Were these demonstrations over the Christmas Period targeted in small pockets or widespread . Dan mostly small pockets. Targeted at shopping malls in particular, looking to hit the retail sector, which has really been battered by six months of protests. We saw clashes at shopping malls. 20 people were injured. There is another rally tonight, in a suburban area of hong kong, and a couple over the weekend, all pointing to the big rally downtown on new years day. Matt what are the plans for that big rally, further protest . How organized is this movement . Dan the Group Organizing the een convening some of the largest rallies we have seen. There are various elements of the protesters. Siderganized side, the that tries to abide by laws, and then the frontline protesters, the ones lighting fires and battling the police, and a sort of work in parallel. On january 1, thats organized by a group that tries to get police permission. That is pending right now. We are likely to hear about 48 hours
Infrastructure investments, trade, and the economy. But we begin this morning on the topic of immigration. After President Trump laid out his fourpoint plan on Immigration Reform, we want to hear from you about what you took from the state of the union when it comes to the immigration debate . The phone lines this morning. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. 002. Pendents, 202 748892 forave a special line Illegal Immigrants as well, 202 7488003. You can start calling in it now. We want to get your thoughts on the president s statements on immigration last night, but first, a few stats from the state of the union yesterday. 4. 5 million tweets, this was the most tweeted state of the union or joint session address, surpassing the three bs record previous record of 3 million tweets in 2017. As we pointed out earlier, it was a little over 80 minutes long, 80 minutes and 32 seconds. It was not the longest state of the Union Address ever, but it was close, and definitely the lo
Lets release the memo. President trump no worries, 100 . Clip from our cspan twitter page where we are tweeting out. You can go to cspans webpage, cspan. Org to watch the entire event yourself and watch any of our events here from cspan. A few minutes left to keep talking about the president s push for a one point 5 trillion Infrastructure Investment that would include 200 billion in. Ederal dollars caller i dont care which president may be in office, but it seems the last ace up their ,leeve is infrastructure plans may it be obama or go on forever, but it seems like every time the United States gets in trouble and we are out of jobs, normally they pull this out and then war comes eventually. What scares me is who is going to do the actual work . Anybodyf we dont have coming over like the chinese did with the railways and not i am a little worried about the kids nowadays because most kids dont know what work is, because they are so used to being babied thanks to the Obama Administratio
Some behind the scenes perspective of the correspondent dinner. Ask for joining us on this friday edition of washington journal. Enjoy the rest of your day and a terrific weekend. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] the Labor Department releasing the april jobs numbers this morning showing employers adding 288,000 jobs last month, the most in two years. The unappointed rate also dropped to its lowest level since 2008 26. 3 , down from 6. 7 . John thune tweeting Labor Participation force dropped by nearly as much as south dakotas entire population. The senate and house are out today, returning next week. In the house, they would take up legislation to increase the business R D Research Development tax credit. Voteull chamber will also on whether to hold former irs official lois lerner in contempt of congress for invoking her fifth amendment rights and refusing to testify before congress. The Senate Next Week be
Of it. We have had the Supreme Court rulings, but the federal Election Commission has issued regulations that basically have narrowed disclosure to a level that is almost absurdly impossible to meet. People giving money specifically for an advertisement. I know that you see it as a vote best the federal Election Commission. Youre a very litigious guy. And repeated instances you have and judges have rebuffed those regulations. But in this particular case the District Court judges so and then the panel of the d. C. Circuit sent it back. Did you talk for just a couple of minutes about the destruction of the federal Election Commission and its role in the problems that we had but also the state of play in that particular and let me start with the latter. You are right best, we essentially won the case at the District Court level. On appeal the court actually found against us in part but then sent the case back to the federal District Court level to look at the other piece of the case. In f