I had two roll call votes i had to participate in. The environment of public works, we have a quirky rule in the sena senate, in our committees. If you want to vote no by proxy, that counts. If you want to vote yes by proxy, that doesnt count. So i had to be there in person. We can now get started. Rhea, are you ready . Yes. Thank you so much. This hearing will come to order. Today the committee convenes to discuss the issue of compensating student athletes for the use of their name, image and likeness, nil. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. Today, we will hear from keith carter, vice chancellor for Intercollegiate Athletics for university of mississippi, my alma mater, where i lettered in zero sports. Mr. Michael drake, chair of the National Collegiate Athletic Association board of governors and president emeritus of the Ohio State University. Ms. Deion collar, professor of law and director of the center for sport and the law at the universit
And now the person you all came to see. [cheers and applause] Michelle Lavonne robinson obama. She is a lawyer. She is an author. And she is the wife of the 44th president of the United States. Barack obama. Throughout her initiatives as first lady she has become a role model for women and for girls. And an advocate for healthy families, Service Members and their families, higher education, and international adolescent girls education. Her much anticipated memoir becoming will be published in the u. S. And canada on november 13th, 2018, by crown. A division of Penguin Random house. It will be released simultaneously in 24 languages. Considered one of the most popular first ladies [cheers and applause] mrs. Obama invites readers into her world chronicling experiences that have shaped her from her childhood on the south side of chicago, to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the worlds most famous address. Warm, wise, and becoming
A very warm welcome you are watching r. T. International with mina care and good to have you with us this hour and our top story preliminary results from the castle and Regional Election indicate the Pro Independence parties are set to keep that absolute majority in parliament they are projected to win seventy out of one hundred thirty five seats the pro unity Citizens Party meanwhile took around twenty five percent of the vote although that makes it the single most Popular Party the unions part unionist parties together will only have fifty seven seats the troubled spanish regions formally to carlos proved a month has held the outcome as a victory. Well the year you double that at the lawyer i want to congratulate the catalan people because they have sent a message to the world the catalan republic has beaten the monarchy and article one fifty five the spanish they has been beaten. And the official results will be announced on the fifth of january heres Jonathan Martin wapas with mont
Donald j. Trump he is a man who has shocks and outrages his critics as much as he thrills and galvanizes his supporters he has turned political norms on their heads. In the way leaders speak to their people most often in two hundred eighty characters a few it over the next hour we will look back on one here with the u. S. President without precedent. Wherever youre watching around the world welcome im come all santamaria this is an aljazeera news special trumps first year as we say at the exact time that dont trump was being inaugurated last year noon Eastern Standard Time seven hundred hours g. M. T. Here is what weve got coming up for youth out. Thousands of people getting ready for what is effectively round two of last years womens march the largest single day protest in u. S. History marches are happening across the country including the capital washington d. C. Further afield from north korea to jerusalem its been quite a year as trumps Foreign Policy created shock waves across th
Hello, everybody. This is Lowell Thomas greeting you from squaw valley in the Tahoe National forest where the eighth winter of Olympic Games are in progress. This is the greatest spectacle in all Winter Sports. The worlds best skiers and skaters have come to this remote valley. Squaw they have come to win if they can, lose if they must, above all take part in do their best. Behind the excitement of the competition, there is another story, the story of planning, of safetyg, of work, and of in the snow. Winterte for the eighth olympics was selected by the Olympic Committee well in advance of the games. Becausea was selected the surrounding mountains contain some of the best ski terrain in america. Most of it is within the Tahoe National forest. A rather tight little valley, named squaw because indian women once rested here whether men foraged in the mountains. It took several years to create an exciting olympic city here, a City Different from any other anywhere. Actual construction was