Not in terms of their interest, they all share that, but in terms of the wealth of experience we have both on the academic side and in policy from the people that we have on the stage today. I think their full bios are in your programs, but i will briefly introduce them in a minute. You know, often the beginning of any administration the first few months are very formative months in terms of the shape and the tenor, the relationships that emerge between a new head of state and all of its regular partners, all of its countries. In this particular case we essentially have two new heads of state, you know, President Trump here in the United States as well as president moon in south korea. So we are right now in this very formative period where the first few months, the first few interactions that take place actually play a very Important Role in the longer term relationship, the directions that are set between the moon and the trump administrations. So we thought it was very important to
Screeria nigeria. Discussion on the use of diplomacy in regions of conflict. The center for strategic and International Studies today looked at the priorities for congress and the white house when it comes to u. S. Policy in the Asia Pacific Region. Topics included u. S. Relations with japan and china, Upcoming Elections in burma and taiwan. This is an hour. Good morning, happy new year. Happy year of the sheep. Im mike green, Senior Vice President for asia. Thank you all for coming on what is probably the first day of work for a lot of people, including, i think, most of us. Tomorrow Congress Comes into session, and we face a new world in washington. A republican congress, democratic president and so far, on issues from immigration to cuba policy there are signs that the new congress and the white house are going to be colliding with each other, politically and over policy. What we wanted to do today and in the short report we have produced is spotlight one area where bipartisan coope
Chuse. They even spelled it 18th century style. Choose its speaker and other offices. There were no other duties mentioned. It was assumed since the founders knew all about speakers from colonial ledge islators that what the speaker was. A presiding officer, but in our congress the speaker was not only a presiding officer, he quickly became the powerful person because he appointed committees. And that evolved as Party Systems evolved, First Congress didnt have organized parties the twoparty system developed the speaker became the leader of the majority party. And took on political ramifications. The constitution is very silent on this of the powers. The power of the speaker are what the speaker can make of them and thats the unique part of it and some have exercised great power where they even rivalled the presidency in terms of setting the National Agenda. Most of those in recent times, but also 100 years ago, two powerful republican speakers, thomas bracket reed and joe cannon of ill
Think is americas number one priority . The president will be talking about it on tuesday. The numbers you can also send us an email, join us at corridor. Com twitter. Com cspanwj. Great expectations, immigration is one of the issues on the president s agenda. He may get much of what he wants in part because a bipartisan support on the issue of immigration. He will look for ways to declare victory on guns and Climate Change. The focus on the economy, that is one headline we are getting. The front page of the Washington Post the reporting of scott wilson, the chief White House Reporter for the Washington Post. Chris van hollen is our guest on cspans newsmakers program. He is a leading democrat in the house of representatives. The president will be delivering his state of the Union Address this week. I think he will address those questions. We are so caught up in dealing with these shortterm, self imposed crises that is undermining our ability to come up with a longterm comprehensive pla
Scoured the area today, without finding anything connected to the plane. An australian ship set sail today to join the search. It will take three days to reach the area. Malaysian Authorities Say theyve asked investigators to release the full transcript of the final communication with the missing plane flight 370. For more on that and the latest on the search effort, lets go to perth, australia. Paula newton is standing by. Paula, whats the significance of this new information about the last voice communication with the cockpit, with the planes captain and cocaptain . How does it differ specifically from earlier language, and whats the assessment, the change . What does it mean . Reporter well, the assessment from what he had said earlier, first off, they first said it was the co pilot who said this, and then now it turns out they want to look at their transcript again and look at the audio. And now they cant decide if its the pilot or the co pilot. More than that, it comes ever so sli