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a top white house lawyer emmett flood accused mueller's team of playing politics, laying out more facts than typically found in an indictment. flood protests one day after release of the redacted mueller report. >> flood described the report as a prosecutorial curiosity, part commission report, and law school exam paper. it is true the mueller report did not examine a criminal conspiracy between the trump campaign. it did unearth obstruction by president trump but did not say whether president trump should be prosecuted a move the attorney general questioned on capitol hill this week. >> the president touted the report as total vindication even though possible obstruction came up about a dozen times in that report. that includes when the president told then white house counsel don mcgahn to have mueller removed. house judiciary chairman nadler subpoenaed mcgahn to testify. the president says that's not going to happen. >> i've had him testifying already for 30 hours. >> is the answer no? >> i don't think i can let him and tell everybody else you can't. i would say it's done. we've been

in a letter obtained by cnn, the white house counsel emmett flood denigrates mueller's report by putting him news as a prosecutorial curiosity, compared it to a law school exam paper. >>> also breaking, new reporting from "the new york times" revealing that the fbi sent an undercover investigator to meet with trump campaign adviser george papadopoulos to probe possible campaign ties to russia. >>> and attorney general william barr's war with house democrats is escalating tonight with speaker nancy pelosi accusing barr of lying to congress as the head of the judiciary committee threatens to hold barr in contempt. we'll talk about that and more with the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee, senator mark warner, in his first television interview since the release of the mueller report. >>> and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's go to our white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. this letter from the white house counsel leaked out today amid the growing calls for the attorney general to resign because of his handling of the mueller investigation

emmett from bangladesh is just one of just 16 who survived. fighting for life.ng for eight hours, swimming. then people were dying, every minute, people going under. every minute, one is going. we lost him. i have lost my two brothers. one is cousin brother, one is brother—in—law. in front of my eyes. another survivor recounts the horror of what happened on board. translation: our boat, the zodiac, started filling up with water. then it sunk and capsized. this was at 12 o'clock, midnight. we kept floating in the water until eight o'clock in the morning and then a small tunisian boat came to our rescue. along with the tunisian army, they came and took us. thank god we are here in tunis. thank god. italy doesn't want people like emmett and is cracking down on those making this journey. as 30 migrants were being brought to the coast of lampedusa in italy on friday, the italian interior minister declared that this was the last voyage for the rescue ship. it's a stance that wins elections in italy and has brought down the number of migrants making the journey. 15,900

this time today, i am awarding the crown to emmett chandra. >> thank you.member to watch etf iq on bloomberg tv at 1:00 p.m. in new york paired at a 6:00 p.m. london time. also coming up, balance of power with david westin. the guest on the program today, judy shelton, nominee for the federal reserve port of governors. there will be more dissection of the public statement from special counsel, now former special counsel robert mueller. checking u.s. markets, we have been lower. we are back down at our session low. the dow down one and a half percent. s&p 500 down 1.2%. nasdaq down 1.3%. minors, and banks. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i am david westin. welcome to "balance of power." greg farrell on bob mueller's final broadcast as special counsel. the latest china back and forth. on the latest court summons. let us play a little bit about what mr. mueller had to say. mueller: under lands -- long-standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office, that is unconsti

we have said before mr emmett us issue in the way that it is evoked if you feel remember the question is paying for the other state they are meeting their obligations and then you are denying them the our rights to enjoy this happens so we have to present the question was fed was our role as it is to balance the interests of what a stick or does but women limited which supplies more than 90 percent of the country's electricity blends fun doe's the company sees that it loses over $300000.00 the yeah to vandalism of its distribution infrastructure which causes outages maybe now once the government to also toughen on culprits there's a lot of wonders in marbella you know you know people under guard on the underground take power but because of the many mean some stations taking taking to the decision lines for us but it doesn't biggest problem the grab by the local government we're looking for a. deterrent. bunch and for 4 people living in london is it possible. you're going to generate a total of about a $1100.00 megawatts of electricity of its $42000000.00 population 4 out of 10 ugandan

