. >> a lot of people reacting to mayor bowser's tweet this morning, d.c.idents and voters, can discerned about stop and frisk. what would you say two, particular the asking americans and washington, d.c. come about their concerns over that? fmr. mayor bloomberg: i'm a father and i would not be happy if one of my children were stopped in the street. inn i got to city hall back january 1 of 2002, i found 650 murders a year. one of the rights i have to protect when i mayor is the right to live. it is one of the most basic ones. we adopted the same strategies all big cities used. what happened by my third term is, without, maybe i did not have my eye on the ball, it all of a sudden we were having a lot more stop and frisk. we took a look at it and question whether it worked and decided it did not. we cut 95% of them out for a left office. but i have continued, after i left office, to fight the nra, continue to argue for lower incarceration rates. we cut the number of young people and gels by half while i was mayor. lower recidivism rate, we cut it by 40%. form

washington d.c. is more than just the capital and the white house, but because we host them, we hear about all the partisan bickering all the time, from the white house we hear fear mongering and we hear indecisiveness. let me tell you why i am hopeful about the future of our nation. we can solve our nations most pressing problems if we have the right leader in place. to turn innovative ideas, like i like to say, fresh ideas, into reality. and mike bloomberg is the only candidate who will unify our country and defeat donald trump. [applause] and has a blueprint to rebuild america and improve the quality of life for all americans. he is committed to giving every american a fair shot through his housing affordability, and all in economy plan. putting in and a gun violence with common sense gun reform. [applause] and mitigating the causes of climate change. i've known mike for many years, and i know firsthand his long-standing commitment to making city stronger, more prosperous, and more inclusive. and

no one in d.c. will do anything about this, because fundamentally it is a town of followers, not leaders. the only way we would do something about it is to create a wave in other parts of the country and bring that wave crashing on our heads here in d.c. i said, challenge accepted, i will be back in two years with the wave. i am rising to be the democratic nominee. million last.5 quarter in increments of $35 each. my fans are almost as cheap as bernie's. this is an uprising to get our government working for us because it has not been working for us for quite some time. who is it working for? money, big business. if your first name is big and the alaska this company, -- if your first name is big and your last name is company, d.c. has something for you. if you are d.c. you cannot see people's life expectancy, you are following the money. washington, d.c., what do they produce? none of us know. awfully good. donald trump said he wanted to drain the swamp, i want to do something different. i want to di

washington, d.c., had howard university. really made washington a center for black thinking, education, but that was also part of the appeal coming to washington, d.c. david: one thing is that in the --stitution, there is people who lived in the district, large number were african-american, did not have the right -- members of congress, i should say. -- asking me tore now do my politics. are you a citizen, what are your rights. is challenge of washington it really is a place where you could call it the last colony. i'd is important to grapple with the fact that you have got 600,000 people or more, many of whom are voting age, who really have limited rights, not the same as people around the country. >> in addition to not being able to vote around members of the district was run in effect run by the government. is that right? that is right. home rule is the 1970's creation. david: let's finish this story while we're almost done. we have obviously compressed a couple hundred years in 45 minutes. lonnie: we missed a few insurre

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that is what is going on in washington, d.c.on to the american people is, who will change that? >> i am tom steyer and i approve this message. >> the first trip to greenwood. they were about 20 people there. i heard this voice behind me shouted out. >> i said, that was the it. >> fire it up. ready to go. we need something different to beat trump. >> watch him. tom is fired up and trump has got to go. >> i am tom steyer and i approve this message. >> in 2016, i caucused for donald trump. i'm switching parties to caucus for elizabeth warren and 2020. -- in 2020. the people say a woman can't win. i say nonsense. i believe a woman can beat trump and i believe elizabeth is that woman. this is the man to beat. elizabeth can do it. >> i am elizabeth warren and i approve this message. >> we can't afford a fractured party. >> in 2016, i caucused for hillary. >> i was for bernie. >> i caucused for donald trump. >> and 2020, the person that kenai the party is elizabeth ward. elizabeth warren is building a positive movement. >> i have never

