mr. kennedy: mr. president, i'm going to spend a few minutes going to spend a few minutes mr. president i want to spend a few minutes talking about senator marshall's and by legislation to overturn precedent biden's squid brained idea with respect to the pistol brace. the 2nd amendment to the united states comes as you well know gives private citizens the right to possess a firearm including a pistol and to use it lawfully. that's not the right of government, that's a right that each of us have as americans. justice scalia said it pretty well in d.c. versus, the american people have considered the handgun to be the quintessential self-defense weapon. so many people who are opposed to the 2nd amendment. they say they are not opposed to the 2nd amendment. they sayey they just want to regulate guns. they don't, they want to abolish them. and many of them wouldn't know a gun from a j. crew's catalog. this is the handgun. this is what we are talking about. my 2nd amendment right is not unlimited and weje know that. it's subject to reasonable, reasonable restriction by government co

mr. kennedy said, in this part of the interview alone.doesn't know for sure, some people say maybe the spanish flu area bacterial -- will by people wearing masks. this is like chain email level nonsense that is spread on anti vax and anti mask social media. and web forms, it's just frankly, completely imaginary. >> all, right i want to look at one claim that rfk junior made about the cost of the covid-19 restrictions. listen to this one. >> so, we got lots of money, military industrial complex, lots of money for the bankers. but were starving americans to death. starving them. because of all the inflation we spent 16 trillion on the lockdown. we wasted. we got nothing for it. >> what are the facts on that one? >> so, mr. kennedy did not say where he got this absurd claim that we spent 16 trillion dollars on pandemic lockdowns. there is a covid related paper by two prominent harvard professors, that used a 16 trillion figure, except here's the thing, abby, this paper is not about so-called lockdowns. it doesn't even mention lockdowns. what

mr. kennedy as a mere vehicle to express dissatisfaction with the president or a sort of plates holder tog support for civil liberties and opposition to war and the national security apparatus, issues that used to resonate among democratic voters and maybe doing so again. howie, can he breakthrough? will the media give him a chance as an actual contender, do you think? >> i'm not so sure. i think r.f.k. is a protest candidate. i don't think we will see president biden debate him unless there is some sort of dramatic change just as donald trump was talking about not debating people who were 30 or 40 points below where he is. now, it's true that the president is not doing much campaigning but you know what? you when you are the incumbent president running around on air force 1. it's a huge advantage. i think that it's pretty clear that they would want to kind of do a replay of 2020 when you had the cover of covid where they don't express him to the press too much. don't expose him to falling down on the stage as happened unfortunately today at the air force academy. and the he takes the sam

mr. kennedy. as you rightly said, he is one of the candidates, someone says that he is a loser.doesn't matter that he speaks directly in direct language. and he says, these are constantly two phrases that he said. in fact, when he said that ukraine was trapped between two e, huge. uh, go-states that lead among themselves. yes, proxy war, but right away and here to the end, so he says, what we were told, the 10th anniversary, that we, the united states of america, are in ukraine with a humanitarian mission. and we are not there with a humanitarian mission. we tease russia and so on, and he further made such a conclusion. we have destroyed this little country. you know, that is, when the representative of the united states of america says such things? well, obviously, and i would subscribe to them, because the way it is, but it hurts me to hear him, too, not for the first time , the figures that he cited. and here it is in the winter. you know conscience about 300,000 dead, perhaps this is all the dead and the wounded, that is , uh, from among the armed forces of ukraine and the m

mrs. kennedy is sitting, mrs. gunther is sitting. and my husband ted is sitting, and he called up to mrs. parks, who was seated in a wheelchair and kissed foot. and i lusted and i still feel moment that said it all with that gesture. so by the time the bishops and cardinals got to the pope was almost anti-climatic, but they cleared the room out of still sitting at the end of this big hall and then the doors open and the pope comes out with his white hat and his heavy robes and his staff, and he can barely walk. he is in so much pain. and parks sees that or feels that. and she asks me to get up out of her wheelchair, to walk to him and course, mrs. parks asked me to do anything. i did it. and i helped her. and at that time, all my crosses fell on the ground. and you hurt? it was embarrassing, but we continued to walk and the pope was so appreciative of mrs. parks going to meet him. he didn't have to walk to her that he listened even deeper than i think he would have if we had waited. and the protocol. and then he read out loud what sh

mr. kennedy said in this part of the interview alone, he went on to say that he does not know for sure, whathe spanish flu era bacterial defections were caused by, wait for, it people wearing masks. this is like chain email level nonsense that is spread on anti vax than anti mask social media web, forms and it is just frankly completely imaginary. >> all right, well, i want to look at when claim i've cajun made about the cost of the covid-19 pandemic restrictions. listen to this one. >> so, we got lots of money for the military industrial complex, lots of money for the bankers, you know, the monsters. but, we are starving americans to death. we are starving them. and, because of all the inflation, we spend 60 trillion on the lockdown, we wasted, we got nothing for it. >> all right, so what are the facts on that one? >> so mr. kennedy did not say where he got this absurd claim that we spend 16 trillion dollars on pandemic lockdowns, but there is a covid related paper by two prominent harvard professors that used a 16 trillion figure, except here's the key, thing abby, that paper is not about