supply as accountable for outages and penalize them for losses caused we have been so safe before mr emmett us issue of the united evoked if you feel awful remember the question what is playing on the other side they are meeting they'll begin and then you are denying them the our rights to enjoy this happens so we have to present the question was fed because our role as it is to balance the interests of what is to core does what women limited which supplies more than 90 percent of the country's electricity lim's fund. the company sais that it loses over $300000.00 a year to vandalism of its distribution infrastructure which causes outages may now once the government to also toughen on culprits there's a lot of wonders in my opinion you know you know people under guard on the underground. but because of the means i mean some stations taking to get into the distribution lines for the us ok present biggest problem the crowd but what was the government were looking for a. deterrent. bunch and for. religion in funders are. you going to generates a total of about a $1100.00 megawatts of electrici

emmett flood said the special counsel failed to act as prosecutors and only as prosecutors.s on to say the special counsel instead produced a prosecutorial curiosity. it's been suggested the report was written with the intent of providing congress some kind of road map for congressional action, if that was in fact the special counsel's intention, it too serves as additional evidence of his refusal to follow applicable law. the letter also argues that the president did not broadly waive executive privilege by not claiming executive privilege over things that were included in the mueller report. flood again writing, it is the president's decision not to exert privilege is not a waiver to exert presidential privilege for any other purpose. as to whether or not the president will allow don mcgahn, his former white house counsel or any other senior presidential advisers to go to capitol hill to testify, here's the basis for refusing that. flood writing -- >> you can read into that subpoenas will not be complied with. the democrats say there is precedent for hauling senior white h

emmett's the mass of information this document caught our attention it's dated from twenty sixteen and signed by the coca cola's law being manager in brussels. the bullet points are all the measures that europe could adopt but which do not coincide with coca cola's interests. in the next we find carbon pricing restrictions on the usage of caffeine and eat you ban of advertising to children under twelve. in other words anything that could lower the company's turnover figure on the right there's a circle entitled fight back these are all the european measures that coca-cola has decided to fight against through lobbying. and amongst the measures that coca-cola downright refuses we find increased collection and recycling targets. you heard it coca-cola wants to fight against increased recycling targets in europe while they're promising the exact opposite in their public pledges see. other talent. sit out. in that fight back category we also discovered that the company wants to fight against the deposit system. this is one of the systems that is actually effective in combating pollution and

now for more on that story we're joined in studio by y fancy fore emmett james said. hi am i what have you been seeing in terms of reactions on online or at the latest on yes it's a talking mule absolutely well as we still don't know i guess. nine days i think office. at well the french president was very quick touchy label this an attack which is unusual. for overseas to be quite so unequivocal so quickly as we saw in that report he was giving an interview on you cheap. and it was less than an hour after that explosion happened that he did go ahead and call it an attack he stopped short of calling it a terror attack -- but tonight she has tweeted again about this saying that he is thinking of those wounded by the explosion in the old and the families affected by the violence that befell their radishes in the street. and to all the leone the people who live in new york at we are at your site hee says and it really is yet more proof -- silently as a france needed at that these kind of attacks can happen anywhere it's a very ordinary pedestrianized street the calling th

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or emmett's n.b.c. where later in the program we'll talk about the media and its culpability here let me go to doug doug i mean when do we start the second half of the investigation maybe under another. special. best a geisha because from what i understand what miller. gave to the attorney general barr is only half the story when do we and should we and will we look at exactly that some of the issues that alan dershowitz mention the upper levels of the of the of the f.b.i. and members of the general in the d.o.j. they still have a lot to account for go ahead doug you know interesting peter the very fact that you asked that question leads me to believe that we're headed that way there's just too much curiosity and momentum now carrying this people are going to want to know this is kind of a unique moment in history from the antiquities to the middle ages even in the modern times very often we'll find that the winner will prosecute the loser even in latin america right now that's happened twice maybe thre

i remember well the first time i met jeri emmett. she was very close friends with the late carolyn warner, our former superintendent of schools. jeri was always a teacher. i was a newly elected state legislator at a political event andieri and carolyn were there, carolyn said, do you have a card? and i said oh, i don't have them with me right now. and jeri emmett said, always keep your cards in your pocket. so jeri, this is for you. i yield back. mr. stanton: i now yield to my riend, mr. gallego of arizona. mr. gallego: thank you, representative stanton. i know i speak for my colleagues when i say we all love jeri. how could you not love jeri in her spirit of unwavering optimism, her love for our state and our party. she was a quintessential arizonan. she lived to 104 years old and she really lived. she lived in a way that was an example for all of us. her life span sommed momentous times in our nation's history. the great depression, the fight for women's suffrage, world war ii, the civil rights musme. in 1914, when jeri was born, w