peter: that takes us to washington, d.c. because bill gates took pride in the fact that microsoft did not have a d.c. office for a long time. brad: he did take pride in that and then learned there were clearly better things in which he could take pride, and we are in 56 capitals around the world. peter: you conclude your book by saying technology innovation is not going to slow down. the work to manage it needs to speed up. brad: we really believe governments need to speed up. i used to come to washington. people 15 years ago here didn't understand technology deeply. many times today, they often do, they understand it much better and to some degree, politicians get a bad rap. i think journalists look for the opportunity to point out, here is a politician who didn't ask the right question or didn't ask the question the right way. i think that is a mistake. i don't think it is accurate. you don't serve anybody well whenever you criticize them for asking a good question the wrong way. the truth is, we have regulators and politi

we shipped them over to washington, d.c. from germany and put them up here. most people, when they think of the berlin wall, they think of all the graffiti and color and designs on the wall. these are completely plain. that's because they were on the east side, where people were not allowed to graffiti the wall. it would have incurred some pretty severe penalties. one reason why they did not want people drawing on the wall was because having the wall be will completely plain makes it easier for the guard to see people. it made them more visible against plain, like -- light gray or white background. seeing them without graffiti will should remind us of them putting the wall up to keep people in. before the berlin wall was built, several million, 3 million people, crossed the border from east to west. after the berlin wall was put up, people did not stop trying to get out of east germany. about 100,000 people tried to get out and half that number were successful. we have some great stories about people who were successful. to attempt to cross the berlin wall to

. >> host: that takes us to washington, d.c. because bill gates took a lot of pride in effect microsoft did not have a d.c. office for a long time. >> guest: and bill points out in his forward he did take pride in that and then you learn, there were probably some better things, clearly some better things of which he could take pride. we are here today. we are in 56 capitals around the world. >> host: you conclude your book by saint technology innovation is not going to slow down the work to manage it needs to speed up. >> guest: we really do believe that governments need to speed up. i used to come to washington and people 15 years ago here didn't understand technology deeply. i think many times today they often do. they understand much better and i think to some degree politicians get a i think journalists look for the opportunity to point out here's a politician that didn't ask the right question, or who's a politician who didn't ask the question the right way. i think that's frankly a mistake. i don't think it's i could. i do

. >> that takes us to washington d.c. because bill gates took a lot of pride in the fact that microsoft did not have a d.c. office for a long time. >> and will point that out he did take pride in that and then he learned they were probably some better things clearly some better things to take pride in we are here today. we are in 56 capitals around the world. >> we conclude the book is technology animation is not going to slow down. the work to manage it needs to speed up. >> we really do believe that governments need to speed up. i used to come to washington and we had people 15 years ago didn't understand technology deeply. i think many times today, they often do. they understand it much better, and i think politicians get a bad rap, i think journalists look to point out here's a politician that didn't ask the right question or here's a politician that didn't ask the question the right way. and i think that's frankly a mistake. i don't think it's accurate. i don't think you serve anyone well, whenever you criticize them

district court for d.c. and while that chief judge in d.c. takes action to try to shield the judge in the roger stone case from what the president is directing at her and what the conservative media is, therefore, directing at her, to threaten her, pressure her, the crisis that has emerged here over the last 72 hours is not one case or even one jurisdiction. it's all just being revealed now. i mean, "the new york times" reporting late last night that even in these supposed sovereign district of new york, the famously independent federal prosecutor's office in new york city, attorney general william barr from the very earliest days of his tenure as attorney general, he has apparently been inserting himself into sdny cases. specifically into cases affecting the president. the attorney general has been advising sdny, for example, on the hush money case about paying off women to keep quiet during the president's campaign. that's a case you will recall in which the president's personal lawyer already went to prison, in which prosecutors explicitly

