as an institution and the whole mission respected on me as an institution so i don't think so it can be done has been drawn on this on the prime minister the video independent anyone who knows him run out. and vote for his independency you can never ever you know say anything and say anything about him is a very independent man 500 he is already independent party we have a really independent governor and the whole this is do follow and i want to thank you i want to touch how do you want to thank you tom i want to thank all our guests in fact for choudhry and his whole even and i sent city come and thank you to fortune you can see the program again any time by visiting a website out is there a toll call and for further discussion cut off facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle his at a.j. inside story for me and one count on the whole team here tonight. counting the cost brazil's economic meltdown cupboard $19.00 denial and corruption but both somalis popularity's on the law i must mexican farmers f

this institution is will be closed and all the people in this institution will be displaced until thenyes then there is the clothes when will they be closed they will last until the end of this month we are working already on that and together with the philosophy of the general we started the division of all the east editions all mentalities of the temple people in if we see that there are other. just like this all the other institutions will be well how do i know you know because there is no independent monitoring another fact brought up by the committee against torture you have no independent special monitoring mechanism for men. health institutions we're working very closely with the not governmental organisations sense from the 1st of september we have established the mage's you want to give social services i would let banks out of the deal to the europeans only that it is due to our politics at the moment you both get it there are no institutions for children with mental disability and we are just at in the process of institutionalization where all the people with mental disabilit

guest: well, the r street institute is a fabulous public policy research institute in washington, d.c. many people may never have heard of it. it is relatively new as far as think tanks in washington, d.c. go, and it really is extraordinary. it explores solutions, pragmatic solutions and its motto is free markets and real solutions, and it's not overly ideological, and it really tries to take a step back and look at what's not working in our policies and our society and why haven't we figured out how to fix it. fix . that's what i do there at the governance department. it's a really great place. to go toge you the website and check it out. i work in the center for over a decade i love the institution and i wept like a baby when i left my last day. i probably shouldn't say that a national television but on its worst day, the senate is next ordinary institution. when i was there, i ran the steering committee for a number of conservative senators, mike lee was the chairman when i left and pat toomey was the chairman prior to him. --as also the registered legislative director for jeff ses

what i can tell you if there is a small institution, particularly if it is a minority depository institution, we have our policy statement to speak to find minority institutions before we open it up to the bigger. rep. waters: have you been successful in any acquisitions when you are putting them back on the market? ms. pearson: yes, we have been successful. i would be happy to give you the details. rep. waters: thank you very much. i would appreciate that. can youll have time, give me information about contracts? what kind of contracts have you been able to assist with? generally,he-board but very high relative -- 60% of our contracting business is is in the i.t. arena and we have been very successful. rep. waters: i would like to get that information from you to whatunderstand exactly businesses have been successful and what we can do to do outreach to other businesses who perhaps would be eligible for other contracts that may not be responsive anyway. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. thank you. chair beatty: thank you very much. the chair now recognizes the distinguished ge

or to develop programs which will not arm the our full institution. well. in the corporate sector but will in fact i'm sure to their needs the result is policies which whatever their intentions are often negative in their say we have to address the problems directly without. giving priority to the needs of the destructive institutions there's no time to overcome a limited we have to accommodate to their existence one of the timescale of institutional change is out of the range of time skill for dealing with the environment for instance so we have to work within the basic institutional structure that exists but within it we can find a very clear definite ofcs there outline the my colleague poems your visions of the book and so on the till which with a small percentage of the economy suffice to will suffice to deal with these twin programs has your book actually has further than the road to hell being paved by good intentions because who want to shock people as you call it deliberately malicious a stake was just happening right in front of our eyes. so

