My name is jerry streets. I work at a church in you have in new haven. I was also a chaplain of Yale University for 15 years and have been a member of Divinity School since 1987. For 63lived in basia years. Was from a prominent africanamerican family in and part of my family was polish catholic. Members i have of that kind of experience is how home at basia, but in the neighborhood, it was considered just black. We think about our local experiences and our history of race. For me, i think one of the greatest challenges for us, to have a different kind of language and critique for the world of culture and racism, not culture and race. Draw station i tried to from that, all the good things, one of the ways culture functions is that it can be a conduit for ideology, four perspectives. And racism for me is the ways by which we take any aspect of any Ethnic Community and privilege it or disqualify it over others. So it is not just a matter of looks. It is a language, it is the distinctions
Live coverage of the Senate Foreign relations giddy this afternoon. Committee this afternoon. You can check out our schedule atormation any 1time cspan. Org. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] president obama tries to get house and senate numbers to respond to alleged Chemical Attacks in syria. They do have a camera at the white house. We will bring view comments. Theres also a classified re think with congress on capitol hill. We have a camera there. We will bring that to you soon as it becomes available. The president and Prime Minister abe spoke by telephone yesterday. The white house reporting that they agree that the use of those type of weapons is a serious violation of International Norms and cannot be tolerated. Speak on that. Syrian civilians took place delhi two weeks ago killing an estimated 1430 people. Took place in damascus two weeks ago, killing an estimated 1430. The the Senate Foreign Relatio
The Bipartisan Policy Center commission on political reform is traveling around the country this year, engaging citizens on National Unity in Public Service. In july, they stopped at the National Constitution center in philadelphia. We will hear from pnc Bank Chairman jim rohr and Commission Members including former senators trent lott and Olympia Snowe, as well as susan eisenhower, vicki kennedy, and others. On the constitution center, this is an hour and 50 minutes from the constitution center, this is an hour and 50 minutes. [applause] good afternoon. I am former senator Olympia Snowe and a senior fellow at the bipartisan succotash Bipartisan Policy Center. The Bipartisan Policy Center. I want to welcome you to a National Conversation on National Unity. What a true pleasure it is to gather here in the great city of philadelphia, not only the birth of america, but the genesis of what became an unprecedented experiment in governance that forever changed the face of our planet and huma
President ial campaign. I have a son who is a great young man. Commuting with a lawyer from russia. It lasted for a very short period. Nothing came of the meeting. I think its a meeting that most people in politics probably would have taken. Harris chief White House Correspondent john roberts is traveling with the president in paris. John . Reporter and it was interesting to see, harris, today, despite all of the observations so far that President Trump and president macron likely wouldnt have a good relationship. This is a lot of the pundits here in the United States and europe. The two have gotten off on a good footing and the both genuinely look like theyre looking forward to having dinner tonight on the second floor of the eiffel tower. They talked about a number of items when they were in their bilateral meeting, from trade to climate change. Of course, when it came to the press conference, the first question to President Trump was about this new fire storm surounding his son dona
Will tell you about it but he made a commitment, we are going to be working together and my willingness to continue to work with the United States on this very major topic, i understand its importance to their jobs. That being said, we will leave United States of america to work on its road map and continue to talk about it. Nothing new or unprecedented otherwise we would have talked about it. There is a willingness to talk about this and try and find the best possible agreement. As far as i am concerned, i am extremely attached to the framework of the paris accord which has been a Major International breakthrough and within that framework, i am working on priorities for the european union. Lastly, as you know, i never want to comment on what we are doing personally but i can tell you that this evening, there will be a dinner between friends. We are the representatives of two countries which have been allies and because we have been able to build a strong relation which is dear to me b