politically it was 40 years ago, phil burton had the congressional seat before she did, he was a legislative master. she comes from that same school. what is her vision of this speakership in the trump era? you know, we got to it a little bit later in the interview, talked a little more personally about her. this is a woman who comes from a household of executives, two mayors, her brother as well as her father. she understands and is not embarrassed about wielding power. sees the speakership the way that past speakers, the tip o neill school saw the speakership. it is a tremendously powerful office. it s called the third most powerful office because of the vice president, but in a way it s the second most powerful office. this office has the act to go head to head with the president. she is not embarrassed to wielding that power. steve, we re in this era where everything a woman who seeks power or holds power does gets hyper scrutinized. if you re dancing in high school, we re goin
zero time addressing the gun violence threat. he s choosing to ignore what the fbi actually does for a living. he s choosing to ignore the fact that the local police visited this guy 39 times in response to 911 calls. social services for the county had to do an assessment of this. everyone in the school saw the warning signs and indicators. yet he decides not to address the mental health issues, not to propose solutions on making it easier to baker someone because they are insane. deny an assault weapon purchase because you have mental health issues. instead he talks about the russian indictment. he knows there s electronic intercepts of russian officials. he s scared out of his mind and playing with the parents of america this morning. you re right. indeed on that point about mental health he actually skinned an executive order reversing the obama, president
arrive? well, you know, the community is suffering. this has been an unprecedented event for houston. so the community is suffering. i just came from a school that i looked at for the physical aspects of the school and driving to the school saw some of our students dragging stuff out of homes that they had just gotten back to that had just come up from the water. and, you know, dragging all their possessions out. i mean, this is a heartbreaking time for houston. but in order for that to bring some healing, we re doing some things that we can do as a school district. this year every student, the 218,000 students at hisd were going to get free breakfast, free lunch and free dinner. we ve been able to work that out with the agriculture department at the state and local level. literally free food for every one of our students. one less thing people have to worry about. we currently right now as we speak we have nine of our schools where we are cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner and givi
won t let people with israeli passport passports to buy tickets, because they prohibit doing business with israeli. and the u.s. says it is unacceptable, and our government will fight for all passengers rights. and now, get this one, a fourth grader gets detention forgiving a hug. she embraced the male student in oviedo, florida, because he was having a bad day, and the school saw it as inappropriate touching which is a violation of the policy, and they the say that hugging, holding hands or linking arms is banned at that school. and now, the high school player who was penalized for praising god will be allowed to play saturday. he was initially ban ned for unsportsmanlike conduct after he
county veterans fund. it was 2013 we had already been through the recall campaign and through the original election and all of a sudden they were investigating us allegedly for things we did in the 2011 and 2012 recall, so we had no idea these john doe investigations are conducted idea these john doe investigations are conducted completely in secret. and we re not, you know, aside from what s in the warrant, we re not even allowed to know what they suspect us of doing.we and you know, i understand, we re almost out of time. i want to ask adam a quick question. some people say it didn t happen..twa you heard that in the report. how can you prove that it did? because some of my friends at school saw it happen.ec you know, you can t have four or five, you know, police cars outside your house at 6:00 in the morning without getting questions about it later.ou as soon as i got to school, a n few people were asking me, are a you okay? is your family all right, like a what happened? all i