housing finance reform. failure to provide reform will lead the mortgage finance markets to repeat the mistakes of the past. the underlying risk in the mortgage market are still present, especially since the g.s.e.'s without capital and backed by taxpayers remain the focal point of the mortgage funding market. until the housing sector is put on a sustainable path, we will continue to see affordability concerns as potential homeowners are priced out of markets, loosening underwriting standards, pass what would be considered prudent, overextension of mortgage credit and the continued concentration of both control nd risk in two too big to fail government-sponsored enterprises. these are the classic ingredients of a housing bubble. imprudent ix lending. as we saw 10 years ago, when the bubble bursts, it is hardworking americans who feel the pain and pay the price with their taxpayer dollars to clean up the mess. the next congress has an opportunity to pursue generational reform in the housing finance system. a

risk in the housing market. they heard from witnesses ,epresenting mortgage lenders borrowers, builders, and real estate agents. this is 2.5 hours. this hearing is entitled a legislative proposal to provide for a sustainable hou that we are i wish to e setting at least three different records today. largestthe single witness panel that we have ever had, at least in the 16 years i have been on this committee. outhe moment, i think the -- witnesses outnumber the members. hopefully we will remedy that situation soon. --are the early committee only committee that is working today. if it was in the budgets, i would have t-shirts printed to memorialize that particular incident. now that i have recognized our historic record, i recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. months ago this committee marks the 10 year anniversary of the federal takeover of the failed government housing enterprises. as i described it then, that failure live -- will live on in economic infamy. ant anniversary marked oppor

within this house. we gave people the decision. the people decided. we should deliver on it. nothing has changed in the level of parliamentary concern about her deal this last week, but the prime minister has still sent her ministers out this morning, her official spokesperson out to say this ahead, and0% going yet we are still even now -- we do not know when she wants to bring the vote back or even what she wants the deal to be. does she not realize how chaotic and ridiculous -- >> hear, hear! and given the importance of trust and credibility in this entire process, how can she possibly talk about duty and honor him with politicians we and we cannot even do the most basic things are ministers are saying? >> hear, hear. prime minister may: i should be clear with the right honorable lady and the house that i consulted the cabinet late morning about the decision to defer the vote. taken becausewas of an understanding of a concern that members of this house have expressed in relation to the backstop, havin

so that the house of commons in effect can be in the house of commons in effect can beina the house of commons in effect can be in a position where it can instruct the government what to do if there is a defeat for mrs may next tuesday and she comes back with another plan. is that your understanding and how would you explain the attempt? there is an amendment and there is some interpretation around it. let's listen to what dominic grieve says about his amendment. i'm looking forward to listening to his explanation. i'd say the government is putting five days of debate forward , is putting five days of debate forward, giving all mps and opportunity to debate it. it is a time for cool heads, time to consider the position and think about delivering on the vote of the british people in an orderly way. there's only one way to do that, by voting for this deal. there is no other guarantee under any other option. a challenging political landscape that all politicians are in but in government it is a very different place. you know the prime minister very well. how would you describe her mind

i honestly do not think the and employers and our constituents will understand house, while this house is gone on holiday for two weeks, when we should be having meaningful vote this week. >> let me say to my honorable what i believe is right, what the government is doing is having heard the concerns that that have been expressed by members of this house, what he government is doing, it's taking those concerns to the european union, yes, we have e.u.er statements from the with legal status in the council conclusions than we've had seeking yet 're more and further assurances from the european union. i think that's the right thing do. then that can be debated house and the s vote taken. mr. speaker, last thursday, the attorney general told the he was reviewing the question of whether article 50 could be revoked by a simple this house or by legislation. this thursday, the scottish case has been referred back from the court of justice to the court in to look at this issue. can the prime minister confirm for us that the government's how article 50 could be revoked, whether legislation or si

be simplisticght to say, this would be the democrats response to the house freedom caucus amongst house republicans. you have seen how, already, this new breed of lawmakers has pushed the existing -- the current democratic leadership when it comes to environmental policies. we are seeing a fight brewing over immigration and the border wall when the new lawmakers are saying why are we even considering giving trump a sentcent of funding -- a cent of funding? forwill see that tension the next two years and it will be really interesting to see how schumer deals with, particularly as 37,000 people among his caucus run for president or consider running for president. also, nancy pelosi, if she does become the speaker again, how she deals with that dynamic in her caucus. us a really great overview of some of the things we will be talking about in this space is so i will come back every now and then and touch on what our speakers say. kind of a to paint negative picture here about anything getting done in the next couple of years. what do you think? >> i think she is largely right. you know, i

