The Capitol Grounds. We thought we would give you a chance to weigh in on your top stories. What matters most to you based on everything going on in washington this week . Republicans, call 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. If not by phone, social media. Cspanwj on twitter. Post a comment on facebook or send an email to journal cspan. Org. Heres a sampling of what is making news. We look forward to hearing from you. The wall street journal talks about the trade bill. A deal reached thursday would pave the way for the president to conclude a trade agreement with rare republican help. The measure is triggering a fight within the Democratic Party opposed to liberalizing trade. The bill introduced thursday is a compromise between republicans and democrats on the finance committee and is meant to ease passage of the Transpacific Partnership with japan, canada and vietnam that the white house sees as central to the president s economic legacy. The president will ha
If you oppose this bill, call us at 202 7488001. We are also online. You can tweet at us, cspanwj. We are on facebook facebook. Com cspan. You can also send us an email at journal cspan. Org. Good morning everyone. Our topic this morning is the fasttrack trade legislation that will be moving through congress quickly. Lets take a look at an article from your tim New York Times, it heralds a divisive fight within the Democratic Party, one that could spill into the 2060 president ial campaign. Some are demanding to know Hillary Clintons position on the bill to know whether to give president obama tpa. From cq news, the proposal would require the president to consult with congress at key points in the negotiations, a condition apparently designed to address lawmakers complaints that the obama mr. Asia has been excessively secretive and its handling of the tpp. Yesterday, [video clip] an agreement was reached on trade Promotion Authority built also known as fasttrack. Basically what that wo
Defense witness the trial of its onetime political eye beach. It relates to an early american folk singer we begin in ukraine where president s pick to get a cup it is government has taken me a step toward ending the crisis gripping the country. Local beach except it to the resignation of his Prime Minister and i was on offer as well as his cutting edge. Meanwhile parliament voted to repeal controversial anti protest legislation that sparked violent clashes in tn. Its the first concrete concessions the government has made since the crisis started two months ago opposition leaders say theyre going to keep up the pressure. It just isnt being occupying key and Independence Square since november. Now at least some of the demands have been made the Prime Minister says hes resigning to help the country find a way out of its two month long political crisis the decisions taken by Parliament Today together with my decision should create enough room for compromise. To me presenting the unity and
About his possibly the case and i would love for you to. I kind of did ask. To follow up and say that we now have interagency structures to raise red flags to the highest level. How is it possible that the state department wasnt looking at this intentionally in november and december and i think that is a followup opportunity. And he did play an important role. They were convening behind the scenes at the state department was the key of sharing information in august, september, october, and november. And they did have open sessions with the partners so that we could express what we were seeing. And that would not have happened without this and still are questions are what happened in march and were does the atrocities prevention said on parallel with other National Intelligence priorities. If it was irrelevant until these atrocities were occurring, how are we better elevating that prioritization framework and how can we get ahead. And had we put a better emphasis ahead of the curve inst
They went back to their homes they could be hurt in the crossfire, in the violence. In all my meetings, security was the number one topic of concern from cabinet ministers, to u. N. Leaders, to refugees, they all spoke of the need to restore a sense of law and order in the country. This is the number one message or one to bring to you today. Is that they were concerned about the violence. When i asked for fiji is why they had fled they all mentioned fear of attack and concern for their families whenn i asked refugees why they had fled. I cannot reiterate strongly enough the importance of u. S. Government support to the African Union stabilization in c. A. R. Of security is essential to creating conditions that will one day permit these one million uprooted people to return home. Meanwhile, the u. S. Government is committed to working with the International Community to provide assistance inside c. A. R. And in neighboring countries and structure are aid programs to enhance efforts to p