[indiscernible] finishing up with former cia Deputy Director michael morell. We will air this again later in the program schedule, or you can watch it again shortly online at cspan. Org. We do have more life events coming up today. Joe manchin will be speaking at the Brookings Institution this afternoon. He will be talking about governing from the middle. Watch his remarks live at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan3. Later, its more from the road to the white house with Hillary Clinton. She would making her second appearance in iowa. She is talking about ideas to expand small business. You can see that live at 3 45 eastern also want cspan3. President obama is traveling today, he will be in new jersey this afternoon to talk about Community Policing here it he is expected to talk about a drawdown in the amount of military equipment being provided to Law Enforcement. That starts at 3 10 eastern. Youll be a watch it online at cspan. Org. The president is expected to acknowl
Cameras before a a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Live on cspan 3. Theres been a lot of talk lready already on the 2016 campaign trail of the gap between the richest americans and everyone else. Welln be talking about that topic here in this special roundtable on the washington journal. Were joined by scott of d mich manhattanae institute and michael ent console of the roosevelt 2013 institute. C ineq michael, first, president obama in 2013 called this issue economic inequality issue woagu defining challenge of our time. Would you agree with that . Yes, i think inequality is the doubling of top shares that are going to run away a real ce median class. Median incomes are down 8 since 2000 in particular areas. Aus e lot of unemployment. An and scott, runaway incomes, talk about the growth of guest inequality. Are we hearing so much because t this is an issue that is running be away . Ca i think we have heard a lot odged aboutan it since the financial cry crisis because we dodged another
When president bush instituted it and president obama continued it, they didnt have an open discussion about whether the country should have such a program. And actually that seems to run through a little bit of yesterdays opinion by judge lynch. Even dick cheney. This is something that i discovered in writing this book that nobody had ever seen before. When he wrote his dissent in the irancontra matter, he said if you have a hard Foreign Policy or National Security issue, a wise president first would not engage in excessive secrecy, and, second, a wise president would have a full and open democratic discussion in which he would attempt to persuade the public of the need for validity of a broad program. The concept delineating between the number of people affected or how targets are picked, versus the program itself, i think is valuable, and it gets to a question that i would like a from everybody on. There is a trust problem that now exists, for whatever series of reasons. An example
Public Utilities Commission and other members of society and thank you for listening to me today. I hope you take this acknowledge and for young transition students with d passes in the upcoming budget thank you, sir calling names . Good afternoon. Hi, good afternoon. Thank you for allowing me to be here today. Im a student teacher in a transition for children between 18 and 22 in the art. So the community we access the community through the services of mta. Which opens the doors for independents for our students. We chose the students to travel in the community throughout different places in San Francisco. Currently our students between 8 and 22 are not eligible for the free muni program that will help the protecting students with muni. Since our students are over 18 the primary benefits for them is ssi. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Good afternoon im going to be be wearing two hats im here 0 represent the one hundred and 50 students are there in the
Ssi. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Good afternoon im going to be be wearing two hats im here 0 represent the one hundred and 50 students are there in the special education ive heard from many people the goal for freeing e freeing muni to youth they can get to and from school 0, however, if the program is only for 18 many of the special Education Programs wont benefit those programs are servicing the 22yearold i want to encourage the board to offer any student for a pass so youll students can benefit in the program. Im going to switch hats and speak at the chair of the Advisory Committee im sure youre aware of the committee recently expressed their support to make sure that the p d d helps with the acquisition of new vehicles to help with the sizeable population growth and Training Staff and street inspectors and other front line operators so we can achieve our improvements in the city. Thank you for making those items happen in the future thank you. T