conference of mayors president mitch landrieu says the conference is canceling its scheduled white house meeting with president trump. in a statement he said, "unfortunately the trump administration's decision to threaten mayors and demonize immigrants yet again and use cities as political props of the process has made this meeting untenable." microsoft cofounder bill gates says the trump administration's america first approach could undermine u.s. influence in africa over the long-term. gates spoke with bloomberg news editor-in-chief john micklethwait today at the world economic forum in davos. >> i think he should. that is the area where i have chosen to take the wealth created through microsoft and warren buffett has been so generous in providing. i understand that money can be very well spent.

we'll hear from mitch landrieu again and hear a discussion on equity, economic inclusion and civil rights. you heard mention from letter of department of justice. reporting that the justice department ramped pressure on sanctuary cities warning state and city officials, questions about that dominated the news conference. what we'll do here as we wait for the session to get under way, we'll show you the news conference as much as we can anyway until it gets under way here shortly. >> well, in a month the opening session here at the u.s. conference of mayors, winter meeting will get under way. they'll hear from the president of the conference, mitch landrieu, and number of issues economic inclusion and civil rights. panel discussion to follow after the lunchtime speech. we'll have all of that live when it gets under way. until then, we'll show you the news conference with the mayors from just a short while ago. >> mayors of america, welcome, and thank you so much for joining us for our winter meeting. i want to welcome and thank tom cochran the conference of mayors. mayor benjamin. second v

mayor mitch landrieu/ -d- new orleans: "last night ems and nopd responded to over 600 calls for service"iced snow-covered roads blanketed the southeast wednesday, causing cars to slide off roads... and creating massive pile-ups.mos: i was coming out about 10 miles an hour, when i got right there to make a left turn, i must have hit a patch of ice and spinned around. but you are ok? yes, sir. in louisiana three people were killed in traffic accidents, and authorities are begging people to stay off the roads, even when the accumulation stops.mayor mitch landrieu/ -d- new orleans: "some bridges however still have substantial amounts of ice and water in many places that could potentially cause dangerous icing again tonight as temperatures drop below freezing."ice was such a problem in houston, drivers on interstate 69 had to turn around and drive in the opposite direction just to exit. and in metro atlanta, 260 crashes were reported wednesday morning, when drivers attempted to brave the snow-covered roads.bitterly cold wind chills are expected to hang around through thursday, which means there

mitch landrieu had this to say. >> what we are not willing to do is to stand idly by when you threatens for following the constitution of the united states. >> later, trump addressed the boycott. >> my administration is committed to protecting innocent americans and the mayors who choose to boycott this event have put the needs of criminal illegal immigrants over law-abiding americans. but let me tell you, the vast majority of people showed up. okay? the vast majority because the vast majority believe in safety for your city. >> and we'll have much more on this as new orleans mayor mitch landrieu joins us later in the program. >>> john kerry met with hussein alla. he told msnbc back in september he had no plans of running for president. he ran as the democratic nominee in 2004, but lost to president george w. bush. however, in the london meeting, kerry suggested abbas should hold on and be strong because trump won't be in the white house much longer. >> and mayor eric garcetta of los angeles may not be ready to announce his presidential candidacy, but he's started to weigh his qualific

the conversation will also involve our president, new orleans mayor, mitch landrieu. i'm so glad walter isaacson will be here guiding that conversation. walter isaacson is well-known from his leadership roles from the aspen institute to the media world and books that make him one of our great public intellectuals and i'm most attuned to probably more obscure item on his resume'. he and i both benefited from a life-changing scholarship to pembrooke college oversees which was all alma mater of one of the great mayors who did policy making body down the street here, richard lugar. please join me welcoming our panel. walter isaacson, maryland drew and adam newman. >> thank you. you sit in the middle. thank you. >> welcome, i finished reading a book on leonardo da vinci. when he was 12 years old he came from at that small village, to the town of florence. all sorts of young people were flowing into that town because it had become a mecca for creativity. leonardo was a bit of a misfit. was illegitimate, gay, left-handeds vegetarian, a artist who loved engineering but totall