i said new york has made this commitment to housing and to affordable housing and to public housing that san francisco has not done. and that is why new york is much more economically diverse. my e-mail back to his chief of staff was someone i happen to know, was i hope this isn't an accurate statement. the next city, with this mayor, this is not the case. i want to thank you mayor breed. i want to thank everyone who works in this city. i know projects like these is a commitment that the city has that will make this city support the residents of the city and always and providing more housing. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, cynthia. i want to take a moment. we said it takes a village. i want to name a couple of the folks who have been critical in bringing this to life. tom, chris, dan and miguel and anita, you guys have literally broken the ground behind me. thank you so much. those are our contractors. [applause] >> travis, mary, irving, the enhanced beauty of the urban landscape can deliver the credit to your fabulous design. thank you so much. [applause] >> you are rock stars. kev

as their vision grew, the house literally grew. they traveled in france and in england visiting grand chateaus and great country estates and took components from each of those. i think they got excited about the idea and the possibilities and the vision for the house grew and grew and eventually it grew into this, the largest home in america. so the house from the exterior is very much an american expression of the french renaissance. so it has these grand sweeping views, of course, but framed by the architecture itself. the deep roof lines and quite a bit of drama, but most of the architecture is adapted from the french renaissance. so we are in the entry hall of biltmore. it's really the heart of the home. you come through these very beautiful large oak doors. you're struck by the size of the estate and also the quality of the workmanship. there's beautiful marble, limestone. the construction of the house is really exquisite. the entry hall is really the center of this home. it's flanked by the winter garden, which is a beautiful

risks in the housing market. they heard from witnesses representing up mortgage lenders, ours, builders, and real estate agents. this hearing is entitled a legislative proposal to provide for a sustainable housing finance system. the bipartisan housing finance reform act of 2018. that we arecognize setting at least three different records today. largestthe single witness panel that we have ever had, at least in the 16 years i have been on this committee. outhe moment, i think the -- witnesses outnumber the members. hopefully we will remedy that situation soon. --are the early committee only committee that is working today. if it was in the budgets, i would have t-shirts printed to memorialize that particular incident. now that i have recognized our historic record, i recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. months ago this committee marks the 10 year anniversary of the federal takeover of the failed government housing enterprises. as i described it then, that failure live -- will live on in

we have the white house correspondent for sirius xm in the current president of the white house correspondents association. on my far right, we have margaret, with bloomberg news. and the immediate past president of the white house correspondents association. and to my immediate right, we have anita who is the white house correspondent for mcclatchy. and she is a former paul miller fellow. what i want to do is i'm going ask each of them to talk for a little bit about a different aspect of the next year and what to be on the lookout for from the white house agenda perspective, from the investigations perspective, and then from the media perspective. margaret is going to talk about that. i will explain why in a second. then i'm going ask a couple of questions and we will toss it out to you. based on the last panel, we are plenty of questions out there so i'm going to keep my questions to a minimum so we're plenty of -- so we have plenty of time for questions from all of you. it is a little after 10:00. this session will go until 11:00 and then we will have a change over and our final session wil

crisis in affordable housing. nothing else we do, we have many needs, education, transportation , youth, but nothing else works if a family does not have stable housing. we have families in the mission sleeping on the floor of the gems because they have no place else to go. so this deficit that we have is a debt. we have a debt to our african-american community, latino families, seniors, seniors in chinatown who have been evicted, every person who has left us is part of the fabric of our community. they are members of our churches , members of our community, they are our neighbors and we owe that debt. we particularly owe that debt to my kids and your kids. the children of tomorrow for not going to be able to make a life here because they cannot afford it. so i spent a bunch of my life doing homeownership at the mayor 's office of housing and financial capability. one of the principles of financial capabilities when you are maxed out on your credit cards and you have a lot of debt , and you get a big tax refund, y

