matthew scully hicks had been described by a judge as a jekyll and hyde type character.ies on the child. today, a report was published into whether lessons could be learned from her death. it found that professionals did not consider or raise the possibility that elsie was being harmed by a parent. her injuries were either missed or not documented, meaning safeguarding concerns were not raised, and information was not effectively shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully hicks had already adopted one child and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers, who had not always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity, because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly around injuries that they can see, during an adoption process? that positive lens meant that they weren't looking in the way they should have been, and so you are right. that is something they should have done, that is something

matthew scully—hicks was sentenced to 18 years in prison. fractured skull, broken ribs and a fractured leg. today a report was published into whether lessons could be learned from her death. there were missed opportunities to raise safeguarding concerns. for this, all agencies involved in elsie's care would like to sincerely apologise. the report also found that the adoption was viewed as very successful. opportunities to explore elsie's injuries were missed, and information was not shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully—hicks had already adopted one child, and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers, who hadn't always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity, because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly round injuries they can see during an adoption process? that positive lens meant they weren't looking in the way they should have been, and so yo

matthew scully—hicks had been described by a judge as a jekyll and hyde type character. prison after inflicting a catalogue of injuries on the child. today, a report was published into whether lessons could be learned from her death. it found that professionals did not consider or raise the possibility that elsie was being harmed by a parent. her injuries were either missed or not documented, meaning safeguarding concerns were not raised, and information was not effectively shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully hicks had already adopted one child and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers, who had not always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity, because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly around injuries that they can see during an adoption process? that positive lens meant that they weren't looking in the way they should have been, and so you are right. that is somethi

matthew scully—hicks was jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years for murder last year.was 18 months old when she was murdered by her adoptive father. matthew scully—hicks was sentenced to 18 years in prison after inflicting a catalogue of injuries on the child. today a report was published into whether lessons could be learnt from her death. there were missed opportunities to raise safeguarding concerns. for this all agencies involved in elsie's care would like to sincerely apologise. the report also found that the adoption was viewed as very successful. opportunities to explore elsie's injuries were missed and information was not shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully—hicks had already adopted one child and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers who hadn't always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity? because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly around injuries that they

matthew scully—hicks was sentenced to 18 years in prison. published into whether lessons could be learned from her death. there were missed opportunities to raise safeguarding concerns. for this, all agencies involved in elsie's care would like to sincerely apologise. the report also found that the adoption was viewed as very successful. opportunities to explore elsie's injuries were missed, and information was not shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully—hicks had already adopted one child, and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers, who hadn't always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity, because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly round injuries they can see during an adoption process? that positive lens meant they weren't looking in the way they should have been, and so you're right. that's something they should have done, that's something

matthew scully—hicks was sentenced to 18 years in prison.roken ribs and a fractured leg. today a report was published into whether lessons could be learned from her death. there were missed opportunities to raise safeguarding concerns. for this, all agencies involved in elsie's care would like to sincerely apologise. the report also found that the adoption was viewed as very successful. opportunities to explore elsie's injuries were missed, and information was not shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully—hicks had already adopted one child, and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers, who hadn't always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity, because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly round injuries they can see during an adoption process? that positive lens meant they weren't looking in the way they should have been, and so you're right. that's

matthew scully hicks had been described by a judge as a jekyll and hyde type character.gue of injuries on the child. today, a report was published into whether lessons could be learned from her death. it found that professionals did not consider or raise the possibility that elsie was being harmed by a parent. her injuries were either missed or not documented, meaning safeguarding concerns were not raised, and information was not effectively shared between agencies. together with his husband, matthew scully hicks had already adopted one child and the family were known to social services. the report says the couple were seen through a positive lens by social workers, who had not always questioned elsie's injuries or recorded them. why was there this lack of professional curiosity, because there is a duty on social workers to be asking questions, particularly around injuries that they can see, during an adoption process? that positive lens meant that they weren't looking in the way they should have been, and so you are right. that is something they should have done, that i

between september 2015 and may 2016, matthew scully hicks looked after elsie for the majority of thejuries and also she fell down the stairs. the ambulance was called several times on some of those occasions and she was seen in a&e. in may 2016 when the ambulance was called for the final time she was taken to hospital and later died. a criminal trial came after that last year and it found that matthew scully hicks was guilty of elsie's death, she was 18 months old. this review today has found there had been some missed opportunities and that agencies failed to consider that agencies failed to consider that 18—month—old lc may have been harmed by her adoptive father. although she had been under his care since september 2015, she was only formally adopted two weeks prior to her death. beginning this press conference an hour ago the chair of the board apologised for her death. all the professionals involved in her care reported a committed, motivated and caring family. the review has found that the assessment of the adoptive parents was strong and robust and was compliant with good prac

matthew scully and i will write you a little speech that will have some nice stuff in it. so i talked to him a little bit about it. i think mrs. cheney, i think, talked to her a little bit. anyway, dick cheney was a wonderful guy to work for. i enjoyed him every bit as much as i enjoyed president bush as a person. just nice and considerate and appreciative and always treated everyone, met everyone as an equal. i will add one thing about vice president quayle. he's the only boss i ever worked for that wrote an entire speech and gave it to me. he did this on a fairly regular basis when he was vice president of the united states. that was back when you shared disks. the first time it happened i was called into his office in the west wing, and it was early in the morning, and i didn't know why i was being called in. i walked in and he goes, john, i wrote a speech this weekend. and he holds up a blue disk. and he hands it to me and there was a fully written speech. dan quayle was a newspaperman for some years before he entered politics. so he could write and he could write fast

matthew. >> scully from "the x-files," is that a throwback to scully -- >> to frank scully? >> yeah. >> yes. very much so. yeah. >> there's a lot of kind of these references back in -- the creators of "the x-files" are very well steeped in this when they come along. also very well steeped in this law are people like william cooper, who releases "behold a pale horse" in 1991. and "behold a pale horse" is a really odd book in many ways. not least the fact that cooper doesn't just believe virtually every conspiracy theory we have talked about today. he believes virtually every conspiracy theory we have talked about all semester. and because if you believe in a conspiracy, that conspiracy is in this book, it makes the book very, very popular and very, very influential among conspiracist circles. and amongst a wide variety of conspiracist circles. cooper's book is popular with the patriots or militia movement in the '90s. timothy mcveigh is a fan of "behold a pale horse." but also, it's really popular in the hip-hop fan community and the idea that jay-z is an illuminati mastermin

we, meaning myself, the chief speechwriter, and matthew scully, the three of us were colleagues starting in austin. and starting in austin by dividing up the speeches and then editing them together, we ended up writing them together and throughout the president's, governor bush's campaign and then president bush's first term we literally wrote on that basis, three guys in the same office at the same computer writing the speeches line by line. gerson, who is now a columnist with "the washington post", very often would come in even before a single word was written with a very clear sense and clear direction on how the speech was going to be put together. kind of a theoretical construct. so we often started from that. a major speech like that, addressed to the joint session, state of the union, there will be input from the president on the front end and then a lot of input from the president once the thing has been drafted and put through the staffing process and reviewed. he would give a lot of input on all speeches. but the state of the union is a different thing all together because you