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Meanwhile the archbishop of canterbury here in britain, has used his Christmas Day sermon, to reflect on what he described as tyrannical leaders around the world. Justin welby said 2017 had seen populist leaders deceiving their people. The bbcs religion editor Martin Bashir reports. Bright sunshine lit up the basilica in st peters square. But pope francis chose to focus his Christmas Day message on how conflict and oppression are casting a dark shadow over the world. He said that christmas makes us focus on the christ child, and thereby Pay Attention to the sufferings of children, particularly in the holy land. We seejesus in the children of the middle east, he said, who continue to suffer because of growing tensions between israelis and palestinians. On this festive da ....
Committees. Good morning. Guest good morning, pedro. Host this week, health care will be on the republican agenda. Where do you stand on the republican bill currently out . Guest its a big step in the right direction. Its not perfect. I think as republicans my message is we cannot let perfect be the enemy of good here. Singing and decline obamacare. It is doing away with the mandates, repealing the taxes, gutting the regulations that again is at the heart of government controlled health care as i describe it. And it begins the process of reforming with republican reforms that are based in markets. Ting situation in which you have insurers competing for us as patients or consumers, which i think if you have that dynamic and a robust way, you will have prices go down and you will have better services. You will empower patients. We have got tax credits in their, and expansion of Health Savings accounts. You have got ways to reform me ....
Like to see more money spent on education, especially for children of color. Voices from the road on cspan. Announcer washington journal continues. Host joining us now for the first time at our desk is freshman congressman jim banks, republican from indiana. Last week he introduced legislation to authorize the use of military force against the Islamic State in iraq and syria. Since we are clearly already using military force against isis, explain what this legislation is and why we ge needed. Guest good morning, john. Great to be with you. This resolution was introduced on the same side with senator tom young also from indiana. Hes a veteran as well. Hes a marine and served. I serve as a navy reserve officer. Just two years ago, i served in afghanistan. What i learned from senator young as i dug into the issue is that the last time we passed an authorization of military force was in 2002 against iraq. Prior to that in 2001, we pass ....
Secretary matus and general dunford, i hope you will provide insight on what the strategy may be. What are we getting ready for . What are the priorities . That is not a hard question an important question if we are being asked, it is a Readiness Package the department is wont improve readiness and it is disconnected from strategy the administrations package proposes 18 billion in cuts to nondefense programs to offset military spending. The administration provided no detail on these cuts but we know what is on the shopping the block. There are extremely reckless cuts for agencies in the state department for next year. Jeopardizing the nations ability to deal with crises without resorting to arms. I wish the white house listens to then general jim matuss views on the state department. As commander of Us Central Command general matus stated if you dont fund the state dep ....
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