Now, id like to invite Gleaves Whitney, executive director of the gerald dar ford president ial foundation, to the podium to introduce tonights speaker, gleaves. Thanks i would like to invite executive director of the president ial foundation to the podium to introduce tonight speaker. As joel just said, we are back. Look at this. It is great to have all these people in the auditorium after months of covid. I applaud you for being here. You came for a great program. For many years, almost two decades. But first, i want to welcome our cspan viewing audience. I want to welcome all of you in person. I think we have trustees we have president fords family members, greg ford, nephew of the president. Always glad you are here. Go ahead and applaud. Absolutely. Those of you who have into the skate for know that i have tried every which way possible, humanly possible to introduce bill in any way. One year, in fact, we used his haiku poetry. He is the author of a lot of haiku poetry that ended
Despite assurances from us or by john, that they will be 6 arrests in libya after devastating floods that caused to dams to collapse. And the city of during the cooling 1000 striking writers and hollywood reach an agreement with studios, but it still means final approval before its a done deal. The we start with a growing price of the southern border of the United States, a large number of Asylum Seekers, or continuing to crossover from mexico. Nearly 9000 people arrived on saturday alone. The mayor of el paso in texas says that the border city is now a breaking point. Wireless eagle pass texas has declared a state of emergency. Mexico has an agreement with the us to deport migrants back to their home countries. In an effort to combat the search and migrant numbers. But for many of the migrants, the journey is perilous. Nearly 2 150000 people. Thats a quarter 1000000 people from south american countries across the dairy and gap so far this year. Thats a dangerous stretch. Of jungle bet
Senate on cspan2. Today the Senate Waiting for action from the house of representatives on shortterm Government Spending legislation. Current government funding expires friday night many the government will shut down without action by congress. Live coverage of the u. S. Senate. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Answer us, eternal one, as we lift our hearts to you. Have mercy upon our lawmakers and hear their prayers. Remind them that you have set apart the godly for yourself, surrounding them with the shield of your favor. May they never forget that you alone can keep a nation safe. Lord, lead them on the path that will bring them to abundant life, telling them what to do and showing them which way to turn. As hanukkah ended last evening and christmas approaches, may your blessings and peace rest on our nation and world. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in rec
So i certainly hope they would be but i have no confidence as i sit here right now that they will. Senator nelson when, mr. Secretary, when you look at a map like this, a map of syria that i assume you handed out, somebody did thats a mess. And maybe it is the only solution is the solution of a political exit for assad so that we can go after these extremist elements. By the way, i had to leave the committee to do an interview on cnn, and the whole focus that they wanted to jump on was your statement earlier in the hearing that we had only trained up 60. But i pointed out to them what you said was the vetting is very difficult and in fact we are vetting some several thousands additional and the vet is a lot more tore tuesdayous because you certainly dont want to have a guy trained up and then you ends up aiming his gun back at us. In iraq, do you think that this new Prime Minister has the capability of getting out of his shiite mold and does he have the capability of bringing all the s
The last candidate hillary. What is the best strength . She is indestructible. She is the most resilient political figure in america. She is like Queen Elizabeth who became queen in the postworld war ii england and his queen today weve had four popes and one queen. Its like the cornea and band that no one told you you had. Shes been in our field of vision since 1992 but think of what she has survived in the course of that. Think of all of the scandals and controversy. She is the grandmother of obamacare and it didnt stick and she got back up off the floor. The scandals of the second term she ran in new york against rick who wasnt a candidate that made a bad mistake and she jumped on it. Ten years the first lady of arkansas she did care about health. She is a wonderful grandmother come of a dreadful candidate but she doesnt have to engage. They have money, they have most of the media, they have a machine and they have the math, they have the voter vault of team obama but mostly they hav