Brian jo ann jenkins, ceo of aarp, why did you take that job . Jo ann it was unexpected. I have spent over 25 years in Public Service in a number of Government Agencies and i had the opportunity to come over and be the head of the Aarp Foundation. And i spent two years there really trying to institute and constitute the foundation to have it solely focused on serving the needs of the low income of 50 plus across the organization and as a result of the success that we had and the foundation, the ceo asked me if i would come over to their side and help develop a strategy for 2020 to make sure aarp was relevant to its members in the 21st century. As part of that transition and building strategy, the opportunity and opening came to be the ceo of aarp. While not planned, it was a wonderful transition for me to be able to move from being an initially a board member for the forprofit and are running the company. Im the only leader who has worked at all three organizations. Brian some of the d
Jo ann it was unexpected. I have spent over 25 years in Public Service in a number of Government Agencies and i had the opportunity to come over and be the head of the aarp organization and spent two years there really trying to institute and constitute the foundation to have it solely focused on serving the needs of the low income of 50 plus across the organization and as a result of the success that we had and the foundation, the ceo asked me if i would come over to their side and help develop a strategy for 2020 to make sure aarp was relevant to its members in the 21st century. As part of that transition and building strategy, the opportunity and opening came to be the ceo of aarp. While not planned, it was a wonderful transition for me to be able to move from being an initially a board member for the profile fit forprofit and are running the company. Im the only leader who has worked at all three organizations. Brian some of the details, how big is your membership . Jo ann aarp has
There really trying to institute to constitute the foundation have it solely focused on serving the needs of the low income of 50 plus across the organization and as a result of the success that we had and the foundation, the ceo asked me if i would come over to their side and help develop a strategy for 2020 to make sure aarp was relevant to its members in the 21st century. As part of that transition and building strategy, the opportunity and opening came to be the ceo of aarp. While not planned, it was a wonderful transition for me to be able to move from being an initially a board member for the forprofit and are running the company. Im the only leader who has worked at all three organizations. Some of the details, how big is your membership . Members. E 38 million we are close to the largest Membership Organization in the world. Diverse,rs are very one third republican, one third democrat, one third depended. Very vocal independent. Every vocal about the issues portion for them. We
It is not just my club, we stand for shared principles or not worth anything. Charles did ted cruzs speech backfire . The fallout from gop chair, Heather Higgins and Obama Campaign staffer steve shell, mixed reaction but we heard on the floor a lot of who are searching, people upset, trying to unify. We saw last night why he his having a tough time getting along with the senate but the base is rallying around donald trump. I spoke to a prominent evangelical leader who told me he was for trump, his wife is for donald trump, she loved the pens speech, we cannot have a third obama term. This evangelical bill is so good, go back and look at 2012. Evangelicals date home and we had low turnout for mitt romney and those key swing states like ohio, mike pence has rallied the evangelical base, donald trump can win this. Charles the big controversy today is ted cruz, if it will have any damage to november. A lot of people say he damaged himself in the short term but any lingering effects for don
Tonight, congresswoman Barbara Comstock wonders how he got that job. Right now, were not getting answers from ice or from any of the agencies involved that explain to us what type of process they went through. Reporter the allegations against youssef ali arent new. In fact in 1998, jim handly questioned the colonel on his military past in somalia. Youve been accused of ordering the executions of more than a hundred people. Do you deny that . Reporter the most recent claims against ali come from a somali man who says he was beaten, torture, shot and ultimately left for dead at the direction of youssef ali. In february, the court of appeals said it didnt have jurisdiction to rule. I spoke with alis attorney. Ali is entitled to immunity as an official or former official of the somali government. Reporter ali left somalia before the countrys regime collapsed. He worked as a Security Guard in canada in the early 90s. Ali for serious human rights abuses and then he came to the united states.