We want to begin this morning with another looming issue, how the u. S. Should deal with isis and isil. There is a new poll out showing a majority of americans want Ground Troops. Do you agree or do you disagree to go . 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7458002 for independents. Or send us a tweet http twitter. Com cspanwj. Post on facebook, www. Facebook. Com cspan. Or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. Here is a comparison from september of last year. Those who favor the use of Ground Troops now at 57 versus 47 . Those who oppose 37 percent, what was 46 just a few months ago. We also have a line set aside if youre active or retired military. That number is 202 7480003. Good sunday to you. Lets begin with the New York Times. The piece points out that american intelligence agencies are struggling to determine how difficult it will be to take over multiposul. I battle that is intensifying for aor a major test of the Obama Administrations strategy to stop the
Australian way are used against us. The government is required to respond to these new threats and to make sure that our agencies have the resources and the powers that they need to do so. Thats why weve committed 630 million for our counterterrorism package, as well as introducing to the Parliament Three trenches of legislation that strengthens the ability of our agencies such as the Australian Federal police to deal with these increased threats. Were also working very hard with vulnerable communities to counter violent ideologies and encourage social harmony. Our Law Enforcement and intelligence communities have for years since 9 11 been very effective about keeping australia and australians safe. But we need to constantly refine the way they operate and seek to make improvements when we can. As many in this room know today. The Prime Minister has been very focussed on this challenge and hes shown great leadership in these areas. His government takes National Security seriously. Whet
Development on federal land is what i think we need to get to. Because as senator hoeven says, youre just going to go around your federal lands and then we get no revenue to the treasury it just doesnt make sense. So we need to work in that regard. With that, i appreciate you have given the committee a lot of time and senator cant well if you want to have the final word i would just say thank you madam chair for this hearing and i think a lot of members showed up and a lot of questions across the board and i get your point about federal lands and, yes, im sure that theres a higher percentage in alaska than in Washington State. In Washington State we get revenue from those public lands and so thats been a big benefit to us. I want to work with you as we move forward on trying to think about an Energy Package and what we can do together to bolster our economies and to Work Together on policies that can move us forward. But i feel like we had a broad range of things brought forward here t
We have to do more outreach into the hispanic and africanamerican community. I think the ideas that we offer to those can to those communities are ideas of empowerment, toys, ideas of improving your station in life but if we dont show up, we cannot have those conversations, so it may sound simple to say, but showing up is going to be a big part of that equation. It we can be present we can have a conversation, and if we can have a conversation, we can persuade people of our ideas. Host thank you for joining us. Guest thank you for the opportunity. Host tomorrow, with talk about the conservative agenda and cpac from matt schlapp. Will also hear from ron pollack. Thanks so much for joining us today. Washington journal will be back tomorrow. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] next, a discussion on the obama administrations foreignp
Efforts. Good morning, to you thank for joining us. Youre watching Aljazeera America. Im coming to you live from new york city. Im morgan radford. Federal investigators will be at the scene of last nights train derelevantment in philadelphia. Six are dead and Dozens Injured after an amtrak came off of the track. The train 188 was traveling from washington d. C. To new york city when it reached the frankfurt junction in philadelphia. Thats right where seven cars, including the engine left the tracks ending up on their sides or even ripped apart. John terrett is live for us in port richmond, this morning. We understand authorities just wrapped up a press conference. What did they have to say . Well, morgan, good morning from philadelphia. This is the story of amtrak regional train number 188 which last night left on schedule from washington d. C. After 7 00. It was due in around 10 34. It never made it, got as far as just north of philadelphia here in the city of philadelphia and the num