Thank you for making this happen. Thank you sen. Booker thank you for the opportunity. We have a bunch of eager members. I will introduce you real quick. We will open up questions. Sen. Booker that sounds great. Is that ok . Thats great. [applause] sen. Booker i want to get to your questions. I want to orient you to who the heck am i. I am a kid that was raised by two incredible parents. Who have seen the worst of america. They were civil rights activists. They saw violence and discrimination, but they also saw the best of america and they know we are who we are as a country because we Work Together and stood together. My dad is one of these guys that the older i got, the more difficult the stories of his childhood were. Hes like, son, the hail, when i was young, hale was the size of golf balls. By the time he was older, the hail was like beach balls falling from the sky. Son, let me tell you when this tsunami hit my town. I said, dad, you grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. He
A discussion of military and civilian National Service programs, from the Brookings Institution, this is just over an hour. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. It is my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. I will begin by introducing myself briefly. I am bill gault, senior fellow in the government studies program at brookings, delighted to be a small cog in the Service Share alliance. And two people in particular, mel sawhill conceding the stand working tirelessly for six months and also john allen, for letting his vast appearance and events moral authority to our enterprise this morning and i think it is a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Let me introduce the question this way. If National Service is the answer, what is the question . And we have heard and i think will hear three very different kinds of answers to that question. It is useful to keep them secret. The first test to do with service as an avenu
Here to the installation of the 14th secretary of the smithsonian, lonnie bunche. People here are associated with the smithsonian in one form or another, work at the smithsonian or on a board so forth . Ok. How many came to the smithsonian as a child . Ok. How many think the smithsonian is the most unifying organization in washington . [laughter] ok. [applause] so, we can all use a little unification. The nationals do a pretty good job, but nothing, nothing is as good as the smithsonian. There is nobody that doesnt like the smithsonian. And that is true because of so much of the work all of you have done. Let me acknowledge the presence of our congressional regents who are here, senator lahey, congresswoman matsui. Thank you very much for coming. And let me acknowledge the presence of our regions and former regions who are here. Thank you for all you have done to make the smithsonian such a strong organization. I would like to acknowledge the presence of the Museum Directors and Resear
Elections, the impeachment inquiry and the passing of Elijah Cummings and remarks and democratic president ial candidate joe biden. He focuses on the violence against women act in the Trump Administration and offered that he would be able to beat donald trump in the 2020 election. House democrats are down with nancy pelosi, the once and future speaker of the United States house of representatives. Nancy pelosi is the most powerful woman in american political history. That characterize the strength he has been speaker of the house not once but twice. And chief critic of donald trump. That is the way you clap when your husband finally puts the toilet paper on the roller. She showed him up in public and walked out of the west wing, put those sunglasses on and walked away in an image that has become pretty iconic. Now whenever won betting against nancy pelosi. Now deny her political acumen and success achieving the highest Political Office ever held by a woman in this country. He has been
The competition for top scientist. Here is todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We have the most significant wind events in los angeles of the year. Wind gusts up to 60 or 70 Miles Per Hour. It does take one downwind to start another brush fire. Everybody is just on edge. Everybody is worried. Lieutenant vindman providing the strongest testimony yet. Boeings ceo was grilled over the 737 max crash. I would walk before i get on the max. I heard a hit and you got this loud noise that shook all the houses. Juul is hitting a lawsuit, about a million pause. In denver, theyre dealing with record cold. Snow storm there brought schools and traffic to a halt. Winner take as take all game. All that matters. At the white house. The annual halloween celebration went on. Things got weird when they started handling out candy. It was a cute minion. Rather than putting the candy bar, trump just puts it on his head. What is going on here . On cbs this morning. Nancy pelosi announced the house wi