Welcome to our april conservative womens network. Those of you here and in polyunsaturated virginia and those of you watching on cspan, im Michelle Easton president of the Clare Booth Luce Center for conservative. And its great to see you all this. Cw actually began 23 years ago, and it brings women from all over this area d. C. , washington and maryland, sometimes even further to come together and hear from conservative Women Leaders and writers discussing key issues. And then afterwards we get to network at lunch. Now to introduce todays speaker Bethany Mandel bethany will be talking about bestselling book stolen youth how radicals are racing innocence and indoctrinating a generation. The key idea that i have discerned from your book is that our children are not all right and. Too many children today are miserable if theyve been indoctrinated to question every Building Block of society from all the different education, medicine, entertainment, culture and other areas. The idea that w
Housing affairs will come to order. Thanks to the new deal and the hard work of our regulators today, most Bank Failures of course never a good thing or generally not a big deal but the quick collapses of Silicon Valley bank and Signature Bank were no ordinary failures. In less than a day, Silicon Valley Bank Customers pulled 42 billion dollars out of the bank fueled by Venture Capitalists and their social media accounts. They created the largest and fastest bank run in history in the following days Signature Bank lost 17 billion dollars. Regulators both republicans and democrats came to gather to prevent the panic from spreading. They increase liquidity, they promoted confidence in our Banking System, they protected deposits of customers and Small Businesses not notably the investors the investments of executives and shareholders. I spent that weekend on the phone with ohio Small Businesses and banks and credit unions. While Small Business owners simply wanted to make payroll. They di
Host this is the washington journal for may 14. One of the questions facing former President Trumps who would he choose to be his running mate. He recently met with some of the possible contenders. Mr. Trump continues attending his hush money case. We want to hear from republicans in the audience about the person you would like to see as former President Trumps running mate. Republicans who live in the eastern and central time zones, call us at 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain and pacific time zones, give us a call at 202 7488001. You can text 202 7488003 us at 202 7488003. On x it is cspanwj that the Business Insider publication takes a look at some of those people that could be on a short list when it comes to the former president s running mate for this november. That list starts with senator tim scott of south carolina. The list adding senator scott has been on mr. Trumps shortlist from the beginning. He is a former president ial candidate himself. The 58yearold has also sh
Democracy and human rights if we had not supported them. This bill also continues to support american taxpayers by authorizing the president to use an estimated 5 billion in frozen russian assets. These assets will help pay for ukraines reconstruction, and it designates the u. S. Economic assistance which ukrainians will have to pay back once they have repelled the russian situation. The supplemental also includes support for our middle east ally israel, including support to make sure that just like this past few days in shooting down 99 of missile Drones Attack by iran, it also includes 9 billion of humanitarian aid for gaza and for people caught in conflicts around the world. These conflicts have taken an immeasurable toll. The supplemental also contains a range of sanctions that will make it harder for each of israels and irans and ham and hamas to finance their operations. It consequencetains the ship act which requires the president to impose sanctions against individuals and comp
It is the last fiscal year 2023 and without an agreement government shuts down tonight. Federal workers will stop getting a paycheck. The house comes in at 10 00 a. M. Right after this program the senate, at noon. We are taking your calls on the possible Government Shutdown that is hours away. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. And independents, 202 7488002. We have a line set asi for federal employees, 202 7488003. You can also use that line to text us. We are on social media on facebook and x. Welcome to washington journal. I want to start with this article from capitol hill. Speaker Kevin Mccarthy on friday evening floated passing a clean continuing resolution without ukraine aid, marking a clear shift in the possibility he is willing to consider ending a shut down after being repeatedly undercut by his own party. The speaker did not commit putting a measure on the floor, and other republican said lawmakers are still exploring gop only possibilities to bring up a vote