Good morning, everyone. Im elise nelson im president and ceo here. If i can just say here on behalf of everyone at vital voices how absolutely proud we are to join with pro mund doe and new america to host this discussion. Men in the me too Movement Moving from silence to solidarity and how do we do that . I think all of us in this room would agree that we are in the middle of something pretty darn historic. But just how historic, i think remains to be seen. This could be the beginning of the end of a culture of silence, of fear, of complacency. This could be the beginning of the end of violence against women, one of the most destructive and universal challenges we face. I think its too early to see where this momentum right now with the me too movement is going to lead, but the one thing we do know is that were going to make sure more womens voices are heard and more womens rights are protected, absolutely. You know, when vital voices was started 21 years ago, we didnt have the allies
Whether they believed it was the word of god. This talk was part of a symposium hosted by the museum of the bible in washington, d. C. It is 45 minutes. Our Third Session today is the bible and the American Revolution with james byrd. In this presentation based on his latest book, he shows that the bible was a key text of the American Revolution when war came to the colonies, preachers and patriots turned to the bible for solace and exhortations to fight. Such scripture helped soldiers. Conferred on those who died for the revolution and he gave americans a sense of the Divine Providence of their calls. In this session, dr. Byrd will examine specific biblical text and how they were used especially in making the patriotic calls for war. James byrd is chair of ft graduate department of religion and associate professor for religion at vanderbilt university. The latest book is sacred scripture, sacred war. Join me in welcoming dr. Byrd. [ applause ] well, thank you. Im pleased to be here. A
Morning. It is the kind of flashback wall street does not want to see. A lower finish by the s p today would mark its first ninesession losing streak since december of 1980. Were coming off eight straight negative days for the First Time Since 2008. And then that jobs number of course showing lower than expected payrolls. But, jim, the wages suggest that unless more people come back into this labor force, its getting tight. Less slack. Thats certainly a way to look at it. I think that the fed has plenty of ammo here. They can say, listen, weve got job growth. Weve got people make a little extra money. I know theres another whole scheme of thought which is hold on let it run. But in an environment where they think these are emergency rates, these are not emergency job numbers. These are job numbers that you get when things are fine. Now, i know that theres an undercurrent in the election which says that one party is saying, listen, not only things not fine but millions of people are los
There. And, by the way, when i was there, there was a man there, former secretary of defense, National Security adviser, brzezinski, and his daughters on morning joe shes a very nice lady, and her father was in this meeting, and he looked over at rumsfeld and he said, would you tell the president to stop saying dead or alive, that we want bin laden dead or alive. Dead or alive is incendiary and kissinger was across the table and looked at rumsfeld and said, i agree, we dont want bin laden alive, okay . But anyway, so heres the situation. With iraq, the first war in iraq was an amazing situation because the muslim arabs supported the west and we went as a unified group to push saddam out of kuwait, okay . I actually went there after the war and even saw the oil fields that were still on fire. The egyptian ambassador to the United States went to the rose garden and announced the support of aour arab friends who would work with us. Talk about the second iraq war. The second iraq war was p
Coming out to protest donald trump, saying hes not their president. Thousands expected at these rallies from los angeles to new york. You can see them there on your screen. As for donald trump, though, hes still down in florida hitting the links and squeezing in some time to search for a National Security adviser after he fired general Michael Flynn last week. He meet with four contenders over the weekend and today the president is holding followup meetings at his maralago resort, the place he calls his winter white house but its actually a private club with a membership fee of 200,000. Mike pence is in brussels where he held a joint press conference with the nato secretarygeneral. Pence was asked about and hes commenting for the first time on general flynns resignation. Did you feel like you were misled by members of the Trump Administration or were you frustrated that you were left out of the loop on this situation . And what assurances have you received from President Trump that Som