This friday edition of the washington journal. Were back tomorrow morning at 7 00. Check out our Schedule Information on our website at c span. Org. Have a terrific weekend. President obama yesterday ordered flags at half staff and honor of Nelson Mandela. He was in prison nearly three decades. He willly became be buried in his ancestral village on december 15. Following yesterdays news, president obama delivered a. Tatement at the white house at his trial in 1964, Nelson Mandela closed saying i have fought against white domination and i have fought against white ive cherish the ideal in which people can live in harmony. It is an ideal i hope to live within to achieve. It is an ideal for which i am prepared to drdie. Nelson mandela lived for that it real. He made today he has gone home, and we have lost one of the most influential, courageous, and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this earth. He no longer belongs to us. He belongs to the ages. Through
Group. She got an early look at the joys of helping children learn to turn mother was a teacher. She earned degrees from Cornell University and a law degree from Cardozo School of law. She worked at a wall street law form law firm for several years. She taught in brooklyn while serving as counsel for the president of the United Federation of teachers. She served as president for 12 years before her election as a ft president in 2008. That ends the biographical portion of the program. As always, we are on the record here. Please no live blogging retweeting or other means of filing well this is underway. There is no embargo on the breakfast. Our friends at cspan have agreed not to air video of the session until one hour after the broadcast is over to give reporters time to file. Give me a nonthreatening signal and i will call on one and all. Low on the subtleties scale, but nonthreatening anyway. He nonthreatening is what im concerned about. We will offer our guests the opportunity to ma
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