Where filling that landscape and appreciating what complicated lives these people have and the fact that they were everywhere. Whenever we move into landscape be interested in who lived there before. Was it a really, really deep history. What can you find out about that, because its always deeper than you might think. Up next, a conversation with Colorado Springs historians david and jean hideler about the challenge of writing history and the importance of teaching history. Weve been writing history since 1978 for publication. We started collaborating in the 1990s. We had written separately before then but since were in the same area and field we decided to start collaborating together. I think working as a spouse team is not easy. Weve had a lot of friends who have said to us i can never do that. A lot are not necessarily in the same field. I think probably because we started out in the same field. We even took graduate courses together that that probably helped. Not that we dont disa
They face any challenges from north korea, to iran, to venezuela. We thank spain for recent decision to expel recent ambassador and standing with us to isolate the brutal north korean regime. It is time for all responsible nations to join forces to isolate the north korean menace. North Korean Nuclear weapons and Missile Development threaten the entire world with unthinkable loss of life. All nations must act now to ensure the regimes complete denuclearization. I appreciate the United Nations security counsel voting twice unanimously, 150, twice, to adopt resolutions against north korea. I recently issued tough new sanctions against those who do business with outlaw regime. And i applaud china latest action to restrict its trade with north korea. And, in particular, i applaud china for breaking off all banking relationships with north korea, something that people would have thought unthinkable, even two months ago. I want to thank president xi. Here in the western hemisphere we have se
Right now, thank you. Neil, thank you for having me as always. Neil are you surprised this is turning out to be a bigger fight than many thought . Among republicans among republicans more than calculated . A couple different ways to answer that no. It is a tax bill. The reason it has been since 1980 since last time theyre hard to do. You would expect to have a lot of disagreements on minor things. I stress that on minor things. Generally speaking i think attitude is pretty positive. I dont like at it, oh, my goodness, things are worse than expected. This is what you expect dealing with a tax code as complex as ours is. Good progress today. Things are moving well. There is disagreements on small pieces and parts. Looks like everybody is headed in same direction and thats what we need. Neil i get a sense, sir, a number of republicans are surprised to find, this is based on a lot of academic studies, often times theyre not worth paper theyre printed on, all these guys have to go with, inc
Our nations tax system and relief the tax burden on american taxpayers with the focus on middle class families. Todays markup is the combination of the years long work. Almost every member of our former almost every member has participated in this process. Our former chairman senator max bacchus was engaged in this effort as was his counterpart on the republican side. Ranking member senator widen has done a lot of work on this effort others who have served on this committee, and moej t most of those who are now on the committee have done a great deal of work to advance tax reform, i want to thank all of my colleagues for their work. I have more to say about members contributions in the coming days, id like to take a few moments to talk about some of the highlights in the bill that will be before us today and this week. This legislation will provide much needed tax relief to American Workers and families. It reduces rates across the board, particularly for those in the middle class, who
Healthy kelsey snow, she covers congress for the washington post. Also the editor in chief of fox. The bill has had more than one day to soak in on the hill, how is it going . Can mitch question is mcconnell get the 50 votes . They need a majority of 51 votes to pass this. They can callin Vice President mike pence for backup. They have 52 republicans in the senate and they can only lose two. Right now we are looking at for conservatives who have said that they do not support the bill and its current form. They left open a lot of room to get themselves a few yeses. The real question is what will happen with moderate. There are a lot of questions at this point. They dont have 58, but there is a lot of confidence that they will be able to get there. Kospi,s also mark collins, Mitch Mcconnell has to do this dance with everyone. What areion is peoples policy bottom lines. We have to look at the republican divide on health care. You have the moderates who have been saying they need to do mor