We have several honored guests present today. Our budget is balanced. Our government certainly more efficient. Our schools a little bit better funded and our future is certainly brighter. Now is the time to dust off big dreams, to expand and reaching for those mountains. After all, theyre on the principle that risk too far together we discover how far we can go. As long as theres skilled workers and hard working students find a dream of a College Education out of their financial grasp and allow redundant regulations and red tape to strangle our Economic Growth in innovation, the california promise will still be broken. My friends and fellow 49er faithful, california is in the red zone thanks to your hard work. Now is not the time to sit on the ball. This is a year for all of us to set a national example. This is the year to take advantage of the sunnier skies to repair our neglected roof and the year california stops settling for good enough and replaces it with great again. With that,
Chairman schiff is with us. Hes interest in doing an after action report some time in the future when the situation is clear enough to go back and figure out everything the federal government did right, everything it did wrong. I think we have a feeling the section on what it did wrong will be longer than what it did right but thats what hes going to do when he gets his chance. I have some suggestions for topics in the table of contents in that report. I can tell you now. I think they are taking notes watching your friend. Thanks, lawrence. Like i said, chairman adam schiff will be with us tonight. Well get the latest situation on his Congressional District in the Los Angeles Area and chairman schiff has a new plan for what congress feeds to do about the failures of the Trump Administration and defending us against the coronavirus pandemic. Chairman adam schiff will join us later in the hour and at the end of the hour, well be joined by my favorite mask maker. She has already gotten th
I just see what i really saw . Captioning spons captioning sponsored by cbs vening news this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The commander in chief says hes weary of war but hes preparing for it and preparing the American People for it. Today, to justify a possible military strike against syria, president obama released an intelligence assessment that says the u. S. Has high confidence that the syrian dictatorship attacked civilians last week with nerve gas, killing 1,429 people including 426 children. Those numbers, according to the administration today. What is the evidence . Well, the report shares only a small portion of what the Administration Says it has. Mr. Obama says the assad regime must be held to account, but he has not yet made a final decision on how or when to do that. We have a team covering the story and were going to go first to david martin at the pentagon. Reporter with five Navy Destroyers now in position to launch cruise missiles, s
You go back through, you have Lyndon Johnsons daughter is there, it sort of goes up through history. Rosalynn carter. Think its remarkable that so many people from both sides of the aisle are there. The one person whos not there is barbara bush. Barbara bush is not. George w. Is there with his wife laura, but well, barbara bush and nancy reagan famously had a difficult relationship in the white house. And so, you know, the bushes were rarely invited up to the residence. When they were the Vice President. I dont know the reasons for her not being there but its interesting to note that shes not there out of all these other first ladies. There may have been other reasons, in fairness to her. Yes, yes. Again, all of these about 1,000 people in this room at the Ronald Reagan president ial library. Nancy rereagans funeral about begin. This is a funeral she initially discussed with her husband and even in the last six to eight months or so, she had really gone through every single detail, beg
Hillside that looks downslo slog valley to the pacific ocean. We have seen Johnny Mathis arrive, wayne newton, and its going to be that kind of day. Media luminaries, political and entertainment. A lot of our friends and colleagues and coworkers are out there to pay tribute and say farewell to this woman known to many of us. Chris matthews is among our contingent. Chris, at the funeral for ben bradley, bob woodward said this feels like the end of the 20th century. What do you reckon today will feel like in that room . Well, i guess it is about the 1980s. Especially in that time in which politics was so different than today. And we had all the arguments we have today, but they were conducted differently. I always thought that tip oneil and Ronald Reagan, my boss for all those years, the democratic speaker of the house and the republican conservative president disagreed on practically everything, but there was a national sense of urgency. The cold war still going on and problems like soc