Cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Joining us is kim chapman. The executive joining us is kate ackley who covers congress for roll call and daddy or, the house report of politico which is where we will begin. Thanks for joining us today. Bit of a news on this thursday, roger stone a former trump associate was sentenced to three years in prison for lying to federal prosecutors as part of the russia probe, i just wanted to get your take on whether or not thats a fair sentence and whether you agree with some of the statements President Trump is made. Its lower than initially thought. I know the president has some issues with it. Obviously infractions were made, its a felony. I think its a problem and i think the sentence make sense but i will leave it up to the people and Legal Community to figure that out. Do think he received a fair trial . From my vantage point, yes. He is the latest in a series of Trump Campaign officials now facing prison time or in prison, this i
You asn 2020 brought to a Public Service by your television provider. Joining us on newsmakers is tim chapman, the executive director of the Heritage Action for america and joining us with the questioning is kate ackley who covers congress for roll call and gabby orr of politico. Thank you, tim, for joining us. A bit of news on this thursday, roger stone, former trump associate was sentenced earlier today to three years in prison for lying to federal prosecutors as part of the russia probe. I wanted to get your take on whether or not that is a fair sentence and whether you agree with some of the statements President Trump has made . Tim i know the president had some issues with it. Obviously, infractions were made, it was a felony. I think it is a problem and i think the sentence makes sense, but i will leave it up to the people in the Legal Community to figure that out. Do you think he received a fair trial . Tim from my vantage point, yeah. But hes the latest in a series of Trump Cam
Correspondent daniel new howser and congressional reporter pitterson, later anthony from the center for strategic and International Talk about the Foreign Policy challenges that are facing in 2018. Social media. But voters, wed, should make it a priority that basic knowledge pertaining to our government. Amy says it helps. I have learned so much from the social media. I can adjust my opinion to include new facts. Ive change my mind is some because of conversations with people online. One more from saul. A lot of people do not care about the research, it hurts, they end up spreading false information. That is a sampling of the discussion on our facebook page. Here is a poll. Different wording, but same idea, this is from surveymonkey from october, asked whether social media does more to help, promote democracy and free speech or does more to hurt it. 51 surveyed in the late october poll said it did more to her democracy, 45 said it did more to help. Large majorities among hispanics and
We have a washing a washington congressional reporter with us as well. Lets talk about what happened over the weekend, when Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan joined the president at camp david for a retreat. What do we know about the agenda their . Agenda there . House Speaker Paul Ryan indicated he is interested in doing some kind of overhaul of welfare programs. Shown he isell has not that interested in doing a Major Overhaul of entitlement programs. Sure if there is some narrow sliver those two leaders might need to work on. The president has told House Republicans he is interested in doing something with welfare programs. But it is a midterm year and, there is anysure appetite in the senate to take up a big, controversial change. Host can you talk about what happened at camp david . Senator mcconnell is trying to convey the political realities. His missile majority in the senate has slimmed to 51 republicans. The tax billot done and failed on the obamacare repeal. That changes a lot. W
The second session of the Congress Officially begins tomorrow. For roundtable discussion on the agenda ahead, we are joined by the staff correspondent with the National Journal. Us asina peterson is with well from the wall street journal. 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 tomorrow. It seems like senator Mitch Mcconnell is trying to convey the realities. His majority has slimmed from 52 to 51 and that will change. They can barely get the tax bill done. They failed on the obamacare repeal. As he told reporters, that changes a lot and when it comes to entitlement reforms, whatever they might be, that is really hard to get any democrats on board. I would expect him to try to convey that. Paul ryan has been a big think leader. For him, you know, he may try, as he said he will, to the these, but he is facing some hurdles in