What Public Office have you held before, if you have and if so hello, welcome to all of those of you who braved the weather to come join us today and also to our online all of a sudden. We really appreciate you joining us. Im tara watson, i direct the center for Economic Opportunity here at brookings. I was asked to join a project. It was under the auspices of the convergence collaborative and the goal was to discuss policies to support working families and i quickly learned that this approach was really serious about bringing together people from across the ideological spectrum and about facilitating productive conversation so several dozen of us spent quite a bit of time for the past year producing a report. Youll hear a bit about that today, especially in the first panel bull then because the process was so unusual, i wanted to give people the opportunity to hear more about work across the spectrum more generally. So our second pan panel will be focusing on productive ways to do tha
Institution. Hello. Welcome to all of those of you who braved the weather to join us today, and also to our online audience. We appreciate you joining us. My name is tara watson, i direct the center for Economic Opportunities at here right here at brookings. A year ago, someone asked me to join a project. It was under the convergence collaborative, which i did not know much about. The goal was to discuss policies to support working families. I quickly learned this approach was really serious about bringing together people from across the ideological spectrum and about facilitating productive conversation. So several dozen of us spent quite a bit of time for the past over the past year producing a report. Which you will hear a little bit about today, especially in the first panel. Then because the process was so unusual, i wanted to give people the opportunity to hear more about work across the spectrum more generally. So our second panel will be focusing on productive ways to do that.
Mind so says the hong kong prodemocracy activist after a court jailed him for his leading role in a twenty fourteen umbrella protest and banning refuses to answer u. S. Lawmakers questions about his time at the white house now he faces a congressional subpoena what does he know about alleged russian ties to the trump campaign. Welcome to the Program Thanks for joining us. China has criticized what it calls a cold war mentality after Foreign Ministers from twenty countries met in canada to discuss the north korean conflict the ministers discussed increasing economic pressure on in a bid to end the countrys Nuclear Ambitions u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson warns that the threat of war is far away and called on nations to remain sober and clear eyed about the current state of affairs. And japans foreign minister also weighed in urging the International Community to continue economic sanctions despite the recent warming of relations between north and south korea have a list north ko
Reporter the boyfriend died at the meld Medical Center and the tow truck driver taken to be interviewed. Sounded like a firecracker. Saw smoke. Pretty scary. Reporter including deloris smith, kept driving, leaving the corner seconds before the shots. Rang out. I usually go that corner store. Reporter you can see the silver minivan in question still here in front of the santana market so not successfully repossessed. The bank said it was a legitimate repossession. Police are still here, theyve been here throughout the day, collecting evidence and taking statements. The gunfight may have been caught on videotape, fanned it is so will they release the video to us . Fe we do get it, well report it to you. Developing at 4 00, new details in last nights deadly shooting. This video shows the man running away from police when he fell to the ground. Today the Police Commissioner said a witness tried to tell the man not to pull his gun as he scuffled with the officer. Our cameras captured that d