conversation of mayors, mitch landrieu. always good to talk with you. thank you for coming on. knew president trump's position on sanctuary cities, so what happened yesterday that caused you to call off the meeting. >> it was weird. i'm in washington, d.c. with our nation's mayors and we have been negotiating with the white house for a couple days and ostensibly it was about infrastructure and jobs and the plethora of issues mayors are concerned about. about an hour before we were going to go into what we thought was going to be a constructive discussion the white house and department of justice decided to drop a bomb on 23 mayors, some of whom were supposed to be in that meeting, about a subject that we weren't supposed to talk about that, of course, you know is very volatile and is part of the immigration debate. i'd like to make a couple points. first of all, if congress and the president would do their job and get comprehensive immigration reform done, the may yo mayors wouldn't be in the middle of this. second, the white house has had a difficult job is having a transparen

we'll hear from new orleans mayor, mitch landrieu, he is president of the u.s.onference of mayors. walter isaacson of the aspen institute and cofounder and ceo of we work, they provide shared work space. you will see that live here on c-span2 shortly. until then a conversation from thisou morning's "washington journal." >> host: we want to welcome back to the "washington journal," dr. anthony fauci, director of institute of infectious diseases. always good to have you. talking about the flu season. >> guest: yes, indeed. >> host: why is this becoming one of the worst that we've seen? >> guest: talking about the virus yourself. flu season there are multiple virus, h1n1. when h3n2 dominates a season it is alwayss a bad actor. when you start off with a bad virus, right away you have one strike against you. right nowt this is h3n2 that historically if you look at the flu season last 10 years or so, it is always associated with more severe disease, more complications. you super impose the fact that the vaccine is not particularly effective. in general flu vaccines ar

the incoming mayor join the celebration with mitch landrieu and she is saying it embodies the true character really is the spirit. anytime we come together in scholarship and celebration we know we are starting off our year with a plan and there is no other time when the city of new orleans. >> it's especially exciting in the big easy as 2018 marks the tri- centennial. i am so proud and ready to go to mardi gras. see you in a bit. steve balance as my bad, sort of and tries to set the record straight. i'm rick leventhal, this is the fox report. bannon offering what appears to be regret for his delayed response to the fallout. this after michael wolf published scathing quotes about him slamming his former boss and the trump family. one passage is getting lots of attention. he called trump junior meeting with the russian lawyer

it started with an address from new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. mayor landrieu chatter] >> good afternoon, everybody. good afternoon and welcome to the conference of mayors. i am at mitch landrieu, the mayor of the great city of new orleans, president of the conference of mayors. thank you. [applause] we can start on a moment of levity. the mayor of vancouver wants us 161'st that today is the birthday of vancouver. new orleans is going to celebrate her 300 birthday in a couple weeks, so congratulations to us to. [applause] it is my great honor to introduce the confidence leadership. steve benjamin of columbia, south carolina is with us. hillsbarnett of rochester is working on something for me. executive leader tom cochran, thank you so much. net -- mick our cornett. we have elizabeth. you are several former mayors who have served in the conference leadership in the audience today. new mayors, can you stand up? we are very thrilled to have you. [applause] thank you. thank you, we look forward to it. and to those mayors who are joining us in washing

thank you to our leadership, mitch landrieu, who has been such a great leader for this group. thank you mitch for all that you have done. [applause] i am so excited to be here. whenever i see it as mayors, i -- see this many mayors, i get very excited. mayors are engaged in practical work. every single day, we reflect the values of this country and have the trust of americans. we know local leaders cannot fix everything overnight. residentserested as of building more promise and potential across this nation. if this was a conference coming from washington 30 years ago, we might have been coming here asking washington to save .merica my mesh and -- message to washington is very clear. we are here to save you. we have politics dividing itself -- defining itself by what they can take away from the american people and what they can do to divide us. we will not be divided. we judge our success by what we add and how we multiply our successes. i'm excited to bring the summer games back to america for the first time in 30 years in los angeles. washington is finally talking about infr

mitch landrieu, and he emphasizes they regard themselves as bipartisan, but the attack involving theue where they said we will go after your cities if you do not turn in your undocumented aliens. they said they will not meet with the president. this is fighting words. shery: that meeting was scheduled for 3:00 p.m. today. united airlines planning to grow its way to better profits and gain market share. that is sending shares lower as analysts say a good trigger an industry-wide pricing war. falling the most in nearly a decade. taylor? taylor: it's about supply and demand of seats. what does that do for prices? where using a measure called available seat miles. united came out and said over the next three years they want to grow that from 4% to 6%. that was higher than their previous rate last year. in sharp contrast to what american and delta, where they are trying to slow growth to better out that demand. from the street's perspective, they are concerned about margins. one analyst said they are trying to view it as a way to gain market share. the street is worried about margins righ

