Its tuesday 7 february. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The Commons Speaker, john bercow, is facing mounting criticism for suggesting hell prevent President Trump addressing parliament during his state visit later this year. Mr bercow whos one of three parliamentary officials who can approve such an event said opposition to sexism and racism, and support for equality, were hugely important. But critics say he should have stuck to the tradition of neutrality with one senior conservative describing his intervention as utterly outrageous. Heres our political correspondent, eleanor garnier. Its an honour thats bestowed on popes and president s. A speech to both Houses Of Parliament in the splendour of Westminster Hall was part of the itinerary when these dignitaries visited britain. But the same invite may not be coming mr trumps way. In an astonishing intervention, the Commons Speaker said recent decisions by the president made him uneasy about issuing an invitation. I feel very strongly th
While we wait for this event with Health Secretary Sylvia Burwell to get under way, well show you some of todays white house briefing. Good afternoon, everybody. I to not have any announcements at the top, so we can go straight to questions. Could you say what role the white house played, if any, in terry carter ordering the pentagon to stop recruitment recoupment of the enlistment bonuses sought from some guard members . Mr. Earnest as you know, the president makes the fair treatment of our Service Members a top priority. Officials at the department of defense and as i alluded to yesterday, the president has been pleased to see in the last 24 hours the department of defense make some specific commitments to ensuring that our Service Members are treated fairly. When a promise is made to our men and women in uniform, we should keep it. Certainly thats the view of the president. And we certainly want to avoid a situation where Service Members are punished because of nefarious or fraudule
Politician. I think we are in for a bumpy ride, no matter who wins. Host thank you so much for joining us. Stay tuned on cspan, we will be giving you live coverage of the campaign. Bill clinton will be making a 1 30in columbus, ohio at eastern. Later on this evening, donald campaigning in phoenix. Also, tomorrow, on washington journal you can look for john fortier. He will be discussing campaign 2016. We will also speak in phoenix. Also, tomorrow, on washington journal you can look for john fortier. He will be discussing campaign 2016. We will also speak with chains and deborah fallows speaking about u. S. Migrant communities. Ann coulteroulter will discuss the election. Fear back here tomorrow. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] coming up this morning on cspan, health and Human Services secretary Sylvia Burwell weeks about the
You once again good afternoon and we want to welcome you to the National Black writers conference and thank you for so much for being a part of this great conference. Again lets get the organizes a big hand for organizing and putting this together. [applause] they always do such a great job. This panel is part of the great job that they are doing today. Race ,com,com ma power and politics is the title of our panel. Our moderator is marcus ford. William jelani cobb Obery Hendricks Michele Wallace. Thank you and good afternoon. Good afternoon. Hello. We would like to first of all thank you for coming to the 14th annual black writers conference. My name is wallace ford. Im the chairman of the Public Administration department at Medgar Evers School at inappropriate business and the other is the commentary blog soon to be in book form called love and hate the time of obama and a host of inclusion showed which can be seen in various parts of the country. The introduction has to do with the t
In this area to say what has not been dealt with. You are exactly right, fannie and freddie is not dealt with under doddfrank. But lets talk about doddfrank for a moment. There have been reforms to our financial system, but there needs to be significantly more. One thing about doddfrank is it sets up a framework. But ultimately not all of the rules are implemented. There are very important standards that need to be set by the regulators and treasury. Because what we are worried about is trying to protect americans in the event of another financial crisis. We do not want to be in a situation where one of the companies can bring down all of these losses in american jobs and american pensions and mortgages. We cannot be in one of those situations again. So, we are going to continue to raise the alarm and say there has to be more work done. And it is not going to be easy. And there is a lot of heavy lifting. One of the things to me quite disgusting is you have all of these companies to tak