Im truly delighted to be here this evening to welcome Darren Walker to duke. Walker to duke. He serves as president of the Ford Foundation and will be our 2020 Terry Sanford distinguished lecturer. I have to say, given all of mr. Walkers extraordinary accomplishments, whoever introduces him has their work cut out for them. Born in lafayette, louisiana, Darren Walker was one of the first children in the nation to benefit from the head start program. He went on to were a scholarship at the university of texas at austin, where he would graduate with degrees in government, speech communication, and law, before pursuing a successful career as an attorney and an investment banker. For the past three decades, mr. Walker has been one of our nations foremost philanthropic executives. He has served as chief operating officer of harlems Largest Development corporation. Vice president of the rockefeller foundation, cofounder and chair of the u. S. Impact investing alliance, and for the past seven
If you think yes, call this number 202 7488000, and if you think no, you can also call 202 7488001, and you can also send a text, 202 7488003. And if you cannot wait in on social media, you can post a comment on facebook. Before we get to your calls this sunday morning, we wanted to stunning front page to the New York Times this morning. 100,000, sonearing there is no traditional news story on this front page this morning. This is a series of names where they are from, folks who have passed away or died from the coronavirus, and they have published 1000 of these names, just 1 with biographies or Something Special about those people. They write that the numbers alone cannot possibly measure the impact of the coronavirus on america, whether it is the number of patients treated, jobs interrupted or lives cut short. As the country nears a grim milestone, the times scoured obituaries and death notices of the victims, the 1000 people reflect just 1 of the total, they were not simply names on
Accomplishments, whoever introduces him has their work cut out for them. Born in lafayette, louisiana, Darren Walker was one of the first children in the nation to benefit from the head start program. He went on to were a scholarship at the university of texas at austin, where he would graduate with degrees in government, speech communication, and law, before pursuing a successful career as an attorney and an investment banker. For the past three decades, mr. Walker has been one of our nations foremost philanthropic executives. He has served as chief operating officer of harlems Largest Development corporation. Vice president of the rockefeller foundation, cofounder and chair of the u. S. Impact investing alliance, and for the past seven years as president of the Ford Foundation, where he overcease an endowment of 13 billion and 600 million in annual grant making. He is dedicated to tackling the most difficult issues in the world. He was among the most committed supporters of residents
Mutual physicians, mutual im evan perez and washington. And this is cnn its thursday, april 11, right now on cnn this morning on aboutface for donald trump, who now claims hes opposed to a federal abortion ban downed trees, damaged homes, a possible tornado, devastating parts of louisiana, and a Critical National security tools shot down by republicans after donald trump told them to kill it 6 00 a. M. Here in washington, here is a vibe. Look at capitol hill on this thursday morning, a place that is functioning, i guess the way we come to expect that it should function or not should function, but does function. Anyway. Good morning, everyone. Im casey khan. Its wonderful to have you with us this morning. Republicans in the Arizona State legislature blocking attempts to repeal the 18 64 law, banning all abortion there with just a single exception for the life of the mother. As outrage grows, Presumptive Republican president ial nominee, donald trump is trying to convince voters that he
continue to follow breaking news and an extraordinary request by special counsel jack smith at the supreme court decide to whether the former president have immunity from prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office, this will be the first time the high court could weigh in on the historic prosecution of the former president. joining us now is a senior supreme court analyst job is cubic and paula reid. so, paula, this is a pretty aggressive move from the special counsel. what is the play? that is exactly right, this is the first time the special counsel jack smith has gone to the supreme court, he is asking it to decide if the former president is immune from criminal prosecution. that is a constitutional question that has never been decided, but really what is at stake is the timing of trump s first criminal trial. trump has been litigating this issue of immunity, he lost at the district court level and signaled he would appeal, the next stop would usually be