Racism and policing, and the role of Police Unions. Come to order. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning and thank you to everyone for being here for this important briefing. Black lives matter. I cant breathe. Hands up, dont shoot. No justice, no peace. These powerful phrases are rallying cries for fair minded americans seeking to live up to one of this countrys core principles. Equal justice under the law. Since our nations founding, africanamericans have struggled, fought and died for the right to be free and equal citizens. This month marks 99 years since the tulsa race massacre, where an entire, vibrant community was destroyed and black men, women and children were systemically murdered. Today is juneteenth. A holiday that celebrate s the freedom of black people in america. That freedom did not come until 1865. Two and a half years after president lincoln abolished slavery. We are still working for freedom and we are still working to provide equal opportuni
Parts here today. Some are literal. The princess cruise ship is one. Theyre watching throughout the day as it makes its way to the port of oakland. It is supposed to dock around 3 00 this afternoon. Well talk about that, oil off the bat with our buddy phil flynn out in chicago, price futures group, senior strategist at cme. We talked about it last week, phil. You and i were going back and forth about russia and saudi arabia. Now we have the true price war breaking out that has consequences in places like texas and north dakota. Take us through what youre thinking about today . What im thinking about is were learning today, not always is a low price for oil good for everything. There is concerns for banks, oil producers, the general overall market. Having said that, there is some hope, you know, right now with the talks of stimulus. Maybe we can pull off the lows right now. There are old saying in the business low prices cure low prices but this breakup of opec and russia, this opec plu
Culture, read the implementation of federal farmer Disaster Relief, will come to order. Thank you and welcome to this joint hearing of the subcommittee on general farm commodities and Risk Management and livestock and foreign agriculture. Im pleased to be joined by my colleague and fellow chairman mister custer and Ranking Member mister thompson, livestock and Foreign Affairs Ranking Member, and chairman peterson and fellow texan, Ranking Member, mike conaway. The first joint hearing comes at a very important time for farmers. Usda and Food Production Conservation Mission area and Farm Service Agency in the middle of a huge job. They are the home of 3 critical efforts to address the needs of farmers, ranchers and Rural Communities in our country. The Market Facilitation Program which is meant to assist farmers most direct we harmed by the administration of trade war, the expanded wildfire and hurricane endemic program which will aid in Rural Recovery from Natural Disasters and programs
Nazis. And all of the fun at the movies at the Berlin Film Festival the competition and the judging began school will win the top award the golden bear and all the other bears. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Thanks for joining us. We begin in syria in the damascus suburb of eastern good where residents have been living a nightmare as Government Forces have unleashed waves of airstrikes hundreds of people have been killed since sunday including many children now the u. N. Security council is scheduled to vote on a temporary ceasefire that would allow much needed humanitarian aid to reach trapped civilians but russia has concerns about the resolution and that has led to repeated delays in the vote moscow wants guarantees that rebel fighters in eastern good will respect a halt to the fighting. The crackling bright lights have all the hallmarks of a firework display. But theyre designed to devastate not celebrate activists say they are proof that the Syrian Government is firing indi
Anticorruption attorney we will leave this conversation at this point to go live to the White House Briefing room where treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin is standing on the left in the picture. You will be briefing reporters about sanctions on north korea. Live live coverage here on csp. Hello, everybody. Today the Treasury Department is announcing the largest set of sanctions ever imposed in connection with north korea. This action targets the deceptive shipping practices that enable the kim regime to find its dangerous weapons programs. Our actions target shipping and trade companies, vessels and individuals across the world who we know are working with north koreas behalf, specifically are sanctioning 27 entities, 28 vessels and one individual, all involved in sanctions, evasion schemes. Todays actions will significantly hinder north koreas ability to conduct evasive maritime activities that facilitate illicit coal and fuel transports, limit the regime stability to ship goods throug