Everyone quiet but you all got quite all by yourself with no direction. My name is jason botel with the department of education. I want to welcome you and thank you very much for coming to the k12 education summit. We appreciate you all being here and looking forward to a great conversation. In just a moment secretary devos oh, but before she does just what wanted to say couple housekeeping things. We have bottled water and coffee in the back seat can feel free to partake. And there are restrooms at the ends of the holes. If you do leave the building you can come back in but you have to go through security again, so just wanted to warn you about that. Those of you who will be participating in the conversation, you have microphones in front of you, you do need to turn the von when youre about to talk. Theres a button that says talk. The red light will come on which will tell you microphone is active. When youre not speaking please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you would prob
There is water and coffee in the back so feel free to partake. The restrooms at the end of the hall. If you leave the building you can come back in but you will have to go through security. Those of you who will be participating in the conversation, you have microphones in front of you. You do need to turn them on when you are about to talk. I think theres a button that says talk. Turn it on, the red light will come on which will tell you the microphone is active. Were not speaking, please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you probably prefer we dont hear any private conversations as well. Those were speaking, we appreciate you being here. We ask that you keep your arm remarks to about ten minutes but i will be sitting with the secretary and try not to be obnoxious but i may waive or give you an indication if youre getting close to the ten minutes and asked that you wrap up quickly when that happens. We are looking forward to a great conversation talking about innovation in k12
I apologize, did not see you there. Go ahead. Is, we do suggestion everything. Congressmen, running for offices, only can run for one month. One month. That way we can get rid of all of this month. All of this money. All of this money. Senators, everybody, should be able to run for just one month out of the whole year. We get everything we need to know about them in one month. Then we need to do one other thing. All donated money should come from us. We should have it so that one a year, once everyone in the United States donate one dollar or two dollars. And that is it. That is all they get. Host last caller. I appreciate the call today. Will take our viewers to the Senate Health committee where education secretary john king is set to testify about the everyentation of the Student Succeeds act, which has been signed into law as a replacement to no child left behind. That is up now it we will see you back here tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. [captioning performed by the national captio
Welcome to the lead im jake tapper. It is the messy result of President Trump governing by gut, picking someone he likes, with insufficient experience and nonexistent vetting to head the second largest burock rasry and opening the door for Ronny Jackson to step aside asserting he doesnt need the job or the aggravation that trump himself would not go through with it were it him. This comes after the news this morning that his confirmation hearing has been put on hold indefinitely by the u. S. Senators, led by Johnny Isaacson of georgia, chair of the vetera Veterans Affairs committee expressing concerns about allegations unproven allegations that one senator called devastating if true. After two whistleblowers detailed alleged behavior involving what they called a toxic Work Environment on capitol hill and jackson saying he was eager to answer any questions about this. We start off with more from the white house. I dont want to put a man through a process like this. It is too ugly and di
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