i think to answer your question, for years, we have been hearing about institutional adoption, institutionaley. particularly amongst the locals, there has been a big misunderstanding of what that means. be oneill not be -- not big event. i think instead what has really been happening is that there has been a slow, steady, and consistent increase. we have seen that, a little more like this summer. thislittle bit more public summer. caroline: microstrategy starting to get in on the playing field as well. thatare also hearing is there starts to be people who want to make a quick buck or two. coming intoncies the playing field. teddy: there certainly is concerned about scams and people need to be careful with that. institutions dipping nato and the water, we -- dipping a toe anthe water, we suggest index approach. arbitrage funds that can go anywhere and do anything, those have been one of the largest growing categories particularly since the pandemic broke out. there are other institutions , themarket-making firms big market-making firms that are the most active in traditional markets. equities

of a lot of our institutions. centerng back to 100 street, one of the things i learned there is that you want to see similarly situated people treated in the same way. right? similarly situated defendants to be treated in a similar fashion. i think the closer you get to that norm, we are talking about norms here in some regard, the institution is bolstered. toen: i want to turn a bit the future and ask a few questions about what we might expect. offbeat, but i have to ask it because i am who i am. if hyden is president, i'm curious what will happen at guantanamo or to guantanamo. "the new york times" reporter carol rosenberg has been told by the biden campaign that mr. biden continues to support closing the detention center. josh, you were there when obama tried to close the detention center. that plan is still probably on paper. do you think that's possible? could biden do this? or is this a nonstarter? josh: i hope it's possible, but it will take a change of political will in congress. as you were kind enough to

you sit in these institutions and you think you in cambridge there was purposeful these institutions were made primarily for white middle class men. these institutions were in fact a primary part of building and developing a party to south africa and colonial africa. the the. not only are students oppressed by the violence of the system in that they financially excluded but so workers right and to an even worse extent because workers have even less agency than students to write in some ways the university needs us to exist as opposed to workers who can be more easily replaced. and not employed by over it but knew where and contracted companies in 2001 when this outsourcing started the employers who were employed by beds they now became ex vets and and what they lost was up to half this the least and they no longer had medicaid 8. i'm from the. idea it's part of the same struggle you want a more just society you want a dignified society and you want to date commodified university. where i was at the launch of the body i feel come back into a meeting and to make sure that the uplifting

s and institutions. the bill also directs each of the federal banking regulators to establish m.d.i. advisory councils to ensure m.d.i. voices are heard without weakening or duplicating current efforts. the bill also allows banks to be designated an impact bank. this allows any bank that serves a majority of low-income borrowers to be considered as an option to hold government deposits. this program will bolster the ability of banks to serve their communities. finally, the bill streamlines the application reporting requirements to become and remain a cdfi. i appreciate the gentleman from new york for his willingness to work with committee republicans so we can bring a strong bipartisan bill to the floor that supports communities in need. i urge my colleagues to support this bill. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. sherman: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new york, the autho

operating budgets for fps institutions, the highest level of football playing institutions which there are 130, range from roughly 16 million dollars to over 230 million dollars in annual budgets. at utah state, our budget is around $36 million. of that $36 million, $13 million in revenues are generated through football and men's basketball. conversely, for expenditures, we spend about 11.5 million dollars annually on football and men's basketball. one important consideration in the collegiate funding model is title ix. revenues from football and men's basketball help fund scholarships in many sports, including for female student athletes, which are required by title ix compliance. to me, the greatest victory a student athlete can achieve during their collegiate experience is when they walk across the stage to get a degree. once earned, that degree can never be taken away. as you heard from other witnesses, that degree can often lead to financial success in your life going forward, regardless the field of competition they going into. an athletic career can be taken away whether by illn

i agree with josh, the institution is functioning. dangerous people are being prosecuted across the country. people should not overreact to the headlines about what is happening, but i think the department is being used in a way to aid a president's political goals and reelection efforts in a way that it has not been used since watergate. karen: that is interesting. are you all making a distinction between the doj on the one hand and the office of the attorney general on the other hand, that you can sort of separate them and assess them differently? joshua: i think this attorney general is making that more of a distinction that we are accustomed to seeing. we are having this conversation just hours after the attorney general gave yet another interview -- again, attorney general's sometimes give interviews, sometimes they speak, but to do so in the way that this is attorney general does the where he deliberately replicates words chosen by the president, whether that is how he described the russia investigation in 2016, how he talks abo

