Connolly from roll call and thanks for joining us. Glad to be here after a crazy week in politics. You got that right. No surprise. Alabama well, it was a surprise but alabama huge victory but is this victory for the democrats about the party and the democrats or was this about the rejection of an accused pedophile . You know, its its thats an interest, question. Weve talked to a bunch of political operatives on the democratic side and the republican side and they said its a mixture of both. You know, its sort of the democrats its been said needed a perfect storm to pull off this victory in alabama with doug jones. They thought they had a quality candidate, a clean candidate who wanted to present himself as some sort of an alabama man through and through and focus on what he called Kitchen Table issues and then you had doug jones who is sort of an insurgent republican candidate and of course the allegations of Sexual Misconduct against doug jones played a tremendous factor in the the f
Police chiefs, but there are some i would call the very exclusive group of the finest people who have had an impact on the Police Profession through an entrepreneurial spirit and with a good deal of imagination and innovation in improving policing in the United States. It goes back almost a century ago. The chief of police in berkeley, california, interesting that that is where improved policing started in view of what is going on today. He was chief of police for a brief time in los angeles. In the middle of the last century, bill parker in los a chief in cincinnati, and they were followed by wilson in chicago and pat murphy in new york, detroit, and washington, d. C. There is no question that these leaders in Police Excellence formed a distinguished group in which todays keynote speaker, as an innovator, as an imaginative leader, and as a person has done very much uniquely, has had a unique ince, in policing excellent this country and has in many ways had a unique career that is toy
Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. We welcome those who are joining us on our website as well as those joining us on the cspan network. We would ask everyone inhouse to be so kind to check that our mobile the vices have been checked and turned off as a cortices. Those watching online you are welcome to ask questions any time by emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Leading our program today and welcoming and introducing our special guest is Ronald Reagan emeritus aschairman well as the 75th of attorney general of the United States edwin meese. [applause] mr. Meese thank you, john. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I joined john and welcome you. Heritage has done a great deal in the policing and Public Safety areas and we are pleased to have our keynote speaker today. It is a pleasure for me to introduce him since we have known each other a number of years. Believe it or not i think we first met when we were first at harvard, for the executive session in policing they had
Stop fence will help stop those attacks. Live in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington where President Trumps testy relationship with Top Republicans has reached new levels in a war of tweets with senator bob corker. It began on sunday when mr trump said senator corker, didnt have the guts to run for re election in the state of tennessee. Mr corker, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, shot back, calling the white house an Adult Day Care Centre and that someone obviously missed their shift. Later in the day, during an interview with the new york times, senator corker went on to accuse donald trump of treating the presidency like a reality show with actions that could put the us on the path to world war iii. Our north american correspondent Anthony Zurcher told us more. We see donald trump and bob corker picking a fight here and donald trump has picked fights with lots of republicans in the past