Agenda this week. Our guests are Steven Dennis of bloomberg and jordan fabian. At 9 00 a. M. , we talk about the u. S. Nuclear arsenal. Host good morning. Tuesday, november 28, 2017. Pennsylvania avenue between the capital and the white house will be a busy stretch of roadway with President Trump said to be on capitol hill around lunchtime. We will talk about the budget and tax reform issues that are expected to dominate those discussions later this morning. We begin getting your thoughts on the Sexual Harassment allegations that have been leveled against politicians. When it comes to reporting the treatment, do you think the media has been fair in its coverage . Give us a call. You can catch up with us on social media. A very good morning to you. Has the media been fair when it comes to coverage of Sexual Assault allegations, Sexual Harassment allegations . That is our question for you. You can start calling in now. Were having this discussion a day after senator al franken returns to
[inaudible] melania do you want to read yours . O you want to read it . Dear troops, merry christmas. Its ok if youre not celebrating with your family this year. I think youll still have a great time. If you are, thats even better. Theyll be very happy to see you. Thank you for all your help and service. Have a very merry christmas. Melania bufmente dear veterans, i want to wish you a merry christmas. [inaudible] the u. S. House returns in about 20 minutes to begin work on several Natural Resources bills and another measure that provides support for efforts to protect Mental Health of Law Enforcement officers. Tomorrow, the house, a debate on a resolution requiring all members and staff to complete mandatory antiharassment and antidiscrimination training in each session of congress. The house is live here on cspan when members return at 4 30. In other capitol hill news, the Senate Budget committee has passed the tax reform reconciliation bill by 1211, party line vote. Legislation inclu
Correspondent daniel new howser and congressional reporter pitterson, later anthony from the center for strategic and International Talk about the Foreign Policy challenges that are facing in 2018. Social media. But voters, wed, should make it a priority that basic knowledge pertaining to our government. Amy says it helps. I have learned so much from the social media. I can adjust my opinion to include new facts. Ive change my mind is some because of conversations with people online. One more from saul. A lot of people do not care about the research, it hurts, they end up spreading false information. That is a sampling of the discussion on our facebook page. Here is a poll. Different wording, but same idea, this is from surveymonkey from october, asked whether social media does more to help, promote democracy and free speech or does more to hurt it. 51 surveyed in the late october poll said it did more to her democracy, 45 said it did more to help. Large majorities among hispanics and
Hart this path through the challenges ahead in 2018, the president setting the agenda some tweets. With this was the tweet just after 7 00 this morning talking about iran. The people of iran are acting iranian regime. All the money president obama oolishly gave them went into terrorism and their pockets. Eople have little food, big inflation. The u. S. Is watching. A lot to unpack there. Iranian protest, do you agree with the president s read there of why the protests are happening . Guest i think we need to be ery careful, a lot of the protests do seem to be a reaction to economics, it is not lacking food or is a opportunities, it failure to do reform, to provide jobs and income people need and want. It is the fact inflation, as president pointed out deprived savings, their opportunities, it is a very oung country, where young people have stated unemployment of population that may be higher. These are critical factors. Are certainly many liberal that want more socie society, that are
Nuclear weapons and u. S. National security policy. Hosted by the Brookings Institution its about 2 hours. Were thrilled to have you here today to discuss the Trump Administration Nuclear Posture review. An important document that came out on grounds hog day, february 2nd. And the National Defense strategy of january. So doing a nice job keeping the clock running smoothly. Prior to now the unveiling of the budget request. Were thrilled to have david beginning our discussion today. He has one of the longer titles but most important. The Principal Deputy under secretary for defense of policy. A job that jim miller had and well talk about that in the panel that follows with jim and others. But for now, i want to introduce david who has been one of the administrations important authors and framing and writing of the document that we have available and you can access on the internet. About a 70 page document, much longer than the unclassified version of the National Defense strategy. A lot