Admiral howard president jackson, dean, faculty, students, thank you for this wonderful privilege that youve given me, this honorary degree. I will tell you, my fellow on arend this is pretty cool. It feels a lot like a superman cape. I want to know, does it stop bullets . [laughter] i could use that in my job. President jackson, fellow on i class of 2015 come its a sincere honor to join you on this extraordinary occasion. Today marks a triumphant milestone in your lives. Symbolically crossing the stage you will also cross over into the next phase of your lives. With each step, you will pound into your souls this week feeling of accomplishment. Years now, you will recall the challenges of that last calculus class, the anxiety of preparing for your last test, the excitement of your last big red freak out night and the last witnessing of the Shirley Ann Jackson weather machine. [laughter] [applause] avriladmiral howard i thought it appropriate that i start this speech and share with you
Committee as well. Republican of North Carolina. Thank you for talking to our viewers. Greta, its been a pleasure to be with you and to answer the calls as well. We want to welcome to our table Michele Jawando at the center for American Progress. Vice president for legal progress. Thanks for being here for this conversation. Thanks for having me. I want to start with the Police Shootings in North Carolina, in charlotte and tulsa. And talk about the trend. The Washington Post has a story this morning that Police Shootings are on par to be what they were last year, around 1,000 police killings. So, you know, as we begin to kind of consider this moment again for communities of color, particularly the Africanamerican Community, there seems to be a vicious loop that continues to play out. And i think sometimes we separate the hash tags or seeing the protests, and we forget these are family members. These are husbands. These are fathers. And while we as a country are reeliing with this trage
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff reports are just beginning to trickle in tonight, but already its clear, Hurricane Matthew has sent longsuffering haiti even deeper into misery. Theres word of at least seven dead and widespread wreckage. This is matthew pray for us woodruff its one of the fiercest caribbean storms in years, and its powerful core roared over the southwestern tip of haiti before dawn, with winds of 145 miles an hour. Emergency officials reported major damage trees were torn out of the ground, and roads and bridges were under water. Forecasters had said the storm would dump as much as 40 inches of rain on the poorest country in the americas. A reporter from the mi
I put myself in the shoes of that steelworker and ohio. The coalminer, the coal mining family in west virginia. The mother of two in detroit. And i really go to those folks, look them in the audience a come i want to take money from you and give them to corporation for public broadcasting. I will cut the wasteful government spending. The president is beholding to none of that. The president has drafted a budget for the entire nation. And my first budget report to congress, im going to ask for the elimination of the defense sequester. We had America First and America First candidate. We now have an America First president and it shouldnt be surprising that we have an America First budget. Martha can they make that happen . First, chief White House Correspondent john roberts takes us through this today. Good evening. The new budget of the president released today could be described in this way. Big increases in hard power, big cuts to soft power. Lets take a first look at some of those b
That is the question tonight. We welcome you to the first 100 days. I am martha maccallum. It is a uniquely d. C. Game of chess that is going on right now for you to the Trump White House is plotting a course correction. Who is leading that . Inside the trump team, and what exactly is their plan . There is no short of it of advice out there. The wall street the wall stree editorial calls for bipartisanship. You must build the collation from the center out, they say. On the other hand, the New York Post argues the only way forward is for trump to unite the Republican Party behind him. Informal advisor to the president , new Newt Gingrich, lays blame at the feet of the democrats. I think it is very strange that both the house and Senate Intelligence committees are chaired by republicans and yet, all the noise is about phony charges involving donald trump. Frankly, i am mystified why the Republican Leadership in both the house and the senate have been so timid and so unwilling to just ope