Karen hult, a science professor at virginia tech. Shes also a member of the white house transition project Advisory Board. Thanks for being with us on washington journal. Karen good to be here. Host the white house transition project, tell us about it. This is a nonpartisan, nonprofit entity. It is staffed by Political Science professors and others around the united states. 1990s for thehe white house interview program. They were trying to develop some institutional memory by talking to people that had various white house death and over time. Staff positions over time. They can find out what happens to staff positions for both parties. Directedolved and is by martha i am a member of the Advisory Board along with other colleagues as well as people like norm ornstein and other people from the larger washington community. Providetry to do is nonpartisan backing for what kinds of things have worked and not worked so well in and around the white house when a new president is getting ready t
Is 2027488000. Republicans use 2027488001. Independents and others, its 2027488002. Send us a text if youd like, 2027488003. Include your name and where you are texting from. On twitter its cspanwj. And we welcome your comments on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. Well show you some of the comments of the majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, and the minority leader shuck schumer. Washington times this morning their lead story is on the attorney generals efforts. Barr improves inquiry into voter fraud. Authorized the Justice Department to probe what he said are substantial allegations of voter fraud as President Trumps legal team detailed new evidence of purported election violations in two battleground states. Mr. Barr issued the memo days after presumptive president elect joseph biden was declared the winner of the 2020 president ial election by several media outlets. The president has launched legal challenges to the results in states where the voting margins are razor thin by giv
The death of his granddaughter. Fire and ice the scene that might describe 2020 right in front of your eyes early today starts right now glad youre with us to end the week im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. President trump and joe biden are battling through states at breakneck speeds the president is in florida while biden is in michigan they stood in stark contrast in one of the more intense exchanges the president refused to denounce the qanon conspiracy. I know very little. I just told you. But what you told me doesnt make it fact i know nothing about it. I know theyre very much against pedophilia they fight it very hard. But i know nothing about it. Its a satanic cult run by the doc. Republican ben sasse said, quote, qanon is nuts and they call conspiracy theories conspiracy theories. He may be right i just doan know about qanon. As for biden, he acknowledged mistakes on the crime bill and impact on black americans and he hasnt said yet whether hes going to add seats to if Sup
A miracle aljazeera revisits the men once celebrated as National Hero and asks how this ordeal changed their lives chilean miners after the rescue on the jersey. Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question are china and the United States headed for a new cold war or is it going to be a hot war lets get to the bottom line. The downward spiral began years ago but in the last few days it has really sunk to new lows following a pattern of knee jerk hit for tat ism washington just shut down chinas consulate in texas last week and in response to beijing shut down americas consulate in chengdu thousands of chinese watched as the u. S. Flag was lowered from that former diplomatic post as part of americas full court press secretary of state mike pompei of gave a speech asking the world to embark with it on a new cold war with china the 2 countries already have a trade war theyve got new travel restrictions on each other and theyve been banning each others journalists among other escalation so wh
A speech asking the world to embark with it on a new cold war with china which the 2 countries already have a trade war theyve got new travel restrictions on each other and theyve been banning each others journalists among other escalation so what do we go from here from a Strategic Perspective what are the right smart moves that america should be making joining me now is the president of the council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass who has served many u. S. President s in the past and is a prolific writer on global issues and u. S. Foreign policy hes just finished a new book designed to help bolster the literacy of americans about the world beyond their shores appropriately titled the world good to be with you Richard Richard you recently wrote a critique of secretary might pompei use speech at the Nixon Library and in it you said he misunderstood history he misunderstood what nixon and kissinger were trying to do with china at that time tell us more. Good to be with you steve the s