washington journal continues. host: welcome back to washington journal. it is open forums, so i'm taking your calls on anything public policy related on your mind. go ahead and start calling in now. i want to show you the new york times, the headline, "we made it -- jackson celebrates supreme court confirmation." it says "the confirmation of judge ketanji brown jackson has changed the course of american life, says president biden." the article says "judge jackson, the first black woman to be nominated to the supreme court, celebrated her confirmation friday, saying it was the honor of her lifetime and understands what it meant to the young black women and girls who followed along with her nomination process." we have a portion of that from the white house. here it is. [video clip] >> i have spent years toiling away in the relative solitude of my chambers with just my law clerks, in isolation, so it has been overwhelming, in a good way, to be flooded with thousands of notes and cards and photos expressing just how much this moment means to so money people.

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washington journal starts now. the cost of this fight is not cheap, but aggression is more costly if we allow it to happen. host: president biden calling on congress to pass additional 33 billion to aid ukraine and its fight against russia. this morning, it is your turn to tell law makers how you want them to vote. if you oppose, (202) 748-8001 you can tell us if you support or oppose by text (202) 748-8002 . you can join the conversation on facebook at facebook.com/cspan or tweet us at http://twitter.com/cspanwj we will get your thoughts on this. how will this money be spent? here is president biden yesterday. >> we have almost exhausted the drawdown authority that congress authorized ukraine in a bipartisan spending bill last month. that is why in order to sustain ukraine, i am sending congress budget request that will keep weapons and ammunition flowing to the ukraine fighters and to continue the humanitarian assistance to the ukrainian people. this funding addresses the need to the ukrainian military in the wee

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"washington journal" starts now. host: this is the "washington journal." april 5. president biden calls for investigations of russian president of vladimir putin, considering considerations and reporting out of bucha. and other world leaders insisting on a response involving more sanctions. ukrainian president zelenskyy will appear before the united nations security council talk about the atrocities documented over the last couple of days. when it comes to the situation in bucha, our next half hour, we want to get you to respond to how the u.s. and nato should respond in light of those russian atrocities in ukraine. (202) 748-8000 for those of you in the eastern and central time zones. (202) 748-8001 for mountain and pacific time zones. if you want to text your thoughts this morning, (202) 748-8003. you can post on social media, facebook and twitter. you can also follow the show on instagram. a photograph in the washing -- washington post this morning, when it comes to the issue in bucha, president biden calling it a war crime or it should at least be looked at as

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host: and on "washington journal," our regular focus on podcasts. re joined by two investigative reporters with the washington post. jenn abelson and nicole dungca , who are not only reporters of the team that produces the podcast "broken doors" for the washington post about the police use of no-knock warrants. i will ask both of you if you want to dive in on this in terms of how did you come to this story, i should take issue because your podcast has many stories on the issue of no-knock warrants. what was that prompted you to investigate? guest: we began this investigation in 2020 after the police killing of breonna taylor and that set us on this journey of trying to better understand what no-knock warrants are, how aggressive they are and what are the consequences. host: did either of you think, this is a substantive story, this is probably worth not only a lengthy story, but we can put this in terms of making a podcast out of it? guest: i actually think when we first started we thought it was going to be a traditional written investigation, which

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there is more up next. . ♪ "washington journal" continues.om mcclintock representing the fourth district. welcome. as you may have heard a lot of conversation about immigration, particularly the immigrations move our decisions to lift title 42 policy implemented by the trump administration, the last month of the trump administration. what is your bot on the bidens administration to do that? guest: they are saying that is their last line of defense. we have more than 2 million illegal aliens that are at our southern border since the administration took off. more than one million were admitted to our country. the other million were turned away. they expected two see millions added to our country. in 32 days we will be admitting another wyoming. you know, california last year, based on their polling they admitted 14 million people from the caribbean aloneno civilizatr survived this magnitude of illegal migration. at some point, i think the democrats are going to have to explain to her how are our schools -- explain to us how our our schools bett

washington journal continues.t: and no one washington journal, the discussion about potential tax reform and what the status of the tax system is today. joining us is kyle palmerlo, with the american enterprise institute. he is the gentleman with the glasses on. and matthew gardner is with the institute on taxation and economic policy. thank you for joining us. i want to start with you, mr. palmerlo. has there been any tax reform since the 2017 tax reform that president trump got through? kyle: reform, of course, is not an easy word to define. but no, there hasn't been any major reform since the 2017 tax are torn -- reform proposal. there have been a lot of tax policies that have changed since then. the latest in the most significant has been during the covid-19 pandemic and the economic response during that period. lawmakers used the tax code to respond to the economic downturn whether that was expanding the losses businesses could deduct on taxable income or sending economic impact payments or expanding the chil

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