Take effect, sunday at noon, damascus time. According to secretary of state Rex Tillerson the president opened his meeting with putin by raising concerns , about moscows meddling in the 2016 president ial election. He said putin denied being involved, President Trump has avoided stating unequivocally that russia interfered in the election. President trump referred to mexicos president , as his, friend and their first facetoface meeting. That also took place in hamburg. Back in january, president nie to cancelled a meeting with trump following tensions and questions of mexico paying for the United States border wall n this meeting they discussed terms of the north American Free trade agreement between the u. S. , mexico and canada and, according to reports they do not, discuss the border wall. And in the meantime on the streets of hamburg authorities tried to prevent groups of anti capitalist protesters from disrupting the summit. Protesters started fires in the streets while German Pol
[applause] my name is justin desmangles. I am the chair of the before Columbus Foundation. About eight years ago i proceeded in that position, our founder, ishmael reed, we are very fortunate to have with us joining the program today. There were some very big shoes to fill. Of course, i want to thank our friends at the San Francisco jazz center who had been so generous in their support of the american book awards for the last several years. Also our friend at cspan who continue to support the Historical Mission of the before Columbus Foundation and american book awards. I will say a few things about our direction that we embarked on recently. Over the past several years we have expanded our programming to include a number of partnerships in the bay area and nationally, including those with the San Francisco Public Library who i am very honored to say, one of the representatives, stuart shaw who has been instrumental facilitating the collaboration between the before Columbus Foundation
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Just before noon he signed an Executive Order formally withdrawing the us from the tra ns pacific partnership. It was a Campaign Promise and a key tenet of his pledge to deglobalise, putting in his words, America First. Our diplomatic editor, mark urban, looks at what trumps first day tells us about a new direction for america. Back to work on a blowy, rainy morning for the people of this city. For the new president , after a weekend of political bluster, a day to demonstrate that the Wind Of Change you porters bluster, a day to demonstrate that the Wind Of Change supporters had voted for had hit the white house. First one is withdrawals from the of the United States from the Trans Pacific partnership. Everyone knows what that means, right . Weve been talking about this for a long time. Mr trump signed three Executive Orders today, stopping a pacific trade deal, freezing governmentjob recruitment, and halting funding for abortion education overseas. That follows an earlier order to hob
Today, theyll look slightly different come election day. You wont see this secure cartridge or the printout that logs your vote. Each machine is tagged, and its locked. It will be opened at the polls. There is no hacking into 4,000 standalone voting machines. Theyre not connected to the internet. Reporter he says there have been cases of voter fraud but after the votes have been cast, and he added, by people who have been able to access the numbers. Theyve indicted people. Theyve prosecuted people. There have been guilty pleas in almost every cases. Reporter he says once a voter hits the button, the vote is recorded more than once. The final votes are counted up about three weeks postelection. Even though your vote is stored, counted, and printed out, all votes along with it are counted again. As for comments about votestealing, schmidt wont address them. He says he can only speak about the sanctity of the election process in the city of philadelphia. Any time a vote is cast on a votin