there is an author by the name of bill walker. i do not know if you know bill walker, or not. >> he is a friend of mine. >> hero to an extensive book about the conflict between the 79th division and of course, bullard. i wondered what your thoughts were on that particular day. >> very briefly, is a book called the trail of little gibraltar. i highly recommend it. it is a reference digit has a reference at the very beginning to the battle of argonne . a general named robert bullard refused to make the movement that would have been necessary to cut off this route. it would have meant crossing divisional lined. he refused to do that. and, many men died because of it and the timetable for the meuse argonne was set way back. bullard, unfortunately, is, i hope there are no bullard family members here, not one of my favorite generals in the war. there was a tendency among some american military leaders toward glory seeking. bullard was a typical example of that. not all generals. my favorite american leader of the war was general hunter

we are supporting three for governor, including the reelection of the governor bill walker and alaska. the nation's only independent governor. these are folks who signed on to what we call a declaration of independence. a statement of principles about the importance of an approach to governance that is about putting country over party. using common sense and finding common ground to solve problems. investing come and values of equality under the law. economic and national opportunities for all. stewardship for the next generation. these are leaders -- leaders that are pioneering a new way forward at a time when both political parties are running to their extremes and a glut -- growing plurality of voters is affiliating. over 40% consider themselves to be independent. 1% of ours and elected officials are in our state of federal legislatures. that is what we aim to change. transformative impact on government today. particularly in legislatures that are narrowly divided. ise the u.s. senate which 51, 49 between republicans and democrats today. or in 31 state legislatures where five or fe

another important figure, alaska's current governor, governor bill walker, the list and independent and will be seeking his second term this fall. and lieutenant governor, a democrat, the two of them were elected to a first-term a little while ago and will be running again. this building is a good representation of alaska. first of all, very welcoming, very collegial atmosphere where legislators have an opportunity to meet routinely with members of the other body and the executive branch. it is a very modest representation. i think that fits with alaska values. i just think it is a good representation of that era, the 1930's, 1940's. anchorage is the largest city in alaska. while in anchorage, we visited potter marsh, thunderbird falls, and portage glacier. [birds chirping] [water running] >> the glacier. > see if you can get -- [wind whistling] teller, whoedward was the so-called father of the h-bomb, came up to alaska unannounced and unveiled his plan to create an instant harbor on the coast of alaska by burying and detonating multiple thermonuclear bombs. it would blow up a gigantic

the governor of alaska, he's an independent, bill walker, and the lunieutenant governor, issu a statement saying they oppose judge kavanaugh's nomination. they are not republicans. they are independents, but they are pointing to his health care -- or kavanaugh's health care record and labor record as a reason he should be voted down. and remember one of the key swing republican votes that still remain up in the air, lisa murkowski of alaska. >> that's all very interesting. and it also sort of -- this political layer can't be ignored. there's no one on capitol hill operating from a place of principle anymore. it's fair to assert that. let me read some reporting from axios. mike allen reports if brett kavanaugh's nomination sinks, democrats would turn the midterms into a referendum not just on president trump but also on women's rights abortion and the future of the supreme court. they always do that, to be fair, but this would give them a fresh example. >> that's right. and everybody in both parties is looking at this through a political lens. they can talk about the supreme court and just

. ♪ >> we are back, we will take a break to pay bills, justice walker, clerk for judge kavanaugh and, justice, thank you, democrats worrying that judge kavanaugh could protect the president, that's why some of them think he's being put on the bench and put up for this nomination because he questioned the nixon case, what do you think? do you think he would protect the president in case there's a legal issue in. >> judge kavanaugh called the watergate tapes case one of the great moments for the judiciary, his opinion on that has been mischaracterized by his opponents just like so many other mischaracterizations that they've made that simple fact is the truth is that judge kavanaugh is a mainstream judge's judge who goes where the law leads without passion or prejudice for any party or any policy preference and therein is the rub for his opponents. they can't bring him down, they can't engage the process because he is so qualified and so mainstream and instead they disrupt, they grand stand, the problem is they don't get them, the problem they just can't sell them. >> final you a minut