sure that all the artifacts were real i was so happy because we forget about the aura of real things emmett till's coffin or the real a real bow of a ship which has been taken from the bottom of the ocean and book back to you. and there's an extraordinary i think to man to really understand the history that really has not been been told and i think it's. remarkable that that lonnie and everyone involved there not only had to build a museum they had to build a collection and that was one of the really big challenges that the museum in this was recognized even in the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's i think that had its descendants that but how are you going to establish a black museum where there's an interesting collection and so we began to then sort of identify broad subject areas that we want to do explore you want to explore the civil rights or you want to explore the role of rhythm and blues music in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's so we had that broad circle then i would encourage curators to go out and say ok how do we fill in that circle so then the question was why

emmett chandra is in new york with more. --emma chandra is in new york with more.a: the company went public in march with $72 a share. it is at a record low. the second quarter results we saw were better than expected revenue based on what lyft had told us about the year before. they saw growth in active riders and analysts said they had been happy with it. they said the company is well-positioned positioned to scale and it was a positive company but lyft reporting a huge loss in the first quarter, losing more than a billion dollars, more than lost in the whole of last year. the cfo saying on the call that 2019 would be the peak year for losses. david: thank you so much to emma chandra reporting from new york. -- said thee sickly 60 day nuclear countdown unless europe throws it in economic lifeline. we'll discuss with congressman michael mccaul. that is next and this is bloomberg. ♪ at comcast, we didn't build the nation's largest gig-speed network just to make businesses run faster. we built it to help them go beyond. because beyond risk... welcome to the neighbor

you know, the emmett till, whistled at her just said a couple years ago it didn't actually happen that built on. we've had plenty of cell phone footage or facebook live of black people being killed on camera by cops for doing nothing. we have oscar grant in oakland, more information came out about that, and that was ten years ago. there's no end of these cases and right now in this country as we know there's not a lot of political will for justice. you've been spending the whole program tonight talking about all the ways in which this country is not standing up for kids in schools who could be shot in school shootings, not a political will for impeachment, not a lot of political will for justice in this country, there's political will for getting reelected. >> this is what united shades of america covers, the fbi covering they are investigating 350 people across the u.s. as possible domestic terrorists, a number of cases targeting white supremacists and white nationalists, jumping in the past six months. what is behind that? >> we have the same conversation all the time, don, the presi

in a letter to the attorney general, obtained by fox news, white house special counsel emmett flood ripped the report as a political document because mueller didn't make a decision on obstruction, but talked in detail about it. the letter was sent the day after the mueller report was released. flood writes, the special counsel and his staff failed in their duty to act as prosecutors and only as prosecutors. and called the report a prosecutorial curiosity, part truth commission report and part law school exam. the letter lays the foundation for president trump to keep aides and documents away from congressional committees, even though he did not assert executive privilege over the mueller report. flood writing his, the president's decision not to assert privilege is not a waiver of executive privilege for any other material or for any other purpose and does not affect his ability as president to instruct his advisors to decline to appear before congressional committees. all of this could well end up in court. the white house points to a 2014 department of justice opinion that senior officia

emmett and pat smith have this wonderful foundation in dallas i'm emceeing.and that is "pop." see you guys, pop, pop, pop, pop, bye, guys. mwah. >> have a good weekend. >> robin goes this way, i'll go this way. we're computing and i'll walk and talk. >> just don't pass out like sam. >>> we'll turn to our "gma" cover story. that big health news allowing the sale of a certain type of breast implant that has been linked to a rare cancer. i'm also going to hand this off because i don't even need that as we're getting cushy here. chief medical correspondent jennifer ashton is here with more. >> good morning. >> good morning to you. we made it. >> yes. >> tell us about how concerning these implants are and what the risks that we're talking about. >> first let's talk about which implants we're talking about here because this affects a lot of women. this is the textured or gummy implant. so if you look at this, it's really about the surface of the implant. it has nothing to do with whether there's saline or silicon in the implant. these rare cases of lymphoma have be

