Welcome everyone to the brooklyn book festival. Tonight is the seventh day of an eightday festival where we have presented over 100 programs and almost 300 authors. It has been a tremendous week of literary celebration as were very grateful to have his of the wilkerson and Michael Eric Dyson with us tonight. I would like to say one thing, show the love by purchasing their books in the link below. They are authors with books after all and going to turn over now to both of them to continue the conversation. Thank you very much. Thank you very kindly. Im honored to be here today with a woman who is among the 304 greatest writers in america, arguably the finest writer in america today. I am going to make that argument. So it is an extraordinary honor to be with you, ms. Isabel wilkerson, and to have this opportunity to chat with you. Theyre calling it a a conversation but im just going to fan boy out and as as a sayn the hood, ask you some questions. And see if we can stimulate the convers
The honorable, the chief justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oh yea oh yea oh yea, all persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States to give their attention with the court is sitting, god save the United States and this honorable court. We will hear arguments first this morning in 19 for 65, the lot below and the others versus the state of washington,. Mr. Chief justice and appease this court, the question in these cases is straightforward to the states have the power to control through law how an elector may vote, they do not, then ordinary expected meaning of the words of the constitution against the backlog of the framers deliberation make it clear that the state has no such power in what is also clear, washington is not like the constitution design, ask this court to read the words elector as agents or maybe better minion and it is clear that the board vote elector is not the constant meaning there vot
Mr. Chairman, are you ready to begin . Please begin your five second countdown. Chair pappas five, four, three, two, one. Good afternoon. I call this hearing to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We have a number of members participating remotely today. And before we proceed, i would like to go over some items for our members participating remotely. First, if youre experiencing connectivity issues, please make sure you or your staff contact our Technical Support so those issues can be resolved immediately. Members participating remotely must continue to use the video function for the duration of their participation in the hearing, unless they experience connectivity issues or other technical problems that render the member fully unable to participate on camera. It is committee and subcommittee policy that members participating remotely will remain muted when not recognized, just like turning on your microphone on and off during an inperso
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [applause] pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you very much, everybody. Please. This promises to be a very big an very important meeting. So bear with me. It may take a little while. But it has to do with a thing called drug pricing and as you know congress has been working on this for decades an decades. And we are now doing something that is going to be incredible for the american public. Today, im taking a bold and historic, very dramatic action to reduce the price of Prescription Drugs for american patients and american seniors. Previous administrations did nothing, absolutely nothing. As drug lobbyists, special interests and Foreign Countries ripped off our citizens. Under the last administration, drug prices rose a staggering 55 . Thanks to my administrations aggressive actions since taking office, we have successfully lowered drug prices for the first time in 51 years. But this reduction is still not close to what i w
Polis [cheers and applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [applause] [applause] [cheers and applause] gov. Polis good morning, everyone. [indiscernible] gov. Polis good morning to everyone. [laughter] leaders, members of the General Assembly from across our great state, Lieutenant Governor, the ,outhern indian tribal chairman general,n, attorney ,ecretary of state, treasurer members of the state board of education, justices of the colorado Supreme Court, aurora mayor, members of the cabinet, our dedicated first gentleman. [cheers and applause] gov. Polis thank you all for gathering here this morning. Before we begin, i want to offer my gratitude to the many people whose tireless dedication to our safety allows us to gather here today and keeps the people of colorado safe, the members of the military serving in colorado and