Amen. Thank you. [applause] let us pray. Father, we continue to thank you for this day. Lord, this is a day that you have made, and we shall continue to rejoice and be glad in it. Father, we thank you for the privilege of being able to call on your name. For youryou, father, love and protection, for the president , for his family. For thed, we thank you seed of life, and we pray that , andontinue to restore continue to strengthen his family. We rank you for cedric and his family we thank you percent of and his family and the precious gift of friendship, and we ask you that you will continue to bless major smiley and his wife tiffany as they stand on your word, which is for do all thingsan through christ who gives me strength. Fromlord, as we depart this place, we know that we will not depart from your grace. Is sufficient for any obstacle, any barrier that may try to stand between you and us. Father, we pray that you will continue to strengthen the tie that binds our hearts together as
The president kennedy documents. That is going to be live on washington journal. Join the discussion. Earlier this month, the ju dir jere Committee Held a committee on ending the deferred childhood act, known as daca and they are to come up with a more legal approach to come up by the end of the year. Welcome, everybody. Particularly to our witnesses on both panels, because i know that you put a lot of work into the preparation. We thank everybody for their participation, for their help. Before i give my Opening Statement for the topic of our hearing, i think that we all take a moment yesterday and today and for a long time in the future, but i do it now on behalf of the committee to recognize the victims of the Las Vegas Shooting and their loved ones. As you are aware, yesterday more than 59 americans lost their lives and more than 500 were injured. The carnage occurred, that occurred yesterday is truly heartbreaking. We are here today to consider how to address the issue created by p
Others have been our guest. Medea benjamin of codepink women for peace has been here and lynne cheney and tom hartman as well. Those are the authors we have had on this year. You can go to booktv. Org and watch the full interview with any of these authors. Tonight we will show you with Medea Benjamin and lynne cheney. We will begin with ms. Benjamin. Host Medea Benjamin, when and how was codepink founded . Guest peter, we were a group of women environmentalist that were sitting together in a retreat right after 9 11 talking about how we could deal and we g about the attack and the u. S. Invading ask and we were talking about how horrible it was that the United States was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11. We started laughing about the color coded alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts with the yellow, orange, and red saying how it was to keep people in a state of fear and that we needed another colorcoded alert to say there is a different way of dealing wit
The findings of her most recent research delivering on the u. S. Climate commitment a 10point plan toward a lowcarbon future you can download the complete Research Report that wri. Org publication. About us wr i is a global nonprofit Nongovernmental Organization that works closely with World Leaders to address urban global challenges at the intersection of Economic Development and the natural environment. At the u. S. Climate Initiative Program within wri we use vigorous independent research and Strategic Partnerships to help advance the United States transition to a strong, low Carbon Economy. And up front i want to thank the Research Team of the u. S. Climate initiative i completed a study that we are here to discuss today. And if i could have them stand. Karl hausker lead authors of this Research Study and the author and michael eric thank you very much for your work. [applause] we are focused on this issue because of the need to address Climate Change, and urgent need to address Cl
I mean, the bat news i bad ns this is some big monster. I think we are very well coordinated. Hurricane irma packing a powerful punch, still punishing florida at this hour as it climbs up the coast. Brian monster storms violent fury unleashing a devastating strike, forcing the Sunshine State to go dark. Thats the way it is right now with the sundown, leaving millions, by the way, without power at this hour. Up to 4 million. Steve steve irmas lengthy assault with winds over 100 Miles Per Hour. Turned streets into raging rivers and ripping off roofs. A lot of them. Ainsley you go, they caught that on camera. Massive storm blamed for at least five deaths, including two Police Officers down in florida as Hurricane Irma surges north. Its path of destruction now sparking rapidly rising life threatening water levels. Storm surges that could climb up to 15 feet. 10 to 15 feet of storm surge, i dont know how anybody survives that pray. I dont see prayer as a last resort it should literally be a