We are going to open up regional lines for this conversation this morning. That means if you are in the eastern or central time zones, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. In mind, you can always text us your opinion at 202 always3, and we are reading on social media. You can reach us on twitter at cspanwj and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Again, the idea and concerns about government surveillance has been on peoples minds recently. Infact, there was a story nbc today that i wanted to read to you that talks about some of the concerns about government surveillance. The unsupported claims that President Donald Trump has made for two years about the fbis russia investigation, calling it a witch hunt cooked up by his political opponents, the conclusion by the Justice Department watchdog of the that the probe was justified was big news. But the other major findings of the Inspector Generals rep
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Look forward to the signing of this into law later today. Importantly, this authorization establishes the establishment of the space force. As the Newest Branch of the armed forces. I want to thank the president for the leadership of this historic initiative. Which will pastor us to effectively defend our National Interest in space. The last time we developed a new branch of the military it was over 70 years ago when we separated the air corps from the army in 1947, creating the United States air force. Back then we saw how power had air power had expanded during world war ii and we recognize the need for a Single Service to focus on the air domain. Similarly, reliance on space based capability has grown, and today it has evolved into a domain of its own. Maintaining american dominance is now the mission of the space force. The president will announce the official establishment later today when he signs this and we will provide Additional Details on the implementation and timeline. Nda
A hall meeting with constituents talking about the tax reform law. You can also follow live on cspan. Org or lift listen on the radio app. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin talked to reporters during the daily briefing. He talked about the rollout of the impact on u. S. Workers. This is about 20 minutes. Thank you very much. Let me comment and say that i am pleased that i will be leading the economic delegation. We will have a large group of cabinet members traveling with us. We will get more information on that later. I would like to talk about the withholding tables. Today the Treasury Department released new withholding guidance that will implement the tax cut. Will mean thatce workers and their families will receive larger paychecks starting in february. This has been a massive project we have been working on, beginning to implement the tax plan. There is a lot of work left to be done. This historic legislation doubles the standard deduction, simplifies the filing process, lowers th
We begin the conversation followed by a panel discussion. This is about an hour and a half. Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Welcome to those who join us on our website on all of these occasions and our inhouse tests, would you be so kind to check your mobile devices to see if they are silent or turned off. For those watching online, send questions or comments email speaker heritage. Org. Following the initial presentation, my colleague will lead our panel discussion. He is a foreignpolicy analyst and has worked for heritage since 1979 and offered papers on Foreign Policy issues and testified before congress on a wide variety of middle east issues. Hosting and introducing our special presenter is luke coffey who is director for center of Foreign Policy. He served in the United Kingdom ministry of defense to then secretary of state of defense. First ever nonu. K. National to be appointed by the Prime Minister. Prior to this, he worked in the house of commons as adviser