there is also one in d.c., the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia, but it nonetheless is a field office. there has always often been tension between the field offices and the home office main justice. had you ever imagined, however, anything like this, paul? >> this is unprecedented. it's not unusual for there to be conflicts between u.s. attorneys' offices and main justice about important issues, like how much time a defendant gets, but those are resolved behind closed doors. brian, it sounds corny, but when career prosecutors join the department, it's because they want to do justice without fear or favor. they don't sign up to bring political prosecutions to help the president's friends and to punish his enemies. and so, when these four prosecutors resigned, they sent a very loud message. they're not allowed to hold press conferences or go on tv. the clear message from their stepping down is that the justice department is on life support. >> ashley parker, you and i are both old enough to remember one week ago

attorney in d.c. that this is a punishment. >> paul butler, for simplicity, for us lay folks, let's agree to the following terms. there is main justice in washington, d.c. and there are u.s. attorneys all over the country. we talk about the southern district of new york. let's call those justice department field offices. there's also one in d.c. the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia. but it nonetheless is a field office. there has always and often been tension between field offices and the home office, main justice. had you ever imagined anything like this, paul? >> this is unprecedented. it's not unusual for there to be conflicts between u.s. attorney's offices and main justice about important issues like how much time a defendant gets. but those are resolved behind closed doors. brian, it sounds corny, but when career prosecutors join the department it's because they want to do justice without fear or favor. they don't sign up to bring political prosecutions to help the president's friends

liz: that is d.c., sorry, that is a d.c.ices doing -- >> thank you for saying that. they took this case away from the field. they did it in their own little office up there with their own little minions. it all went bad. liz: great to see you. come back soon. >> thank you, always a pleasure. liz: coming up, kind of a scary story. dangerous new lethal drug crossing the border. it is so powerful police warn you shouldn't even touch it. the story next. ♪ get a no-fee personal loan up to $100k. it's unacceptable that americans pay vastly more than get a no-fee personal loan people in other countries, for the exact same drugs. .. prices now. and my side super soft? yes. with the sleep number 360 smart bed, on sale now, you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. can it help me fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your feet. but can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. so, you can really promise better sleep? no

initially d.c.d you have to have a registry and list your name as a physician willing to carry out medical aid in dying and very few physicians are willing to put their name out there in public. now we have very few and the medication is very, very difficult to get hold of and one second was taken off the market by one of our drug companies. ask me why and i cannot answer. once it was taken off the margin, a number of pharmacies began to create their own and now you have to really find it through a physician. it would become easier as time goes on and after all, they've had a ball in place for 22 yea years. the number of people who've applied for political aid and dying and have received the medication only two thirds of those people have actually used it. there has not been a single case brought at any sort of coercion or pressure or illegal activity on anyone's part. in the case of the dc legislation, your neighbor, someone that lives in the same building that you live in testified in favor and wa

attorney in d.c.shed out amid this pressure when she appears to have not gone along with it at least to the degree they wanted her to. >> what i have never seen, and i worked at main justice in the clinton administration. there are rlots of u.s. attornes who get nominated for other jobs, judgeships, that's fine. they always stay in their jobs until they're confirmed for the new job. but apparently on january 30th or 31st or february 1st, bill barr said to her you've got to go over to treasury now. >> and install his own guy. >> and then his own guy finds the first sentencing memorandum. but jessie liu then goes to treasury. then trump pulls her nomination and so she's gone. you know what's stunning about that? you know how many women of color that are who are u.s. attorneys in the united states today? she may be the only one. >> she was until this all happened. stay right there. paul fishman is our guest, former u.s. attorney in the great state of new jersey. we'll be right back. i don't see it. only

we went to the state department in washington d.c. and they said yes it's about freedom the freedom that a lot. this brings you the freedom of representative government. we went to a military base and we talked with one of the commanders there and he said yes this is about freedom this is about the freedom that the that the american military you know ensures for the for the rest of the world and so it really it turned out that the wall was an open symbol in the u.s. and people would project their own ideologies and thoughts and feelings about about these abstract ideas onto onto this this piece of history and now why did use decide to call the film the american sector well of course for referencing the area of berlin that was controlled by the american military but it was also a way of acknowledging that this film is really about america and it is not as much about telling the actual history of the wall as it is using it as a way to talk about the present. and what encounter surprised you the most or what surprised you most in making

