This is not how bruce willis is supposed to be handling a global pandemic. Were getting to see the insides of a lot of peoples houses right now. Even politicians. Senator Lindsey Graham gave us a glimpse into his confirmed bachelor pad after holding up the stimulus bill because he was concerned greedy and lazy nurses and Hospital Personnel would take unemployment money instead of showing up for work. Yesterday, he changed his tune significantly, to send those same people his thanks and support on world health day. What heroes are doctors, emts, anybody in the supply chain to get food on the shelves. Youre truly the heroes of this fight. Jimmy what a beautiful piece of artwork. I had no idea lindsey knew how to paint we also got to see the inside of Bernie Sanders house. The big story of the day, the second biggest story, i guess is that Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the race for president. He made the announcement from his home in vermont where he has been holed up for weeks, obvio
Southern california Annenberg Center for communication leadership and policy. Im also president of the Public Diplomacy council. Those are two of the partners in these events. The third partner is the Public Policy alumni association. Im pleased to have the president of that organization here to also welcome you. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you. If i could take a moment to just highlight three events that many f you will be interested in. The office of the historian of the department of state is putting out the volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States, the documents for Public Diplomacy from 1961 to 1963. Which is the kennedy period when back to. S date they are going to be releasing it, 20 at the door. You do have to sign up in advance. I think it will be a very interesting exploration of the histry of Public Diplomacy. Secondly, one of the things pdaa does is provides awards for the diplomacy t public work that department of state, public dimcy officers are doing. W
This is just under an hour. As both the senate and house get back to work on capitol hill today, we take a look at a busy week ahead in washington with jason dick and alex moulton. Alex bolton, top priority this week and next is certain to be that looming government funding. Eadline Republican Leaders on the hill huddled with the president at camp david over the weekend. What do we know about what they talked about when it comes to resolving this budget impasse . Guest well, they are talking about with the priorities for 2018 should be. As far as the budget goes, what they are concerned about is what they see as a lack of military spending. They feel the military is overstretched. All four branches. Coast guard, navy, marines, army. That readiness is that an alltime low. Speaker ryan put out a Statement Last week, if you look at military readiness in the early 1990s compared to now, it is much degraded. I think they want to focus on boosting that defense spending number over whatever i