Sunday will mark the next escalation in the trade war between washington and beijing. 15 import taxes on about 120 billion of chinese imports. Whether either side might be getting ready to blank. My discussions with chinese and american friends and china is looking more and more alike we are not any closer. It seems that china has begun to hunker down. China has waited this out, and china thinks that they can weather the storm more easily than President Trump or americans think they might. China is beginning to look for other markets for their exports and they are doing a pretty good job doing that, so it is the longer haul. There is also a sense that it is becoming more political than economic. President trump might be timing potential deals closer to the election rather than earlier. That is the next couple of three weeks. People are starting to adjust to all of the changes. The trouble is there is still in immense uncertainty. With the inability of putting a deal together is creatin
House will be in order. This year cspan celebrates 45 years of covering Congress Like no other. Since 1979 weve been your primary source for capitol hill. Providing balance unfiltered coverage of government. Taking you to where the policies debated and decided all with the support of americas cable companies. Cspan what 45 years and counting, powered by cable. Now to talk about oversight of the u. S. Military aid to ukraine, is the Inspector General of the Defense Department robert, rob thanks for reading in. Good morning it is a pleasure to be here. So lets just start if you can explain the role of an Inspector General for the Defense Department. B sure. Happy to Inspector General all over the federal government, theres 75 of them within the Statutory Group under the Inspector General act and basically, t we do independent oversight over the programs, operations and personnel of the department and agencies we oversee. So basically that means two types of thing. One problematic so adut
Antisemitism in the u. S. Following the hamas attack on israel. We want to get your reactions to the speech. How do you define antisemitism . Do you think it is on the rise . If you are jewish, how do you define it . Republicans can call 202 7488001. Democrats at 202 7488000. Independent colors can call 202 7488002. You can also text 202 7488003. Welcome to todays washington journal. People get started with a portion of the president s speech from yesterday. [video clip] President Biden we must not give safe harbor to anyone for everyone in our nation. We know that scapegoating and demonizing any minority has affected every minority and our democracy. We had to put these principles into action. I understand people have strong beliefs about the world. In america, we respect and protect the fundamental right to free speech. To protest peacefully and make our voices heard. There is no place on any campus in america for antisemitism, hate speech or violence of any kind. [applause] whether
The committee will come to order. The Committee Welcomes mr. David norquist comptroller as our witness today. The topic is the audit of the department of defense, which by law begins this fiscal year. And i would just say its not by accident that the committee will start our year on this topic. Requiring that the Department Conduct an audit has been a bipartisan priority of this committee for some time. The chief Financial Office of 1990 required all federal departments conducted annual financial audit and partly out of frustration with a lack of progress toward that end that the department of defense. The 2010 required the Financial Statements of the department be ready for audit by september 30, 2017. This committees panel on defense Financial Management and reform put close scrutiny on the departments efforts and issued a number of recommendations that have been enabled us to arrive at this point. The 2014 required a full audit be conducted of the departments fy 18 Financial Stateme
The committee will come to order. The Committee Welcomes mr. David norquist, the undersecretary of defense, comptroller, and chief Financial Officer as our witness today. The topic is the audit of the department of defense, which by law begins this fiscal year. And i would just say its not by accident that the committee will start our year on this topic. Requiring that the Department Conduct an audit has been a bipartisan priority of this committee for some time. The chief Financial Officer act of 1990 required all federal departments conduct an annual financial audit and partly out of frustration with a lack of progress toward that end at the department of defense, the 2010 required the Financial Statements of the department be ready for audit by september 30, 2017. This committees panel on defense Financial Management and reform put close scrutiny on the departments efforts and issued a number of recommendations that have enabled us to arrive at this point. The 2014 ndea required a f