To officially recognize jerusalem as israels capital. Host good morning. Its thursday, december 7, 2017. Pearl harbor Remembrance Day across the country. It marks the 76th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. Flags have been lowered to halfstaff at the u. S. Capitol. The house and senate will both reconvene at 10 00 a. M. Today. At some point this morning on the senate floor, minnesota democrat al franken is expected to make an announcement about his political future, one day after new allegations of inappropriate behavior emerged and after over 30 of his fellow Democratic Senators called for him to resign. Thats where we begin this morning on the washington journal, as we take your calls and hear your thoughts. Phone lines republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. A special line this morning for minnesota residents, 2027488003. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter, cspanwj. On facebook, its facebook. Com cspan. A very good thu
Levels through december 22. An update now on negotiations. At roll call. Walk us through the next 48 hours in terms of government funding and efforts to stave that off by members of the house and senate. Guest well, good morning. It seems like the crisis is going to be averted, at least for about two weeks. The house is going to move forward, already gone through the rules committee, as i understand it, and theyre going to move forward on a twoweek continuing resolution. It wouldnt do much except for change the date of the expiration of the government funding. And also make sure that they dont run out of money for Childrens Health Insurance Programs between now and then, making a little bit of a technical change there. Which really pushes the whole issue off until december 22. All indications are that pretty much as soon as the bill arrives from the house, that the senate will ask to pass it as well, and thats if they dont ask before they move. Sometimes the senate will come up an agre
Guiding principles. You might think of it as a framework for National Security rather than a blueprint for action host one of the headlines we are seeing this morning on the speech coming up today at 2 00 p. M. Eastern is that trump will discuss trading borders and ignore Climate Change and announce a new strategy. What are some of the notable elements in the strategy that you are hearing of guest one thing you just mentioned that i think is correct, there will perhaps be an unusual amount of emphasis on Border Control and also it appears that there will be more of a change in the way, in some cases semantic or terminology in the way that major powers like russia and china are described. One interesting aspect of this is although this is going to be presented as a new strategy and in some ways its very much in line with what previous president s have followed, in fact, when it comes to russia for example, russia and china both will be copresented in the context of a new great power str
Correspondent daniel new howser and congressional reporter pitterson, later anthony from the center for strategic and International Talk about the Foreign Policy challenges that are facing in 2018. Social media. But voters, wed, should make it a priority that basic knowledge pertaining to our government. Amy says it helps. I have learned so much from the social media. I can adjust my opinion to include new facts. Ive change my mind is some because of conversations with people online. One more from saul. A lot of people do not care about the research, it hurts, they end up spreading false information. That is a sampling of the discussion on our facebook page. Here is a poll. Different wording, but same idea, this is from surveymonkey from october, asked whether social media does more to help, promote democracy and free speech or does more to hurt it. 51 surveyed in the late october poll said it did more to her democracy, 45 said it did more to help. Large majorities among hispanics and
To what we were seeing november and part of december as we saw some rotation. On a relative basis the dow having a much smaller gain than the nasdaq. Leadership in largecap technology. Its a bit broader. We see Consumer Discretionary also helping lead gains. I want to talk about the weather affect. Take a look at whats going on with some of the commodities. Gas rising to its highest in about a month. A 14 surge. Its quite chilly in the northeast. Temperatures hover well below normal. Coffee is also seeing a boost. Things that are hot. Some crop issues in columbia. Slowing brazilian exports also helping and cocoa also seeing a boost. Shirts are hitting a record in london. The u. S. Actually burned the most natural gas ever on record on monday. Natural gas consumption surpassing even the socalled polar vortex. 143 billion cubic feet was mondays usage in the United States and this is having a Ripple Effect within stocks so out Gas Producers are outperforming. Retail generally is seeing a