They dont belong to the division of special education. Ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill from president obama today, came a fresh appeal to close a chapter at guantanamo. From republicans, came an outright refusal. It all focused on a fight at least as long as hes been president. For many years, its been clear that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security. It undermines it. Ifill for the president , it may be his final chance to keep a 2008 Campaign Promise shutting down the military prison at guantanamo. Its counterproductive to our fight against terrorists because they use it as propaganda in
Keep Drinking Water safe . We will have phone lines for republicans. Republicans that 2027488001 democrats at 2027488002 michigan residents at 2027488003. We want to hear what your state, local, and federal authorities are telling you about the safety of your water. Catch up with us on social media at twitter at http twitter. Com cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan. We begin with the front page of the wall street journal this morning. Over line is pure over Flint Michigans water. An investigation was launched into the water crisis in flint, michigan. The republican chairman issuing subpoenas forcing depositions from two officials. House oversight and Government Reform Committee Jason Chaffetz was particularly critical of darnell early, the emergency manager. A subpoena is being issued for the former administrator of the Environmental Protection agencys region five which oversees flint. Republicans are accused of playing politics with Public Health by refusing to compel similar testimony fr
Department of Homeland Security into rain in a executive overreach. That is it. It is simple. There is no reason for democrats to block it. Politico reports that Senate Democrats intend to to block the homeland spending bill. One democrat who has spoken out against it is Senate Minority whip dick durbin. He called for a clean appropriation bill while speaking for the american advocates group, americas voice. You can watch tuesday at 2 30 eastern. As always, we will have coverage on cspan3. Next, transportation secretary anthony foxx talks to a committee about the future of the Highway Trust Fund and live at 7 00 a. M. Your questions and comments live on washington journal. Transportation director anthony foxx told the environment and public works that the looming transportation sequestration possibility is looming. This is about two hours and 15 minutes. The meeting will come to order. I say to my friend, the Ranking Member, that the whole right side back there is oklahoma. I came in l
[inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening. Im the director of the president ial library and i want to welcome you here tonight for a conversation between joe califf on and bob schieffer. The top domestic assistance from 1965 to 1969 and was responsible for helping to put into place many of the programs of the Great Society. Prior to that he was a special assistant to secretary defends robert mcnamara. Joe went on to serve as the secretary of Health Education and welfare from 1977 to 1979. And then served as the chairman and president at the center on addiction and Substance Abuse at columbia university. He is the author of nine books including the triumph and tragedy of Lyndon Johnson. Originally published in 1992 by simon and schuster the book has been re released and is now back in publication. Thats a very unusual in the book industry for a book that is 20 plus years to be released and it speaks to the excellence of this volume. Tonight joe will talk about his book and ab
Excellence. So be that role model always. Which is very closely related to Lesson Learned number seven, ethics. The importance of ethics. And by the way, one of the things that has kept me very busy this the last three months in the last three months was a major failure of integrity, our core value number one. It occurred in our missile community, the icbm community, and ill just take a minute now to talk about this. It gets down to ethics. And this was a cheating situation that occurred. And by the way, it grew out of a drug investigation. And cell phones were confiscated as part of this drug investigation, and in the forensic analysis of the cell phones, it was discovered that those who are in the mess Sill Community and missile in community and are in charge of our icbm Nuclear Weapons had cheated on a proficiency test which i think i was two or three weeks on the job when this came to the light, came to our attention at the senior levels. And the first thing i asked was, holy cow,