Take their place. Thats the issue that we have to change. Id like to thank both our speakers for what i will objectively say has been an informative and helpful newsmaker. Thank you to you both. Thank you to the Newsmaker Committee of the National Press club that organized this event, and thank you to cspan for broadcasting it live. The meet slg adjourned. Thank you. Today dr. Tom frieden will testify on the u. S. Spops to the ebola virus. Hell be joined by dr. Anthony fauci at this hearing. It all gets under way life today at noon eastern on our companion network cspan. Also coming up this afternoon remarks from faa administrator Michael Huerta on Airline Safety and security concerns. Hell give an assessment after a fire at an air Traffic Control center in chicago. You can see those comments live starting at 1 10 eastern on cspan2. Tonight on cspan3, pabls from this Years National bullying Conference Held in washington. Officials from the Education Department discuss the latest bullyi
That we will not have enough money to handle crisis problems that come up later in the year. The way we define crisis is a family receives their benefits but then something happens where they lose jobs or someone becomes ill and they cannot afford to pay their energy bill anymore and we can provide some kind of supplemental payment for that. The real opportunity is that yes, we have funding to reach families but it is tight. Surplus not a lot of capacity in the program now. It has been cut to the bone. Host for more information, you can go to the National Energy assistance Directors Association da. Org. Nea thank you very much for being with us. That does it for todays washington journal. This is Martin Luther king day and thank you for watching and we will be back tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] 2014] a live picture of the Martin Luther king memorial. Washingto
The Heritage Foundation talks about ongoing efforts in the house to update voting update Voting Rights and relation. Your comments by phone, twitter, and facebook. It is live at 70 m eastern on cspan. Steve phillips who cofounded a number of critical committees that support democratic candidates. Month inearlier this cleveland. Good afternoon and welcome. My name is paul harrison, i am president of the City Club Board of directors. Steveleased to introduce phillips, president and one of the first 50 founders. Of power pac. It is a Political Organization established in 2004 to champion democracy and social justice in states and communities across the country. Pacs i wantment on, to say a few words on his background. He grew up in Cleveland Heights so he is back home today and he has a lot of friends in the audience. Stanforded Standard University and was very active in student organizations. In sanhis law degree francisco. He worked for four years with a Public Interest law firm public
Them. Greece itself is about fearing social paranoia. When you think about a country like the United States thats trying to work through its own history of racial antagonist and coming to have two models. One is were transcending them in moving beyond, trying to build a multiracial community. The only reason why i feel like we have to be very careful about serious discussions about things we feel uncomfortable about. Weve been through all of this stuff. Made it to the finish line and now the only way to move forward is to pretend we havent run this far already. I think to know where were going to go. To figure out what we want this community to become, we have to understand where we have been and make sense of the differences that still divide us. So, again, its a fine line between making too much of racial difference, or making a gettish out fettish out of it and pushing to a moment where everybody feels like they have a vested interest in american sew size. Host whose the role of Pol
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Shot and killed by police in this country this year which is eight more than at a same time last year which the washington post, i get to write have been Keeping Tally for several years now. 109 of those have been black men who have been unarmed. Thats disproportionate given our population in this country and it is 2. 5 kpiemtimes greate us than it is for a white male in this country. That is what the players are protesting and those of us in the media once again we have couched this as an an Ththem Protest and in fact it is against police brutality. Thats what the players are disturbed about and the fact that they cant get their message out. It becomes an issue of the way we and the media characterize this narrative. Phillip, lets talk about
this and whether it is the nfl or whether it is these charges by omarosa or the immigration fight. If you are a republican in a tight race, what do you make of all of this an