That because of our strength, the power of our banks, all we americans have to do if Congress Rejects this plan is return to the bargaining table, puff out our chests and demand a better deal. Ive heard one critic say he would use sanctions to give iran a choice between having an economy or having a nuclear program. Well, folks, thats a very punchy sound bite, but it has no basis in reality. As dick said, i was chair of the Foreign Relations committee when our party came across to enact round after round of economic sanctions against iran. Remember, even the toughest restrictions didnt stop Irans Nuclear program from speeding ahead. From a couple of hundred centrifuges to 5,000 to 19,000. Weve already been there. If this agreement is voted down, those who vote no will not be able to tell you how many centrifuges iran will have next year or the year after. If its approved, we will be able to tell you exactly what the limits of irans program will be. The fact is that it wasnt either sanc
Are open. The numbers are on the bottom of your screen. A very good saturday morning. Here are the headlines that americans are waking up to this morning. Many of them talking about the economic and jobs situation in the country. The lead story in the Los Angeles Times the wall street journal this morning. The Orange County register this morning. Heres the front page of the Financial Times weekend paper. Finally to the front page of the Washington Post this morning. President obama spoke about the jobs situation and wage situation yesterday in remarks at the white house briefly before he introduced his new pick to head the pentagon. Heres a bit of what the president had to say at the beginning of that statement. Last month americas businesses created more than 300,000 jobs. This keeps a pace so tar this year so far this year that we have not seen since the 1990s. So far this year over the first 11 months of 2014 our economy has created 2. 65 million jobs. Thats more than in any entire
Johnson and the great society. Hundreds of hours of phone calls. Trove isof a research it for you and other historians . You get a real feel for how Lyndon Johnson tried to lobby and put together coalitions for legislation. Also, people he was working with not just him. Have they tried to work the president , place pressure on the white house. It is unfortunate we do not have that after richard nixon. It is a treasure for those of us who study american politics. Is this a good time to assess his time in the white house . Absolutely. With the enormity of everything he accomplished, we are looking of theth appreciation fact that so much legislation came out of congress within a half. Year and legislation that remains with us today. Medicare, civil rights sex, education policy. It is a good time to try to accomplished,t we and how we accomplished it. It is also the relationship between president and congress. Right now we are in gridlock and people are wondering why cant president s do mo
Illustrate different ways soldiers coped with the transition to civilian life after they enter words physical and mental trauma during the war. This class is about an hour and 20 minutes. All right, we will go ahead and get started. Today, we are covering, as you can see, this illusion meant of the First World War postwar , disillusionment. And how we as historians should maybe a perch the topic approach the topic. Im going to begin this class with something i never thought i a class. To begin were going to begin it with a canonical column. This comes out of the First World War and is reprinted in anthologies over and over again to show us something of the experience of the great war and its memory. You will undoubtedly recognize it because you read it for today s class. We cursed through sludge, rest toward our distant began to trudge but lost their boots, marched on bloodshod, drunk with fatigue, 9s behind. The 5 a pockmarked,ave shell torn landscape behind the soldiers. Quick, boys,
Ayotte. Both have found themselves at odds with their president ial candidate this week. Along with those endorsements, trump also scheduled a Campaign Stop in new hampshire. He is set to speak there in just a few hours. The reason for that stop . It could be there. Brandnew polling out of the Granite State shows trump behind Hillary Clinton by 15 points. The narcwide poll shows him falling 15 points behind Hillary Clinton. Joining me to talk about the week that was and whats ahead and a pretty sudden aboutface that weve seen by trump im joined by my panel, ryan lizza, Maria Cardona and jeffrey lord. Thank you so much, guys. Hello poppy. Hi, poppy. Thanks, poppy. Ryan, to be a fly on the wall in whatever meeting i surmise donald trump had on thursday night that made him come out and tweet friday morning that he was wrong about that video he said exists of seeing the money come off the iran to, frankly, then coming out last night and endorsing mccain, ryan, and senator ayotte, what do y