Now. We want to go live now to the hurricane alert center. You spoke to a woman in florida today who is planning to ride out the storm. Reporter thats right. They live in jacksonville, florida, just about 10 miles from the coast. They are making the brave decision to stay home and today they gave us a look inside their storm area. Alyssa and her family are bracing for the worst. Here where we have everything from wipes and hand sanitizer. Reporter they have candles, flashlights, batteries. We have about six case of water cases of water. Reporter and in the garage . We have all of our supplies. Everything from my wood. Pli wood. We have nails, tarps in case there is a hole in the roof, just all kinds of things to this is by no means her first brush with a tropical storm, but this is definitely the biggest storm she has seen. Sometimes it will just rip through the house and you hear that loud sound, and it is scary. Reporter she takes us on a tour outsidehouse. You can see we just have d
Minority leader harry reid congratulated chris murphy for leading the 15hour debate against gun violence on wednesday in the senate. His remarks were followed by Mitch Mcconnell criticizing senate crast democrats for the debate calling it a talkathon. This is 20 minutes. Mr. President . For 14 hours and 50 minutes, beginning Late Wednesday morning and ending early thursday morning, the entire nation watched the senator from connecticut teach our republican colleagues a lesson and another things not the least of which is courage. It is easy to say we stood for 14 hours. We talk a lot about filibusters in the senate. They dont happen very often. I have been in congress for 34 heres and i have probably led two more than anyone else. They dont happen much. There are a lot of fake filibusters but this was real. I admire and appreciate the junior senator from connecticut very much. Four days after 49 innocent americans were gunned down in a nightclub, senator murphy stood here as indicated f
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] Foreign Relations committee will come to order. This morning we will look at how we are moving beyond the war on drugs was in the broader challenges of transnational organized crime and what strategies can be effective in combating this threat. While Illegal Drugs and crime associate with them are still Devastating Community on both sides of our southern border, its not yet clear successful the huge investors made over the decades have made in eradicating supply and production. The bottom line is this. Where the rule of law is weak or nonexistent, Transnational Criminal Organizations will prosper in engage in corruption. In 2011 the Obama Administration issued a strategy to combat transnational organized crime. This was an ambitious aspiration strategy that sought an evolution in thinking. Now nearly five years later we need to ask what is working and what is not so we can get this right moving forward. I witnessed today is ambassador
Picture after picture. When did you commit to that . It wasnt very easy to do a lot less than you did and theres a lot of history is there. Guest it took a year to write those because i am not a writer. But once i wrote them originally for the russian exhibition, because the curators there, we are russian, we read, i read tolstoy, i kind of started the ball rolling. I did an oral thing first and worked on it and got her a set of captions and said that wasnt true. The bose was packed, with people reading captions and they got upset because they were not leaving my boots. So i started it. When i got the book contract from simon and schuster, and have to write this. Ends to go deep on it. And finding out things that are different especially with technical stuff. Was a hard thing to do. Host reaction around the rest of the world. What has it been . Guest a lot of 20 somethings really excited. That didnt expect this. Even in boston there was a young man from sudan who said hug me and a lot
Former congressman bob ney. In a chapter headlined pretty alice, you called pretty alice the most covert, manipulative, cunning, stealth vicious coldhearted instrument of evil that karl rove and the Bush Administration had. What is pretty alice . Alice fisher is a very interesting person that received attention from senator levin in particular and that basically went away as i explain in the book. But alice fisher had never particularly tried cases and was criticized for that. She was in the Criminal Division 2001 to 2003. Went over to work for chertoff. An extreme political optrative and in the bushcheney campaign i dont want to call her a political hack but ill say political hack. She then was up for appointment when Alberto Gonzales was attorney general for the United States. Ran afoul of senator levin and the reason it did is because he said a, she was close to tom delays defense team. She had dealings with his defense team. B, she didnt have a lot of experience trying cases, was g