anne richards. to you both. jaime, talk to us about the three central banks in focus. to a certain extent, start with the federal reserve being old hat, what we actually learn? jaime: for the u.s., people will be looking for any sign. and whether that matches with what janet yellen comments. it is a few weeks old, you have a lot happened since then. the bank of england is in watch, they will be getting a fresh reading. i will be looking to them for estimates as to what they see the impact of emerging market slowdowns are on the u.k. caroline: anne i want to bring you in. maybe even some more tones coming from mark carney. it has been a bit of an outlier, a bit quieter and more cautious. anne: it is interesting, you have the sense that mark carney is more interested in the internal dynamics within the u.k. focusing much more on that, and perhaps he has had more of a hawkish tone than the fed in some sense. if you read the news of the language, whether he can still do that within this broader context,

he was born with a silver foot in his mouth. >> in texas, even liberal icon, ann richards, would noton august 23rd, 1994, the day before he was to be executed, ruben cantu received the reply. clemency denied. >> a san antonio man continues to claim innocence just hours before he is set to die by lethal injection. >> on the day of his scheduled execution, local stations aired an interview with ruben where he again declared his innocence. >> by law standards, my case i barely legally sufficient to hold up a capital murder conviction because of the eyewitness. yet his testimony, just looking at his testimony, you don't know where he is coming from. >> but at the death house at huntsville, where all texas executions take place, preparations for ruben's execution proceeded. >> the execution was at midnight in those days. >> reverend carroll picket was chaplain at the huntsville prison for 16 years. >> ruben had been visiting with his family most of that day. >> you have different rooms and in each room they have phones. so all of us be on the phone with ruben. he was in a single cell acro

she created the texas freedom network and her mother was anne richards, best known for this 1988 partisan slash at then-gop presidential nominee george hw bush. >> he can't help it. he was born with a silver foot in his mouth. >> republicans ended yesterday's hearing demanding ceo richards answer a long list of questions about planned parenthood's spending. it had a familiar ring to the ranking democrat, though. >> as i listen to the questions, that you have to answer, and the information that you've just been asked to provide, i cannot help but think about the rn. >> that's a dig at republicans for using the same tactics against planned parenthood that the irs used against democrats seeking tax-exempt status. brett? >> doug, thank you. >>> no grape vooip tonight, when we come back, mitt romney essentially says i told you so. >>> breaking news, at the top of the hour, russian war planes bombed targets in syria today. after warning american leaders to keep their aircraft out of the area. russia says it's going after isis terrorists. but u.s. officials say the targets hit today likely were

holocaust if it costs half $1 billion just to clean the streets -- janet: mary anne' -- mary anne: cecile richards, exposed the investigation into planned parenthood for what it is, an effort to end abortion and healthcare for women and families that is fueled by partisan gop politics and paid for by taxpayers. pat: i' m going with ann romney.

i remember my mom taking me to meet ann richards, the firebrand governor, and being excited by the wholeng. i certainly remember the clinton years. the clinton years are in my formative years. brian: your mom was a teacher? what kind of teacher? amy: first-grade teacher. brian: what about dad? amy: it dad is retired. he had his own law practice. brian: the new york times reporter covering the hillary clinton campaign is a dream job, but it sounds like you did not even intend to do that when you came out of school. amy: i think it absolutely is a dream job. i do not think it was something i could envision myself having. i was dropping off clips with security guards in lobbies of these places at and getting ignored by security guards. i am really grateful, but it was not something i envisioned. i don't know. i always wanted to be a journalist. brian: how often would we have seen you dropping off your resume with security guards? amy: it was those first few months when i moved to new york. brian: how many times? amy: i got rejected from a lot of jobs. i interviewed at women's magazines and

she worked with former governor ann richards. she is on the elections committee. last but not least, we have the secretary of state. he is the current secretary of state. he was one of governors a abbot t's first selections when first elected. he was former democrat but then switched so thae republican side. he later became the county judge. thank you for being here. we appreciate it. we have done several iterations of this panel. last year, we were doing it leading up to the 2014 gubernatorial elections. this year, we have a very crowded field. on the republican side, if you asked me a year ago when we started talking about the panel if my first question would be donald trump, i would not have believed you. we have a very crowded republican field where a front runner is at the front of the field. he says mexico is not sending its best to the u.s. they are rapists and drug dealers. do the republicans on this panel struggle -- how do you look ahead to the election in which you can gain more hispanic support after dismal turnout in the last election? how do you reco

burgess, and welcome -- the commission is very pleased to welcome anne richard, the assistant secretary for the bureau of refugees population and migration. prior to her appointment, ms. richard was the vice president of government relation and advocacy for the international rescue committee. she also -- and i'll put your full resume into the record without objection. but from 1999 to 2001, ms. richard was director of the secretary's office of resources, plans and policy at the state department from '97 to '99. she was deputy chief financial officer for the peace corps. she served as a senior adviser in the deputy secretary's office of public policy resources at state, and as budget examiner at the u.s. office of management and budget. thank you for being here and the floor is yours. >> thank you very much, chairman smith. thank you, members, of the helsinki commission. for holding this hearing and for the opportunity to appear before you, to discuss the refugee and migration emergency in europe and the middle east, i have just returned from a series of meetings overseas, including my f

chairman, and others, been anne richard in relation to the current situation, the numbers, the reasons for flight and so on. so i will not repeat those remarks. and therefore try to keep it short. but i did want to nevertheless mention a few numbers that have not been stated and a couple of other themes that might also provoke some conversation. it's important, i think, to remember that now we have at more than 60 million refugees, forcibly displaced people around the world. that translates to 42,500 people every day. there have been more than 15 new conflicts in the last five years and none of the old conflicts have been resolved. so we're also witnessing the low point in the numbers of people who are voluntarily returning to their countries. and so we are facing not only protracted situations and new emergencies, we're facing protracted emergencies. and the first and foremost on our agenda as the u.n. refugee agency is the mega crisis in syria and iraq. can which for the first time in years has now hit europe as the high commissioner said, the poor have come to the home of the rich.