and sorry that you are in d.c. and i'm l.a. >> yeah, we were flipped.hat's right. >> it seems as if you are a part of this democratic primary campaign, if you are covering this campaign, it is a tough campaign, everything is -- you know, like any campaign, you have your ups and downs. and if you are a democrat watching it, it seems like you are panicking. where are you, mr.? >> my matt toe otto is worry ab everything but panic about nothing. last night kind of failed to the debates between hillary clinton and barack obama. it is like the sixth hour of a seventh hour car ride and people are getting tired and stressed. so it doesn't worry me too much whether the party can get united. >> can the democratic party -- is the tent big enough for both a democratic socialist and basically the avatar for capitalism? >> that would be michael bloomberg? yes, of course it is. i think that the number one priority of every democratic voter is beat trump and we are in a very somewhat con foofused long process. and if that better thperson is sanders, they will unite beh

this d.c.ice, which you mentioned, which you know, handles all kinds of cases, all kinds of issues. somebody walks in on day one and they already have a particular view of one case and it happens to be the president's longest adviser? >> ari, that's so much more than just suspicious. i served under six presidents from reagan to trump. i served under ten u.s. attorney, including jessie lew, my last u.s. attorney. and no u.s. attorney has ever come in on the first day and started to insert himself or herself into our cases that we've been working for years saying i want you to ask for a more lenient sentence. that stinks to high heaven, and that was obviously tim shea doing bill barr and president trump's bidding. >> well, i tell you, there is a lot going on, as we often say around here, and that is a story that moved it first it rattively. but as the evidence piles up, you make a strong case for what people should be concerned about. we are definitely going to stay on the case. glenn kirschner,

i'm sure democrats democrats will be taking to social media but it's friday night here in washington d.c. i don't know whether the timing was deliberate to bury it on a friday night when no one's really paying too much attention but this will have reverberations come monday morning you know the democrats will clearly say look the president may have been cleared from the impeachment trial but essentially firing senior figures who did what their consciences told them to do in other words tell their side of the story and tell the truth and yet lost their jobs for it doesn't send a good message it's not good for democracy i'm sure that's what the democrats will say gordon sun is in a stronger position is a very wealthy man he can go on to do something else but someone like alexander ben ben is a military veteran he's been in the military is entire life is his career may have now come to a complete standstill if not worse and his twin brother also was reportedly escorted from the white house as well he's also a lieutenant colonel so this is a very vindictive president one who clearly feels he

attorney's office in d.c. they came in from outside at the direction of attorney general william barr specifically to take over politically sensitive cases of interest to the president, including some that of not yet been made public. at that u.s. attorney's office, the u.s. attorney there has been ousted. she's been replaced with one of attorney general william barr's closest aids. four prosecutors have resigned from the stone case. one prosecutor resigned from the department of justice altogether. the revelations have caused more than 2000 justice officials to call for the resignation of william barr. donald ayer, he's known william barr 40 years. he's gone so far as to urge a, quote, public uprising to insist that attorney general barr should be removed from the justice department. but this uproar, ongoing uproar is not apparently making things any better about the issue about which there is the uproar, the use of the criminal justice system to do favors for the president, to go after the president's enemie

attorney, that d.c. office, as you said is this offices that's always been the place where the most politically sensitive places land. and for that reason, it's always tried to be -- there's been attempts to buffer it from politics. but there was a very abrupt and opened, i guess t investigation to jim comey and over saw the prosecutions of flynn and stone. talk about what and she was the u.s. attorney in d.c. and she has worked the justice department on and off for a number of years. and she worked in the trump transition. so, she's not an unknown. she was put in this job and she over saw those cases, as you mentioned. and what we were told is she was very abruptly told to leave, that she was not given notice and that it surprised her and came out of nowhere and then we saw the attorney general put in somebody who's been close to him in her place. and meanwhile, she was the -- in the job while she was waiting for conformation hearing for undersecretary at treasury position, which trump nominated her for

