association of chiefs of police, the major city chiefs association, the fraternal order of police and other organizations that rement men and women in blue and first responners who serve on the frontline. it's rewarring for us to see law enforcement associations standing side by side with all major associations representing fire and ems personnel across our nation who have lent their this important effort. this important effort. we knee to make this video an the safety remations available to frontline personnel so they can stay safe and avoid exposure. i thank the working group and the offices for making this video. it's a great service to our law enforcement officers and first responders. in conclaugs, i want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for the work that you do every day to keep your communities safe. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you for your unwavering leadership as well as your commitment to officer safety, first responder safety. for all of those folks in rank and file serving our demuents every day. thank you, sir, that resonates

the association is the black counterpart to the southern association, the same one that accredits emory now and others tools -- other schools. with the association and ata, you see an exchange of black people and ideas. they are talking about, what are white graduate schools doing, one of the policies? how can we get into black schools the information that we need? you see the cross-fertilization of ideas going back and forth at national meetings. interestingly, when you go into every southern state, every one of the 14 southern states, you see an organizational structure that looks like what i have written on the left. there is a state organization that covers the entire state, everybody is a member. there are regional organizations. georgia had 14. 11, 11. georgia had 11 different regions. this date is broken to 11 regions, each region has its own director. there are local meetings. so you can get black educators meeting together within a county. i have see them with the cav county, meeting and talking about ideas. then you get state publications, like in georgia, the herald. this is

today we have representatives of queens bench bar association. a group of attorneys who work with delinquents and volunteer with delinquent girls and boys in particular. >> we th morning. great to have you, patricia. and kathleen. how do you manage to get involved in this project with delinquents? because it is one of the associations in town that supports opportunities and equality for women. >> during one of my first meetings at queen's bench, i learned of a committee. what touched me and prompted me to starting attending committee meetings was i learned it was an informal mentoring program for girls who are incarcerated in juvenile hall ravings -- ranging from 11 to 18. >> in some cases the volunteers were the only visitors for the kids. that was very istent ve the commission on women's and girls. >> you have done this how long? >> since about 2001. on and off for a few years. >> and kathleen, welcome. >> think you. >> tell us a little bit about your background and how you got involved. >> as a recent grad in 2012 i attended the key -- queens

from berlin high crimes concert doc shadow on the ground presidency two of the president's former associates faces the possibility of prison former trump lawyer market couldn't believe the guilty to wash money king to include the two thousand and sixteen election and campaign manager paul manifold is convicted of financial crimes what does this all mean for the white house puts a coming up. facebook and pretty a move to stamp out this information campaign launch from the platform with the u.s. midterm elections just three months of really have to act to know. and the big high tech fun although of course it gets into the stream of things as the world's largest event computer and video games all things here in germany look at what's pushing people's buttons. hello and welcome. dramatic developments in the u.s. where two of present close associates have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of criminal offenses the most potentially damaging for the president are statements of michael and president trumps for more than an noya he pleaded guilty to multiple charges relating to the two thousa

but it was particularly associated with lee's army. because lee's army was what was keeping the confederacy alive. even by the middle of the war, this battle flag was first among equals. because of the status of li's army. because we associated-these -- we students of the was, with the damn flags of the rebellion, as frank castle said. pickens -- pickett's charge and -- at gettysburg. the one i showed you as of the 11th mississippi interest he. -- pettigrew chargeback the flags associated with the confederate soldier, as an emblem of the esprit de corps and the life of the soldier, warning soldiers, with the life- and-death the soldiers. it became a soldier's flag. to use the word of the day, it was consecrated by the blood of the soldiers. if anybody who wonders why anyone could ever consider this like a flag of heritage, you have to understand, it is an integral connection to the confederate soldier, to the confederate veteran, and for families who dissent from confederate veterans. it is a symbolism of the confederate-a symbol of th

bush did, thanks to the white house historical association, and mrs. bush had had the walls of the vermeil room painted a perfect yellow compliment to the dress that mrs. johnson wears in her official portrait. and she moved the portrait to be right above the fireplace in that room, so it's very striking. there are two -- there are three very striking portraits in that room. jackie kennedy, right in front of you when you walk in the room. that beautiful painting of her. mrs. kennedy's -- mrs. john's over the fireplace, and then eleanor roosevelt's. and so mrs. bush said to her, ladybird, i want you to see -- >> and namy eisenhower is in there too. i'm sorry, i'm sorry for the eisenhower descendants that are in the room, i apologize. i'm talking about mrs. johnson's visit, i'm sorry. but laura bush said to her, now, ladybird, i want you to know, i had this room repainted in a color that would match your beautiful dress. and then she took her upstairs in the elevator and brought her by her husband's portrait on the state floor in the grand foyer and mrs.

