David skorton, the secretary of the smithsonian institution. [applause] ms. Amy sherald, portrait artist. [cheers and applause] mr. Kehinde wiley, portrait artist. [cheers and applause] mrs. Michelle obama. [cheers and applause] president barack obama. [cheers and applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the podium kim sajet, the director of the Smithsonian National portrait gallery. Good morning. Mu name is kim sajet and it is my pleasure as director to welcome you to the National Portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. Every commissioned portrait involves four people. The first person is the sitter, a person with a largerthanlife persona, who may be curious to see how his are her likeness will be captured in perpetuity. In a spirit of building anticipation, i bid a warm welcome to president barack obama and his wife, former first lady, Michelle Obama, who we honor today. [applause] the second person is the artist who tries in the face of public scrutiny to stay true
Federal officials in the center for Transgender Equality much of the hearing focused on how the tsa treats transgender and disabled travelers college homeland hearing. The Senate Committee is meeting to examine the efforts to engage with the traveling public and when it is positive, successful for most americans tsa is in Homeland Security component they regularly interact with. By screening over 2 million passengers per day tsa Center Acting with a diverse array tss had certainly look at issues and other times it just operations to improve effectiveness tsa has struggled to communicate with the public. Back of Stakeholder Engagement has led to confusion among travelers, airports and the tsa all personnel. This new procedure called enhance accessible screening was met with some confusion as travelers to not understand the reasoning behind the new procedures. Rises and falls in the agencys ability to consistently apply among the system. Identifying and understanding public needs and eff
Credit then theyre going to be less able to attend school, perhaps, let able to start a family, less able to move to a new job. All kinds of things, economic outcomes for individuals would be potentially significantly reduced and if you take that out across a broad population it would hurt the growth of a country. I want to get your views on whether you agree with fed chairman Neel Kashkari that increasing Legal Immigration would help our economy but ill get to that another time. Mr. Bud . Thank you, mr. Chairman, chairman powell, congratulations. I know youve heard it many times but were glad to have you here. Would it be fair to say the Current Situation is willing to review and question decisions made by the fsb, the Financial Stability board, in the past. Would you be willing to review and question those . Sure. I mean, i think we always if fsb doesnt make decisions about u. S. Regulation, they make recommendations and if we were to enact something in a regulation we would put that
And ill guarantee theyll always be working in that direction. Janet yellen staked out a very different territory. For her main speech in chicago she appeared at a conference of Neighborhood Revitalization organizations and said, quote, although we work through Financial Markets our goal is to help main street and not wall street. More than five years after the financial crisis she spoke mainly about unemployment and told the stories of three that lost their jobs in the recession. It became quickly clear that this was a fed chairman well suited for the time in which we live. However not everyone recognized that or her. Not long after she took office somebody came up to her in the airport and said you look just like janet yellen. The second most powerful person in the world. The most powerful woman in the world after angela merkel. A figure that measured in at 53. As the feds leader she leaves with roughly 4 unemployment. 1. 5 inflation. She successfully raised Interest Rates off and eng
Leniency after gates agreed to cooperate in the manafort probe. Only half of the charges again gates however. The special counsel and all of the investigations and Congressional Committee combined have failed to produce any evidence of collusion, that amounts amongst all those committees and fbi investigations, and special investigation, by superb special counsel to just about 7 years of investigation that produced to this point, nothing. President trump making history, kicking off his reelect campaign, 2 1 2 years before 2020 election, making his announcement earlier than any previous president , President Trump announcing also he chosen one of most important people in his 2016 president ial campaign. To head up his reelection effort, well tell you about it here. And also tonight, examining evidence of rampant corruption by obama doj and fbi, congressman mark meadows joining us, bedemanding a Second Special coicounsel, and also congressman andy bigs, fox news legal analyst Gregg Jarre