I want you to understand the deep connection that the issue of guns and gun violence has with the work of the Luskin School of Public Affairs. Among the other focuses is a focus on Mental Health. Guns are the single biggest killer of women. They are the single biggest cause of successful suicide. It turns out people may try to take their own life more often than we would like, and its a tragedy, but we are not very good at it unless there is a gun present. If there is a gun present, the possibility of fatalities skyrocket. Guns tear at the fabric of american society, but as you will hear in tonights lecture, you can argue that they are written into the fabric of american society, or at least so their advocates and manufacturers would tell us. We will talk a bit more about that. Its also important to understand that guns are a racial issue. Put succinctly, as the Second Amendment is for white people. When more than 100 armed men descend on the kentucky state capital, nothing happens. If
[no audio] kayleigh hello, everyone. Is another historic day at the white house. I have ambassador rick grenell, National Security advisor robert obrien, and Senior Advisor jared kushner, to talk to you about history made at the white house today and then they will take a few questions. Robert it was a great morning in the oval office. Through theogether, hard work of great diplomats, led by rick grenell of the serbiants direction, and kosovo have normalized economic relationships. This serbiakosovo conflict has gone on for decades. They have been unable to move onward for many years, and the president some time ago decided we knighted we needed to try something new, break the deadlock and move forward with the Peace Process with serbia and kosovo. To have the Prime Minister of kosovo and president of serbia and the oval office was something, given the history of those two countries at the history of the United States with respect to serbia and the conflict in the balkans, is remarkabl
Come friday, thats mayday, with spring weather, getting out of the house and back to work will surely take another step forward. Look at this. Investors love it. We know we are in the middle of a seriously shrinking economy but back to work means a way out of the mess. Top officials including the president and the treasury secretary expect a vigorous recovery later this year. And soon, we will see the Financial Statements from the allimportant big tech companies. Investors are expecting solid results and that, too, is helping the overall market. Heres the big negative of the day. The tumbling price of oil. We dropped to 10 a barrel. Now we are at 11. 87. At the moment, its not hurting the stock market, but the possibility of going back to a zero price or a negative price as we did two weeks ago, that is still on the table. Gas, yep, keeps on falling. Not quite quickly enough, maybe. 1. 76 is your National Average. Wisconsin still the cheapest. The average price today actually went up i
We will go ahead and get started. The Environmental Energy Study Institute thank you for joining us back i hope everybody got all the candy. Thank you for joining us this morning we have a wonderful panel and will be learning about the Global Commission of a global call for leadership. The urgency of Climate Change may feel more acute but the issue of Climate Change has been with us for decades. Esi stated in 1988 addressing Climate Change is a moral imperative. Many scientists m Public Policy experts have been working on the issue proposing solutions i hope what were actually seeing his momentum to act there is some evidence this is the case last week i testified before the Senate Energy committee that probably would not have been the case a few years ago in Speaker Pelosi and the House Select Committee is another example. As we know now that inaction on Climate Change makes it harder and harder to achieve. We have to act now to contribute to that momentum constantly reinforce it. So
Begin with. What do you want to fix in the court . Realized other courts need fixing but fix the court is the only nonpartisan National Organization that adds for greater accountability primarily in the Supreme Court. We believe transparency and account ability means Live Streaming the hearings at the Supreme Court which are currently not livestreamed. Smart policys a change and the Financial Disclosures to be posted online. We want them to explain their conflicts of interest and we want them to follow a code of conduct. Justices are the only judges that dont have to follow a professional code of conduct. We want to convince them to adopt one. Host what led to the founding of your group . Working in d. C. Like a political consultant and i was working on cases where that would reach the Supreme Court. Issues Like Health Care or marriage or voting and a lot of the litigants were in california and they just assumed tune in to. Span cspan was doing this to some extent. That i talkeded to b