Hasnt yet declared spelling bee day a national holiday, some of our competitors are stuck at work. Are onour competition the hill for late votes. We will do things differently and have the journalists compete for their champion and when our politicians arrived, they will battle it out and the winners of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. Lets get started. Competing for the press team this year, we have our defending champion, Alexandra Petri from the washington post. [applause] im still smarting because she beat me last year. John donnelly of cq roll call, a long time press club member. From nr, npr, my former colleague. Oey from buzzfeed alex from the and josh from the ericngton post and finally this is a great lineup of fierce competitors select have a round of applause and now, i would like to turn to scripts and they will go over the rules of the competition. Hello, everyone. I am one of the eight spellers who won the 2019 Scripps National spelling bee i
It lays out what the Defense Budget should look like for the coming fiscal year, how big the military should be, how many fighters, troops, ships the military should have and the pay raise our troops get. That will be the center of this debate this coming week. The House Armed Services Committee Approved in committee after a 21hour Committee Last month and we are looking at some spirited debate, i think, on the house floor. Host what are some of the key provisions you can tell us about in this years bill . Connor sure. The highlights of the house version of the bill is it would authorize about 733 billion for the pentagon across its budget for war operations as well as Nuclear Weapons programs. That is about 17 billion less than what the administration wanted and a Sticking Point between democrats and republicans in the house. It also notably blocks the military from deploying this new class of low yield Nuclear Weapons that would be submarine launched. That is a big democratic priorit
Kudlow the president has to walk a fine line in the way he talks about patriotism tomorrow night for it not to be political . Mr. Kudlow i dont know what that means. Hes proud of our nation. I am proud of our nation. I am proud of what the country is doing, so i dont know what you mean. Go easy on that. Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Democrats are welcome. It is the toxic part of our times. I am sorry about that. Speaking as an act democrat, i recommend x democrat, i xdemocrat, ie recommend all democrats come. When will the next facetoface between the u. S. And china come . Mr. Kudlow soon. Hadou mentioned you facetoface talks this week. Mr. Kudlow team to team. Are lighthizers and secretary mnuchin. They will be on the phone this coming week. They will be scheduling facetoface meetings and lots of communications. I dont want to predict or get ahead of the story. How concerned are you about the trade imbalance . People see that headline and they will wonder, are the trade imbal
In. Ks for taking us [laughter] sen. Harris at the last minute as you all know. Because you are here and you shifted the plan and you came here. I want to thank you on a rainy afternoon for being here. Very touched, so thank you. I am Kamala Harris, i am running for president of the United States. [cheers and applause] sen. Harris and so i wanted to share with you a couple of my thoughts and i am forward to taking questions. As you probably heard me say before, i fully intend to win this election. I really do. Part of the measure of our success is going to be at the end of this process that we are relevant. And in order to ensure that, it is important to me that i and we listen as much as i talk, especially at this stage of the campaign, so i am here to listen as much as i am to talk but i will share with you a couple of thoughts. Lets get a big shout out for naral. Yay. [cheers and applause] sen. Harris there we are. So i thank you for cohosting this meet and greet and i want to thank
I live in on of the most beautiful places in the country surrounded by adderall land. They are a huge topic in utah and across the west. They are one of many of the issues that we study. We are interested in doing research that can help inform better Public Policy and improve request. Host when it comes to management, what is the approach of the aderholt government federal government . Guest we have focused on the Antiquities Act, a law over 100 years old and passed to allow the president to set aside areas of federal land for permanent protection. They are set aside to protect their scenic and historic importance. The most beautiful places Like Arches National Park and zion were originally protected through the Antiquities Act. I wanted to understand why do the laws that have allowed for the protection of these beautiful areas that we love, also created so much controversy and conflict. How would you host how would you answer that question . Aest the root cause is that that it gives n