[silence} [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [applause] [silence] [silence] all praise is due to the lord of all the worlds. Please be seated, ladies and gentlemen. In accordance with muslim tradition and consistent with the wishes of muhammad ali may god have mercy on him. We begin this program with a brief recitation from the koran, the scripture of the muslim, a young emom from a midtown mosque in memphis tennessee for spear heading a neighborhood renewal effort in one of the most blighted areas in memphis. It is centered around a mosque and one of the few graduates of the university will share a few verses from the koran. [applause] laj, Hamsa Abdullah malik. Ladies and gentlemen. [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [singing in native tongue] [singing in native tongue] [singing in native tongue] [singing in native tongue] [singing in native tongue] [singing in native tongue] now with the translations of thos
Audience thank you. Harper with National Defense magazine. Mr. Secretary, can you give us a review of the kind of people youll be adding to the Defense Innovation board in the future, people who might surprise us. You tasking them with tackling any particular urgent challenges, or is it more of just a general, how are you doing business, and the kind of looking at . Youre sec. Carter well, i would have told you if i was going to tell today. But you get i mean, i think right, i see tune, reid hoffman, who son, these are people know something about innovation and have actually done it. So are there going to be surprises . There are surprises for you. Im certainly looking for surprises for me. Thats the whole reason to have is i want to learn from them things that we havent thought of that would be good us. Now, im not expecting them, just to show you, im not to know about defense. I know about defense. Defense. E know about thats not my problem. I would like to know whats going on in the
Gayrights groups that came ,fter me with grievances filed an appeal in all the stuff. It made International News which is how i found out about a gohmert relative in europe. They read about me and a european newspaper. Say, judges across texas wow, that was smart. I love what you did. They said they dont want the grief i have been getting. I believe that was in 1994. Now most states have made it a crime if you knowingly have aids and you knowingly expose other people to that intentionally, thats a crime. Somebody had to stand up at the beginning and be called crazy and be called a homophobe and all these other things when all i was really doing was caring about the people that could be harmed if i did not speak up. [applause] folks, weve got to do the same thing and thats why you are here and as what weve got hope because we know the creator and we know the source of our strength. My time is up by your time is not. Lets stand together and make our voices heard. Thank you and god bless
Viewersquestion for our , what is your view on the Death Penalty . Pecial lines if you support the Death Penalty, call 2027488000. If you oppose it, call 2027488001. You can also reach us on social media, on twitter and facebook. Good morning. Before we get to your calls, your views on the Death Penalty, we begin today by speaking to lance rogers from bloomberg, the legal editor. We will talk more about the Supreme Court cases. Good morning, lance. Thank you for joining us today. Tell us a little bit about these two cases the u. S. Supreme court agreed to hear. Caller a pairenalty guest of Death Penalty cases per one has to do with the question of how we determine if someone is o mentally disabled to execute and the other is whether Racial Discrimination changes capital sentencing. Lawyers for duane booker saying the sentencing was tainted because blacks and hispanics are overrepresented in the criminal Justice System and he considered race when co calculating someones future dangerous
On the Health Committee are from even have laws that are discriminatory on the books. I was doing just a quick search, you see male pronouns en were talking about assailants and females when you see survivors. It needs to be eradicated and the senate is the place to start. You have to start from the top and i appreciate the work youve done on this topic. And its one we have to keep talking about and have to keep legislating. Thank you. I would reiterate that point about language. Something as simple, its called the violence against women act or often violence against women and paints a very clear picture of who violence happens to and who perpetuates violence and really leaves those people out. Something to be mindful of as well is we are requiring colleges to consider doing climate surveys and you can probably speak better to this than i but those are to be made sure to have language thats inclusive that measures incidents across groups and doesnt presume opposite sex partners or oppo