Editor at the Washington Times and a columnist at aol. Her journalism experience includes being a producer of awc news this week abc news this week and good morning america. Emily miller served as Deputy Press Secretary at the department of state for both secretaries of state colin powell and condoleezza rice. She also served as communication director to the majority whip, tom delaware lay. She graduated cum laude at Georgetown University school of foreign service. Please welcome emily miller. [applause] thank you for coming. Thanks for having me. Always hard to follow a big act. But i know you can do it. I think i can do it. Im talking about guns, that always brings out the interest. Thank you for having me, im so honored to be here and so honored to be present with all of you guys and wish mrs. Schlafly was here, but shes here in spirit and has set such an example for conservative women that those of us who are still out there fighting for. So here, as i said, im talking about guns,
Can you comment on that . I would be happy to. Its been our experience whenever federal money has come the date has stepped up to issues and made additional money available as well. In kentucky we have been able to do a lot of the Major Projects through that whole mechanism. But the one thing i would say about 45 on average the money that states have to work to build projects is federal funding and of that 45 it constitutes more of the larger projects that we actually build and so its a critical piece of where we are. The states are doing a lot and we have seen that in a number of states enacting new funding mechanisms and so forth. We applaud the state could have done that and we are certainly encouraging everyone to do what they must find th to find the mt is necessary to invest. But youre right it is a difficult advance with the state budget and so forth but we found a lot of our colleagues that are interested in spending more on transportation. You made a great point about the hars
What have you, jump over the various check points and prematurely open up, without having the capability of being able to respond effectively and efficient, me concern is that we will start to see little spikes that may turn into outbreaks f that occurs, there is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak you may not be able to control. The Overall National picture does contain encouraging sign, testing has rizzen significantly. And the percentage of tests coming back positive has fallen. Key statistics. There is worrisome signs, according to an internal document, the white house is tracking spikes in the south and midwest. The documents obtained from the Coronavirus Task force show that top 10 years, surges of 72 or greater over a sevenday period compared to the previous week. Testing rates increased dramatically, too, that can be a factor when the number of cases rise. Dr. Fauci said it stands in contract in bigger cities like new york. If you think we have it completely under con
At all was a short reading by Supreme Court Justice Clarence thomas. But the only homily sermon eulogy was by the priests celebrating, as you say, paul scalia, the son of the Supreme Court justice. And when he said that his father didnt much like eulogies, because he thought that the whole point was that this was a sinner. Every person who dies, who through gods infinite forgiveness would be accepted into heaven so that the praise was always a little overdone for a sinner, knocking on the pearly gates, it was just a beautiful, beautiful ceremony, deeply moving. And, you know, what a beautiful sendoff for a fascinating man. And as you see all these people that Cardinal Wuerl there in the foreground is saying goodbye to, now were starting to see there is former Justice David souter. But so many of the people in the beginning there were people we dont recognize or were just members of the extended scalia family. And thats what you have to remember. Even in these big affairs of state. This
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and their friendship, boy, especially after this weekend, their friendship could teach us a lot about how washington, d. C. Should work. Good morning, its monday, february 15, president s day. With us on set, those of us that are in the president s day rotation, washington anchor for bbc world news america katty kay. We also have senior Political Editor i love it, senior Political Editor whats so wrong about that the . Senior Political Editor repeat it one more time. At some point it becomes aged. That means youre not a sophomore anymore. Youre a senior now. Ive graduated. Im almost there. Sam stein. We also have republican pollster and columnist in at the Washington Examiner kristen soltsol soltis anderson. In boston, not senior but legh d legendary Mike Barnicle. I want legendary. Jon meacham, before we get into the news, the sad news this weekend of Justice Scalia, i want to key in on this friendship between scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth Bader Gins