Selective institutions like brown, et cetera. There do exist highly competent students people of color. We cant walk away believe all is lost and theres no theres not a sufficient quality pool. We just also have to encourage people outside of our community to think about other places from which they need to source candidates. I want to say that. Thats not to suggest that overall relatively speaking there are far more students under utilized than should be but i do want to make the point its important that we all know, as you guys, to your organizations, that there really is not any kpoous the argument that, you know the myth that the talent pool does not exist is not true either, to be fair. Theres bias issues in there when and i true story, sent my colleagues a resume of a cap candidate, classic, on paper, 3. 9, blah, blah, the whole story. What happened is hes, oh, my gosh, get the kid the interview right away. They misred it. They thought it said harvard university, and it said howa
Doing a great job, give them a round of applause. That is senator ron wyden and representative kurt schrader. [applause] it is great to be at the World Headquarters of such an iconic company. A company that helps athletes succeed, from the individual to the world stage. As youve heard, i have come to oregon to talk a little it about trade. Which, initially may have had some people thinking, what is mariota going someplace we didnt know about . Yeah. Hes going to be great. He is an Outstanding Young man. He will be terrific and from hawaii, by the way. Local boy. But this is important and i want to tell you why i think trade deals and our willingness to go out there and compete on the global stage is so important. Before i came out here, i had a chance to meet with some Small Business owners from across oregon whose workers make everything from bikes to tea to stationery to wine. To them. Sometimes when we talk about trade we think of nike or we think of boeing or we think of ge, we thi
Nbcs Martin Fletcher is in tel aviv where air raid sirens were heard this morning. Reporter lynn, good morning. Following up on netanyahus threat. Overnight 30,000 reserves were given potential order to report for duty overnight 16,000 soldiers were told, reserve soldiers, were told to report to their units. They will be joining army units that massed on the border of gaza. Armored personnel carriers, hundreds of thousands of troops ready for Ground Invasion. As you suggested in introduction, a show of force or the real thing . Its partly a show of force but could end in a Ground Invasion because israelis keep insisting whatever it takes theyll stop the rockets from being fired into gaza. While the egyptian president was visiting, they would hold their fire. The palestinians didnt do the same so israel resumed their rockets. There was an intense exchange. 85 rockets were fired into gaza in a period of only 45 minutes. Targeting those stockpiles of weapons and long range rockets in part
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not backing down. In the past 24 hours israel has made it clear that it will not tolerate rocket and missile attacks on its civilians. Nbcs Martin Fletcher is live for us in tel aviv with the very latest. Martin, whats the latest . Reporter lynn, good morning. Following up on netanyahus threat, last night they are stressing they will do anything it takes to stop the palestinians from firing rockets into israel. Overnight or last night rather 30,000 reserves were given a potential order to report for duty. Overnight 16,000 soldiers were told, reserve soldiers were told to report to their units. Theyre going to join army units amassed on the border of gaza. Tank transporters and personnel carriers, thousands of troops going towards the border with gaza ready for a Ground Invasion. As you suggested in your introduction, lynn, is it a show of force or is it the real thing . We dont know at this point. Its definitely partly a show of force but it
Palestinians unleashed a fresh round of air attacks. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not backing down. The past 24 hours israel has made it clear that it will not tolerate rocket and missile attacks on its civilians. Well, nbcs Martin Fletcher is live for us in tel aviv. Martin, whats the latest . Reporter lynn, good morning. Following up on netanyahus threat. Last night 16,000 Israeli Reserve soldiers were called up for the army. The okay was given to 30,000. Theyve already called up half of that number. Many of those will be moving south where the army has already matched on the border. Theyre moving down tanks, armored personnel carriers and trooms. By the way, among those reserve soldiers called up it also included officers and soldiers who are experienced whose specialty is dealing with enemy civilian populations. Again, yet another hint, if you like, that an Israeli Ground invasion is very much in the cards has not yet been ordered but still is very much on the cards