Been commenting about the Turkish Operation in the past few hours thats cross over to step vasant joins me now from moscow we were waiting for russia to speak they did speak of course on wednesday quite late on but what has lavrov been saying today. Well the foreign minister has been talking from turkmenistan and hes been urging and also offering to organize a dialogue between turkey and syria and of course russia would be well placed to do this kind of dialogue because of course it has a big a close relationship with the Syrian Government has been fighting on the syrian side during the war in syria and also has this close economic and military partnership with turkey and this personal relationship within an hour to one has but the question of course is what such a dialogue would mean for the kurds because at the same time the foreign minister has also said that russia has always from the beginning understood turkeys security concerns at its border and also has urged the kurds basicall
Meaningful occasion. Because we have a group of historians who have advised us in the opening of our new gallery civil war and reconstruction, the battle for freedom and equality. [ applause ] who has seen the new gallery . And everyone whos not can vibe about vision 2020, which is really important and i think is cosponsoring our event this evening. Isnt it wonderful . Its so exciting. And so inspiring and so meaningful to tell the story of how the equality promised in jeffersons declaration was thwarted in the original constitution, resurrected by lincoln at gettysburg, and Frederick Douglass, thwarted again and then resurrected by king. And Thavolia Glymph and kate mass masur were two of the scholars, as well as Catherine Clinton tonight, moderated by my colleague anna ulrich. Created an incredible team. If you havent seen it, go down as soon as possible and see it and tell me what you think. Please join me greeting lana and our panelists. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evenin
We are thrilled this evening to welcome the programs founder, dan pedderson. He went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navys legendary Top Gun Program at navy air station in march 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the flying crews. He retired as a captain having accumulated 6,100 flight hours and 1,005 carrier landings. For those of you who know his story from the 1986 movie top gun, you will be happy to know that he is producing a sequel which is scheduled to be released in 2020. Peddersons book is available for purchase and signing following this conversation. And here to keep the conversation moving is larry burke, cure ator of u. S. Naval aviation at the national air and space museum. So now please welcome dan pedderson and larry burke. You ready to go . Im going to take about ten minutes to just set the stage here for larry and i to go back and forth in final preparation for the questions coming from you. The assumption is
Created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The house modernization of Congress Committee explored best practices on how to recruit and retain a diverse Congressional Staff. Human resources executives and an author of three books on workplace topics testified and answered questions from committee members. This is about an hour and a half. Okay. All right. The committee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled cultivating diversity and improving retention among Congressional Staff. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be a 90 degrees in here, so my apologies to each of you. We will be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today we are going to talk about whats really the backbone of this institution and th
Thursday. Fires broke out in the city of ridgecrest outside of los angeles as crews have been working throughout the night. Californias governor already called the white house to k for a president ial Emergency Declaration to help with the recovery. So far no deaths have been t reported. Bunow the concern is the possility of strong aftershocks. We will be keeping a close e there. Good morning to you. We have more on last nights earthquake. But firstwe are tracking more rain chances for our holiday weekend. Auren. Orning good morning. Still looks like more showers could be coming our way. You are r ht. That is a weather alert. Ar have the humidity out there. And then we go to see more storms blossoming in this moist atmosphere we areei seg. Any time after 2 00 or 3 00. Look at the hazy sunshine coming up there about 5 49. Early this morning,this saturday morning. Temperatures right now, look at this. We even have 80s. Annapolis 81. We are 78 here in the district. 60s out in the valley.