Changes the ministration would like to make to the 1973 law, we have to first time guest on washington journal to talk about it, Jonathan Wood have senior attorney. Good morning thank you for joining us and we also say hi to Jason Rylander at the defenders. Good morning to you as well. Remind us in the audience with the endangered species act is and how successful you think its been in the last 40 years. It is one of the worlds most successful wildlife conservations. It is been responsible for bringing back iconic species like the bald eagle, grizzly bear the manatee, humpback wha whale, her remarkable record of 1600 species on the list only 11 have been declared extinct since the listed track record we can be proud of. Host with that being said, do agree with the ministration its time for changes . How come . Guest the truth is, is partially successful, it is been good for preventing extension. 99 are actually understated because most of the species that are gone extinct will probably
Joining us now to talk about oversight of u. S. Military aid to ukraine is the inspector of the Defense Department, robert storch. Thanks for being here. Guest a pleasure to being here. Host what is the role of an inspector object or Inspector General for the u. S. Government. Guest there are 75 in the Statutory Group under the Inspector General act and basically we do independent oversight over the programs, operations and personnel of the departments and agencies we oversee. That means one, audits and evaluations that look at department programs, determine whether they are complying with the law and requirements, and how they might achieve their Mission Better and then we give recommendations. And we do investigations. We have administrative investigation groups that looks at the conduct of senior personnel and the criminal Investigative Service which has hundreds of Law Enforcement officials that do investigations. Host with respect to ukraine, there has been a lot of discussion tha
Antisemitism in the u. S. Following the hamas attack on israel. We want to get your reactions to the speech. How do you define antisemitism . Do you think it is on the rise . If you are jewish, how do you define it . Republicans can call 202 7488001. Democrats at 202 7488000. Independent colors can call 202 7488002. You can also text 202 7488003. Welcome to todays washington journal. People get started with a portion of the president s speech from yesterday. [video clip] President Biden we must not give safe harbor to anyone for everyone in our nation. We know that scapegoating and demonizing any minority has affected every minority and our democracy. We had to put these principles into action. I understand people have strong beliefs about the world. In america, we respect and protect the fundamental right to free speech. To protest peacefully and make our voices heard. There is no place on any campus in america for antisemitism, hate speech or violence of any kind. [applause] whether
Pentencia creek road. Rick what do we know at this hour . Reporter weve been here several hours tonight and were slowly getting some details. This is what we do know as of right now. Shots are fired, a robbery suspect is killed. This while police remain on the scene after hours into this investigation. Shut down on the ground, and from the skyranger you can see the heavy Police Presence. Police say around 7 00 this evening they were trying to pull over a robbery suspect, at some point shots were fired. We dont know who opened fire but we know the suspect was hit with one bullet and pronounced dead on the scene. Reporter police remain here on the scene. It appears they could be here for hours as we await more details of what happened with this officerinvolved shooting. Thank you, rick. A tense day turns to a violent night in st. Louis this is after a white former Police Officer was found not guilty in the shooting death of a black man. The shooting followed a car chase back in 2011. It
Perfect score of a hundred is not necessarily achievable so we go through the whole process and what we come out with our total needs that are estimated as 21 p. S. . 4 billion and here were sun shining it by the major programs by which the primary investment is muni one the big things from this plan it is significantly larger than the one we showed you two years ago good a big there of 5. 5 billions more a big component westbound fully assessing the states of replace specifically in the transit fixed railway the cable overheads and the parking the passing but also the state ons parking we added a lot of projects and completed a studies on the ocean subway was adams to the capital plan in this cycle about a year ago we undertook a Feasibility Study at the Fishermans Wharf extension of the t line third line this was excluded included and weve been developing a real capacity strategy to unlock the potential the light rail system to perform at a greater capacity to allow to it carry more