As you can see jay carney hasnt begun the briefing yet. We are still waiting for more reporters to come in. While we do a discussion from this mornings journal about pending. Host for more on Congress Budget battle, we are joined by American Democratic congressman john delane yism as you return to work today on capitol hill, how do you see this budget impasse playing out . Do you think theres room for a compromise here . Guest i think there is. I think this has been fairly predictable in terms of how its playing out. Whats going on in the senate starting yesterday and today is delaying things. We have to see how long that will play out. Most people thought that the continuing resolution will come back to the house, stripped of the provisions that defund the Affordable Care act, then that will be taken up by the house. So its really a question when the house gets it back. I think thats what most people on each side believe. Host we had congressman rob woodall of georgia, republican on,
We have a regular system for actually making decisions about what we will export and to whom we will export them. This system takes many things into account. But it is fundamentally based on upholding the United States national interest. It is not controlled by exporters, unlike in europe where exporter interests actually dominate their policies. This arms trade treaty will do nothing to change that, but it will give exporterdominated nations a shield to hide behind. Now, every nation state can control the arms trade if its truly willing to do so. And the United States is ready to help. But few have meaningful laws about the arms trade and even fewer make any attempt to enforce them. The United States has two major programs to help serious countries. The first, the export control and related Border Security assistance, and it goes by the rm ecbs, is run by the state department. The second is h. M. A. , which includes stockpile conventional munitions assistance, intended to assist in th