Shortly. Despite the public profession there appears to be major case of mixed messages. Whether theres room for compromise. Reports from inside the white house say President Trump is saying yes to House Speaker or yes to compromise, while House Speaker paul ryan said no, it cannot happen. Nbcs Chris Jansing is at the white house and Kelly Odonnell is on capitol hill. Ladies, thank you for joining me. Kelly lets start with you. There does appear to be a split message between the white house and what were hearing out of the speakers office. How do they reconcile these two things . Well we know katy donald trump has made himself this negotiatorinchief. The dilemma is the rules of capitol hill are at times not so movable and thats what paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell have been talking about, the mechanism to try to get this bill passed and to do it in three different steps. Theres not as much wiggle room there as one might believe. Its sort of like if you go into a courtroom you have to fol
Herbie Barnes knows how difficult it can be to follow a performing arts dream as a marginalized youth, and is determined to do something about it as the new artistic director of Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre.
“I grew up in Jane and Finch. I m First Nations. I d love to be able to explore how we can get it into communities that can t afford (it) or are hard to reach because of that,” Barnes said in an interview after being named to the role last week.
“I was that marginalized kid growing up in that neighbourhood who couldn t afford to come down to Young People s Theatre,” said Barnes, who has been involved in theatre aimed at youth audiences throughout a 30-year career that included playing Bilbo Baggins in a Manitoba Theatre for Young People production of
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