Secret service, there was something going on. Now, those of us that are spend a lot of time at the white house know that lockdowns at the white house are relatively routine. Even fence jumpers happen, you know, three, four times a year. It is an event, but not a particularly remarkable one. But there seem to be there seem to be something a level of alarm that the secret service was displaying that suggested that this may have been a little bit something out of the ordinary. I headed into into the press area of the white house which is sort of at the entrance to the west wing for those of you who havent spent a lot of time there to try and figure out if i could figure out what was going on. And nobody had any they said no, everythings fine we would have gotten an email if something happened. If something happened. Right about that Moment Secret Service agents came stormed in from the west wing with these really large, like semiautomatic weapons that, you know, youve seen the secret Serv
Schools, city hall, social well tear fair if blacks in baltimore and other cities if blacks are running those institutions and the promise of the Civil Rights Movement is if we were running them we would be different and better than whites well why are blacks failing in systems run by their own people if the issue was race. Youve listened to president obamas responses since baltimore, the public statements hes made. Hes giving a speak today at georgetown university. Its 11 25 on cspan 3 for our viewers if you want to watch. What are you expecting to hear from the president on this topic of overcoming poverty . First of all, im glad hes speaking out. Its been six years since the president has said anything. Hes probably spoken less about poverty than any previous president. He seems to be promoting the same strategies that have failed over the past 50 years. We look at the problem. First of all you cant generalize about poverty. Not everybody is poor for the same reason. Therefore, you
Correspondent annual dinner and watch our live coverage tonight at the columbia eastern 6 00 p. M. Eastern. The Export Import Bank held single conference in washington dc. The event included opening remarks from fred hochberg. This is 20 minutes. [applause] chairman hochburg good morning. Welcome once again to the 2015 Export Import Bank annual conference. April 23, 1910. Exactly 105 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt traveled to paris to deliver a message to the world about the character of the american people. Roosevelt had just finished his presidency and he was invited to reflect on his time in office and speak about citizenship. They wanted to hear from him what he thought set americans apart and he delivered one of the most iconic speeches in our history and one which i think perfectly captures the american spirit. He said, it is not the critics who count. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena who strives valiantly. Who knows that triumph of high achievement and w
We will never stop working to make sure that jews boys have somewhere to go. He will never stop working to make sure that israel has in edge, and whomever the next president is, it will be the same. Because the American People are committed, the American People understand. So i say happy birthday, israel. Happy independence day. May god bless you and may god bless and protect the United States of america. Thank you all very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] happy independence day, thank you for being here. On the next washington journal, john lott. Then Colleen Eubanks discusses child reform in the United States. And Gregory Korte will discuss the president s use of executive action. During this month cspan is pleased to present the student documentary competition. It is an annual competition that encourages mi
Celebrates its independence, we give thanks for what we have overcome and how far we have come. We also give thanks to the American People, to their representatives in congress, and president s from harry truman to barack obama, for all of the help you have given us along the way. [applause] ambassador dermer we give thanks for all america has done to make israel stronger, safer and more prosperous. For support that has enabled israel both to defend itself by itself against any threat and to forge historic peace agreements with egypt and jordan. As we celebrate israels independence in the capital of this great nation, imf confident as ever that despite all of the challenges i am as confident as ever that despite all of the challenges, israels best day is still ahead. [applause] Vice President biden i asked, am i up . I think so. Hello, mr. Ambassador. My name is joe biden. [applause] Vice President biden Everybody Knows i love israel. I was thinking as ron was saying that he does not k