Of labor unions and associations and corporations and advocacy groups in our system. On the political affect of this, which he seems to be somewhat interested in anyway, what i have found is that theres more liberal democrat rich people than there are conservatives. Frankly, i admit to being a republican and a conservative. While some liberal interests seem to think that they stand in the way of getting their liberal agenda, they find out differently when they go to hollywood and raise the enormous sums that they do from the richest people in our country. But look, theres rich people on both sides. This is not about partisan politics or punishing those people you dont like or suppressing those you are fearful, speak out in opposition to your favorite policy. But about the ability of all of us to have outlets of participation in our political system that are not closed by partisan efforts by Government Agencies to suppress our speech. I dont know if either of you want a minute to sum up
This week filing a lawsuit against the president for his use of executive orders. Have relations between the white house and Congressional Republicans reached a new low . That is our question. Our phone lines are open at 202 5853880, our line for democrats. For 5853881, our line republicans, and if you are independent, 202 5853882. Join us on social media, send us an email, journal cspan. Org or send us a tweet cspanwj. Good sunday morning. Above the fold in the new york times, the news from afghanistan secretary of state john kerry brokering a deal to audit the afghan votes. This comes 12 hours of often tense negotiations, the secretary of state announcing yesterday that afghanistan would audit all 8 million votes. Host we will have more with shane harris on the situation in afghanistan. Also the latest calming raids by hamas and israel and the israeli army indicating it is prepared to send boots on the ground as early as today or tomorrow. Lets been with another headline this morning
That look on Donald Trumps face is worth a million gold plated midtown office towers. Thats worth the price of whatever empathetic impulse you have toward your fellow human being donald trump. Whatever price you pay in empathetic shame just for the pleasure of seeing his actual shame at having that issue resolved that way on national tv. You do not have to dislike donald trump as a person to be satisfied with seeing this lie of this unraveled. Right . I mean because it is a kind of lie implicitly to make it seem in one moment like youre the guy who would be super tough on china, in business terms and economic terms. Youre the guy who would stop china from ripping americas heart out while youre the guy who is making his selfbranded neckwear in china. That is a kind of lie. In some circles you might refer to that sort of moral pretzeling as hypocrisy. If you want to speak more bluntly and spare more syllables it is a kind of lie to portray yourself as bravely standing up for some particu
A busy week in harrisburg, governor corbett has not passed a budget. The legislature will likely pass a bill later this week that will likely allow philadelphia raise cigarette tax, city leaders are rejoycing, but some wondering will it fill the budget. Do you think they have enough. I dont think they have everything they need. The critical ingredient is not pension reform, what the governor is saying for Public School teachers new ones that are hired are for new people we cannot give them the same pension because were going broke. You would thing he was trying to shoot new puppies in the parking lot. If you work there, nothing changes. When you see those professional protesters they should be up for the construction screen actors. Do you think pension reform, terry will happen before the november election . Heres the situation, the cigarette tax was passed by the house, the senate has to come this weekend to approve it. Looks like they will. They passed it in another bill, cigarette t
At Washington Post life and coauthor of the newsletter. Thank you for coming to this Important Program and im joined by senator tina smith. Its about the Supreme Court decision about roe v. Wade and puts the russian of abortion back to the states. Senator smith, thanks for joining us today. Senator smith im sorry i cant be with you in person but im glad to have a conversation with you. We have so many questions. For our audience, if you have questions, you can tweet us post live. We heard a little bit about your reaction in the out true in the intro. Its been two days now, three days since this happened. What are your thoughts after her processing this for a few days . Senator smith long before i ever came to the United States senate, i worked at planned parenthood. I came to understand firsthand how people make these decisions about whether or not to continue pregnancy and i so people make decisions with such strong judgment, such good moral judgment. What ive been thinking about a lo