Policy director at the center for american progress, and Marc Scribner, a senior fellow at the competitive enterprise institute. They are here to discuss President Trumps newly released infrastructure plan. This is still infrastructure week. Thank you both for joining us. Guest thank you for having us. Host the president says he can create 1. 5 trillion in infrastructure by using just 200 billion in federal money. I want to get an idea about how that can happen, and i will start with you. Guest it is unrealistic, to say the least, that you will get 1. 5 trillion infrastructure activity based on this plan. It is important to look at the plan in the context of his fy 2019 budget. The budget actually cuts more money from federal infrastructure programs than the plan calls for. The existing federal infrastructure programs that have cuts, he wants to cut 280 billion. If we put that next to the plan, and dollar . 40 for every one dollar proposed expenditure, that would create a loss of const
Trump filler but states no investigation nor that the melding campaign altered the elections results. So today, were getting your thought hopes dimets of 13 russians charged with election interference. Republicans can call 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000 and independents 2027488002. The Justice Department special counsel announced a sweeping indictment friday of a notorious Russian Group to have internet trolls charging 13 individuals in three companies with a long running scheme to criminally interfere with the 2016 u. S. President ial election. The Internet Research agency based in st. Petersburg was named the indictment as the hub of an ambitious effort to trick americans online into following and promoting russian set propaganda that pushed 2016 lets owards then look at Rod Rosenstein announcing that indictment yesterday. A grand jury in the District Of Columbia returned an indictment presented by the special counsels office. The indictment charges 13 russian nationals and three
For american progress, and Marc Scribner, a senior fellow at the competitive enterprise institute. They are here to discuss President Trumps newly released infrastructure plan. This is still infrastructure week. Thank you both for joining us. Guest thank you for having us. Host the president says he can create 1. 5 trillion in infrastructure by using just 200 billion in federal money. I want to get an idea about how that can happen, and i will start with you. Guest it is unrealistic, to say the least, that you will get 1. 5 trillion infrastructure activity based on this plan. It is important to look at the plan in the context of his fy 2019 budget. The budget actually cuts more money from federal infrastructure programs than the plan calls for. The existing federal infrastructure programs that have cuts, he wants to cut 280 billion. If we put that next to the plan, and dollar . 40 for every one dollar proposed expenditure, that would create a loss of construction jobs and a reduction i
Can propose or elaborate with ukrainians, not without ukrainians but without ukrainians and help them political, economic, social and also including corruption and this is the big joke for many years this is not you cannot battle corruption in one year its quite difficult in the society of ukraine. We have time for about two more questions so lets do the gentleman right there in the middle standing up and then well come down here. Thank you. Im a president of Georgian Television station. Let me remind you of a statement that appeared in august, 2008 when military confrontation was started against georgia and my question is about russia georgia relations. How do you see these relations in a country where governments declared policies to join nato . Thank you sir. Well, we had the satisfaction of the statement of georgian Prime Minister in new york during the General Assembly of the United Nations that the policy of georgia is to step by step normalization of relations with russia. And h