Indias hold minister says hes open to discussions on the controversial citizenship law. And sport tiger woods captained his country to victory at the president s cup woods leads the usa to an 8th straight title when at one of golfs a top team at that. But 1st the longest u. N. Climate conference has now come to a close in the trades with a partial agreements bots the worlds biggest polluters couldnt agree on some of the most contentious issues after talks drags on 2 days past the deadline for countries not to cope 25 summits will improve their current pledges to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions us in line with the paris agreements now those new commitments will be presented at next years summits. The whole issue of Global Carbon markets has been put off until next year that concept allows those who exceed their pollution levels to buy credits from those who dont the u. S. Brazil australia india and china have been blamed for stalling talks on that issue well for the past 2 weeks there h
Was confirmation of neal g goresuch to trump and then another big issue tax reform and this will be and he bama care too was a major agenda item that they tried to push forward throughout the year and sucked up a lot of legislative calendar time for that and of course, a lot of foreign crises, afghan, libya, a lot of administration they he have had to grapple with. And how do you narrow this down to five things. When you put this together what are you looking at . Sure i was looking for what wish ited donald trump from other president s especially republican president s and first thing i started with was inauguration over crowd size. Right at the beginning. Sets the tone for what the presidency is like. And after that i looked at firing of fbi director james comey. And the way in which that suggested there may be some sort of executive over reach and that really disrupted some of his relationships with republicans on capitol hill started to get a little nervous. So after that i come to
Going to talk about the reindeer in the room, but nonetheless noo White Christmas. The forecast is getting better. We just had something issuedssue that could cause some trouble if youre heading out late on the roads. Happy hanukkah, Merry Christmas eve, holiday spirit. A dense fog issued for thethe district and baltimore, any counties you see here in the gray, includes prince georgesus county, southern half of montgomery, eastern of loudon,oo down through Southern Maryland o and portions of Northern Virginia as well. Virg this goes into effect right now until about 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow 0 morning. Watch out for some areas of s dense fog if youre doing some late night traveling. No problems with santa claus. Hell be making it through the fog. Fo 39degree, the winds are calm. No wind chill out there for nowe but its the calm winds that will help the as we head through the next few hours. Satellite and radar shows the upper levels of the atmosphere clouds are starting to break up a about i
Perspective this year. Father bill is along us with well talk about some of the conflicts we have all been through this year and you know one of the things you professionally and i wont ask you to deal with sanktyty for a professional but you talk to people for a living and talked to people your entire career tore a living. This past year, what message you have heard from people or do you talk to people about in your own hospitallies about coming together and maybe healing some of the rancor and decision content weve seen on both sides of the political aisle this year. I think a lot of people are happy to see 2016 door shut and brand new door opening its been a tough year i think and one there has been in ow own system of dp lot of ugliness not just politically but all families in many ways. I think its time for a fresh start. And thats what new years is about. Its starting to get lighter. We had the solstice and the light is coming on. Literally and figuratively. Its time to let the l
Your ideas for reducing moneys influence in politics. To do that this morning, we are setting up our phone lines a bit differently. If you are someone who has made a political contribution in this or previous elections, want to hear from you. 2027488000. If you have never made a political contribution, your number 2027488001. You can catch up with us on social media this morning on twitter cspanwj. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Toery good Tuesday Morning you. It is anyones guess how much money will be spent one campaign 2016 is over, but as of the end senate forhe responsive politics had numbers on how much had been spent on this campaign so far in terms of candidate fundraising. Well over 1 billion has been raised by candidates and the super pacs supporting them. 619 million by the candidates themselves. Superillion by supporting the various by super pacs. We will get into the various numbers this morning on washington journal but that massive fundraising and how it electionng up