It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Heritage Foundation. Freedom of the press is enshrined in the First Amendment. It is a necessary component to republican selfgovernment and a hallmark of a free society. That is not in question. In fact, it is a nonnegotiable. However, is not the exclusive prerogative of the press. The First Amendment protects the freespeech rights of all americans, not just those who happen to have an m. A. In journalism. The press itself is subject to free speech just like everyone else. Journalists do not take well to criticism. I see this as a recovering journalist myself. There is a tendency in the media to equate criticism of the press with an attack on the freedom of the press itself. But i think you can be committed to free speech while attacking those who abuse it. What is more, the freedom of the press, like all freedoms, is not without limits. There are no prior restraints on publications. Those days are thankfully long behind us. But the press is resp
Along the coast cooler compared yesterday. That makes the air alert going to affect for the day unhealthy for sensitive groups in the east bay as well as santa clara valley. There running up to 5 degrees warmer than yesterday morning. Begin to the temperatures in the mid50s to low 60s at this hour. As we take you through the day what you can expect, enjoy the sunshine. 90 for high in concord in fairfield. 82 for you in oakland looking at 77 in San Francisco. It is fleet week. We are excited about that beautiful weather out there. Check out the blue angels with 77 for the high today. You know you might want to consider mass transit if you are headed out to enjoy fleet week activities. It may be your best bet to avoid the clouds and congested roadways especially along broken arrow. You can connect on the 580 getting into the ultima pass. Once you get toward grant line traffic it does improve nicely. Elsewhere we are seeing slow speeds as you go through their. Through their. There is some
And that it was time that somebody stood up and said enough is enough. Amy the cases mark the first time the Supreme Court will rule on lgbtq rights since conservative Justice Brett kavanaugh replaced anthony kennedy, who had written many of the courts major lgbtq rights rulings. We are joined right now by two guests. Laverne cox is an Award Winning transgender actress and long time trans rights activist. Best known for her role on the show orange is the new black. In 2014, she became the first transgender person on the cover and the firstne openly trans person to be nominated for an emmy award in a primetime category. We are also joined by chase strangio, Deputy Director for transgender justice with the aclus lgbt hiv project. His work includes impact litigation, as well as legislative and administrative advocacy, on behalf of lgbtq people and People Living with hiv across the uniteted states. We welcome you both to democracy now it is great to have you with us. Tuesday is a significa
Programs. This joint hearing of the Sub Committees on general fund communities, Risk Management, livestock reviewing the implementation of federal farm and Disaster Relief comes to order. Thank you and welcome to this joint hearing of the subcommittees on general farm commodities and Risk Management and livestock and foreign agriculture. Im pleased to be joined by my colleague and fellow chairman as well as my Ranking Member and the livestock Foreign Affairs Ranking Member. Welcome also to our chairman and my fellow texan Ranking Member. This first joint hearing comes at a very important time for farmers. Usda and in particular the Food Production and conservation missionary in the Farm Service Agency is in the middle of a huge job. F packed and fsa are currently at the home of three critical separate efforts to address the needs of farmers, ranchers in Rural Communities in our country. The Market Facilitation Program which is meant to assist those farmers most harmed by the administra
You can also text us. And us a tweet cspanwj post to facebook. Com cspan. We will show you in a moment the of the comments of students and that nearly threehour rally available on our website but the reporting the on yahoo news, headline, millions protest in Global Climate strike. The messes of children skip school oto join Global Strike against Climate Change. Youth summitn. She will participate in saturday. Four Million People filled streets around the world and what was billed as the biggest ever protest against the threat posed to the planet by rising temperatures. The youngsters and adults alike chanted slogans in demonstrations that started in asia and the pacific, spread across africa, europe and latin america before culminating in the United States. From the Washington Post, as we video of the beginning of the rally on capital hill. Areans are rising and so we, demanding action on Climate Change millions of young people take part in a Global Strike. Despite a mighty mental turn