And Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. Americas first billionaire president is surrounded by many staffers with a very high net worth. A batch of the Financial Disclosure forms Top White House staffers are legally required to fill out shows 27 administration staffers have assets worth a combined 2. 3 billion. Among the wealthiest are trumps daughter, ivanka, and her husband, jared kushner, both serving as unpaid west wing advisers. They have assets worth at least 240 million and as much as 740 million, mostly in real estate owned by both families. National Economic Council director gary cohn, a former president of goldman sachs, has assets worth between 254 million a
Recent measures to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. President trump as a way to bring back coal mining jobs. My administration is putting an end to the war on coal. Weve financial to have clean comb, really clean coal. With todays executive action, i am taking historic steps to lift restrictions on american energy, to reverse government intrusion and to can sell jobkilling regulation. But critics say the order will do little to help the coal industry since other source of energy, like natural gas are already cleaner and cheaper. Joining me now from the academy of scientists, jonathan foley. Nice to have you here. Thanks, for having me here today. What is your reaction of president trumps rolling back mandate fighting Climate Change . Theyre down right bizarre the climate is clear its bad for the u. S. Economy and our interests around the world. Also, these measures wont bring back coal jobs. Those jobs have been gone. They have been replaced by automation and machine. They will not ben
Designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. The process to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia 14 months ago takes a step forward tomorrow. The nomination of judge neil gorsuch gets a vote in the Senate Judiciary committee that questioned him last month. The committee is expected to approve the nomination along partisan lines, with republicans having the majority, as they do in the whole senate, with 52 of 100 seats. Today, senator joe donnelly of indiana joined Heidi Heitkamp of south dakota and joe manchin of West Virginia as the only democrats to say theyll vote for gorsuch. All three are from states
Informs and inspires. Sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. Syrian government warplanes today resumed bombing the same town hit by a chemical weapons attack earlier this week. That attack was in violation of International Law and prompted an american missile strike in retaliation. At least 87 people have died since syrian president bashar assad unleashed chemical bombs on civilians in the rebelheld town of Khan Sheikhoun in the countrys northern idlib province. Todays Government Air strikes with conventional bombs killed at least two
Next Supreme Court justice with a simple majority vote. Republican senators invoked the socalled Nuclear Option to lower the vote threshold and defeat a filibuster mounted by senate democrats. Joining me now to discuss these legal issues and more is john yu, a uc berkeley law professor. Thanks for being here. So the president ordered a missile strike thursday on syria, and he did it without clearing it through the u. N. Security council or through congress. Weve seen a lot of response in the last day. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called the attack proportional, but she also joined more liberal and conservative members of congress, including congressman barbara lee, in calling for a congressional vote. Youre a constitutional scholar. Is what the president did legal under u. S. Or International Law . Lets take the constitution first. So president s have long used force abroad without getting a declaration of war from congress. In fact, we havent declared war since world war ii. But