Thank you,. Next speaker, please. Madam president , before the next speaker, i will remind the audience there is no applause in support or if you are not interested in hearing further about an item, you may use your supportive fingers, please . Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, president breed and supervisors. You might get too hungry for easter dinner at 8 00, your anticipating that easters going to be great. And youd like that Chocolate Easter basket, and its really chocolate cramped that is why the easter bunny, that is why easter bun is a champ here comes city peter cottontail, hopping down the city hall bunny trail, hipitiy hop, easters on its way. Maybe if you are have good, hell bring lots of eastereggs your way. Well, you know what . For some, Affordable Housing you found a new place to dwelling in a city hotel. You wish you had Affordable Housing and you can hardly wait, but if you dont have funding, its going to be too late. You are like the housing guys some easter ba
Trains bound for germany, the migrant crisis dividing europe. This is al jazeera america, live from new york city, im John Henry Smith, president obama will walk on a glaser later today, part of his trip to alaska and there to talk about Climate Change and push for a stronger u. S. Presence in the region. The president will ask congress to speed up construction of new ice breakers in an effort to compete against russia and china in strategic arctic waters. Right now the u. S. Only has two worker ice breakers compared to moscows 40 and first on the president s agenda the Warming Arctic waters and the urgent need for action, libby casey has more from anchorage. Reporter president obama delivering a warning at the beginning of alaska trip that human activity is warming the planet and called it stark and is not a problem in the far off future, its a problem here and its a problem happening now. He said its already impacting infrastructure, and community, health and the future. If those tre
Today secretary of state john kerry talked about u. S. Policy in the middle east. He focused on the israelipalestinian conflict and the syrian civil war. From the carting the endowment washington d. C. This is 45 minutes. Thank you all, very much. [applause]. Bill, thanks. Thanks so much for welcoming me to your new home. I very touched to hear the comments from bills caliber because as you know, he really was the state department premier career diplomat. Now that you have been away almost a year i know you are missing all of the travel, the Early Morning meetings, the latenight calls, and you are just dying to return, right . But all kidding aside, ladies and gentlemen, the door to the state department for bill burns is always open. From pres. Obama to the entire security team, to me, to the secretary of state there is no better diplomat, no one who could be better led by then the Carnegie Foundation of peace then by bill burns. Please join me everybody for same thank you for a remark
Chief berry, thank you for that introduction, because it was brief, and thats what i like. At this point one way or another people know who i am. And let me also thank our outstanding mayor of the city of chicago, rahm emanuel for hosting us. I know that thousands of you from federal, state, county, local and tribal agencies have been working hard to share strategies and solutions to better serve and protect all of us. And we are profoundly grateful for you work. I do hope that youve gotten a little time to enjoy my hometown as well. Because there is fun to be had here. Somebody clapped. Even as we meet here today, though, another gathering of police is taking place in new york. Randolph holder was born in guyana to a family of Police Officers. His dad was a Police Officer, his grandfather was a Police Officer, and after his family came to america, randolph followed in their footsteps and joined new yorks finest. A week ago today a shots fired call came over the radio. And as officer h
To officer stacy. Because when the video of the encounter went viral, folks across the country began calling the Tarrant Police department asking how they could help too. And the woman later said shed been blessed with manna from heaven, all because of one officers kindness. He pushed my world in the right direction, the woman said, and i will never forget it. Thats america at its best. Thats some good police work. [ applause ] thats what so many of you represent. I thank you for the work you do. I thank you for your fellow officers. Lets keep pushing our world in the right direction towards fairness and justice and safety. May god protect our cops, may god bless the United States of america. Thank you. Thank you. [ applause ] on the next washington journal, well talk to congressman mike pompeo about the House Select Benghazi Committee and about the recent testimony of former secretary of state hillary clinton. Then john larson on the proposed twoyear budget and raising the debt ceilin