On twitter and facebook. We will get to these stories this morning in the morning he news sites as well. News this morning of a horrific plane crash in the black sea near sochi in russia. Russian military plane carrying performers scratches off of sochi. That is the site of the 2014 winter olympics. 92lane carrying 19 people people crashed. The the news crash report from bloomberg this morning. Open phones here on washington journal this morning. Some of these stories closer to home in the Washington Post writing about donald trump and the fate of his foundation. Plans to dissolve charity. Timeline unclear amid investigation. They write that president elect donald trump plans to shut down his charitable foundation. There is actually some reaction from democrats on that as well. The hill reporting, dems salm trump over Christmas Foundation announcement. They slammed trump for the Christmas Even announcement that he would dissolve his charitable foundation. National Committee Call his an
Supported us too, but i think the lesson from that is we have got to ratchet that down somehow and i know that is a constitutional problem and the court also have to test that again. We have gone way too far on having political money raising as a free speech issue. I dont think it really is the way it has morphed into the way it is now. It takes the candidates out of the game in many respects and gives the ball to these outside groups. In terms of the daytoday operations and your job, as you leave, what would be your suggestion for how to change the process here on capitol hill . Rep. Ashford well, you know, it is i come from a nonpartisan state. We dont do this. It is so different. We dont have we dont really have a rules committee in the traditional sense in the congress. Bills come out of committee and move to the floor. I know that can be done in the congress. It is not done now. I think a much more free flowing processing of legislation is the best way to go. Any movement we could