attorney in d.c. he arrived february 3rd and on that day, february 3rd, he told the prosecutors on stone's case they needed to drop the prison recommendation. quote, the lawyers on the stone prosecution team viewed the directive as a last-minute order with no legal basis. that standoff, of course, led to the government giving a new lenient sentence recommendation for the president -- excuse me -- for the president's friend. it also led to the resignation of the entire trial team. it led, as "the times" reports, to what sounds like maybe kind of a fight, at least a, quote, terse and sharp verbal exchange involving one of those prosecutors in the hallway of the u.s. attorney's office. but "the times" also confirms that the outside team, the sort of hit squad, if you will, that attorney general bill barr brought in to that u.s. attorney's office in d.c., they ousted the u.s. attorney and they brought in a team of barr's choosing to take over all of these different politically sensitive cases that are all

attorney's office in d.c. specifically to, shall we say, oversee cases that are sensitive and that happen to be of interest to the president. quote, mr. barr has installed a handful of outside prosecutors to broadly review the handling of politically sensitive national security cases in the u.s. attorney's office in washington. the team includes at least one prosecutor from the office of the u.s. attorney in st. louis, a prosecutor who is now handling the flynn case. a st. louis prosecutor, as well as prosecutors from the office of the deputy attorney general. what are they doing there? quote, over the past two weeks the outside prosecutors have begun grilling line prosecutors in the washington u.s. attorney's office about various cases, some public, some not, including investigative steps, prosecutorial actions and why they took them. some of the cases involve president trump's friends and allies. some his critics and adversaries. quote, the moves amount to imposing a secondary layer of monitoring and control

. >> i work in d.c.. i was a big biden supporter in 2016. i wish he had run. i would have vastly preferred him over hillary. what i think the country has changed -- but i think the country has changed and i have changed. i just don't -- i think about the iraq war vote and i am, as i have gotten older, seeing how corrupt d.c. is, i think someone ane bernie just kind of has advantage because he is not subservient to the think tanks, the lobbying shops around town like some people who have been around here longer. that is my personal experience. michelle: i think we can have a long conversation. there are good qualities in each candidate. unite.ow, either way, to theyen we were in iowa, talked about the strengths of each candidate to be the caucus strategy is you don't help your candidate by helping others and i think the candidates can take a lesson for that. pete is being unfairly aggressive toward the vice president, who has much as i have issues with some of his record like i said, is a record. -- it is a record. michelle: fighting with the nra. his experienc

washington, d.c. was considered the model dry city.during prohibition, there were 3000 speakeasies. i do that's nothing compared to new york city, which had 50,000 speakeasies. in 1932, this is the speakeasy map. i found this in the library of congress. it is so cool. rufus lusk marked the spot where booze had been bought. this is pretty incredible. this was put together by the crusaders. they were crusading for the wet cause. i will point out some of the stuff. there are 1155 dots. they found alcohol. there were another 600 in 1931 where they did not find alcohol. he put up here -- those are federal offices where raids took place. by the capital he put up the , methodist building. it is right by the supreme court. he put up there the anti-saloon offers and the women's christian temperance union. he put all the dots, showing all of the raids. again this is a piece of wet , propaganda. it was very effective. he published this in september of 1930. about a month later, the main bootlegger for congress comes forward with an incredible sto

she's doing her part for us in washington, d.c.eople that we care about in this city by getting the word out now. so without further adieu i want to bring to the podium our amazing and fearless leader, speaker nancy pelosi. [applause] >> thank you very much, madam mayor. aren't we proud of our mayor, london breed? [applause] congratulations, madam mayor, on your inauguration. thank you for being the fierce fighter that you are for san francisco. our mayor came into office and not only in just being mayor but into office with an idea, a vision, for yo for our city, frr own experience she knew what the challenges were and are. and our mayor came in with a knowledge, a knowledge of how to get things done and a plan to do so. and she has, again, because speaking from her own experience, she's connected so well with all of the people of our city, recognizing the beautiful diversity of san francisco. i always say the beauty is in the mix and, mayor, you're an absolute reflection of that beauty of leadership, brilliance and respect. thank