emmett flood who is donald trump's special counsel or white house counsel in charge of the special counsel investigation was brought in at some point in the second term of the bush presidency to do what we sense the white house is about to do now, exert executive privilege. >> chuck. >> you know, interestingly if i can add a historical note. i work for john ashcroft when he was attorney general. he was controversial but part of that was a function of the time which you served. i'll also say this, i have deep respect for the man because he was an institutionalist. the word i used to use for bill barr. he really cared deeply. whatever you may have thought of his politics about what the men and women thought was the right thing to do and he went out and defended its work. i'm not trying to introduce a revisionist history of ashcroft's tenure. i worked for him. i admired him. i enjoy eed it to the extent yo with enjoy working those hours under that pressure. i also said he had more in common with janet reno than anybody could imagine. they took the obligation seriously that their oath was to t

the early songs of bob dylan, everyone knows wind, but there were more topical songs, a song about emmett for example. ♪ these types of songs were written by many other folk singers as well, so what happens is that dylan progresses beyond that. and by the mid-1960's he is writing songs that aren't exactly songs you can put your finger on. it is alright ma, i'm only bleeding, like a rolling stone, highway 61 revisited, almost hallucinatory lyrics. and as american society is changing, people start to read in a very have become a very heavy, political message in dylan, at a time where if you are looking at it objectively, you couldn't say these songs are necessarily overtly political. a diplomat who carries on his shoulder a siamese cat, and people were going, what does this mean, there must be a different message. johnny is in the basement mixing up the medicine, i'm on the pavement thinking about the government. he doesn't say what he thinks about the government. give the listener inject your own meaning into that. so he is not really offering answers throughout this time. this voice of a

it's good for friday at 26 minutes and iata conquered 6.80 south smooth than emmett's recovering from a crash on the fremont side 32 minutes am leandra to milpitas and then one on one from san jose looking pretty decent some moderate slowing at just under 40 minutes, san jose to menlo park area. thank you robin. >>and breaking news this morning, a teenage carjacker crashes the car into a home in castro valley is quite the c concourse christina tadros there live for us with more on what happened christina. >>now the damage is incredibly extensive you can actually see it right behind me go to take a look at that garage. it is all completely smashed in. and this is supposedly how it happened. police and investigators say that there was a suspect who had stolen 2 cars this morning, one of this homes. this home at around 01:00am this morning, here's a little timeline of what we're told happened around 01:00am that suspect supposedly stole a white van in san leandro that has been chp officer started chasing him he then crashed that white car. here into this castro valley home as you guys ha

it definitely still deal with the alternatives absolutely yet the shore freeway than emmett city streetsson people have several options. >>even bart you know you can find a parking space and i know they go really fast. but even bart is a great way to get into san francisco. we can you know thought is this going to be here for a while my or so as we first started talking about it. so yeah, just this commute, goodbye specially for 5.80. it is a matter not of the officers say couple more hours at least couple of more hours at least and i think a lot of folks are actually starting to you know they're listening to us there's sticking with alternate routes because when this first happened earlier this morning traffic was much much heavier and now i'm seen not as much pressure on those connecting freeways like we saw early this morning, so folks are starting to avoid 5.18 you can see that backup westbound leading up to the scene and then you have the usual grind out of san leandro as well so a few clock 5.80 west here at roughly 37 to 40 minutes to make it from castro valley to downtown oakland

emmett flood nearing at mueller's report and findings by calling the report from mueller a, quote, prosecutorial curiosity. we're watching republicans in congress and the white house and the president's legal defenders all starting to round on robert mueller. forget all the stuff that mueller's an honorable guy. mueller's exonerated the president. now it's mueller is deranged. mueller is terrible at his job. mull's a disaster. and the problem for them as they make that turn is that mueller is alive and mueller is starting to communicate with the outside world in his own terms that we now know includes at least some lines of communication from the judiciary committees to him. ask approximate that puts william barr and the trump white house in a bit of a corner here because in order to cast dispersions on what was wrong with mueller's investigation and what's deficient about mueller himself and shutting down his investigation in the first place, they've had to make this aggressive argument about what it is that mueller did wrong, right? what was so wrong about mueller saying that he felt constrain