today, a bunch of them my years were sent to me from across the country with the president and mitch landrieurom new orleansd this to say. "unfortunately the trump administration's decisions to threaten mayors and to demonize immigrants yet again, and you cities as political props in the process, has made this meeting untenable." as the doj on solid ground? >> yes. i believe they are. the federal constitution under the clause says federal law is the supreme law of the land and preempts state and local laws, and particularly the supreme court has said when it comes to immigration. if we truly are a nation that is governed by laws, then we have to live to that principle. the rule of law is necessary for a civilized society and if you believe that, you cannot pick and choose which law should apply pray that is a very dangerous precedent and very un. >> shannon: quickly, there have been a couple of legal decisions from a course that have been pushing back against some of the sanctuary cities and states efforts that this administration has taken for you to do the win or lose as they go to court? >

fellow democrat mitch landrieu of new orleans said it was an attack on mayors who lead welcoming cities. the justice department is demanding that 23 so-called sanctuary cities including new york, chicago, and los angeles comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts, including by sharing the immigration status of local prisoners or face the prospect of being hit with federal subpoenas. critics complain the trump administration is simply attempting to punish local jurisdictions who will do their bidding. white house officials say it's not about following the administration's policies. it's about following the law. >> we would love to be able to work with these mayors, particularly on issues like infrastructure and other things but we cannot allow people to pick and choose what laws they want to follow. we don't support sanctuary cities. support enforcing the law. >> the threat overshadowed the conversation about the 4r's have info structure. roadways, runways, rivers, roadways. the president talked about the infrastructure, mentioned a $1.7 trillion investment over the span of ten

mitch landrieu said that "an attack on mayors that lead welcoming see these -- cities is an attack on everyone in our conference." in davos today, president emmanuel macron argued that it is up to the global elite to createdhe inequalities by excess global capitalism. said thatmacron winning the presidency of one of europe's biggest economies gives him -- put him in a unique position. quite a gives me the responsibility to build a france that is prosperous, open to the world, but capable of recognizing and standing alongside those who have been forgotten and left behind by global initiatives. mark: he also conceded that the main challenge is to help prove that globalization is more fair to middle and working class families. puerto rico, bracing for a wave of home foreclosures. hundreds of thousands were granted a three-month stay following hurricane maria. the majority of those expire this month. officials say that many residents cannot hate what they oh. more than 30% of the island still does not have power. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in ove

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we'll hear from new orleans mayor mitch landrieu, who is the current president of the bipartisan group. live coverage beginning at 12:20 p.m. eastern. follow all of these events online at c-span.org or with the free c-span radio app. >>> next on "american history tv," representatives from thomas jefferson's monticello, james monroe's my high-lands and james madison's mont pier kerpelier, talk about slavery and the challenging questions they get from the public. this was -- it's about 90 minutes. >> good afternoon, everybody. i want to welcome everyone to this afternoon's panel. public history and public memory, talking about slavery at presidential plantations. i'm jennifer morgan, i'm a professor of history at new york university, where i work on colonial history office enslaved people. i'm very excited to be part of this afternoon's conversation. though my role here is primarily to facilitate and to learn, the presenters here have all spent their careers working in public history and have been at the front lines of important efforts to situate the presidential plantations back into t

you have mitch landrieu, mayor of louisiana, john hickenlooper.john hickenlooper. >> this list is unbelievable. this is the most amazing list. i mean -- >> cory booker. >> oh, yeah, he looks good. but the other two, i say really? maybe it's possible, but nobody else is thinking these things. >> donald trump, president of the united states. >> you have to admit, there's no great stand-out star on the democratic side, right? >> we have to have the campaign. >> not that far away. >> who's the best bet in your mind? >> i don't know. >> hickenlooper or landrieu? >> i like both of them. but look, cory booker is the guy i think could be president. >> who should run? >> oprah maybe. >> she's not doing it. >> i think we would like to see elizabeth warren run. >> biden gets the regular guy vote. >> biden would be a strong candidate, but i don't know if the democratic base would go with him. they want a warren, a fire breather, a sanders. >> he's got a lot of votes. >> the hardest thing for the democrats is to thread the needle in iowa, new hampshire, south

we'll hear from new orleans mayor mitch landrieu, who is the current president of the bipartisan grouplive coverage beginning at 12:20 p.m. eastern. follow off of these events at c-span.org or with the free c-span radio app.

