Stead. Shes the Principal Deputy director of dni, the director of National Intelligence so shell be able to come up here and talk about some of the stuff that shes pursuing. So with that, im going to introduce jessica ditto, whos a Deputy Communications director and shell be moderating this panel. Los angeles with Heather Wilson, Heather Brand associate general attorney and sue gordon, executive director of dni. Hello. Good afternoon. Thank you for being here and thank you to everyone whos tuning in on cspan and youtube and those of you in the audience. Its not often that you get to follow the president on stage, so thats a lot of pressure for me. But lets first start by giving a round of applause to our first panel discussion, we really appreciate those of you who took your time to be here today. Lets give a round of applause to the first group of panelists that we have. We have a Diverse Group of women from a wide variety of communities across the country on stage to discuss an issue
During president trumps first year in office. Watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern saturday morning and be sure to join us for washington journal on sunday as we look back on the oneyear anniversary of the womens march on washington. Sunday, on cspans q a, noah feldman and his book, the three lives of james madison. The constitution is madisons monument. In that way, the constitution is all around you when you come to washington, d. C. The whole threepart structure of government. The way the government interacts. The way people speak to each other to exercise their free speech. All of that is madisons monument. Sort of as was the case in st. Pauls where the monument says, if you seek his monument, look around you. If you seek madisons monument in washington, d. C. , look around and youll see it everywhere. Q a, sunday, 8 00 p. M. On cspan. Veterans Affairs Secretary dr. David shulkin testified on the state of the veteran Affairs Department before the Senate Veteran Affa
Are your states problems and how is your governor addressing those problems . Here is how you can call and let us know 2027488001 for mountain and specific time zones. If you want to post on this thought about your states problems, you might do so on twitter cspanwj. And you can post on our facebook page. Of currentampling issues involving governors across the United States, we start in louisiana with the new elected governor, john bel edwards. Already addressing the states budget issues. He says, hes holding a special session to do so. Saying that escalating rhetoric majord a grim picture of problems for Higher Education, health care and other services unless the Legislature Agrees on how to come up with 930 million by june 30. He says without legislative action, baton rouge some campuses would be declaring bankruptcy. And health care would suffer devastating cuts, including hospital closings. It means the difference between life and death. That is in louisiana. Turning to new york, G
The way. After pressure from activists, president obama is ready to fix what everybody agrees is the nations broken immigration system, announcing he will unveil his executive order during an address from the white house tomorrow night. Mike viqueira joins us from the white house. What is the president expected to say . This is something the white house and the president have been talking about for months now since House Speaker john boehner informed him in a private setting that he would not be able to advance or unable to advance immigration reform. It was the summer of 2013 when it passed the is not with bipartisan support. The president said he was going to take these executive actions, going around congress essentially and try to do something about the 11 million individuals who are in this country illegally and living in the shadows. The president wants to bring them out of the shadows, but postponed that action initially for the end of the summer wednesday before the election, n
Message where it needs to be delivered, that the time is critical and i look forward to being part of the solution. Thank you very much, mike, for your comments and your contributions. Ill take it a little bit out of order now and take my law partner and former member of congress, state of georgia, congressman Jack Kingston to give his perspective on some of the things theyre doing down in georgia, particularly in the port project area and hes now with us, with these projects probably had something to do with them back when you were in congress yourself. Jack, why dont you go ahead and tell us about what is happening down there. Thank you very much, senator. I have to take a point of personal privilege that i really came here to lobby jennifer on going ahead and getting a fast lane on 395. I think we all would like to see that happen. And, mike, i want to say my mother actually lives in louisville, colorado, and your toll road is great. Thank you. Ive driven it many times. It is such a