mr. kennedy. just want to ask a targeted question about trying to get a full understanding of where china really stands at this point in terms of its economic ability. i hear a lot of things that sort of teeter totter and move the fulcrum around. some people say the economic woes of china are very met at the state, and some say it is a sleeping giant that is still there but it has become more consolidated. can you give a more clear picture about exactly where the economic foothold is an background currently resides within china? that way we can understand this relationship to us and a little insight into why taiwan might play into that as well. guest: sure. that is great question. i think some people like to either conclude that china has so many economic problems that it is going to collapse because of its debt in state owned enterprises or that it is the leader in technologies across the board from ai to electric vehicles and will eat america's lunch and is the world next inevitable economic sup

mr. max kennedy. mr. maxwell kennedy and missus vicki kennedy. mr. michael. mr. simons and mrs.d just a few minutes ago the ceremonial toasts took place. we want to take you now into the pavilion to see the toasts from president biden and prime minister modi. [applause] >> welcome to mr. prime minister modi is washington home. please, have a seat. i've been doing this a long time but i don't remember anybody getting a warmer welcome them this man right here. good evening, everyone. twenty years ago, as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, i made clear that the united states and india grew to be the closest friends and partners in the world, the world would be a safer place. i believe that even more today now that i'm president. mr. prime minister i'm a jill and i have had a wonderful time with you today during a truly productive visit and tonight, it is fitting, a fitting way to celebrate the great bond of friendship between india and the united states that will long endure. [speaking in native tongue] as many of you know, these bonds stretch back to america's ear

mr. kennedy. just want to ask a targeted question about trying to get a full understanding of where china really stands at this point in terms of its economic ability. i hear a lot of things that sort of teeter totter and move the fulcrum around. some people say the economic woes of china are very met at the state, and some say it is a sleeping giant that is still there but it has become more consolidated. can you give a more clear picture about exactly where the economic foothold is an background currently resides within china? that way we can understand this relationship to us and a little insight into why taiwan might play into that as well. guest: sure. that is great question. i think some people like to either conclude that china has so many economic problems that it is going to collapse because of its debt in state owned enterprises or that it is the leader in technologies across the board from ai to electric vehicles and will eat america's lunch and is the world next inevitable economic sup

mr. kennedy looks pretty ripped and clearly pumping good weight.e is 69, turns 70 in july. 12 years off biden. mental and physical competency will be an issue. great respect to president biden, he is showing extreme age. >> brian: trump killing it in the primary, up by 20 points and growing after the second indictment. head-to-head with biden, trail i by four and desantis, close to 14 points is 47 and 47 in the poll. how do you explain that? >> piers: interesting situation, donald trump is great survivor. whatever you think of him, unbelievable political survived stuff that would take down any politician i've ever seen in history and he stands up, his support seems to rally again. in direct match up with biden, biden has beaten him before and polls suggest he would beat him before. it is not clear cut if biden has to take on somebody his age like governor desantis and that is where issue of biden's fitness may come into play. >> brian: another area of expertise, soccer, lionel messi coming to mls, so pump up in america, we had one fan go 1200 miles

mr. kennedy, president kennedy, comes from a time when it feels like there were fewer spoken words. there were certainly less tweets. there were certainly less cable news. and the words and the quotes, they carried movement, they carried action. sometimes i think that's what feels so frustrating about dealing with this scourge of gun violence. it's also gun violence prevention month here in june. we can give the speech. we can write the most eloquent, smartest tweet, and we've made some change. we have passed a bipartisan bill to award funding to states that have passed red flag laws, extreme risk protection order laws, michigan just did it. under the leadership of our great governor, gretchen whitmer, in the wake of tragic shootings at michigan state and oxford and nearly every day gun violence and too many neighborhoods -- in too many neighborhoods across michigan. so we did pass that law. again, words. words that i go back to, the words of mr. lewis, not despair, to be optimistic. because to be optimistic is to stay active. it's to stay engaged. it is to stayage stated -- agitate

mr. kennedy: thank you, madam president. madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the following privileges of my staff be granted or rather the following members of my staff be granted floor privileges until june 8, 2023. ms. maddie dibble, mr. jack leer, and mr. chris lee who are with me here today. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kennedy: thank you, madam president. madam president, the united states and china should talk. the united states wants to, but the leadership of the chinese communist party, the ccp, does not. and frankly, the leadership of the ccp is acting like a sullen teenager. you can only be young once, madam president, but you can always be immature. talking does not show weakness. it shows strength. it shows confidence. america is confident in refusing -- america is confident. in refusing to talk, the communist chinese party and its insecurities are loud. the united states, as you know, from recent media reports has tried to talk to china and we've had some success. recently not that lon