at our institutions will catch up. i am encouraged and inspired by what i see in every american stepping up to take responsibility not just for themselves. >> covid-19 is uppermost in our minds, where do americans turn? there are several narratives, who do we trust? >> i do trust what i am hearing from scientists in washington. i know doctor fauci, they are good people doing their best. we also have myriad voices that have differing views. i don't have a problem with people questioning the trade-offs we are making in society. from an epidemiological point of view stopping the spread of the virus we have to do certain things and we should do everything we can. i wear a mask even when i don't have to because i want to send a signal to people that i care about your health as much as i care about mine. it is also the case that we are having to make trade-offs in businesses and i am hoping we are giving them a chance to start to open because these are people whose entire livelihood is tied up in the ability, we are having t

that's the challenge for the institution. the ruling yesterday was a play into this in the book, the spheres of improper government surveillance, of f a big brother government that is everywhere, a deep state that is victimizing ordinary americans. >> what are we to make of the way in which the flynn case has become sort of a football that is being passed back and forth? that's the kind of thing where people are confused. they look at, you can interfere with the case, just tell a case to be dropped and tell a judge what to do? that seems to me people when you talk about trust to violate certain ways in which we expect our courts to operate. is that incorrect? >> i will jump in there, care. stepping back fromer the flynn case, there are lots of interesting question from very small criminal cases two very big b criminal cases about whats in the discretion of the prosecution versus what the court can weigh in on. and plea deals, for example, are rife with this sort of difficulty. when it comes to, again, if an agreement is reach

i am vivian schiller with the outfit institute. glad you could be with us today. the new york times bestseller list can be a mirror of the national psyche and this reflects a nation going through an awakening on matters of race. books on matters of race and racism fill fiction and nonfiction. that's the good news. sadly the publishing industry does not always reflect that reality. the recent twitter protest amy, the pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack others. there are a few people of color who serve as publishing several literary agents and even fewer who operate at a decision-making level and for those who are published, the market exposure can be so awesome. at this year of national reckoning on racism, we look at the book publishing industry and whether it can bring more racial diversity to the field. this is part of our changing the narrative series, issues of race through the media and one program on the news media and another program about the entertainment industry. we ask for the challenges but also the new possibility in this case fo

so there is some institutional memory i guess. >> very impressive. let's come back to dare to speak, your current book. would you mind -- you get asked this in sound bite interviews. what is nice about the book and at the end of each chapter you have good bullet point summaries and then the outline but i was dandering if you wonder if you could give our audience the general principles you recommend for daring to speak essentially and essentially if i had to summarized identity said they really it's point that you be open minded but put yourself in the position of the listener and be sympathetic and empathetic but that's too simplicities a summary. >> you hit in the nail on the head with the idea that particularly living in our increasingly tie verse society -- diverse society, big part of my argument is that you have to be cognizant of who is in your audience and what their sensitivities and pressure points are, and this is not the 1950s where you're writing for a newspaper that has a readership that consists of the 20,000 people in your town. that's

division one a institution with 16 varsity teams. it offers 168 undergraduate degrees and 143 graduate degrees, and educates 28,000 students, one of whom is my grandson. today, we examined the potential impact of the ncaa's decision to allow student athletes to be compensated for the name, image, and likeness as former student athlete and certified public accountant, as an athletic director at utah state university, informed and first-hand perspective, which i look forward to hearing. thank you. witnessourth and final is the executive director of the national college players association. he played college football at ucla, where he became an advocate for student athletes rights. his work has been featured on a numerous news programs, he's often quoted on espn and cbs sports promoting athlete compensation. he earned a bachelors degree in sociology and a master of public health at ucla. we will now begin hearing from our witnesses. chancellor blank, let's start with you. >> chairman alexander, ranking member murray, distinguished membe