burgess, and the commission is very pleased to welcome anne richard, the assistant secretary for the bureau of population refugees and migration. prior to her appointment, ms. richard was the vice president of government relation and advocacy for the international rescue committee. she also -- and i'll put your full resume into the record without objection. but from 1999 to 2001, ms. richard was director of the secretary's office of resources, plans and policy at the state department from '97 to '99. she was deputy chief financial officer for the peace corps. she served as a senior adviser in the deputy secretary's office of public policy resources at state, and as budget examiner at the u.s. office of budget. thank you for being here and the floor is yours. >> thank you very much, chairman smith. thank you, members, of the helsinki commission. for holding this hearing and for the opportunity to appear before you, to discuss the refugee and migration emergency in europe and the middle east, i have just returned from a series of meetings overseas, including my fifth visit to turkey an

first, we're pleased to welcome back the honorable anne c richard to serves as assistant secretary ofhe bureau of population, refugees and migration. she has served at vice president of government relations and advocacy and was a non-resident fellow for trans-atlantic relations at john hopkins university's school of advanced international studies. welcome back, ma'am. and second, we are pleased to say hello to the honorable leon rodriguez who is the director of the united states citizenship and immigration service. previously, mr. rodriguez served as the director for the office of civil rights at the department of health and human services and before that served in the united states attorney's office for the western district of pennsylvania and was a trial attorney in the civil division of the department of justice. welcome, mr. rodriguez. and now, we also welcome back a good friend, senior deputy assistant of administrator, thomas staal. he has served in usaid since the late '80s and served at director of the iraq reconstruction office. mr. staal also served as the mission director i

in 1994, he debated a popular tough and mean and in all of the right ways texas governor named ann richards be knocked off of the stage, and she ridiculed him and called him shrub, and he cut her to little pieces. again, it is just so much of it, it may not have to do with the intellectual firepower so much of it though coming from the gut, and that applies to ben carson and donald trump and bernie sanders today. >> i wonder if it is not something about being easy with who you are. george bush is somebody who is incredibly easy in his own skin, and very sure of his own personality, and demeanor and i felt the same with barack obama traveling with him in 2008. it is somebody who knew who he was, and he just was one of the people i have met most and comfortable with their own presen presence. i felt that with george bush and you get the sense with bill clinton and barack obama. >> and bill clinton is a little too comfortable with himself, and everybody else. >> yes. >> and one thing, joe, to be president, you have not only want to be president, but you have to run for president, and i think t

richard: this crime has a lot of people shaking their heads. astasi have ann an been married 18 years. triangle ended and murder. prosecutors say it was in this anne arundel county home where a love triangle between ann an andsi, her husband anthony, their live-in lover turned to murder. is the boyfriend of the 13-year-old daughter. >> it's crazy. richard: the police were called to the home october 5. a found anthony in the bedroom with a 35 caliber handgun nearby. he had been shot in the head. in the basement or jacqueline riggs had been living, officers found her stabbed to death. anastasi provided the initial false report to the police come indicating it was a murder suicide. richard: they were in a love triangle with riggs. >> there is more to this than meets the eye. richard: the police say that anna plotted with her daughter to kill her husband. and riggs. >> they stabbed the victim downstairs and then shot mr. anastasi. richard: then they try to cover up the murder by planting evidence. the trouble is the bullet found at the scene did not match the cali

first we're pleased to welcome back the honorable ann c. richard who serves as assistant secretary of the bureau of population, refugees and migration for the department of state. she has served as the vice president of government relations and advocacy of the international rescue committee and was a nonresident fellow for the center for transatlantic relations at johns hopkins university's school of advanced international studies. welcome back, ma'am. and second, we are pleased to say hello to the honorable leon rodriguez who is the director of the united states citizenship and immigration service. previously mr. rodriguez served as the director of the office for civil rights at the department of health and human services and before that served in the united states attorney's office for the western district of pennsylvania and was a trial attorney in the civil division of the department of justice. welcome, mr. rodriguez. and now we also welcome back a good friend, senior deputy assistant administrator thomas doll of the bureau of democracy, confl

ann arbor, berkeley, freebie, freebie! how do you knock someone who says that health care is a right, which means it should be free. how do you knock the guy down without sounding like richard nixon? >> well, anderson cooper is not jimmy fallon. someone has to ask the question, how are you going to pay for that? the american people love the candy but also know they're not going to be free. >> the answers on the strip, i was interviewing people today, there are good answers. here's one. how are we going to pay for that? funny thing, we don't ask how much we're going to pay for a war when we start, do we, secretary clinton? you can strike back on that one, pretty tough. it gets the rhetoric right. >> i think he can do this. i think he can say, we're going to raise taxes. i think we'll have a real debate about tax rates in this country. she's for raising some taxes. they can get into a back and forth. i think she has to tell a story about her candidacy, explain why it's not flip-flopping. i saw richard trunk on your show -- >> how do you explain you were for tpp and 35 public appearances and now you've switched? >> i think you say that the game has changed entirely. i think yo