has association with anything in its name. we must not permit improper use of it and should let this be understood by the people at large. if this misuse of our flag occurs again, it will be our fault. when this photograph appeared in "life" magazine as part of that article, university of maryland students' kappa alpha responded way statement in 1951 which it had to reiterate in 1966. more than 15 years ago, kappa alpha order assembled relating to the defilement and desecration of the banner below which he marched. the return of the battle flag to the confederate states of america to its honored place of honor which etched upon the blood and etched thereupon the blood of the men who fought so gall galliantly and the women who kept faith. we had to ask you in '51, we had to ask you again in '66, and they had to ask them again in 2001. in no uncertain terms in 2001, we meet it this time. kappa alpha passed regulations because of the headlines some of you can see in this article of kappa alpha magazine, which kappa alpha was in t

associations,e implicit and explicit associations of black people with crime. the realities and facts are that poor people are more likely to commit crimes than are black people. people across all racial and ethnic groups commit crimes,; here is that it's not just black people cannotlack and should not continue to be the face of crime, criminal behavior in the country, which affects policing, right? if the only portrait of crime we have is a black one, then it causes police officers and school personnel officials in charge of safety in schools to always think of black people as deviant, as criminal. i think that leads to the kind of disproportionality that we see in the criminal justice system. host: we start this morning, may be appropriately, looking at southern california, going back to 1989 and the rodney king beating. looking back, almost 30 years, how do you think things have improved? or have they? guest: one of the things i found most striking about your program this morning is that there has been a variety of views offered from every geographical regio

bush did, thanks to the white house historic association, and mrs. bush had had the walls of the verma room painted the same as mrs. johnson wore in the official portrait. and moved the portrait above the fireplace in the room so very striki striking. there is three striking portraits in that room. jackie kennedy right when you walk into the room, the beautiful painting of her. mrs. johnson's over the fireplace. then eleanor roosevelts. so mrs. bush said to her, lady bird, i want you to see -- >> and eisenhower is in there too. >> i'm sorry, thank you. for the eisenhower descendants in the room, i apologize. but i'm talking about mrs. johnson's visit, i'm sorry. but laura bush said to her, lady bird i want you to know i have this room repainted in the color that would match your beautiful dress. and took her upstairs in the elevator and brought her by her husband's portrait on the state floor and the ground foyer. and mrs. johnson, i'll never forget it, just in her wheelchair, went up just as to embrace her husband. it's one of those things as a staf

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a lot of people today associate it with the klan. more important was this moment in birmingham in 1948 in july when the dixiecrat party was born and nominated strom thurmond for president, a breakaway from the democratic party re-nominating harry truman. they had embraced a strong civil rights form. it was just starting to emerge as a popular culture symbol and was merged with white supremacy. in the auditorium, you see a lot of young faces because a good delegates at the convention were college students from the south where they were accustomed to waving the flag as a symbol of football as well as kappa alpha. they brought it on to the convention floor. this photo made it the symbol of reactionary politics. it was not the party but the young supporters who made it a symbol. it made it a political symbol. it kind of makes sense. the last time the federal government interfered with the southern way of life, slavery, this was the flag of opposition used the army's the cap the confederacy alive. the government is throwing its weight beh

to be news live from berlin is it the worst hour for the presidency two of the president's close associates are looking at the possibility of a lengthy jail for games former lawyer michael cohen pleads guilty to a hush money scheme to influence the twenty sixteen election and campaign manager paul metaphor is convicted for financial crisis will have a look at the implications for the white house. also coming up the height of desperation along one of europe's two land borders with africa t.w. goes to the spanish territory of say utopia the following migrants determined to get across. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us dramatic developments in the u.s. where two of president trump's closest associates have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of criminal offenses the most potentially damaging for the president the statements of michael cohen president transformer personal lawyer he pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to the twenty sixteen election campaign . some of those charges stem from hush money schemes toing worked out with a porn star and a former playboy pl

association of state forrester's, washington state forrester, and others. representatives from the fourth management fire funding coalition, our external partners. from the nature conservancy, we had threeon -- we individuals. from the american forest foundation, tom martin. from the hardwood federation -- from outdoor industry associations, jessica -- national wildlife federation mike leahy, national association of counties, jonathan sheffield and oscar englehart and from the intertribal timber council, matt -- now it is my pleasure to represent u.s. da secretary sonny perdue. >> i want to thank everyone move us toward solutions. and yousector partners, have been in each issue several years in some cases. may i just returned yesterday from visiting the fires in california and these herbal events just like last year are stark reminders of immense forest fire health crisis in this country. and the urgent need to dramatically increase preventative forest treatments. thankfully, we were given some assistance in that area. and we appreciate that. we have steppe

