Leaders. The ceremony is 35 minutes. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the useum vice chair, alan holt. Good evening, everyone. Its an honor to be here, and i want to express my thanks to all of you for being here. I want to especially thank this evenings chairs, beth hifitz and jody and wrod mackland. [applause] and the washington community. My Home Community for this fantastic show of support for the museum and its campaign. I am the son of holocaust survivors. And i am also blessed. I just celebrated with my parents their 70th wedding anniversary. [applause] i grew up in the 1950s and the 1960s. Two events that i most remember from my early life were the legacy of the holocaust and the ongoing struggle for civil rights. In fact, one of the unforgettable moments of my new jersey childhood was witnessing first hand the horrible race so tonight ark in these two strands of my life come together as we honor congressman john lewis. A very special american. [applause] a very s
Anniversary. I grew up during the 1950s and 1960s. Two events that i most remember from my early life where the legacy of the holocaust and the ongoing struggle for civil rights. In fact, one of the unforgettable moments of my new jersey childhood was witnessing firsthand the heart of all race in 1967. Ewark so tonight, these two strands of my life come together as we anor congressman john lewis, very special american. [applause] a very special human being. As my parents would say, a true mench. My parents had been in this country less than 20 years when the Civil Rights Movement began. Thatwere probably unaware the knots is often justified their antisemitism was not much different from american racism. Nor did they realize that american soldiers who liberated europe and liberated them, were part of a segregated u. S. Army. 1960s, the in the holocaust taught us urgency of speaking out. So it was not surprising that several of the jews most active in the Civil Rights Movement had links
They reveal comes with repealing and replacing obamacare. Peter doocy has more on the tax reform plan, but we begin with john roberts. Good morning. I just got a briefing, it lasted about 40 minutes. The white house is confident that they can avoid a Government Shutdown. However, it looks like the president is going to compromise on his top priority to get that deal for the border wall. Hes giving up on funding for it this week, the president pushing back in a tweet. Dont let the fake media tell you that i have changed my position on the wall. It will get built to keep out drugs, human trafficking, et cetera. The president was asking for about 1. 55 billion in the spending bill for construction of the wall just to begin construction. Hes prepared to take less than that, but also adding some new fencing and then he will insist on more money to actually build the wall that will come in the fall, he plans that for the 2018 fiscal budget. Heres a Kellyanne Conway set about the budget. Havi
What does the committee, lay out for me, manu, want to see, and why wont the white house give it to them . Reporter well, kate, the House Oversight committee on march 22nd sent a letter to reince priebus, the white house chief of staff, asking for a range of records related to Michael Flynn, specifically about payments that he received from russianbacked entities, including Rt Television network, which is of course the kremlinbacked television network. The question, ultimately, whether or not he accurately and legally disclosed some of these payments while requesting security clearances to serve as Donald Trumps National Security adviser. Now, in a letter sent to the committee, the white house does not provide that information. In fact, it rejects the House Oversight committees request, saying that the records before january 20th that the committee did want would not the white house would not be in possession of those records. And anything after january 20th, well, the white house says
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