Serious readers. Good afternoon, everyone. Im Karlyn Bowman and its a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you and our cspan audience to the saponins event to celebrate the publication of henry olsons new book the working class republican Ronald Reagan the return of buecollar conservatism. Henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center, a former aei colleague and a member in Good Standing of apis election launch team. Henry arrived at aei in 2006 and we soon bonded over politics and especially what was then a somewhat obscure demographic with the pollsters called some college come people with the technical vocational or committee College Education pick this group was a large, but onethird of voters and had a nearperfect track record of voting for the winter in president ial elections. This loosely defined group, roughly synonymous with the workingclass, wasnt it is especially important in our politics. In the book and ray shows how reagans preferences match those of
Moving quickly and now he is turning his focus to immigration. Sources tell abc news hell visit the department of Homeland Security today as he prepares his First Executive actions on immigration. Heres Lisa Amin Gulezian. Reporter sources tell abc news President Trumps crackdown on immigration may begin with the signing of executive orders aimed at boosting National Security by temporarily banning refugees and suspending visas issued to anyone from syria, iraq, iran, libya, somalia, sudan, and yemen. And america stands for justice, freedom, and liberty. Reporter billy moved to the u. S. From libya. He recently sponsored his hoer in laws visa but now hes worried. I did not anticipate that hes actually going to harm the immigrant community from these countries. Reporter all of the countries President Trump plans to name have muslim majorities. Because he targets a few countries today, nothing stops him from targeting other countries tomorrow. Reporter mr. Trump plans to announce a const
With mostly sunny conditions and jacket weather during the evening hours. We still have lingering closures from all the rain and that includes highway 37. So they are pumping water off of the state route 37, 24 hours a day. But they are just really not many areas to put it so we still have that full closure between atherton and 101. We will have chp on the scene once again helping to traffic on atherton, i know that has been getting really congested. Hang in there. Well take a look at drive times coming up. Selfdriving ubers are back on the streets in San Francisco. Uber pulled Autonomous Cars last month after getting in a fight with the city and state over permits so how are able to allow selfdriving ben g again . Amy hollyfield live for us. Explain, amy. Reporter hi, reggie. This is the warehouse at 4th and harrison where they store the selfdriving cars. These fusions will be rolling out on the streets today with a twist. They will be manually driven. The selfdriving option will not
Last 27 years. We stand united that a safer city is a city that doesnt allow its residents to live in fear. I think families are both afraid and ready to push back. Reporter but todays action by the white house did not have any specifics. Still, because San Francisco is both a city and county, it stands to lose a large sum of money. The 1 billion in federal funds San Francisco receives a year makes up more than 10 of its 9. 6 billion budget. Schools, public health, law enforcement, transportation are among some of the many programs that receive federal funds. Lets say homeless funds are for veterans, as well. Do they want to hurt veterans . Do they want to hurt families. Reporter its hard to say how the city will make up for a possible short fall, or who will pay for it. Jason clark is with the San Francisco republican party. There arent enough rich people in San Francisco to make up for a billiondollar short fall. Its going to rely heavily on the middle and working classes to make up
President trumps policies. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. The president signed an order to end sanctuary cities that in his words harbor illegal immigrants. The president promised to cut federal funding to cities that dont compile. Its one of several actions that will have a direct impact on people here in california. We have Team Coverage on the effects. Lets begin with leeayanne melez with a look at the financial impact, lyanne. Reporter San Francisco is not the only city dealing with a possibility of losing federal funds. How about 300 other cities across the nation . All of them asking tonight can we afford to be a sanctuary city . [speaking foreign language]. Reporter today dozens of immigration advocates took to city hall chanting an organized community will never be deported. It was in response to President Trumps executive order threatening to with hold federal funds from socalled sanctuary cities. Mayor ed lee says San Francisco stands fir