President sarcoys of france. Chancellor merkel of germany and president calderone of mexico. It was initiated by congress but agreed to by all four leaders. So it is out of the ordinary that the speaker would decide that he would be inviting people to a joint session without any bipartisan consultation. And of course, we always our friendship with israel is a very strong one. Prime minister netanyahu has spoken to the joint session two times already. There are concerns about the fact that as i understand it from this morning, this presentation will take place within two weeks of the election in israel. I dont think that is appropriate for any country that the head of state would come here within two weeks of his own election in his own country. The more serious part of your question is about the sanctions. Yes, the president was correct in his presentation on the strength in which he presented his appeal to congress that we not have sanctions at this time. Putting it in perspective, th
Petraeuss pleading guilty to mishandling classified information. I wanted to know if the white house has a broader reaction to his plea today . No, thats it. For more details about the investigation id refer you to the department of justice. J. C. , ill give you the last one. Reporter ive been married for 23 years. Congratulations to you and your wife. [ laughter ] reporter if i may change the topic to isil something we havent talked about in a while about a week ago, the head of egypt, presidency sisi, recommended a Strong Coalition of the willing in arab nations to combat isil in the region. Was there any discussion today over that Video Conference with the leaders, the misdemeanor many leaders, that that might be a good idea to join that coalition for really a universal coalition of the willing to fight asill . I dont have a detailed readout of the teleconference but well have something later on this afternoon. I can tell you as a general matter that the president is certainly very
In which he outlined his Climate Action plan. So i was reading a legal opinion recently and it said a president s speech is certainly not a matter of law but the president making these International Agreements has through regulation pursued his commitments that he is making. But other countries that are part of these agreements are not doing the same thing so the u. S. Is being penalized because of these extreme actions. So what you all are doing, and im reading from a legal opinion that mr. Tribe wrote, you are forcing a select set of victims including consumers communities regions, businesses and utilities to bear a substantial part of what is a global problem that even you and your predecessor indicated that these regulations were not solved so you are asking for 425 million more dollars than last year. A lot of that money is going to go to hire additional lawyers to defend them litigate these extreme regulations so we look forward to the opportunity today in exploring this situatio
Industry to make sure we werent being overly aggressive about the ability to have the technologies available for full implementation. Has epa actually quantified how much of the voc reduction the nsps has actually yielded to this point . We do have a good signal from our Greenhouse Gas reporting program that its already been tremendously effective at reducing Carbon Pollution because Carbon Pollution is reduced as youre catching those volatile organic compounds. So we do have a very good sense that this is being effective already. I understand its already about 190 to 290,000 tons. Thats right. Is the estimate. Has epa quantified methane reductions as a cobenefit . We have and i can provide those numbers. I dont have them at the tip of i think i have them. Its about 73 decrease . Excellent. So in january this year the white house released a strategy of reducing oil pollution. They released pro terrible resources like oil wells pumps leaks as well as well sites and compression stations.
And we are counting on countries in the region to take some responsibility for fighting isil and whether that is training local fighters, we know that there are some countries in the region that have committed to host Training Programs for members of the moderate Syrian Opposition so that they can be trained and equipped by our Coalition Partners so that they can take the fight to isil on the ground in their own country and we certainly would welcome those kinds of contributions to this broader effort. Thanks, everybody. The Supreme Court is set to hear the oral arguments in king v. Burwell, a case challenging the federal subsidies for the purchase of health care through the Affordable Care act. On the next washington journal, jess bravin of the wall street journal is here to talk about the case and the potential outcome. Then more about the Affordable Care act and subsidies with Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health news. Washington journal is live every morning and you can join the conve