town hall say sure, we would get the national guard involved. then he had a parenthetical phrase after that, if we can t make this other stuff work. sounds like you re saying, if we can t make the other options work. what is your time frame for that? over a week, two weeks, then i m going to pick up the phone and call the white house and say, you know, anything you can to to help, whether it s through some kind of executive order or an implementation like we saw during covid how they took dishwasher places and turned them into ventilator places. what is your time frame? it s difficult to make that assessment. what i can say, we re having phone conferences, virtual conferences with major stakeholders every other day. in fact, some cases every day. so i think what i can represent there s a full court press to address this. has there been progress as
asian-pacific american advisory committee and representative judy chu of california. she is a member of the congressional asian-american pacific american caucus and has endorsed hillary clinton. good morning to both of you. good morning. good morning. derrick, i want to start with you. the group of which you re a member, trump s asian-pacific american advisory committee, i read that your first meeting was just on tuesday. is that true? our first physical meeting was on tuesday but prior to that we ve had a number of phone conferences. we ve been discussing this issue now for the past two months. from what i read and i read this from nbc news, just to be clear, this was the first physical meeting three weeks out from the election and donald trump was expected to show up but did not come. so if asian-american voters are a priority for him and for the campaign, why so late and why no appearance from the candidate? well, here s the thing, right, in terms of meeting him.
they call august congress summer recess but facing constituents armed with complaints and criticisms is not necessary a vacation for members of congress which helps to explain why as a new york times reporter congressmen and senators are pulling the plug on what has traditionally been an august recess staple. the town hall meeting. the set of unscripted questions and camera phones that have turned town hall into potentially career threatening events. opting for strictly controlled and boring phone conferences and e-mail correspondence. the town hall isn t dead yet so we decided to look closely at one that took place this week to show you what makes these things so scary for the average member of congress and what we will lose if town halls really do go extinct. john mccain who held an open meeting in tucson this week. we showed you a clip earlier of an animated conservative urging him to shut down the government over obama care.
w h about the other tea party? a couple of t i met phone conferences or whatever, but never in person. you. greta: you have been waiting 29 501c3, no authorized. auth months and counting as of yesterday. greta: you also lost a $30,000 $30,000 grant and the executive director told me he had never seen such treatment of an organization like mine. greta: doou think you got fair treatme y? i got fair treatment by half of t committe quite frankly, the other half did a disservice to themselves. the notion that the national organization of marriage was not eligible because we support traditional marriage and that doesn t have anything to do with the commonwealth ore public good. it s those kind ble decisions that are made by the irs,
unusual. but does it work? has that really changed kids lives? my answer is no. basketball s next big thing. he s nicknamed the crime stopper. nobody was like out committing a crime. at 5 7 , he s selling out gyms from philly to d.c. the high school player you ll soon be hearing about. revealing investigations. fascinating characters. stories with impact. this is cnn presents with tonight s hosts, randi kaye and drew griffin. march madness has grown into one of the most popular sporting events in the country, we begin tonight with some unpopular statistics off the court and in the classroom. orange men of syracuse began post play without its top rebounder and scorer. fab melo was suspended for undisclosed reasons. he missed games in the past because of his academic struggles and syracuse is not alone. a total of 14 team that is made the tournament this year failed to graduate at least half their players, including last year s national champion. it s been a pro