Desk. Every single senator in the Democratic Congress and in our caucus here in the senate is cosponsoring the for the people act. Senator merkley, senator merkley and my companion bill the h. R. 1, for the people act, but it is very deep in the leaders legislative graveyard. Over the course of the last year, as the for the people act has languished, tens of millions of dollars were spent, much of it in secret, to influence the policymaking process. Almost half a dozen states passed new laws restricting voter rights. The u. S. Supreme court gave the green light to political gerrymandering, and President Trump has with his own properties dozens of times funneled millions of taxpayer dollars into his own pocket. Yet, the Republican Senate is silent, sigh length as silent as our democracy faces a crisis like none we have ever seen in our lifetimes. We can draw a Straight Line from the crisis in our democracy to more than 300 bipartisan bills buried in the majority leaders graveyard. The b
Here are their remarks. Good morning. Good morning. As we gather today, first let thank all of our honorees that we are saluting this year. It is important on king day that we do things in the spirit of dr. King. Mr. Sharpton dr. King as a federal holiday was a result in and of itself of struggle. So we do not take it as a day off. We take it as a day on. To do something in the spirit of human rights and civil rights that dr. King stood for. The National Action network started 28 years ago on those principles and weve been blessed to partner with martin who thought to spend this federal holiday every year with us at the breakfast. He had brought his mother to our Convention Many years. So we are in our d. N. A. Kinglike. And no year is more important than this year. Because we are meeting on a morning of king holiday where the nation has been more polarized and divided than weve seen in recent history. The rise of antisemitic attacks, the rise of hate crimes , the right of rhetoric tha
President trump knew exactly what was going on. He was aware of all of my movements. He, i wouldnt do anything without consent of Rudy Giuliani or the president. It wasnt just military aid. It was all aid. Basically the relationships would be soured. Several demands at that point. The most important one was announcement of the biden investigation. Neil consider what lev parnas was saying and accusing Rudy Giuliani of, president of the united states, and by extension the Vice President of the united states, that they were misrepresenting themself. This was not going after corruption in ukraine, individual event by individual event, visit by visit, it was all to get dirt on bidens. A lot of people dismissed that, including White House Press secretary, this is guy is trying to do being attractions to reduce time in prison. The surgical interview Rachel Maddow conducted last night, whether youre a fan of that rival network, did present in a way the arguments, this was about chasing corrupt
How he see businesses moving forward. What are you expecting on impact on growth and do you think theres going to be a different standard on jpmorgan than other banks . Youre not. A come of things there. When we get done after that, i dont know, i do think theres a little bit of decoupling between chinas Economic System and ours, china will continue to grow, i think they want jpmorgan to be there to set transparency and rules and if chinese, if they want to eliminate corruption, they need very good Financial Markets and therefore they can come in and set the standards, it should mean something when jpmorgan said we did Due Diligence, doesnt mean that we are always right but should mean something. Maria big deal for jamie dimon and jpmorgan, they just received their license, a bank 100 in china, spending 11 billion on Technology Every year, how is he going to protect that technology s he going to go to china and they will change things as how they will do things differently. Dagen part
I am one of the coowners of politics and prose. Along with my coowner and husband and our fabulous staff we welcome you to the event at our Nations Capital and on the campus of George Washington university. I mentioned our location because we are an institution named for the first president and assembled on the blocks from the nerve center of the white house and congress. So what better venue for a conversation with tonights guest speaker . Kamala harris spends her days on capitol hill and you are not alone if you think in a couple of years she could be taking up residence at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. [cheers and applause] since her election to the United States senate in 2016 she has emerged as one of the most exciting and refreshing voices of the Democratic Party a california native starting her career. I know im from the bay area as a prosecutor in the bay area and defeated a longtime incumbent to become District Attorney for San Francisco then hardfought race of attorne