Residents in the mountain and pacific time zones are 202 7488001 you can also catch up with us on social media. Twitter. Com cspanwj. You can start calling you now. A reminder, when you do call in, turn the volume on your tv down. As you are calling in, we want to take you back to the first of this month. The president was in cincinnati at a campaign rally. He talked about the problems facing American Cities. [video clip] pres. Trump no one has paid a higher price than our nations inner cities. Dear price. Id a you see whats happening. You see our inner cities, we spend millions for years, and it is stolen money. It is wasted money. It is a shame. For decades, these communities have been run exclusively by democrat politicians. It has been total one Party Control of the inner cities. For 100 years it has been one Party Control. Look at them. We can name one after another, but i wont do that. I dont want to be controversial. Host that was the president with his concerns about American C
Asking your top concern. We will talk with columnists and editorial writers from detroit, chicago, new york, and San Francisco. Ost good morning we are spending this morning on the washington journal focusing on the issues facing americas cities. Having this conversation in the wake of President Trump singling out baltimore and pointing to the nations 30th largest city as a symbol of problems with urban areas. This morning were are going to hear from City Residents only. Ellis tell us what your top issues are where you live. You areidents only, if in the eastern time zone, 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. You can also catch up with us on social media. Witter. Com cspanwj you can start calling you now. A reminder, when you do call in, turn the volume on your tv down. You will you will be able to hear the program when you are on hold. As you are calling in, we want to take you back to the first of this month. The president was in cincinnati at a campaign rally.
Turn your attention to greece now because voting is underway in the general election there the 1st since the end of International Financial bailouts and the severe austerity which came with the opinion polls are predicting defeat for the left wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras he told the early election after his that as a party stinging loss in the european parliamentary elections in may the conservative new Democracy Party is expected to win John Psaropoulos joins us live here on the news from athens john over to you. Thats right and one of them principle reasons why people seem to be attracted to the message of the incoming new democracy is that it promises transparent governance of promises meritocracy and therefore Economic Growth based on private sector criteria not based on whether the government is spending more money or whether its giving favors to cronies it is supposed to be if it all comes true a more open type of governance than greece has seen in the person and here to di
Three men and a woman believed to be members of the puerto rican nationalist gang in november 1950 its up to the assassination of president truman opened fire from the visitors gallery of the house of representatives. Five congressmen were hit. Clifford davis of tennessee, Kenneth Roberts of alabama on it george allen of maryland, Robert Bentley at michigan who was seriously injured. The gun wielders of the able to station of having perpetrated a criminal outrage almost unique in americas history. It was one of the most violent acts that happened in there were debates right after that that you cannot let this happen again. We need to wall off the visitors gallery with bulletproof glass so this could never happen again. The more the members talked about that and thought about it, they said it was a bad idea. This is the peoples house, and the people cannot be walled off from what is going on there. The Capital Building is a symbol. That makes it a target. Dimension the british building
Republicans, 202 7488001. Independencts, 202 7458002. You can also find us on facebook and twitter. You can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. The dodd frank act was named after its authors, and senator chris dodd and barney frank. It was a massive bill that required federal agencies to write hundreds of new rules. Here are some of the things that the dodd frank act did. It was signed into law by president obama on july joint first, 2010. It created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It attempted to an too big to fail bailouts of Financial Firms. In eliminated loopholes of financial products, providing shareholders a say on executive compensation, and enforce regulations on the books. Here are some polls that show just exactly the scope of this bill. A summary of the bill by a law firm shows that the bill was 22,290 six pages long. It has had 119 congressional hearings, and there have been 139 bills issued in congress to amend or repeal the act. The stats also give you a se