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are talking about elderly have nominated a man who said j ago that participation in social security oulde made voluntary and that nominee is no citizens of this nation. the same republicans who are talking about preserve th have a man who last preposterous statement and i pollution comes from rays. and that nominee is no friend of the environment. and the same republican who are invoking franklin roosevelt have man who said in 1976 and these are his exact words fascism was really basis of the new deal. and thatame is ronald reagan, has no right to quote roosevelt. the great advances which opponents offer is a voyage into the past. progress is our heritage, theirs. what is right us as democrats is also right way for democrats to win. the commitment i seek not outworn views, old values that will never wear out progress which may sometimes obsolete. but the ideal of fairness endures circa and stances may change. assion must continue. it is surely correct t problems throwing money at them. but correct that we dare not throw out our national problems. on pure scrap heap of inattention, indiff

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ould do was they would take pictures and turn them intos what so when. i assessedn8 these, i went through this process and i was stunned like the editor, jim martin, of the volume i wroten, he didn't believe me actually. and jim has known me school that all of the bodies. are or. all of them were the worst images they've sand so this isperson whose guts have been out and it would have been in 3d. now what you mostly remember and i'm going to talk about is the photographic history of the war which places them. it was originally in 1911 redone at the centennial 1958, and in 1987, and that flattened them because you don't see that and there's no reference to it. and what you'll see is it's very much homage to the blue and the. and not aut. all the valiant men. and i'llso it began decades before civil war, actually in the forties. you saw your first stereo views. manhattan was the first subject. oliver wendell senior, who look among soldiers and horses and if we could get the smell, civil war battlefields, i think, would definitely have a different image ofs

now ould work three in e shiftsf 8 hours each a round theck, seven days a ek365 days a year. obviously, they weren't. hill with their schedule. these very dedicated viduals, mostly women, because women are much more t overall than men and they have a much more heightened sense of detail than most men. these are generalized options, yes. but basically troop now on your right side is a photograph of a separate section that work there because virginia was completely segregated at the time. and these ladies and a few gentlemen are all african-american cousins. they were doing same work, but in a different s. a lot of the records are, i want to say, missing. for the talk and my friends in the field there said, we can't cowith them right now. maybe in a year's time. stuff does get misfiled. i've worked in top secret in the archives. stuff does get lost. and then some stuff gets shredded and burned. so you don't know which road they've down. i feel based on just gut instinct alone, that there is at least masters, if not a doctorate, waiting to be written on this african-american sec

. >> in this toxic environment with five men at the helm, can you find a reason why a woman ould not become the next chair? in your reabsolutely not. >> it seems to me that the as he can to do what someone said about a fresh start. who made thatstta >> i believe that with me. a , in my opinion, should include bringing a womanacat the helm. a air. this can be difficult for my colleagues across the aisle to embrace because we have all men panels, anwhite -- quite regularly i remind them, quite often the reason we have females is because thwill decide that we need some balance. it is not unusual to have all white men. this is not getting is the mentality. this mentality is pervasive, not only on this board,this fdic, but this is something we have to deal with acrossmany lines. i want on supporting a female as the next chair of the board. i think it is time to do that. i yield chair will now recognize himself for five minutes. ms. mainoo, i have a question for you. i am hearing between the lines for my colleagues on the other side. it seems like they seem to te. was it incomplete? >> no,

ould have had much better visibility into what was happening at boeing before january 5 and the approachwas too hands-off and too fo on paperwork audits and not focused enough on inspections. we have changed that approach over the last several months and they are permanent. a more active model plus the audit inspection approach which allowsthe operations. i will personally remain engaged to make sure that they execute necessary changes to transform the safety culture and address production quality esincluding visiting the charleston facility tomorrow, returning to renton in september and continuing to rly basis to oversee implementation of the of january 5 and apply them to our approach in overseeing all participants in the ecosystem. and we can no longer afford to remain reactive and we have to develop a more dynamic oversight and protocol that allows us to antici identified risks before they manifest themselves. the key to this transformation is data. the faa is taking steps to improve management analysis, but safety is a team sport and we need the ate and analyze data from a broad ran

