And you can send an email. The phone lines are open. You can start dialing in. Lets begin with the Foreign Relations Committee Hearing yesterday where secretary of the john kerry was asked about his reaction to the gop letter. [video clip] my reaction to the letter was utter disbelief. During my 29 years here in the senate, i never heard of nor even heard of it being proposed, anything comparable to this. If i had, i can guarantee you that no matter what the issue and no matter who was president , i would have certainly rejected it. No one is questioning anyones right to dissent. Any senator can go to the floor any day and raise any of the questions that were raised in that. But the right to the leaders in the middle of a negotiation, particularly the leader that they have criticized other people for even engaging with the writing to, to write them and suggest that theyre going to get a constitutional lesson which by the way was absolutely incorrect, was quite stunning. Host the secret
President obama, wrapping up at the National League of cities conference. Coverage continues this afternoon with jay johnson and sally jewell, the featured speakers. We will also included transportation discussion with anthony foxx and we will hear from epa Administrator Gina Mccarthy in that panel. It all starts live at 3 30. Also today, we will get remarks from Bernie Sanders the luncheon speaker at the National Press club, he is expected to talk about his priorities and floor debate for the budget resolution. The house is not in session this week. Members are away for a weeklong break in their home districts. The senate is in and will gavel in at 2 p. M. Eastern. Here is what is on the agenda for them this week. Niels good morning to you. John i want to talk about the iran deal that is going on and the bill that was expected to be on the floor this week in the senate and then got pulled. What has happened with the floor schedule was we had what is going on there . Niels what has hap
Whether to oppose or the support the patriot act. If you support it, 202 7488000. If you oppose it like senator rand paul, 202 7488001. You can also join in on the conversation by sending us a tweet at cspanwj or on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. This is from the hill newspaper rand paul has the page react in the palm of his hand. The senate will hold a rare sunday evening vote. The late hour and the lack of a clean pass forward means that any senator hasnt do amount of leverage due amount of leverage, that is where rand paul comes into play. Overnight, the passing of the Vice President s oldest son. Both biden beau biden. He was 46 years old. This message from the Vice President s office. The entire family is sad beyond words, we know that beaus spirit will live on in all of us. Beau biden, 46 years old. After a battle with brain cancer passing away in the washington, d. C. Area. Also from the boston globe and injury for secretary of state john kerry. He was helicoptered to a swiss ho
Item number three. I know we understand the importance of the work here, but certainly the recent incident in can kansas city is glaring, the foot ball player is a tragedy. I talked on the radio about it and talked about it at the club with the young men and women. That is certainly on my mind and not that we need more focus but certainly thats why were here. Thank you. I just want to reiterate the women that came forward there has been substantial changes in the way Domestic Violence cases are prosecuted and vghtded. You will hear more about that but when i started out there was Domestic Violence department and it was in the general Works Department and now there are victim advocates. We have come a long way and one of the things the article says you need to bring Families Together for financial reasons and other reasons and those are the reasons that hold people in battered relationships and when the police come the first time its not the first time it happened and people need to be
All of the Community Agencies have come together. Thank you very much. So i will touch on some of the trends and recommendations that were seeing from the Domestic Violence perspective. Domestic violence has been worked on much longer in San Francisco at a policy level and you will see that reflected in the numbers, but again when you combine elder abuse and child abuse and Domestic Violence its San Franciscos most reported crime, Family Violence. So you will see that still the majority of the calls that are coming in thank you come in to the community. As many of you know, and as the president of the Police Commission said its rarely the first time by the time the police are called or there is a criminal justice response and not Everyone Wants a criminal justice response so we are proud to be part of a community that speaks over 60 languages; that operates crisis l shelters and Legal Services for over 30 years and we are very proud of that. We are very proud of the probably 20 years,