Expanded. We start off with his story so that is being drawn ukraines borders are in the us voted overwhelmingly in favor of quitting yet to join russia defining International Opposition to a resounding ninety six percent of voters cast their ballots for a union with the federation and witty official procedures in law still moving at dizzying speed. Russias parliament is set to decide on crime is annexation of east west confrontation has taken on added urgency. The eu and us has slammed the referendum as a legitimate cranny in an emotional eater say its a matter of Self Determination less than twenty four hours after the referendum stated facts they raced outside the parliament to make a toast and terrible. The old anti and maybe gone. After decades of ukrainian rule in any case that the convict to rush and will restore some of the peninsula as costs than that. When it is unwilling to see a lot more investment over the past twenty years has not eaten any of it. Of the underbrush own li
Very high and is persistent and woringly so in terms of the human cost and the long term cost for our economy. You testified before that not all cuts are the same. And that there are some ways in which we are cutting that are hurting our long term competitiveness. They produce longer term reductions in our capacity and that we should be prioritizing things that will accelerate growth, that we should not be simply trying to get through this difficult fiscal time in a way that focuses on austerity. We should be investing in a way that sustains growth. What types of policies in your view could both help accelerate growth and do so in a way that would deal with long term unemployment . And what are the budget airy implications for long term unemployment . The first part of your question, senator, of all nondefense Discretionary Spending, half represents investment of some sort about 20 of nondefense Discretionary Spending is investment in physical capital such as highways. Another 15 is go
To you can watch all of this later at our program schedule. We are taking you live now to a hearing getting under way on capitol hill that is ted poe of texas. He chairs one of the subcommittees of house Foreign Affairs, 1 of the 2 looking into the Prisoner Exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl which occurred on may 31st, a former commander of special forces in afghanistan will testify, as will an Army Specialist who served with Sergeant Bergdahl. Lets hope that the bergdahl negotiators are not the same ones currently negotiating with iran over nuclear weapons. Be that as it may, releasing five senior taliban commanders may put the lives of our Senior Service members and americans around the world at risk. 1 of the 5 detainees was deputy chief of the talibans intelligence service. One detainee fought alongside al qaeda, a taliban military general. Another was a Senior Commander wanted by the United Nations for war crimes and worked closely with al qaeda and their affiliates. In fact
Despite violent protests over his 27 year rule. And 30 years after antiriots in india families of the dead are asking why they are still waiting for justice. Well, iraqi army is making important gains in the fight against isil, they gained territory in northern and central parts of iraq and Government Forces have been advancing to the city which is an isil command center 200 kilometers north of baghdad and on both sides is the oil refinery anti rack Cherokee Army controls parts of the facility but want to force isil out altogether and we have exclusive pictures of the fighting as we report. Reporter this is what most of the fighting against isil now looks like, street to street in deserted neighborhoods, isil fighters are a few hundred meters up the road. This is less than 20 kilometers south of one of iraqs largest Oil Refineries by the command center. Offensive to take this has lost two weeks so far and this special forces unit in the iraqi army made gains and the commander speaks up
Benefits. What they want to knock down or knock out and democrats want to see continue and not touch. Chad pergram with the latest. Hey, chad. Good afternoon, neil. There was a meeting today on capitol hill with the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, also the secretary of the treasury, steve mnuchin, mark meadows, and the Senate Minority leader, chuck schumer. They met for about two hours. That meeting is broken up now. In fact, we are expecting to you sometime this hour from steve mnuchin. Mitch mcconnell. Nancy pelosi says that they talked a lot about cost and numbers and what it would cost to reopen the schools. Listen. Speak on our discussion has to be on how we defeat the virus, and that takes policy. The virus is the villain. We can open our economy. We can open our schools, but we can only do it if our children and our families are safe. And opening our schools is a place where we spent a great deal of time. This is why working out an agreement in august is so crucial. Extra be