ferguson, former george w. bush administration justice from an official john you and award-winning author shall be steel it up first, here is a portion of a 2013 interview with george scholz, secretary of state during the reagan administration. he talked about his book, issues on my mind. and issues on my mind you right when it comes to terrorism we in this country must think hard about the moral stakes involved if we truly believe in our democratic values and our way of life, we must be willing to defend them. passive measures are unlikely to suffice and means a more active defense and deterrence must be considered and given the necessary political support. well, you say if you have a law enforcement approach, you say, okay, let a terrorist act happen and then we find out who did it and then we try them in a u.s. court and if we make them guilty with their endless appeals they go to jail. well, what does that accomplish? a certain deterrent but in the meantime the terror
campaign. then vice president mike pence speaks at the house republican in baltimore. and later, newsmakers with neal bradley, executive vice president of the u.s. chamber of commerce. madam speaker, let s begin with the gun debate. the house is already passed a bill. any sense of what senate republicans would support when it comes to gun legislation? to askreally would have them, but i know what the support.people 90% of the people support commence background check is what we and that passed almost 200 days ago. earliest days of the democratic majority. passed the we legislation that had been sitting over there for 200 days. gunpeople a day die from violence. 40% of them children or teenagers. many of those deaths could have been prevented with background checks. from your standpoint, are background checks a starting point or endpoint with gun legislation? speaker pelosi: background checks are a critical point because they save the most lives. people talk about other ini
sat down with c-span to discuss a number of issues including trade, gun legislation, the 2020 elections, and the trump administration. this is 25 minutes. let s begin with the gun debate. the house is already passed a bill. do you have any sense of what senate republicans would support when it comes to gun legislation? speaker pelosi: you would have to ask them. i know what the american people support. common sense background check legislation. that is what we passed almost 200 days ago, in the earliest days of the democratic majority. we passed legislation that has been sitting over there for about 200 days. 100 people a day die from gun violence, many of them children and teenagers. many of those deaths could have been prevented with background checks. arerom your standpoint, background checks a starting point or endpoint with gun legislation? speaker pelosi: background checks are a point because they save the most lives. people talk about other initiatives, which are imp
[ laughter ] and my guess is with that he ll probably find his way here at some point in the near future but i am confident our alumnus michael bloomberg is in the room today. [ applause ] supporter of the bloomberg school of public health and, of course, of the bloomberg american health initiative launched two years ago with mike s extraordinary commitment of $300 million. that used to be a really big number for johns hopkins. [ laughter ] but i digress. as you surely have seen, today s agenda is future-looking but as mike bloomberg frequently reminds us, to look ahead effectively you have to look back. sometimes way back so in this case i want to go back to new england in 1736. that year a strange disease swept across the region that would claim the lives of one out of every 40 people in the colonies and moist were children. locals called it the strangling angel. we call it diphtheria. for one minister who experienced this catastrophic loss of life firsthand the only explan
and there was a large jewish community in holland who then established themselves in brazil, but then the portuguese seized that community, and the portuguese were still persecuting jews. so they escaped and sailed almost possibly accidentally into new york harbor, as you say, in 1654. and they founded the congregation israel which was, which still exists on central park west. it s the spanish-portuguese synagogue. and it is orthodox. if you go there today on high holy days, you ll see that people wear top hat and tails on the holy days, and tennis shoes. [laughter] and so that was the first division, you re right, between those two tribal, you know, ethnic origins. but, of course, there were many different ethnic divisions among jews, polish and hungarian, and they formed their own societies. but i think the answer to your question is, has to do and i love this aspect of american judaism, because it has to do with trends that were underway starting at arou