good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon everyone, welcome to the national league both cities, it s a pleasure to have you and what we call city hall away from your city, town or village in america. the national league of cities is an organization that represents 19,000 city, towns and for being here because we re releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. each person in this room is here for a reason. you re interested in what is happening in cities all over america. perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the fiscal nature of the data on our communities. you really want to hear about the pressures city leaders face every day in balancing their budget, dealing with issues, the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues. or you just want to make sure that you re in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. for all of thes
good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the national league of cities. my name is clarence anthony. i m the ceo and executive director of the national league of cities. it s a pleasure to have you in what we call city hall away from your city, town or village in america. the national league of cities is an organization that represents 19,000 city, towns and for being here because we re releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. each person in this room is here for a reason. you re interested in what is happening in cities all over america. perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the fiscal nature of the data on our communities. you really want to hear about the pressures city leaders face every day in balancing their budget, dealing with issues, the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues. or you just want to make sure that you re in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing w
good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon everyone, welcome to the national league both cities, it s a pleasure to have you and what we call city hall away from your city, town or village in america. the national league of cities is an organization that represents 19,000 city, towns and for being here because we re releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. each person in this room is here for a reason. you re interested in what is happening in cities all over america. perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the fiscal nature of the data on our communities. you really want to hear about the pressures city leaders face every day in balancing their budget, dealing with issues, the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues. or you just want to make sure that you re in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. for all of thes
the moderator is going to join us live. plus, why it matters what a media owner thinks. we re going to get in the reports about him saying one thing. and we ll talk about the effort to relaunch an african news channel. media brian coming up later. but first, what the mar-a-lago search reveals about america. donald trump has so often taken us into unchartered water. and that s what we re waiting to find out, what was he hiding, what were in the boxes, will the justice department indict him? can me mount a coherent defense? the details are come out. let s zoom in on this morning s front page. hints about the fore coming prosecution. the reactions of that headline as well. talk on the right is darkening the times says, and violence is rising. it really can t get much darker than it is right now. media outlets that are far from right-wing are issuing stark warnings. an assault of legitimacy of the american state and set the stage for violence. fox is saying what happened at mar-a
broken a big story. it says the u.s. visa process missed the san bernardino wife s online zealotry. it reported that the woman passed three background checks by u.s. immigration officials and that, quote, none uncovered what ms. malik made little effort to hide. it makes it sound like she was posting on facebook for everyone to see and the u.s. ignored it. this bombshell quickly became politicized and was even cited at tuesday s republican debate here on cnn. we didn t monitor the facebook posting of the female san bernardino terrorist because the obama dhs thought it would be inappropriate. and then we now learn that dhs says no, we can t check their social media. for heaven fakes every parent in america is checking social media and every player as well. but that story was wrong. on wednesday, fbi director james comey revealed that malik s social media activity was in fact private, incrypted and invisible to the public. he calls the times story a garbillion l. this is