Held up the arms of moses so that joshua could defeat the amalachites, the greatest enemy of the jewish people. Today rabbi leonard motomky will give the memorial prayer. Rabbi William Gershon from dallas, president of the Rabbinical Association of the conservative movement will give the prayer for israel. And rabbi fred reiner, chair of the atid Legal Society of the central conference of american rabbis will give the prayer for the United States, and they will help us hold up our hands as a unified people in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in israel. And a great thing about rabbi matonky who is going to go first. As they lead us in the prayers, theyre going to do it quite quickly because we dont have that much time today. And thats not easy for rabbis. Thats hard for rabbis. At this historic gathering of solidarity and support, we have to pause for a moment for the memorial prayer for naftali, gilad, ayali who were kidnapped and murdered for so reason other than they were jew
Our full yushry committee and the house of representatives in terms of these ten hearings that weve had this year and last year . I mean, what can we take . And i want to commend the chairman and Ranking Member sensenbrenner and scott for having put this together as they have. But where do we go from here . I think the immediate thing is reform of the mens rea problem. The immediate bandaid that is necessary is a defall rule of mens rea where with none appear in criminal statutes and are a rule of construction that applies a mens rea at least to all material elements. A single mens rea standard or. No, a uniform mens rea standards. Okay. Clearly defined across the board. Uhhuh. And what would you add, dr. Baker . Well, i would agree with that. Ive been involved a little bit in trying to draft that statute. I can tell you its not an easy statute to draft because of the way, first of all, the federal krips are drafted and how differently they are. I would add to those two things which i
Approaches. Thats right. We may or we may not but were not in a position to tell them what to do so they make that decision. So let me ask another question if you hear from people that it really hurts the economy of the United States when there is the clean air lot that goes on the books it is too dangerous to run the risk to make them air cleaner to reduce the number of people whose diets from dirty air and they say their air is clean enough. We will see a huge increase of people who dont die or i get sick so i have a chart to from 1929 through today that reflects the growth of the gdp of the United States of america including the 1970 cleanair act with the exception of around 2,008 it was a complete failure of regulation with the financial industry can you talk about that and the connection with that journey with the growth of gdp . I think the chairman eloquently stated weld they could reduce air pollution basically 70 percent reduction under the Clean Air Act while the gdp has trip
The country protested this week to raise the minimum wage. Theyre looking for 15 an hour. Should the minimum wage be increased . Call us and tell you what you think on the democratic line, 202 5853880. The republican line at 202 5853881. Independent line at 202 5853882. A special line we set up this morning for minimumwage workers 3. 202 585388 you can also join the conversation on social media. Or send us an email. Our first guest this morning is steve jamison, a reporter for the huffington post. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. Of these were at one fast food worker protests in South Carolina earlier this week. Tell us what you saw and what it was all about. Caller i went to charleston, South Carolina. This was about workers who were demanding 15 an hour. Its a living wage. And union recognition. I followed about two dozen workers. Many of whom were declaring oneday strikes. Others had the day off and joined the protest and they took part in civil disobedience. They protested
Ago. And take a look at santa rosa. In addition to the cool temperatures. We have limited visibility. We were down a half a mile so we have seen improvement north of the bridge and the rest of the bay area nowhere near as foggy as what we experienced yesterday. Plenty of sunshine. Looking forward to a warming trend with fairly pleasant conditions today. Oakland sunny a high of 62. 52 today. Well see upper 50s along the coast line. 60s in the south bay. And the 7 day forecast sunday and monday as the warmest days of pressure in place. Thats going to allow the temperatures to crime warmer than where we should be. We could break some records, expect the 70s closer to the bay. The temperatures will start to slide into the middle of the week. We have a front headed our way. And a chance so anticipate an increase in cloud cover. Thats right a lot of cool air will settle back into the bay area. Eufrplts the president called the shooting at sandy hook the the president called the shooting at s