We have more than 300 people registered for this Virtual Meeting and we will try to get through as many questions as we can in the second half of this discussion. I want to note the entirety of todays session is on the record. Our discussion now and later on, the questions and answers. Mr. President , welcome. It is a pleasure to see you again. A great leisure to be with you. My prayers and wishes to the veterans particularly and to all the civilians that served with you. It is a great honor to be with you. Let me say how much i and many other people in this country value our partnership with you and the Afghan People over the past years. Your country now is at a prehistoric threshold or at least potentially so. You and the Afghan People through the loya jirga have made the decision to release the final prisoners the taliban had been demanding and opening the pathway to negotiations which reportedly would start and the next couple of days. That is an extremely important threshold to cr
It completes its trip to space with people on board for nasa. Joining me is the Nasa Public Affairs officer. It is great to be back here for this historic milestone moment and nasas commercial crew program. Expected toome is last roughly 19 hours. That includes four departure up with burn to line the landing location, and a final burn. The trip home also includes an eight hour sleep period where both crewmembers can get some rest before arrival gone are the tomorrow after a little more than two months in space. Dragon is targeted to splash down off the coast of pensacola florida pensacola, florida at 11 48 pacific time tomorrow followed either crew getting picked up. The Mission Began on may 30 at kennedypad 39a space center and sort of. After a successful launch, the astronauts enjoyed a 14 hour flight on dragon before they came to the International Space station. Bob and doug have been doing real work aboard the station. Captain completed spacewalks and theyve also taken spectacular
The panel, the a. D. A. Annual Meeting Forum on justice and policing a path forward with senator tim scott of South Carolina. Thank you, senator scott, so very much. Its a privilege to have you join us for this program at the a. B. A. Annual meeting. Senator scott thank you for your leadership. Without any question america is better because of folks like yourself in strong powerful positions to make a difference of the thank you for having the investment to make the difference. Senator scott, what do you see as the role of congress in improving police and Community Relations and bridging the gap of trust, particularly with communities of color across our nation . Senator scott i think Congress Plays a role in that, even a significant role. But perhaps the most Important Role is the one on the local level, the mayors and county chairmen or chairwoman, those folks have the most direct path towards Police Reform, not those of us in congress. Will i say shared the story several times i hav
Assassination attack that left him seriously wounded. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv. This weekend on cspan three. Let us go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically in visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. We are about two thirds of the way through our 12 week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights 1954 case of school segregation. Brown v. Board of education. We are going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950. In the quiet kansas town of topeka, where a mild mannered black man took his sevenyearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly, four blocks from their home, to the all white school and tried without success, to enroll his child. Black parents into peak felt that the day of trying to enroll their sch
Committee will come to order. Next up senator vuroso. I appreciated your comments, Opening Statements specifically related to nord stream 2 and i wanted to ask a bit more about that because we know Energy Security is essential to National Security. Nord stream 2 threatens european Energy Security, increases russian monopoly over the region. To me this pipeline is a russian trap. Strongly support your recent announcement aimed at stopping this dangerous pipeline. Congress is quickly working to provide the administration with additional tools to prevent nord stream 2 from ever being completed. Both the senate and house passed their own versions of the Defense Authorization act. Could you talk about the administrations commitment to opposing the nord stream 2 pipeline and applying sanctions against those companies aiding in the completion of this russian trap . The ironny is this administration is accused of not being tough on russia. This pipeline created enormous leverage for russia not