Good wednesday morning. Battle over tiktok coming to a head this morning. It is march 13th. Good morning. This is today. Times up. This morning the house voting on a possible ban of tiktok over its ties to the government of china. Bytedances ownership of tiktok is a threat to National Security. The app fighting back in a pr blitz, galvanizing its users to flood congressional phone lines. Call them and tell them to stop the ban. Whats next . And is the clock really ticking for the popular platform. President biden and donald trump set for a 2024 rematch after clinching their partys dominations. And on capitol hill, a heated hearing. The special counsel who cleared President Biden of wrongdoing but raised questions about his Mental Fitness on defense. The relevance of the president s memory was necessary and accurate and fair. The reaction from both sides of the aisle and the potential impact on the campaign. Country in crisis. New unrest in haiti. Armed gangs rampaging the capitol after
The most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Next to look at Global Trends and impact on businesses, nationstates and trade from a conference hosted by the Washington International trade association. The discussion also focus on population growth, Artificial Intelligence, and food and Energy Security work. Morning everybody. Happy mardi gras and welcome back to witas 2024 Washington International trade conference. We hope you enjoyed Yesterdays Program and ripleys you are with us again today, either those of you who hear in the room and those of you for online. Welcome. For those on zoom reminder your resume link for today will work all day so if you have to log off or company log back on the same link used to get on just have worked with the rest of the day. For those of you who are here in the reagan building welcome there were delighted you could join us. We have a terrific buffet lunch later in the program. A special thanks to our sponsors for t
Breaking news. Charges dropped. Three counts against former President Donald Trump are thrown out in georgia, how the judge is explaining his decision. Time up for tiktok . The chineseowned app is now one step closer to being banned in the u. S. Whats next for the legislation and what it means for millions of american users. Prescription for change, a weight loss drug gets approved for a new use. And game over . Doesnt have to be for kids who just love their video games. How you can help them set healthy boundaries. Well begin this hour with that breaking news involving former President Donald Trump. A judge Scott Mccaffrey overseeing the Georgia Election interference case has dropped three charges. Saying the prosecution lacked enough detail for those charges. Hes pleaded not guilty to the counts. Leading us off this hour is blayne alex ander in atlanta, blayne, walk us through this, what charges were dropped. What it means for the case against trump . Reporter ellison, three counts t
Spending package would fund the federal agencies until septembes week. And now heads to present by for his signature. Next partial Government Shutdown deadline is march 22 members of both chambers of congress will be working on the spending bills like in the coming weeks live coach of the senate when members return here on to mexico democraticen aboutd deployment its access and funding during the policy summit in washington d. C. [background noises] [inaudible conversations] friend, a tremendous policymaker, someone who provides leadership on all of the issues that we care about. We cannot have a better friend. New mexico, beautiful state. A welcome box i appreciate everyone, it is good to see you all. I was complementing chip the incredible lineup tha they had today. Not just for everyone gathered here in this room but people who were watching all across thes country that are interested imp. We all around were the days or a few of us on looking out on this room i dont know how if you
Megan kimball is my name. The way i should say this first is gilbert garcia. Im an opinion writer and columnist with the san antonio expressnews, but thats not important. Important here is our author, megan kimball. Shes an austin based investigative journalist, author of the 2015 book unprocessed. Shes a former executive editor of the Texas Observer. She writes about housing and urban development for texas monthly, the New York Times guardian and, bloomberg, citylab. Her latest book, which came out a few days ago, is called city limits inequality and the future americas highways. And it examines the toll that ever expanding urban highways have taken on our communities. And it does so through the prism three texas cities, austin, houston and dallas so please help me welcome our author megan kimple. Thank you, gilbert. Thank you all for being here. Its really a delight now, megan, you as you point out the book, you were born in austin, you grew up in Southern California, and california.