we work very closely with a lot of the hbcu's, the hispanic serving institutions. we also participate in an initiative that was started in chicago which is called the pipeline initiative, which is done with major banking and financial services companies to basically establish relationships through mentoring and coaching for college students who are interested in finance and bringing them into the organization to do rotation assignments, to do some internships and we monitor that very closely. we stay engaged with those students. we participate in the american economic association summer program, which i mentioned previously, in order to not only encourage students to stay in the economic field but also to provide them support in advancing their education. davy: this is monica davy. like the other agencies mentioned, we have three different types of intern programs. one is a high school program we participated in this year. we also have a pathways program, as well as an internship program that focuses on bringing minorities to the agency. with all of those interns t

>>host: this organization man institutional the world as a network era hard to describe that?st: i will describe that as the rise of wall street is the governing principle and morgan stanley as well use as the example. as late as 1970 morgan stanley had 200 employees as a private partnership and people like us where pundits with the state of the american economy often would say things like mason would not even exist because corporations are so powerful. and now morgan stanley has been through lots of ups and downs to the financial crisis and more than 50000 employees and wine of the systemically important important institutions a.k.a. too big to fail guaranteed by the federal government. the power has shifted from corporations who thought they could do whatever they wanted to wall street firms and a financial system that dictates terms to corporations under shareholder value of job security and a generous retirement pension rather than government. the second and third phase with that social compact with the economic security middle-class americans the greatest social instituti

after outcry, the institute reversed its decision.re than 3,000 people gathered to see you talk at an alternative event to honor you, which was hosted by the birmingham committee for truth and reconciliation. this is a clip of your comments that day. angela davis: it became clear to me that this might be a teachahable momement, that we might seize this moment to reflect upon what it means to live on this planet in the 21st century, and our responsibility is not only toto peoee in ourur immediate communityt, but the people all l over the planet.t. amy: we were thehere covering this amazing momoment when the birmingham civil rights institute had rescinded the award to you, went through enormous turmoil. the mayor of birmingham -- and then it was awarded. can you explain the significance? angela davis: : a lot has happpd over the last period, including wiwithin the context of the birmingham civil rights institute. they have e coletetely reorganize they have reorganized their board. they have been invnvolved in conversations with t commun

institutional oppression. but then it occurs to me the left controls every major institution in the united states. they control the mainstream media, hollywood, they control big tech, they control administrative government, they control higher education and lower education. the list goes on and on so if there is institutional racism or oppression it in would be the fault of the people who run the institution. you bring up be point the brave basketball player who stood up for the national anthem when erv else was taking a knee. that guy's name was jonathan isaac. i'm not a big nba fan but i think a lot of people had never heard his name before and i think there's a consolation here and a worthy lesson which is even though this is a relatively unnorthern player, he is now selling more jerseys than anybody necessary his league other than lebron james. there is what some people called a silent majority out the, not who are conservative necessarily or republican or necessarily. the silent majority of people who fee

let's talk about this minority deposit institutions you're talking about. give us a sense, from your understanding of the question of the under bank and on bank -- unbank in our communities. michael: the idea is how do we -- >> the idea is creating more lending capacity. the $50 million put in, when fully deployed, think of it multiplied by 14. have done autions great job. some are bigger and some are smaller. we already have about $100 million deposits in them, but that is deposits they can lend out. this is equity so they can get deposits from other people and grow. we do a great job of lending in all communities. all capabilities in housing, small business lending is the largest in the country, but to have a fully competitive place and help these institutions be more competitive and focused in the communities, our job is to help them grow. david: you have made investments thus far in three minority oriented or owned lenders. do you ask beck to take positions in more of those entities? thee all have but completed fourth, and we are in discussions with wad