we are supporting three for governor, including the reelection of the governor bill walker and alaskathe nation's only independent governor. these are folks who signed on to what we call a declaration of independence. a statement of principles about the importance of an approach to governance that is about putting country over party. using common sense and finding common ground to solve problems. investing come and values of equality under the law. economic and national opportunities for all. stewardship for the next generation. these are leaders -- leaders that are pioneering a new way forward at a time when both political parties are running to their extremes and a glut -- growing plurality of voters is affiliating. over 40% consider themselves to be independent. 1% of ours and elected officials are in our state of federal legislatures. that is what we aim to change. transformative impact on government today. particularly in legislatures that are narrowly divided. ise the u.s. senate which 51, 49 between republicans and democrats today. or in 31 state legislatures where five or fewe

welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today: bill cosby spends hisears for sexual assault. jeremy corbyn will promise to tackle "greed is good" capitalism as his makes his leader's speech at the labour conference. more misery for manchester united. paul pogba watches from the stands as his side lose on penalties and are dumped out of the league cup by championship side derby. 0ff life support. a deal is reached to restart construction of a new hospital in liverpool, after the collapse of carillion left the future of the project in doubt. we will be live in gravesend as a beluga whale is spotted

started covering in 1986 with ronald reagan during his second term and i covered george herbert walker bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, and today, donald trump. i am sure will get to this but today is more of an adventure than ever. >> ron. i covered the white house for nbc news and then i changed sides and became a press secretary. >> i am richard benedetto. i covered the white house starting with ronald reagan and george h to be bush, bill clinton, and george w. bush. >> i am susan. my campaign was in 1980, my first campaign. i covered president carter's final campaign trip and i covered the white house national politics. >> i served president clinton for two years at the state department in 92, 94 and went to the white house in 95 and spent four years which is comparatively a long time for a press secretary to be there but i had an extra bonus my last year because of an intern. >> i remember those days well. as much as i try to forget them. i was privileged to interview many presence. mike, let me start with you. as we have noted, there is an often adversarial relationship bet

and i covered then reagan, george herbert walker bush, bill clinton and george w. bush and barack obama, and today donald trump. and i'm sure we will get to this, but today is more of an adventure than ever. >> ron. >> i'm ron nessen and i covered the white house for nbc news and then i changed sides and became president ford's press secretary. >> richard. >> i'm richard benedetto, i covered the white house starting with ronald reagan through george h.w. bush, bill clinton and george w. bush. >> susan. >> so i'm susan page, my first campaign was in 1980. i covered president carter's final campaign trip and then i covered the white house and national politics since then. >> well, i have served president clinton, as martha said, for two years at the state department, in '93 and '94, and then went to the white house in 1995 and spent four years, which is comparatively a long time for a press secretary to be there. but i had an extra bonus year, my last year, because of a certain intern at the white house. >> i remember those days well. as much as i may try to forget t

welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. our headlines today: bill cosby spends his first night behind bars after being jailed for up to ten years for sexual assault. jeremy corbyn will promise to tackle "greed is good" capitalism as his makes his leader's speech at the labour conference. more misery for manchester united. paul pogba watches from the stands as his side lose on penalties and are dumped out of the league cup by championship side derby. off life support. a deal is reached to restart construction of a new hospital in liverpool, after the collapse of carillion left the future of the project in doubt. we will be live in gravesend as a beluga whale is spotted for the first time in the river thames. good morning, from one of the largest spaces outside in london. we are in the hunt for some conkers this morning. a cold start in the south, very mild as we push further north, sunshine in the south. more in15 north, sunshine in the south. more in 15 minutes. it is wednesday 26 september. our top story: the american entertainer bill cosby has sta

