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Undersecretary for strategy, policy and plans. And now live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Gracious god, our rock of ages and lifes shifting sands, give our lawmakers this day the abiding assurance of your presence. May they strive to be your instruments, accompliing your will and being concluded by your glory. Enable them to experience your co...

How power lunch starts right now the dow is down about 200 points slightly off the lows of the session. The big loser is the nasdaq. Down by more than 1 ty thanks very much. President trump heading to the nato summit in london today. Before he left he cast more doubt on a trade deal with china. President trump was noncommittal today on whether the phase one deal would be done this year. The chinese are always negotiating. The chinese want to make a deal. Well see what happens President Trump tig...

Through those challenges in the Current Crisis that they face president john had a telephone call with ukraine in july last week but what struck you. Now we have in black and white evidence of the fact he is conducting business supposedly on behalf of foreign leaders now his own personal political business but if you read the transcript not once did they raise anything of national significance. With nothing but sanctions. With economic and security support it doesnt matter of us policy. All they...

Compromised folks, maybe the elderly, the young. As we look at temperatures now in geyserville, it is cooler. The relative humidity is up to 21 . Not great, but betterment the winds are much lighter out there. So were looking at all across the bay 40 to 50 , getting back in line with where we should be. It will be another warm day today. Not as warm as yesterday. The winds will be lighter. Its going to be a better fall afternoon. 3 00 temperatures will be in the upper 70s to the mid 80s up in th...

His son. Meanwhile, on tuesday, 12 candidate squared off in a democratic residential debate, held in ohio. Reflecting her surge in the polls, this time it was Elizabeth Warren facing a tax from her rivals. Especiallyover her support for medicare for all. She refused say ifshe would raise taxes on the middle class, to pay for it. Joining me now, Senior Editor for politics and t government, scaver. Joining sh via skype from the nations capital, is tall coping, the washington correspondent for the ...

Were going to be talking about Public Diplomacy in the trump administration. At least i think someone who studies this extensively, not enough has been really coming forth about the senior official ain the bureau of public affair. She joined the state department of february 3rd, 2018 and a year later, she became, she was already assistant secretary, but took on the responsibilities of the undersecretary of state. So this is a very ambitious and interesting effort which has now created the bureau...

Ukrainfor election help. And that the white house tried to cover it up. On thursday, the acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguire, testified before congress about the complaint which he called itote unprecedented. Enters on a phone call the president held with the ukraine president in july where he asked him repeatedly to open a corruption investigation into his 2020 president ial rival, joe biden. Ea on tuesday, house r nancy pelosi announced the start of a formal impeachment in...

In the United States, are expected them to cut rate another quarter point, dropping the ball on all of this and president declaring not even two weeks ago that hes an enemy, reminder how easy it is to make friends in the city, dow 75 points, lets get the latest first on the trade front on whats going on there and growing talk that at least the talks are back on and so far no one is throwing dagerds. No one is throwing at each other, the jobs are fundamentally strong, 130,000 jobs in august, 3. 3...

Democracy the United States and japan. The Wilson Center and National History center cohosted this discussion. Its about 90 minutes. All right. I think well get started. Its 4 00 on a monday afternoon, which means its time for the washington history seminar. Welcome, everyone, to the Wilson Center. Welcome to this installment of the washington history seminar. Im christian oserman. I have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric arnesen from George Washington university. Im dl...

Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac so when lewis and clark met the shashonis the horses had spanish brideless, they said where did you get them, they said we got them from the spanish. 12 days ride away. As i understand it smallpox take 14 days for the symptoms to appear. So if you are the shashoni you can be home sleeping with your wife, kissing your babies before the smallpox erupts. It goes pretty much everywhere. Black feet get it from shashonis, goes across the northern plains, goes ...