President will attend his final white house Correspondents Dinner saturday, april 30th, starting at 6 00 p. M. On cspan. American history tv on cspan 3 this weekend. Saturday evening at 6 00 p. M. Weekend, the book the myth of the lost cause. Why the south fought the civil war and why the north won. Among the disputes, myths of the civil war, including why it started, and why it ended. They felt compelled to explain why it was this devastation occurred and why 25 of southern white men between the ages of 25 and 40 were dead. And then, the 1988 campaign of gary hart. Announcing his candidacy in denver, and then facing questions about an alleged extramarital affair, and then his announcement that hes leaving the race. Then, the life of dolores huerta. She was at the forefront of that effort for a reason. And among many of the participants of the farm workers movement, when you hear about them, they always talk about her. And then at 8 00 p. M. , on the presidency. He said, did any of the
Good afternoon and welcome. I would like to thank the codirectors for planning our event today, which i know you have been looking forward to. I would also like to let to acknowledge the Susan Gessner for their generous support of todays program. We are grateful for all of those engagements. Today, we will address a very important question is there a student debt crisis . In many of us are well aware of the everexpanding student loan market and the latest estimates are that nearly 40 million americans are laden with 1. 3 trillion worth of student debt. The borrowers is either in delinquency or default. Last years graduating class had in studentof 35,000 debt. The Obama Administration recently announced two policy president ial candidates have focused on a variety of alternatives of ways to lower the debt burdens. While todays seekers. Peakers are two leading voices one was recently named special adviser to the u. S. Department of education. He previously served as the assistant directo
Test . At what point . Andre usually three months, roughly three months prior to the function itself. Depends on their ski squle and our schedule but we always work it out. Chef andre, you have 23,000 square feet of kitchen, the largest kitchen in washington, d. C. Does it get crowded on the night of the Correspondents Dinner . Andre it is crowded. Who is in here . Andre we have a lot of celebrities who want to be back of the house but at the same time weve got so many cooks and people working that evening, whether it be from the management teaming all the team members, were looking at roughly 400 people that are here to assist on that evening. Does that include servers . Andre that includes servers. How many people are out on the floor . Andre about 200 servers on the loor, then mate reds maitre ds that oversee the front of the house. And about 200 people back here then . Andre about that. Where are you that snevpk andre running around. We were just talking about how many steps i do a
Maria bartiromo earlier today. But before we get to that, lets get to ron cristy, morgan, and gina. Gina be with as somebody who came to fame thanks to the tea party and making it a big deal and reminding these guys, their word matters, their commitment to stimulate the economy, to tax cuts, watching budgets, et cetera, are you disappointed . Are you getting different vibes from donald trump . Not at all. In fact, i hope that he takes away all the loopholes that this who are the super, super wealthy with teams and teams of tax attorneys can help them hide from. Neil you think thats where hes going . Just to take away, like, carried interest, that sort of thing . I think thats exactly what hes going to do and, in fact, in his statement he said something about his major concern is the middle class who has been left out of this equation over and over again. You simplify the tax code, and you make things easier for everybody. But you also take away the loopholes of the super rich. Neil wel
An opportunity for transition to a Coalition Government to represent guarantees key constituencies, all of the kurds and moderate sections of Syrian Opposition. For now the u. S. Russian cooperation can be limited to fighting isil in iraq and that could include a joint operation which is something u. S. And Russian Special forces have done on a very low scale in afghanistan. They could include providing more arms and more training to the Iraqi Armed Forces and the kurds fighting isil come at it could of course include disrupting financing which is not a counterterrorism tactic per se but it is an important comment is important element of countering such organizations. But looking beyond that, countering terrorism with force alone would not suffice. Are certain of root causes can contribute back to the i want now the other in the statement that both russia and the United States need to address as they think how to defeat terrorists, not only in the middle east, but also in their own cou