walker faces multiple felonies including vehicular manslaughter. >>> east bay leaders are calling for jerry brown to veto a bill happening over the develop authority to bart. the bill would give ba to override residents concerns. lawmakers say the bill has the right goal but approaches to the situation the wrong way. >> this is a bill with the right goal which is more housing, particularly at our transit centers, but it has the wrong way to do it that will take us backwards. >> many leader says bart needs to focus on providing safe reliable and clean services and not taking control of housing. >>> the saga of the rescue in thailand has a new chapter , the legal challenge announced by one of the divers that is aimed at elon musk. >>> a gondola ride in downtown san francisco will show you its test run. >>> the sun breaking through the clouds, this is great to see see a live look outside at clear skies and the sunshine. we will talk about what you can expect and how warm it's going to get in the extended forecast, coming up. at at&t, we believe in access. the opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. co

walker said they were shut out of conversations and conservatives would like to see the policy priorities -- [indiscernible] >> would like to see their priorities reflected like the riders in the house bill. and unless this is done, many members will find it difficult to support it. are you concerned about getting conservative riders? the speaker: i think we have a great amount of victories for our members. we are funding the v.a. mission act is a perfect example. done the way the house wanted to get it done. so when you are negotiating with two parties in four corners, you are not going to get everything you want. that is how negotiation, compromise and legislation works. this passed 94-5. i think the senate vote speaks for itself. >> last question. >> you talked about the storm here. i know last year when you moved bills on harvey, it went better than what happened with hurricane sandy. and in this pending need after the hurricane here, do you think that -- [indiscernible] >> you will probably have to do a supplemental bill and moved past what kinds of bill the sandy bill a few years ago? the speaker: there were things in the sandy bill that members didn't think it deserved to be in a

walkers. >>> plus, why a buffalo bills player abruptly retired during halftime at an nfl game >>> this is amorning update. >>> i am michelle griego. this morning, homeless encampment in san jose is set to be cleared out. hope the let's it's near the international airport. chp is set to remove the camp at 8 am. >>> in a few hours, sean walker set to appear before eight judge. he faces two charges of gross vehicular manslaughter and -- >>> a new update for the tunnel project. it damaged part of the automatic control system causing major delays citywide. >>> will have news updates throughout the day on your favorite platforms, including our website, kpix.com. i'm april kennedy and i'm an arborist with pg&e in the sierras. since the onset of the drought, more than 129 million trees have died in california. pg&e prunes and removes over a million trees every year to ensure that hazardous trees can't impact power lines. and since the onset of the drought we've doubled our efforts. i grew up in the forests out in this area and honestly it's heartbreaking to see all these trees dying. what guides me

paralyzed from the waist down in a still more bill accident back in two thousand and thirteen five years later he's taking a voluntary steps with a walker and on a treadmill i. only excited chin up was the first patient at the mayo clinic to have an electrical stimulation device implanted near his damaged spinal cord one month after surgery was able to voluntarily move his toe the study published in the journal nature medicine this week is giving both patients and researchers hope one of the study's authors dr tenderly surgically implanted the device near to knocks the spinal cord in just below his injury dr lee says while they still have a long way to go he does believe their research is headed in the right direction because we were able to stimulate directly the spinal cord itself and we believe that that was very important to be able to regain volitional control or voluntary control in a separate study the university of louisville another four paralyzed patients tested this method two of them responded being able to walk with the big pharma f.d.a. on top of us and part of the problem is if you look at everybody's motivation for what

as of right now no intentions to do so. >> bill: thank you, sir. mark walker.l need a lot of help down there. thank you for sharing what you know today. by the way, where he is right now, you're a good -- on a normal day you're two hours from the coast where he is. nothing is normal in north carolina now. that drive will take you four to five hours. >> sandra: you had quite a trek to get to the airport. >> bill: it was something else. we were lucky. we had access to the official information. they gave us one of the most circuitous routes -- you could not find it on our own. trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle. find the right road. >> sandra: turn at this fallen tree. >> bill: we helped out each other. cbs, the weather channel. swedish television. we're all in it together down there. one road into wilmington. that's the high-end of the bathtub, atlantic ocean on one side and all the rivers that come in and around and surround the city. those folks have been cut off for some time. our best to them. hang in there. we're pulling for you. >> sandra: the president is abo

