Licenses despite a court order. Her lawyer tells al jazeera, davis is willing to go to jail. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. Secretary of state john kerry is defending the iran nuclear deal. In an impassioned speech that wrapped up just minutes ago, kerry insists the agreement is the best way to prevent iran from getting a nuclear bomb. His address came as a 34th democratic senator said she will support the agreement, ensuring the Obama Administration has enough votes to push the deal through. Jamie mcintyre is live for us in washington. Jamie, what details did secretary kerry give about why passing the deal is so crucial . Well, secretary kerry did not advance any new arguments in this very detailed defense of the Iran Nuclear Agreement. He basically restated the arguments he has made ever since the deal was reached both in speeches and in extensive testimony before congress but basically tried to marshall all of the arguments and logic he coul
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. A kentucky county clerk has been in federal court this morning over her refusal to issue marriage licenses. Kim davis and deputies from her office were ordered to appear to face contempt charges. The rowen county clerk refuses to issue marriage licenses to anyone, to avoid giving them to samesex couples. John terrett is live for us outside of the federal courthouse. John tell us about this hearing which we understand started about what, 90 minutes ago . Reporter spot on, randall. It started 90 minutes ago. This is a contempt of Court Hearing involving kim davis who is here answering charges through the court from the aclu that she is in contempt of court for refusing to hand out marriage licenses in rowen county where she is the county clerk. Let me allow aaron our photographer to show you what is going on behind me here. This is the Federal District courthouse in ashland, kentucky, right along the banks of the oh
Does the senate take into account the requests are the wishes of the graduating seniors . No, this year, there were no graduating senior responses. Part of the problem with doing that is if were going to turn someone down, we want to avoid publicity. The whole purpose is to have a vetting process that avoids insulting or embarrassing a potential speaker. That has happened on many campuses this year. By the time the speaker gets announced, then the protests arrived. A number of speakers have withdrawn, and others have been concerned there would be public demonstrations. The purpose is to avoid it and i am not sure you could keep the lid on the names if you expose them to the student body. We wanted to show our viewers a recent cartoon in the boston globe on that issue. We believe we found someone who will offend no one, and somebody is screaming, hold on, isnt that the walmart face . Many campuses go with just a committee and you have to get a broader field. A commencement speech is an
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We will have more commencement addresses in a moment, but first a look at a picture tweeted by a cnbc correspondent showing president obama in afghanistan today. He is hanging a surprise visit to u. S. Troops on this memorial day weekend. As the u. S. Withdraws troops ahead of the deadline at the end of the year, he flew to bog room air base overnight to spend a few hours there. This is his fourth visit to afghanistan as president. Here in washington, d. C. , the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally passing by. This is the 27th annual freedom ride to raise awareness for Veterans Issues and prisoners of war on memorial day. They lobby for approval of veterans benefits. Take a look at the riders making their way into d. C. Watchinge watch bowling thunder pass over arlington memorial day bridge. Theeard from mary barra, first woman to lead a major auto company. She delivered a commencement address at the university of michigan. She spoke for about 15 minutes. [applause] thank you, pres