Are reconsidering our system which is built on consensus because it is paralyzed and incapable of swiftly executing decision of its. People you have to hunt them because theyre responsible for what happened just so corrupt and so criminal. Also on the day President Trump imposes a sweeping ballad on chinese tech what does the u. S. Descent into cyber nationalism mean for the future of communications if we want to communicate with people from china and the us when we have to find a solution that could cross the world but politically it will be getting more difficult. Now lebanons leadership is facing growing anger over the deadly blast that killed more than 150. 00 people and injured thousands more opponents accuse the government of corruption incompetence and failing to avert an economic meltdown and now there are demands to know why nearly 3000 tons of explosive Ammonium Nitrate was sitting at the port for years but if people have now lost patience with the political debate. On the op
Headline positively unamerican, big Time Companies are moving their headquarters overseas to dodge billions in taxes. Allan sloan wrote this be. He joins us from new york this one. Lets begin with the technical word for how companies do that, do this and that is inversion. What does this mean . Guest inversion is a polite way of saying that a company deserts the United States, moves its headquarters to another country, but Everything Else stays the same as it is. It does much less tax than what if it had not left the United States. Host how are companies able to do this . Guest because it isnt illegal. What typically happens is that a u. S. Company buys a Foreign Company, you do sort of a reverse transaction where technically the Foreign Company buys the u. S. Company and what used to be called the allan sloan corporation becomes allan sloan tlc and is incorporated in a different country. Nothing changes except the paperwork. Host how much does this mean in lost revenue to the treasury
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
Irs, proposals to change that. Is that going to happen . Not anytime soon. They pulled the proposal to revamp it and a new version is not expected until early next year. The irs is pretty gun shy after fromlack eyes they got scrutinizing the Tea Party Groups in ways that did not seem to be equal to groups of other political stripes. That is coming and expected sometime next year. The initial version of the draft changed the rules of these socalled welfare organizations getting pretty heavy criticism by both sides. A reminder to our cspan viewers that all of the hearings recovered are available on cspan. Org. You can read more on politico. Com. Kim, thank you so much. Are issues spotlight series continues next wednesday with an indepth look at campus Sexual Assault. We will show hearing from late june showing senior government officials and Sexual Assault survivors are now work on campus. We will speak to a reporter about the latest efforts to address the issue by the white house and co
Their lives. I like to see who you are this morning. If youve never been here in your life, please put your hand up. Now hold it way up. Now, just look around. Its always the same. 90 of the folks come here never been here in their life, and yet, except for these little tykes over here, theres nobody in this audience who has never heard of George Armstrong custer. Theres nobody in this audience who has never heard of sitting bull or crazy horse. And i promise you this, theres nobody here who has never heard of elvis presley. Well, folks, its a simple story. And yet its a complex story. You are on the battlefield right now. And it stretches five miles to the south of us, well beyond the in the hill, way out there, five miles. On june 25, 1876, george in the hill, way out there, five Armstrong Custer with 647 troops will attack a massive camp located about a mile and a half to two miles to the south of us down in the river valley bottom. Theres 8,000 people in that village. 1,500 to 2,00