that is something everyone ould planning for but we're very focused on the trump question and this ideavantedo and that's the scenario that we should be thinking i think what we need to be thinking isre different ways in which u.s. occur. the u.s. will decide sor. frump is one reason and you seeg out ofzkense capabilities as we swing them to problem areas. there are different ways this and different way that's european states could respond. from my point of view, one of the more worrying concerns is that i think more abrupt and violent this transition, europee together in some kind of common. we've seen the european pandemiy crisis, they come together when there is a big crisis and they're abortioned to do it. they're not so good inlow-boil situations like immigration where something goes on■ f years and years and doesn't get resolved thinking about how fast u.s. retrenchment is might give us an idea. state has taken. significant stepsn th last three years. european extend spending overall is up by a quarter. it's not enough. they are going.po do more and particularly if t theyy need to

ould be a wide-ranging policy scheme like rural electrification in the early 1900s, or decentralizedetwork of publicly funded services, much like a library system. it is happening already in the u.s.. swiss ai in switzerland, in sweden in the uae, local hindu language models in india and many, many others.even these cases are just the tip of the iceberg of industrial policy for ai, including huge amounts ofnonpublic and secretive defense applications being deployed by governments. therements for public ai. politically, publicf ai ensures that systems are built, governed and operated in a and for the public's benefits. ethically, public ai reflects the s nature of the digital commons and t upon which ai foundation models are built. economically, public ai guarantees competition in the ai sector, mitigates many the harms of tech right now, public within cil+k4a, an elite policy circles. new york times editorials, not an app on your phone. there's a gap between today's rhetoric and the actual use cases and the political capital that will deliver public ai to the public. that's why we

ould come in regularly? ms.li: would visit on a daily basii remember him because he was so personable, very handsome. and all about equality, trying to work for equality in this country. peter: april 4 1968. what do you remember about that day? ms. ali:emember somebody walking through the door. peter: were you working the counter at the time? ms. ali: i was down here in the evening just before it was time for me to go home. and someone just announced that shot. well we didn't believe that. we'd king and he had been here and visited us selthe nonviolent leader? could not possibly be true. someone finally found the transistorittle later on, and dr. king was gone. so p openly. people were sad, people were upset, frustrated. and i think, then, angry. and the rest was not very pleasant. peter: how often would dr. king come in here? ms. ali: in 1963 when he was planning that march, he came pretty often. he had a little satellite office just a few blocks away. so he would pop in any old tthere would sometimes be some o

the doctor, you know, kind of didn't suspect anything, although i think he ould have asked questionsmily. af the family. and it wasn't until like, you know, kind of eight months should do a colonoscopy and found that he had had colon cancer, you know, kind i think that the doctorand you know i 'e really his wife be angry about that, you know, kind of it's the anger sei think that was particurly tragic because to to to for charlie to kind of defeat that colorectal cancer he had in 2010. kind of itself can can lead to of seven years later ht he cancer came back for charlie his last caerhis hip. and and in so tragically to try to save him, t leg up, you knowf his right leg, including his metastasized. would that have happened if, you know, ki if the doctor had beene aggressive years earlier. buagind of i feel that, you know, kind of anger doesn't serve it. but i look at the scientific progress. i think, could it beter? yes. but if you but i do see kind of you look at the arc of what has happened over the understanding of cancer survival cancers have have improved dramatally. so it you k

have conversations, particular reform movements, political issues, local people would give speeches,ould come to resolutions, and these would be printed word for word in the newspape. so you look at one of these things, the text is kind of intimidating sometimes you'll see a front page with many words on it, including verbatim transcripts of speeches and these public meetings. it can seem like it's going to be a lot and it is, but it's a gold mine for history. and so i think you who are trying to find out about just all kinds of things in the civil war era, that's humor in these newspapers as well. and a lot of this humor, if you look back at this, is going to be outdated. i spent a long time finding just a few little examples that i thought i hope are not offensive and. it would have been much easier to find examples that would be extreme offensive in various kinds of ways. but the humor these newspapers, i think, gives us a real a really great sense of how people and you know what, gave them a chuckle back then. these are just a few examples you may you may have come across others your

and that ould be violent crime and property crime as well. >> the final day for the class kids foundationano counties. city of the future. yeah. prominent nonprofit is formally opposing the east solano county plan, which is that billionaire back ballot measure that if approved would allow urban development on land. that's currently zoned for agriculture kron four's philippe djegal takes a closer look. >> the non-profit solano land trust says voters should vote no on november ballot measure that would approve the billionaire back development called the east solano plan sponsored by the group, california forever. the project is a proposed new town near the travis air force base that could accommodate up to 400,000 new people. at the end of the day, it's the development of this magnitude is just not good for >> our agricultural economy. it's our second largest, largest economy in solano county or the habitat or the slide county. the salon. a land trust says the proposed development has been pushed ahead with misleading messaging. >> adding that the area in question is not a wasteland or land

