May move on these bills . Guest i think congress may move very quickly. I would be surprised i hate to put a prediction out there because it is low in congress, but i would think maybe even by the end of this year we may see some reforms passed. Particularly because the chairs of the house and Judiciary Committee now have bills, are willing to be on board, have hearings, and move things. Up until that point, it is like, if they dont have hearings, we cant get bills to pass. None of this is going to move until the chairs of the Judiciary Committee, on board. Now, i think we will see some movement by the end of the year. Host Julie Stewart of families against mandatory minimums. It is our regular your money segment. This week, we will take a look Charter Schools. Richard kahlenberg of the Century Foundation joins us next for that discussion as the washington journal continues. Tonight on cspans new series, landmark cases, in 1830, dred scott was in slave to dr. John emerson. During his a
Afghanistan with Operations Commander general john campbell. On newsmakers this week, we are joined by congressman adam schiff of california. He is the top democrat on the house Intelligence Committee. He also serves on the House Select Committee on benghazi. To help with our questions, we are joined by Niall Stanage, associate editor of the hill newspaper, and ryan lucas, intelligence reporter with cq roll call. Ryan lucas has the first question. Congressman schiff, thank you for talking to us today. I wanted to start off with the announcement from the white house that it was essentially scrapping the train and equip program for syrian rebels. Instead of training and equipping them, they are going to essentially provide information to vetted insurgent leaders and then small packages of equipment to then send back with them. So that they can kind of be force enhancers in syria. Is this plan the way that the white house has outlined it is this something that you think would be more effe
Here, i will give you one statistic that i do not put in the book. I was told in 1970 that there were 160 some registered lobbyists in washington. There are now over 13,000. Second, i have started studying Early American History in considerable depth and i went backtoschool in my 60s to get a graduate degree in jefferson. The founders used the language of the ancient republican, greece and rome. And warned against corruption. Their definition of corruption was not bribery or quid pro quo, money under the table. It was putting special interests ahead of the common good. By that definition, washington today is a massively corrupt place. Brian let me show you some video of harry truman after he was out of office talking about his future as a next president. [video clip] some of them, when they became president were rich men. Some of them were in the same financial situation that i was myself. Those men who have had to go ahead and do what was necessary to make a living, did not under any
I left here, i will give you one statistic that i do not put in the book. I was told in 1970 that there were 160 some registered lobbyists in washington. There are now over 13,000. Second, i have started studying Early American History in and i wente depth backtoschool in my 60s to get a graduate degree in jefferson. Used the language of the ancient republican, greece and rome. And warned against corruption. Their definition of corruption was not bribery or quid pro quo, money under the table. It was putting special interests ahead of the common good. Washingtoninition, today is a massively corrupt place. You somet me show video of harry truman after he was out of office talking about his future as a next president. [video clip] some of them, when they became president were rich men. Some of them were in the same financial situation that i was myself. Those men who have had to go ahead and do what was necessary to make a living, did not under any circumstances use the fact that they ha
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