People dont listen in the same day that something is produced, like a lot of other mediums. But what has thrived in its place is so heartening to me. Its context. Its explanation. Its narrative. And a lot of it has gotten us far past the sort binaries of who is winning the horse race today, whose got the cycle down. Not to denigrate that because there is part that is really interesting to me. The Washington Post is doing with their series president ial, where they go through and talk about each and every one of the president s and their challenges and their story. Mike and the economist are doing a show called special relationship, which is really fantastic, which has a political reporter from the uk talking to one here in the u. S. And if anybody has traveled overseas recently and tried to have a political conversation with somebody who is not american, you will know exactly how interesting that can be. And the show really gets at that. And i would just say, coy talk about this for ho
Week, covering congress for military times is leo shane. This is the bill that projects pentagons programs for the coming fiscal year. What stood out in your mind in in this the items authorization bill. Guest every year, this has a ot of different procedures and policies in it that are of importance. This is the second year where is real headline on it exactly how theyre funding the measure. Its another controversy over this. The white house has issued a veto threat saying, look, youre going beyond the budget caps and we got the agreement last fall. Basically what we got it down to aside about 18et billion of the temporary war funding, of the contingency funding, and put that back in the base budget. What the white house is saying is, look, thats not the deal. We have that separate. Youre not supposed to use that money that way. What republicans are saying is, look, this is a readiness issue. Weve got to get the money in up our end o plus strength, got to better fund troops and equipm
For sale in the corner. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much for coming. Please remember to fill out the survey here to help us know how to find programs like this [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] next up on booktv, mark tooley, president of the institute on religion and democracy, talks about his book, the peace that almost was. Its from this years fall for the book festival in fairfield, virginia. Our guest tonight is historian mark tooley. Mark tooley is the president of the institute on religion and democracy in washington d. C. His writing has appeared in National Review online, the Chicago Tribune and christianity today. He also writes regularly for the Weekly Standard asklies outside of northern and lives outside of northern virginia. His new book, the peace that almost was, was published in july of this this year. The book brings readers to the final days in d. C. When some of the most important men in the nation came together to try and prevent disaster and failed. Ple
Host you can also catch up with us on social media. Host a very good monday morning to you. The president s fiscal 2016 plan which kicks in october 1, proposes to spend 3. 99 trillion on the budget plan, just under 4 trillion, and projects revenues of 3. 53 join dollars. That would leave a budget deficit of four and 74 billion kit that will be the topic of conversation throughout the this morning on washington journal and is the topic of conversation on the front page of many newspapers. Los Angeles Times budget aims to boost middleclass. Over to the front page of the wall street journal this morning, obama opens bidding on taxes. Front page of the denver post this morning president would find huge projects for corporate with Corporate Taxes is the headline there. This is how the New York Times puts it. Should washington worry about what may be the defining economic issue of the era, the widening gap between the rich and everyone else, or should policymakers primarily seek to address a
So fraggal and how things can just fraggal and how things can fragile and how things could be taken away. Reporter we called the cleaning company but they have not responded. Calosha has been out here and they have six months to complete its investigation. That story is just remarkable. To think that he fell on a moving car. You have to figure, if he didnt hit the car and hit the pavement he wouldnt be alive tonight. Reporter absolutely. Hitting the car saved his life and it is fortunate the driver of the car was not injured. You saw the condition of the car. Amazing he was able to walk away. I would like to say for people who saw this, you can tell how traumatized they are and i think them talking and telling their story helps but to see Something Like that when you are just walking down a busy street is something they will never forget. Hard to imagine. Rob roth in San Francisco, thank you, rob. As we are on storm watch we will bring you live pictures west towards San Francisco. Seei