Socalled wall street tax, placed on the sale of stocks and bonds. So will this appeal to voters even those who hold stocks in their Retirement Savings . Well, im not sure it is going to. It is all about how you brand it; right, david . Hes branding this or at least as they are mulling it over they are branding it as a tax on wall street, but it isnt. Think about how many people have equity and Bond Investments on main street. If you have a 401 k , if you have a pension, if you have any equity related investment, this is going to hit you. Now, it may seem a little bit less extreme than the wealth taxes that sanders and warren are proposing and hes in a tough spot because he needs to go a little bit more left, but he needs to make sure he wont cannibalize his base and this could very well do that. Well, okay, okay, lets just forget the notion of how weird it is that you will get your poll numbers to go up by proposing a new tax. David good point. Thats a little hard to grasp. I dont like
Inquiry considering whether to impeach the president for privately urging ukraine to probe divides. Plus iraqs Prime Minister promises to answer protesters demands after dozens are killed in antigovernment protests he says the demonstrators are right to call for an end to corruption. Im brian thomas great to have you with us germanys interior minister is in turkey today for talks about the rising number of migrants arriving on europe shores at a meeting in ankara with his turkish counterpart part force a whole for offered continued support for turkey which he said faces enormous pressure from increased refugee arrivals the visit comes amidst tensions over a sharp increase in migrants arriving from turkey which is outside of the e. U. To greece which is part of the bloc say over is also due to hold talks with greek officials later today in athens. Well the situation in greece is reaching crisis levels at a number of refugee camps the Un Refugee Agency says more than 10000 people right n
To protesters demands after dozens are killed in demonstrations he says the protestors are right to call for an end to official corruption. And u. S. President donald trump publicly calls on china to investigate this potential democratic rival joe biden and his son the appeal comes as the 1st witnesses testified before the impeachment inquiry sparked when the president urged the ukrainian leader to probe the bidens for corruption. Im brian thomas great to have you with us germanys interior minister is in turkey today for talks about the rising numbers of migrants arriving in europe at a meeting in ankara with his turkish counterpart horse say over all. Continued support for turkey which he said faces enormous pressure from increased refugee arrivals from syria greece in turn is seeing a knock on effect with syrians and other refugees arriving in numbers it is barely able to cope with say hall for will also be holding talks with greek officials and assets. Well the Un Refugee Agency say
Foreign relations for a discussion on u. S. Policy toward syria and washington dc with live coverage here on cspan. Welcome. The executive director, Syrian Emergency Task force. We have the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for the middle east. Assistante the deputy secretary of state for affairs and special envoy for syria. Thank you to all four of you for being here today. Everything important in life i learned from two sources. Johnny cash and the United States military. The military as relevant today because when you look at complex thelems like syria, military breaks them down into strategic, operational, and technical tactical to try to understand. I thought we would have our conversation along the same lines, so i will start with a strategic question. As a nation, we have learned since 9 11 that militaries cannot win wars. Militaries can defeat other militaries, but it is up to the rest of the government, ngos, and others to actually win the peace. As you look at the complex
The answer the sense of democracy unraveling the whole thing is a horror show barnsley aljazeera london. Time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back down but not quite out israels Prime Minister gets another shot at staying in power despite failing to win outright in last weeks election. And as the world marks the International Day of the total elimination of Nuclear Weapons we ask if a new arms race has begun on the spend. More hot sunshine across the middle east in fact some rain recently even thats in the process of clearing away we got some wet weather having said that up towards the black sea in this band of clouds stretching out to keep pushing up towards northern parts of the caspian could see a little bit that weather around the caucasus sent 20. Sunshine 34 degrees in karate so the numbers around baghdad were 43 degrees here still 2 or 3 degrees above the seasonal average and more of the say as we go on through friday and almost services pretty much being resum