Across from the most famous house in maybe the world. I had to put my glasses on. I went clerk cant hear. It is so great to be here with you, kathy lee, with everybody around the country. The holidays are about family traditions. To like as we get ready this tree and listen to music, we are not only mindful of our own families, but our men and women serving in uniform around the world. Your service and your sacrifice are in inspiration. Millions of americans will be celebrating with their own holiday traditions, but tonight we are glad you have joined us here. Speaking of music, lets start it. Lets hear it for the United States navy band. Way to go. Now it is my great honor to welcome the first family of the United States. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and mrs. Trunk. Mr. President and mrs. Trunk, Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Trump thank you very much. We want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas, a happy new year, unbelievable holidays, and we are now
Live, where you live, this is abc 7 news. Oh, they are ringing in the new year from new york to europe, asia, africa and everywhere in between. Here in the bay area, we are now less than an hour away from 2018. Good evening. Thanks for joining us, friends, on the last day of 2017. Im dion lim, eric has the night off. People are expected to pack the embarcadero for the Fireworks Show. Lillian kim joins us live. Sounds like quite a crowd behind you. Reporter dion, theres already a sizable crowd here along the embarcadero which will only grow larger as we grow closer to midnight. To go along with the big crowds is a larger than usual police presence. Thousands have come from all over the bay area and beyond to ring in the new year. I have big expectations. I heard about the fireworks, and i think its going to be great. Reporter the fireworks will be launched from a barge at pier 14. Every available officer in uniform and undercover is working, even more so than in years past. With the foi
Roots crew. Questlove 821 steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy isnt that fantastic . [ cheers and applause ] thats exactly what you want. That is a hot, hot new york city crowd. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the tonight show. This is it, baby [ cheers and applause ] guys, we are back. The Winter Olympics are over. Our show is back on. Woo [ cheers and applause ] feels good last night was the closing ceremony for the Winter Olympics, and they had some crazy stuff. I dont know if you saw it. They had a big conga line, they had a giant snow globe. They had glow in the dark pandas on roller skates. [ light laughter ] when asked what inspired the pandas they said, uh, shrooms. [ laughter and applause ] with the olympics over, 90 countries have departed south korea. Yep, 90 groups waving goodbye, or as the nra calls those, sponsors. [ laughter and applause ] the big winner this year was norway. They won a record 39 medals. Wow. [ cheers ] or one for each per
And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 821 steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy isnt that fantastic . [ cheers and applause ] thats exactly what you want. That is a hot, hot new york city crowd. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the tonight show. This is it, baby [ cheers and applause ] guys, we are back. The Winter Olympics are over. Our show is back on. Woo [ cheers and applause ] feels good last night was the closing ceremony for the Winter Olympics, and they had some crazy stuff. I dont know if you saw it. They had a big conga line, they had a giant snow globe. They had glow in the dark pandas on roller skates. [ light laughter ] when asked what inspired the pandas they said, uh, shrooms. [ laughter and applause ] with the olympics over, 90 countries have departed south korea. Yep, 90 groups waving goodbye, or as the nra calls those, sponsors. [ laughter and applause ] the big winner this year was norway. They won a record 39 medals. Wow. [
[inaudible conversations] let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow here in governance stud ies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past and the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one entitled broken, can the senate save itself and the country. Those of you who read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an an answers institution and will not know howdy how distress as decline this topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of yet another shortterm continuing budget re solution and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept and if it is will todays senate be up to the job of an open deliberation on the most burning domestic question which is more than come itself