August 15th, on a sunday, one those of moments when Richard Nixon essentially appeared on National Television halfway through bonanza, a great cowboy show, not really my time but maybe the viewers will remember. And interrupted the show to say were not going to allow the dollar to be converted into gold anymore, and this is one of most significant events, the most significant thats to have happened in the history of money, and i was a very decisive moment where he shut the gold window. Thats the term. Where people could not simply come into fort representatives. This is an hour. Good afternoon. And welcome. My name is byron and i am an adj adjunct professor and the 170ing president of the National Press club. He are commit today our professions future through programming with events such as this while fostering a free press world wide. For more information about the pres club visit our website at press. Org. I would like to welcome our speaker and those attending the event. Guest of ou
In unity, thats where our strength is, as a united movement. If we all just, like, want to challenge the system just individually and just, like, individually negotiate our employment contract, good luck with that. It is the only way possible, on a united and global scale. And on the outcome of this global movement, is workers, like, taking control of things. And this is about workers demanding more rights and inevitably it has to lead to workers, you know, getting to a point where they can not just that, you know, we have more rights but they cant be taken back because there is nobody elses to take back. Theyre our rights. And [ applause ] i mean, thats why, i mean, the fight for 15 is important, but it also has to be for a union, because if we get 15, i mean, tomorrow they can take that away without a union. Right. And wo so we just cant have them take it away. [ applause ]. United we stand, separate we fall. It was actually kind of interesting to know that were the super country. We
Of strength that has made this nation great. This is in our best interests and the best interests of the world. The greater that america is, the greater the entire world becomes. While some people may call donald trump a populist, i call him a patriot. Thats because by definition, a patriot is one who loves their country, that supports its authority and promotes its interests. Many liberals are embarrassed to use this word. Many liberals believe we are a nation like any other but we know that we are not a nation just like any other. We are the greatest nation in the history. And as republicans, we are unreservedly proud to be americans and we are proud of you were on patriots. America is a melting pot. We are a country of diversity and we stand poised to make history by standing together as americans, by standing together as one country. One nation under god indivisible. And we are here as americans. Regardless of race, regardless of creed, regardless of color. We hold these truths to
Recovered a gun at the scene. The 43yearold family is a different story there. He was unarmed and reading a book waiting for his son, two verydifferent stories. Causing ht of contention tonight. Dozens of protestors blocking the streets. We saw that on interstate 277, according to local media, shut town. We have had images of several cars going back and forth. Police standing on the cars. We dont know if we have the pictures at the moment but well get them. There is the video. Now, were seeing police on the scene we saw cars, going back and forth and have people hanging outside of the cars, looks like were getting some control. Not as chaotic. Many of these police in riot gear are trying to control the situation with tear gas, and rubber bullets among many things. The governor said the States National guard and Highway Patrol have been deployed to help police with the situation. This has been ongoing. Steve harrigan joins us live from the scene. Steve, youve been there all night. What
His administration at a Campaign Rally monday night. The fbi, as part of our Counterintelligence Mission is investigating the russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 president ial election. And that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. Reporter fbi director james comey and nsa director mike rogers facing five hours of questioning before the house Intelligence Committee. President obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of anyone. No president could. Reporter comey rejecting mr. Trumps baseless claim that former president Obama Wiretapped his Trump Tower Campaign headquarters. I have no information that supports those tweets. The answer is the same for the department of justice and all of its components. Reporter the white house trying to dismiss much of comeys testimony. I think theres a lot of are