mr. kennedy, it is interesting. you take on biden, you take on trump, you say across administrations.et this is the first time i heard you say it won't be biden who actually takes on the republicans. are you serious, in your own party, sar anding patel recently said this on the focus. let's watch. >> look, robert f. kennedy, jr. is a conspiracy theorist, running for president. nothing more to say. he has zero chance of winning the primary. he, you know, is doing this for publicity. >> your response. >> well, i believe i will win. >> why do you believe you will win? >> i feel a tremendous amount of support, internal poll numbers are showing me stronger against both republican candidates than president biden. i think when that kind of polling becomes public, democrats are going to want somebody who can beat governor desantis and who can beat president trump. and i'm not confident, i don't think anybody is confident that they have that. i think that will persuade a lot of people. i also think the controversies are moving, and the dnc is going to try to discredit me as a conspiracy theori

mr. kennedy, won't stand a chance. maria: it's not about the people. >> it's not.ing. when you look at his uncle and his own father, yes, let's be realistic. they were part of the elite. they were hanging out with sinatra and the gang but their platforms were all about the common man and common woman. the current iteration of the democratic party does not focus on that. they focus on random issues and they're trying to force their ideology on the entire country. democrat, independent, republican alike. >> i wouldn't say those are random issues. i would say they're issues very closely chosen and they're frightening. maria: you're talking about this obsession with transgenderism. >> obsession. maria: you're talking about this obsession with the climate change. >> obsession. maria: agenda. >> yes. maria: what other issues? >> if it's on the far left side, they are going to take it and they're going to own it, they're going to shut down any differing viewpoints. the fact that we are the largest potential producer of petroleum in the world, that we in theory have more r

mr. kennedy: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the following associates who are working with me this summer in my office be granted floor privileges until june 16, 2023. ms. lauren gekasen and ms. jolie simpson. the presiding officer: without objection. ?oo mr. kennedy: with me today, mr. president, is mr. james shay, who is one of my colleagues. mr. president, the american people, as we all know, are facing many serious, one might describe them as grave issues, some of which fall under the purview of our united states department of energy. average gas prices remain well above $3 a gallon. that's a hardship on a lot of americans. that's up 50% since president biden took office. average electricity prices -- that's something we have to deal with every day -- they have increased 14.5% since 2022. our aging power grid remains at risk for devastating cybersecurity attacks. and while china's nuclear stockpile is growing, ours is getting older and it's getting smaller. these are weighty problems,

mr. costa: yes. senator kennedy mr. sequeira do you agree with that? mr. sequeira: yes, sir. nator kennedy: what grade would you give the biden administration on combating illegal immigration? mr. sequeira: i do not know what grade i would put. i think they have made some useful improvements. but, you know, i think there is so much money going to the border that the border is mostly secure. people are mostly turning themselves in, not really crossing the border. sen. cassidy: you are an expert on immigration and you cannot give a grade? mr. sequeira: if i had to a c. sen. cassidy: kcra de are we grading on a curve, senator? i would be generous and say a d-. senator kennedy all right. cannot we agree that either the president biden believes in open borders, or, the person that he has put in charge of making immigration policy is not qualified to manage a food truck? mr. sequeira: i would fully reject the notion the biden administration believes in open borders. at the risk of being too lawyerly i would be interested in the definition of open borders. i think it is fair to say t

mr. kennedy: mr. president, i'm going to spend a few minutes talking about senator marshall's and my legislation to overturn president biden's squid-brained idea with respect to pistol braces. the second amendment to the united states constitution, mr. president, as you well know, gives private citizens the right to possess a firearm, including a pistol, and to use it lawfully. that's not a right of government. that's a right that each of us has as americans. justice scalia said it pretty well in d.c. v. heller, the american people have considered the handgun to be the quintessential self-defense weapon. so many people who are opposed to the second amendment, they say they're not opposed to the second amendment. they say they just want to regulate guns. they don't. they want to abolish guns. and many of them wouldn't know a gun from a j. crew catalog. this is a handgun. this is what we're talking about now, our second amendment right is not unlimited. we know that. it's subject to reasonable, reasonab

mr. kennedy manages to maintain this level of support he could cause mr.s joe biden moved the first in the nation primary to south carolina, a state that famously helped him out a lot in his first run. new hampshire and iowa are still holding democratic primaries. if joe biden chooses not to participate, this guy might be the only guy in the ballot, which means voters they would have to write in biden or vote for robert f. kennedy jr. and he could win iowa and new hampshire which doesn't mean joe biden loses the democratic primary but that's a bit of a black eye if you're the sitting president and the presumptive nominee. will: there's a historical precedent for a third candidate, causing maybe even more than embarrassment in the primaries, but in some estimation, affect ing the outcome. let's go off the wall again and could look at the history. we'll start in 2016. donald trump vs. hillary clinton you had two outside candidates staying in the race until late. libertarian gary johnson the former governor of new mexico and jill stein, the green party candid