it is a very p because people like this with --ould rather makecal then save lives. i've spoken to pfizer, i've spoken to all of the people you have to speak to. moderna, johnson & johnson, an they can go faster than that by a lot. become very political because the left or right don't know -- chris: the head of your opern warp speed? pres. trump: i disagree with both of them. he didn't say that. he said it could be there, but it could also be much sooner.0q chris: he talked about the summer before it is generally available, sir. pres. trump: he said it is a possibility we will have the answer before november 1. chris: i'm talking about when it is generally available. pres. trump: we are going to deliver it right away. we will have the military logistically set up. delivers soldiers and they can do 200,000 a day. vice pres. biden: this is the same man that i told you --ter it would be gone away, that it would be like a miracle. maybe you could inject some bleach i pres. trump: that was sarcastic, you know that. vice pres. biden: here's the deal, this man is talking ab

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ould yeah. you know, that's be a great ths amazing in itself. elvis had one. frank sinatra had one. this shirt. and we've had them a long time ago. we kept this lon crazy. >> trump spent an hour away from all the noise jus ht to hae with the boys, and he was anan o open book. >> watch. therpen book.watce are unidentie aerial phenomena in the sky. we don't know what thealphenomyw you? >> so i met with pilots likeith. beautiful tom cruise, but taller. okay. handsome. perfect people, sir. there was something ther somete that was round in format and going like was four times faster than my super jet fighter plane. ese gu and i lookys at these guys and they really mean it. am i a believer? no, i probably. i can' my beliet say i am.e ille there are illegal aliens out there, but those are the ones that come through the bordergab >> we have plenty of that. if you're wondering if aliens are real, have something jesse:n on that later in the show. trump says he's more worried about ai. >> i saw a picture of me pic promoting a product and i couldn not tell the voice was perfectth . the lips mov

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the cot ould and reverse the holding of the dc circuit that there is no thing is official acts -- >> you would agree further proceedingwod be required? >> that's correct. i would pot anderson versus creighton where there is two stages of ocdings. there is looking at the indictment and the charging domes and see if alleging official acts and if not, determine there could be a factual proceeding under mitchell against foresythe -- would have to r. >> go ahead. >> you began whayobelieve that immunity from criminal prosecution is essentialor proper functioning of the presidency. my question is whether the very robustorof immunity you are advocating is really necessary in order to achieve that rul just to take one posbl alternative, supsehe rule were that a former president cannote osecuted for official acts unless no ausible justification could be imane for what the president did, taking into accounhiory and legal precenand the infoatn that was provided to the president at the time when the act was taken. would that be sufficient? or why would it be in for sufficient >> that might be a m

it's like the whole thing of when somebody is being arresd ould go and grab them and arrest them, pulthand this was a similar kind of thing just by not going along with an unjust you threw the officials into frenzy you threw them into situations they didn't ow wha toank you, lorenzo. i mean, that all goes into creah within and without. i'm thinking about a book, not as a product, a process. mac,6h i wanted to ask you and lauren, you as well. i thin■king back to the orange ends of this plittle bit about t made you what made you attraed d bringing readers? what does it mean to you do this and teaching as well and then the third part of that is that what is it? what does it mean to tcommunitye of p' mean to the reader within those prison cells? what kind of community does that create? what brought you to this project and how did it so great questions and i do want to make a quick point that the most requested book from that, there's dozens of prison books, programs throughout the united states and hands down the most commonly requested book is a dictionary hands down. it's not even right.

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theartoo attenuated as a matter of law and the court ould say so and put an end to this case. if the court reachesheerits that the fda was lawful the agency relied on dozens of studies including tens of thousands of women. they do t entify any evidence that the agency overlooked and they just disagree with the analysis of the data, but that does not pride an office -- a license to authorize second-guessing. finay the remedy, the release entered below would severely disruptheederal system for developing and improving drugs harming the agency and pharmaceutical industry and inflict great harm women across the nation. rolling back these changes would uncearily restrict access with no justification. some women coulde rced to undergo surgical abortions and others might not be ab t access the drug at all and all of this would happen at the quest of plaintiff's who have no certain injury of the o. the court should reject that profoundly inequab result. i welcome questions. justice om: if we agree with you on the standing could you give us an example of who would have standing to chal