this house agreed to a program motion, 5 days of debate, this house agreed when the vote was going to take place. the government tried to unilaterally pool that and deny this house, deny this house the chance of a vote on this crucial matter. the prime minister and government were found in contempt of parliament. her behavior is contemptuous of this parliament. mister speaker, the prime minister's appalling behavior needs to be held to account by this house and the people of this country are more and more concerned about ongoing chaos at the center of the government. when she made her lancaster -- >> order, order, order, call on both sides of the house. order. questions will be heard however long it takes and so will the answers. they tried to shut down, all you do is where all your voices and you won't succeed, amen, end of subject. >> when the prime minister made her lancaster house speech, she set out her negotiating objectives, looking at and quoting the first objective is crucial. we will provide certainty wherever we can. does the current situation look or feel like certainty? c

with other members of the house see. if the shadow from inception would just have a little patience with the danger of the vote was one of the questions that was asked by the scottish nationalist party and i'm going to come to address that. the responsibility the responsibility of this government is to deliver on the result of the referendum and do so in a way that is good for the whole of the united kingdom and that is what this deal does i will be going i will be going we are deferring the vote and i will be going to seek those assurances obviously obviously there is two parties in relation to this united kingdom in the you so we will be holding those discussions members will know that there is in legislation there is the issue with the twenty first of january date which is in legislation in this. this shadow foreign secretary shunts twenty first of john is it is a first time she's heard of it i suspect by i suspect i suspect she actually voted for it why. it went through this house but there we are i see the key point

and i said public housing, public housing, public housing. as we move the city forward in so many people enjoy the prosperity of what has developed over the years with the tech industry and all of these great things that san francisco has to offer, we can't continue to leave our residence behind. the conditions that have existed since i lived there, the mould, the busted pipes, the messed up bathroom, the roaches, when you have had to live like that for over 20 years of your life, there is nothing that will be more important to you then changing the conditions of people who still, unfortunately, have to live like that. i want to thank the mayor ed lee for supporting what i cared about, for helping to work with the mayor's office of housing housing at the time, under his direction and now under the direction of of kate harley to bring r.a.d. to the community. we all know it was not easy. we had many meetings in this exact room where people were not necessarily comfortable, and that is why i and supervisor vallie brown showed up to those meetin

is that the house has already decided that the house has already decided that the house will rise for the christmas recess on the 20th of december and return on the 7th of january. the honourable lady asks about time to debate brexit. i can assure her, as she will know, that the government has a very good record in making sure the house has plenty of time to debate brexit during passage of the withdrawal act both houses played a central role in improving the legislation with 37 days of debate spanning 11 months with over moo amendments debated and almost 280 hours given for time to debate. we have ensured regular debate on government time including the two—day debate on european affairs in march and the debate on legislating for the withdrawal agreement in september sol legislating for the withdrawal agreement in september so i can assure all honourable and right honourable members that the government will make sure there is plenty of time for further debate on brexit, including on a meaningful vote. the government is under a statutory obligation to have the little agreement approve

housing units over a 10-year housing balance period. the ordinance requires a bi-annual reporting. and i will talk to you about the 7th report that covered third quarter, 2008, to second quarter of 2018. one stated goal of the ordinance is to ensure that data on affordable housing targets citywide is an approval process for new housing development. there are three housing targets cited. the housing balance report gives context to the three different housing production goals. the housing element mandated by the state to be updated by the article set a production goal of about 28,000 new units to be built between 2015 and 2022. this is regional housing needs allocation goals. 57% should be affordable to low- and moderate-income househol households. there is an annual report and the goal to the state housing and community development. proposition k passed by san francisco voters in 2014 set a goal that 33% of net new units be affordable. this is the goal that the housing balance report will be aiming for. there is also a goal of 30% afford

give powers and process in this house whereby this house probably by your office, mr. speaker, to the authority of your office by independent judicial advice should be able to take a decision and redact matters of national intelligence and security from legal advice so that people in this house can see legal advice. as as a result of what happened today, i am given it will happen again in future the demands to see legal advice, that the house will now take some common sense of this and decide to pass the resolution that will ensure that we don't find ourselves in this position again. also i'd just like to go on to say, mr. speaker, that we been told the worst, as far as i'm concerned, the attorney general pulled no punches when he said there's nothing to see here. actually he told us what did to be seen come after me i will again put his words, there is, therefore, no unilateral rights for either party to terminate this agreement. this means that if no supersede agreement can be reached within the limitation. that it will activate international law if negotiatesd broke

is that the house has already decided that the house has already decided that the house will rise for the christmas recess on the 20th of december and return on the 7th of january. the honourable lady asks about time to

