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Events since the last diplomatic encounter which is the russia slr ukraine meeting in geneva and crucial 19 days from now until the may 25th president ial elections in ukraine. For a quick reminder about the commitments made in geneva. At its core, it was kind of a grand bargain that offered amnesty and deep and broad decentralization of power to ukraines regions through National Dialogue and constitutional reform if and as prorussian separatists ended their violence and left sized buildings and...

Morning. The capital itself is half empty this week as the house is in recess all week for meetings with constituents. They will return on monday, may 19. The senate is at work this morning, lawmakers gaveling in a. M. Over a 9 30 package of expired tax breaks. You can see the senate right now live on our companion network, cspan2. Of course, the house, as always, when they returned. Down for anill sit interview with the coanchor of news hour, judy woodruff. She is likely to be asked about the r...

Senator or house member. And so this is Something Else that we strongly recommend. Host our guest is Henry Bonilla. Former congressman, served in congress until 2007, representing texas. Number for republicans is 2025853881. For democrats, 2025853880. And independents, 2025853882. Wonder if you talk to us a little bit about how this report and your recommendations are being received in congress today. Guest we havent had any strong feedback yet. Sometimes it take as while for messages to get int...

One flaw with your argument is t makes the words it may happen superfluous, that the clause would mean exactly what you say it means if you took those words out. And your response, the only one i could see on the reply, your reply brief, page 13, is that those words were put in there to, quote, confine the president to filling vacancies that actually exist at the time of appointment. Now, is that did you really think they put that language in there because they were afraid the president would fi...

Chinese i8 here on the ground. So where do we go from here . And i will conclude on these remarks. In the centrality of this relationship, i believe both governments in the region more broadly because of the centrality of the relationship to the region to biters to build the and the rest of the world as well as the move into the unfolding decades at the new century. The chinau. S. Relationship is a new narrative, a common narrative and here i dont simply speak in terms of some sort of Foreign Po...

They never went to the backup tapes. Exactly. The backup server is different. Theres no backup server. Theres a serve that operates the email. And the tapes theyre stored on offsite, they never got the emails back. Even though congress requestedded it, the irs didnt care and didnt go the extra mile to get thosement you testified last week that you knew there was a problem, february 2014 with lois lerners emails. I was advised there was an issue. In midmarch, the irs, according to your testimony,...

Yes. Mr. Cain says on february 4th he knew. You indicate in your testimony mid february we knew there were big problems and you indicate mid march we knew it was unrecoverable. You knew even to your key staff people, mr. Cain and ms. Duval knew in mid february. You testified on february 5th, february 26th to the House Appropriations subcommittee and march 26th to this full committee and april 8th to the Senate Finance committee. In those hearings you were asked about ms. Learner and email and di...

The senate . And that a significant number, i cant remember the exact number, was actually voicevoted out of the house. I think they call it consent in the lower house . What do they call it . Consent . Unanimous con sernt. You would be surprised at the number of unanimous consent. So i guess the point im perhaps making poorly is that whats different now. Wha im saying, i think there are some things we can do. There are some tweak that is can be made. Im just wondering, what is it about this mom...

Reform, domestically opening to the outside World International ly. Then its going to be a long process. So he used his marvelous analogy which is you cross the river steps feeling the stones step by step. [ speaking chinese ] i think we also need to have that concept alive in our minds about how you can possibly engineer that incremental trust building exercise between china and the United States as well. Step by step but knowing in fact that there is a destination called a common future. For o...

So the Iraqi Government no longer controls all of its territory, and the conflict is taking on new dimensions with the kurdish government in the north and announcing a referendum to pursue independence and it has deployed its own forces to secure two large oilfields in kirkuk. The startling advance of isis across iraq has prompted many regional and Global Players to reassess their policies in the middle east, so this is a big time of flux among the outside players, as well, and that is why we wa...