Who is Deputy Editor and Senior Pentagon correspondent for defense news here with us to talk about the efforts to pass the Defense Authorization bill. Aaron, the bill sets programs and policies for the pentagon. How important is it for pentagon operations and for the funding that those programs require . So the national Defense Authorization act, essentially, its the defense policy bill. This is seen on the hill and its one of the mustpass bills and this is how much well pay members of the military and this is how many plane, how many ships and how many guns were going to buy and this is how we want to invest and it can include policy, and regarding some movements in some cases and overseas exercises and things like that. It is very much the bill that sets the next year of the military and in some cases the next five years of the military planning. It is seen in the pent fwon as something they need to get done every year and it is done as a point of pride they get done every year and i
7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can send us a text message 3. 202 748800 cspanwj. Since novemberth 3 election and 11 days before electors meet to cast their votes. So far 306 electoral votes for joe biden, 232 for President Trump. The popular vote standing at 81 million for joe biden and 74 million for President Trump. Here is the headline reporting in the Washington Post. Trump escalates election attacks in 46 minute video rant. They say trumps video represented his most comprehensive remarks about the election and came after he spent the month since the election hidden from public view say for a handful of appearances and a call in on fox news channel. Any hope of the president might be coming to grips with his loss and accepting the fact that joe biden will be sworn in as president was dashed by his combative and emphatic tone, which amounted to a call to arms to his supporters. The fight is paying dividends with trumps political operation. Using a bl
Today as the guest will tell you. The guests are the author, michelle, a leading human rights lawyer, security scholar whose litigated and one many highprofile cases including several of the landmark cases and several others. Working for the pentagon military Commission Defense organization. Michelle lectures at columbia law firm and is a fellow on National Security and board of law graduate. Carol rosenberg will be talking about the book awardwinning Senior Reporter for the New York Times working in collaboration with the center. Rosenberg has been reporting in the u. S. And at Guantanamo Bay since the day it opened on january 11th, 2002. She started with the miami herald where before that she reported from the middle east and moved recently to the New York Times. She has won many awards including the Robert F Kennedy journalism award, the silver gavel award and was part of the miami herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2001. So, let me tell you the format. The
How do you i think its difficult. Lets be honest about it, thats why we need Campaign Finance reform. Thats why i reach out to the perot voters. Theyre looking at the republican record. Whatever it is, whatever the check list was in 92, its all done with Campaign Finance reform. I worked with senator mitchell who played me in the debate warmup. We tried six or eight years ago as he appointed three people, i appointed three people to try to get Campaign Finance reform. We couldnt get it done because it wasnt enforceable. You suggested a commission, Newt Gingrich did, i did at least three our four years ago. We sent it to congress to vote it up or down. Thats how it works. Were never going to fix it by the problems because the democrats want a better veg, we want a better advantage as republicans, and thats not how its going to work. I want to touch on the tobacco thing. I want to go back to 1965. That is my first vote against tobacco companies. I said we ought to label cigarettes. I had
In about 15 minutes, President Trump pulled the Campaign Rally with voters and supporters in des moines, iowa. A portion of washington journal on Election Security. We are back with david, a Global Fellow Wilson Center and author of Great America russia in 100 years of electoral interference. Here to discuss the book on the history of russias electoral affairs. Good morning. Thank you for having me. Im excited to be here. What prompted you to write this book . I was alarmed when, after 2016, so many commentators and analysts tweeted interference in the 2016 election as unprecedented somehow. To me, when something is treated as unprecedented, it suggests theres no historye behind it suggesting its easy to create myths and lies about something so what i do is restore history to the subject and devote the dangerous myth that this is all combined to the 2016 election. Soviet Union Interference election, the cia and during the cold war, russia is and is interfering all over the world today