Is the 1st its stupid to deny that its a political process and it ended with my release and it ended like that because there was a change of administration. Here watching our teams National Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. Donald trump has pulled the plug on afghan peace talks with the taliban it was hoped they would bring americas longest war to an end he blamed the groups recent attack on kabul and watch an american soldier was killed the taliban warns though that scrapping the talks will result in more u. S. Losses. They admitted to an attack in kabul that killed one of our great great soldiers and 11 other people if they cannot agree to a ceasefire during these very important peace talks the men probably dont have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway the u. S. President. Cooled off the peace dialogue this will lead to more losses to the u. S. His credibility will be affected his anti peace stance will be
Reporting on the life and career of Robert Mueller. Washington journal is next. Host the flag halfstaff today in honor of john paul stevens. Democrats and the white house reached a budget deal allowing the government to borrow beyond current limits, green lighting additional spending in the coming years. As we take you through what that means for the fiscal house, we spend the first hour hearing about your personal fiscal house. Give us a call and tell us how much debt you carry and how concerned you are about it. Phone numbers different this morning. If you carry no debt, 202 748 8000. If you carry below 50,000 in debt, 202 7488001. Andou carry between 50,000 100,000 in debt, 202 7488002 , and if you are over 100,000 in debt, 202 7488003. Catch up with us on social media, on twitter cspanwj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspa n. Good Tuesday Morning to you. Start calling in. Let us know how much debt you have. We will give you a sense of the overall personal debt facing american fam
Eastern. Washington journal continues. Host and now, a roundtable discussion on the Robert Mueller hearings taking center stage on capitol hill tomorrow. Joining us for this discussion this morning is Morgan Chalfant on national our National Security for the held news paper, Andrew Desiderio from politico. This gets underway at 8 30 a. M. Tomorrow and the House Judiciary Committee explain what they will be covering. Guest they will focus on volume two of the report, exclusively on the idea the president was seeking to obstruct the mother investigation. A lot of democrats, even the chairman of the committee, jerry nadler, said the evidence is clear the president at least sought to obstruct the investigation. The decision was made not to charge the president with a crime in part because of the office of Legal Counsel opinion that we have been talking about that states you cannot indict a sitting president. The only way to hold a sitting president accountable would be outside of the crimi
But the decision was made not to charge the president with a crime, in part because of the office of Legal Counsel opinion that we have been talking about you cannot indict a sitting president. The only way to hold that isting president accountable outside the criminal justice system. Those are the issues the committee will look into. The big issue on everyone mine will be impeachment and whether the House Judiciary Committee will move through that after the hearing. That remains to be seen. But that will be top of mind. Host take us through the format of the hearing. Guest 2 it will be a regular order hearing, but it will be three hours. The hearing was supposed to be last weekend and be shorter than that, two hours. The committee was able to negotiate with special Counsel Robert Mueller for more times more time, which would allow all Committee Members to have questions. If it were two hours, the bottom runs of the committee would not be able to question Robert Mueller and public, whi
Available wherever books are cspan. O t thepresident. Joining us for a discussion his morning is the National Security reporter for the hill newspaper, Congress National politico it all gets under way at 8 30 a. M. Tomorrow in the house Judiciary Committee. Tomorrow and the housy committee explain what they will be covering. Guest they will focus on volume two of the report, exclusively on the idea the president was seeking to obstruct the mother investigation. A lot of democrats, even the chairman of the committee, jerry nadler, said the evidence is clear the president at least sought to obstruct the investigation. The decision was made not to charge the president with a crime in part because of the office of Legal Counsel opinion that we have been talking about that states you cannot indict a sitting president. The only way to hold a sitting president accountable would be outside of the criminal justice system. Those are the Judiciary Committee issues. The big issue that will be on e