The house is coming in at 9 00 for an early session. We will bring you live coverage gavel to gavel of that. The president earlier this morning met with the European Union leader. This is what one leader had to say after meeting with the president. On one area, first and foremost on counterterrorism. I dont have to explain why. There are some issues that remain open like climate and trade. Sure we can say have a common position and opinion about russia. When it comes to the conflict in seems we are on the same line. However, my main message to is we give our cooperation and friendship its deepest meaning. Freedom, human rights, respect for human dignity. Today is thetask consolidation of the free world around those values, not just our interest. Principles, this is what we should be saying. That was the leader of the European Union council. The president will later go on to italy for the g7 meeting. If you go to www. Cspan. Org, you can follow our programming there. Another story in th
Watch the battle of midway 75th Anniversary Special live from the mcarthur Memorial Visitors Center in norfolk, virginia on june 2 beginning at 9 30 a. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. Announcer washington journal continues. Host joining us from capitol hill congressman Francis Rooney from florida, a former ambassador to the vatican from 2005 to 2008. I want to begin with the secretary of state Rex Tillerson to answer questions from reporters aboard airforce one as they left the vatican yesterday and headed to brussels. Here is what he had to say ahead of the president s meeting with nato leaders. Well, as the president has said, you know, he really wants to persuade nato members to step up and fully make their obligations under burden sharing. The two percentage g. D. P. Was a target they all agreed to. I think you can expect the president to be very tough on them, saying, look, the u. S. Is spending 4 . Were doing a lot. The American People are doing a lot. For your secu
We have a great group of members who are here and i know everybodys got a lot of different commitments this morning. We are also eager to hear from our witnesses and talk about a critical issue facing our country. Its really a crisis in our communities and its getting worse, not better and the crisis is this Opioid Epidemic. The country is being gripped by it. My state is in many states are. Its in every corner of my state. Earlier this month in ohio, there was a near fatal but now overdose following a routine traffic stop. He p he noticed there was white powder spread around the car. He did the right thing. He put on his mask and gloves, arrested some individuals,s, went back to the Police Station and noticed it on his shirt there was some powder so he reached up like this and brush the powder off his shirt. This guy is 6foot three, 225 pounds. A big man. He fell to the floorimmedi unconscious in overdose. They administered narcan immediately but it wasnt enough. Wapi they had to rush
Its people. This was recorded in tempe, arizona in 2015. It is just under one hour. Susan southard is one of this community and thats what makes this event very special. She holds an msa in creative writing from Antioch University in los angeles and was a non she lives and works in tempe, where she is the founder and artistic director of essential theater. She has taught nonfiction classes at Arizona State universities piper studio, and she has directed creative writing programs for incarcerated youth and at a federal prison for women outside of phoenix. She has also raised her family here. As a matter of fact, her daughter was once a junior staffer in our kids section. Let me tell you, she was the darling of the kids book department, not only for her love of books but also for her , personal winning smile much like her mothers. So you can see susan and her family have been one of our regular patrons and readers for many years now and one of our dearest friends. So for many years we ha
Smith who is an audio visual archivist at the herbert president ial library. You made an interesting discovery while working with home movies. What did you find . Well, it was an interesting thing i was working on evaluating the films measuring for shrinkage and all of that. I noticed some of these black and white film had lines on each frame. I pulled it out to make sure i wasnt seeing spots as it were. As the etch code indicated they curcolor. Which to me you would see image of color in the frames. They werent. I looked for dates indicated they were early 30s, late 20s. I did research and discovered that this was an early precursor to koto chromophilm. The design of the films, the mechanics, the lines i was looking at were little tiny lenses that would trap the color when film through a camera with a filter developed and then reprojected through the same filter on a projector. And thats where the color was seen. But from the naked eye it looked like a black and white film with odd st