walker. >> that has been asked before. after he signed that billector unions, it was thought that democrats were going to be able to exact their revenge but he was reelected. so does wisconsin have enough of a democratic base to win statewide? if they couldn't oust him then, how would they oust him now. >> i think here is the big thing. after again walker has been governor for eight years now. he ain't the same guy. walker ran in 2010 with a campaign that said i drive a 1998 saturn and i take a brown bag lunch to work with my ham sandwiches. we did a bunch of research and found that since scott walker dropped out of the presidential race in 2015, he has flown the state plane 1,000 times at a cost on of $1 million doing things like having himself picked up after he had a haircut. or flying himself to a -- back home so he could go to a football game. this is not the same scott walker who was elected eight years ago. and given the fact that the atmosphere is so toxic because scott walker has been such a loyal soldier for donald trump, people are excit

very proud to yield three minutes to one of the three original leaders of this bill, the gentleman from north carolina, mr. walker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for three minutes. mr. walker: mr. speaker, the tax cuts and jobs act has transformed the economy, delivering economic growth in the form of more jobs, bigger paychecks, increased investment in his tore exly high small business optimism. today i rise in support as an original co-sponsor of h.r. 6760, the protected -- the protecting family and small business tax cuts of 218. i would like to thank chairman brady for his tireless work over the last year and a half to make this legislation possible. continuing to build on the success of the tax cuts and jobs act by locking in those tax cuts for individuals, families, and small businesses. today's bill makes permanent the transformational tax reforms included in the legislation we enacted last december. mr. speaker, locking in those important reforms provides certainty and enhans growth. in fact, according to the tax foundation's analysis, making these reforms perman

bill. on our majority staff, jennifer miller, walter hern, brook haden llison deathers, millburg, sherry young and barry walker. on the minority staff, beck lee jarrett, jennifer, and chris bigalow. on my personal staff, johnny and spencer, and on mr. visclosky's staff, joe. in closing i again urge my colleagues to support this agreement and fund our national security. it is vital that we pass this agreement this week and have it signed into law. the men and women of our armed forces deserve no less. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey reserves. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. >> i yield four minutes to the gentleman from indiana, the ranking member of the defense subcommittee, mr. vis closely. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. visclosky: fiscal year 2019 starts october 1. it is wonderful to be here in september considering a conference report on two additional appropriation measures. i would like to commend chairman frelinghuysen, ranking member lowey for bringing a semblance of order back to the appropriations process

walker. back to you. >> thank you, julia. stick around, joining us congressm maman peter welch and congressman bill johnson both serve on the energyrce committees good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> senator welch, do you think when you look at twitter right now that there is a political bias to the way they have approached things? >> well, it's a fair question. the bottom line here is that whether that's raised by democrats or president trump, you do need an answer to it. are the algorithms favoring one side versus the other. the bottom line here is that twitter and these huge operations like facebook have to do a lot more, be transparent, be protective of what does go on and keep hate speech off it. congress hasn't stepped up we essentially have a regulatory system that was designed for when we had dial-up phones so i think there's a lot of work that we have to do in congress to make certain that the rights of citizens in the integrity of our political process is protected and we have to also put a lot of demands on twitter and facebook and these other big operations. >> congressman johnson, i understand that you are

bill pascrell of new jersey, representative tom reed of new york, representative renacci of ohio, representative paulsen of minnesota. then off the committee, i'm grateful for the leadership of representative mark walker, representative tom mcclintock, represent todd rokita, and representative rod blum. today, congress can deliver meaningful tariff relief to american manufacturers and take action that will help boost american productivity, american competitiveness, and american job creation. i urge my colleagues to join us in concurring with the senate amendments to h.r. 4318. madam speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the gentleman reserves. i recognize the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pascrell: thank you, madam speaker. mr. chairman, how are you today? ope you had a good august. i yield myself such time as i may consume. madam speaker, for decades, the mitt lane yuss tariff bill -- miscellaneous tariff bill has had long standing and broad support, bipartisan support in both chambers of commerce. has been used as a means to bolster united states manufacturing and competitiveness by temporarily reducing or suspending tariffs on certain imported goods and com