Discussion about a shutdown again. Why would we have a shutdown in september . If the appropriations process is still not working by september, that is a bad thing for the country. One of the things that we like as members of the government is that the proper functioning of the appropriations process is critical to the constitutional function of the government. The house and senate are supposed to use the power of the purse. When they dont do appropriations bills, our constituents voices are not heard. We hope that comes back as part of the process. We are pleased with the deal today. Thank you very much. Thank you for letting me have a shout out to my wife. Can we identify the location of that wall exactly . Sean sean. Really . No one leave. [chatter] they are not coming back . [chatter] announcer cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. This morning, republican congressman Chris Stewart of utah discusses tensions with north korea to then
Statement, you outlined Real Progress thats been made within isil in terms of limiting their Financial Resources and the reality of inspired terrorist attacks that have global reach including here in the homeland as we have seen this week. What progress is being made in degrading isils ability to inspire terrorist acts through the digital or even traditional media and how have we learned how to measure that progress . We are trying to go up stream and find out who is responsible for spewing the information into the internet that inspires these individuals to carry these attacks. And working with our military partners, we are trying to make sure that the appropriate actions are taken in syria and iraq where a lot of this emanates from. In addition, we are trying to share as many information with Global Partners because its not just upstream activity but the downstream of this but it also gets to issue that we were talking earlier about which is what is the governments role as far as bei
Attracted to the ideology, on the second question, the relationship with russia has been very complex and not to beat around the bush about it, russia is a player in syria and went in there to preserve their interests and at least to preserve it temporarily. But the russians will be key in moving him out at a certain time. Were in Constant Contact with the russians here and we have channels in geneva and people talk to them every single day about the ceasefire and in very extensive and detailed conversations. Our intelligence people work with them to resolve issues of fact. It is challenging at times. Very challenging at times. But i think it is fair to say that the ceasefire has been held in important areas in the country and it is always being negotiated in other parts of the country as well. Secretary kerry has been the best to say, he will not taken in by this and the proof will be in the results. For that matter, the rest of the International Community to advance the ceasefire. Ka
To respond to these crises and to treat People Better in their own kick countries. Paleumbers, of course, compared to the large migrations we see overseas, but for many years we have been the leader in a program taking the most refugees from around the world and bringing them to the United States where they can restart their lives. This year, we are seeking to bring 85,000 refugees. So, an increase, and also to g 10,000 Syrian Refugees [applause] anne r. i get criticized from the right and the left on this one. Because friends in one direction say that is not enough and friends on the other side say we are worried you would let terrorists sneak inside the program. It is the most heavily vetted program of any traveler in the United States and it is ramping up sharply. Right now, we have over 40 of the Syrian Refugees and we will see larger numbers in the coming days. We are all over halfway to 85,000. Stay tuned. We have done a lot to try to meet the targets. I mentioned central america
57 for napa. 62 san jose. Pretty quickly they march forward. Were seeing them sail already the business of the lower 80 bus 11 00. 3 00p. M. , well in the business up to 90s. 75, again, for the east bayshore line. Thats immediately along the coast. You can see the coastal temperatures, as well. Into the lower 60s. The oakland breakdown. 57 up to 74 about 1 00. 3 00 at 75. Things will be changing this afternoon. Well have mr. Details on the warmup. Heres robin with the traffic. The backup at the bay bridge toll plaza continues to grow. Well through the maze. The east shore freeway jammed in pockets. And its jammed all wait through the toll plaza. We democratic have any major accidents or hot spots for westbound 80 into San Francisco. Its less than 30 minutes from the maze to the skyway. Im tracking heavy traffic on b 580. Two separate accidents here. And for the second accident, chp just issued a traffic alert. Four cars involved. The left lane is blocked. Traffic was already slow becau