They host a forum today on federal investments on innovation and science. Newt gingrich and Business Specialist along with academic researchers will be talking about the issues our live coverage just about to get underway on cspan3. As we wait for senator warren, well bring you a story from the Associated Press regarding the Iran Nuclear Deal president obama traveling in ethiopia, and the ap reporting he delivered a belittling rebuke of Republican White House hopefuls monday calling their attack on his landmark nuclear deal ridiculous, if it werent so sad. Obama suggested the rhetoric from some gop candidates was an attempt to divert attention from donald trump. A wealthy businessman whose popularity is con founding the republican field. Maybe quoting, maybe it gets attention, maybe this is just an effort to push mr. Trump out of the headlines, its not the kind of leadership that is needed for america right now. The associate press quoting president obama during a News Conference in et
Testifies before the House Agriculture Committee wednesday. This is two hours, 15 minutes. Good morning. This is a hearing on the committee of agriculture for oversight by the u. S. Department of agriculture will come to order. Ive asked Rick Crawford to open us with a prayer. Thank you mr. Chairman. Father, i bow humbling before you. Thankful for this country youve given us and, father, mindful of the great responsibility that youve charged us with. Father, just ask that everything that is said and done here today be pleasing in your sight and we ask that you help us to be civil in our discourse and discerning in our comments and dialogue. Father, i just pray it all in jesus name. Amen. Thank you, rick. I want to thank the secretary vilsack for coming to be with us this morning. He has a horde stop at 12 15. He has cabinet responsibilities to do. Mr. Secretary, thanks very much for being here this morning. Be careful on your knee there on your on the table. I want to say at the start
Searched during a traffic stop compared to white motorists. Africanamericans are twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with police. 13 and this is an extraordinary figure, and i think not an accident. 13 of africanamerican men have lost the right to vote due to felony convictions. Cant vote. Cant participate in the Democratic Political process. In my view we need major changes in criminal justice in america and as president of the United States i promise you my Justice Department will be vigorous in fighting all forms of discrimination in every area of our life not only in police matters, but in housing and credit, in every area that impacts minority populations. Across our nation as all of you know and we see almost every day, too many africanamericans and other minorities find themselves subjected to a system that treats citizens who have not committed crimes as if they were criminals. A growing number of commu
Tonight, on sbrent privacy Cyber Security issues and how to comball recent data breaches. Weve seen attack after attack the most on the office of Personnel Management but also in private industry. Target home depot. So many other private corporations have had customer information stolen. And so what weve realized is is we can try very hard to keep ahead of the hackers but what we need to do is think about how we minimize the need for customers to put their private information on to web sites. Right now there are legal prohibitions from the government sharing classified threat information with the threat sesketor and legal prohibitions from the private sector sharing back with the government termed as being actors of the government. Thats not allowed. What we wanted to do is allow those barriers to be removed so that you could share information on threat signatures very narrowly defined so youre talking about 1, 0, very technical information. But, for example, of the various hacks that
Chapter 11 first 18, dodd said he would destroy anybody who destroys the earth. Do you hear christians talking about that . Host one more phone call on this. Independent from indiana. Caller good mine. There is really no choice deal here. We have a budget problem. A deficit problem. We have severe spending problems. Less and less and less taxes coming in. Consequently, we are going to be facing the sorts of issues on all sorts of these projects. Such as the epa, family planning, all of these things. These things are going to start coming at us and we are not going to have the money to pay for them is what is going on. We can kick and scream about the right and wrong, but the reality is these things may not get totally defund it, but i bet you they all get cut back. Lawmakers dont have much choice. Host that is dan in things montana. An independent color. We will leave it there. Up next, switching topics. Medicare. Last month marked the 50th anniversary. We will talk about two leaders w