It helped recognize at least the courage and strength of survivors. In this room echoing perhaps unseen and invisible our voices and faces of people who could not be here. And their losses are very much with us now. You give them the advocacy that they deserve and need. And i think everyone of you for being here. Thank you. Thank you, senator blumenthal. Chairman grassley. Thanks is without a long time for opening remarks i will put my statement in the record but i should thank all the witnesses for participating, and one seconds from my speech will kind of some of where i was going to end up with. The bottom line, we need to fulfill our commitment to make sure that the artwork is returned to its rightful owners. In addition, when the authors of this legislation feel it is ready to be put on the agenda i will put on the agenda. Thank you, mr. Chairman. We very much appreciate that and appreciate your leadership. At this point i want to welcome and introduce each of our five witnesses t
Question of knowledge of what happened. Today we are seeing something remarkable. I wish this legislation would have happened 10 or 20 years ago, but the fact is its happened, its going to have a major effect on the future. And many, many works of art that i use the expression the last prisoners of world war ii will finally find the Rightful Owners. I thank the senate and congress for what they are doing. Thank you, ambassador. Let me ask you do you believe the United States has lived up to our commitment as set forth in the declaration to make certain that claims to nazilooted art are resolved expeditiously and based on the facts and merits of the claim . The answer is yes and no. Yes, we have in many cases, no we havent in certain cases. There have been organizations and art thats been returned correctly, and theres been other art thats been, lets say, found a way to make either the statute of limitations or other factors stopping it. Very often its very difficult for a museum when t
We will hear more about the legislative agenda for democrats with Javier Becerra chair of the House Democratic caucus. He talks about the 2016 race and the latest speculation for a potential running mate for presumptive nominee hillary clinton. That is a decision left totally to the person who had earned our nomination. Select clinton has earned the right to make that selection. I have total faith that she is going to make a really good selection. I have confidence that her decidings are going to be great for america and one of the most important ones that she will make will come early with her selection. What should be the role for senator sanders Going Forward in the party . Big, influential, active. I hope he is as animated moving into november as he has been throughout this primary process. Folks. Woken many he has made young people believe. He has given democrats the opportunity to bring into our party so many different faces. I thank him for all he has done, but i dont want to sa
Im ali velshi, this this is real money. One day after a grand jury decided against inindicting officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, ferg on is picking up the pieces. Fires in at least 10 businesses in ferguson, destroying or damaging them in the process. They broke into businesses, and hardesthit, the police chief declared that theres nothing left on an one mile stretch of it between chambers road and colway avenue. Businesses like st. Louis fish, chicken and grill, red barbecue and little seizures pizzeria were burned and looted. And looters made off with stolen property at the local public stormy. Its the first time that violence has up erupted since talking, and they are connected resources to help them out. But make no fantastic, this is the latest blow from fergusons economy that will be hard to recover from. Sense august, an 80 drop in sales, and tax revenue has dropped 6 in the three months ago from august to october. And while the latest violence has hi
From our studios in new york, this is charlie rose. Charlie israelis went to the polls yesterday and elected a new parliament, the rightwing likud party. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was pitted against a surprisingly strong candidate from the centerleft Zionist Union, isaac herzog. Exit polls showed herzog and netanyahu in a dead heat. Completed returns showed decisive victory for netanyahu. Earlier today, he pledged to work to form a new government, declaring that, our countrys everyday reality does not give us the luxury for delay. Joining me now from berlin, via phone, jeffrey goldberg. He is a National Correspondent for the atlantic magazine. From jerusalem, ari shavit, a columnist and author of my promised land. Yossi halevi is a fellow and author of like dreamers. From tel aviv, ronen bergman, a senior military correspondent. In washington, yousef manayyer a palestinian american author and executive director of the u. S. Campaign to end the israeli occupation. Here with me i