Staff correspondent with the National Journal. Kristina peterson is with us from the wall street journal. Be agenda is likely to shaped by what happens over the weekend when Mitch Mcconnell, paul ryan joined the president at camp david for a retreat. What do you know about the topic, the agenda, there and what each of those men bring into that meeting with the president . Guest House Speaker paul ryan has indicated he is interested in doing some kind of overhaul of welfare programs. Stamps or be food housing assistance. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has shown he is not that interested in doing a Major Overhaul of entitlement programs. He has talked about not wanting to do some thing to medicare and medicaid right now. If therest sure some narrow sliver that those two leaders might agree to work on. Of course, the president will in this he has told House Republicans he is interested in some changes to welfare programs, but it is a midterm year, and im not sure there is a huge a
In doing some kind of overhaul of welfare programs. That could be food stamps or housing assistance. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has shown he is not that interested in doing a Major Overhaul of entitlement programs. He has talked about not wanting to do some thing to medicare and medicaid right now. So were not sure if theres some narrow sliver that those two leaders might agree to work on. Of course, the president will play a role in this he has told House Republicans he is interested in some changes to welfare programs, but it is a midterm year, and im not sure there is a huge appetite in the senate to take up any big controversial changes. Host daniel newhauser, what is your sense of how this meeting goes at camp david . Guest it seems like Mitch Mcconnell is trying to convey political realities facing him. The biggest change in the senate will be that his majority has slammed from 52 republicans to 51. That is going to change a range of things. They could barely get the
Last week the independent federal Energy Regulatory commission, even one stuffed with trump appointees, rejected secretary perrys proposed power grid reliability rule to subsidize coal and nuclear plants. The ferc commissioners found that the commission failed to meet clear and legal requirements like that the result will be just and reasonable under the federal power act. As an aside here, the theory of the coal industry was that their units provide more reliability than renewables. Well, tell that to iowas electric grid operators who have baked iowas abundant wind energy not just into their flow but into their reliability modeling. Tell that to new englands i. S. O. Which has allowed renewables into its capacity auctions to be paid for meeting base Load Capacity requirements. And of course tell that to anyone who has had to deal with scheduled and unscheduled outages at coal plants. When i went on one of my climate visits to, in this case, tennessee, i heard about a coal plant that h
The country. Dean has been in this job since 2014 having earlier served as managing editor and washington. Chief of the times. He also edited the los angeles times, and won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting for the Chicago Tribune and started his newspaper career way back when as a Young Journalist at the time stick you in new orleans. Martin baron, marty to most of his friends come join the Washington Post in 2013 after 11 years editing the boston globe. Both papers under his leadership harvested 12 Pulitzer Prizes. Baron also in order times helped edit the los angeles times, the New York Times and the miami herald. Allow me to start our discussion tonight with a simple proposition, that in a democracy such as ours, if freedom of the press is jeopardized, then democracy itself is jeopardized. Since one is intimately linked to the other. During the president ial campaign of 2016, candidate donald trump routinely criticized the press or the media, humiliating a number of reporters, bul
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