President bush laura and i are honored you all came. Thank you for opening your door to the concerns about our vets. I want to thank david for being here, secretary of President Trump will sign the bill. This will give you some tools to reform the v. A. If anybody can reform the v. A. , you can. You are a strong leader and were happy to have your service for our country. [applause] a lot of times, you hear people gripe about the v. A. Its important for our citizens to care deeply about our vets transition. This today, three educators from three parts of the country. It spends a lot of time on Veterans Issues. My predecessor at the bush center is now head of the from they of north i university of texas system. A meaningful higher education. They felt a little out of place. Primarily because of age and partly because of experience. I want to thank you for being here. We have a lot of thats here today. I wish you would stand out so we could recognize you. Vets and families. [applause] may
Ptsd reintegration of our veterans into society so its a great book that i recommend that you read it. I serve also as the cochair of the literacy caucus here in washington and one of the things i encourage everyone to do is read. This summer obviously be read a lot of boring things here in washington, papers and policy papers and all that but just for fun this summer im going to read david baldacci. Ive read about every book hes ever written starting with his first one and ive never given up on him. Also i want to read jon meacham spoke on Andrew Jackson. Reason im reading that is Andrew Jackson was the first person to hold my congressional seat and in tennessee where i live the district has to presence. One is Andrew Jackson and the other standard johnson so those are folks i like to read about this summer. Good evening everybody. Thats nice, you dont usually speak back great thanks for coming with another in our series is pure series. I get ask you to silence your cell phones, turn
In women and girls. Seizing these opportunities will help prevent crisis in the future but we must still respond to the crisises of today. We cannot turn away from the more than 60 Million People who have been forced to flee their homes, the highest number since world war ii. Many are fleeing the very same terrorists that we are fighting. Now is the time to do more by welcoming more refugees to america. Without discrimination based on race, religion, or ethnicity. And providing more support to refugee hosting countries. And we cannot defeat violent extremism when millions of people see a future of continued injustice and lack of opportunity. Development programs can help address underlying issues that make communities more vulnerable to violent extremism, getting directly to the causes of this problem not only addressing the symptoms. And we cannot ignore how so many challenges are exacerbated by the plague of corruption. Its not just the panama papers. The scale of corruption as much
Survivor in 2001. He punched the man so hard it left him brain dead at a hospital where he died days later. It all started with a fight in traffic. The victims friends spoke with news channel 8 what happened. It is hard to believe that something so senseless could happen. Reporter years later, another case of road rage drive on and mind your own business. Reporter the shooter in this case, Robert Padgett was on the scene administering cpr when paramedics arrived. He was trying to save the mans life. He was questioned and then anywhere from the victims wife from 2001 . Did she have anything to say . Reporter in addition to the shooter, we asked him what he thought about this situation. He tells us that it is difficult and he did not wa talk about it today. As for the wife of the victim from 2001, she tells us this is poetic justice. He spent years on the run. Now, a suspect in a deadly hit and run on i275 is in custody. The family of the victim finally has the been waiting for. Kandis m
Involved talking about bureaucracy. Varney and company is about to begin. Tom the dow in record territory after sending the alltime record high yesterday, we are up 9 points on the dow, same for the s p 500, that is going higher as well so new records for both of those. Walmart is one of the dow stocks you dont see moves like this from walmart very often, down 4 right now despite higher sales spent a lot of money on worker pay and building its web presence, profits down 7 as a result and the stock you can see it is heading lower. Home depot another dow stock a lot of people spending money on their home and garden this spring doing very well at home depot of 7 the stock was up now is back on the price of oil that there is going lower, 57. 80 a barrel, gas today 2. 70, the National Average for a gallon of gasoline. Hall of fame quarterback jim kelly, an amazing story of survival, he beat cancer, he and his family are here to talk about it. 10 minutes from now. Is not every day you hear a