Conservative groups. Wednesday night the principle of hartford connecticuts Capital Preparatory Magnet School on educating children. Thursday the House Budget Committee hearing on federal state and private and the property programs. Friday night native American History. On cspan2 this week booktv in prime time. Join the cspan conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Up next its todays edition of washington journal. We kick things off today by asking viewers if they thought the Republican Party could woo africanamerican voters the next election. This is just under 15 minutes. Host lets begin with a look at some of the headlines on this monday morning. From the union leader and New Hampshire james foley is free now. Free Funeral Services, Memorial Service held yesterday in rochester New Hampshire for the american journalist who was killed by isis. From the boston globe, militants for u. S. Rider held in syria. That is from peter curtis was released. It was a ransom paid,
This is an example from the washington post. That aside from the story on the president speaking to reporters yesterday taking a look at syria. Saying they dont have a strategy yet. If you go to the pages of the New York Times on the same thing. Serious being its lead story story today story in story today on an alice is a story by peter baker this morning. The headline obama urges calm. A little from peter baker this morning as he writes about the two situations that dominated the press conference, but you can see in total he said probably be for the program and you can see it on cspan. Org what he writes in both cases mr. Obama took a strikingly different tone than his own advisers. The prime military officer at security adviser both talked in sharper terms over the last week at the possibility of striking in theory and what mr. Obamas ambassador expressed outrage on thursday at russias latest actions in ukraine on both theory and ukraine. The visuals are having separate parallel deb
This week on q a our guest is journalist and author who discusses his new book, age of ambition chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the new chin china. Host evan osnos in your new book, under the acknowledgments, you start out by saying none of my grand parents lived to see the book but they are responsible for its conception. Tell us more. Well, my grandparents on my fathers side came from poland and my mothers father was a diplomat sent to hungary and kicked out accused of being a spy but he wasnt. But the experience of being ejected from poland and hungry founded a backdrop for the life under authority. It wasnt explicit parts of the conversation but i was interested in what it felt like to live in a country in which there were constraints on what you could care about and what your values were like and when there was a moment in my life where you could do that china fascinated me. Host when you went there in there in 1996 could you speak chinese . Guest i was starting to speak it.
Attack shortly before the fbi acknowledged the countrys involvement. Just a short announcement. Secretary hagel authorized 1300 more troops to deploy to iraq. Approximately a thousand of them are soldiers from the Thur Burr Gade combat team 8nd air division based in fort brag in north carolina. This is part of the additional 1500 troops the president authorized in november. With that i will take questions. You said 1300 but only a thousand listed. Do you know where they are coming from . The others . They are coming from multiple Services Like Counter Intelligence it is multi service. We talked about this before where a good chunk of the troops including would be to close included in the enabling capabilities. I dont have all of the units but i can get that if you need it. They are small groups and i dont have that level of detail. Has the secretary receive the bergdahl recommendations from the army . Are they complete . Is the report complete . Are you going to release it before chris
Lobbiest turned around and supported the American People and passed policies that upset his former colleagues greatly. Host and gigi sohn is special council through the fcc and Gautham Nagesh and with the wall street journal. We look forward to having you back. I love the show. I will be back. Cspan created by companies 30 years ago and brought to you as a service by your local cable or satellite provider. Coming up, former graze congressman talks about his trip to iran and scott talks about education and then a talk about defense spending. On the washington journal tomorrow virginia congressman talks about International Issues like the conflict in ukraine and isis issues. And then indiana congressman talks about granting president obama the authority to fight isis arming the jordan forces and the defense budget. And we continue with our president of College Series with the president of nashville. Keep track of the Republicanled Congress and follow the new members through the first ses