Attorney general Jeff Sessions, one of the speakers at the National Lawyers society federalist meeting in washington. Later there will be a keynote speech by white House Counsel gahn. D mc live coverage, here on cspan. [applause] host good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to be with you and to look at this overflow audience here. Particularly, its an honor to me to introduce a gentleman. Hat i have known for long time hes a good friend and certainly a person i have great admiration for. As lawyers we all appreciate the many responsibilities of the attorney general. He is, of course, the chief Law Enforcement officer of the area easedernment area eased the Legal Advisor to the executive branch. And he has a special responsibility to the people of the country to be sure that the constitution is preserved and protected. Sessionscareer of jeff could not have been better to make him such an ideallyqualified person for this responsibility. Jeff, of course, as you know,
Were going to tell you about the new drug trial results weighing on that company today. Guess how it went. Well, it went well for someone else yeah. Exactly. Box office blues Movie Theater stocks are getting crushed again today. Six superheroes cant even save those shares being very opaque here but well explain coming up in a little bit. First, breaking news, just this afternoon on fed chair janet yellen, our dom chu has more on the story. All right, so guys, Federal Reserve chairman janet yellen will be leaving the fed completely in february and this is what some fed observers say is no real surprise. Fed chair yellens term as chairman expires in february we know this and President Trump has already made his pick to be the next fed head thats current fed governor Jerome Powell, of course, pending confirmation by the senate there had been some speculation around the notion, perhaps, yellen would maintain a presence on the fed board of governors since her term adds a governor of the cen
Effective today, he stepped down today. Well clarify that. Steve bannon the former chief strategist speaks in favor of domestic control of the economy and against globalization and this was hosted by the group by black americans for a better future. So im going to introduce to you guys, your speaker, but my heard and some of you all me ask this in the past, how many you consider yourselves reasonable people . Most of you are. You all are the wrong people. [laughter] how many are you familiar wright and itish play i had breakfast with him this morning and this is what he wanted me to tell you. When he is tapped on the shoulder and to do a great and mighty work thats church i will. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore our progress is man. Michael jordan thought he could play in the nba even though he got cut from his high school team. All men could be for given for their since. Barack obama thought he could do a great
Told me to tell you. To every man there comes a time in his life when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a great and mighty work, unique to him thats church hill. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress is dependent upon the unreasonable man. Michael jordan was unreasonable enough to think that he could play in the nba even though he got cut from his high school team. Jesus christ was unreasonable enough to think through him being lifted up, all men could be forgiven for their sins. Barack obama was unreasonable enough to think he could do a good job for black folks, but he failed, but i digress. Donald trump and steve bannon are two of the most unreasonable people in the world. Steve bannon is unreasonable enough to think that the black vote, the black business community, the the latino, asian business community, has value. This guy is busy as heck all over the world,
More African Americans involved in the republican party. So, im going to introduce to you guys your speaker, but my friend. Some of you have heard me ask this in the past. There are a lot of new folks here. How many of you all consider yourselves reasonable people . Most of you all. You all are the wrong people. [ laughter ] how many of you all are familiar with George Bernard shaw, the british play right . Yeah, i had breakfast with him this morning, and heres what he told me to tell you. To every man there comes a time in his life when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a great and mighty work, unique to him thats church hill. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress is dependent upon the unreasonable man. Michael jordan was unreasonable enough to think that he could play in the nba even though he got cut from his high school team. Jesus christ was unreasonable enough