people have been forced off land and now depend on handouts. then there is the post conflict trouble. for example, raqqa was liberated from islamic state in syria to much fanfare. what is left? what are people going back to? how will they source clean water? how will they get food? that is a challenge for people working in the field in 22019 world food program founded by americans. america idea happens to be based in italy. americans are the biggest funders to the world food program as they look to 2019 they are grateful for all the help they get but concerns that the aid will keep coming because these crises keep coming. and as i said hunger was on the decline it s now object increas nowon the increase. rick: amy kellogg, thank you from millan. anita: president trump s decision to withdraw from syria getting criticism on
to strengthen the america idea. that pursuit is never ending. much work remains but i like to think i ve done my little part in history to set us on a better course. thank you. sherman. will you remain as speaker? yes. you think it s tantamount for you most speakers don t go out on their own terms. harry reid last session did th. he announced he wouldn t run again and stayed on as senate leader. that s what i m going to do. tax cuts and tax reform legislation, you say you ll consider it to be your greatest achievement. you aren t sticking around for its biggest consequence, trillion dollar deficits. what is your response to that. entitlement reform is the one other great thing i ve spent most of my career working
congress the other night, corey. i know you are there is nothing you can do to get nancy pelosi and chuck schumer to come around. if you were sitting next to the president and talking to him today, what would you say? how else can he reach out to democrats as we move forward in 2018, we just saw his first state of the union address, how does he carry that positive message forward? if you look at what the president has done, he halls had members of the senior leadership team of the democratic party to the white house on many occasions. talked to them on many occasions. worked with them specifically to remove the debt ceiling vote to later in the year. one piece of legislation republicans and democrats can agree on is the infrastructure spending bill. a lot of money will go to the inner cities where democrats represent. roads and bridges and airports falling apart. it is not a republican or democrat idea. it is an america idea. let s take the $1.5 trillion
somebody. he s made himself clear as far as i m concerned. what s even clearer is, yeah, boston, great turnout, people are rising up, they re organizing. but also in durham, north carolina, they re doing the same thing, in new orleans, all over this country. people are saying we have we fought a bloody civil war and we went through a civil rights movement. we re not going back to the bad old days. we are going to cling to our solidarity. we re going to cling to this one america idea and i m proud to see people out there exercising their first amendment right. yes. let s talk about former oklahoma congressman j.c. watts who spoke with my colleague, chuck todd, this morning, about charlottesville and the president s role. here s j.c. watts take. one thing i will agree with president trump on is this. the racial divide didn t just happen when donald trump got elected. they didn t just happen when president obama got elected. i think they were probably heightened. i think they were
is known historically for stiffing contractors who have worked on projects for him. and the idea that he basically the sort of between the lines image you get from that forbes piece say recognition like, we can extract some money out of this. you also have the brothers running the trump organization who are walled off in some completely impossible to tell way from the actual president. doing a lot of publicity. and now floating a budget friendly america idea hotel chain which again seems like frankly profiting off their father being president. it just seems like there is something not right about it. even if it would be technically legal, and i can t speak to that.