News and opinion website. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington is next. Ist good morning, it monday, september 23, 2019. Scrutiny over President Trumps reactions to ukraine have led for renewed calls for impeachment. Also acknowledged yesterday that joe biden came up in that july call. This morning on the washington journal, we are getting your reaction to this story as phone lines are split as usual by political party. Is thets, 2027488000 number. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also text us and if you do, please include your name and where you are from. That number, 2027488003. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good monday morning, you can start calling in now. It was the washington journal over the weekend that led the that julyorting about phone call with President Trump. The wall street journal w
Orhink this is the ninth 10th such forum and it is very timely to discuss a lot of critical issues. I also want to congratulate csis and john and victor cha for the 10th anniversary of the korea chair of csis. It marks a decade of on korean issues that are so important to the American People and korean people. It has been a significant accomplishment for victor and john and all of csis. I am delighted to be here today. Im also assured the leadership of north korea is elated that im here today in a private capacity. [laughter] at least thats what ive read. Perhaps they will be a little less delighted now that i can speak in unvarnished terms about the grave and growing threat that the north Korea Nuclear Weapons Program poses to International Peace and security. Lets start with a couple of what i think the main precepts of dealing with the north Korean Nuclear threat are. First, it remains unacceptable for north korea to have deliverable Nuclear Weapons. By the word unacceptable, i dont
About his documentary on mohammad bin salman. As always, we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook is ne. Tuesday, october 1, 2019, the start of the federal governments 2020 fiscal year is a brief pro forma session this morning. House committees are moving forward with their impeachment inquiry. Good morning i welcome to washington journal. We will start the program looking at the latest developments in the whistleblower investigation, including some updated whole poll information. Here is how we have broken up phone lines. If you support the impeachment inquiry only, the line to use is 2027488000. If you support impeachment and removal from office, that line is 2027488001. You are opposed to either both the inquiry or the impeachment process, that line, 2027488002. You can also send us a text. 2027488003 is the number. We are on twitter at cspanwj and post your comments at facebook. Com cspan. The updated poles, the headline in usa today, americans approve
Obama era agriculture secretary tom vilsack. Topics include tariffs and trade with china, and the role of agriculture in the 2020 election. This is one hour. Everyone , it is warm. So youre here. Thank you my name the kaleena. Anda senior food agriculture reporter at politico. Politico covers food and agriculture. Were really proud of that. And its for those of you not amiliar, politico is washington d. C. Based news outlet. Im sure all of you are reading it. Im really delighted to be here today in texas, one of my the union. Ates in im not just pandering. Were going to talk about the state of agriculture in 2020 and beyond. And before we start, i want to theurage you to join conversation on social media, is trib fest 19. I also want to give a big thanks the Texas Tribune festival for hosting this great event and sponsoring. I also understand the Texas Farm Bureau is supporting this and to hear from them. We have a really good panel. Know if you guys realize that. I dont know if the au
It took me a while to understand the acronyms. Theyre not as well known as. N. C. Chairman or d. N. C. Chairman. But these are members of congress who have been elected by their colleagues to basically get the gavel whether that means protect it or take it. And so it is a difficult job. They manage millions of dollars. They decide who gets that money in ad spending and it can be a brutal process if your side is not doing well in the election year. I had one former chairman describe to me what its like during the house floor and tell a colleague im so sorry, i just cut off your Television Ads and youre going to lose reelection. Yall might have heard of a man named rahm emanuel. He leveraged that job to very high levels of the american government. And so i find the job fascinating. But i would like to start off and ill start with congressman bustos. Can you describe to me what this job is . Sure. Hello, everybody. First of all, thanks for being here. I want to thank the texas tribune. Im