More than two decades as a federal prosecutor and after significant experiences, he served as an assistant District Attorney in both greensboro and their own. His experience will be invaluable to the task force consideration of federal penalties. The First Assistant United States attorney in the eastern district. When i joined the office in 2002, he was already leading the task force to these taskand lead forces. Throughout his tenure, he has demonstrated clearly that cooperative and sustained pressure on Drug Trafficking organizations could reduce the flow of drugs, remove the worst offenders, and drive down the crime rate to make our communities safer. Large numbers of serious drug traffickers and gained the cooperation of defendants whose information was critical to our ability to disrupt and dismantle these organizations. Received two directors awards from the department of justice for outstanding prosecutions and one from janet reno and one from eric holder in novembering 2013. I
Them it was simple. My mom went here. My mom went to usc. She started here in 1957. Mom knows best. Congratulations to the parents of the class of. 14. Congratulations to my mother. I loved it here. I was loved being here. I was loved being here on this beautiful campus and i loved the incredible student body and going out to the athletic games. I loved the fraternity lifestyle. I love my Marshall School of business and my entrepreneur program. I loved all the great musical programs and dance programs and all the great things we have it usc that make us a special and unique. I will tell you i love the student body here. I love the diversity of it. I love the meritocracy of it. I love the spirituality of it. Moree that it usc we have catholics than that notre dame. Which i think is a college in the midwest. Is that right . Jews here then brandeis. More hindus here and theres a lot of people like me who are grateful to god for this glorious day. I will tell you i was sitting out here not
Cacophony in washington and the point scoring. Our allies, recently, the impasse and governments and the difficulty we have passing a budget. It does cause some concern. President obama himself is pretty popular in asia. He is considered a president who gets the region. There are, however, concerns frankly, his toughness. What was devastating was the serious crisis. When the white house put down a redline. The philippines looking at a theing chinese navy, american president drawing a redline and walking away from it is a very unnerving thing. It is something president obama is going to have to compensate for. His popularity will help him, but likely, some of the dysfunction raises questions abroad about our competence. Republicansing the and democrats have to work on. On his way heading to asia shortly, a number of republican lawmakers already there. The special delegation is visiting the Prime Minister there. A quote from paul ryan in the wall street journal, he writes, howant to unde
Initiative is so important. It only covers one small slice of abuse, it covers ofeally important part abuse, one that needs to an dressed and we do need to bring to bear. Urce on the hope solo situation and the Michael Phelps situation, you know, both of those cases ie pending and it would be think inappropriate for us to comment on what may have happened or what should happen we have a version of the facts that either has been party ord by a third that all of the parties have acknowledged. Expect future repper kegses the the phelps . Clauses haveal been part of those contracts for a long type. We have a code of conduct that we ask each much our athlete to sign and they do sign. The truth is that if you look at of london, they were almost without exception, incident, buty almost would you exception the american athletes comported way that made us all proud to be americans. So one of the things were trying to do is focus the athletes attention on it in opposed to after the fact. So we a
Tonight, the new video showing the moment that 950ton bridge collapses. At least six dead, a number that could rise as they search the rubble. And we learned one of the victims was an 18yearold fiu student. And the question tonight, could this disaster have been avoided . The mountain drama inside the west wing. Several in the president s inner circle reportedly in the crosshairs. With the National Security adviser told our reporter today at the white house. Two powerful storms hitting right now. One of them tracking east. Will it grow into a fourth noreaster and a spring slam in sam champion standing by with the track. Also tonight, the family kicked off a passenger plane. A little girl scared to fly, and the confrontation with the Flight Attendants. Plus, the ski lift disaster. The lift out of control, going in reverse. Riders sent airborne, slammed to the ground. And good evening. Im tom llamas in for david, and we begin at the scene of that deadly bridge collapse in miami. The agon