at the rockefeller institute. now of course, the major event that really put polio on the map suddenly get a lot more attention it was a personal tragedy and that was franklin dylan roosevelt. and coming in 1921. here was a 39 year old man, he's not an infant, from a very well to do family. he's a very robust man. and suddenly, he succumbed to polio at his family's summer home on campus bellow island. how it the author explain how someone like roosevelt got polio? what had happened in his past or recently to him to explain this? >> he says that he was extremely vulnerable because as a child, he had many illnesses he also became exhausted in stretch. and that led to immune system going down, around a bunch of other people could've contracted the disease from. anybody know anything about roosevelt's childhood? >> he was very wealthy so he separated the mainstream american population which meant that he didn't contract common childhood diseases, which would've races immune system. in the real world, he was much more

everyone of these attacks on our institutions are only underscored by how important they are and every threat to turn our courts into a political tug-of-war only reinforces while the senate is charged with protecting our independent judiciary and while this majority work with president trump on this path is so crucial. the presidents plans to use the power the voters gave him to make a nomination. senators will use the power the voters gave us to either provide or withhold consent as we see fit. the only ones responsible for those threats is the people making them.

there are other institutes that exist like the denver institute, columbia also nyu. i think that numerous publishers today are trying to figure out how do we get to the talents? how do we get to the talent? there's no bigger better way to do that and to have the institute. >> and i did read, just today but in publishing, create a public teaching diversity fellowship which is new i believe that is part of the columbia publishing course. that is still a smaller organization than the one you're talking about. it also segues nicely something lisa was mentioning yesterday, which was really about the bounty of jobs in publishing that we don't really necessary all know are there without some kind of education in the field. because most able think writers, editors that's it. unit talk at all about that lis lisa? snap i was joking yesterday not the tarp recall if something like a job like a literary scout existed i probably would've been the literary scout. as a 28-year-old is like what did i miss? i think it is a complicated industry. i am still learning. i would start worki

we reach out to over a thousand institutions to encourage them to get assessment.although the response will be impacted by the pandemic we continue to conduct outreaches to the entities and work with trade organizations to educate financial institutions for benefits and encourage them to adopt best practices. the bureau engages in an array to promote an inclusive work environment with equity, collaboration and greater productivity per each month i issue a message to all employees sharing perspectives on topics. the bureau launched the test program for professional development and includes [inaudible] and career development. the bureau continues to prioritize the minority and women owned businesses and we conduct targeted outreach and provide technical assistance including our quarterly business with the bureau and it has resulted in positive trends and fy 27228.9% in fy 2019. in the current fiscal year we are on track for this area. in conclusion while we made sniffing and progress on our strategies in 2020 there is more the bureau can accomplish and our commitment

our institutions will catch up. but for the time being, i'm really encouraged and i'm inspired by what i see in every american stepping up and trying to make responsibility not just for themselves but for each other. >> when it comes to covid, which of course is uppermost in our minds right now, where do americans turn for the right information? we are -- there's several different narratives out there about what's going on. who do we trust? >> well, i do trust what i'm hearing from the scientists in washington. i know dr. tony fauci. i know dr. deborah birx. they're good people and they're doing their best. we have a myriad of voices that may have a differing views. and i don't have a problem with people questioning the trade-offs that we're making in society. it's one thing to say from an epidemiological point of view simply stopping the virus, we should do everything we have. i wear a mask even when i don't have to because i want to send a signal to people that i care about your health as much as i care about mine

confucius institutes, galapagos. deal with it. our nation and cut the crap, as you're saying, i think eloquently perhaps more eloquently than i am, cut the crap about the language and the rhetoric are. get it done. this is a president of action. and his people and his administration need to follow his lead. would we agree on that? >> i agree with you, and there ought to be a checklist that you and i can monitor and say, okay, this happened, this happened, these six more things need to happen next. the president has the power to do this, lou. i think you're right about that. lou: and what about doubling the number of ships that we are building in this country? instead of watching the chinese build theirs and clucking about the fact that they are now the largest navy in the world, why aren't we committing to a larger navy? and absolutely assuring that we maintain superiority militarily over the communist chinese who seek, who are following an expansionary foreign policy? >> well, it's a campaign promise the president made about the

