Petraeuss pleading guilty to mishandling classified information. I wanted to know if the white house has a broader reaction to his plea today . No, thats it. For more details about the investigation id refer you to the department of justice. J. C. , ill give you the last one. Reporter ive been married for 23 years. Congratulations to you and your wife. [ laughter ] reporter if i may change the topic to isil something we havent talked about in a while about a week ago, the head of egypt, presidency sisi, recommended a Strong Coalition of the willing in arab nations to combat isil in the region. Was there any discussion today over that Video Conference with the leaders, the misdemeanor many leaders, that that might be a good idea to join that coalition for really a universal coalition of the willing to fight asill . I dont have a detailed readout of the teleconference but well have something later on this afternoon. I can tell you as a general matter that the president is certainly very
She is trying to ask for some help. And we are talking about young black lives so to just put a hoodie on ora hashtag in front of some words and a cool picture, there is no there there and thats all that it is. So how is it that you are occupying and implying activism . That is what i was trying to say. Thank you for the question. Yes please. You mention that we are all privileged to be in this particular room or to be at the institution we have been in and you have been a more house and howard and you have been to colombia and he seemed to have a fairly good grasp and then you say privilege shouldnt be a negative thing so how have you found that you have been able to navigate that privilege while still being able to make impactful change . My mama. It really is. My mother and my father the people that i surround myself with, my partner, my wife. Those are folks that helped to ground me and so you know my mom, my mom came here it was the junior experience so my mom went to bass are in
In which he outlined his Climate Action plan. So i was reading a legal opinion recently and it said a president s speech is certainly not a matter of law but the president making these International Agreements has through regulation pursued his commitments that he is making. But other countries that are part of these agreements are not doing the same thing so the u. S. Is being penalized because of these extreme actions. So what you all are doing, and im reading from a legal opinion that mr. Tribe wrote, you are forcing a select set of victims including consumers communities regions, businesses and utilities to bear a substantial part of what is a global problem that even you and your predecessor indicated that these regulations were not solved so you are asking for 425 million more dollars than last year. A lot of that money is going to go to hire additional lawyers to defend them litigate these extreme regulations so we look forward to the opportunity today in exploring this situatio
The japanese Prime Ministers political gamble in calling an early election has paid off. Shinzo abes Ruling Coalition won a landslide victory. His liberal Democratic Party and its partner komeito have secured a two thirds majority in the lower house. The parties won 326 of the 475 seats in the chamber. Thats well above the 317 needed to secure a twothirds majority, and it means the ruling parties will be able to set their agenda for the diet, and see it through. Abe says he wants to push forward with his policies. They include his economic plan known as abenomics. He spoke to media on monday, one day after the election win. Translator yesterday, we got voter support for abenomics. So i want to advance the policy in three areas. We will take action immediately with economic stimulus measures by the end of this year. We will compile a budget for the next fiscal year. The diet will be convened at the start of next year. We want to carry out drastic deregulation in areas such as agricultur
And we are counting on countries in the region to take some responsibility for fighting isil and whether that is training local fighters, we know that there are some countries in the region that have committed to host Training Programs for members of the moderate Syrian Opposition so that they can be trained and equipped by our Coalition Partners so that they can take the fight to isil on the ground in their own country and we certainly would welcome those kinds of contributions to this broader effort. Thanks, everybody. The Supreme Court is set to hear the oral arguments in king v. Burwell, a case challenging the federal subsidies for the purchase of health care through the Affordable Care act. On the next washington journal, jess bravin of the wall street journal is here to talk about the case and the potential outcome. Then more about the Affordable Care act and subsidies with Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health news. Washington journal is live every morning and you can join the conve