European leaders split over whether its the best deal. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im bisi onileere. History made this morning in south carolina. Onlookers cheered as the confederate battle flag was taken down at the State Capitol. It has been flying over a confederate memorial for 15 years. Before that it spent nearly four decades on the capitol dome and now that flag is in a museum. Courtney keeley is live in Columbia South carolina. Were hearing there are going to be more stepping taken there in a few minutes. Reporter hi good afternoon, bisi. Yes, the flag pole still remains. The only symbol left of where that flag flew next to the memorial to the confederate veterans. The flag came down swiftly today, but the cheers that erupted really cemented the historic moment. Even journalists there was just this energy in the crowd, and that and that flag came down so quickly and in fact some people told me they just wished it had gone a little more slowly to savor th
Well right now the Confederate Flag is no longer flying at the South Carolina state house. The honor guard took it down just a little while. It was a brief, short ceremony of huge crowds to watch the historic moment. Lets listen in for a second. [ cheering ] the flag coming down just a little after three weeks of the killing of people at a church in charleston. In that renewed calls for this moment, for the Confederate Flag to be removed from the South Carolina sit capitol. The flag was handed over to the director of the South Carolina confederate relic room where it will be displayed after 54 years of flying above the South Carolina capitol. Thank you christen. There will soon be a legal challenge to virginias decision to remove the flag from the license plates. It go go to court to keep the state from banning the plates. The governor asked the attorney general to work on phasing out the vanity plates. Breaking news right now. Former Virginia Governor bob mcdonald sentence up held. We
Maryland. I am dwayne brown with nasas office of communication. We have an astronaut and associate administrator at nasa head quarters, alan stern, and Alice Bowman Mission Operations manager at john hopkins applied physics laboratory. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, pluto as never seen before. Three, two one. [applause] now we have remarks from dr. John grunsfeld . It has been an incredible voyage. I know many of you have been participating the last few days but what it all comes down to is an enormous team of people led by alan stern, a big team here at the john hopkins applied physics laboratory, university of colorado the list goes on and on. Hundreds of scientist, engineers, technicians, and people sewing blankets helping the explorer to visit pluto and fly on beyond. I am so glad you are here to participate in this true exploration exploration. That view is just the first of many, many rewards the team will get especially since pluto didnt turn out to be a featureless planet and
Sometimes they are not. Its already confusing to begin with. We need one standard and it ought to be the best interest. I love the one standard. I love the best interest tests. I assume there are a lot of people who are making a lot of money. So ive got to see, this one seems like a nobrainer to me. Hard working americans who manage money for their retirement should be able to trust that their retirement advisers are looking out for them. And besides that the thousands of honest hard working advisers and brokers around this country who already put their clients first every day shouldnt have to compete against those unethical advisers who dont. I understand why were in this fight. I understand there are people who are making money for keeping this game rigged, but we dont work for them. Time to level the playing field. Thank you mr. Secretary. Thank you mr. Chairman. I want to introduce senator kasich who will be brief within thinks five minutes and i think well have enough time to hear
We can get straight to their testimony. First, peter snyder, president of a grnlg company which i visited before. Thank you for being here peter. Peter is the leader of Financial Services providing income Retirement Savings options and insurance to millions of americans. Mr. Sflieder became president and served before that as the executive Vice President for primerica. We welcome you here today. Thank you. We have some scott purit managing contractor of defiance i. R. A. In maryland. He is a retirement director. A masters degree from harvard university. Welcome and thank you for being here. At this time, id like to turn it over to the rank and member frank and introduce ms. Miller. Thank you mr. Chairman. Its my pleasure to introduce Darlene Miller who is joining us today from my home state. Ms. Miller is the president and ceo of Permac Industries in burnsville minnesota, a Manufacturing Company that provides precision small part machines to other industries. Permac was named the u. S.