Again, good morning and welcome to the fifth annual United Statesjapankorea trilateral symposium organized by International Student conferences and generously sponsored by Sasakawa Peace foundation usa and the Korea Foundation. We thank you all for joining us on this cold and blustery day as impacted hopefully other parts of the east coast more than us but we know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you that i follow us and paying attention today on social media we like to point out that we have greater a hashtag for todays conference and that is hashtag isctrilat. For those of you not following on instream and twitter that at so my name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master of ceremonies for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins. The preps perhaps more portly r todays event i am a lump of the 63rd japan america student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of wa
House sparked a war of words spnspn with steve bannon. His forthcoming book went after members of the president s family and he fired back in a statement saying mr. Bannon not only lost his job he lost his mind, close quote. Theres more to this story playing out in the newspapers this morning. But we want you to comment to us about this latest spat between President Trump and steve bannon. The white house and steve bannon as well, 2027488000 for democrats. And independents, 2027488002 on twitter, you can tweet us cspanwj and not only post there but see statements made bizarrea sanders at the White House Press briefing, that as facebook. Com cspan. The book is called fire and fury, inside the Trump White House and excerpts of it appeared on the website for new York Magazine. Part of those excerpts commenting and quoting steve bannon, particularly on several members of the trump family, including donald trump jr. Here is one of the quotes. The three senior guys on the campaign thought it
The white house wants to unveil it before the state of the union. Plans beforeo has the consumer conference in las vegas. Also, the 200 billion that are going to be from direct federal spending, we know from the white house infrastructure advisor, they are going to ask for money from existing federal accounts, and when you reach the 200 billion mark, that would incentivize 800 billion in privatesector funds. Now, that is a different debate whether or not you can reach that mark over 10 years. Also 25 billion will be allocated for rural projects. 3t is very difficult to get a p polling facility to be profitable along rural highways. Then you will have a real push on the part of the white house and the administration to streamline environmental for construction projects, these big Infrastructure Projects. The aim is to take it from 10 years down to two years. Critics will point out that is extremely difficult. You know, this is something that is extremely necessary for these major projec
House herech the live on cspan and the senate live on cspan two. Light monday night on the communicators, where on location in bell labs. It is one of the premier Communication Research facilities in the world, providing work in lasers. The president discusses what is new in communications technology. We are presented with a ton of data but not necessarily knowledge. In the next era, we will collect everything in your environment infrastructure, buildings, cities and automate that. Your energy will be automatically managed for you. All of that requires a change in networks. The cloud has to move into the network to accommodate that. The network will become valued again and devices will be everywhere on you, in you, in your devices. Watch the communicators monday night at eight eastern on cspan two. Next, a look at infrastructure needs in the u. S. And how congress and the Trump Administration may approach federal funding for future projects. From washington journal, this is an hour and
With him. Our two reporters will be asking questions. Rachael of politico. And daniel. Daniel your first. Daniel as we mentioned, the process seemed stalled. It has been widely reported that an amendment was brought up i democrats, three amendments in fact. Can you just take us inside what happened on tuesday night through the end of that week, when the interior appropriations bill was pulled from the floor . Rep. Rogers the amendments that the democrats offered caused a number of our members to declare that they did not support the bill on fast passage. The bill was removed from the floor. It is too bad because it is a great bill. The interior appropriations bill did so many great things. It held back the epa us wild rampage towards regulating everything, among other things. Its a good bill. Its too bad we had to remove it from the floor, but i hope we can force it back. The provisions that bill will be able to be incorporated sometime this fall. Daniel im sorry. It sounds to me like