Spoke at this 90 minute event and resented senator kaine with the award. Presented senator mccain with the award. Good evening everyone and welcome to the Liberty Medal ceremony, honoring a Great American hero, u. S. Senator john mccain. Will begin atmony 7 00. In the meantime, i would like to take this opportunity to offer some thanks and shared a few special moments. Onlyspires citizen as the place where people from around the world can come together to learn, debate, and celebrate the greatest vision of human freedom in the history of the u. S. Constitution. You that we can engage in this meaningful work. On behalf of jeff rosen and the team at the Constitution Center, fornt to thank all of you everything that you do to bring the United States constitution to life. There are friends of the Constitution Center whos dedicated support helped make a night like tonight possible. I would like to invite them to join us on stage. Please help me welcome cynthia mcleod, superintendent. [appla
About the National Security apparatus, do they have what they need post9 11 from the federal government . Or are there still things outstanding that they would like to be done . He mentioned that he felt spread were thinly because the threat has morphed into different countries. There talking about how is a priority on whats going on with prices in the philippines, africa, he even mentioned north africa. I got the impression that he feels like the resources were spread thin. Washe big event this week about ambush in niger, are there more questions to be asked . Do we know enough about whats happening as an American Public . We dont know that much about ambush. Pened in the the u. S. Military is doing an after action report right now. There are early signs that the group that ambushed the special forces unit had connections to Islamic State. Its known that Islamic State and al qaeda are trying to play off of travel robberies in that region to bolster their presence there. We have a lot
Watch the new night at 9 00 eastern and pacific here on cspan. Cspan. Orgo go to and find video past Prime Ministers questions and other British Public affairs programs. Monday on the communicators, russias involvement in the 20 16th election with reporter julia. Facebook has said they learn that a bunch of ads placed during the election were placed by russian outfits under anonymous accounts. They were politically divisive ads, not necessarily aimed at one candidate or another, but aimed at selling divisiveness. Watch the communicators monday not at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson and the qatari minister spoke in doha. He responded to questions about Iraqi Security and the ongoing blockade of qatar imposed by saudi arabia and other middle east states. Michelle from npr. Question. A first of all, how much i you worried about the iranians helping iraq retake parts of turkey took . What is next for the kurds . Tell me about what you tried to do to head off the
As the National Constitution Center Awards the 2017 Liberty Medal to senator john mccain. [applause] throughout his career, senator mccain has put his the devotion to the u. S. Constitution above faction or party. He is the kind of independent citizen statesman James Madison envisioned when he stressed that the u. S. Constitution created not a direct democracy, but a representative republic. Madison and the framers of the constitution believed that direct democracies have led in greece and rome to rule by demagogues and the mob. By contrast, in a representative republic, citizens would delegate power to enlighten representatives. A chosen body of citizens whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations. Its especially meaningful that senator mccain will be awarded the Liberty Medal accompanied by the chair of the National Constitution Center Vice Preside
No one was hurt. Parents at the school where that possible sighting happened expressed their shock. Panic. Sheer panic. But you want to make sure youre calm of keep it calm for the children. Thats the most important thing. Mostly talking to my son back and forth. Hes texting me. Hes pretty freaked out. Hes a freshman here. This is our first year here. The important thing to underscore that the individual or individuals that we need to speak to really behooves them to come down and have a talk with us before this gets out of hand. Reporter Philadelphia Police commissioner ross indicating how important it is for his investigators to speak to the person of interest here as they piece together this very emotional and difficult case again here at Philadelphia Police headquarters looking out for any possible sign of that person of interest coming in to speak with investigators. Back to you. All right, dave, thank you. So who is going around defacindefacing plaques honoring Philadelphia Polic