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hardly knowing his own father and who by his own account didn t find his way until his late teens. he writes about that as well as how he balanced governing on being a husband and a dad in the book the promiseland. he was visiting with a group of young men who was part of my brother s keeper who talked about their lives and the challenges they face. are you going back to community organizing? well, i probably i m a little too gray-haired and old to be going door to door like i used to be and plus secret service still follows me around so i m pretty disriuptive, but am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. one of the things that inspires former president barack obama these days are meetings like this one. hey, people! ? hey, hey. it s called a bam circle. bam stands for becoming a man, a program that started in chicago in 2001 to mentor support boys and young men. how is everybody doing? the idea is to create a place for them to safely ....
country s rejection of donald trump in the 2020 election and became a critical battleground in the campaign by trump and his allies to overturn his defeat. a letter today from fulton county d.a. connie willis to judges and her fellow county officials saying in essence, clear your calendars. the new york times reports this, the georgia prosecutor leading an investigation into the former president and his allies has taken the unusual step of announcing remote workdays for most of her staff during the first three weeks of august. asking judges in the downtown atlanta courthouse not to schedule trials for part of that time, as she prepares to bring charges in the inquiry. the move suggests that the fulton county d.a. is expecting a grand jury to unseal indictments during that time period. thanks to court filings and reporting, we know that willis has cast a very wide net, with everyone from state gop officials to the ex-president himself, under scrutiny right now. the ne ....
ceiling. a familiar topic, but the circumstances this time are quite different. on friday, janet yellin announced that the united states will hit its debt limit this coming thursday. the debt limit is the maximum amount, according to law, that the federal government can borrow to pay for its obligations, to pay for things start to spend money on. that includes, all of the really important functions of government, everything from air traffic control to medicare and social security payments, congress decides what that limit is. so, secretary yellen wrote to house speaker kevin mccarthy, warning him that it is, quote, critical that congress act in a timely manner, to increase or suspend the debt limit, and quote. she wanted to explain that, quote, filler to meet the governments obligations would cause irreparable harm to the u.s. economy, the livelihoods of all americans, and global financial stability. all of that is true. to be clear, the united states government to fig ....
so did. mom s our and blurry couples early years in boston. i would imagine it was a sweetness to that time. it wasn t very long after they were married, and after they left boston and settled in montgomery. and then for their, until the end of his life in 1968, it was a very public life. that bomb, now the mortal arms entwined, holding each other up, clinging to the dream. thank you to craig often, for sharing that very important story with us. this important night of remembrance and renewal. and on that important note. i wish you, a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late, i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow the full faith and credit of these comments on the line. i think that s a real threat that both sides have to take seriously. tonight s, while we may be just days away from the first genuine crisis caused by the republican-controlled house. then, i don t know about size may n ....
peace process, but leaving the specifics up in the air. why does it matter? think back to how this year has unfolded. powell positioned herself, when she came in, part of that wing or faction in the white house. jared kushner, ivanka trump, but since then working to build rips with people like h.r. mcmaster is someone that the president trusts and looks to in some of these big settings and high profile moments. and she has influence here in the west wing. that said there have also been questions about her own sort of positioning or the rumors or speculation of where she wanted to end up. she was widely rumored to have wanted to get back to new york. her family is still there. which is obviously potentially part of what plays into this. but i would note just a couple things here. number one this may be just the start of what we re now seeing year book calling every day in twitter. calling into that yearbook specifically. there is room to question the voracity of beverly young n ....