Beaks to Small Business owners in west virginia. At 8 00, q and a retired syndicated columnist thomas soul. Steve joining us on newsmakers on this is congressman adam sunday smith, democrat from washington. He is also the ranking democrat on the House Armed Services committee. Congress and thanks for being , with us. Rep. Smith i appreciate it. Steve joining me is John Donnelly of cq roll call and leo shane of military times. Leo will get the first question. Leo Congress Thanks for doing , this. The big news this week was the Health Care Debacle over in the house. Youve been focused on Defense Budget but with what you saw from that debate, how do you feel about how were going to move ahead with the Defense Budget talks and whether or not theres any chance to avoid a government shutdown. It seems like were at a point where nothing is going to move. Rep. Smith its going to be very difficult. I theorized a couple months ago that the republicans do not have 218 republican votes for anythin
Beaks to Small Business owners in west virginia. At 8 00, q and a retired syndicated columnist thomas soul. Steve joining us on newsmakers on this is congressman adam sunday smith, democrat from washington. He is also the ranking democrat on the House Armed Services committee. Congress and thanks for being , with us. Rep. Smith i appreciate it. Steve joining me is John Donnelly of cq roll call and leo shane of military times. Leo will get the first question. Leo Congress Thanks for doing , this. The big news this week was the Health Care Debacle over in the house. Youve been focused on Defense Budget but with what you saw from that debate, how do you feel about how were going to move ahead with the Defense Budget talks and whether or not theres any chance to avoid a government shutdown. It seems like were at a point where nothing is going to move. Rep. Smith its going to be very difficult. I theorized a couple months ago that the republicans do not have 218 republican votes for anythin
House. You have been focused on Defense Budget. I wonder with what you saw from that debate how you feel about how were going to move ahead with the Defense Budget talks and whether or not there is any chance to avoid a Government Shutdown at this point. Seems like were at a point where nothings going to move in the house. Congressman smith its going to be very difficult. I theorized a couple months ago that the republicans do not have 218 republican votes for anything substantive. As paul ryan acknowledged yesterday, they have been sort of the opposition party. They have been the party of no. They are angry and they are against everything. Getting 218 of them to agree on anything, i dont picture it. Whether its health care, tax reform. Look at the budget. The Freedom Caucus is going to be upset that it doesnt balance the budget in i dont know, two years, three years. Other people, other republicans are going to be upset about programs that get cut. You are going to have republicans wh
To insure states and cities comply with all federal laws, including all Immigration Laws. Charles emily, we knew President Trump was really serious about this particular topic. I think it sound the sound bite from attorney general sessions caught people flat footed. I agree but this is something President Trump campaigned on. So it shouldnt be surprising to us its something hes talking about. Hes clearly focused on it, and i think its right thing for the American People. There are angles to this. There are 30 0 sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. What is the draw creating a sanctuary haven. People dont trust Law Enforcement to follow pro seizures. We have already a case in portland yesterday that a young man, 25 years old was brought here five years old. Volunteers at his local church. Coaches on the little lying soccer team, he works at a food pantry, he was detained last night. So i think that sanctuary cities are the response by compassionate 8 and local officials saying the only
People could harvest their own salt and there was a kind of doityourself to it, but its like purple and yellow and [inaudible] my friend that wears a kind of clerical somebody made her a hat anhalf and it was all some f like catwoman. [applause] [inaudible] thank you so much for coming out. [applause] [inaudible conversations] senator Sheldon Whitehouse offers his thoughts on how the government is impacted by corporate money into special Interest Groups in his book captured the corporate infiltration of american democracy. He is interviewehes interviewew york times investigative reporter, eric lilpton. Host i want to start by asking why did you write this book, simple question. Guest the simple answer is i was really getting discouraged all the criticism and antagonism, suspicion and frustration about the federal government which generations of americans have fought and bled to protect and preserve when the real problem i think is not the government, but its infiltration by corporate f