, 202 7488002 , and if you are over 100,000 in debt, 202 7488003. Catch up with us on social media, on twitter cspanwj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspa n. Good Tuesday Morning to you. Start calling ....
Eastern. Washington journal continues. Host and now, a roundtable discussion on the Robert Mueller hearings taking center stage on capitol hill tomorrow. Joining us for this discussion this morning is Morgan Chalfant on national our National Security for the held news paper, Andrew Desiderio from politico. This gets underway at 8 30 a. M. Tomorrow and the House Judiciary Committee explain what they will be covering. Guest they will focus on volume two of the report, exclusively on the idea the president was seeking to obstruct the mother investigation. A lot of democrats, even the chairman of the committee, jerry nadler, said the evidence is clear the president at least sought to obstruct the i ....
Congratulations. I am honored to be here for the swearingin of our new secretary of defense, mark t. Esper. I especially wanted think Justice Samuel alito. Highly respected and a great man thejoining us to administer oath of office. Thank you very much. Thank you. Welcomelso delighted to several of secretary espers family members and friends to the white house, including his mother. He proud of him . You Better Believe it. And his three children luke, john and capturing. Thank you and congratulations. Catherine thank you and congratulations. There is no one more qualified to lead the department of defense than mark esper. A west point graduate. Great student. Secretary esper served our 27 years, including in the gulf war. He advanced u. S. National security and government and private sector during. Most recently in the army were he played in equipping our armed forces. Thats ....
But the decision was made not to charge the president with a crime, in part because of the office of Legal Counsel opinion that we have been talking about you cannot indict a sitting president. The only way to hold that isting president accountable outside the criminal justice system. Those are the issues the committee will look into. The big issue on everyone mine will be impeachment and whether the House Judiciary Committee will move through that after the hearing. That remains to be seen. But that will be top of mind. Host take us through the format of the hearing. Guest 2 it will be a regular order hearing, but it will be three hours. The hearing was supposed to be last weekend and be shorter than that, two hours. The committee was able to negotiate with special Counsel Robert Mueller for more times ....