You, many of my friends in the white house and our great Vice President is right here. So thank you, mike, and so many of our wonderful cabinet. Its really a terrific day, and its so much fun, so much fun to have you here to celebrate a very important element of our culture and our life, africanamerican History Month. Right . Were very glad to be joined by our outstanding Surgeon General dr. Jerome adams. Jerome, thank you very much. I also want to recognize our great secretary of housing and urban development dr. Ben carson. Where is ben . [applause] great guy, great friend. And thank you to all the members of our cabinet and all of you who are here, and some of you came from far because this was very important for you to be with us today and thank you very much. Hope Christian Church choir, i said that is a beautiful sound i am hearing. And david a king is my friend. I saw you moving to the music. Thank you very much. Special, special person. Really, right from the beginning. Thank y
President trump thank you very much. I appreciate your being here. It is an honor for the first lady and i and a true honor to have many of my friends in the white house, the great Vice President is right here. Thank you mike. So many of our cabinet. It is a terrific day and so much fun, so much fun to have you here to celebrate a very important element of our culture and life. Africanamerican History Month, right . We are very glad to be joined by our outstanding Surgeon General dr. Jerome adams. Thank you very much. I also want to recognize our great secretary of housing and urban development, ben carson. Where is he . Good guy. Good friend. And thank you to all of the members of our cabinet and all of you who are here. Some of you came from far because this was very important for you to be with us here today. Thank you very much. To the Hope Christian church choir, i heard that sound outside. I said, that is a beautiful sound i am hearing. Friend. Ing is my i saw her moving to the m
Per hour. Back in ten minutes with more on the metro issue. Thanks. As melissa just mentioned happening right now, metro having some problems as it tries to roll out the newest 7000 rail car at the greenbelt metro station. We want to get to Meagan Fitzgerald with more on what happened before the rail cars get there. Whats the issue . Reporter well, a lot of folks are frustrated because theres an issue with the train that stalled on the tracks. Its monday morning, they were excited to ride on a brandnew 7000 series train. But if you take a look here, youll see thats not happening any time soon. Metro officials tell us that some sort of an issue with this train here. Not able to function properly so passengers had to get off and theyre certainly not happy about it. Now, it was around 5 35 when we noticed that the train was stalled. Passengers waited inside for a few minutes before metro employees told them they had to get off the train. Were told theres some sort of a mechanical issue th
Ten minutes. Well send it over to you. Im Nikki Burdine in laurel with a group of men who call themselves the 300 men march. They are walking from lawrm, maryland all the way laurel, maryland all the way down to d. C. Guys, can you tell me why youre out here walking this morning . Can you tell me why youre out here walking this morning . Were marching against the violence going on in baltimore city. Were not protesting. Were just a group of men who believe in our community and believe in the people. Thats why were out here. Were walking in d. C. To make a statement to let people know there are people actually out here who care about whats going on. Reporter when you get to d. C. , what are you going to do . Rest. Were just going to be welcomed by whoever is out there and let people know. We dont want to shout. We dont want anything. But we just want to bring awareness to whats going o300 men going on. 300 men march. Reporter these gentlemen have been walking since yesterday at about 6
To limit the use of predispute forced arbitration clauses in contracts for Financial Services and products. I strongly oppose the Congressional Review Act resolution to dismantle this vital Consumer Protection. Forced arbitration clauses force individuals to sign away their right to go to court as a condition of buying a product or service, and they allow Corporate America to take advantage of a shadow Justice System that is inherently biased toward the corporation, offers no meaningful appeals process. To put it bluntly, these clauses serve one purpose and one purpose alone. To help make sure the giant corporations still come out on top if they have wronged consumers. Thankfully weve started to make some progress in addressing forced arbitration. Five years ago the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau began an intensive study of forced arbitration clauses in consumer Financial Services contracts for things like credit cards, savings accounts and private student loans. The study confir