Hi, everyone. Good evening and welcome to the Cleveland Park library. This may sound okay. Welcome to the Cleveland Park library and welcome to our bookstore. Bookstore, excuse me, featuring tom baker. Im so happy to be here, all of you. My name is diana spyro, and i am the president of the Fordham University Alumni Chapter of washington, dc. Tom, of course, is one of our most prominent alumni here in the dc area, and were so happy to hear him about his new memoir. Id like to share a bit of toms background first before he begins and offers some opening remarks. Thomas j. Baker is an International Law enforcement consultant. He served over 33 years as a fbi special agent and a variety of Leadership Missions dealing with terrorist and criminal challenges. He has experience with Police Management and training issues, having served as a management instructor at the fbi academy in quantico, virginia. He has been published in professional journals both nationally and, internationally, on asp
major hurdles remain as negotiators resume debt ceiling talks on capitol hill with speaker mccarthy and his top lieutenants refusing to budge on their key budget demands. the president i don t understand why they thought this would never come. these are areas i will not raise taxes. we will bring in more money. i will not pass a clean debt ceiling. won t put that on the floor. we have to spend less than last year. the u.s. surgeon general will join me on his new warning about a youth mental health crisis fuelled by social media. this afternoon, president trump will appear in court virtually connected to a court order that he not discuss evidence in the hush money trial, while there s no reporting from the new york times today that the special counsel investigating trump s handling of classified documents has subpoenaed records of his business dealings with foreign countries while he was president. e. jean carroll is asking for more in damages for what the former pre
Know, the betty murphy award is given every year to an unsung hero, Community Service leader, an Organization Builder who inspires others efforts. Betty was an amazing woman. As many can tell, who knew her, she was chair of the nlrb and administer of the wage hour of the department at the department of labor and our very first cochair. We have many past betty murray award winners. The founder of our pittsburgh chapter and was later nominated for attorney general in pennsylvania. We have linda kerns who led our philadelphia chapter in 2016. Did a great job getting president trumps shocking victory in 2016. Later we have mike davis who used to lead our colorado chapter. And mike left colorado to come here to help confirm his friend, kneel gorsuch neil gorsuch. So thats going to be a great panel at the end of the day for all of you who want to watch that. Lastly, we got brenda hankins. She founded her womens initiative. She was also one of the leaders of getting a universal reporting syst
the republicans in the house are going to go on record and make a decision if they re going to stand for truth and accountable or if they re going to stand with someone who is an admitted liar. republicans unable to clean up their own george santos mess, so it was left to a democrat to produce a resolution to expel him. i m ask hakeem jeffries about that and his meeting today with the white house on the looming debt ceiling crisis. also tonight, the serious new allegations against rudy giuliani. beyond the really pervy alleged sexual harassment, there s the accusation he and trump were trying to sell pardons and planned to split the cash. plus, keeping it right wing goes wrong. the culture war ron desantis is fighting is not only morally repugnant, it s economically disastrous. case in point, his most recent anti-immigration bi and we be to the brink of financial catastrophe. we are now just 15 days from the united states potentially running out of cash to pay its bi
have a written statement in due course . attorneys for trump compared the documents to an overdue library book, marveling at how the records dispute that has suddenly been transformed into a criminal investigation. trump and his team tried all kinds of defenses, frump falsely saying the top secret documents were his, to then saying that he declassified them. in court today, the doj lawyers were blunt, saying he is no long for president, and because he s no longer the president, he had no right to those documents and that ends the analysis. but we might be seeing a lot more from the search. the judge saying she will unseal the detailed inventory list that was prepared by the doj. and prior to the hearing, trump out on right-wing media attacking the doj once again. they took documents and they put them all over the floor. then they deceptively put out that picture. a lot of people think when you walk into my office i have confidential documents or whatever it may be, classif