good afternoon. you may be seated. my name is robin wilkerson, and i amrs the co-chancellor of norh central university. to all the friends and the family of george floyd, and all of augustine guests here today, i want to welcome you on behalf of the university, on behalf of dr. scott hagan, president, on behalf of the board of regents, on behalf of the faculty. we are so grateful that you were here with us today. and we are honored that you ve come to mourn the loss and celebrate the life of mr. george floyd. on behalf of everyone here, i want to personally express our deepest condolences for this tragic loss. now, to open this service, the celebration of his life, will have aeb scripture reading from reverend jerry mcafee, pastor of new salem missionary baptist church, followed by an opening prayer from dr. scott hagen, president of north central university, and a solo by mrs. porter. on behalf of the pastors and preachers from minneapolis and st. paul, the bloods on t
people brace for another potential indictment of donald trump, it could come today, could come in two days. it could come in two weeks. the secretive nature of these proceedings means your guess on the time of any indictment is as good as ours. we do know for sure that while the grand jury hearing evidence and testimony in the january 6th investigation has been meeting on tuesdays and thursdays, so far they have not met today. you don t know what that means but we share it anyway. in the meantime jack smith appears to have already navigated his way through many of what could be primary witnesses in potential criminality in the lead up and on january 6th. take richard donohue who we mentioned an essential voice related to the prosecution of the aftermath of the november 2020 election. what trump told him to do is to essentially fraudulently overturn a u.s. election without any evidence. he wanted his ceo jay brass to publicly, quote, just say the election was corrupt and then
but the threat of violence also looms directly over the jewish community like never before in recent american history. attacks on jewish institutions, they are up 61% from 2020 according to the anti-defamation league. just yesterday, the fbi warned of what it describes as a broad threat to synagogues in new jersey. the new york times reports that as a result of a warning, the new york police department immediately announced it had stepped up its monitoring to ensure the safety of every area that encompasses our jewish citizens and synagogues. of course, we all know that none of this is happening in a having vacuum. it s bubbling through sports, culture and our politics. they re the anti-semitic outbursts on social media by kanye west. there s the refusal by kyrie irving to disavow a post he made linking to a documentary filled with conspiracy theorys about jewish people. he s been suspended for at least five games. a statement from the team reads in part kyrie irvin
all right. good afternoon, everybody. happy tuesday. as advertised, i m going to be joined today by bret mcguirk. bret has been here a couple times before. bret just left the national security council meeting with the president. the president, as you know, convenes his national security council every few weeks to review the progress that we re making against isil. bret presented the meeting and now is here to provide an update to all of you on that. bret s title is special presidential envoy to the global coalition against isil. he s got a presentation that he ll offer up and then he ll take some questions, he ll leave and then i can take your questions on non-isil related topics from there, okay? with that, bret, you want to take it away? sure. thanks, josh. so, thanks for having me. i thought i would give an update on the counter-isil campaign. last time i was here, it was about six months ago. i have a lot of new information which i ll convey. the president just co
i work÷ú in my capacity, primarily, addressing questions around ethnics committee. while there are a lot of questions in health care related ethnics both critically. there are many questions i m going to speak at 10,000 level and then drill this down to the ÷ first thing we have to keep in mind, we provide counselzv to people. individual clients and my presujts we re speaking about organization, some of which are hr nature x some of which are industry and health care, which are an expression of religious teachings. they re not businesses orzv socl service agents, but rather also other religious committees within the christian continuum of the other rely jougs communities. dealing with an population in contrast to short term hospital stay stays, so providing advicep we have to be aware of the identity of the client and how the identity is reflected in its culture and it s represented in practices especially i will say in the last 15 or÷ú 20 years, tremendous shift i