school, but a research institute. and this of course is the rockefeller institute which is in new york city. in fact, if you go to new york city, you can see this beautiful, beautiful -- these beautiful grounds and this building. it's right on the east river i think in the high 50s or low 60s. this was something new. this was very exciting. and the director of the man who was appointed director of this institute was a man who held this position for 40 years. and what did you get? did you get any sense of his personality, the man who headed this institute? >> he rather had -- >> how about removing the "rather." >> headstrong. polio was his domain. if you were going to research polio, you had to do it his way. >> and he was an incredible autocrat. but he ran this institute with an iron fist in a way. this was his thing. this institute took on many, many diseases. polio is one of the many diseases studied at the rockefeller institute. now, of course the major event that really put polio in -- sort of on the map, when it

they have built confucius institutes. there are over 500 confucius institutes and universities around the world. we have about 80 of them in the united states that are basically tools for chinese propaganda, to monitor chinese students studying in the united states and so on. they have built television networks. they have purchased communications systems in other countries, particularly in africa. they have made a worldwide investment in promoting the chinese example, promoting the chinese model, and promoting chinese policies. they have one of the most obvious instruments that they have been using is development assistance through the belt and road project. it is roughly a $1 trillion undertaking. and dozens and dozens of countries all over the world have these projects. now, you can argue that some of them saddle these countries with unsustainable debt. a lot of them are white elephant projects. there's corruption involved. the chinese required that the countries used chinese companies in using these projects. nonethele

giving into political blackmail would not do a thing to secure our institutions. so, madam president, you do not put a stop to irresponsible hostagetaking by making hostagetaking a winning strategy. i'll tell you what really could threaten our system of government, it's not senate republicans doing legitimate things squarely within the senate rules and within the constitution that democrats happen to dislike. no. no. what really threatening our system isn't one of our two major parties continues to pretend the whole system is automatically illegitimate whenever they lose. if they continue to act like for their side of the aisle a legitimate defeat is an oxymoron, that, that is the danger to our democracy. every one of these attacks on our institutions only underscores how important they are. every threat to turn our courts into a political tug-of-war only reinforces while the senate, while the scent the senate is h protecting our independent judiciary, and while this majority works with president trump on this task is so crucial. the president plans to use the pow

will never see into the public institutions will never see the light and will never have an impact.say that we have to pay attention that we can't stereotype, because some of the public service institutions are good, some are bad. even in ngos, we have to be vigilant in choosing which ones to work with, so in choosing which ones to work with, soi in choosing which ones to work with, so i think that it is a matter of trust with people and not with industries or sectors, so we have to know with whom to work and we have dinner with him to give trust. and now ourfinal question is dinner with him to give trust. and now our final question is from british lebanese antoinette foster whojoins us from british lebanese antoinette foster who joins us from the north of england. what is your question? thank you for inviting me. as a lebanese, ican thank you for inviting me. as a lebanese, i can say that lebanon is ina lebanese, i can say that lebanon is in a political turmoil and it has always been, unfortunately. i can't tell you what's next but all i can say is that surely lebanon will rise aga

think of being awesome idea there other institutes that exist like the denver institute institutes, buti think that numerous publishers today are trying to figure out how to get to the talent? how do we get to the talents. there's no bigger and better way than to have the institute. >> and i did read, just today that and publishing perspectives that the echo in partnership created a publishing diversity fellowship which is new i believe part of combi publishing course something that segues to what lisa was talking about yesterday about the bounty of jobs in publishing the udo necessarily all know are there and talk about that lisa? i probably would have been a literary scout probably is a 28-year-old i did start working so i was employed at 33. he went outside the industry moves a real education all the things that no one had told me. i think we have to be thinking about diversifying with decision-makers when you think about marketing folks hr and all of those things that go into sales has an imprint. it has a title of an author. and i think this person made this book. but it takes an a

