Different immigration proposals. They have been voting. They just began. Senator toomey on the floor right now. All those proposals dealing with border security, allowing socalled dreamers who came to the country as children to remain in sanctuary cities. Each of those proposals need 60 votes to advance in the senate. You can watch those votes as they take place live on our companion network cspan2. In just under half an hour here on cspan, Supreme Court Justice Clarence thomas will be sitting down at the law bry lear in congress about a conversation of his life and career and. And until then a conversation from washington journal. First guest of the morning, delicate Stacey Plaskett delegate Stacey Plaskett from the u. S. Virgin islands. Good morning. Your thoughts on the shooting from yesterday. We have been through this before. What do you think the reaction from congress will be . Will havehink members a moment of silence, they will say that this is a tragedy. Unfortunately, i thin
It comes from the same route as democracy and autocracy is about a hook about the study of power. This is a study of Donald Trumps power how do you get it how do you obtain it and how does he get away with it . Its a system of enabling system between trump and congress and a system between the media that enabled him to create an audience and a system that involves the republican donor elite in the Traditional Republican Party and above all him and the core group of his voters within the Republican Party who enabled him to win the republican nomination. How do you respond to president comes fbi appointee saying that the memo he has read should be released could pose a grave danger to the country . Let me step back for a second. First of all let me tell you what this memo is and what this memo is not. What this memo is congress doing its job in conducting legitimate oversight over a unique law, fisa and if mistakes are made and individuals did something wrong than it is our job as the br
Part of march and mars. All those people are coming for the super bowl next week. I talked to someone on my staff, were going to do the dogsledding and the ski thing. He said, senator it is going to be a little cold. I am very excited to speak here. Tomorrow night, we are going to appear the state of the union. I am just as excited to get my first state of the net. Will be a few differences in our speeches. We excited to be on cspan3, will not try to compete in that way. I think there may be some differences in terms of the focuses that i have and that we need to be talking about as a country. Thank the Internet Education Foundation and all of the groups that made this very important conference possible. Focusing on these issues in my speech, i was asked to talk about some of our security issues. You know there are major issues of net that we are dealing with right now. There are also big issues with broadband. I am in a state that has a lot of rural areas. Im one of the funders of our
At the American Enterprise politics where he was one of the leading thinkers. , he was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve board. Any of you who know kevin or have seen him speak know that he is a clear thinker, a straight talker, and says what he thinks. He is, i think, serving the administration and the country extraordinarily well. The format we are going to use today is questionandanswer. Im going to lead off with a question or two for kevin and ben hes kind enough to willing to accept questions from the audience. At 1 30 p. M. Stop so lets keep that in mind. Please join me in a round of applause for our panelist this morning. [applause] whether its charlie rose or david rubenstein, dont want to talk about that. Let me start, kevin, with a very broad question. The recent tax reform bill what in your view are the three most important changes that that bill accomplished . Mr. Hassett thanks so much and let me begin by thanking john for his leadership for all these years. I thin
Pleasurest say it is a to be here to update President Trump on the optimistic outlook of the American Workforce. Discussedpecifically our process of implementing the executive order in apprenticeships. The president s top priority is jobs and more jobs and the department of labor is implementing his vision to make sure americans have the skills jobs. Eed to fill good there are 6. 2 million job openings here nationwide. This is the highest number on record. Yet 7 million americans are looking for jobs. Americans want to work. American Companies Want to hire. We need to close the skills gap tween the skills demanded by the workforce and those offered by the american people. This is why the president signed this executive order to extend apprenticeships to all sectors of our economy. Cost of demand driven education has been enthusiastically received by private education and state and local officials across the country. Ceos of more than 100 Major Companies signed a letter in support of th