Book tonight. Hope to be, on cspan2. Matthew good afternoon everybody and thank you for coming out. My name is travis and im in charge of this club. Lets do go over some quickon housekeeping. Remind everybody to please silence your cell phones, are also going to be recording video and audio. Todays talk so tappan. So we can suit time for the q a program portion, we have a microphone right here. We ask that you speak clearly into it and keep your question to a question. So we have all the books on self behind the Cash Register at the front of the store. So you w can get those then come back in, matt will be more than happy to sign them. Then we ask you to keep your tears in a place. Also, we post a lot of events this year. Every year really. We have the calendars up at the desk and also you can check on her website. We update that all of the time. With the pleasure of hosting matthew. Hes an Award Winning journalist. Hes authored many books, and the president is an sick man among them.
I will tell you i voted against the welfare bill, one of the proudest votes i have cast in the 26 years i served in the house of representatives. I need to set that record out there. Jared bernstein, i thank you for moderating this discussion and for the great work you do. One of the foremost leaders of economic policy. They do improve the lives of working americans. I want to recognize ron haskins and jane for the groundbreaking work on this topic then paves the way to so many conversations that were helped today. The Solutions Discussed today provide a constructive framefor members of congress. To approach the universal child allowance, the expansion of Child Tax Credits. It has been a productive and thoughtprovoking day. An opportunity to speak to you. It is a sitting book end to a Conference Held 50 years ago. And the school of social work, hold children allowance conference, expert in social welfare and economics with policies about makers to assure the issue of child allowance wa
On twitter and facebook. We will get to these stories this morning in the morning he news sites as well. News this morning of a horrific plane crash in the black sea near sochi in russia. Russian military plane carrying performers scratches off of sochi. That is the site of the 2014 winter olympics. 92lane carrying 19 people people crashed. The the news crash report from bloomberg this morning. Open phones here on washington journal this morning. Some of these stories closer to home in the Washington Post writing about donald trump and the fate of his foundation. Plans to dissolve charity. Timeline unclear amid investigation. They write that president elect donald trump plans to shut down his charitable foundation. There is actually some reaction from democrats on that as well. The hill reporting, dems salm trump over Christmas Foundation announcement. They slammed trump for the Christmas Even announcement that he would dissolve his charitable foundation. National Committee Call his an
Supported us too, but i think the lesson from that is we have got to ratchet that down somehow and i know that is a constitutional problem and the court also have to test that again. We have gone way too far on having political money raising as a free speech issue. I dont think it really is the way it has morphed into the way it is now. It takes the candidates out of the game in many respects and gives the ball to these outside groups. In terms of the daytoday operations and your job, as you leave, what would be your suggestion for how to change the process here on capitol hill . Rep. Ashford well, you know, it is i come from a nonpartisan state. We dont do this. It is so different. We dont have we dont really have a rules committee in the traditional sense in the congress. Bills come out of committee and move to the floor. I know that can be done in the congress. It is not done now. I think a much more free flowing processing of legislation is the best way to go. Any movement we could
Should the u. S. Form an alliance with france and russia busted mark if you believe so, here are the numbers. You can also join us on twitter. You can also send an email. Good morning. The phone lines are open. Start typing in. We want to get your thoughts on if the u. S. Should join france and russia to defeat isis. He is the White House Correspondent with the french press in washington to talk about this meeting between mr. Obama and the french president desperate. In with acomes stronger voice, some sort of leverage on the international stage. Washington too ask to move faster against isil. That means more u. S. Strikes in syria, more intelligence sharing. More openings on the diplomatic front. Host what will he say to president obama about russia . Difficultts the most one. Some have been portrayed him as a mediator between the u. S. And russia. Some of this might be true. Its difficult. Largelooking for a coalition. I dont think anybody believes he will have one Single Coalition.