Calling on please and clearing encampments. Yesterday marked the end of the second week of former president Donald Trumps hush money trial. Those are two stories that made headlines this week. To start the program we want to hear from you. What is your top news story of the week . Democrats, your line is 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. If you would like to text us you can do so at 202 7488003. Be sure to include your name and city. You can post a question or comment on facebook at facebook. Com cspan, or on x at cspanwj. In addition to campus protests and the hush money trial here are some of the othereadlines we have been following this week. The dea recommended reclassifying marijuana. The Federal Reserve held Interest Rates at a 23year high. Rates slowed according to the april job report. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she is continuing her push to remove House Speaker mike johnson. We will get to calls in a few minutes. First, according to the As
Host this is washington journal for saturday, may 4. Campus protests continued this week. Calling on please and clearing encampments. Yesterday marked the end of the second week of former president Donald Trumps hush money trial. Those are two stories that made headlines this week. To start the program we want to hear from you. What is your top news story of the week . Democrats, your line is 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. If you would like to text us you can do so at 202 7488003. Be sure to include your name and city. You can post a question or comment on facebook at facebook. Com cspan, or on x at cspanwj. In addition to campus protests and the hush money trial here are some of the other headlines e been following this week. The dea recommended reclassifying marijuana. The Federal Reserve held Interest Rates at a 23year high. Rates slowed according to the april job report. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she is continuing her push to remove House S
Step up to the microphone appear so that the audience can here the question. Keep the spirit going all year long with a subscription to the tribunes premium book section. Also, feel free to download the trip books out for more information as well as access to our digital bookstore. Finally the lit fest love social media. Feel free to take pictures, post messages and upload them to twitter histogram or facebook using the hashtag puerto rico lf 15. Please silence your phones caught in the flashes off your cameras. I will introduce our moderator. [applause] i like a short but sweet introduction. I will give a short one for brian. For the indefatigable research a joke that we should call him brian burrows. Thank you. I am here all week. I asked him how he wanted to be introduced. He said he writes for vanity fair and write books. The book for which it is best known as barbarians at the gate which came out in 1990. The merger of rjr reynolds and the biscoe, food services. But his latest boo
The actions of the president , the students and faculty and the Football Team. Here is how you can call us. Pacificmountain and time zones. Residents toery give your thoughts on the situation. Outlet youal media can post on the twitter page. You can also post on the Facebook Page. Send us an email at journal at cspan. Org. The University Times gives a little bit of a description. It says the turmoil appears to stem from three incidents. In the first, the Student Government had said people in a pickup truck screamed a racial epithet at him and a month later a group of drunken white students disrupted their gathering and is a racial slur and the third incident a swastika was found to drawn in feces. Those are some of the events leading up to it but the wall street journal this smarting picks up the story saying that a strip saying that a turning point came when members of the Football Team said they would like a game against Brigham University unless mr. Wolf resigned or was fired. It wo
Congress. I made a few suggestions, and i have additional suggestions on how he could do that if he was serious about growing the economy. Drilling and leasing activities on federal lands is another. Educational choice. The reality is the president has a choice. I heard a question of whether he mention the minimum wage. Yes, he did, repeatedly. This president and the white house seems to be waving the white house of surrender. Now thea economy is minimum wage economy. We can do better than that. I think america can do better than that. There are things that he can do with executive action. There are other things he can do. We asked him about reining in regulation from the epa, adopt a repealory budgets, outdated relations. There are things we can do instead of waving the white flag of surrender, declaring this economy to be a minimum wage economy. I think we can do better. Until a few moments ago we were going down a pretty cooperative road. [laughter] let me say that we do not all oil