institute,raphic underwater sound. and so on and so forth. the number of contracts, the value of contracts converted into 2017 dollars stand as follows you'd some scholars -- as follows. that eliters say institutions in the northeast were favored by osrd, but if you look at nonindustrial contractors, they are scattered from coast-to-coast and i don't think there is much value to the allegation. also, industrial contractors would be contracted not only to conduct research but provide manufacturing. the research construction company was number two on that for the number of devices they created. ok, postwar scientific research. what happened after the war was over? osrd wound down almost immediately to be replaced by a permanent teddy -- permanent entity. bush's idea was we wanted to institutionalize the federal funding of basic scientific research, and this was the opportunity to do it. there was a consensus on the need for federally funded a sick scientific research but not on fundedm or mandate -- basic scientific research, but not on the for

i'm a senior from about the manhattan institute and i wanted viewers to go through the program, please enter your questions on any of the platforms that they were watching us on and we will either rip them into the discussion or a save them for the q-and-a at the end of the event so i just want everyone to know that before we get started. as i said, this could be a more important or more timely conversation that we are going to have today. since the death of george floyd in police custody last month, we have seen nationwide unrest and protests not only here in america, but internationally. and we've also seen a certain narrative take hold. it starts with the assumption that the only way to properly view george floyd staff is through a racial lens. in fact all encounters with police and black suspects are increasingly viewed this way. it's a narrative that assumes the behavior of typical police behavior towards black suspects and shows george floyd as a black family man in america that have happened and happens to black people all the time. that they leave the house each day parade abou

>> awe, indeed, my friend, the institution of slavery.let me rephrase that, the deplorable institution of slavery. it was no surprise that when i came to america, i let my thoughts and my feelings on this institution be known. i had become part of washington's military family with men such as alexander hamilton, john lawrence and others. i shared my views upon this, but it would not be until 1784, before my return to celebrate with all of you, the american people, the fact that you had achieved independence, that i wrote a letter to general washington stating that you, my dear general, would be considered an even greater man than you already are if you would set the example by emancipating the slaves, thereby others could follow this example and you could eradicate this horrible institution. he of course responded by saying that i was a credit to humanity for making such a suggestion, though i of course i'm not the only one who suggested such a thing. but he said it could not be done immediately. that it must be done slowly and through le

misrepresentations about the past, misstatements about the present, and more threats against our institutions from the same people, the same people who've already been saying for months, well before this, already been saying for months, they want to pack the court. two years ago, a radical movement tried to use unproven accusations to ruin a man's life because they could not win a vote fair and square. now, they appear to be ready in even more appalling sequel. this time, the target will not just be the presumption of innocence for one american, but our very governing institutions themselves. there will be times in the days ahead to discuss the naked t

this is not institutions. the is not the people in situations in saudi arabia saying, this is what we need to do, we have a strategy. this is a win of an erratic prince. >> thank you for an extraordinary report. to rosner go now krishnamurthy. >> can you hear me? >> great. likeank you very much, and the others, i echo the sentiments that this is really an entirely appropriate discussion to have on 9/11 when we remember the first responders and those we lost. is at theon i have same time that we are extremely concerned about iran developing a nuclear weapon, i am concerned, as are many people on this committee, about the saudis pursuing a nuclear weapon. my understanding is that the chinese government has recently assisted them in certain matters related to enriching uranium and so forth. what can you tell us about the status of this saudi nuclear weapons effort? >> [indiscernible] the crown prince has said it publicly. they want nuclear weapons in saudi arabia. the good news is there technical capabilities in