today, right, so trump, who is trying to distance himself from mike flynn again because emmett sullivan is going to release more papers about how bad he was, so trump says, you know, i wasn't warned about these investigations into him. another little detail in the report that people don't know is that both hope hicks and steve bannon testified that in december of 2016, when flynn was calling up the ambassador to russia and doing all these crazy things that violated the stated policy of the united states, according to them, trump was already pissed at flynn. he was angry at flynn because obama warned him about that investigation on november 10th, 2016. so trump has spent the day saying, i didn't know about the investigation, and that effectively, according to the mueller report, is him calling steve bannon and hope hicks liars. that's what they told the fbi, is that trump not only knew about it, but that he was really stewing about it all through december 2016. >> marcy wheeler, quinta, thank you both. appreciate it. >>> joining me now, a legislator who has been calling for the president

in cameron‘s ward, prince harry visited cancer patients, including three—year—old emmett from elsberry it is paramount that we stay positive, forjay, this is an amazing experience for him. story sharing with his classmates in school. it was kind of nice to understand he was coming out, so quickly after the birth to visit people. and to raise their spirits. obviously, as we have seen, it caused a nice atmosphere in the ward. it was something that we look forward to it and look forward to meeting him. it was a very nice gesture from him. in the hospital school room, peoples have been working on a music project to write a song. he asked if i could sing, i can‘t sing, so, he asked about music tastes and my exam coming up. then it was onto the disability sports and leisure center celebrating its 30th anniversary. his late mother diana princess of wales, opened in 1989. the short drive away, the duke also reopened the neighbourhood centre after its £1 million refurb. he met mentors working with disadvantaged young people, and heard from volunteers at the local food bank. it may have been a s

host: that is emmett in south carolina. om has thisldagnews.c headline released to dairy farmers.airy farmers will be able to receive second market facilitation programs as part of the $16 billion aid package and it goes on to say the dairy farmers association estimates millions have lost $2.3 due to higher tariffs against u.s. dairy. bill in texas, a farmer. good morning. caller: yes, ma'am. can you hear me? host: we can. sayer: i would just like to donald trump, i have been a farmer all my life, i have lived am 64amily farm -- i years old and we owned this family farm since 1946 and we cattle,corn, raised sheep, cotton, and every other kind of crop and donald trump is the greatest president -- i wish we had had him years ago. he is standing up for farmers. this country has been getting ripped off and the farmers have piddly prices and now we have a president trying to stand up and be a man. that i lovearmers because you are my blood because i have been a farmer all my life, you will need to stop whimpering -- calling in whimpering. a ditch and keep getting your guts ripped out b

they include emmett till, herbert lee, medgar evers, jimmy lee jackson, benjamin brown, dr. martin luther king jr., and the four little girls who were sadly killed in the 16th street baptist church bombing in birmingham, alabama. judge keith fought on their behalf during his tenure on this federal court. some of his other rulings had a profound impact on american life as well. the biggest being his decision that prohibited the nixon administration from warrantless wiretapping in domestic security cases. he ordered the nixon justice department to end all wiretapping that were not approved by the courts. this was in the midst of the nixon administration's attempt to go after radicals accused of conspiring to bomb a c.i.a. office in ann arbor, michigan. , in the constitution's fourth amendment rights from unreasonable searches and seizures. the nixon administration appealed his ruling and the supreme court with a vote of 8-0 rejected the administration's claim of constitutional authority to protect the nation from internal sub version by wire -- subversion by wiretapping danger

we learned this week, emmett floyd the white house counsel, laid down a marker, the marker should be that the president is not having waived executive privilege as a result of don mcgahn's cooperation with the mueller investigation. now that investigation is over. the president is trying to carve out legal space through his lawyers to essentially make the following argument. jerry nadler, you have the house judiciary committee. you are not engaged in legitimate oversight. the mueller investigation is over. don mcgahn cooperated with that investigation. unless you're prepared to say i am implicitly say, unless you're prepared to say you're conducting impeachment inquiry there is no basis to have don mcgahn testify before your committee. period over. it is done. neil: but there are 30 hours for the world to read. >> are we litigating that? if the mueller investigation is over, the criminal case is done, you're not conducting impeachment inquiry, what are you doing? neil: how did sam irvin, the watergate committee, get at the time john dean, richard nixon's, white house counsel, to test

