Good afternoon. Im attorney general josh stein of north carolina. I want to thank you as we are here to make this major announcement. Im pleased to be here with my colleagues attorney general Gordon Macdonald and attorney general leslie, and patrick halley, of u. S. Telecom and representatives a major Telephone Company spirit 12 companies have joined us today and they are at t, bandwidth, comcast,nk, charter, consolidated, frontier, sprint, tmobile, u. S. Cellular, verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robo calls. To first, i would like introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general Gordon Macdonald. Stein forou general your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. Issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robo calls. Us, theually all of scam calls are ubiquitous and regular annoyance. A veryo calls are
Their small boat got into difficulties off the french coast. Its understood that a number of people were pulled from the water and taken to the port at calais. The latest rescue operation comes after Senior Border force officials raised concerns that people in small boats are using children as human shields to evade police. Last week, over 900 migrants crossed to the uk. Well, the Northern Ireland secretary says the government is surprised by how quickly their rwanda plan appears to be working. Speaking at a british irish conference in london, Chris Heaton Harris said they hadnt expected the deterrent effect to begin before flights took off. It comes after the Irish Government said it has seen an 80 increase in Asylum Seekers entering from Northern Ireland. They want to return them to the uk, but the government says that will only be possible if we can send small boat migrants back to the eu. Boat migrants back to the eu. It was always going to be the case. We believed as a government
Continue in his post until a replacement can be found. Replacement can be found. Clearly emotional, mr yousaf said hes quitting to help repair relationships across the political divide. Political divide. No, ella whelan certainly bear no grudge against anyone. Politics can be a brutal business. It takes its toll on your physical and mental health. Your family suffer alongside you. I am in absolute debt to my wonderful wife, my beautiful children and my wider family for putting up with me over the years. Im afraid you will be seeing a lot more of me from how. Now. The race to replace humza yousaf starts now. Former deputy first minister john swinney says hes considering it carefully. Ive got lots of things to think about and theres the whole question of my, my family and i have to make sure that i do the right thing by my family. Theyre precious to me. I have to do the right thing by my party and by my country. So theres lots to be thought about and ill give all of that consideration in
Essential for freedoms sake that we take the white house in 2016. [applause] the future of our nation is at stake here it not suggesting you still car batteries. We must be tenacious. We must be unstoppable and we must get the job done this year and in 2016. There is no other choice. During the next few months as you are knocking on doors and maybe getting tired or want to waiver for a moment, i want you to think about something. Right now, somewhere in afghanistan, a Young American soldier is holding onto a rifle and demanding a post for our freedom. That warrior is there for you and for me. He is there every day, day after tour. Fterfter two [applause] surely you and i can knock on a few more doors and make a few more phone calls. Ands do this for america for our country. Lets do this for freedom. Millionsthis for those of fellow americans that have been left behind by this president. Thank you. [applause] i get to introduce our next speaker. She is absolutely spectacular. A friend o