Im sorry kelly welcome to the program and thank you for joining us we begin here in berlin where german political leaders are reported to have reached a breakthrough in precolumbian talks chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives and the social democrats led by Martin Schultz negotiated throughout the night to find the Common Ground needed to enter formal Coalition Talks now merkel has been heading a caretaker government since the National Election more than one hundred days ago she and her conservatives have been in exploratory talks with the social democrats since sunday for more lets bring in our Political Correspondent rupert vietor volves who is standing by at the social democrats headquarters where the talks are taking place and rupert im looking at the scene there behind you it is quite different from the scene that we saw about an hour ago when we spoke with you last tell us a little bit more about whats been going on. You know since we talked about one hour ago there was this ne
Funding. Was that your experience too and if so is that something thats on going or petered out by now . Senator shut off funding i dont know. I mean, hes a more prolific fundraiser than i am, so he may have felt more of a difference than i did. Youd have to ask him. Im not aware of any conspiracy to shut us out of anything and im not aware of any one person or one group of people who has the ability to do that. Senator paul has this legislation that lets states implement their own medical marijuana laws and make these states no longer breaking law. Is that something you support on the Judiciary Committee . What is your stance on that . Senator is this the one that hes running with senator and had a long conversation with senator the other day. As i recall it would move marijuana from a schedule one to a schedule two; is that right . Right. It has some medical benefit and allows states that legalize it to regulate it. Senator one of the reasons for doing that that senator told me about
He talks about the 2016 president ial race, which began with the entry with ted cruz and rand paul. This is just under an hour. Dave cook i am dave cook from the monitor. Thanks for coming. Our guest is senator mike lee, and it is an opportunity for what the senators new book calls a compliant press corps that is all too willing to blame republicans for anything and everything. [laughter] i guest tells of a unique childhood where his dad served as solicitor general under president reagan. Starting at age 10, he began attending Supreme Court arguments. Fellow Mormon Harry Reid was a friend of the lee family, and as the story goes, once locked a preteen mike lee in a garage. Overcoming scars that might have caused, senator lee earned his bachelors degree at Brigham Young university. He clerked for several judges, twice for samuel alito once when he was an appellate judge, and later on the Supreme Court. Our guest was in private practice in 2010 when he stunned the political establishment
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Romneys vote could set up another firestorm. Lets spring in chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel live from capitol hill. We are also tracking the moves of a few moderate democrat senators, doug jones of alabama, joe manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of arizona. Manchin floated the idea of censure, something less than impeachment. Today jones said he will vote to convict. After careful consideration of the evidence developed in the hearings, the public disclosures, Legal Precedents in the trial, i believe the president deliberately and unconstitutionally obstructed congress by refusing to cooperate with the investigation in any way. Republicans say its time to wrap it up. Its time to bring this fiasco to a close. It is time to end the cycle of retribution in payback and bitterness. Its time to end the abuse of our institutions, and its time to let the verdict of the people stay. Republicans expected to get to acquittal in a matter of a couple hours. Dana tell me abou