And in europe and its response to be replicated elsewhere. First good to have you with us lawmakers in the u. S. Congress are preparing to block president Donald Trumps order to withdraw u. S. Troops from germany its a rare instance of the democratic and republican parties working together to pass legislation the final version of the annual defense bill was which still needs to be voted on voices support for the continued presence of u. S. Forces in germany and would require an Impact Assessment before any troops are removed in july the pentagon announced it would withdraw about a 3rd of the 36000 u. S. Troops based in. So how likely is it that u. S. Troops will not speak withdrawn from. Washington correspondent stephanie has actually it is very likely that there wont be any withdrawal at least not under the reigns of this administration of the triumvirate ministration as you pointed out the budget Defense Budget package which is 4500 pages that is a double whopper theyre. Saying that
At can send us a text 202 7488003. If you do please include your name and where you are from, otherwise catch up on social cspanwj and on facebook. Happy thanksgiving to you and your family. You can start calling in now. One statistic down how americans are spending their thanksgiving. Only 27 plan to have the traditional thanksgiving meal with people outside of their household. The New York Times with a map trying to break down that data from a survey of some 150,000 americans. That map showing the share of people eating thanksgiving dinner with people outside their homes the darker the color shading. As the map illustrates there is a substantial regional variation with some people much more likely together with others. 14 ofs of vermont, only households will be celebrating with people outside their household. In parts of missouri, more than half of the residents plan to. We ask you this morning about thanksgiving 2020. What you celebrating, what are you thankful for, some responses a
Vaccines for the u. S. Before sending them to other countries it coincides with reports that his administration actually rejected an early offer from pfizer to double its order of the vaccines more on this from washington with mike hanna. Its clear that this executive order comes from the differences between pfizer and his administration and the refusal of the administration to commit to buying more than 100000000 doses at the time that it could the executive order ports to insist that all americans must be treated before any doses go internationally well this is simply an in forcible it would appear has signed a large number of International Contracts as has the other company but these companies contracts already in place in some cases doses have already been shipped internationally so certainly this is something that would be very hard to legally enforced president tran claims that he may invoke the National Procurement act seldom used. To force companies to actually comply but its v
What is the most glaring or salient way in which the transatlantic relationship is likely to change with the incoming biden administration. Well biden also people have picked for his cabinet and his kind of close coworkers are very committed to transit lantus as spies having that said we have to keep in mind that it was president obama who came out with this doctrine leading from behind and this is something President Biden will continue to do he will ask your own people ask. Germany to pay their fair share in the Defense Community to pay more money for their own military equipment so its gonna be a tricky part for President Biden because for sure he doesnt want to send back troops overseas and hurt military families that wouldnt be good policies either so its going to be tricky but i think it is fair to say that hes very committed to stable and consistent transatlantic relationships. Washington bureau chief in his poll reporting to us there from the u. S. Capital thank you and as bang
An emergency approval so yes it is quicker than normal but the European Union has been quite critical of whats been going on here in the u. K. Saying that but some corners have been cut that the regulator here has been far too hasty in the e. U. s way of doing things is the best way of doing things obviously thats hugely debatable but also has to be found the United States has chimed in with interviews on u. S. Television also accusing the british regulator of just simply rubber stamping all of the research that was done by pfizer not going deeply or rigorously enough into approving the vaccines efficacy and safety as we heard there he quickly backtracked saying that he now does have confidence in british scientists and regulators and has always had confidence in all of this was just a simple mess understanding is could be a difficult backtrack though but nevertheless he has tried to explain his position by saying well look things are just different done differently in the United State