Rebuilding iraq donors aim to raise billions of dollars to help its people restart their shattered lives egypt has been a very important member of the defeat of. The u. S. Secretary of state pledges to help egypt to defeat i still. Investigators in russia search for the cause of the plane crash which killed all seventy one people on board. And revealed for the first time the official portraits of iraq and michelle obama. Are more welcome to the program our top story south africa is the countrys state media is reporting that president jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign the decision comes after a marathon meeting held by the ruling a. N. C. Partys National Executive committee to finalize whom his future in the last hour the president of the Party Cyril Ramaphosa was on his way to meet zuma to inform him of the partys decision hes facing a number of allegations of corruption but has refused to stand down before his term ends next year and ill speak on the phone to for m
Give us a call, republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch us catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook, it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good monday morning and you can start calling in now as we talk about the president s fiscal 2019 Budget Proposal and what is being reported is the plan does not include the goal of balancing the budget over the next 10 years. Here is the Washington Post on that this morning. President trump slated to announce a new budget plan that will no longer seek to eliminate the deficit over a decade, forfeiting a major republican goal. The plan will call for a range of spending cuts that reduce the growth of the deficit by 3 trillion over 10 years, but it will not attempt to balance the federal budget. It will relinquish the deficit the goal comes after President Trump pushed a 1. 5 trillion tax cut through late last year and signed budget deal last week that lists federal spendi
Next year a minute minute miller has more from johannesburg. Theres been no official word from the African National congress as to the outcome of this meeting held by the National Executive committee the top Decision Making body of the a. N. C. But we do understand based on reports from the National Broadcaster the s a b c that as well as the secretary general of the a. N. C. Met with jacob zuma to relay a message from the a. N. C. And according to the state board cost that was the jacob zuma has a day or potentially to to resign as president of the country now the n c has been meeting throughout the day in fact will rip returned to the ne see so it would appear that the conversation theyre having isnt entirely over yet but jacob zuma is certainly under pressure all indications are given his behavior in the last ten days or so he is resistant hes resisting this resignation he doesnt want to step down and if that continues to be the case the a. N. C. Would then have to Institute Proceed
Bipartisanship in politics. This form is hosted by Georgetown University and took place on capitol hill. Its just under an hour. Hello. We are at georgetown. The way you can tell you are at a catholic meeting is there is no one in the front row, and the audiovisuals never work. Thank you all for coming very much. We are delighted that you are with us. My name is john carr and i am director of the initiative on catholic social thought and public life at Georgetown University. We are the host of this. We are very grateful to the Chaplains Office for their help , and karen, and our friends at the Democracy Fund who support our efforts on civil dialogue at a time when that is more important than ever. We do a bunch of stuff, we do large dialogue, of a georgetown and i will mention a couple of those at the end. Probably the most important thing we do is reach out to Young Leaders here in washington. Its my experience, im very old, as i am told by my children all the time, but my experience
Or with the the enemies call the , american vietnam war. Brian how did you approach this differently . Mark this is the first time a journalist like me would have access to get to meet vietnamese participants. I was able to tell the story through both the american soldiers and marines to five and who fought and also the vietnamese viet cong. I think as time is gone by there was a lot of documentation in the archives and hanoi as well as here in bethesda, maryland, at the national archives. There are also the records of the Johnson Administration at the lbj library. All of William Westmorelands papers are there. Johnsons National Security Council Staff papers. So 50 years is kind of a good time i think to go back. The record is established. The participants are still alive. Brian in the early part of the book you say the battle would be the bloodiest of the war and a turning point not just in that conflict, but in American History. Why . Mark well up until the tet offensive, which this