Silver been convicted. Its a scenario that Good Government groups have long criticized. Lawmakers yielding a lot of power over how your tax dollars are spent. Allowed to earn outside income without enough public scrutiny. Among the other outcomes of this verdict, perhaps, a brighter spotlight will shine on albany. All eyes will also turn now to the ongoing corruption trial of silvers republican counterpart, former Senate Majority leader dean skelos. Questions will likely resume on whether a now emboldened u. S. Attorney will also try to push forward with any kind of case, possibly obstruction of justice against governor andrew cuomo. Of course, you remember the case against Sheldon Silver began with an Anticorruption Mission which formed and then mysteriously disbanded prematurely. Natalie. Thank you for that angle there. Want to take you back here to the live pictures, again, right outside the federal courthouse there in lower manhattan. Were waiting for Sheldon Silver to exit the cou
Altar servers. At the same time, teachers are being asked to sign a morality clause that pledges adherence to the churchs teachings on gay marriage and abortion. Thats what tonights protest at 5 30 will be about. We will here to cover it. Coming up at 6 00 we will hear from the father about why he thinks publicity over all of this has been good for the church and why he says homosexual acts are intrinsically evil. Reporting from San Francisco, Mark Matthews nbc bay area news. Thank you, mark. We are following a developing story right now, this photo may be the key to solving a south bay homicide. Police are trying to identify these two women who may be connected to the crime. The body of robert higher was found inside his gilroy home sunday morning. Investigators think he was killed by blunt force trauma. Now, take a look at the Surveillance Video again from inside an East San Jose convenience store. Police say these two women are using highsers a credit card. Police dont know what the
Look at u. S. saudi arabia it relations. Then a review talks about the federal budget and government shut down. He says what he thinks the matter what it is. I think you have to be political in a certain way. If you have to be honest and say the same thing. You have to cater to people sometimes i think and know what they want and need to be able to influence and to vote for them. It is not being does on it. Know your going to help them with the. Season to, next week Lady Bird Johnson to roselyn cotter rosalyn carter. Next, a discussion on faith and the white house with current and former directors of the white house faithbased offices. Use met in dallas at as him southernmessages methodist university. Thank you for that kind introduction. Ladies and gentlemen, we at smu and the center for president ial history is honored to have you here with us this evening. I hope i can speak for all of us when i say it is an honor to have our five guests and panelists with us today. These five peopl
Having served from her perch at brookings as a key confidant and friend to both the first bush and the first obama f so calledaith czars and she has begun to develop exciting new faithbased partnerships and initiatives. God bless each of them and god bless resident george w. Bush and god bless president opera obama. Barack obama. I have been teaching at Ivy League Universities for more than 30 years. Having the key value of an Ivy League Professor which means i can speak for five minutes or two hours on any subject with no essential change in content. [laughter] before you hear from my betters on this religion, policy, and civic life. In the half dozen or so years that are seeded the establishment of the office, small but intellectually and ideologically and religiously diverse cadre of policy wonks and opinion leaders came together. What happened was that we trumpeted a fact, a fact that was hiding pretty much in plain view. Namely, the fact that americas urban churches come the synag
In his 2004 Democratic Convention speech, a speech that got me involved in politics. He said that we worship an awesome god in the blue states. Then there was his address to reverend jim walliss call to a renewal conference in 2006, a speech that i was honored to work with him in the Senate Office and he developed a template for how this president would engage issues. In that speech, then senator obama declared that, our failure as progressives to tap into the moral underpinnings of this nation is not just rhetorical. Our fear of getting preachy may also lead us to discount the role that values and culture play in some of our most urgent social problems. He went on to say individual churches are sponsoring day care programs, building senior centers, helping ex offenders reclaim their lives and rebuilding the gulf coast in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. And he concluded, the question is, how do we build on these partnerships between religious and secular people of goodwill . It wil