In the name of allah the merciful, we give imhad praise and thanks for his prophets and his messengers and the scripters which they brought. We thank him for moses and the israelite prophets who gave thus torrau or the old testament. We thank him for jesus, who gave us the apostles who gave us the gospels. We thank him for muhammad, even abdullah through whom the final revelation to the human family before the judgment of this world came, the holy quran. I am a student of the most honorable Elijah Muhammad. And i could never thank allah enough for his merciful intervention in the affairs of the black man and woman of america. By his coming. In the person of master mohammed it great. And we thank him for raising up in our midst as his messenger messiah to us, the honorable Elijah Muhammad. I greet all of you, members of the press, members of congress, members of the activist community. I greet you all with the greeting words, peace. We say it in the arabic language, asalam alakem. I wan
Of all the. We will leave the last few minutes of this. You can see the online and search cspan. Org. Gambling in momentarily for what we expect to be a brief pro forma session. No legislative business expected. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , november 17, 2017. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable luther strange, a senator from the state of alabama, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed orrin g. Hatch, president pro tempore. The presiding officer under the previous order, the Senate Stands adjourned until 11 00 a. M. On tuesday, november 11 00 a. M. On tuesday, november the center had a brief pro forma session today and will be back next week for a brief pro forma session next week. Then thanksgiving break. They will be back after thanksgiving to continue legislative work. Yesterday the fina
Attorney general Jeff Sessions, one of the speakers at the National Lawyers society federalist meeting in washington. Later there will be a keynote speech by white House Counsel gahn. D mc live coverage, here on cspan. [applause] host good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to be with you and to look at this overflow audience here. Particularly, its an honor to me to introduce a gentleman. Hat i have known for long time hes a good friend and certainly a person i have great admiration for. As lawyers we all appreciate the many responsibilities of the attorney general. He is, of course, the chief Law Enforcement officer of the area easedernment area eased the Legal Advisor to the executive branch. And he has a special responsibility to the people of the country to be sure that the constitution is preserved and protected. Sessionscareer of jeff could not have been better to make him such an ideallyqualified person for this responsibility. Jeff, of course, as you know,
There is no task too great and no goal beyond our reach. My fellow citizens, america is back and the future has never looked writer. Michael. I think what the president was somethingout that was a little divorced from the reality of his trip. Lets take a step back. For decades, the United States has played a central role in upholding peace and stability and prosperity across the asiapacific through our alliances, partnerships and through dealing with a very frank a straightforward way with adversaries like north korea and with competitors like china trying to make sure that everybody is able to benefit from a peaceful and stable or region. That is a relatively fragile peace. It takes a tremendous amount of diplomatic work to keep that going. President trump did over the last couple of weeks was feed some tremendously profound anxiety amongst a lot of our allies and partners in the region about credibility of american staying power in asia and the kind of really we have and whether or n
Question but we have a microphone here and if you could please get up and use the microphone, then he gets recorded and a bullet else can hear the question and the answer. So thank you in advance for that. Finally, we have two more events today, sometimes as beautiful the pictures but if you could not today that would be awesome. Thanks. If you enjoy this event with about 500 of author events a year to check out our november, december events calendar. Sign up for an email and also we opened up a bookstore at the wharf. If you havent been there, its been three weeks, check it out. With author events there and its a beautiful space to hold great events. Its worth the visit. Thats all the boring stuff. Im excited to be introducing Beverly Daniel tatum dr. Tatum is a clinical psychologist in research, black families of my commute, racial identity, and the role of race in the classroom. The nationally recognized authority on racial issues in america she is toured extensively leading worksho