Announcer from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Al Vernon Jordan is an eminent investment banker and longer. He was a pioneer in the momentous civil rights struggles in the 1960s and 1970s. He escorted Charlene Hunter through jeering mob to integrate the university of georgia in 1961, was then field director for the georgia naacp was executive director of the United Negro College fund, and from 19711981 was president of the National Urban league. As america celebrates the 50th anniversary of the selma alabama march and bloody sunday which led to the Voting Rights act, its a pleasure to have Vernon Jordan here. And you for joining us. Burning and you for having me. Al how important was selma to the civil rights struggle . Vernon selma was a crucial struggle. It took us that giant step because selma led to the voter rights act of 1965. There is a historic notion that the Voting Rights act of 1965 was passed by the congress here in washington dc. The fact of the matter
This letter . There appears to be to view a logical answers. Either the senators were trying to be help pull to the iranians or harmful to the commander in chief, in the midst of highstakes international diplomacy. Either answer does discredit to the letters signatories. I would be pleased to talk more about this important matter but i know there have been questions about my emails, so i want to address that directly and then i will take a few questions from you. There are four things i want the public to know. First, when i got to work as secretary of state i opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the state department because i thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails, instead of two. Looking back, it would have been better if i simply used a second email account and carried a second phone, but at the time and it did not seem like an issue. Second, the vast majority of my work emails went to Govern
Weve partnered with cox to communications to learn about the history and literary life of tulsa, oklahoma,. Woody guthrie is the most famous for his writing of this land is your land but he was very much more than that. He was born in 1912, and so were very proud to have his work back in oklahoma where we think it belongs. He was an advocate for people who were disenfranchised, for those people who were Migrant Workers from oklahoma, kansas and texas during the dust bowl era who are found themselves in california literally starving. Antisaw this vast difference between those who were the house and the house not and he became their spokesman through the his music. He recorded very key songs of his own very few songs of his own. We have a listing station that features for six of his own song in his own voice. This land is your land this land is my land from california to the New York Island watch all of our events from tulsa saturday at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv and sunday afternoon
Senators about this and i think it is time for us to step up as congress and do something truly bipartisan that the people will applaud. We are going to increase by 5 and were going to do it on a bipartisan basis. I would say for the record if there is going to be some conversation about money going to the pentagon i want to i want to be part of that conversation and i want to stick to the rules that its shared equally. We make sure that there is money coming back into the nondefense side of the equation. I hope the administration will take the same position. If we can find oco money lets not do that at the expense of nondefense. I hope we can come to a conclusion that we are going to make our mark in bipartisanship when it comes to biomedical research. Id like to hear any comments youd like to make. We to believe in terms of the number in investments in the choices we need to make in getting the nation to function right now but also preparing for the future right now. Thats why we mak
In appellation of the basin is my into standing that most of the flowback is used to drill new wells. So the quantity of flowback is small. To ship it to ohio for final injection. But the industry has evolved ways to do this. In pennsylvania one of the companies, i forget suggested a way to have acid mine drainage coming of coal mines as an additive instead of using fresh water but there is a state regulation saying that you cannot get economic advantage of using a waste product so they never did it. But the chemical engineers are at work to solve the issues so maybe in the future we dont have to use fresh water but bad water to do the actual fracking. My time is expired. Without objection your recognize for an additional minute. Okay. [laughter] im done. Attwood add some context to the states issues. But what you see in colorado you see it working constructively to support local regulations in order to make sure the development is done responsibly with the support of the community. Th