Expect by wednesday. By the end of the week in the senates expecting the house to sentenced over the short term spending bill to fund the government until december 22nd current Government Spending expires this friday. Now live to the floor of the u. S. Senate. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Spirit of the living god, fall afresh on us this day. Radiate your hope and power through our lawmakers creating in their hearts an expectation of your best for them, our nation, and our world. May they face their challenges with total confidence in the triumph of your unfolding providence. Give our senators the wisdom to seek ways to Work Together to find Creative Solutions to the crucial issues of our time. As they seek to serve your purposes for their lives in this generation, may they remember the sacrifices of those who fought and died for the american dream. Lord, change and decay surro
It is officially official, as you said, donald trump after a day of leaks yesterday now tweeting out the news that he has picked indiana governor mike pence as his running mate and potential Vice President of the United States of america if trump should win. Heres the tweet just a little while ago donald trump put out. I am pleased to announce that i have chosen governor mike pence as my Vice President ial running mate. News Conference Tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. That News Conference was initially scheduled for today. The trump folks have postponed it in the wake of the terrorist attack in france. But meanwhile, maybe not such good news on the polling front for the trump candidacy. Look at these battleground polls now in key states. Clinton versus trump headtohead matchups in colorado, 43 clinton, 35 trump. In florida, 44 clinton, 37 trump. North carolina, 44 again for clinton, 38 for trump. And in virginia, a state that once was reliablely republican, thats 44 clinton, trump 35 there. So,
The deadly riot at the capitol when pence was inside the building. House democrats formally introducing the resolution for impeachment. The vote for impeachment set for wednesday. At this dangerous moment in the nation the acting secretary of Homeland Security resigning his post tonight. Lets bring in cnn White House Correspondent john horwit. John, trump has no remorse and the fbi is warning about attacks on every state capital plus d. C. The acting Homeland Security chad wolf in his third is his third cabinet secretary to resign. The nation is in crisis. Our leadership looks like it is in complete disarray. Am i wrong . No, it is in complete disarray. Hard to know what to make of chad wolfs departure and whether it matters. Wolf had been an undistinguished acting certificate, sort of a toady for trump although he called on trump to denounce the rioters the other day and now he leaves. Was he fired . Was he quitting in order to show that he disapproved of what trump had done . He cite
Washington. As horrible as it is. And he spoke about it for the same reason that we just carried it on our air, which is that talking about the economy is vitally important to him, as is vitally important to our network and i think the as far as the additional shooters go, that is still a little speculative. What we heard from kathy linnear, the washington, d. C. , police chief was potentially, so im not sure that is hard information, but in any case, the work of the government doesnt stop because terrible things because they happen all the time. This was intended, john, to be, what, a victory speech . The president did note all that has been done by his Administration Since the financial crisis, noting that in the past three and a half years you have a had the addition of 7. 5 million new jobs, the Unemployment Rate has been coming down. Is that what this was intended to be, a victory speech by the president . I dont think so, scott. When you look at the text and it unfolded the way y
By 20 in the next year. Oh, all that for the bargain price of 200 billion, which we wouldnt voice to spend if the president would loo everybody the darn thing alone. So that bargain policy change was announced by the president , today democratic senator patty murray and le mar alexander, announced a bipartisan plan theyve come up with to basically undo that policy change announced by the president. It used to be when something was announced as a bipartisan proposal in washington, that would make that thing more likely to pass. It would make it less controversial. These days, anything bipartisan is seen as an affront. Even when its a relatively specific sort of boring policy fix like that. So patty murray and Lamar Alexander had their proposal. Now we let the bipartisan food fight begin while the american businesses wait do see if that intentional damage and that intentional hike in costs is going to be inflicted on us all or not. Also tonight, we just learned the former white house Spo