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democrats call (202) 748-8000. republicans call (202) 748-8001. independents and others (202) 748-8002. we welcome your comments on our facebook page and will look for your tweets as well. just a quick note on the hurricane, we are expecting a briefing sometime in the half fema and0 or so, from will take you to that when it comes up. we will talk to a florida congressman within the hour. we re talking about the president s deal with democrats. the storm this morning downgraded to category four, churning through the caribbean on its way to florida. the news about the hurricane making the front page of newspapers across the country. as is the deal that has been reached with congressional democrats and president trump. the headline this morning from the washington times, bipartisan deal seen as a new era for president trump. president trump won s first bipartisan legislative victory thursday as the debt spending deal approved. democratic leaders, he writes, vowed to resist ....
betsy devos, it was billed as a major policy address. she was addressing campus sexual assault and the rules implemented by the obama illustration. did you get a chance to see that or read what she had to say? guest: i certainly read it. to say i was disappointed or upset is an understatement. and sheines the problem talks about one in five women are victims of sexual assault or survivors of it. mentions it happens to men and women, although 6% to mond, still sick t men, still significant. she goes into this whole speech and it was a failed. and then she describes what she says the guidance is under president obama and vice president biden, who took personal leadership in this. it is at fault, everything she said was not with the guidance says. she either has a total misunderstanding or misrepresented it. host: let s set the framework for what the obama administration did called title ix. that says no person in the united states shall on the basis ofsex be denied the ....
joining us this half-hour is oliver and elinor smeal, cofounder and president of the feminist majority, former president of the national organization for women. joining us this morning is agaiy in the aftermath of after a speech by the education secretary, betsy devos at george mason university near washington.ddress it was billed as a major policy addressed. she addressed the issue of campus sexual assault and the rules implemented by the obama administration. did you get a chance to see that speech or read what she had to say was work.in guest: i certainly read it. to say that was disappointed or upset by it is an understatement. she outlined the problem. she talks about one in five women are victims of sexual assault or survivors of it. she also, you know, admits thatg it happens to men and women, although smaller percentage to men, 6%. then she goes into this whole speech where she says her predecessors tried but it was a failed and then she describes what she s ....
young people and what young people are telling me is how does it happen that i end up 50, $50,000, $60,000, $80,000 in debt because i simply wanted to get the best education that i could. [applause] again, this is what keith ellison was saying. we have got to think outside of the status quo. we all take it for granted. millions of people in this country are deeply in debt for the crime of getting a higher education. you know what? that s pretty crazy. that is not right. what we want to do is to encourage every american to be able to get all of the education that they need, not punish people for getting an education. [applause] that is why we are going to do three things. again, this may seem radical but women s rights were considered radical. gay rights were considered radical. [applause] workers rights were considered radical. so here is the idea. the idea is that for many, many years, the idea of free public education being first grade through 12th grade was a great i ....
those people we afraid of because they will hurt someone or properly secured but program did not forgotten in those people that we are just mad at and don t have any other alternatives, we build alternatives in the community to deal with those folks. intervention in little. it has not been used as much, but we want to expand the opportunity. we want to give the judge an opportunity. forget about mandatory sentences. opposingnkly, we are almost all mandatory sentences. we have judges- to make decisions for let s not high their hands and say they have to send someone to prison. a person comes in and the judge says i want to be helped, or the judge convinces them and much like the drug courts we have talked about, or veterans courts or mental health courts, they enter into a program of diversion and they talk about with the judge what they need to do and they set specific times and goals and if they do it, one of the greatest things judges are great positive influences o ....