Mark shields and david brooks take on the republicans tax bill victory and review congress as it heads home for the holidays. All that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff President Trump signed the republicans 1. 5 trillion tax overhaul into law today. He marked his first major legislative victory in the oval office, and said the numbers will speak to americans, despite polls showing the bill is seen unfavorably. I think its selling itself. Its becoming very popular but i think it will really, youll see something when they open up the pay
Secretary of state in 2010. In 2010 promoted to secretary of state for strategic communications. Hes worked for a number of political campaigns and holds a bachelor of arts degree in Political Science from Columbia University school of general studies. Here we have an example of what you have you can do with a Political Science bachelors grieve degree. Im going to hand over the mike phone to him and im looking forward too a great presentation. Good morning, thank you for having me. Thank you julia and ann and kevin. I didnt know this was on tv any more than you did until a few minutes ago so hello out there. I want to say a few things up front quickly and then get right if earing from you guys and thats anything i want to add at the end, maybe well save a couple of minutes. First off, some context of who youre hearing from and give you a few warnings. Up until 8 00 p. M. On Election Night last november 8, i could not fathom the idea of Hillary Clinton not being president of the United
All of this event available at our Video Library at www. Cspan. Org. We are now taking you down to richmond, virginia. Attention. The are we all set . Everybody all set . Call to order, the Virginia State or of election on january 4, 2018. Have one item on our agenda this morning. Drawingre to conduct a of the winner of the house of delegates in the 94th district. Crowd. To say hi to the mr. Alcorn i do not believe mr. Yancey is here this morning, as is his right. He and his contingency have been caught in snow. E newport newshe norma area. They will be about 30 minutes late . I think we have added an update. We now have a local representative here. Mr. Alcorn thank you. Youre welcome to have a seat in front row. Civic sacrament of democracy, and this election has shown the importance of every vote in the power of one sickle vote. This election will certainly he ever monitored for everybody that every vote counts as we encourage all 12 virginians to participate in the election. I would
What guest wek wanted to have that roosevelt house, the home of eleanor and franklin roosevelt, where, with the words of the four freedoms on the wall, that theyre facing, it would be natan sharansky. We are privileged to have him today. I will not waste time describing in our is so well known minds and hearts for all what he endured for freedom. It is one of the stories of the 20th century. We are honored to have him, and ,e are grateful to our friend great journalist, publisher, member of the roosevelt has board of advisors, and most easily in his newest role, a teacher in our human rights program, peter osnos, for inviting his friend to our halls and persuading him to come. So i am delighted to introduce for this conversation our friend and our new friend, natan sharansky. Snos i want to say how pleased in the middle of the day. This conversation for which we have roughly an hour is an introduction, so i will not do one. And iwill say that natan met in the summer of 1974 in moscow.
Good morning. Gord guest good morning. Host what are you saying everything is not broken twh comes to Infrastructure Spending . Guest were certainly not saying there arent problems, there are large problems but to say everything is not broken, were trying to make point the importance of setting priorities and to make sure were not just going into full blown crisis mode, spending money on whatever happens to come along but instead Getting Congress and the administration to focus on whats needed most. Host with that in mind, how does the government approach typical Infrastructure Spending then . Guest it happens in different ways and i think one of the important elements of any debate thats going to emerge the next several months is getting into the particulars of how the government functions in different areas of infrastructure. The states as we were just listening about have the primary responsibility for the transportation program, the money comes from substantial fund of money come f