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a hall meeting with constituents talking about the tax reform law. you can also follow live on c-span.org or lift listen on the radio app. treasury secretary steve mnuchin talked to reporters during the daily briefing. he talked about the rollout of the impact on u.s. workers. this is about 20 minutes. thank you very much. let me comment and say that i am pleased that i will be leading the economic delegation. we will have a large group of cabinet members traveling with us. we will get more information on that later. i would like to talk about the withholding tables. today the treasury department released new withholding guidance that will implement the tax cut. will mean thatce workers and their families will receive larger paychecks starting in february. this has been a massive project we have been working on, beginning to implement the tax plan. there is a lot of work left to be done. this historic legislation doubles the standard deduction, simplifies the filing ....
we begin the conversation followed by a panel discussion. this is about an hour and a half. good morning. welcome to the heritage foundation. welcome to those who join us on our website on all of these occasions and our in-house tests, would you be so kind to check your mobile devices to see if they are silent or turned off . for those watching online, send questions or comments email [email protected]. following the initial presentation, my colleague will lead our panel discussion. he is a foreign-policy analyst and has worked for heritage since 1979 and offered papers on foreign policy issues and testified before congress on a wide variety of middle east issues. hosting and introducing our special presenter is luke coffey who is director for center of foreign policy. he served in the united kingdom ministry of defense to then secretary of state of defense. first ever non-u.k. national to be appointed by the prime minister. prior to this, he worked in the house of ....
update on immigration policy negotiations. at 8:30 eastern, holly harris of the justice action network on prison sentencing and reform. and at 9:00, darrell burnett of education week on the failing infrastructure in u.s. schools. host: good morning, this is friday, january 12, and welcome to washington journal. as you can imagine, reaction is pouring in from congress and elsewhere to the president s comments on immigrants from certain countries, something we heard about yesterday afternoon. we want to get to the president s comments on immigration, talk about daca and the immigration issue. if you are a democrat, please .all (202) 748-8000 republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. and we have a special fourth line to recent immigrants to the u.s.. (202) 748-8003 (202) 748-8002 (202) 748-8003 (202) 748-8003. front page of the washington post. this first reported on the president s comments late yesterday afternoon. the headline today s piece said imm ....
president and ceo of the treatment center and the truman national security project. welcome. let s start with the big picture. this is a president that breaks with tradition. he ran on an anti-globalist message. what is notable in his style and substance of this trip? caller: i would make three broad points. the first i would say, not exactly on topic but headed into memorial day weekend i want to say this is a complicated weekend for many veterans and military members. we are thinking about you and remembering your sacrifice. with respect to the trip, to me there are kind of three big takeaways. the first is, when i think is a disappointing nato meeting, i think there was a real need for the president to confirm an amendment to a commitment to article five. one of the most controversial foreign-policy decisions of the previous administration was the red line question around syria, and it raised all of these questions around american commitment to follow through on wh ....
to his staff not to charge at the highest levels. so in other words not to invoke a lat of these mandatory minimum sentences that we know have helped explode the the prison population and has not given the safety return that we deserve. very recently the new attorney general who has long been an opponent re versed that directive and is now directing his staff and u.s. attorneys and prosecutors around the country to charge at the highest levels including at mandatory minimum sentencing levels. obviously my organization feels that s going in the wrong direction because states around the country that have sclscombplemented reforms complementing reforms have seen much better public safety outcomes. zoo it seemed toward the end of the obama administration there was some bipartisan efforts both on the issue of federal sentence bug more broadly on that but particularly on the area of cocaine and crack cocaine and powder cocaine disparity in that sentencing on those crimes. ....