Before i get to any events today. There are a few items that i want to update you on. The president spoke with the Prime Minister of iraq to thank him for his meeting on march 20th. He was weed out of that call. Yesterday he also identified congress that a National Emergency declared executive order 13694 of the attack continues on april 2017. As you know this notification is required by statues in order to extend the National Emergency the past administration declared. The president believes that this cyber enable activities continue to post a threat on our National Security and economic and prosperi prosperity. He determined it is necessary to continue this. Last night a federal judge hawaii put a hold on the president. This ruling is just the latest step that will allow the administration to appeal. Just a week ago, the u. S. District court and virginia up hell the president on merits. This morning we announce that had the president will host president xi of china at margot. The pre
Steve is on the republican line. Go ahead. Caller thank you. Sharingery much for your time with cspan viewers this 40s. House wharton prides itself on graduate disruptors, and they did a good job with donald. If hillary starts to stumble with her email debacle, would there be time for donald to get on the ballot in all 50 states can see. Thirdparty what happens if he wins a plurality of the votes if he does that . Thank you very much. Guest that is a really important point. Time is already running sure if someone wants to run as a thirdparty because a lot of the ballot deadlines are coming up. If donald trump or anybody were to wait after a convention, it would be too late to get on the ballot. Host there is a piece from the National Journal, halla contested gop nomination, kids contested Gop Convention complicates the veepstakes. Guest it is a unique aspect of this. That is something that my colleague wrote at the National Journal this week. Af it is a convention contested convention,
Vibrant, where the Public Media Service which would now be along the public media, it wasnt sustainable. We appeared before congress and have this report if any of you are members, we are happy to provide it. It really put to us the idea that public media could exist without the federal appropriation and change the nature of this service to americans. Host can people find a report you and your web site . Guest yes. Host cpb. Org. Guest alternative funding is a longer title. Host jack from manchester, republican. Guest . Caller eric cantor resist saying what i heard miss harrison said, pbs is the second most trusted institutions second only to the military. The question that leave to my mind is why do we trust the military. Guest that is another show. Caller let me get to my point. We keep hearing television, commercial television referred to the vast wasteland as it was put in 1961. My memory goes back because i am old, prior to that, and i remember some really good Quality Television
Well, in the months that followed these questioned appointments, the white house and the Senate Democrats that control the senate came to a deal where they made it much harder for republicans to fully buster. And so to some extent, the issue has been sidestepped. But this certainly does limit the future ability of president s to unilaterally declare the senate in recess and make recess appointments. It will to some limited degree constrain the power of the president. Mike doyle of mcclatchy, we appreciate your input. A reminder to cspan viewers that all of the cases weve covered over the past number of years are available at cspan. Org. So that wraps up this Supreme Court oral argument. If you missed it, well air it again later today at 6 25 p. M. Eastern. We continue our series tomorrow with mccheckmccutcheon verse se. Thursday well focus on warrantless mobile phone searches, and well finish friday with the sebelius v. Hobby lobby case which deals with contraceptives coverage. Heres w
And other minority groups. Host we are asking if you have questions about what is happening in iraq right now, specifically the efforts of the kurdish people, we are joined for the 35 minutes or so by the head of the Regional Government for the kurds in d. C. U. S. ,re outside the the curtis tend government held kurdistans dan Regional Government, what are they asking right now . Guest we are confronted with a lot of challenges right now. Verse, you mentioned the military and crisis. We have a population of about 5. 3 million. About 1. 5 million. Theyre coming in the tens of thousands, if not the hundreds of thousands. This has been a huge burden under the leadership in providing for and assisting these refugees. On top of this, we have not received a single penny that we are entitled to from baghdad as a result of the oil revenues. Us 9 billion. There has not been a single penny that has come since the beginning of this year. Without revenue coming in, we try to upset and making up fo