So its been two months and even waiting around for the republicans to offer a counterproposal. Thats expected today but it hasnt been without a lot of work, without a lot of disagreement. What you read most recently was over the weekend a lastditch negotiations with Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, mark meadows, white house chief of staff. They are up on capitol hill saturday inside a meeting with gop staff and is been disagreements both between the white house and the Senate Republicans and within the Senate Republican conference itself. Theres a couple different camps. You have some moderate kind of centrist republicans who are facing tough reelections and they wanted to put their foot on the gas and get this money out the door. Then theres conservative camp that says wait a minute, deficits are through the roof, weve already offered 3 trillion. Its unprecedented and we cant just throw trillions out the door. I will saddle future generations with the debt. Thats the hurdle tha
Pledging to begin that process of disbanding the police department. At a minneapolis, the mayor asks questions about this idea of defunding the police department. He talked to protesters gathered outside his house. You can see that this morning. You saw this effort start in los theles a few days ago with l. A. City council introducing a motion to reduce Police Funding as calls to defund the lapd echoed at protests. You can even see it played out in portland, oregon. A decision by leaders in that city, the superintendent of schools saying he will discontinue the presence of Armed Police Officers at schools. If you want a working definition , one is being offered by georgetown law. She has this is a working andnition, saying defunding abolition mean Something Different than what you are thinking. For most proponents, defunding the police does not mean zeroing all budgets for Public Safety and Police Abolition does not mean police will disappear overnight or perhaps ever. The police means
Mike lillis is joining us. Says surveillance deal elusive and deadline looms, what are these provisions and what does congress have to do to make sure they dont expire . This is always a tough issue for congress, they tried to get it done in december and cannot reach any deals. They kept it until the 15th of this month and still have not reached any deals. It is crunch time and everybody is getting anxious as to what this deal may or may not be and what the provisions are going to be. Its one of those very strange fights because it puts these strange alliances together. Liberal supporters of Civil Liberties siding with conservative libertarians over in the senate. They want reforms to restrict the fbis powers of surveillance over u. S. Citizens, then you more moderates and more institutional, Mitch Mcconnell is one of those, attorney general william barr is another one and they just like the fbi surveillance powers intact. Expand the role as it is, and arr to make any tweaks internally
And at 9 00 a. M. , dr. Steven on a new study of Life Expectancy in the u. S. The Supreme Court yesterday to go up its first one rights case in nearly a decade. How or even whether the court will decide that case is still to come. This morning, we would like to hear from you on the issue. Good morning, it is tuesday, december 3, 2019. We will start with your views on gun laws and how they should be changed or not changed. If you think gun laws should be more strict, the number to call is 2027488000. If you think gun laws should be less strict or loosened, 2027488001. If you think gun laws should be capped as they are, that line is 2027488002. You can send us a text. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. That line, 2027488003. On twitter, tweet us at cspanwj. You can post your thoughts at facebook. Com cspan. Top of also keep you on the latest in the impeachment coming with the report out today and President Trump at the nato meetings in london. We will have th
You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Michael we begin with york host we begin with your thoughts. The last of the u. S. Forces have left syria as fighting between turkey and the kurds escalate over the weekend. Your reaction to the president s decisions. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with mark esper, the defense secretary on the sunday shows. He was on face the nation, and here is what he had to say about the decision to withdraw these troops. [indiscernible] a deliberate [video clip] a deliberate withdraw from the entire country . From Northern Syria. 1000 troops. How long and over what time period . It will be a deliberate withdraw and we want to conduct it as safely as possible. We want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces and dont leave equipment behind. I am not prepared to put a timeline on it. You said you are doing this for u. S. Force protection. The armies are advancing after the u. S. Pulled back, after the u. S. Air force,