that means2 ould be limited only other to physical evidence. hey are just applying the same doctrine to different aspects of it. you do that as well. one of the common elements, alters, destroys and mutilates a record or a document. youave the fist few what you doing. you will both of those in controllingnd defining the term that follows. so it should involve sothg past capable of alteration and mutilation. when you apply that doctrin it responds to some of the concern raised about how broad c2 is. you can't just say look at it as if it's standing alone. it's not. >> let me respond to that in tw ways. i want to address any concerns about brett. more fundamental point i think, i n' know understand petitioner suggesting you can mix and match the verbs an nouns from c1 and c2 in this way. c2 focesn physical objects. it wouldn't apply to things like testimony because of the litaon he gleaned from c1. the basic point the'sothing in the text that c2 itself to disclose what the relevant similarity from c1 ought to be. >> if that's the case, what does

ould be adhering to as it relates to aviation safety inspector?raw fr qualified certified mechanics who have experience one of the things that we can tap and inspection protocols. we want people to understandhow these airplanes are put together and what the purposes of the quality checksand verify that these are taking place. do you enough education progmslg? the reason i'm bringing this up is different. enough aviation inspectors and that we don't have enough instructors at schools to train the aviation inspectors. one story i heard was that they do have safety expects/d -- experience, but it's in the dairy industry. someone with aviation the experience. >> with respect to boeing, we s experienced and best people on this and it is the mo it is to atck of experience and lack -- you are qualified people to pull from. we are competing e rest of the industry for those folks moved people around? >> in this existence of plug issue,have had a safety inspector on the faa on the ground that would have been monitoring th■0e presse i want to get granular ab

ould mean we could improve and -- proven obstruction charge. quick thank you. i am not quiet sure i understood thaner you gave earlier about whether or not you've previously used c2 in this type of case. have you done that beforwe not? course we have charged the situation that is not involved this evidence. it covers a myriad of ways of inructing. i am not aware of any other factuaciumstance around the world where we could have proof on the elements beyond the case of where we brought this prosecution. quick to so i understandthe prosecutions are eliminated in what way? >> they are for this at people had in mind for official proceeding if its for protesting a branch of government outside this court. and also to show an intent to obstruct the proceedings and the nexus to the procein and that can take care of situations where maybe someone could d this in a different building. >> in prior cases you have applied c2 should the situation. not voing specific documents question mark? . things like the identity of a undercover officer or creating if the court order tha

. >> and broadview congress authority to neck statutes what ould want to assess in that situation is whether congress is acting with one of its enumerated powers. >> of the spending clause. >> very likely congress make those judgments and attach conditions to the receipt of federal funds. >>overs all hospilsn the state and effectively transforms the regulation of medicine into federal function? >> there might be a point court thanks it is encroaching on the states and prerogatives away sit ins consistent with our constitutional structure i don't think were in or close to that. ask you see bounce in principl? >> supported of course he federal government h authority to regulate includih respect to medical care. don't think this any principal with exclusive governance of this area by the state. the hypotheticals is the federal government entirely taking a function. >> and medicare allow federal government to enforce the d through civil monetary penalti? >> you can alsonatefor. medicare agreements of a hospital violates in your view? so generally the hospitals given the opportunity to co

if■r going to keep this■g wherein young people have to register for a potential military draft, men ouldid-2010's all, especially at jobs in the military were open to women. so, there is an argument that there should be equality, some burden-sharing. particularly since failing to register for selective service incurs certain penalties. the argument against has been consistent as wl from conservative lawmakers, conservative groups outside of capitol hill. is that this is ry about equality. this is more about social engineering. that it is upsetting traditional roles what conservatives call woke ideology. those have been the battle lines. host:■ you mentioned there have been previous attempts to exnd why bring it up again now? it comes up every few years. why again now? anything change? it has been a priority of senator reed. he has been the one cy pushing it. i think it is a debate that i think he is aware is an uphill law, but he has been very consistent in there -- he seems to think that this part of the law does need to be changed. there have been some commissions -- there is an indepe

