Economic policy studies residence color. Host the midges say that it is an honor to be sitting you and your book, i read the book from big to and various and especially a lot about your Passionate Politics and policy worked out. Despite all the stress he had to go through in congress. Thank you for writing this book is speaking up. Guest thank you very much. Im delighted to be here with you. To have the opportunity to speak about the book. I want to thank you for reading the book cover to cover. It really is very gratifying. Thank you. Host i was struck by the way you titled the chapters. You say in defense of and then the sick, the hungry, women, unemployed, why did you feel the need to write this book at this time . Is it your experience in policymaking that have the need to write this . Do you think there is a need today to highlight these issues . Guest it really is a defense of women and children and families essentially. The issues that have come up in the course of my tenure in
We have a great panel. We are a big group to talk about running from donald trump and running for people. Will bring up a couple different issues. I will keep question short and i will serve as timekeeper. We will try to keep answers quick. I last brought questions. How do outside Democratic Party platforms and manifestoes and lots of policy platforms, Climate Change and lots of different issues, how those impact how people are running as candidates. We hope to get a lot of different perspective. Everyone here will get a chance to comment on the role of these outside platforms. [inaudible] they are based out of canada but moving into the u. S. They want to use the intersection of race and politics to redefine it. Without further ado, a quick intro, i wont read everybodys bio, word for word because youre all fascinating people and we just be here telling everybody how cool you are. Ill give a quick introduction and then we should have about 20 minutes for q a at the end. If youre writin
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willie ledbetter, that is something that governor is waffling on. i would like to affirm that support. i want to close this pay gap. i want to lift more women out of poverty. i want to see that. heather: finally a nine-year-old boy gets suspended from school for standing up for himself. he had been bullied for months and couldn t take it anymore. this story i wanted to make sure we got to this. little boy was suspended because he fought back from this bully that had apparently been going on for months. administrators were aware of it and walk away, find a teacher. if anybody acts in a violent way, you are suspended but i m glad this child did stand up for himself. you have kids that committed
chuck grappling calling to expand the investigation to see if any involvement may have occurred with white house staff. specifically senator grassley wants to find out if anyone from the communication agency had any overnight guests that their hotel room or shared rooms at the hotel or other hotels in colombia. grassley wants to know, who would be reviewing these hotel records to ensure that sensitive information was not compromised by overnight guests. white house has said a couple times this week so far none of the people on the ground has been caught up in this scandal. i have no reason to believe. i do not know, otherwise, that this did not anything involve the agents and military personnel. we are in regular conversation with senator members of the white house staff and conversation with secret service getting briefed on the progress of their investigation. reporter: for the first time since the scandal broke, secret service director mark sullivan briefed president