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The Pi Day bill went up for a vote today and passed 391-10. Now Congressman Jason Chaffetz explains (via Twitter, natch) why he dared vote against the hallowed number:

Cooperate with representative chaffetz who you quoted earlier as saying he has requested that the fbi turn over any memos, any recordings about the conversations between president trump and former fbi director comey. i think the question that we posed to sean spicer today and other people at the white house is what kind of recordings are there? have they seen these memos? and to what extent is there documentation of at least three conversations that we know already that they have had based on president trump's own letter when he fired fbi director comey week ago. brian: so far sean spicer hasn...

>> are we going to be talking about this for the next eight days? >> and probably for the next 48 years maybe. if hillary clinton is elected, this is sort of a preview, i think, of what we'll see in terms of investigations. representative chaffetz has already talked about that and the oversight they want to take in terms of investigating hillary clinton. so this is just an appetizer. >> it's sort of up to us what we talk about, isn't it? >> whatever interests the american public. stay with us. coming up, the fbi is using special technology to sift through thousands of e-mails linked to a top c...

Thanks for having me. >> kevin mccarthy dropping out of contention. who does that leave to fill the speakership? >> you've got people like representative chaffetz. you've got people like representative webster. i think that the other two people to watch are trey gowdy and jeb hensarling the latter being a rising tea party star from texas. he is also the chairman of the house financial services committee. but dara, i got to be honest, lots of pressure on representative paul ryan this morning, despite him being adamant that he doesn't want the job. but -- so watch obviously paul ryan, too. >> bu...

Population has quadrupled and many of the offenses the punishment doesn't fit the crime. gr the president's visit is unprecedented for a number of reasons. the strikes a change in tone. in 1980 we had 500,000 people behind bars. now we have 2.2 million. before, there was such a tough on crime attitude that it impacted policy and the war on drugs, which many would say would be a war on poverty and people of color, especially. so this week as president obama engages in what could be kind of called a parade a criminal justice parade from philadelphia, the commutations now to the prison he's sendi...