Organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. The committee will come to order. I am pleased to have this opportunity today to hear directly from organizations that work with, represent or support millions of veterans every day. This committee has gatheredli today to hear from these organizations their firsthand perspective and reasons they support our comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, the commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This is a legislation that is been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those Veterans Service organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts that in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its p
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Those are incredible patriots. And launching a fresh attack against congresswoman ilhan omar. Spiderman moves. A man scales an Apartment Building on fire in a daring f odelse was in that situation they would do the same thing. Why he risked his life to scale that building. And one giant leap, the historic walk on the moon happening exactly 50 years ago today as those involved in the mission reflect on this major landmark in Space Exploration. Good morning, everybody, lets show that historic video again. 50 years later the images of Neil Armstrong descending that ladder down to the lunar surface. These images still have the power to amaze. Heres an amazing number, 600 Million People around the planet watched this moment live. Coming up, were going to talk to two people who played a key role in our mission to the moon. Thats such a cool moment in history and i should warn you guys, i have a little bit of a summer cold im fi i feel fine. Youre hanging in there though. Yeah. So just bear w
Aircraft carrier vincent which is in striking range of north korea. Alex ortiz for cbs news, the united nations. And tillerson says the United States has given 1. 3 billion in aid to north korea and he says the u. S. Is willing to resume that aid once kim jongun begins to dismantle that nuclear program. On the eve of his 100th day in office, President Trump touched base with some of his most loyal supporters. He went to atlanta to speak at the annual convention of the National Rifle association. He declared an end to what he called an eightyear assault on the Second Amendment under president obama. You have a true friend and champion in the white house, no longer will federal agencies be coming after law abiding gun owners. As your president , i will never, ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. A sitting president has spoken at an annual nra meeting since Ronald Reagan did it back 1983. Before he left for atlanta, the president signed another executive order,