Our big sister alissa is 11. She has her own room. My little sister has autism. She cant talk. We all get ready for school together. Some things are really hard for her like brushing her teeth and brushing her hair. It takes all three of us to do her hair. She doesnt like the way the brush feels. Elissa and i sing. I feel happy i can help. She gets a lot of attention in the morning. But my big sister and i get time with my mom and dad too. Dad is really good at putting on jewelry. He helps alissa while my mock brushes my hair. I like how she does it. Pretty. I love it. I love having my little sister. She is amazing. I think youre amazing. Hi there im here with yasenia who is full of joy at the moment. And also jasmine and elissa. Well find out how amazing their family is. What do you like best about your family . We all are equal, it doesnt matter if she has autism, my parents arent just going to focus on her and leave me and jasmine out. Hi lets have a group hug. Lets all hug. Im in t
Neil gorsuch will be sworn in today. Watch the ceremony administered by Justice Anthony kennedy live at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. After that, democratic senator, chris murphy, talks about u. S. Foreign policy. We have it live at 12 30 eastern also on cspan. Now, a discussion on women in con bat. Speakers discuss the challenges and how allowing women in combat has changed the military from the institute of World Politics, this is just over an hour. Welcome to everybody. My name is mac owens. I am here at the institute of politics. We are an independent graduate school of National Security affairs. We offer three masters degrees, an executive and a professional masters as well. In addition, we have 18 certificates. We are very happy to cosponsor this event with mark moyier, whom i will introduce in just a second. Very important topic. Weve got a great speaker, who who has done a great deal of work in this area. It is a topical topic in the redundancy department. As i say, we are cosp
Ronald reagan from 1976 to his election of president in 1980. From washington journal, this is about 45 minutes. Is Craig Shirley, the the author of reagan rising. The decisive years, 1976 to 1980. He is here to discuss that book which examines president reagans political ascendancy after losing the nomination for president in 1976. Thank you for joining us today. So youve written several books about president reagan. Why did you focus on this particular era, this 1976 to 1980 in this book . Guest its a missing chapter to his life and its very important because without the developmental years of 76 to 0 he doesnt become president. After he lost the nomination to gerald ford people said all right hes been around the track twice. He tried in 6768 and lost tried in 76 and lost. Now hes 65 years old. The issues have moved beyond him. The campaign, the parties have moved beyond him. And he and mrs. Reagan thought otherwise. Even after the 76 campaign, reagan can convened a meeting at his ho
The history of policing, black america, slavery. Editor and producer of npr, staff writer, for the atlantic. And opinion columns covering a broad range of issues for womens rights abroad, and child demand development and demographic changes. And dozens of national and local papers and in conversation, litigation director of the naacp, and christina overseeing all aspects of litigation in 14 process areas including economic justice, and criminal justice, as a nationally recognized expert on issues for criminal Justice Christina participates in committees, 5year Panel Strategic conferences. And msnbc and democracy now. Last but certainly not least we have doctor craig, doctor greg carr, and the chair of the drums of afroamerican studies at Howard University and adjunct officer at ed Howard School of law, phd in African American studies from Temple University and jd from Ohio State University college of law, he was a School District he was the School District first resident scholar on rac
How long does it take . You talked about walking into conference for the first time. When youve watched new justices come on board since you arrived, how long does it take before they get it . Oh, i dont know. I think we all learn at different paces, but when i came to the court, i asked that same question, because it was very important to me to figure out when would i get my sea legs. And the common number was five years. And Justice White would often say it takes about that long to go around the full horn of all the cases, kinds of cases that we get. That was their number. And that may be about right. It doesnt mean you cant do your work, it just means that things are sitill new for the first five years. You may not have had as many jurisdiction cases involving water rights or boundaries. You may not have had a lot of admiralty cases. So you get all of that. It was chief Justice Renquist when i was complaining, oh, my goodness, what am i doing here my first year . I look around me an