Having served from her perch at brookings as a key confidant and friend to both the first bush and the first obama f so calledaith czars and she has begun to develop exciting new faithbased partnerships and initiatives. God bless each of them and god bless resident george w. Bush and god bless president opera obama. Barack obama. I have been teaching at Ivy League Universities for more than 30 years. Having the key value of an Ivy League Professor which means i can speak for five minutes or two hours on any subject with no essential change in content. [laughter] before you hear from my betters on this religion, policy, and civic life. In the half dozen or so years that are seeded the establishment of the office, small but intellectually and ideologically and religiously diverse cadre of policy wonks and opinion leaders came together. What happened was that we trumpeted a fact, a fact that was hiding pretty much in plain view. Namely, the fact that americas urban churches come the synag
The obamas are spending christmas in hawaii. We will begin on the issue of the u. S. Allegation to the sochi Olympic Games and get your comments. It is sunday morning, december 22. Welcome to washington journal. Our phone lines are open. The numbers are on your screen. Host this is the question. Using the olympics to address social issues. You can also send us a tweet. Here is how we posted it on our twitter page should the president use the olympics to address social issues . Here is the story on the sunday morning from usa today. The headline is that the president has made a decision by naming a veil of the delegation and sent a message to russia. They are delivering a strong message of opposition. The delegation will include an openly gay athlete, billy jean king. It will not include the president , first lady, or Vice President. They have all headed previous delegations. Time sincethe first 2000 that a president has not been a member of the delegation. Ins is slated for february so
Collecting and storing americans personal email address books and instant messaging buddy list. More details on this later in the show. Its wednesday, october 16th. 5 00 p. M. In washington, d. C. I am samesex. You are watching rt. We begin on capitol hill. A deal emerged from the senate after a night of negotiations and after the Credit Rating agency fitch put u. S. Treasury on rating watch negative. A move that usually precedes a credit downgrade. We are on capitol hill. It looks like the deal has finally been reached here on capitol hill. It comes after the partial Government Shutdown carries on into its third week. The announcement came early this afternoon. It was negotiated by Senate Majority leader harry reid and Senate Minority leader mitch mcconnell. The deal comes just hours after the debt ceiling deadline is set to be breached. If it is breached, it could be even more catastrophic than this current Government Shutdown. Thats because that is when the government would run out
Americans have any confidence in newspapers this fall the current owner of the Washington Post offers his Cloud Services to the c i a for these developments later the show. I am its wednesday december eighteen five minute walking distance their stocks in your walk that are too. We begin with breaking news the white house has released the report written by a review board set up to investigate possible and if they abuse this. It included forty six specific recommendations to reform the nsa. Condition one was to limit section two fifteen the patriot act forcing the government to submit focused requests for data rather than bulk collection port. The revue border also called on us aid the transition away from storing data on its own to have the data stored by private companies which says they can go to for specific requests. Also the report calls on the nsa to stop undermining encryption standards as revealed by edwards noted. Ur number of other recommendations including organizational chan
Off, commodities surging today, copper and coffee and oil. If you look at the material sector that is leaving the market today but for the month of december. Another stock down 8 is twitter. The social messaging site getting cut to underperform from mutual, but maintaining the price target at 46, the second downgrade for twitter since last week, sun trust cut its rating to neutral last week. That is what we are hearing but it is of meteoric rise for the stock until today. Cheryl thank you, cu in 15 minutes. Adam our next guest underestimated the power of the markets, as big expectations for stocks in 2014, chief market strategist, welcome and thank you for joining us on markets now. Why i use all optimistic going into 2014. Get ready for corrections. I am optimistic for the first half of the year and for the second half we will get a correction as the market begins to sniff out the first interestrate hike by the Federal Reserve but they said they are going to leave the overnight rate u