Mid march into bombing of the ish could soon reach the one million mark refugees desperately need food medicine and shelter a u. N. Donor conference resists more aid money but for its short of the goalie also coming up the high price of victory off the five month battle the philippine says it has defeated i f linked militants in my robbery but has the look of a fight left the city in ruins. Japans Prime Minister blair just to get tough with north korea after a landslide election victory hes expected to reform the countrys specifics constitution good japans military take on more a muscular role in the region. Plus as the new u. N. Report says it will take one hundred yards to end the practices of Child Marriage in west and Central Africa we look at how one womans fight to end the practice in malawi is being offered shes campaigning for girls to stay in school rather than marry young like she did. And. Sport Lewis Hamilton takes aim at another major prize he was on to win his fourth form
Here at georgetowns Public Policy. Couldnt be more excited to get todays conversations started. This morning, were going to begin with a discussion reflecting on president bill clintons vision of america. The goal of this overall symposium, overall, is to really drill down on the vision, the vision that that helped bring him to the campaign and to office. And we couldnt be more excited to start that this year. In order to think about that though, its important to look at the Historical Context of bill clintons election and what happened in the 25 years between his graduation from georgetown and his election. And so, before we bring everyone up, i ask you all to sit back and enjoy as we reflect on what those 25 years were like. Coming up out of arkansas in the post war era, during civil rights, a young, caucasian boy who had a deep and abiding sympathy to injustice. The fact that he got an opportunity to go to georgetown was the biggest thing that could have happened to him. Behold thes
Radio app. Today over at Georgetown University a forum on the legacy of former president bill clinton. Up next we hear from rahm emanuel who was a Senior Advisor to bill clinton. Hes now the mayor of chicago. Bruce was domestic policy director in the clinton and white house and other aides take part. This runs an hour and 10 minutes. Good morning. Welcome back. For those that werent here earlier im the executive director of institute of policies and Public Service and couldnt be more excited to get todays conversations started. This morning we are going to begin with a discussion reflected on bill clintons vision of america. The goal of his of this symposium overall is to really drill down on the vision, the bring him to lped the campaign of and to office the and we couldnt be more excited about that this year. In order to think about that, though, its important to look at the Historical Context of bill clintons election, and what happened in the 25 years between his graduation from ge
Administration. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on twitter and facebook. Good wednesday morning to you on this may 24, 2017. Want to hear your thoughts on the budget plan for 2018. You can start calling in now. Beginning with this article and the Washington Times trumps lofty budget heads for a crash landing. Story is by sa miller and Stephen Dinan who knows that the budget calls for a total of 4. 1 trillion, up about 50 billion compared to this year. Thanks to a rising economy and growing revenue, mr. Trump and visions that deficit shrinking and steadily decreasing until the budget produces a surplus in 2027. Cutting nondefense spending by 2 each year and predicted 3 Economic Growth, that analysts say will be tough to sustain. His top lieutenants will be headed to capitol hill today to talk through some of these budget plans and answer questions from those who control the purse strings, beginning with omb direc
From the overnight rain that was kind enough to hold off until last night. You did get yesterday in without any rain. Yesterday you saw it arrived and you see it in the process of departing. Harrisburg, thunderstorms those appear to be kind of pushing off and away from us up towards the poconos. South jersey damp. Philadelphia beginning to dry out. It does look like most of this push out of here by 9 00, or so, if youre in Northern Areas theres a chance that the rain on and off hangs on to later this morning maybe until midday. Temperatures are in the upper 50s right now across the region him well get a high of 70. But probably not until late this afternoon, an afternoon spotty shower or even a thundershower possible, but i think most of you are aokay once we get rid of the morning rain. When i step inside well look at how the rain evolves and get out of here and a warmup coming in the sevenday forecast. Reporter were seeing wet roads and were not seeing traffic on any of the roads. We