, and the white house's credibility from the white house. both are under siege today. there is very little trust in the press. and there's very little trust among some anyway in the information that's coming from the white house. and i certainly remember when i was at the white house and eni was bureau chief at cnn, if the president said something, 0 are a press secretary would say something that was mistaken, or a misstatement there was an effort to quickly correct the record. i marlin fitswater, would walk around with the big cigar that he wouldn't light and we walk through the press office and said what i said or what the president said, let me tweak that. there was a very good relationship there. and he got a lot of credit for that. but we're not at that place now. i mean now, there is a very particular and personal and some would say grandstanding environment around this. where do you see this question of credibility now, in terms of the, again, plugging this into all of the cameras that we got and, all the technology that we've got and

housing. gropius it was a main figure in the german association of craftsman and the architectural collective you know. if you're like me you're sure to me curious what these houses look like on the inside. let me take it. it's been restored to the original nineteen twenty. today you can rent it as a vacation home. this is typical furnishing from the weimar republic. has a few modern touches like this. are some of the earliest tubular steel furniture produced and. by next stop along the trail in berlin. this house was built in one thousand nine hundred thirty three for the owner of a print shop designed by the last. and your view what makes this house so special. this is well i don't know about you but most people tend to feel ease here and the large windows create a feeling of a vast open space of freedom and openness. often the inside is flooded with light it has beautiful proportions all of this creates a distinct feeling. that's why i ask you how you felt earlier when visitors come they te

on productions depicting the white house and the presidency hosted by the white house historical association. this is 45 minutes. >> good evening. i hope you've been enjoying tonight's program. it's been fascinating and there's more to come. a year ago, i was honored when fred ryan, the chair of our board asked me to chair the white house historical association's board committee for this important four day summit. i want to thank the members of our committee, martha kumar and michael beschloss for their innumerable contributions. with the terrific staff of the white house association and president stewart mclaurn's vision, convened more than 100 presidential sites and the wide array of fields and interests of the presidential site representatives told us they wanted to hear from. i want to thank our good friend dave rubenstein for the fascinating conversation with the descendents about the personal firsthand experiences of living in the white house or sharing family stories that have been passed down to them through the ages. that is what it is really like to be in the white house. in our ne

, senate and the whitete house. the president was commenced to put up the fight until after the midterms by gop leaders who thought it would be bad for the midterms. he now wants the fight. in the house have a few more weeks where they controlled a majority in many of them as well this is their last chance to get this done. >> as much as we've heard about what the president wants on the border wall, do have a clear vision of what that would look like should we get the funding? >> there's miles and myers of the border that been improved. it's. semi-dilapidated fencing areas where there's been an increase in illegal borderer crossings. those will be the focus is over the funding would potentially go. he has also said he might be open at the very least an correct me if i'm wrong, that he would accept a $5 billion figure spread out over a number of years. it doesn't need to be immediately but it could come in a tenure spanned from a five-year span to something that would provide the figure to enhance those areas and imp

house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 400. the nays are 11. 2/3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, and the bill is passed. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the unfinished business is the vote of the motion of the gentleman from texas, mr. burgess, to suspend the rules and pass s. 3029, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: senate 3029, an act to revise and extend the prematurity research expansion and education for mothers who act, infants early preemie act. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. members will record their vote by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial pur

they control the house, the senate, and the white house. democrats are certainly happy to talk about border security. but we are not going to build this stupid vanity wall of donald trump with u.s. taxpayer dollars. >> looking at what's been said by democratic leaders nancy pelosi and schumer, they put out a joint statement. it said that the president threw a techer tantrum that led to the shutdown. how do you interpret the shutdown with respect to the president's behavior? >> a shutdown is something that donald trump has said 25 times he wanted to do. he completely owns it. that's why you saw senator mcconnell essentially raise a right flag this morning and exit these negotiations. he is saying i am going to leave it up to the president to make up a deal. that's because the president threw republicans under the bus when he said he was going to support a stopgap funding until february 8th and then completely pulled the rug out from under them. if i were mcconnell i wouldn't trust president trump either. >> can you envision when this shutdow

the house will convene tomorrow at midday. it's possible they will pass something could shorten the shutdown, which means there are important questions to ask to figure out how long the shutdown is likely to last but there are no questions left about whether we are going to have a shutdown. we will in fact have one. we will have more on that coming up shortly. i will say, though, that the whole reason we are going through this ridiculous exercise is so the president won't be embarrassed when he watches the fox news channel and they remind him about his campaign promises in which he said he was going to build a wall. i will just point out if that will be the basis on which we shut down the federal government, there is an issue his campaign promised, remember, was technically that mexico was going to pay for the wall, right? if this whole fight right now was about whether mexico was going to shut down their government rather than pay for the wall, that would be relevant to his previous campaign promises on this. he never promise

