Should immigration be tied to this spending bill . This is a subject at hand for the week. This is the number for republicans. You can land by six social media. You can send us an email. This immigration story is front and center as you can imagine on a lot of the papers this morning. This is usa today. Friday is the deadline for congress to act. This is wall street journal. Deadline nears on security funding. There is the setup this morning on what should be an interesting and active week on this topic. Join us by phone is jeff mason from reuters. What is the president s posture on this bill . Is it likely to change . Guest i think it will not change. His posture is he believes the congress should fund dhs. He believes he was within executive authority to issue the orders announced last year. That would shield up to 5 Million Immigrants or undocumented immigrants from deportation. Right now, he is in your in curious to see where congress will go. Its not going to change his position o
Off russia and china to create a triangular diplomacy where opening to china and a detente with russia as we pulled out of vietnam, preserves the United States influence and power in the world after a retreat from vietnam by doing this tray triangular balance with russia, china, and to me that was a Creative Leap that even the bright people the best and the brightest, the mcgeorge bundies hat not thought spoof that helped preserve ore influence in the world. Host the wise men, six friends and the world they made, Averill Herry man, georgetown ten net, dean acheson, robert love vet john mccloy. Were they the establishment . Guest they were. I wrote that book with a friend evan thomas, because i was knew at Time Magazine. I was covering Ronald Reagan these people handing out leaflets and evan, a friend of mine from college, he had come from a more prep school background. I said evan, whats this establishment thing . Then we decide to demystify is buy writing a book at six people who at t
Discipline like the arts and sciences, the way ben franklin did, the way ada lovelace did and Albert Einstein. We talk about innovations so often, its almost drained of its meaning, and ive always liked to write about real people who are in a situation whether it whether it be after world war ii when you have to create a whole new world order like the world bank and the Marshall Plan or steve jobs who says okay we are now in a digital revolution and have to make it personal. These are people who are able to think different and outofthebox. So i want to try to explore the creative mind and how it works. Host one of the themes in all of your her books seems to be the connection to spirituality. Everybody had written about the leaves believes whatever they did was part of something larger than themselves. I remember sitting with steve jobs at the end of his life and i asked him why did you do what you do, what was the meaning and he said life is like a river. You get to pick things out of
Independents independents, call 202 7488002. You can reach us on facebook or twitter. The house gases budget, a win for the gop. The house on thursday passed a republican budget would boost defense spending, social welfare programs, and target obamacare. In what gop cast as the victory for fiscal sanity. It passed to 26 to 197, 14 republicans joining every democrat in opposition. Republican leaders have pointed to the budget framework which balances in a decade by cutting more than 5 trillion from spending as yet more proof that in all gop congress is governing effectively. The senate is expected to pass the combined budget next week. Even as the house passed in the first joint budget in roughly a decade, republicans are already seeing signs they would face difficulties, including a divide between defense and fiscal hawks. They are trying to turn the budget numbers and fleshed out spending bills. The gop budget, crafted by representative tom price and senator mike enzi sticks to the bu
Charged with attempting to board an aircraft with a weapon. A board is found a 25 caliber beretta in his garment bag and a clip containing six live rounds in the pocket. The gun was not loaded. He tried to tell police that he worked less as a Security Guard and did not realize the gun was in his bag. He does have a valid firearm owners id. The budget negotiation among state democrats was not that the Senate Investigation yesterday. He is among several potential contenders to run for the democrat nomination for Jesse Jackson jr. Is vacated seat. We will keep you updated on what happens inside. A man whose trial was one of the first in illinois to allow cameras in the courtroom is being sentenced today in kankakee county. 20yearold demetrious jones was found guilty of the murder of 27yearold marcus sanders. He could face up to 50 years in prison. During the trial jurors watched a videotaped Police Interrogation in which jones admitted shooting sanders. But he told an investigator he only