Chuck shumer and nancy pelosi will be holding a News Conference shortly on a background checks bill. We will have live at 3 00 or when it gets started on cspan. The House Judiciary Committee will be working on gun violence legislation tomorrow beginning at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Our live coverage is on cspan 3. You can also watch online at cspan. Org and listen free with the cspan radio app. Host juli. She is a contributor to the nation magazine. She is here to talk about where the republican is with women voters and women in the party in general, representatives on capitol hill. We have you in because of the piece you just wrote in the nation, the Republican Partys white women problem. It is been characterized by hostile sexism and women are turning away. What prompted you to write the article . Guest i was interested in a special election held in North Carolina in july and it got a lot of National Media attention because there were two republican candidates that made it past the runoff,
Read him, to a remarkable man, jerry west. I would like to congratulate you on this tremendous atresia and achievement and congratulations to your family. We are delighted to be joined by jerrys wife, karen, and their wonderful family. Thank you very much, everybody. Look at that family, huh . You did a good job. Beautiful. We are also pleased to have with us senator joe manchin and governor jim justice. Two terrific people. Stand up, jim, in case they cant see you. Now you can see him. Thats great. Great to have you. Joe, thank you very much. Thank you both for being here. They are busy. They are very busy people, and i think we will meet on a certain subject later on, joe, and thats good. Jerry was born in West Virginia in 1938, the fifth of six children. He grew up hiking in the woods, fishing in the clear water and exploring the beautiful mountains of West Virginia, great, great state. I should not say this, but i won it by 43 points. Thats a lot. We love West Virginia. Probably he
Thank you, richard. Thanks to all of you for coming out. Thanks, richard for your nice timeses of the new york columnist. General dunford, thank you so much for taking your time to do this. Orm sure in the last month so in your long service, you have got a lot of demands on your time, so your willingness to come out and talk about the world here, we really appreciate. Gen. Dunford i questioned my judgment when i looked at the schedule this morning. [laughter] david at the end of the hour, you may question it again. But for different reasons. [laughter] dunford undoubtedly. Today, as youplan can see from the many cameras best year our plan is that the general and i will have a conversation for about 30 minutes and then open it up for questions from our audience. , general dunford, we could go back on so many places, given your service and so many different roles, but you came into this job in 2015, appointed by president obama. How would you compare the Global Security environment you h
Gun violence. The Democracy Alliance Senior Advisor discusses her recent piece in the nation magazine, the Republican Partys white women problem. Roblem o. Host good morning. It is friday, september 6, 2019. Welcome to washington journal. There has been a notable update in a mission and outlook of a Major Business group, one representing some 200 Bluechip Companies that perhaps reflects the changing views in america over who corporations should be responsible to. This first hour, we will talk about that. Who should corporations be responsible to . 2027488000 is the number to call for democrats. 2027488001. E and for all others, 2027488002. You can send us a tweet at cspanwj or post comments to facebook. Com cspan. In addition to the change of the Business Roundtable outlook, perhaps the increasing crossroads between Public Policy in corporations like Johnson Johnson and Purdue Pharma over the Opioid Crisis or walmart and the gun violence privacy concerns over corporations like facebook
Polarization around is been characterized by hostile sexism and women are turning away. What prompted you to write the article. I was interested in north a republicanuly man and a republican woman made the runoff. The woman was heavily endorsed by a number of new efforts that have cropped up in the Republican Party post 2018. In the wake of 2018. Which we think of as the year the woman, but it was the year of the Democratic Women. Numbers of womens were democrat were elected across the country. The number of republican women dwindled. 23 to 13 in the house. That a number of republican Women Leaders started sounding the alarm bells. They started believing and organizing efforts to try to endorse and bring money in early to support republican women candidates. Republican women candidates. They spent quite heavily in the republican race in North Carolina yet the outcome was she lost by over 20 points to her opponent. That made me really question whether this issue, which i think there are