Oversight Committee Gavels back in. While we wait for the return, part of todays washington journal. At the table now representative butter field, democrat of North Carolina. Member of the Energy Commerce committee. Represents North Carolinas first district. Good morning to you. Thank you. Good morning. We asked you to come on and talk about the poverty line in the u. S. Weve been reading about proposed changes by the trump administration. And we want to get your reaction to them. Can you explain for us what exactly is the poverty line . And what does it mean . Sure. The Census Bureau defines what is poverty in the country and it bases it generally on a family of four. For a familyy of four the povery line in 2019 is 25,750. For single individual its 12 ,490. Many Government Programs are based on the poverty line. Free and reduced lunches for children at scol, for example. Childrens health insurance, another example. So many of our federal programs are based on the poverty line. And if
Kudlow, im larry kudlow. All right, biden classified documents, special counsel robert hur testified on capitol hill today and made it quite clear that joe biden willfully retained classified materials after the end of his vice presidency and is guilty. Well talk about that with steve forbes, Jason Chaffetz, sean duffy, if we can all stand it what a threesome. Our own taylor riggs and Breitbart John carney on bidenflation heating back up. Gordon chang says tiktok must be divested from Chinas Bytedance or tiktok will be banned in america. Newt beginning rich on Donald Trumps republicans becoming the party of the working class and joe bidens Big Government socialist budget. Finally senator Tommy Tuberville will talk about the far left woke stuff in joe bidens fantasy budget. First up, lets go right to Jacqui Heinrich live from the right house on the robert hur business. Jacqui, what can you tell us . Reporter the white house wanted special counsel hurs testimony to reaffirm his reports c
By means of transport and fly from uzhgorod, lviv or another airport safely to our western partners warsaw, i dont know there to other countries of the european union. That is, for you at the moment, this is such an unrealistic prospect . You know, well, everything is real, if you work on it, if you involve many parties and make a considered decision, if its simple to announce that we are opening tomorrow. I think it is more like some simple statements, but not a detailed plan, which is agreed with the parliament, with a Specialized Committee, which is agreed with the society, i talk a lot with people, and so far i have not seen a Single Person who said that i am ready to get on a plane in the Current Conditions and fly, for example, to warsaw from lviv, because if there is an air alert. And we are on the plane, what to do . Eh, who guarantees this security . Even if we put a dozen air Defense Systems near the airports, no one guarantees safety from these ballistics, which uh, well, ve
Host as we come on the air this morning, the media are gathering outside the ebert art freeman federal courthouse in washington, d. C. About midway between the white house and the capital where at 4 p. M. Today, former President Donald Trump will be arraigned on four criminal councils conspiracy and obstruction related to the 2020 president ial election and the january 6, 2021 insurrection at the u. S. Capitol. Washington journal, thursday, august 3 and our entire program is focused on the arraignment and the mounting legal challenges of former president donald j trump. Throughout the program as we do every morning, we will welcome your phone calls and your comments and tweets and your Text Messages as well. Lots of time to do that in the upcoming three hours. We begin this morning with their first guest, hugo lowell, the political investigation reporter with the guardian. Joining us this morning before the arraignment later today. Thanks for making time to come in this morning. You ha
This past hour that washington will air drop humanitarian aid into the gaza strip. And thats where we are going to start. Theres growing International Pressure for a full investigation into what went wrong yesterday. As the aid convoy arrived in Northern Gaza. The israeli army has acknowledged that its soldiers opened fire at one point but says most of the deaths were caused by a crush, or lorries running people over. Our special correspondent fergal keane, working with bbc verify, has spent the day piecing together more details of what happened. His report contains some distressing images. Shots cracked through the night. People start to move. Then run to get away. In this section of the crowd there is panic. And as casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. Translation the situation was unimaginably crazy. If aid is going to come to us in this way, we dont want it. We dont want to live on the blood of our children. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convo