so there is no sta licensing law ould permit you and permit the state to say don't treat diabetics with insulin. treat them only with pills and a doctor looks at the juve ic and says without insulin they are goingt seriously ill. the likelihood and i don'tnow what that means under idaho law and we'll get to that shortly, because i don't know we believe this is a better treatment. federal law would ou can't do that. medically it have to be accepted in shakir to require the treatm diabetics with insulin for the medically accepted obligation of doctors and women with certain conditions that may not r in death but more than likely will result in very serious medical cons including blindness for sd for others the loss of organs. for some to blood strokes. idaho is sayings the doctor and say in good faith thats person's death as likely as opposedo s illness they can't perform the aborti so i don't know your argument about state licensing law because this is what this law does. tells states you are licensing laws can't take out objective medical conditions that could save a person fm serious i

i think we should stop all the fighting and arguing about who is getting things done for the ould beoff. that is what i would like to thank. day. host: david in caller: good morning. yes, ma'am. i just got a question here. already know there is no way on god's grarth that ukraine is going to defeat that war has been going on for 100 years. they need to bring them to the negotiating table so we keep footing the bill for them people. people left ukraine when they died, you know, when the started. that is all, you know. something needs to be done about that. it is just throwing money away. th to the negotiating table and give them what they want. that is my comment. host: in yonkers, nod morning, kay. caller: good morning. john the american economy isbody do realize that. one thing i wanted to ask john was about the indtter as na speak. i would like to think the united states. one thing most people do is fight for their conscience and the people. thetruth. the fact is the united states is still doing better than most of the world. our laws and principles are being abused. a talking poin

believes these ports of entry ould sol based on vehicular and pedestrian traffic, we knowonstituents the travelers are much less likely to use the portsrs. in my state specifically, the stations were both open from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. howe remained at 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m 40% reduction. requiring these ports to close early forces travelers to o other ports with entries with longer hours. take mota. during our northern border hearing at the house grand for she mentioned that -- forks she mentioned thatha w takes several hours. she highlighted that our small towns and when i say small towns, i mean really small towns, often get wrapped in the red tape of legal commercon the border at the same time when we allow the open flowe on the southern border. this truly effects everyone in the ag comven the small sheriffs' departments that haverces to do the job that the federal government is supposed to do. detours are particularly costly c ag vehicle operators due to risingflation and high fuel costs. it is long past time that we change thosek to pre-pandemic levels for good. we need a

it c■ould happen over the summe. it could happen much later.ection is going to throw a wrench io any attempts to do big legislation for the rest of the year. it could be until after the hat this happens. are passed, the ho go to a conference committee where members of the h this will be one of them -- committee out their differences. this will be one of them. idin the rare occasion when it s in both bills, i believe0 21, when the house passed a provision expanding potential draft to include women. under stripped out whi bills it is a given that i is going ta bqtopic of house-senate negotiation. think the advocates of this provision do see it as an uphill fight. host: there are advocates, as you put it. at the proposal? guest: there ha't -- the arguments for a number of years that■÷s basically if you are gog to keep this system where young people have to register for a potential military draft women should be required register for it,ll since in the mid-2010's all combatobs the military were open to women. so, there is an argument that there sho

congressman, the purpose of having a rule and a te is so that can make sure that working people who ould be entitled to the protections of the fair labor standards act yet them. that is not inconsistent with the ability of bona fide independent contraors to operate. rep. kiley: ok, i am asking a simple question about this particular person. when you were labor secretary, you did not eorce ab5 against toll categories of pple who were exempted. i'm asking right now, are independent owner operor trick divers going to be tre it differently under the rul you just published -- own operator truck drivers, will they be treated different way? sec. su: what you just sit urselfas several categories were exempted from ab5. they were not covered by that. the point you're making and saying it is simple, i am telling you it is not simple because you have to apply the facts of the case to the law. rep. kiley: you're missing the point. at the point in which a statute you can say this whole profession is exempt from the law, that was not a fact dependent on determination. i am asking, this particular prof

secretarwas passed and out of committee, the fact that you have ood with workers and workers' families ould be something we all celebrate because that is, indeed, in your job description. we appreciate it. i know the workers and the workers' families in my district and my state appreciate it. i also want to thank you for doing a grt summary response to the earlier questions about how far our economy has grown, how many jobs we have added in the last four years, especially when you answerthe question, e we better off today than four ars ago? four years ago was dark under former president donald trump, people were unemoyed, worried about losing their apartments. as you pointed out, you could not buy toilet paper, it was scary, it was dark. because of the investment that were done, we have come out of that. there is a lot more wo to do, especially rural areas that i represent. we know education skls, apprenticeships, those make a big difference securing better paying jobs. you need the better paying job if you're going to fight the inflation that has, let's be honest about it, fueled by greedy