the united states holocaust memorial museum in washington, d.c. has the commemorative ceremony to remember those who perished. to mark international holocaust remembrance day, observed every generally 27th on the anniversary of the ashworth birkenau liberation during world war ii. among the speakers we hear from two survivors who offer their memories and a prayer. ♪ >> good money. my name is lisa and on behalf of the museum leadership i want to welcome the many ambassadors, diplomats, representatives from the u.s. state department, of the u.s. government agencies, members of the memorial council and national jewish organization. most importantly i want to give a special, warm wet to the many survivors who are with us today. it is in their honor and in memory of the victims we are dedicated to making the world a better place for ourselves and for future generations. commemorating international holocaust remembrance day is being streamed live and so i also want to welcome those watching from across the net it's and across the world -- the united sta

joining us once again with his perspective on all of this from washington, d.c. and reporter for politico daniel lipmann. daniel, good to have you back with us. what is your reaction to the way this played out. the pile-on bernie sanders. >> it wasn't just against bernie sanders. it was against bloomberg as well who seemed to have done himself a little better. i think all of the candidates that are not sanders, they know that time is running very short. and if he does very well on super tuesday, it's going to be very hard to stop him. so they're throwing, you know, everything against the wall to see if anything sticks. so that's what was going on in their heads last night. but i don't think they were successful in terms of stopping his rise. although they might have, you know, diminished some of his support. >> hey, dan, you think that bloomberg, former mayor bloomberg, was able to successfully pivot from the attacks that were leveled against him, from specifically elizabeth warren who basically went after him from the jump of the debate. he was successfully able

agreement saying it will finally end america's longest war and fisher is live for us in washington d.c. alan has us an indication of how the white house is intending to sell this deal with the taliban to the u.s. public. well as a political victory they've done something that no administration has been able to do in almost 20 years donald trump in the next couple of hours will be heading over to a conservative conference in maryland not that far from the white house or will he talk about the taliban see pac you can bet your life you will he's going to mention this this is as far as the white house is concerned promises made promises kept it's been a recurring theme through the reelection campaign it's certainly something that don't trump is going to talk a lot about particularly when it seems to be a success at this early stage even though as many people are pointing out there's still a long way to go he wanted to bring american troops back from foreign wars he's talked about it is before 2016 in the election then he tried to do in syria it didn't quite work remember he suddenly announ

and the congresswoman from d.c., ms.pported elizabeth warren endorsed and campaigned for her said just this week she absolutely thinks the order in which states vote in the primary process should change moving forward. all of this mess from last night, good or bad, will be calling into question the first in the nation status for iowa in future elections whether in 2024 or passed elections after that. >> quickly get into that. you have to have future elections scrambling figuring what will happen especially in this primary season regarding what took place in iowa. what are you hearing in regards to upcoming election? >> interesting, how many emphasis placed on results of the iowa caucuses whether that signals to others who is the most viable nominee coming out of iowa. i'm curious to see whether or not people in other voting states actually care about who the actual winner of iowa is, because of all of this mishap and we have so much data, we haven't in the past. raw vote totals or delegates, and so i'm curious whether or

senator sanders just told me that he will be going back to d.c. he'll be in d.c.edings. we've heard him talk about how he sees this as a constitutional duty. it's an important priority despite the fact that he wants to be in iowa. he wants to be talking to voters and having vetter interactions. so he will be back in d.c. we'll see how long he sticks around. that throws in a wrinkle with the caucus just tomorrow. >> absolutely. so with regard to the impeachment trial tomorrow though, senator sanders, he is going to be in washington, right? he has to be there. i've wondered about this simply because it takes a two-thirds vote of senators to pass impeachment against the president removing him of office which is not going to happen, so he's definitely got to be back there though to cast his vote? >> reporter: yeah, that's exactly right. he needs to go back and sit in those proceedings. this is a historic process. even though people know the conclusion of it, feel they understand the conclusion of it, especially after that vote on witnesses last week, he has said it's

