Shortly after air strikes starts, some lawmakers start to push again for authorization vote but so far, leaders are not gearing up to bring members back to town. It says that speaker of the house John Boehners office deferred to the white house when asked about the issue. The speaker said he thinks it would be good for the country to have a new authorization for the use of military for the but traditionally, requested by the commander in chief and president obama has not done that. From role call, their story about congress not likely to come back to vote on isis authorization. Richard in georgia, democrat, good morning to you. Caller good morning to you. Host go ahead. Caller okay. What is your confidence level . Caller i think hes done everything in the world to try to help the United States in all the countries, allies. He backs everybody up. And hes tried to get the congress to act. And he aint washing away. Hes not turning his back. As far as the level about the troops that was lo
Look back at a letter fromr kings jail and the life and death of medgar evers. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] a legend when he was only 12 and he said when he asked his father why would they him and his father said that is what they do. So he said im sure he was a bit angry, frustrated. He was hurt. So getting away from it, i said away from mississippi he he wasd not army when only 16 and served in world war ii. Defendingabout america. It didnt matter about the color of his skin until he came back his to mississippi and on 21st birthday he tried to register to vote. Charles whorother was also a veteran and other veterans and these group of them aroundrned with shotguns and ran them off and medgar says we ran, we did not go up against those men but made medgar get serious. From the American History tour of the Civil Rights Movement tomorrow night at 8 00 eastern on span. Friday on cspan in prime time, important sites in the Civil Rights Movement. Saturday ni
Higher u. S. Education standards. Public support for common core standards is dropping. Live coverage begins at 10 30 eastern here on cspan. The American Bar Association continues its Homeland Security conference with a focus on Cyber Security. The government challenge and the dressing security breaches, this afternoon at 3 10 eastern. Weh friday night this month, travel to Historic Places and we hear from authors that shaped the nation. Tonight we focus on the Civil Rights Movement and focus on the 1917 race, riot, and here at the civil right movements. He witnessed a lynching when he was only 12. His father said that is what they do. So he said, i am sure he was a little bit angry and hurt. Getting away from it, getting away from mississippi, he enlisted into the army when he was only 16. He said defending america doesnt matter about the color of your skin, until he came home to mississippi. He tried to register to vote. He and his brother charles. He said a group of white men turned
Caller these are things i consider and i am concerned about. I want people my age group to get involved. A lot of people dont have a platform to talk about this. I think they have a lot of energy. Id like to really see the youth, and people in churches, and people that have good morals and ideas for the future to step p. It looks like the brookings interests tute discussion is about to start. We have time for one more. You are on cspan. Go ahead. Caller yeah, i was watching the speech and stuff, which i thought was good to a certain extent. The thing i have a problem with is they can say all they want on these speeches, but they are still going to do what they want to do behind closed doors. I was raised to respect the title of the person, whether it be the judge or police officer, ut it boils down to a person that has that title. If you cant respect that person that has that title, then there is no respect at all for law or our government. Im not just thing obama, im saying our congre
Critical and important debates. We have one of the senior members working in the back. We want to think jack for being here and all the support that you have given, not only in the book but our committee since you have joined the bar association. Appreciated. I speak on behalf of all of our committee. We are pleased to say that we have a number of positive responses. The former National Counterintelligence executive, the director, bob bryant, one of the best of the key issues of the National Security arena. What makes a stand that is the bipartisan dialogue, intellectual rigor, timeliness, and readability. A must read for practitioners and policy makers and the general public. I take with of would like to do that this point is sort of explain how the book came about. The person going task to do that is bernie horowitz. As briefly explain the process by which he decided to come about to write this book. Good afternoon. I would like to thank the committee on law and National Security for