housing. same thing -- you take one floor off, you will use nine units of housing. also, when we are looking at it, we also have four replacement units and the tenants working with the housing units, all of them have signed an agreement, they've picked out the replacement units that will be provided to them. they have been -- they also picked out the unit, if this project is approved, that they will move into. all of them have done that. and the other projects completed and they will be executing in the next couple of days. so the project sponsor has done everything he can to make sure that the tenants that will be displaced temporarily will be well taken care of. i think i would now let -- give the time to the occupant. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm happy to present our work today. brad terrell, senior design associate. my colleague, amir, will help me with a couple of pictures the parcel has seen several proposed iterations. so let me touch on the site and the evolution of the projec

throughout the house is remarkable carvings. curl better was an immigrant from austria that found his way working in these grand houses. he also worked on the fagade of the metropolitan museum. he did one called the return from the chase and another scene from the opera. he was a great fan of opera and you see many expressions of that throughout the architecture the house. >> this is a space patterned after these grand baronial reception rooms. this ceiling is a beautifully vaulted wooden ceiling. it really takes your breath away. only in this room, do they have a three bay fireplace and a ceiling that is seven stories high. there are also animal sculptures. as i mentioned, george vanderbilt was a bachelor when he built this house but he soon welcomed edith as his wife. she became the heart of the estate. she was close to the estate workers. she served as hostess of the house not only to vanderbilt guests, but also across the entire estate. we have many stories, particularly in this room, adorable stories of ways that she and au

a housing with house republicans what do you think of it? >> the president is seeing the reaction to him not fighting for the funding for the border wall from the freedom caucus and conservative media, conservative grass roots leaders saying this is your last chance. put up a fight and show you're willing to do it. you won't get it in the future. so we'll see what paul ryan has to say to the president about this. as we saw, the house freedom caucus will back up the president in terms of making his decision. the president has seen democrats who has said lease been steam rolled when it comes to negotiations. last week you had president trump saying very strongly in the oval office, i will shut down the government over this, i will take responsibility. we've seen the language soften on that quite a bit. here we are with a day left to go and the president again saying, you know what? i promised border security. the members in the republican party have promised it at well. let's re-visit before i sign this final bill. >> so we have a team there a

president trump is meeting with house gop leaders right now at the white house. some republicans are urging him to stick to his guns, reject the deal that does not have the $5 billion that he requested for the border wall. conservative members of the house are saying they will have the president's back if there's a shut down at midnight on friday. john roberts has more from the north lawn. john? >> harris, good afternoon to you. the president has been huddled for about an hour now with the speaker of the house, paul ryan, the incoming minority leader, kevin mccarthy and steve scalise, mark meadows, jim jordan, pete sessions. those are the ones that we know about. may be others as well. it's probably fair to say the president is reading them the riot act to say why am i not getting any funding for my wall out of this continuing resolution that would continue to fund the government through february 8 that passed the senate? the president expressing displeasure at the whole process. when i be grudgingly signed the omnibus bill, we were told it would happen. it didn'

every member of this house has a responsibility. 80% of the votes cast, members of this house stood on a manifesto to honor the referendum and deliver brexit. what people will say to the right honorable gentlemen, if he fails to recognize that he has a duty to deliver on brexit, once again he throttled it. >> mister speaker, the prime minister didn't answer my question about a cast-iron guarantee. she is the one that denied parliament the right to vote on this subject, so please, to parliament, when it is the prime minister denying the mp the possibility of a vote on this. we should have had a vote a week ago. we should now be debating practical alternatives. she is behaving in a disgraceful way and is an outrage. mister speaker, no deal would be a disaster for our country and no responsible government whatever allow it. just two weeks ago the chancellor said reparations relieving with no deal, could not be done in a matter of months. they would take years to complete. no deal is simply not an option. why doesn't the prime minister stop the pretense, 4 billion pounds in a cynical attem