he goes to mar-a-lago, he goes to bedminster, here in d.c.e's going golfing it's the sterling, virginia, course. the only restaurant he's eaten at as president has been the steak house in his d.c. hotel. so every time he does something for leisure, there's a possibility that he's profiting. >> that's interesting. this is what trump said before taking office about how he would keep his businesses separate. watch this. >> signed, turning over complete and total control. my two sons, who are right here, don and eric, are going to be running the company. they are going to be running it in a very professional manner. they're not going to discuss it with me. >> what's your take on that promise? do you think the president has fulfilled that? and more importantly, that second bit of, they're not going to be discussing it with me. >> not at all, not at all. and they've basically said as much. shortly after -- shortly before the president was inaugurated, they changed the terms of his trust. it is revocable. it is not bind. he can withdraw money from i

a record of decision was issued last year on the washington, d.c. to richmond or d.c. to rva project representing opportunity for the northeast corridor to extend south into virginia. and finally we continue to facilitate the study of the long bridge of 200-year-old, two-track bridge over the potomac river. it is the only rail route north/south in and out of the washington, d.c. it carries countless commuter trains vra, amtrak and freight trains and it is critical in terms of how rail goes in the future through this metropolitan area. while we're staying on passenger rail, since i returned to u.s. d.o.t. after ten years away i've been really impressed by actrack's strong performance compared to the results when i left. i see a railroad now that has financial ridership and operating performances that are all trending upward with the promise, i think, of that service breaking even in 2020. i see a railroad that has a proactive strategic planning process with a bias toward innovation. i see a railroad with with a plan to implement reasonable cost controls and i see a rail

. >> these women are the perfect example of strong, principled conservatives who are in washington, d.c. making a big difference. and over the past couple of months with the battles that conservatives have been having to fight against the left, not just democrats, but the left that is going towards socialism and communism, they have been at the forefront of that fight. so, we're going to let them open the floor and talk about their issues. senator black burn we'll go with you first. >> i want to say welcome and where are all my tennesseans out here? all right! i knew you were here. and i'm depending on you this year. you know what? we are the volunteer state, and we are going to volunteer to help stamp out socialism! forever! [ applause ] and i know we can depend on that. you know, one of the things i love so much about tennessee is the way people understand that you can have freedom free people and free markets or you can have socialism which is government control of just about everything. and tennesseans really believe in the american dream. they believe in entrepreneurship. they beli

we're live in the swamp, the sewer that is washington d.c. tonight i can regard the sky is absolutely falling. we're all doomed. the end is near. the apocalypse is eminent and you're all going to die, all of you in the next 48 hours and it's all president trump's fault. or at least that's what the media mob and the democratic extreme radical socialist party would like you to think. they're sadly politicizing and weaponizing an infection disease. what is basically the next effort to bludgeon president trump. they're all rooting for coronavirus to wreak havoc in the united states why? to score cheap repulsive political points. let's look at this. we have an obligation. this is who we are as a people to do everything possible to keep every single american and frankly everyone worldwide safe and healthy. this is who we are as americans, this is what we do. we pray for the sick, pray for the families that lost loved ones. that's also who we are as a people. we want a cure for aids, cancer, heart disease and every othero disease and affliction and

democracy michael fauntroy is a professor of political science at howard university here in washington d.c. and joining us from stanford connecticut is republican strategist liz mayor who's been advising political candidates for years thank you all so much for joining us today this is a big heavy topic matt let me start with you you've written this book out there to really take a historical look at the concentration of power and money and how that was ill served at one point in the nation how it was toppled would you think we're back in that time so what's the danger today well so over the last 25. or so more than 75 percent of american industries have become more concentrated so we're facing a crisis of monopoly and what we see in the political realm is the manifestation of that this is new but we have experienced something like it before in the 1920 s. and thirty's we faced robber barons who concentrated power across our political economy we defeated them in the 1930 s. during the new deal and then in the 1970 s. we made a series of intellectual choices to unleash concentrated power once