. >> hello, wilf hello, everybody here's what's happening at this hour top white house attorney emmettlood slamming special counsel robert mueller's approach to the obstruction investigation. this according to a letter sent to attorney general william barr last month the letter, which was released today, says, "either ask the grand jury for an indictment or decline to charge the case." >>> a venezuelan court issuing an arrest warrant for opposition politician leopoldo lopez. lopez is a known political ally to opposition party leader juan guaido and is currently seeking refuge in caracas. google telling a u.s. house panel that it spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually on content review the company also saying it manually reviewed more than 1 million suspected terrorist videos on youtube in the first three months of 2019 >>> and a strong gust of wind catapulted an inflated bounce house 20 feet in the air during a washington state high school event, injuring five students. the bounce house traveled a distance of more than 240 feet according to local reporters they've had a lot of

white house counsel emmett flood reached out to mcgahn and asked him to say publicly that he did notdent obstructed justice. the new york times first broke this story. according to the times, white house officials asked mcgahn to say trump never obstructed justice twice in the past month, they did it at the direction of president trump. mr. mcgahn declined. his attorney seemed to confirm the reports you can telling fox news we didn't perceive it as a threat or something sinister, it was a request professionally and cordially made. they want to hear from mcgahn on the 21st of may. they subpoenaed him. the department of treasury and irs have one week to comply with subpoenas of their own and turn over six years of president trump's personal and business tax returns to democrats on the house ways and means committee. richard neil tried to obtain the returns by using a tax code that dates back to the harding administration. steven mnuchin rejected that request earlier this week. the secretary said the lacks a legitimate legislative purpose and goes against supreme court precedent. richar

i would encourage your viewers to read a letter that -- i talked about this a few weeks ago that emmettto the attorney general. he says this, if unelected people in the government can do that, talking more about the mueller report and people in the intelligence community. if they can do this to a president of the united states. imagine what they can do to any one of us. that's a fundamental -- why the real investigation is the one bill barr is doing with john durham. web what bill barr said a few weeks ago. he said there was a failure of leadership at the upper echelon at the f.b.i. spying took place. there is a basis for his concern about that spying and he used two terms that should scare every american. unauthorized and political vairl answer that took place the top people at the f.b.i. started this trump/russia investigation and bill barr is bound and determined to get to the bottom and find out exactly what happened. that's the investigation that matters the most. >> sandra: makes you wonder what that conversation in the white house will be like just a short time from now at the 11

black peopleing all the way up into emmett till. what do you think of particularly when it comes to immigration and asylum issues? caller: he is doing what i think something should be done at the border. you know, in a way i do applaud trump for even taking on the issue a little stronger. in missouri, salem, missouri, republican line. go ahead. caller: i am a little bit upset with the idea that we should be blamed or held accountable with children of parents from a foreign country who show up here illegally and expect us to take care of them for 100 days. i think they should be deported immediately. there should be no hearing, they should just be sent back. those countries that are continuing to allow their citizens to come up here, including mexico, they need to be held accountable because we need to start dealing with them directly to hold them accountable for the expense of putting them on the american taxpayer. host: when you hear of senator graham's effort, what do you think? caller: the asylum issue is one i think is great, th

we're going back to the future, as the story of marty mcfly and dr emmett brown comes to the stage.to get it up to 88 mph -- dry it. good morning. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. more than 500 suspected members of drugs gangs have been arrested over the past week in a co—ordinated police operation across the uk. officers were tackling so—called county lines drugs networks, which involves gangs from cities moving into smaller towns or rural areas and using children and vulnerable people to help them deal drugs. weapons were also recovered as well as more than 300,000 pounds in cash. union leaders will meet government ministers this morning, amid reports that british steel is on the brink of collapse. 4,000 people are employed at the firm's scunthorpe plant. the unite union is urging the compa ny‘s owner greybull to find a solution. a decision on an emergency loan is expected today. the chancellor, philip hammond, will today warn conservative leadership hopefuls against a no—deal brexit. theresa may will address the cabinet later on what she's described as a ‘b

police join me in honoring police officer emmett paul morris, corporal walter zackary moke, patrolman james kevin white, patrol officer lee anne simpson, and police officer robert mckeethan. there can be no more noble vocation than the protection of women's fellow citizens. mr. guest: may we remember these brave officers, their sacrifice to protect our communities, and the sacrifice they made for the people who call mississippi home. thank you, mr. speaker, and yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from washington seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. today i am proud to join my colleagues in passing the equality act, which ensures that lgbtq americans are treated equally. in more than half our nation, lgbtq americans can still be fired, denied credit, and evicted from their home simply based on who they are and who they love. it happened to someone in my state. ms. delbene: he was a volley