The [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the 22nd annual texas book festival. We appreciate you coming out for the authors and just in general great literature. A few housekeeping things, president of houston university. Just a reminder please silence your cell phones or turn them off. After that session here in our authors will be signing books in the book tend and book the booke for sale courtesy of book people. Remember when you buy a book, you support the author, the festival and independent bookstore and it is a Nonprofit Organization and its mission is to support lowincome schools in texas with author visits and donations like the leading rock Stars Program so your purchases go a very long way. And we have a book drive going on to help raise money to rebuild the library is affected by Hurricane Harvey and a donation of 15 at any register to buya a book for a student in the texas book festival and foundation will match with a bo
All right. Senator klobuchar, were delighted to have a good prosecutor. Okay. Well, good. Well, thats a good way to begin. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, and thank you to all of you for working on this issue. Senator durbin and i have been long involved in this issue, and also senator franken and i represent a state that has a lot of refugees and are a big part of the fabric of life in our state, leading businesses, teaching our students, on our police forces. So i think i would start with this issue with you, director rodriguez, on the Security Check. As you state in your testimony, refugees are subject to the highest level of Security Check of any category of traveler to the u. S. I believe we need to uphold these stringent Security Standards which require extensive by graphic and biometric checks, information vetting. Do you agree with me that refugees are the most carefully vetted of all travelers, and what has uscis done to ensure that the high security requirements for refuge
Look, i think a lot of people supporting donald trump are the same people who showed up at the sarah palin rallies at the end of the 2008 campaign. We know that there this cohort out there who believe that, you know, we are being encroached on by aliens. Illegal aliens, muslims, china. And trump has tapped into that into that constituency. Its no accident that sarah palin was one of the first people to stand up and defend him after he attacked senator mccain for his war record. And Rush Limbaugh came to his against. Thats his constituency. Its not the majority of the Republican Party. Its certainly not the majority of the country. But it is an activist group and some of them may stick with him. Can money solve his problems . He told Patrick Healy at the the New York Times that hes ready to spend 100 million. I dont thing that money can solve his problems because hes getting such intensive Media Coverage that its his own performance thats at question here. 100 million does not solve the
LINCOLN, Neb. (Legal Newsline) - Clarifying its opinion that circumstantial evidence is just as conclusive as any other kind of evidence, Nebraska’s highest court reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit by the family of a man who plunged to his death from a balcony, taking the railing with him.