has more now from washington d.c. . for months it looked like this was former vice president joe biden's race to lose and so far he has been losing now the unexpected front runner the self declared socialist senator bernie sanders getting the most votes in iowa new hampshire and nevada we have now won the battle clark you are following him another unexpected leader former small town mayor people to judge with biden traveling with 3rd this is a race that will decide the direction of the democratic party there are the moderates biden who to judge senator amy klobuchar and billionaires tom styer and former mayor mike bloomberg and the outlier congresswoman tulsi gabbert versus the progressives sanders and senator elizabeth warren the biggest divide health care it's the 2nd most important issue for democratic voters the moderates want more people to be able to join the government health insurance program the progressives want everyone in rolled in a government program with private insurance eliminated that's something the m

but there's also the washington, d.c. standard. when you fight the swamp, the swamp fights back. and it is time that we have a victory over the swamp. i mean, it's ridiculous. here's the problem. here is the problem. most of the people here in d.c. recognize that it's a swamp if you're a visitor here. you realize. you can see it. if they are part of the swamp, they think it's a hot tub. it is time that we drain the hot tub, don't you think? >> i think that's a great metaphor. so, this whole idea of the lessons learned, i think one of the lessons learned is that if republicans can get hog tied on ridiculous and specious charges, they're doing that because they don't want good people to put their name on -- their good reputation on the line and serve in government. so, when i see that nobody from the obama administration in eight years served time despite doing horribly unconstitutional things, i think that's a cautionary tale on any conservative that wants to get involved in government. so, why the heck do you do this for a living? >> there are days you wonder. but it's worth it.

the word of his death spread pretty quickly through washington, d.c. dr. holmes, hearing of his death, went to the president to ask for permission to embalm the body. the president said, i cannot grant permission because i'm not a family member. but the doctor had taken elmer's friends with him, and, after three hours of talking, finally persuaded the president he is the father of everybody in the military because he is the commander-in-chief. the president said, ok, go ahead. embalm the body. so dr. holmes proceeded to embalm the body, then sent word to the white house he was done. he lied. he was not done. but when the president heard they were done embalming the body, the president and mrs. lincoln stopped doing what they were doing, immediately went to the firehouse. it turned out the colonel was a close friend of the president and mrs. lincoln, had spent many hours entertaining the president's children. he was also a member of president lincoln's law staff. that is why they immediately went to the firehouse. as the carriage arrived outside the firehou

washington, d.c. february 11, 2020. i hereby appoint the honorable henry cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. mcclintock, for five minutes. mr. speaker, lost amidst of tunnel of the last several weeks was the quiet passing of an outspoken leader of california. h.l. "bill" richardson. h.l., as he was known to his friends, arrived in the california state senate with the freshman class of 1966, part of the reagan landslide that yea

that has been struck down by the d.c. district court. a is currently waiting decision by a three-judge panel. and once that decision is able to see what happens there, but we are committed to that. believe it is the right thing to do. we just want to be able to get it shaped in a way that can withstand any judicial review. ben: let's talk a little bit about infrastructure which is something that is constantly brought up in d.c. it is infrastructure week every week but we never do anything about it or spend any money on it. arender, to what extent you seeing the need for more infrastructure spending in arkansas and whether there are ways to pay for it other than a federal gas tax? what do we do about the state of our infrastructure? and particularly in your state? gov. hutchinson: the states get tired of waiting on the federal government to act on an infrastructure plan that we have been talking about from the obama administration into the trump administration. and so the states are moving on. the highway needs, the maintenance needs are

holocaust memorial museum in washington, d.c. hosts the commemorative ceremony to remember those who perished and to mark international holocaust remembrance day, observed every january 27 on the anniversary of the auschwitz birkenau concentration camp liberation during world war ii. among the speakers, we hear from two survivors who offered their memories and a prayer. ♪ >> good morning. my name is lisa left. on behalf of the museum leadership, i want to welcome the many ambassadors, diplomats, representatives from the u.s. state department, other u.s. government agencies, will members of our holocaust memorial council, and national jewish organization. -- organizations.