the question is will the house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 1063. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the for what , the -- purpose does the gentleman from kentucky seek recognition? i knew it was somewhere out there. mr. massie: the bluegrass state. mr. speaker, i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those -- all those in favor of taking the vote by the yeas and nays will rise will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? mr. mast: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 3018. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: h.r. 7318, a bill to amend the federal asset sale and transfer act of 2016 to ensure that the public buildings reform board has adequate time to carry o

google's offic testified before the house this week. denied that the company compresses conservative viewpoints in googl search results. similar questions are being levelled at facebook for how it handles data. meanwhile the arrest of one of china's leading executives at the request of whington has ignited fears that china might e retal here to join us is casey newton. jeremy owens, and yia frooed. welcome to you all. i in, a. facebook unveiled a security flahat allowed people to access photos even those that haven't been fully up loaded. when did facebook know about this a w they tell us just now? >> this is the biggest issue. it's bad enough that those are photos that you wanted to post. and it includes photos you didn't want topost. they knew about it in september, and are letting people know about it in december. and european regulators knew about it in november. >> it is part of a pattern. we hear over and over again, we had this flaw, thisbreach, and we don't hear about it until months later. are there any calls fine facebook at t

the white house counsel. you have jobs to do and people that you have got opinions to render. you have to advise the president and senior white house staff on a number of foreign policy and intelligence matters that might require notification to the congress. all of that work remains in place and doesn't take a vacation while the investigations are going on. that's the reason, number one, why you have to staff up. add probably 50% so the staff that you would otherwise have had -- and it's also a reason why you can't expect to get as much sleep as you'd like or see your family as often as you like. >> no kidding. i want to ask about one staffer that the president has, rudy giuliani. one was investigations the president is facing is the mueller investigation. rudy giuliani is on a tear about being interviewed by mueller. he said they are still open to it and within a day or two, he said the president is not answering any more questions. we did enough. despite the obvious contradicti contradiction. >> who knows.

white house. the white house is done. the house would give me the vote if i wanted it. but i can't because i need -- nancy, i need ten votes from chuck. >> let me say something here. >> let me say one thing. the fact is, you do not have the votes in the house. >> president trump: nancy, i do. we need board security. nancy, nancy. we need border security. need border security. people are flowing into our country, including terrorists. we have terrorists. we caught ten terrorists over the last for a short period of time. ten. these are very serious people. our border agents, all of our law enforcement, has been incredible what they've done. but we have caught ten terrorists. these are people who are looking to do harm. we need the wall. we need it more than anything. we need border security, of which the wall is just a piece. chuck, did you want to say something cuesta mexico here's what i want to say -- we have a lot of disagreements here. "the washington post" here give you a whole lot of pinocchi

i worked in the white house. and for someone like ayers who is supposed to be an up and coming rock star in the republican party, to not take the biggest job of them all, does say a lot about what some people -- how some people view this administration. you are talking about a white house who cannot be managed. trump cannot be managed. and he undermines his people who work for him and throws them under the bus and goes at it alone so many times. you are a tweet away from being fired. that's the white house they're dealing with. >> what do you expect in terms of the posture, the approach this administration, this white house takes toward these investigations in these coming months from the democrats in congress and from the special counsel and southern district of new york as well. >> well, i think what concerns me the most, steve is the departure of john kelly. essentially the departure of one of the last remaining remnants of adult supervision. when you think about what the approach is going to be to these incom

hy did this house survive? the best way of telling the story probably is it is a combination of quantrell having been here several years before as a schoolteacher and a scoundrel. i suspect the millers may have met him or knew him or whatever. one of his scouts slept here, which is always a little spooky. that combination of things, i think, saved this house from being burned down. i think pretty much after the raid the miller family returned to the business at hand. they had a farm to run. their role in lawrence was significant in that both robert and josiah, is son, purchased numerous properties in lawrence and built a home and that sort of thing. they were involved in the commerce of the community. robert was involved in farming and selling produce. they continued their involvement and commitment to lawrence. they play in incredible role from 1854 to 1863 or so. this community was in the national media. all the national newspapers every day because it was a part of bleeding kansas. it was a battleground for

totally and absolutely unacceptable to this house in any way. this house... this house agreed a programme motion. this house agreed for five days of debate. this house agreed when the vote was going to take place. the government tried to unilaterally pull that and deny this house... deny this house the chance of a vote on this crucial matter. the prime ministerand her government have already been found to be in contempt of parliament. her behaviour today is just contemptuous of this parliament and of this process! mr speaker, the time for dithering and delay by this government is over. the prime minister has negotiated her deal. she's told us it's the best and only deal available. there can be no more excuses, 110 more running away ‘ put it before parliament and let us have the vote. whatever happens with her conservative leadership vote today, it is utterly irrelevant to the lives of people across our country. he should be honest with people. he should be honest with people about his position. he couldn't care less about brexit. that's right. what he wants

