Legislative council with the aclu and Mike Doucette is a Commonwealth Attorney in the state of virginia and dustin volz with reuters. Thank you all. Thank you. Guest thank you. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspans washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up Tuesday Morning, joseph from the Health Care Scholar at the American Enterprise institute and ron pollack talks about the decision to reduce or excel plans and how it impacts Affordable Care act. And the executive director of the National Association of consumer advocates looks at the Consumer Protection Bureau Proposal to overhaul debt. Join the discussion live Tuesday Morning on cspans washington journal. Coming up, booktv in prime time looks at what congress is reading first, alter egos hillary clinton, barack obama, and the Twilight Struggle over American Power is discussed. Then
Groups. You will get the people that are looking for the handout coming into the office with far less frequency. That enables you to focus your energies on those in need of aid. It also means there is less abuse of the taxpayer. There we go. In welfare reform, we basically had two goals. The first was to establish work requirements, not just to a game aid to families with dependent children, but also work requirements for food stamps. Secondly, and most importantly, to deal with the problem of out of wedlock childbearing and increase the number of children born inside marriage. Those were important. I think we made some modest progress on both of those fronts. Certainly not everything we could have done. This is going to be a very familiar chart. You saw one version of this. This is the temporary assistance with needy family caseload. This goes back to the time of the korean war. This is essentially the same data he was presenting. What we can see is that for a 55 year period, that red
Master on how to get things to happen. Her grandfather was, is the legendary bob strauss who probably was one of the legends of politics in america. Before i asked mark to kick it before i ask mark to kick it off, a book is out that i just watched called the death and life of american journalism. The book is dedicated to bill moyers. There is a quote at the beginning that says this is a crisis for journalism that is also a crisis for american democracy. You are experiencing it now. Thank you. Great to be here. I have met so many wonderful people already in this room. Thank you to tom for encouraging me to come, and to you for being here. Im afraid i might have been oversold a little bit in the sense that i cannot tell you what the future of news is. I guess i would challenge anyone in this world to say what the future of news is. It is in flux. There is a thinker about journalism, clay sherkie, who wrote a blog post several years ago in which he says memorably, compared the phase were
Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself. And for his regime. Plus stunning details of the russia meddling investigation. Cnn learned the former tam pain manager was the subject of an fbi wire tap at a time he was known to be in touch with president elect and president trump. We know that there was enough concern to get the first wire tap of. There was enough concern to get a second wire tap. The fbi has broken into his home in appropriate legal fashion and taken all of the records. And one last time. Senate republicans a vote or two short as they try to pass a plan that would shift Big Decisions to the states and allow Insurance Companies to drop some coverage mandated under obamacare. You will face a binary choice leaving 100 of obamacare in place or taking what we can get and working with the governors longterm. We begin the hour with president trumps first address to the United Nations General Assembly and his deliberate choice to hold out north korea and iran for harsh words
in syria while he wants to move troops out of the mideast. he is talking about refugees in their home while wanting to cut foreign aid and conflicts that have yet to be resolved. i think the headlines are overshadowing what julie alluded to, a trump doctrine that we saw between the inaugural address and the president s speech in warsaw and the speech today. if you put them together, he is given the most coherent statements in the big addresses watch and listened to by countries around the world. the thrust of it is the health care scholar and you put it best and he is telling nations building up walls and reasserting sovereignty is a great way to break down the walls between people. and he is reasserting a sense of american identity and