joce: when east met west in the utah desert 150 years ago, it was the beginning of a new age. a century and a half later, railroads still serve america, but the american commuter is feeling the need for speed. california is building a 520-mile high-speed train system connecting san francisco and los angeles. some consider this to be the future of travel in the u.s. others are calling it out as a billion-dollar boondoggle. rep. kevin mccarthy: i know hollywood happens to be in california, but this is not a kevin costner movie. if we build it, i don t know if they will come. sharyl: there s a seeming disconnect between what you see in the news and online. it seems everybody is so unhappy, but your poll shows quite the opposite. jon clifton: we have different things that we track on happiness, like, did you laugh and smile a lot all day yesterday? if you use that particular metric, americans are actually quite happy. which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. vis
shutdown. give us a call. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. you can also catch up with us on social media. on twitter, it s @cspanwj. on facebook, it s facebook.com/cspan. a very good thursday morning to you. you can start calling in now. the question, again, can congress avoid a shutdown? can they? should they? you can start dialing in now. here s the headline from politico from yesterday evening, republicans lack the votes to prevent a shutdown, but house leaders are confident that they can round up enough support before a vote on thursday. one of the reporters on that story, sarah farris, joins us on the phone 2340uf6. where are we as of this morning? guest: thanks for having me. basically we re not at a doomsday situation. i don t think we should be drawing out our shutdown plans yet. but house republican leaders do have a pretty tough day ahead of them, and t going to be we could pottially he a nail-biter vote when we do se
he has done that since harry truman was president, all the way to president trump. 10 years ago, we decided to take the question global and see how the world feels about u.s. leadership. not just u.s. leadership. he wanted to ask about china s leadership, germany s leadership, and russia s leadership. this announces the new results now that trump has been in office for a year. host: take us through the results. guest: after conducting surveys and 134 countries, we find the approval ratings today are now in, down from 48% last year, obama s last term in office. that decline is the single biggest shift we have seen in the history of our tracking. host: in comparison to the other countries utrecht germany at 41%. china at 31%. the u.s. at 30. china at 27%. take us over time, the shift we saw with the u.s. numbers. how big of a shift is that? guest: it is a massive shift. in the first two years we started tracking, more than the last years of george w. bush in office. the globa
spee5 the hearing of the readiness forces subcommittee of house and armed services committee come to order to honor the 17 sailors lost in the uss fitzgerald. fitzgerald, hernandez, martin, rigby, and the ten uss mccain sailors, bushnell, drake, echoes, thinly, hoagland, ingram, lopez, smith, palmer and each one is so special and i know every person here. over the course of the past six months the subcommittee has met to understand the factors that led to the gruesome and tragic incidents with the surface ship resulting in the death of 17 sailors. we remain confident in the is the most powerful in the world. but it is not alone in the responsibility as the secretary mentioned in august it is in unpredictability that makes us rigid we cannot deal with new and revealing threats. we know enemies are not standing still. passing another temporary measure compounds the negative impacts for the military some of those are highlighted by the certification gaps necessitated by increa
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