Talks. The nobel prize for chemistry is shared by two women, for their ability for developing the ability to edit dna. The two candidates to be the next Vice President of the United States are preparing for a showdown in Salt Lake City in the coming hours. Clear plastic barriers will separate mike pence and Kamala Harris, who both reportedly tested negative for coronavirus, but the virus is likely to dominate the 90minute debate, which will focus on president Trumps Health and his administrations handling of the pandemic. [cheering] amidst the head spinning events of the past week, the Vice President ial debate on wednesday takes on unprecedented significance. This is going to be a critically important debate. Usually, vp debates are sideshows with the candidates are discussing issues and tossing the occasional verbal zinger. But as Vice President mike pence and senator Kamala Harris take to the stage, Salt Lake City, the main issue is literally a matter of life or death. I think there
Professor in the 1930s through the 1950s, decided to give about the meaning of life. On the last day of his business law class one spring. It was such a success it turned into an annual division at stanford for many years, until he retired. In 2008,vived supported by a generous gift to the office of religious life by the foundation for global community, which established the henry and Amelia Rathbun fund for exploring what leads to a Meaningful Life. Each year, a visiting fellow is selected to come to stanford to deliver this lecture and spend time with our faculty, students, and staff. In a busy world, and in a time of change in our country, this lecture provides us a welcome moment for self reflection and moral inquiry. We are so fortunate this year to have Ruth Bader Ginsburg as our visiting fellow. Her by anotherw moniker, as the notorious rbg. [applause] that name got its start several puts ago in a tumblr together by an admiring law student, and it took off. Today, Justice Ginsbu
Live now to hearing on White Supremacists infiltration of Police Department. The House Oversight and reform subcommittee on civil rights and Civil Liberties is hosting. This is live coverage on cspan2. Good morning to the chair of the committee, ms. Maloney has joined us. Good morning to our Ranking Member mr. Roys whos with us and good morning to the vice chair and all of our wonderful members who joined us. I want to take a moment to extend a special welcome to rashida to leave of michigan come to our subcommittee. This is her first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her choice. Welcome, ms. Tlaib. I wanted show a video to set the stage. Please play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society and our institution. Please agencies to the fbi to department of justice, all of them. The Southern Poverty Law Center combover is engaged in those groups wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections to w
System is as secure as its ever before. The Registration System as secure as its ever before. Four years ago the obama administration, a little later than this, said there is a big problem and were going to declare the election structure a structure of National Significance and were going 0 it play a different role than we ever played before. No anticipation this was going to happen. Not much discussion. Election officials all over the country immediately said, oh, no youre not. Youre not going to just decide in october of Election Year that youre going to take over the election system and declare it a national a system of National Significance, a system of critical significance to the future of the nation. Of course it is. But it didnt become that in october of 2016. But the message was clear that we needed to build those stronger ties with local and state election authorities. We needed to do everything we could as we saw the efforts by some foreign actors and some people in their ba
My own words. [indiscernible] [applause]. We hope you all have been enjoying yourself this morning. El now, we have a rather large crowd this morning for this particular session. And thats why im very thrilled to introduce our next program. For the past year at the library of commerce you may sit down i have a few more things i want to say. For the past year at the library of commerce we had been celebrating changemakers and i can c think of a few m people who more than aptly fit that description. I can pick a few people who fit the description quite like Justice Ruth Bader ginsberg. Im in a hurry up. She ise a hero and an inspiration to so many of us. In fact it for him this morningg students from American University are right over there camped out in front of this facility and they are here she says are you in a talk about your graduation from Columbia Law School and rutgers and columbia and spent most of your career advocating on womens rights. And you had been called recently the b