France prepares to host African Leaders grappling with a dramatic surge in violence in the so hell reach. Im paul race with the sport the corruption trial of former world athletics chief starts in paris with the 86 year old facing up to 10 years in jail. The leaders of libyas warring sides have arrived in russias capital for talks after a cease fire came into force theres no suggestion list yet that warlord relief or hafter and the Prime Minister of the un recognized government fires are also ross will meet but the development is right he hopes the path to ending years of civil conflict International Diplomatic efforts to end the fighting have stepped up in recent weeks a truce brokered by turkey and russia came into force on sunday. Now libya has been torn apart by conflict since long time ruler Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown in 2011 its divided between militia groups which mostly backed through rival governments the u. N. Ignaz the ministration led by Prime Minister. Is based in trip
The executive director of the arms control with north korea making headlines again this week. How concerned are you . Im increasingly concerned about the situation. What we just saw was a test of a more powerful missile. North koreans have achieved what President Trump said they could not achieve. They have a powerful liquid mobile icbm that can hit any target in the United States. They have also conducted a nuclear test explosion, the largest was back in september. Far moreons which is powerful than the weapons that destroyed hiroshima and nagasaki. Threat,not an imminent but it is an increasingly dangerous capability. It means that the North Koreans not only have the capability to strike south korea and japan with a small number of Nuclear Weapons, but probably within the year they will have the ability to hit the United States with a capable missile armed with a Nuclear Weapon. We are in a difficult relationship with north korea that requires an adjustment of the u. S. Strategy. Pre
Concern you . Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independent callers, 202 7488002. A number of you are weighing in on our Facebook Page. Thank you for being with us. We want to talk about the tax debate in the house and the senate and what it means for the nations debt which doubled andr president barack obama it is expected to double again over the next eight years. The debt is 20 trillion and growing. Hope republish the i hope Republican Congressman and jim says crickets when obama overspent and screams of outreach with a tax will that adds one . 5 trillion focusing on the democrat. Heres the front page of the New York Times. , the geopreis sprinting to send the tax overhaul to trump. Yesterday before heading to new york, the president said this. We have passed the largest tax cuts in the history of our country and many other things along with it. Tremendous tax reform. The biggest package in terms of tax cut ever passed in our country. And something beautiful will com
This war of wards over trade with china. It frames it in the proper context. Saying, look, donald trump may be right, saying we need to get tough on china. It is just the mechanisms he is talking about and the china he is talking about is the china of old. The china we should be worried about this piece argues coherently and cogently as the china that has identified National Industries it wants to own as china first. We talk about make America Great again, china is about making china great again, tech, manufacturing, industrial. They have identified entire industries that they see developing china number one in product, output, and making these truly chinese. To make them be organically the greatest provider. Oliver lets talk about someone at the center of everything so far in the administration. He is the chief white house counsel. In particular, he started coming under the spotlight as Michael Flynn was removed from the administration. Megan it has been a rocky few days, and is set t
This war of wards over trade with china. It frames it in the proper context. Saying, look, donald trump may be right, saying we need to get tough on china. It is just the mechanisms he is talking about and the china he is talking about is the china of old. The china we should be worried about this piece argues coherently and cogently as the china that has identified National Industries it wants to own as china first. We talk about make America Great again, china is about making china great again, tech, manufacturing, industrial. They have identified entire industries that they see developing china number one in product, output, and making these truly chinese. To make them be organically the greatest provider. Oliver lets talk about someone at the center of everything so far in the administration. He is the chief white house counsel. In particular, he started coming under the spotlight as Michael Flynn was removed from the administration. Megan it has been a rocky few days, and is set t