senior associate of the lowland group. wecome to our witnesses, will go down the road. >> good morning. i'm the president ceo of the alaska state hospital and home association. thank you for having me here to testify today. health care providers face a variety of administrative burdens from regulations. i will focus my remarks on the growing number of federal regulations and the impact of this on our health care system. health care provider share the same goals of improving quality and keeping patients a. providers recognize the importance of a stable regulatory framework that allows them to focus on patients and invest resources in improving health care access. we appreciate recent work done by cms and addressing regulatory burdens. more must be done. of regulations were published in 2016 alone. the american hospital association quantify the cost in a recent report. they must comply with 629 discrete regulatory requirements. spending $39 billion annually in restraint of activities related to regulatory compliance. for an

with the family, a close association. it was possible that there was work for him moving to dublin. that's an aspirational jump to make that and move from those humble oregon-- origins. >> some of them were house servants. when the last one died, they went into the courts in london. there were two of them in the households. that would have provided some privilege i'm sure.>> definitely. >> we have a couple more questions that we will try to get in. >> my question, i don't know if this is the right forum, but we spent most of the day speaking about historical periods. it occurs to me that the architecture would have been seen as bracingly modern relative to other houses though neo classically inspired. the post war period is such an important period of innovation and has now approached history. the national trust is starting to acquire modern houses. is there an interest in white house collections of incorporating important historic modern artifacts? >> there were some contemporary paintings acquired during the last admini

homeowners association for 12 years. i've known in the neighborhood of potrero hill known as dogpatch years for 44 years, which you can probably discern from my access. i'm glad to see the development of this site. i'm glad to see more of the southern waterfront opened. there's been numerous

he's president of the white house historical association. his 30 plus career in washington has been in senior roles at georgetown university, american red cross and motion picture association. he worked with ron reagan presidential foundation to conceptualize, plant and execute the ronald reagan centennial celebration in 2011. please join in -- me in welcoming -- welcoming today's panel anita mcbride, mark updegrove and stewart mclaurin. [ applause ] >> thank you. i want to recognize gail west and teresa barrett the wife of john.. a wonderful board member. anita is on our board. they give extraordinary leadership to the organization. started by mrs. kennedy as a nonprofit, not pot -- nonpartisan and we are honored to be the convener of this presidential site summit this week. today we will talk about presidential legacy and commemoration. let's start by diving into lbj. mark your leadership with the lbj foundation -- monday would've been the hundred 10th birthday of president johnson. there's a commemoration of sorts or a noting of that occa

he would have built up an association with the family, a very close association. it's very possible there was support for him in moving to dublin. it was quite an aspirational jump to make that move from that kind of maybe humble other begin and moving to the city. >> some of the hobans were house servants. they lived in the gate lodge. >> yeah. >> and then when the last of them died -- they went into the courts, judges and all that in london. the last of them died, there were two hobans in their household staff. >> he stayed, yeah. >> that would have provided some privilege, i'm sure. >> yeah, without a doubt. >> go ahead. we have a couple more questions that we'll try to get in. yes, thank you very much. >> thank you. so, my question -- i don't know if this is the right forum for it, but my question is, we spent most of the day speaking about historical periods and it occurs to me that architecture of the white house at its time would have seemed sort of bracingly modern relative to the other urban houses of the day, as decatur house was a bracingly modern thoug

representatives from the national governors association, and clement, from the western governors' association jim hawkesbury, national association of state foresters, washington state for strip george geisler, j farrell, and gary shift. we had some representatives here on the forest management by funding coalition. our external partners come from the nature conservancy we are chris, cameron and eric. from american forest foundation, tom martin come from hardwood federation, terry come from outer industry association jessica wall, national wildlife federation mike leahy, national association of counties, jonathan sheffield and austin engelhardt, and from the intertribal timber council, not heal. now, it is my great pleasure to represent usda secretary sonny perdue. [applause] >> thank you, vicki. i appreciate your patience. i thought it might be impolite to walk out of the cabinet meeting, i want to thank the senators for joining us today these folks have been at the forefront of this vision of what you think them for the concern and the efforts in many ways in helping us to move towards solut

