host: on the next washington journal, terry jeffrey and elanor clift discussed the current state of the american dream in light of court rulings and race issues. then the term s big supreme court decisions and your comments. washington journal live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. we are partnering with our cable affiliates as we travel across the united states. join us this weekend as we learn about the history and literary life of omaha, nebraska. one of the first advocacy groups fighting for racial equality began their. re. it had the tradition as the city if you were black, you needed to keep your head down and be aware you are not going to be served in restaurants and stay in hotels. when the club began their operation, the idea the term civil rights was not used. they termed at social justice. the idea of civil rights was so far removed from the idea of the greater of the community of omaha or the united states that they were operating in a vacuum. they were operati
forms of agricultural labor. this entity situation in lebanon is quite tenuous. there is a serious challenge from isis in the northern part of the country. there are concerns about the infiltration of radicals of various sorts into some of the palestinian refugee camps. in the context a promise by saudi arabia to provide $4 billion to assist lebanon in for the reinforcing its military, that deal was an old saddle, a couple of months ago. it had to do with lebanon s reaction to the storming of the saudi embassy in tehran where, in the, the saudis to the lebanese were not sufficiently supportive of them. this is all, it s all part of this larger regional complex in the world which has allowed a domestic political party in lebanon and an ally of iran, and, therefore, a nemesis of saudi arabia. the saudis continue to be unhappy with the role hezbollah plays into this is all really about that. it s not really about what the lebanese had to say about the storming of an embassy .. m
believe it is not there will also the sheriff are not deputized to be enforcing federal immigration law that is a job for the federal immigration port authorities in there has been a circuit court decision that said this type of cooperation is not constitutional so that a is why you saw these cities led by democrats or the county s back off if. is there a parallel efforts in the house? there has been in the. past but nothing for a theey next few weeks so they could take a cue from the senate do we shortly after the bills come to the floor depending on how successful they are. . with anything with fruit and legislation reform what we re focusing on right now is appropriation bills to get those through the door working on the counterterrorism package and there are things they need to get done including the conference that just came out that they started to work, that that is another thing. it seems there has been several holds up to hold up with legislation with zika
not fallen action is easier for them to get a job with aer felony on the record and i do understand the retroactively reduces penalty that is say that is what we told you about at the time i industry and we can have a discussion about that but when we talk about retroactive reductions for drug penalties hydroxy how anybody could possiblyly object to that. let me know if you think it is wise to reform the mandatory minimum as well as general society and if it is it is not a bigger problem if you decide you re changing belloc. . . panel, reporting to this audience my understanding of what is going on is that there is a very large number of united states senators that do in fact support that legislation, just as various bills in the house. there is a very large number of members of the house of of representatives from both parties that support those bills. the gentleman who has the question is properly noting what the hurdle is. what does it take to get to the leadership in
of a course, we must cooperate w to challenge the news which is a threat for all of us. with having a fair state between us and a state that threatens everything, we cannot live easily. it would be a nightmare havg a neighbor next to you and you don t feel secure. neither baghdad was secure. we can cooperate. we can cooperate they must be equal. how are we going to get this relationship? we must sit down and negotiate. that s why we are talking about two parts. part building baghdad and part we are building ourselves. we can negotiate with baghdad about the future and the rest of the country and the rest of iraq andth about kurdistan. if we can cooperate with each other, that would be good. if not, that means we can choose two different path. we will not be get in baghdad. so the way they have been treating us as if we were guests in baghdad, it s over. we ask for more political power in the kurdistan region. this is the least people can accept from us. thank you. micha