What zimmerman had to say that outraged critics. In the zone. Pitcher matt sherzer made a record 20 strikeouts in a single game. Another one swing and a miss an incredible feat nearly three years in the making today, may 12, 2016. Announcer this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today, thursday morning. You dont have to be a baseball fan to appreciate what sherzer did last night. He gets two outs by strikeouts. Thats pretty impressive. He scattered it over nine innings. Did i get that right . Im glad you dove into the box score there. Ive been working on my baseball lingo all morning. Well start with politics. All eyes on that. Building the rnc headquarters on capitol hill right there. This morning the meeting between House Speaker paul ryan and donald trump will take place there. Then later trump will meet with other political leaders, some of whom have been reluctant to embrace him. Well talk w
What zimmerman had to say that outraged critics. In the zone. Pitcher matt sherzer made a record 20 strikeouts in a single game. Another one swing and a miss an incredible feat nearly three years in the making today, may 12, 2016. Announcer this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today, thursday morning. You dont have to be a baseball fan to appreciate what sherzer did last night. He gets two outs by strikeouts. Thats pretty impressive. He scattered it over nine im glad you dove into the box score there. Ive been working on my baseball lingo all morning. Well start with politics. All eyes on that. Building the rnc headquarters on capitol hill right there. This morning the meeting between House Speaker paul ryan and donald trump will take place there. Then later trump will meet with other political leaders, some of whom have been reluctant to embrace him. Well talk with former Vice President dan qu
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[inaudible] question about this process is how a man comes back from this kind of devastation. Yeah, its been very interesting to see how its worked an the idea how this occurred. For instance, bison animals enter into the edges going in and this determined the way. And they found out that process is much more random than you would think. It depends on the time eve year and what animal happens to be around and which will cull nice that area and that becomes an island where other plants and animals can get that area as well. So you see a lot arounded the area and one feature is that the area now is is a diverse area in all of Washington State. If you just let these natural processes occur plants and animals entered into those areas a an attempt to come back. When you go to mount st. Helens it has this odd combination with a incredibly devastated area and yet vegetation is returning quickly to the mountain. It does have huge old growth forest around it and wont for another hundred years
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. And welcome to the auditorium and the Cato Institute. Appreciate your coming out today. This is a really important topic. The book forum for the human cost of welfare by phil harvey and lisa conyers. For those folks who are following this online, you can follow along on twitter atcato event or hash tag human cost of welfare. The u. S. Federal government last year spent roughly 688 billion to fund more than 100 antipoverty programs. Federal state, local governments, rather, spent an additional 300 billion on those and other programs. That means the government is spending close to a trillion dollars every year fighting poverty. If you want to go all the way back to 1965, when Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty, we spent some 22 or 23 trillion fighting poverty. What have we really accomplished over that period of time . If you used the census bureaus numbers, poverty rates have barely budged and even if you use the al concern i. T. Poverty mea