pendleton, indiana on the independent line. hello to leave. -- lee. caller: there needs to be clarification that even though trump is a republican in the house and senate are both republican, the house requires a 50% to pass it, but the senate requires 60 votes i think there are only 51 or 52 republicans, so there has to be bipartisan support for this. you have a few senators that can shut it down and they are doing it for cynical purposes. it's very disappointing. host: it is a narrow band of. they needed that 60 votes last night about what's called a cloture vote, moving forward towards final passage last night , which is often the case in the u.s. senate. they needed the 60 votes and they fell short last night. let's hear from janine, i federal employee in utica, michigan. janine, go ahead. employee'm a federal and i have been a federal employee my entire life. i started 17 years old and i've been working well over 30 years. host: what kind of work do you do? caller: i'm an administrative action officer. ourtually deployed civilians into afghanista

this was used by a woman named mary pendleton. she used it to apply to take the foreign service officer test. you can see that she ripped off and mailed it in. she did join the foreign service and she later became the first female ambassador to moldova in 1992. a nice use of history there. things were changing for women. >> very much so. just as there was an evolution of wanting foreign service officers to be more generalist. women were not precluded from joining the foreign service, but there were caveats. they had to be single. the first officer to join was in 1924. lucille tried to get married a few years later, so she had to decline the foreign service. and this was the case all the way to the 1970's, when you start to see a major change in departments to bring in more women, realizing that's a great restriction. men who were married who entered the foreign service went with their families, and the wife was very much expected to be the hostess, and a representative of the united states of america, because ambassadors would ent

this was used by a woman named mary pendleton. 1969 to applyin to take the foreign service officer test. you can see that she ripped off and mailed it in. and she did join the foreign service and she later became the first u.s. ambassador to moldova in 1992. it is a nice piece of history there. while the personnel force is professionalizing, there also changes afoot for women. >> very much so. just as there was an evolution of wanting foreign service officers to be more generalists. and then they had specialized training. women were not precluded from joining the foreign service, but there was a caveat. you had to be single. the first professional american join wasice officer to in 1924. her name was lucille addison. lucille tried to get married a few years later, so she had to resign from the foreign service. and this was the case all the way to the 1970's, when you start to see a major change in the department of state wanting to bring in more women, realizing that's a great restriction. we also have the interesting story about foreign officer wives. men who were married who entered t

with the marines out of camp pendleton. congratulations to him and his growing family. autria: hopefully another marine in the works. 20 degrees, anchorage, alaska. it is just as cold here as it is in alaska. that, we probably already knew. you know it is cold when it is cold in your building. autria: i feel like someone forgot to pay the electric bill here. veronica: 28, still windy. gusts. near 30 miles per hour throughout the day today. prince george's county, northward towards baltimore, we hang on to strong wind. we will ease tomorrow. look at the locations i have tapped into. this is live information, , eight, -- mclean degrees below zero. high temperature today, 19 to 20 degrees. sunshine all the way through, but these are temperatures we have not seen in years. the last time we saw a high , threeture this low years ago. tomorrow, high temperatures get into the 20's. another dry day and a sunny. change comes sunday into monday. early, maybe to midday, a chance for freezing rain. more weather to watch. on the roads, we are looking at what is happening northbound 3

was a bestseller for the new york times and she's got another, she's put up another statue in camp pendletonin southern california. sergeant reckless is an incredible story. she was raised as a racehorse but they bought her to be their mascot and ended up using her in warfare. she delivered ammunition up the hill to these large rifles and took some wounded down the hill and got a medal of honor and it's an incredible story alex novak, you say you are not a point of view necessarily when it comes to history but was there a frustration with how some history was being written? >> we are always looking for the rest of the story or the untold story. that was part of our reckless but in terms of political perspective, we just wanted an open, pro-american story to be told and that something thatwe look for . >> who's an author, i hidden gem that you found and who is one you missed that you really wanted to get? >> one of the authors that we published that i think is one of the best thinkers and writers on the conservative scene that when we published his first book, i don't think he was well known

air we've been dealing w winter weather advisory in effect for areas north, north west, mineral, pendletonlleghany, grant, all encompassed in this in effect until 10 a.m. saturday overnight lows to the 30s and 40s and once we get to tomorrow daytime highs in the 40s and quick opportunityble to the 30s thought the day. more details later. back to you. >> president trump is spending the weekend at his mar-a-lago estate in florida. according doctor the president received a clean bill of health today and understand went first physical since taking. >> the president is in excellent health and will provide more details on the physical at a white house briefing next week. >>> meanwhile, there's a report that president trump's personal lawyer reportedly worked out a six figure deal with former adult film star to keep her quiet about alleged sexual encounter with the the president. the alleged encounter happened a decade ago. en and the deal was offered one month before the 2016 election. "wall street journal"says michael cohen arranged for $130,000 fiment stephanie clifford as part of non disclosu

. >> after 18 years with the marines at camp pendleton, it's time. ballot in my district is good. republicans will replace me. it's a good time to go out on top. >> will bring more people in. >> the competition makes people better. >> bret: big names on the republican side, especially in the house, saying they are running again. three senators, republicans, not seeking reelection. corker, flake, hatch. 43 house members retiring or running for higher office or another office in 2018. 29 republicans, 14 democrats. you take a look at the balance of power and democrats need just 24 seats to take back the house. big names, a.b. issa, royce. >> there are many reasons it's an individual decision for people who decide they have stayed too long or they are in a stage in life where they want to do other things but this year is the different. they have the majority. president trump's numbers and a lot of these districts they need to hold, many of which hillary clinton won, issa won by fewer than 2,000 votes last time, the president's numbers are toxic and the d

i'm george pendleton and i assure you it's not lunch, because your talk is quite nourishing. senator ben saas has written a book called "adults adrift" and i guess you could probably put that problem synonymous to the problem of youth unemployment, underemployment, the inability to launch one's life. to what extent has the youth unemployment issue been present at the forum of the strong cities network as one of the root causes for some of this violence, and if you were to put it in your own words, you said some of these cities don't necessarily think they have an extremism issue or that's not why they got into it, but if you believe in the one sense that, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, if you believe in the other sense, then, if it ain't broke, break it and fix it, what are the indicators that would bring a city to a conclusion that it needed to focus on some of the root causes, and is that one of them, i guess, is my real issue. >> so, i would just say that, we've seen with the examples, you know, some of these cities have had a long history of suffering, experiencing terr

pendleton, oregon, democrats. good morning. my first comment is, i think the guys should get forget everything and just concentrate on the budget. again.s country going and the other -- i got a speaker for you, is the of the house, democrats were yesterday to bill shutdown until tuesday. and the speaker of the house bac back, declined clearance appropriate consent, what is appropriate clearance consent? host: you are asking what it the in terms of legislative back and forth? caller: right. about that re exactly, we're waiting to see right now what the action is senate and in the what they send back to the house. been several proposals put forth by various members of congress. me come back to one that a viewer asked about earlier. to continue asure paying the military service, military bers of the service during the federal hutdown it was introduced by senator mckaskill, after failed to reach agreement to keep the running before that friday deadline. eric katz nell, as said, opposed that measure and if you want to watch his reas