Conservatives. They have a majority of 1400 conservatives. They have a majority of moo in this seat overturning a conservative majority ofjust over eight thousand in the 2017 election. This is a by election in between general elections and it means that the new uk government of Boris Johnson has a working majority of one and that has implications for him and possibly for brexit. One and that has implications for him and possibly for brexitm should be said he took office with a working majority of two, including the confidence and supply partners, the confidence and supply partners, the dup. They were hoping they could hang on here or at least keep the majority of the lib dems down. What is crucial here is the turnout was big. Just under 60 and this constituency, geographically the largest in wales and england, was divided vote ways in much the same way as the rest of the uk on the 2016 referendum, voting in similar proportions. This constituency is being seen as a bellwether for brexit
Announcer now, the director of the group right on time discuss the decline on the use of the Death Penalty and the potential for the Supreme Court to in the practice. This is from the aspen ideas festival in colorado. It is about an hour. Thank you for being here. One of the greatest decisions a Society Makes outside of going to war is to whom apply the Death Penalty to. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where it is going. I cant imagine a better group of panelists. Steve is the president for the center for human rights. In my mind, the leading Death Penalty litigant in the country and has been for a number of years. Traveling throughout the country to bring these cases to fight. He had a big win in the Supreme Court a few weeks ago. He has been teaching at yell law school since 1993. Mark does really interesting work and is making the case for a conservative case for limits on things like mandatory minimums or the over criminalization not on a defendant perspective of indiv
Of jordan light. Jordan white. She was not necessarily a bad student. She was just really bored. She told me when she was in seventh grade, that her teachers did not get her. I remember thinking what does , that mean . She said they just do not get me. They do not understand what i need. She got a scholarship and also went to georgetown i believe and graduated the top of her class and her study was japanese studies. She went to oberlin. A little africanamerican kid from washington dc majoring in japanese studies. Graduated from oberlin and for , the last two years, she has been a translator for a Japanese Company in japan. Her mother went over to visit for the first time in japan. She called me when she got back and said, im just amazed at how well my child is doing. Those are the kinds of stories we hear over and over again. Children who had access to scholarships just took a different journey. Parents were happy about with we what they were doing and were more excited. My own child g
And a really want to thank the u. S. Commission on International Religious freedom, the department of Homeland Security for sending representatives to participate in todays discussion. Thank you, all. [applause] announcer our road to the white house coverage continues with the Green Party National Political Convention in houston. Earlier today, the green party chose jill stein as their president ial nominee. Speeches inceptance their entirety on sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Also available on the cspan radio app and the cspan. Org. Newsmakers, green Party President ial nominee jill stein talks about the 2016 president ial race. She officially received the nomination at the Green Party Convention held in houston. ,newsmakers is sunday on cspan. In his weekly address, the president talks about celebrating this years summer olympics. Representative buddy carter of georgia has the republican response, discussing the house agenda and its impact on health care. Pres. Obama every four y
With your families or friends . Here are the phone numbers. You can also share your thoughts on social media. The question this morning is whether or not this president ial election and the debates over have caused a rift with your family or friends. Research from the pew research center. They ask how many of your Close Friends support the opposing candidate . Some of this debate is taking place online. Data fromto this Online Harassment dated. Org they also ask whether politics play a role in who was being harassed this year. Politics being an important debate online and amongst family and friends at the Kitchen Table this year. We spoke recently with the institute of civil discourse from arizona and we asked about the state of political discourse in the country this year. The civility in our politics and in our communities is the worst its been since reconstruction. There is no question but what we downward slope in terms of our lack of respect for each other when we speak, the ideol