Good morning, governor. Good morning. [applause] im delighted to welcome everyone to the Assembly Chamber for the inaugural of governor edmund g. Brown jr. I know for my colleagues and i its a great way to start the new year by being on hand to see someone whos been such a Strong Partner sworn into office for a record fourth time. Last year the assembly presented Governor Brown with a commemoration noting he had spoken here to more joint conventions of the legislature than any other governor. While, technically, not a joint convention todays ceremony adds to that record. The best thing about governor jerry brown isnt the history he has made. Its the history he is going to make. Governor brown has been a leader in putting californias fiscal house in order and today the next chapter of that leadership begins. Governor brown has been a leader in making Major Investments in high speed rail and local k12 education, and today the next chapter of that leadership begins. Governor brown has bee
Sole supposed crime of calling out in a Public Square in my hometown for the implementation of reforms, as they were taking place than in communist europe. Within prison, i remained steadfast as a political prisoner. Due to my constant struggle, i was subjected to the most refined forms of torture and cruel punishment. For example, on the morning of october 14 1994, highranking officers from the Political Police six dogs on me while my hands were handcuffed behind my back. Because they did not exempt the. Indoctrination program in the prison walls, i was sent to the most inhospitable and rigorous prison. Later, together with very courageous brothers from the prison we found it the Political Prisoners organization. In spite of repression, it managed to unify hundreds of Political Prisoners to carry out civic resistance within the prison walls. After i was released in 2007, i have continued with the struggles inside cuba, which i think is most important. This is a National Organization w
Of the senators career. Cspan this is what the book looks like. Thank you for joining us. Guest think he very much. [inaudible conversations] said an nec this is much too tall for me. Thank you so much for coming this evening. Please take the time now to turn off or silence your cellphone. If you dont then follows on facebook hand twitter and instagram. Please take a minute to sign up for your email newsletter. I promised we will not spaniel. Thank you for coming on behalf of the entire staff i am pleased to welcome new to talk about the book empire of lead to explore how the city was tainted from the outset from becoming the proud a citadel of republic that George Washington envisioned within two centuries ago. Here to talk about his background which is fascinating also the author to the guide to washington d. C. As well as a contributor to did down a sedan brown book and also has critics content for sites such as Budget Travel we originally started this program over the summer of thi
Back and forth several times before he actually went up to the box upstairs. So i wanted the readers to feel like, what must they have gone through. Imagine for a moment that the president of the United States has been assassinated in your workplace by one of your most admired, respected colleagues. Fearing for your own safety and the fear of being thought complicit. Reelecting in panic that could be construed as hostile to the president. As well as the times you could be seen socializing with the suspect. The more i start theres a saloon on the south side of fords theater. The star saloon. Theres a saloon next door on the north side, the green back saloon. There were a lot of trips to those saloons that day. Near as i can figure booth alone made seven or eight trips over there in the afternoon or evening which gives you some feeling about working up his courage for what he did. From that moment on, your world would never be the same. You would be intear gated, perhaps imprisoned. You
Amid concerns about a proposed iran nuclear deal. The king of blues and, an Award Winning museician, b. B king has died. We begin in Southeast Asia where governments in the region have rejected boats full of hundreds of Asylum Seekers. More than 1600 migrants, rahinga and poor bangladeshis have landed in malaysia and indonesia since sunday. Some havent been as lucky and are being forced back into international waters. Food parcels have been dropped to boats, but have pushed them away from thailands southern coast. Fisherman in indonesia have rescued about 800 rohingya migrants. Those on board say at least 100 people have died while fighting for food and water. Rights groups are calling for an urgent rescue of thousands of migrants strafrnded on traffickers boats in the region. We have correspondents covering the story for us in Southeast Asia. Florence loy is in myanmars capital. We talked to veronica in bangkok. First, lets go to indian e i cants ache. Prove incident. Talk to us about