Asking your top concern. We will talk with columnists and editorial writers from detroit, chicago, new york, and San Francisco. Ost good morning we are spending this morning on the washington journal focusing on the issues facing americas cities. Having this conversation in the wake of President Trump singling out baltimore and pointing to the nations 30th largest city as a symbol of problems with urban areas. This morning were are going to hear from City Residents only. Ellis tell us what your top issues are where you live. You areidents only, if in the eastern time zone, 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. You can also catch up with us on social media. Witter. Com cspanwj you can start calling you now. A reminder, when you do call in, turn the volume on your tv down. You will you will be able to hear the program when you are on hold. As you are calling in, we want to take you back to the first of this month. The president was in cincinnati at a campaign rally.
That would be good. The jazz age is the period from 1919 to 1929, reminds me of the opening lines of a tale of two cities by charles dickens. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It wasnt exactly the best of times, but for many people it certainly was good times. It was the great age of literature, the golden age of sports, music, jazz. The 19th amendment to the constitution, which allowed women to vote in National Elections for the first time. Radio was becoming popular. It was the early days of hollywood, and certainly the age of the automobile, the model t. And automobiles were for almost every budget. Those are the good times, which we will discuss. And it wasnt exactly the worst of times, although there were some very bad times. And it the failures of that decade led to the worldwide depression in the 1930s and helped the rise of fascism in europe. So lets begin with talking about the politics of the era. It was a republican decade. Three republican president s, ha
Test. Test. Test. And part of that reason is because of the research that is going on at our National Labs. And im going to, again, ask paul to share with you, just because hes fresh out of seeing some of this and has to do with the Battery Storage. And the progress being made on Battery Storage is really fascinating. And ive always said that Battery Storage is the holy grail. If were able to get to that point where we can use our renewables, solar and wind in particular to power these batteries that have long time storage, and what were finding now is that the the elements that are being used to create some of these batteries are not Rare Earth Minerals and theyre elements that we have right here in the United States, so were going to be in control of our future substantially more on the Battery Storage if you just kind of give them a glimpse of whats going on here and i think thats pretty exciting stuff. So a couple of examples, the complex, r d business, beyond lithium ion batteries
Certainly was good times. It was the great age of literature, the golden age of sports, music, jazz. The 19th amendment to the constitution, which allowed women to vote in National Elections for the first time. Radio was becoming popular. It was the early days of hollywood, and certainly the age of the automobile, the model t. And automobiles were for almost every budget. Those are the good times which we will discuss. And it wasnt exactly the worst of times, although there were some very bad times. And it the failures of that decade led to the worldwide depression in the 1930s and helped the rise of fascism in europe. So lets begin with talking about the politics of the era. It was a republican decade. Three republican president s, harding, coolidge and hoover, and the republicans controlled the presidency from 1921 until 1933, and congress from 1918 or from the 1918 election until 1930. Domestically it was an era of laissezfaire. An era of laissezfaire. In other words, give business
Senator Bernie Sanders and senator Elizabeth Warren at the debate last night tackling topics like Climate Change, tariffs and trade. You outcompete them and put chief manufacturing officer in place to make sure we rebuild the manufacturing base, we have to fill the factories, we have to fill them with workers that are making batteries, charging stations, making sure making solar panels. Senator warrens plan basically that she would put out we would not be able to trade with the United Kingdom. We would not be able to trade with the eu, its so extreme. Thank you, congressman. What the congressman is describing as extreme is having deals negotiated by the American Workers for American Workers. American workers want those jobs and we can build the trade deals that do it, people want access to our markets all around the world, then the answer is lets make them raise their standards, let their workers unionize, Environmental Standards before they come to us and say they want to be able to s