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Changes the ministration would like to make to the 1973 law, we have to first time guest on washington journal to talk about it, Jonathan Wood have senior attorney. Good morning thank you for joining us and we also say hi to Jason Rylander at the defenders. Good morning to you as well. Remind us in the audience with the endangered species act is and how successful you think its been in the last 40 years. It is one of the worlds most successful wildlife conservations. It is been responsible for bringing back iconic species like the bald eagle, grizzly bear the manatee, humpback wha whale, her remarkable record of 1600 species on the list only 11 have been declared extinct since the listed track record we can be proud of. Host with that being said, do agree with the ministration its time for changes . How come . Guest the truth is, is partially successful, it is been good for pr ....
Joining us now to talk about oversight of u. S. Military aid to ukraine is the inspector of the Defense Department, robert storch. Thanks for being here. Guest a pleasure to being here. Host what is the role of an inspector object or Inspector General for the u. S. Government. Guest there are 75 in the Statutory Group under the Inspector General act and basically we do independent oversight over the programs, operations and personnel of the departments and agencies we oversee. That means one, audits and evaluations that look at department programs, determine whether they are complying with the law and requirements, and how they might achieve their Mission Better and then we give recommendations. And ....
Antisemitism in the u. S. Following the hamas attack on israel. We want to get your reactions to the speech. How do you define antisemitism . Do you think it is on the rise . If you are jewish, how do you define it . Republicans can call 202 7488001. Democrats at 202 7488000. Independent colors can call 202 7488002. You can also text 202 7488003. Welcome to todays washington journal. People get started with a portion of the president s speech from yesterday. [video clip] President Biden we must not give safe harbor to anyone for everyone in our nation. We know that scapegoating and demonizing any minority has affected every minority and our democracy. We had to put these principles into action. I understand people have strong beliefs about the world. In america, we respect and protect the fundamental right to free speech. To protest peacefully and make our voices heard. There is no place on any campus in america for antisemitism, ....
Perfect score of a hundred is not necessarily achievable so we go through the whole process and what we come out with our total needs that are estimated as 21 p. S. . 4 billion and here were sun shining it by the major programs by which the primary investment is muni one the big things from this plan it is significantly larger than the one we showed you two years ago good a big there of 5. 5 billions more a big component westbound fully assessing the states of replace specifically in the transit fixed railway the cable overheads and the parking the passing but also the state ons parking we added a lot of projects and completed a studies on the ocean subway was adams to the capital plan in this cycle about a year ago we undertook a Feasibility Study at the Fishermans Wharf extension of the t line third line this was excluded included and weve been developing a real capaci ....