so here is what the white house had to say. it says, president trump had a constructive dialogue with democratic leaders chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. so far the democrat party has made clear they would rather keep the border open than the government open. we will continue to pursue real solutions to defend our nation and uphold our laws and hope democrats will work with us in a bipartisan fashion to do so. okay. well, here's what nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, their offices, had to say in a joint statement. we gave the president two options that would keep the government open. it's his choice to accept one of those options or shut the government down. we saw that really extraordinary display in the oval office culminate with chuck schumer baiting president trump into owning the government shutdown should it happen. >> yeah, that was -- a lot of this was extraordinary, just in terms of what we were able to see in public. that moment in particular, i think, was striking. on that note, garrett, let me bring you in. let's try t

kaitlyn is live at the white house. the president and nick ayers, their deal fell apart, but they have a task the president gave the man we thought would take the job before he said no, thank you. >> the president had given him instructions for what had he wanted it to look like. one thing thing and he wanted a thorough review of how it operates. president trump wants it to be more politically focused. come january when the newly empowered democrats have the power that they will force his secretaries to testify. they have controversial policy decisions and president trump wanted to make sure the west wing is ready for that and they are focused moving forward. that was one of the biggest complains is that he did not feel the retired general was shrewd enough to handle that. he didn't know what it would look like. nick ayers would not take the job since he wanted to do it on an interim basis. we are talking to sources who say this is something president trump is going to want and whoever his next chief of staff is. when p

you have house republican leadership, house democratic leadership, senate republican leadership, senate democratic leadership and then it is the conservatives this the house. you have mark meadows and jim jordan. president trump needs them on board. he needs them not to go on fox news at night and say this is a bad deal for him to sign onto this deal and move forward. >> the idea that this is all going to get -- this is all going to get undone and tidied up over the next -- in the next short-term just feels almost impossible. but at some point somebody will have to find a rabbit in the hat and pull it out of there. frank thorpe, i knew it has been a long and weird day. thanks for your time tonight. i appreciate it. >> thank. >>> we are going to be watching the shutdown unfold on the, possibly all weekend. and really, who knows for how long. to the extent that this fight is in the senate, one of the most interesting combat ants in the senate on this issue is senator mazie hirono. she is going to join us live from the capitol next. ol next. and if i'd been caring for tom's dad, i would ha

conversations are currently ongoing between the house, senate, and white house. in the meantime, members should be on standby and prepared to return to washington for votes next week. we'll provide advance notice ahead of expected votes. as of today i would estimate first votes for the week occur at 6:30 p.m. next wednesday. i would encourage all members to make the necessary arrangements to be here as we complete our work for the 115th congress. with that i yield to my friend. mr. hoyer: i thank the majority leader for that information. i would reiterate what the majority leader has said. i believe this is accurate. there will be no votes before wednesday at 6:30 p.m. next week . no votes prior to 6:30 p.m. next wednesday. so that members are advised that they need to be available, we need to be here wednesday at 6:30 and we need to be available for every day thereafter until we get this government on a solid footing. is that accurate, mr. leader? mr. mccarthy: that is completely accurate. we'll have votes 6:30 wednesday night and we'll finish our work to make s

how's the white house going to deal with all this? >> the white house is going to down play this, saying it doesn't implicate the president on legal grounds and saying that, look, if michael cohen really had damaging information on the president and offered that to prosecutors, prosecutors would be asking for him to have a lighter sentence. but what is clear here is that at the very least, this is politically damaging to the president, because mueller is making clear here that as part of the obstruction case, he is also looking at public deception, lies that people around the president have said publicly and mueller's words, to create a false narrative in a way to limit the obstruction investigation and so that also tells you that mueller is looking at the comments that the president has made relating to this investigation on the don junior meeting at trump tower, on stormy daniels payments, all of this, we're seeing laid out today is under the microscope by mueller and sdny prosecutors. >> let's not forget the russia investigation. t

