Next, a discussion on u. S. China relations with virginia senator washing a mark warner vice chair of the Intelligence Committee from the u. S. Institute of peace this is an hour and ten minutes. Good afternoon, everybody im Nancy Lindberg im the president petition u. S. Institute of peace. And delighted to welcome everybody here for a very timely conversation with senator mark warner from virginia. About the u. S. China relationship, an issue getting a lot of attention these days. Senator warner has been at the forefront of china. And has been a leader on the conversation related to Foreign Policy and National Security issues both on china and through his years of service in the senate. For those of you who are joining us for the first time, u. S. Ip was founded by congress as a nonpartisan national institute, dedicated to working with partners around the world to prevent and resolve violent conflict. And one of the things we do here in our headquarters in washington is to provide a s
News and opinion website. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington is next. Ist good morning, it monday, september 23, 2019. Scrutiny over President Trumps reactions to ukraine have led for renewed calls for impeachment. Also acknowledged yesterday that joe biden came up in that july call. This morning on the washington journal, we are getting your reaction to this story as phone lines are split as usual by political party. Is thets, 2027488000 number. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also text us and if you do, please include your name and where you are from. That number, 2027488003. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good monday morning, you can start calling in now. It was the washington journal over the weekend that led the that julyorting about phone call with President Trump. The wall street journal w
So, good morning, everybody, thank you for coming. Im the executive director of the big Cities Health coalition. I want to start by saying a special thank you to representative roy allards office for securing this for us. While i know that the congresswoman couldnt be here today. I want to thank you her for being a true champion for Public Health and thank the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner to us as we started this event, planned this event. So, the big Cities Health coalition was founded in 2002 and is a forum for leaders of americas largest metropolitan Health Departments who have changed strategies and jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of their residents. We have nearly 30 we have 30 members whose Health Department serve 62 million or one in five americans and we luckily have two of our member jurisdictions here today. So you all have bios in front of you so im not going to take up too much time, but i want to introduc
The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members have five days to visit made statements and questions for the record subject to the limitation of the rules. Ambassador wells and ms. Friedman, welcome to the members of the public and the press as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan here as well. We need this mornings of the committee conduct oversight of the administrations policy towards afghanistan and iran now recognize myself for an opening statement. For months weve been attempting to get some visibility into the ongoing peace negotiations without success. We all want peace and the fighting in afghanistan do and do. Congress needs to know what the potential deal looks like and members need the chance to ask questions and offer views and in the last few weeks, weve seen the reconciliation process go off the rails in a spectacular fashion area to be learned from a president ial message that the administration was planning to host the caliban at camp davi
Extraordinary session of parliament. Coming up mp shorts to the law stopping and no deal brexit. What unites us is a conviction that there is no mandate for no deal and that the consequences for the economy and for our country would be highly damaging. They tried twice to call a general election. If you really want to delay brexit beyond october 31 which is what you seem to want to do, vote for an election and let the people decide. The Prime Minister is running away from scrutiny. Running a way from scrutiny with his blabber and his shouting. And a defiant speaker announceshes standing down. I have sought to increase the relative authority of this legislature for which i will make absolutely no apology to anyone, anywhere at any time. The historic unprecedented and quite extraordinary, how else to describe five days in parliament unlike anything in living memory. Five days which the government loses every vote input to the commons, a bill the minister didnt want and the surprise resig