Murray, president of the National Immigration forum. Washington journal starts now. Host good morning. It is sunday, march 17, 2024. The first shipment of aid to gaza to arrive by sea in decades landed over the weekend. The latest response to the humanitarian crisis in the region as israel continues its military response to the october 7 hamas attack that killed more than 1200 people. Growing rifts between leadership in washington as a growing Coalition Calls for more conditions on aid to israel amid its ongoing war in gaza which has so far killed more than 30,000 people. This morning, we want to know your thoughts on the u. S. In this conflict. Should the u. S. Cut or condition military aid israel . The number if you think yes is 202 7488000. If now , its 202 7488001. If youre unsure, 202 7488002. If you would like to text us, our number is 202 7488003. Please be sure to include your name and where you are writing in from. If you would like to contact us on social media, that is faceb
Landed over the weekend. The latest response to the humanitarian crisis in the region as israel continues itsâ– 5 military response to the october 7 hamas attack that killed more than 1200 people. Growing rifts between leadership in washington as a growing Coalition Calls for more conditions on aid to israel amid its oning war in gaza which has so far killed more than 30,000 people. This morning, we want to know your thoughts on the u. S. I cutn military aid israel . The number if you think yes is 202 7488000. If no, its 202 7488001. If youre unsure, 202 7488002. If you would like to text us, our number is 202 7488003. Please be sure to include your name and where you are writing in from. On social media, that is facebook. Com cspan or on x, cspanwj. One of the ways that rift was revealing itself was a Senate Speech by majority leader chuck schumer. Schumer called for a new election in israel in a scathing speech on netanyahu. He called for the Israeli Government to hold a new election
United states is on to the Knockout Round. The game ended a few minutes ago. Man, by the skin of their teeth. They were inches away from their tournament being over in a flash. We knew, the u. S. Is twotime defending champions, and this is a historic run by this squad. Going into the tournament, we knew this was a bit of a transition year. Its sort of the last gasp, if you will, from some of the stalwarts weve gotten to know from the last couple runs. Theyre older now, and there is a young and Impressive Group of players coming through. At times, its been an uneasy mix. They, frankly, havent looked very good so far. They beat vietnam 30 when expectations were seven, eight, nine or more, then a pair of draws. It cant be said enough, if this is a couple inches to the left, they go home. Theyre fortunate to advance here. They have a couple days off. Hopefully they get things going in the right direction before the knockout stage. Twotime defending champions, the womens team are on to the
Approve more funding for ukraine. This is just over one hour. [indiscernible chatter] so we have cspan here, so we all have to behave. I am the Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest this morning is shalonda young. This is her first appearance at a monitor but is, so welcome. Director young hails from clinton, louisiana and has degrees from Loyola University new orleans and tulane. She worked on the home as recently as democratic staff director on House Appropriations , and in 2021 she became acting omb director, and a year later was confirmed easily by the senate including 14 republican votes. That is something. Director young was a key negotiator in the debt ceiling talks last year and we will be interested to get her take on all of the government funding issues now urgently on the table, so again, welcome. Now to the ground rules. We are on the record. Please note live blogging or tweeting, no filing of any kind whether breakfast is underway. Once the se
alert here in washington. it was the day the house was going to vote on green lighting the impeachment probe of president biden. it happened to be the day that hunter biden was supposed to show up urn subpoena to testify behind closed doors. suddenly, the cable news networks were throwing out banners, unclear whether hunter biden will testify. and, boom, there was the president s son who had insisted on testifying in public talking to reporters. for six years i ve been the target of unrelenting trump attack machine shouting where s hunter. well, here s my answer: i am here. in the depths of my addiction, i was extremely irresponsible with my finances. but to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond the absurd. it s shameless. howard: so hunter was using the media mob to try to turn the tables on the republican committee and make the case that he was ready to testify before the cameras knowing full well the panel had rejected the offer. and for all this t