In the meantime, all four are in custody. Abc7 news Wayne Freedman is live at childrens hospital. A little boy is being treated. Wayne . We know he has lifethreatening injuries the family is keeping his condition private. Police trying to get to the bottom of this to find the shooter or shooters. Maybe the fact that a lot of people stayed inside today. As i turned the corner, gunfire. The little boy was fighting for his life. The little boy was laying on the grass. Kumar was an innocent bystander, when a gunman opened fire on fifth street. Was this little boy a target . We have no reason to believe that he was a target. Police do know theyre dealing with yet another crime, which ranked in dangerous American Cities and they know they have a challenge in finding culprits. You can see the signs reading no trespassing. You know its a set of opposition. Young people dont value life anymore. In vallejo, an innocent 7yearold boy can fall in the hail of bullets. A student has attended class on
Please let us know and whatever per whatever appropriate form we have and whether or not wouldnni arab countries follow soon. Could you get that pretty quickly . , we will try to provide a written assessment of that. If in fact enrichment of uranium spread throughout the , would you agree that that would be a very bad scenario for the National Security of the United States and israel if nations throughout the mid east turned to enriching uranium . Yes, particularly if it were for other than peaceful purposes. You think iranians are trying to hold a bomb before we get involved . Made theave not determination to go to that step. Aey have approached this from threshold capability. For the iranians the decision is a political one. They certainly have the expertise if they so chose. Would it take them if they made that decision . Them a that depends on a lot of factors and closed sessions. Gentlemen, we appreciate your testimony, your service. I joined a number of colleagues who have asked
Ranging from buckley very chalet hoe, to Citizens United to the recent mcchurch con case, have reheat repeatedly argued disclosure advances Public Interest and the court rejected the arguments put forward by senator mcconnell and justice thomas. The courts have put forward three main arguments in favor of disclosure. One, the Public Interest in knowing who is spending money to try to influence their votes. Two, that transparency serves an important anticorruption interest, and, three, that disclosure helps to enforce other Campaign Finance laws like the prohibition on foreigners or foreign owned corporations spending money in u. S. Elections. Heres what the sprem court said in buckley with respect to disclosure of both direct contributions to campaigns and independent expenditures. I quote Disclosure Requirements deter actual corruption and avoid the appearance of corruption by exposing large contributions and expenditures to the light of publicity. A public armed with information abou
Contributions to the naacp infringed on the right of Free Association because it exposed those individuals to physical severe threats and retribution. The court in the naacp case put for district test for groups seeking to avoid disclosure. And in the later 1976 buckley decision the court rejected a challenge to Disclosure Requirements based on the earlier naacp case. The Buckley Court found that the strict tests for avoiding disclosure in naacp did not void the Campaign Finance Disclosure Requirements that they upheld in buckley and the Buckley Court did say that a group could seek an exemption from the Disclosure Requirements if it they could demonstrate as the naacp did in the alabama case that would be subject to an actual not speculative verdon on the freedom of association. And in fact the fec has determined that the socialist Workers Party which they found based on history of violence harassment and threats to quote has met that task and exempted them from current Disclosure Req
Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. And as we continue our series on the communicators talking with some of the Telecommunications Associations headquartered here in washington, week were joined by Shirley Bloomfield who is the head of the ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Shes here to talk about some of the legislative and policy issues that her association faces. Ms. Medical bloomfield, what ise ntca, first of all . Guest a National Trade association, and we represent 90 small local providers that are in pretty much every state in this country who provide what used to be, you know, just basic telephone service. Theyre now broadband providers. Theyve also become kind of the onestop shop Tech Service Providers for tear communities. They do video, wireless, data centers, they do whatever Technology Needs their communities actually require. So they actually represent their interests here in washington d.