the sheriff will testify monday. meantime, police in japan say, the man accused of assassinating shinzo abe had a stash of weapons in his home. a number of homemade pistols made out of pipe and adhesive tape. he had, also considered, using explosives. new details on what might have motivated the attack. and a scramble to save yosemite s ancient sequoias, as wildfires close in. i m standing right in front of the grizzly giant with a speaker system set up around it. i m pamela brown in washington. you are living the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with the congressional investigation into the attack on the capitol and what could be a new start with this for the january 6th committee. steve bannon, former trusted advisor to donald trump now says, he will testify, and he wants to do so publicly.his offer comes as he faces trial next week on criminal contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena. bannon had argued he wasn t allowed to cooperate because trump
Liquidity to the nations Mortgage Finance markets. You may have heard mark zandi say that it werent for fha, the Housing Market wouldve completely shut down. You know that fha is enormously important to the Hispanic Community. 610,000 hispanic households have purchased a home using an fha guaranteed mortgage since president obama took office. In 2012 alone, 55 of hispanic homebuyers used fha. We want to make sure that future generations have the same opportunity by ensuring fha is strong for years to come. That is why we have strengthened underwriting standards and our portfolio resulting in dramatic improvements. Our Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund has gained 15 billion in value over the last year. We now anticipate that the fund will return to the required two percent capital reserve ratio in 2015, that is two years sooner than we projected just a year earlier. To build on this progress, we will continue to execute policies that reduce losses, increase recoveries on troubled legacy lo
Breakfast organized this morning. But there does seem to be that sibling thing a little bit. They love each other but they have to go at each other a little bit. To be always found louie unbelievably gracious every time i see him. I dont watch tv i have to admit. [laughter] but he is a good man and a great storyteller and jan was reminding me the first time we saw each other was at one of my first events when i ran for office. Its wonderful to see all the friends who are here today to the president s and prime ministers, the leaders of business and the Nonprofit Community to my incredible friend and Vice President joe biden to my cabinet members who are here and members of the administration who do such great work every single day to my fellow hawaiiian, i should tell you my surfing is not that good but my buddys surfing is pretty good. Justo raj shah, who is such an incredible young leader and is out there every day. I could not be more proud of his outstanding leadership. [applause]
In the global economy. He is partnering with ceos to put the longterm unemployed back to work. He is pushing for investment in our infrastructure so that people can get jobs rebuilding roads and upgrading ports. He is taking these and other actions to ensure that our nation is a place, as he said, where honest work is plentiful and communities are supported. Where prosperity is widely shared and opportunity is for all. If we do this, then families will be in the position to escape the threat of foreclosure or to buy their first home. I ask you to support the president s agenda in this year of action. I also ask you to make your voices heard about other efforts we are taking to give more families the opportunity to strengthen their financial future. Literally just a few thousand dollars can make a huge difference in helping americans get a house they can afford or rent decent affordable housing. That is why the Affordable Care act is so important to all of us in the housing community. F
Also, in many cases, they have their own initiatives. Oftentimes to help women and children. And what we want the first ladies from around the world to know is that they can also do that. There is a role for first ladies to have. To talk about especially womens issues and especially issues that have to do with children. We started this First Ladies Initiative and we began with first ladies from africa with a conference we hosted. Then we invited all of the african first ladies to a luncheon in new york when they were all there with their husbands for the United Nations general assembly. Many came, more came for that luncheon. We just talked about two programs after that luncheon was just to have a festive and friendly luncheon, but we had wendy who founded teach for america. She talked about teach for all of which is her international program. And then we had our daughter, barbara, talk about her nonprofit, Global Health court. Health core. She got the idea from teach for america. She