Vitch. Watch on cspan, listen wherever you are with the free cspan radio app. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talked with reporters about the testimony in the impeachment inquiry hearing. The speaker referred to a portion of the testimony calling the president s actions an act of bribery. Ms. Pelosi good morning, everyone. Good morning. Ms. Pelosi here we are with a week that started off with veterans day. A wonderful day. 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, armistice day, a day we now observe as veterans day. Every day is veterans day for us. On tuesday, we passed a packet of bills, nine bills, to improve the lives of our veterans, our heroes in uniform. Among the bills we were very proud to pass the Deborah Sampson act, which reduces barriers for Women Veterans to access v. A. , including antiharassment initiatives. This has a broad base of support , and we are very proud to be passing it. The day after veterans day. Monday night when i came into town, i went to the world war ii
Farflung sentences, these very high sentences. You will see dozens and dozens of Political Prisoners who werent even mentioned in these negotiations. If you want to go to cuba, simply tell them youre not going to visit the prisons and you dont want to meet the dissidents. I think this addresses what you asked about discrimination in cuba. Thank you very very much. You know, the Washington Post has done several editorials very, very critical of president obamas opening up or moving towards opening up diplomatic relations or further relations. And they made a very selling point, and i would just like to underscore here, and that is that were repeating mistakes that have been made in the past. When bill clinton went to vietnam and opened up relations with vietnam which followed very quickly with the bilateral trade agreement under president bush, many of us said it was a mistake not to get human rights reforms durable reforms first and then move to the diplomatic recognition followed by a
Turkish authorities have formally arrested more than 1600 people in the last six months for supporting terrorist organizations or insulting officials on social media. 10,000 more are being investigated. Turkey declared a state of emergency following a failed coup in july detaining thousands of citizens and purging journalists. Critics expressed concerned that the crackdown has targeted political opponents not just terror threats. The search is on as thousands are scouring the black sea for the wreckage of a Russian Military plane carrying 92 people all presumed dead. We have the latest on the search and investigation. Reporter russian investigators are still looking into what caused the crash. To do that, they need to find crucial evidence. The Russian Defense Ministry Said they found two parts of the plane and they recovered 11 bodies. 3,500 people involved in the operation off the coast of the russi russian town of sochi. Recovery workers are using helicopters, drones and submarines.
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ground floor of all of them. and why is one of america s friends, india, friends with one of its sworn enemies? i ll explain. but, first, here s my take. we re going to hear a lot of polarized rhetoric over the next few months. the republicans and democrats will seem to disagree about everything. but there is one huge and important area where there is a possibility, a possibility of bipartisan action. that s tax reform. most americans, republicans and democrats, dislike the tax code. their right to do so. america has what is arguably the world s most complex tax code. the federal code plus irs rulings is now 70,000 pages long. the code itself is 16,000 pages. the state of france has only 1,909, only 10% of ours. and then there are others that have innovated and moved to a flat tax with considerable success. you have to understand, complexity equals corruption. when john mccain was still a raging reformer, he used to point out that the tax code was the foundation for the t