Donald trump says he has told his team to co operate with the transition to a joe biden presidency, after the agency which oversees the process ruled that it could formally begin. The General Services administration will now release funds to mr biden, and his officials will receive security briefings. This is how mr trumps acceptance came, in a tweet that says its in the best interests of the United States for his team to co operate with protocols. Joe biden has unsurprisingly welcomed the decision, saying todays decision is a needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track. In the days ahead, Transition Officials will begin meeting with federal officials to discuss the pandemic response, have a full account of our National Security interests and gain a complete understanding of the Trump Administrations efforts to hollow out Government Agencies. Ive been speaking to our North America corresponde
Peter thanks for the introduction. It is great to be with you. Mostly i am looking forward to the q a. You asked for a brief overview of my life so we will be here three days. Just a few minutes of my political journaling my political journey and some thoughts about the Republican Party in the age of trump. I would love to engage with you all. I was born in Washington State and developed an interest in politics at a very early age. We had a cabin in the Cascade Mountains on the east side of the state. I still remember as a kid driving with my parents to my cabin every weekend. We talked about Public Policy. We listened to the news at the top of the hour and i was a question asker. I would ask my dad why did the israelis and the arab world not get along. What about president nixon and Henry Kissinger . Those issues really fascinated me, along with sports. When i got to high school, i got into debates with my social studies teachers. They were liberal. I was conservative. Not because i t
Iran. Follow the floor debate and vote tomorrow starting at noon eastern here on cspan. We are joined by cristina marcos, congressional reporter with the hill. It was always understood there would be a war powers resolution coming up in the house, did the missile strikes precipitate Speaker Pelosis action . Cristina Speaker Pelosi announced on sunday that the house was going to vote on this war powers resolution to limit withoutaction in iran congressional authorization. Today has been a whirlwind on capitol hill. This morning democrats had a caucus meeting after these strikes iran carried out last night on the two u. S. Bases in iraq that had taken place. And there was some question as to whether democrats would still go through with this, but if anything democrats we talk to this morning insisted that if anything, these strikes strengthened their resolve to go forward with the war powers resolution. Because they argue congress has been ceding its warmaking powers for years now and th
A discussion of military and civilian National Service programs, from the Brookings Institution, this is just over an hour. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. It is my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. I will begin by introducing myself briefly. I am bill gault, senior fellow in the government studies program at brookings, delighted to be a small cog in the Service Share alliance. And two people in particular, mel sawhill conceding the stand working tirelessly for six months and also john allen, for letting his vast appearance and events moral authority to our enterprise this morning and i think it is a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Let me introduce the question this way. If National Service is the answer, what is the question . And we have heard and i think will hear three very different kinds of answers to that question. It is useful to keep them secret. The first test to do with service as an avenu
Largest licenced brothels. And baby archie Takes Centre Stage as the duke and duchess of sussex continue their africa tour. The white house has released a partial note of the conversation donald trump had with the leader of ukraine, which has led to President Trumps opponents bringing impeachment proceedings against him. The allegation is that he threatened to hold back us military aid to an ally, unless ukraine provided dirt on one of his political rivals, the Democratic Partys frontrunner, joe biden. The president claims the entire story is a witch hunt and a hoax. This report from our north america editorjon sopel. Hes made me more famous than ive made him. Whod have thought that a meeting between donald trump and his ukrainian counterpart would become the most keenly anticipated event of un week . But after a phone call injuly between the two men that has resulted in the democrats launching impeachment proceedings, it has. Its better to be on tv than by phone, i think. And a centra