Eliminate the Affordable Care act individual mandate. 9 00, an assistant secretary of east Asian Affairs gives analysis of the trip to asia by President Trump. Caller good morning. Host lots of headlines coming out of capital this week from tax reform to health care and gun policy to allegations of Sexual Harassment and how both parties are responding. It we want to get all of your thoughts on this. Democrats 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7848001. , 202 7488002. You can also send us its we or a spoke. Com. Congress this week is our topic. We want to get your thoughts on all the different stories are in lets take a look at the front page of two national papers. Times. The Washington Times, the new york faces senate obstacles. On Sexual Harassment, the Washington Times has the headline about al franken. The senator apologizes for misconduct. The New York Times frames it this way. You also have this headline this morning and the Washington Times, a mistrial for senator bob menendez. It the
Caller he indicated he was willing to work on the with the Ethics Committee. The Ethics Committee will hold some kind of hearing and come up with a recommendation, expulsion or something else. I was talking to the former chief counsel for the chief act Ethics Committee, he said sometimes investigations can , or weekss and years to months. Not say what the timeline would be. They do investigate what happened when they were not in the senate, yes. That leaves the senate open to moore should henot become in the senate. The Ethics Committee has left this exception open in the past. The Ethics Committee said they would not continue looking into allegations that representative victor moore should he become in the, even though the allegations were before he became a senator. Host you mentioned roy moore. Is talking about an ethics investigation if you were to be elected by alabama on december 12 . Indicatedch mcconnell that the Ethics Committee practice move forwards. There is a question as t
Trade. Program. We discussed this trip. This is half an hour. At our table this morning is s, he served from 201320132016, also a senior fellow at the center of american progress. I want to begin with the president at the diplomatic room in the white house, after returning from asia, this is what he said about what was accomplished. We have established a new framework for trade that will reppoppo saw city saw city through organizations and new fair trade deals that benefit the United States and our partners. We have laid out a pathway towards peace and security in our world where sovereign nations can drive, flourish, and prosper sidebyside. Mrs. Our beautiful vision for the future this is our beautiful vision for the future. This is a future where the stream is only possible if america is strong, proud, and free. As long as we are true to ourselves, faithful to our founding and loyal to our cities citizens, there is no task too great, no goal beyond our reach. My fellow citizens, amer
There is no task too great and no goal beyond our reach. My fellow citizens, america is back and the future has never looked writer. Michael. I think what the president was somethingout that was a little divorced from the reality of his trip. Lets take a step back. For decades, the United States has played a central role in upholding peace and stability and prosperity across the asiapacific through our alliances, partnerships and through dealing with a very frank a straightforward way with adversaries like north korea and with competitors like china trying to make sure that everybody is able to benefit from a peaceful and stable or region. That is a relatively fragile peace. It takes a tremendous amount of diplomatic work to keep that going. President trump did over the last couple of weeks was feed some tremendously profound anxiety amongst a lot of our allies and partners in the region about credibility of american staying power in asia and the kind of really we have and whether or n
A reliable partner. John or bernhardt as welcome to conflict zone thank you michel republican senator bob corker head of the Foreign Relation Committee of the u. S. Senate said president obama tried threatens other nations in such a way it could lead to with the world war do you agree. Well course as a soldier my job is to make sure that our soldiers are as well prepared as they can be for whatever contingency. Should arise our focus is on deterrence. Working as part of the alliance most successful alliance in the world in the history of the world so but senator bob corker sat if we want to speak more about this vote that the president of the United States is today more a danger than a help for peace i mean again i dont know trump threatens other nations in such a way it could lead to a third World War Two you agree with that i think that the president has done everything that the Previous Administration said it was going to do the president and this administration has lived up to ever