National symbols such as the flag or the National Anthem the same goes for social media with the posting of official symbols for better than russian athletes are also prohibited from participating in alternative victory ceremonies including any organized by the Russian Olympic Committee russian competitors congo display their National Flags in their bedrooms. The u. K. Has announced donald trump will be visiting britain in the second half of the year despite activists vowing to stage a huge protest to end here drives the president seems unfazed. I think a lot of the people in your country like what i stand for they respect what i say and so those who voted for tough border are going to come to those who dont what do you say to them i dont care i dont care its just one of those things i dont i dont say anything you know why because i dont care or chance visit had originally been planned for next month so he could officially open the new u. S. Embassy in london however the president s co
Syria that used to be under eisel control was a zero sum he said and has more now from kuwait city. This is a key moment you didnt have to really read between the lines too much of what Rex Tillerson the u. S. Secretary of state had to say there to realize the concern among some members of this coalition about whether complacency is setting in the u. S. Secretary of state reminding everyone that the job isnt done he made a pledge of two hundred million u. S. Dollars to help rehabilitate some of those areas which have been recaptured off advice or in syria and gave a warning that if life doesnt return to normal in those areas of those areas might return back to i saw this is the first Global Coalition to defeat i saw a meeting being held since the fall of russia since i still was pushed out of iraq and this is coming after the Iraqi Government made that declaration of victory over ice and in december after russian generals announced that they defeated as they put it i saw in every town
Welcome to the National Press club. My name is john hughes. I am an editor for our breaking news desk in washington, and i am the president of the National Press club. Our guest today is actor humanitarian given sunnis gary sinise. He will discuss challenges facing americas servicemen and women and what can be done to improve their lives and support their loved ones. But first, i want to introduce our distinguished head table. This Group Includes press club members and guests of our speaker. From the audiences wright, president of d. C. Media connections publisher of stars and stripes, defense reporter for politico and cochair of the National Press clubs young members committee. Amy fickling, editor with one communications news, the staff writer for marine corps times. Jim livingston, a medal of honor recipient and guest of the speaker. [applause] john hughes the chairman of the press Club Speakers Committee the Washington Bureau chief for the buffalo news, and former National Press cl
Need . Well, first, i would like to thank the interactivity foundation, open Society Foundation and helping the Community Start a dialogue of dealing with the issues and challenges of moms in our community especially places in washington, d. C. Where 91 of the 15 to 17yearolds are raised by Single Parents most of them mothers. It is very hard. You have peer pressure. You have social media. You have a lot of these mothers living in poverty and theres no a lot of conditions theyre in. A lot of people expect something to fall out of the sky and we dont have a strategy to uplift this population of women. They have done a great job right, but we havent ended poverty in america and in d. C. A lot of the moms are being pushed out. A lot of anxiety kicking in. Even our younger girls now in d. C. , 30 of the lockups in Juvenile Court are young females. Most of them for violent crime. Thats because we havent dealt with the fact that hurt people hurt people and a lot of the parents are dealing wi
An alternate they are foye pair with their cessation of opiates. I would like you to respond to something that weve heard the secretary say and read about in the press that he has 28,000 positions to fill in the vha. Its something it was reiterated in the hearing here. Then when the Ranking Member and i and some other members of congress in the senate were in your command and control center on the eighth floor a few weeks back, weve heard that number was not 28,000, that it was 50,000 positions to be filled at the vha. Could you confirm that number and could you tell me how youre prioritizing those hires . And obviously im getting to if we have a crisis in Mental Health and were treating all hires the same, we have a problem. If youre prioritizing Mental Health, heres a chance to tell this committee and the public at large. So i did not hear the number 50,000. Ill have to check on that and get back to you drekly. I think that would probably be the easiest way to say that. With 300,000