High of 500,000, which included access to a more exclusive gathering. The event was sold out and more than 5000 people came out to support the reelection effort. Donald trumps event was a more expensive affair. It was hosted by Hedge Fund Billionaire john paulson and his 110 million Oceanfront Home in palm beach, just a few minutes away from maralago. He got very rich off of the team big against subprime mortgages in 2007 at the height of the credit bubble. Trump was the main event a few allies and former primary opponents, tim scott, doug burgum offered remarks as well. Tickets started at 250,000 at the low end. At the high end, some attendees paid the maximum contribution of 814,000 which got them a seat at the trump table. According to a Trump Campaign in official, the fundraiser was attended by 117 guests at the event was closed to the press, but former President Trump did offer brief, seemingly enthusiastic on camera when he arrived at the mansion. It is a great honor to be hereor
Update on immigration policy negotiations. At 8 30 eastern, holly harris of the Justice Action Network on prison sentencing and reform. And at 9 00, Darrell Burnett of Education Week on the failing infrastructure in u. S. Schools. Host good morning, this is friday, january 12, and welcome to washington journal. As you can imagine, reaction is pouring in from congress and elsewhere to the president s comments on immigrants from certain countries, something we heard about yesterday afternoon. We want to get to the president s comments on immigration, talk about daca and the immigration issue. If you are a democrat, please. All 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. And we have a special fourth line to recent immigrants to the u. S. 202 7488003 202 7488002 202 7488003 202 7488003. Front page of the Washington Post. This first reported on the president s comments late yesterday afternoon. The headline todays piece said immigration offer on socalled dreamers fails,
Tns administration followed a different course. That is not the fault of the Congressional Republicans were the fault of the democrats. It is on the president. For my essay for the first year project as bill mentioned i wrote about the new johnsons role in the passage of medication in medicaid inmate 65 from which i draw six general universal guidelines for a new president can advance a legislative agenda. You can find them on the crucible volume in the lobby. [laughter] the specifics though if johnsons particular tactics are less than important than the overall point of the essay which is the political scale, policy and message discipline and overall vision of the president can be a crucial and critical fact or in how Congress Reacts to a firstyear legislative agenda. The legislative contracts between johnsons firstyear record, we gave him a pass on not and it reflects a lot about trumps limitations and also those of his administration, specifically an inability to develop a coherent
The pennsylvania secretary of education, pedro rivera. Thank you for being with us. The proposed budget for your department in the coming year is about 6 billion. Where does that money go . Mr. Rivera first, thank you for the opportunity. It is an interesting topic of conversation as you are looking specifically at Education Funding. The vast majority of ending is actually passed through to School Districts. We are a relatively Small Department in terms of service to 500 districts across the commonwealth including 174 harder schools and Technical Education Centers Charter Schools and Technical Education centers. But most of our funding is for but how do you allocate that questio . Mr. Rivera we are proud of some of the work we have in engaged in. For the first time, pennsylvania has a basic Education Funding formula. Historically we had run our lending through a legislative process, meaning wherever you started ended last year is where you would start this year. The first time over two
And brisk onshore winds will persist today. Dry weather is then expected through the remainder of the forecast period. A warming trend will begin during the weekend and continue into next week. Temperatures are forecast to be well above average through most of next week. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 darya for the past 12 days we have been showing you images like these. Total destruction in santa rosa. Row after row of homes that are completely gone. james last week the kron 4 morning news took you neighborhood by neighborhood to give evacuees a closer look at their homes. Now this morning they will be able to do it in person and see it for themselves. darya this includes the orchard park, journeys end and the coffey park neighborhood. Where will tran is thi