Influential man in brussels will take on chancellor Angela Merkel in brussels this year as the new standardbearer of the social democrats, the agent of change. Also coming up, living in limbo on a greek island. The flow of refugees to europe has slowed but not stopped. We will have an exclusive report about the plight of refugees stuck in greece. Im brent goff. Its good to have you with us tonight. We begin in the United States where President Donald Trump has signed an order to build a wall along the u. S. Border with mexicos. With mexico. Trump said construction will begin in coming months. He says u. S. Taxpayers will pay for it initially, but he wants mexico to pay the money back. Trump also signed another executive order, strengthening laws against unauthorized immigrants. Were joined now by laura carlsen, the director of the Americas Program at the center for International Policy in mexico city. Thanks for taking the time to talk with us. We just heard the u. S. President on his
Local immigrant Rights Groups say theyre ready for a fight on immigration. They say they are, jessica, a lot of uncertainty tonight for tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants, including the students here on campus known as dreamers. While the program that shields those dreamers was not a target today, they feel this executive order does put a target on their families. They watched as the president went after immigration today, most were in disbelief. It was pretty difficult to be honest. I shed some tears. Those stakes are high for erica, her parents are undocumented. She worries they may not return home from work one day. Still being feared even more, really broke my heart. Erica watched the president speech with siren, afterwards, the groups leader said their work load just increased dramatically. It doubled when he came on board, and now definitely our work has tripled. Siren will reach out to attorneys to consider probono work to handle the increased work load brought on by t
Kalb. [applause] hello and welcome to the National Press club. I am marvin kalb. The conversation with ted koppel about democracy and the press. If i use the word twilight to suggest that network news, as we have known it, is on its way out and as something new is emerging. Whether what is new will satisfy the urgent needs of our democracy cannot be noted at this time. Lets hope that it will. Without a free and occasionally rambunctious media, we will not be living in an open society. The free press and an open society are intimately linked, one dependent on the other. Network news if network news is in its twilight, then perhaps our democracy is facing a turning point as well. I asked an old colleague and a friend, ted koppel, to discuss the changes in network news and what those changes might mean for our society. Ted is known best for his 25 years of anchor and host of nightline, but he has also been a foreign correspondent, a war correspondent, and author, and he has covered Many P
Treasury secretary by president clinton but he declined. That headline from the New Hampshire a union leader. We will see you tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Here on the washington journal. Until then, have a good day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] here is what is coming up on the cspan network. Live at noon on cspan, a discussion on the challenges in the middle east and United States Foreign Policy. Speakers at the Woodrow Wilson center in could robert maley, ron cspan 2, julius will speak about International Telecommunications policy. Live at 12 30 on our companion network cspan 2. And election news this morning, alan west house conceded to powder murphy, putting an end to one of the most expensive house races and the country. The Washington Post writes that after all of the votes were tallied, murphy held a slight lead but his margin was not Strong Enough to trigger an official recount. The republican pressed
Entitlement portion and the republicans have held their tongues. The whole discussion is about revenue. They are marshalling their ceos to make demands on entitlements. So many of the Business Leaders dont want to go over the fiscal cliff. They really want tax reform to happen. Whatever happens, they want this to be a stage setter. Thank you for being on newsmakers. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] tomorrow on cspan, we look back at august 2011, as the news conferences around the budget control act. This created sequestration. That is split 5050 between defense and nondefense spending. In january, our first week that we were sworn into office, the present as for the increase in the debt ceiling and i made it clear that there would not be an increase in the debt ceiling without changes to the way that we spend the American Peoples money. Shortly after that i was in new york. We agreed that there should be no