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the cathedral hill tower homeowners association. the dr. ellen clark, grace cathedral. patricia tuttle, mr. don lee, mr. murray, fifth church of christ the scientist 450 or farrell street. deconan see brian. robert brown stone attorney, sean fletcher. >> thank you. >> steve white and i will conclude by just asking you to e-mail the mta board to support relocation of the inbound 38 to gough and geary. the board meeting is next tuesday at 1:00. >> thank you, very much. any other general public comments? hearing none. any old business? hearing none. new business? item a. requesting authorization to modify the exiting grand agreement with institute on aging for the provision of increasing the center for elderly suicide prevention and grovgrief-related services for programs capacity. during the period of july 12,018th through june 302,019th for $180,000, for a new grand amount of 485,273, plus a 10% contingency for a new total amount not to exceed $533,800, welcome. >> good afternoon. president, commissioners and director mcspadden. i am program annalist. today where here to

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the aerospace industries association has been working on this item for years. please understand, aia and defense workers across the country are appreciative for your efforts today. i would also like to call out ambassador she has been a , partner with us for a number of years and her team has been absolutely outstanding. laura's presence on the panel should not go unnoticed. they have been at our call, very responsive to issues we bring to them. really, i want to thank you for that opportunity. i want to go through a couple of things. the first thing is the the strategic linkages andrew spoke about. i want to talk about and a second, -- the ai recommendations for government action. we can talk about country relationships and then wrapping some of this up, where does this lead? first of all, the conventional arms transfer policy, we thought was the first step in addressing key reforms we need in u.s. defense system. it has been a pillar of the u.s. foreign policy for decades and it will continue to be. a pillar of foreign policy going forward. aia and its member

so some of the things that we are looking at and that folks in industry and associations have asked usto look at is establishing milestones and timelines for the foreign military sales process, improving and speegd up -- speeding up processes within the defense department, trying to increase competitiveness by building in exportability to design and development and also by expanding support for what we call nonprogram of record systems. we are looking into potential financing options that could make our systems more obtainable for some of our foreign partners and also examining existing policies to ensure that they don't unnecessarily detract from our ability to compete in the international marketplace. finally, one of the other things that we are looking closely at is our advocacy process to make sure we are the most effective advocates for u.s. industry. the third line of effort creating conducive environments is aimed at addressing things that are outside of the executive branch, outside of purview and control, what that means, for example, is working with the state department's com

he is a long time associate of roger stone. he did work for him on website and e-mails and a person that mueller wants to question about perhaps all about work that they were doing for roger stone during the 2016 campaign. >> and why is mueller so interested in roger stone? it seems there are all of these people connected to stone who are now in the cross hairs of this investigation. >> yeah. certainly does. also seems that they're moving quickly to -- for grand jury action for something to happen. all these people we know of at least three now that have -- mueller wants to appear before the grand jury. that are connected to roger stone. so it could be for many reasons. for one, roger stone had communications with what we now know was a russian intelligence officials according to the fbi and department of justice. communicating with him. so there's that. also, roger stone himself had made statements to people that he was communicating with julian assange, then he jokes that he was just joking about it. and then another individu

live from berlin is this the worst hour for the drum president same two of the president's closest associates are looking at the possibility of lengthy jail jumpsuit former lawyer michael cohen pleads guilty to a hush money scheme to influence the twenty sixteen election and campaign manager paul man of four years convicted for financial problems we'll have a look at the implications for the white house. also coming up the height of desperation along europe's only land border with africa u.w. goes to the spanish territory of say utah following migrants determined to get across this heavily fortified border and reach europe. and the big business of high tech fauna reporter gets into the swing of things as the world's largest event for computer and video games opens here in germany we'll see what's pushing people's buttons this year. i brought thomas thanks so much for being with us dramatic developments in the u.s. where two of president trump's closest associates have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of criminal offenses the most potentially damaging for the president the statements

say, i speak on behalf of myself, not on my association.is a tough question because weapons, as a part of any security solution, are a long term proposition. it is hard to say after six months, whether it has succeeded. you have to pick your metrics properly. is how are the recipient countries using or changing the practices? this is one of the pieces that sold to them -- my community is concerned about. there is interest on protection of civilians, training was required for transfers to nigeria and saudi arabia will be a critical component. we talked about this in terms of human rights concerns and making sure capacity is there. those are the metrics i am looking at. we have seen countries receiving u.s. weaponry, if we are concerned about changing the behavior, we have the belief that if we are partnered with the country, we will have control over what they do. oftentimes, that is not the case, i would argue that saudi arabia has not been a good actor, no matter how much influence the have tried to act on them and they are reacting in the