Thursday, April 6 – Hour 2 Podcast

by Casey | Apr 6, 2017 | Blog, Podcast

Reports: Pence Working Overtime to Revive GOP Healthcare Bill – Guy Benson

Vice President Mike Pence has been spearheading an intensive behind-the-scenes effort to woo recalcitrant House Freedom Caucus members and bring them into the fray with policy compromises:

House Freedom Caucus Shows Support For New Obamacare Repeal | The Daily Caller

HFC Chairman, Congressman Mark Meadows, proved to be a formidable roadblock for President Donald Trump and Republican leadership during the first repeal effort. The North Carolina congressman was able to whip conservatives into standing against the AHCA, which, in addition to unanimous Democratic opposition, proved enough to kill it.

Club for Growth: We’re Ready to Support Pence’s Health Care Revisions – Cortney O’Brien

lub for Growth President David McIntosh said his conservative group is ready to support Vice President Mike Pence’s proposed revisions to the American Health Care Act. Pence met with the House Freedom Caucus Monday night, offering the skeptical conservatives a compromise in which states can one-by-one ask for waivers from the law’s costly regulations.

Taser Is Giving Body Cameras to Any Cops Who Want Them – Bloomberg

Taser International Inc. has become by far the leading U.S. supplier of police body cameras, which departments have rushed to adopt in the years since the shootings in Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere led to public demands for greater accountability. Interest in the cameras, and the management of their footage, has pushed the world’s best-known maker of stun guns toward cloud computing and digital devices, sold under the Axon brand. Now that business is becoming the face of the $1.2 billion company.

PolitiFact: ‘Mostly True’ All Chemical Weapons Out Of Syria | The Daily Caller

In 2014, Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact ruled John Kerry’s claim to have gotten “100 percent” of chemical weapons out of Syria, “Mostly true.”

Critical Mass: Gorsuch Nom. Forces Historic Change to Senate Rules

Senate Republicans used the “constitutional option” to change longstanding cloture rules around 12:30pm Thursday, clearing the way for Judge Neil Gorsuch to receive a vote of the full Senate on his confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Former Officials: Actually, Susan Rice’s Alleged Unmasking Requests Were Not Business As Usual – Guy Benson

“It is hard to fathom how the demasking of multiple Trump campaign and transition officials was not politically motivated.”