Opposition within both parties to the controversial program. Today, the house of representatives will meet with the aim of voting on several foreign aid bills and legislation that could potentially ban tiktok in the u. S. Those votes prompting\in the Republican Party with several members promising to take steps to oust Speaker Mike Johnson. The south the house is scheduled to come in at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. We want to hear your top news story of the week. Republicans can call in at 202 7488001. Democrats at 202 7488000. Independents at 202 7488001. If you would like to text, you can text that 202 7488003. The foreign aid bills hitting the headlines and front pages of many of the newspapers incding the wall street journal, which has the headline aid package passes. Democrats clear a key hurdle in funding for ukraine and israel. The house appeared poised to pass a 95 billion foreign aid and weapons package saturday after democrats rallied behind Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to cl
Host that was the vote yesterday afternoon in the senate to dismiss all impeachment charges against how men secretary security Alexander Mayorkas against Homeland Security secretary alhambra mayorkas. This first half hour, your reactions. Republicans call us on 202 7488000. Democrats, 202 7488000. And independents, 202 7488002. You can send us a text at 202 7488003. We are on social media, facebook. Com cspan, and x, cspanwj. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. The house will gavel in ad 9 00 a. M. We start with an article from axios that says Senate Democrats on wednesday squashed impeachment charges against alondra mayorkas, an end to the gops attempt to oust him. Democrats saw the impeachment as political theater but republicans argue it it sets a dangerous precedent. Lets take a look at how the first republican objection played out on the senate floor yesterday. [video clip] that there be up to 60 minutes for debate concurrently and equally divided on the motion to dism
Those that would say we wouldnt break 25,000 by the end of the eighth year and were in the 11th month. We did in fact break 25,000, very substantially break it very easily, so i guess our new number is 30,000 but what it means is every time you see that number go up on wall street it means jobs mean success it means 401 k that is flourishing. Charles and ive got to tell you something this trump economy just keeps chucking along. Manufacturing is soaring, food stamp enrollment plummeting. December retail sales rocking Companies Giving bonuses thanks to the new gop tax law the big question of course whats instore for 2018 and here is numbers write these down. 30,000, 4 , and 3. 5 . The dow Unemployment Rate and no , the gdp and Unemployment Rate i want to bring in Katrina Pierson America First policy spokesperson and former Trump Campaign national spokeswoman. Katrina, just absolutely phenomenal numbers it is so mind boggling to me that the Mainstream Media continues to ignore the data.
Transferred where President Trump says duterte is doing an unbelievable job on the drug program. We will speak also with Glenn Greenwald about how the Media Coverage of the Manchester Bombing victims should be a model for all young victims of war from yemen to afghanistan. Plus, we will speak to toronto activist and journalist desmond cole. I think what was revealed is a certain naivete where we ignore very obvious problems of racial discrimination. We want to tell ourselves that it is not happening here and we especially want to tell ourselves we are not the United States of america. Amy up until recently, desmond cole was a columnist at the toronto star. Its editors told him he had to choose between being a journalist or a black lives matter activist. He decided to stop writing his column. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from toronto, canada. In new revelations about possible
Clear during tuesdays explosive press conference. President trump mr. Bannon came on very late. You know that. I went through 17 senators and governors and i won all the primaries. Mr. Bannon came on much later than that. He was one of the first step members hired and played a key role in the controversial travel ban. Inauguration, he described himself as part of a new political order. If you think they are going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. Every day, it is going to be a fight. His prior work at breitbart rod made him a lightning for criticism. President trump it will be a great wall. In 2015, bannon interviewed mr. Trump about immigration and described himself as having more hardline views. Unafraid to feud with other white house officials, particularly the president s soninlaw, Jared Kushner, gary cohn, and h. R. Mcmaster. Just this week, bannon seemed to undermine Trump Administration Foreign Policy when he said an interview there is no mil