If you are waiting for the next speaker to come, keep in mind that that people sitting next to you may have come to hear the personal at the podium right now. Faith and freedom and cwa always does masterful jobs of bringing people to those things and people honoring the spirit, i guess, of the program. I will also just say, obviously, you know weve had we had some security terrance. So we have taken some pretty pronounced efforts to keep that to a bear minimum. Thank you for dealing with ininconvenience as you have been coming in. As we begin the program, obviously, we are excited to have each of the participants in the program. But we believe that the most important component of this is really to honor and lift up those precepts that we believe made america great. So i would ask that you join dr. W. A. Merit of the southern Leadership Conference of North Carolina to lead us in prayer. Good morning. Its such a wonderful day that god has given us. And each of us have arrived here safely
Twitter. Com cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] announcer American History tv programs are airing prime time on cspan3. A threeday vietnam war summit from the lyndon b. Johnson andon b. Johnson library, retrospective on the conflict. Tonight, the first major engagement on the war and then the soldiers battle after the war with sieve physical and psychological try, and a conversation with henry kissinger. Kissinger a president who has been known with being concerned about domestic policy, and a division of the country that has lasted to this day. Announcer tuesday, how america was divided over the work, and then by the time we got four or five decades away, where historical triangulation can actually take lace, when you can have the distance and perspective necessary not to just make a reactive or journalistic response, bu
Streamingllantly and the rockets red glare bursting in air nightroof through the that our flag was still there starspangledat banner yet wave oer the land of the free the brave . [applause] please welcome to the stage from the great state of tennessee, representative marsha blackburn. epresentative blackburn good morning. I am absolutely thrilled to be here with you this morning. How wonderful to see how many ready to bes to get equipped and get ready for the battle. This is a fight that we have to win. Being here, you were laying the foundation for going out there and being the first soldiers. We are conservatives. We know if we focus on personalities, you lose every time. If you focus on the issues and the constitution, we win. We want to bring you uptodate on what would were doing in the house of representatives. Everybody remembers the videos that came out last year. With every video, we got a withe bit more insight abortion. We got a view of doctors who are willing to sell body pa
Thank you for your Exceptional Leadership for five years to this university. I will talk about it a little bit because i think it is an extraordinary, exceptional thing occurring. And congratulations to the class of 2016. Today is your day of celebration. You have earned it. Congratulations to your family and friends who helped to make the day possible. It is an honor for me, truly to , be able to deliver your commencement address. You have earned your diploma in a special environment. The intellectual talent in this university and the greater area is matched by very few places on this earth. I would like to talk about it a little bit. A quote from a man of influence on the university and in huntsville and our planet. And maybe what revolves around our planet. That is dr. Warner bron brown the father of the American Space , program. He was voted as the second most influential person in aviation and Aerospace History recently according to aviation week magazine. Only the Wright Brothers
40 deaths spurring calls to action and calls for the president to take a stand. So where is president obama . Well, today, he sent his presstek Zare Jay Carney to speak on his before. You keep saying and Denis Mcdonough is saying he is mad as hell. Where he is . Ed, im sure you will hear something at some point on this issue soon. Gerri while the president stalls, our nations heroes hang in the balance. We have the executive director for the American Legion who joins me now on what needs to be done. Thanks for being on the show. Great to have you here. What does it say about the white house and the administrations view on this if they wont send the president out to talk about this publicly . I know your organization has asked for the president to speak . Well, gerri, you know the American Legion has also asked for secretary shinseki to get out in front of this. We called for him to separate town step down and he were a Leadership Organization and we want somebody to stand up and take r