we'll hear from new orleans mayor mitch landrieu, who is the current president of the bipartisan group. live coverage beginning at 12:20 p.m. eastern. follow all of these events online at c-span.org or with the free c-span radio app. >>> next on "american history tv," representatives from thomas jefferson's monticello, james monroe's my high-lands and james madison's mont pier kerpelier, talk about slavery and the challenging questions they get from the public. this was -- it's about 90

. >> let me just add to that, because i agree fully, and i they mayor mitch landrieu gave an excellentf chair to chair of what you think about it. i would encourage these types of thoughts. one of the first thing, and this is many years ago that i did when i was elected mayor is that i mapped out the ecg spending and mapping. i wanted to know where the neighborhoods the money was spent in and categorized the organizations to whom the money went and found that it was a lopsided approach. i analyze and i put together a complete physical cap grid of all of the capital expenditures and color coded by neighbors so i could visual ly see where we were spending the capital dollars, and what i found is that baked into the system, run by the bureaucrats in the city government is that there were inequities that were systemic, and if i did not interrupt the way in which we approached the community development block grant money, the same people would get the same money on the ongoing basis. if i did not interrupt the way that the capital budget was undertaken, then in fact, the same people would ge

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host: one mayor who did not attend the gathering at the white house was mitch landrieu of new orleansthe u.s.president of conference of mayors. he talked about the justice department yesterday at a press conference before the gathering at the white house. here is what he had to say. [video clip] as we standeu: here, we have mayors under threat under prosecution because of something the president has called sanctuary cities. for those of you in this room who have followed the issue, there is no definition in federal law for sanctuary city. it does not exist. in a country priding itself into process, it does not exist. it is the primary of every mayor standing with me to make sure their citizens in everybody in their cities are safe. public safety is our number one priority. there is no mayor who -- friends anywhere around anything we do. [applause] under thisieu: administration, and what congress has done, they cut funds for home's security and public safety, making it harder to protect our cities. how to want to talk to make america safe, we are interested in having that discussion. w

mitch, thank you for that introduction and thank you for the great work you are doing in new orleans. thank you for your family's long-term contribution. i started in politics indirectly working for moon landrieu. it's a real honor to be here with you and let me also give a shout-out to the remaining virginia mayors who are here. hello you guys, how are you? let me also realize i had more senate sessions and i know you are winding down so presume i spend another three minutes complimenting everyone in the room site you get to the meat of my message. the truth is and i know this has been a subject of your conversations over the last couple of days obviously cities are continuing to face great challenges and great opportunities. you know when this is not exactly a newsflash for those of us who work at the federal level we have been. dysfunctional over the last few years and candidly if you look around over the last couple of weeks that this function does not seem to be decreasing and unfortunately as former governor we are seeing the level of dysfunction that takes place at the national level unfortunately creeped too often into too many state governments as well. the one bright spot i would arg

we'll hear from new orleans mayor mitch landrieu, who is the current president of the bipartisan group. live coverage beginning at 12:20 p.m. eastern. follow off of these events at c-span.org or with the free c-span radio app. >>> next on "american history tv," represents from the thomas jefferson's mont cello -- and james madison's montpelier talk about how they present and pre -- 9 challenges questions they get from the >>> american history tv on c-span 3, this week in primetime, wednesday night at 8:00 p.m. historians attending the american historical association conference look at how american veterans are being honored, remembered, since world war ii. thursday night at 7:00 p.m. eastern live in the newseum in washington, d.c. friday night, 8:00 p.m. ed in a green medford on abraham lincoln's friends and enemies. >>> coming up on american history tv, historians and university leaders discuss free speech on college campuses. part of the conversation includes how social media has changed the nature of discourse in university settings, and the role that political protests have played.

we'll hear from new orleans mayor mitch landrieu, who is the current president of the bipartisan grouplive coverage beginning at 12:20 p.m. eastern. follow off of these events at c-span.org or with the free c-span radio app. >>> next on "american history tv," represents from the thomas jefferson's mont cello -- and me