house. members and staff will remove their conversations from the house. he house will come to order. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. frelinghuysen: pursuant to house resolution 1183 i call up house resolution 5 with the senate amendment to the house amendment to the senate amendment thereto and have a motion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the bill, designate the house amendment to the cincinnati amendment to the house amendment. the clerk: an act to amend the child protection act to establish a national criminal history background check system and criminal history review program for certain individuals who related to their employment have act segs to children, the elderly or individuals with disabilities and for other purposes. senate amendment to house amendment to senate amendment. from free ling hisen of new jersey moves that the house condition curt in the senate amendment to the house amendment to the senate amendme

look, we have a full house. and we all know it took a lot of hands to produce some great victories on november 6. and i want to thank each and every one of you for the hard work that you gave to our effort and to democrats up and down the ticket. we could not have done it without your hard work over the past year. what is very clear to me is that voters sent a strong message across this country that it is time to end politics as usual, time to end the culture of corruption, to focus on issues important in people's lives, like the cost of health insurance, ensuring that we fight climate change and take our planetto protect and promote environmental policy. like ensuring we are promote strong public schools and -- promoting strong public schools and individual rights. it is also critical to make sure we have checks and balances and we ensure the rule of law is protected and washington, dc. and that is why it is critical with a democratic house we provide the type of oversight that the people of this country are lo

in other words to put them think to the house that the house will support in the interest of the country. and downing street said later that the meaningful vote would not take place before christmas. just before the no confidence vote, it emerged that two mps who'd been suspended from the conservatives parliamentary party had the whip restored allowing them to take part in that vote. charlie elphicke, the mp for dover, and andrew griffiths, who represents burton, have both been accused of inappropriate sexual conduct. the news prompted protests from labour mps. she is so cute, so sweet, i cannot wait to beat her. can she take a beating? not my words mr speaker, the words of the mp for burton, while barraging two of his female constituents with thousands of sexual text messages. what message does this send of any process here in this place can ever be trusted? that question and also to answer me, what matters more? political power or protecting victims of sexual harassment and abuse? there has been a process that has been undertaken and it has been a decision by the chief whip. it is not

offer the house of full and unreserved apology. labour peers havejoined mps in calling on the transport secretary chris grayling to take a share of a blame for the timetable chaos suffered by rail travelers earlier this year. the transport committee said he should have done more to prevent the problems. one peer spotted another ommission. some of the railway companies appear to have removed the word "cancelation" from their vocabulary. so you arrive at the station for a train, look at the board, and discover it is no more. it never existed. it is not there. an mp called for tighter regulation of shisha lounges, where tobacco is mixed with other flavours, burned and passed through water before being inhaled in hookah pipes. it's estimated an evening spent smoking shisha is the equivalent of 100 cigarettes. the mp behind the debate said local communities could face noise, anti—social behavior and crime. the scottish parliament and welsh assembly both gave their verdicts on theresa may's brexit deal this week. let us hear from bbc s

over my dead body. >> harris: kevin corke is outside the wild house dull academic white house. >> notwithstanding, it is apparent that this white house under no circumstances will allow bob mueller to sit down with the president. it is manifestly not going to happen. that said, it's also to point out, harris, that the president has submitted written responses to questions posed by the special counsel's investigators. to hear alan to she to hear islanders with telus , >> it's over until they try to subpoena him, and then we have a constitutional conflict because he asserts article two and other rights free to go to court, and we don't have a merely report for a long time. >> as for the white house, the president -- as you can well imagine -- has adroitly suggested that he wants to talk. i would just point to this, harris. if his tone on twitter is a window into his thinking, it's probably a good idea that he not avail himself to do that. he wrote this on twitter -- "the russian witch hunt hoax started as the insurance policy long before i even got elected is very bad for our country. they are entr

there is the house in detroit. fbi tested 50 specimens, 28 came up positive for the possibility of blood. one had dna for an unknown male, another inconclusive. what about the blood pattern? there it is down the hall with a say they dragged his body to the kitchen. what is that tell you? >> it depends on which day of the week i'm thinking about it. it's probable that he killed hoffa. it's probable that it happened in that house. they couldn't establish it was hoffa's blood. i don't know. they say he was killed in a house near a red fox restaurant where he disappeared. that house is gone now. i think it is probable that frank did it. there was another cast of characters involved in this. depending on who you talk to it is a different cast or slightly different cast. >> the lack of a dna match, does that disprove? >> no. the fact that there was blood found in the house exactly where you found it to leading back from the vestibule into the kitchen. what a coincidence. from the way that sherman describe this. i think i