Years and counting. It is my pleasure to introduce rachel Investigative Reporter and frequent contributor to spl center. Org journalism sector. Her wor work has covered a myrif topics and she has reported extensively on the activities of the altamerican and their supporters. She will be saying a few words about the Southern Poverty Law Center before we launch into the discussion for tonight. So please welcome rachel to the strand bookstore. [applause] hello, everybody. My name is rachel and i manage Investigative Reporter for the wall center and i want to thank all of you for coming out and supporting what we do at the center. I want to take a minute in case you dont know the specifics of what we do. Seeking justice, fighting hate and teaching tolerance. The first, seeking justice we have lawyers and legal staff that are more talented than myself but do litigation on civil rights work all over the south and all over the rest of the come trade and Teaching Staff they produce material fo
And also with that we have [laughter] we have a commentary on the constitution of the United States, two volumes. This is gorgeous. And also what we call the familiar exposition of the constitution of the United States by the joseph story, and with all modesty i must say it has a foreword by me. [laughter] [applause] now if youll join us all, and we have in the foyer we will have a reception where you can personally meet the judge, but before we leave i just want to thank you again personally for being with us for all youve done for the law, and particularly for being with us tonight. Thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] we take you live now to the National Press club for remarks from Veterans Affairs secretary robert mcdonald. You will be speaking today but efforts to improve medical care and other services for veterans. Secretary mcdonald has been on the job for just over 100 days. It took over the department after former secretary Eric Shinseki retire
2013, people were arrested during their moral mondays protest. Now they are planning their biggest protest yet, the moral march on raleigh. Today we are joined by bill moyers and will air excerpts of his new record on the political crisis in the tar heel state. Years, first time in 150 republicans controlled the governorship and both houses of the legislature, where they have a vetoproof majority, and they are enacting laws that will touch every north carolinians pocketbook, every student classroom, and every voters experience at the pole. Bill moyers and state of conflict North Carolina. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Over 60 people were killed in egypt is weakened in clashes around the third anniversary of the uprising that ousted hosni mubarak. Thousands turned out in her rear square, the epicenter of the revolution, but fighting broke out between members of the Muslim Brotherhood and state backers
There is a february thirteen year and a bit in washington senior watching arts america the Winter Olympics are underway in sochi russia this year someone takes marks the largest winner gains in history. The competition bus twenty eight hundred athletes from eighty eight countries months ago quick look at the medal count. All this point. Norway eu meeting with a total of thirty thirty medals in second place in the nether lands with how battles fall by the United States with the same number russia has a total of eleven medals followed by germany canada austria and sweden and for more on the games lets go to rt course my hall scott was in sochi. Well despite the fact that some of americas biggest dollars of saiful failed to deliver here in sochi twenty fourteen including sk applied in a low speed skate to shoddy davis and snowboarder shaun white the middle school team usa have started to come thick and lost particularly in the mountains across the pollyanna. The first ever schemes like st
The russia investigation, something about the way i was conducting it, the president felt created pressure on him that he wanted to relieve. And its my judgment that i was fired because of the russia investigation. I was fired in some way to change or the endeavor was to change the way the russia investigation was being conducted. That is a that is a very big deal and not just because it involves me. It involves the president. Comey said President Trump made clear that he wanted him to drop the investigation of general michael flynn. He quoted the president as telling him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. Do you know of any case where a persons had been charged for obstruction of justice or, for that matter, any other criminal offense where this they said or thought they hoped for an outcome . I dont know well enough to answer, and the reason i keep saying his words is i took it as a direction. Right. I mean this is the president of the United