mrs. kennedy was in the car as we said with president kennedy. would immortalize the show. after president john f. kennedy was murdered, jack kin kennedy told life magazine her late husband listened to the album before going to bed each night. ♪ each evening from december to december ♪ >> i think that we cannot overstate the impact that not just the president's assassination had on the story but more importantly the fact that jackie kennedy chose to link those two things together. it was as if the idea of camelot, a thing that had been great, that had reached for excellence and then had fallen short was remembered, mourned. >> civilized king. >> reporter: mournful, yes. >> dedicated with all my limited ability. >> reporter: for aaron sorkin -- >> the belief governed by law. >> reporter: also hopeful. do you believe that camelot is possible? >> i do. i do. honestly, who would want to wake up in the morning if they didn't think that it was possible? and i think that the quest for goodness, it turns out that it's a fight against human nature, and no

mr. kennedy. as you rightly said, he is one of the candidates, someone says that he is a loser no matter. the important thing is that he speaks directly in direct language. and he says, these are constantly two phrases that he said, in fact, when he said that ukraine fell into a trap between two uh, huge u states that lead between them. yes, proxy war, but right away and here to the end, so he says, what they gave us we were told, 10 years ago, that we in the united states of america are in ukraine with a humanitarian mission. and we are not there on a humanitarian mission. we tease russia and so on, and he further made such a conclusion. we destroyed this little country in flames. you know, that is, when a representative of the united states of america says such things, but it’s obvious, and i would raise my signature, because that’s the way it is, but it hurts me to hear him not for the first time , the numbers that he cited, and now in e, in winter , in reality, you know about 300,000 dead, per

mr. kennedy. as rightly said, he is one of the candidates; someone says that he is a loser , no matter.kraine was trapped between two uh, huge u states that lead between them. yes, proxy war. eh, here's the phrase and it's up to the end. so, he says that we have been told for a decade that we in the united states of america are in ukraine with a humanitarian mission. and we are not there on a humanitarian mission. we tease russia and so on, and he further made such a conclusion. we destroyed this little country in flames. you see, that is, when in the construction of the united states america

mr. kennedy pointed out, how do you sustain $68 west texas intermediate if china opens up?t is the arch question right now. lisa: and what is the dynamic with electric vehicles? we do not have a sense. some people say this is part of the reason of a lack of demand and you're announcing the translation into economic activity and others say that is overstated. tom: we will jump from will kennedy, thank you for joining us this morning. chief economist at access managers, a student of the economic at europe but a student of the cultural economics of europe. thank you so much for joining us. how unified is europe as we go to this ecb meeting? how far is the buddhist bank from the burdette -- is the bundesbank from the doves of frankfurt? >> it is true there is a bit of division emerging right now. if you look at the division emerging it is not what you could expect if you focus on domestic inflation services. countries in the south have been pretty well behaved. france has been well behaved. you see the steepest increased in inflation not necessarily in germany but a lot of nort

mr. chairman. >> senator kennedy. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thanks to all of our witnesses here today. ms. robinson, i want to follow up by trying to understand your answer to one of senator cruz's question and this is a question not a suggestion. do i understand your position to be that there are two sexes, but there can be more than two genders? >> i wouldn't even say two, you know, we've got dr. lopez here as well, but there's also the definition of inner sex and often these conversations we are a conflating sex and gender and i want to affirm that trans women are women. that is their gender. >> okay, but i'm trying to understand, do you make distinction between sex and gender? >> yes, sir. >> explain that. do you think there are more than two sexes? >> i believe that there's a definition for intersex as well that i want to acknowledge, but sex is-- >> okay, so there are three, i'm just trying to understand. i'm thoroughly confused. so you're born-- i'm talking about biology, male, female and what else? >> i believe that intersex is also acknowledged again i'm not a doctor here. >> and

mr. chairman. l >> senator kennedy. >> thank you mr.chairman and thanks to all of our -- our witnesses here today. ms. robinson i want to follow-up -- by trying to understand your answer to one of senator cruz's questions and if this is really a question not a suggestion. do i understand your position to be that there are two sexes but there can be more than two genders? >> i wouldn't even say two and you know we've got dr. lopez here as well but also a definition of inner sex i think that often these conversations were conflating sex and jengd earn i do want to affirm here that transwomen are women. that is their gender. >> okay. >> but i'm trying to understand do you make a distinction between sex and gender? >> yes, sir. >> okay. explain that just do you think there are more than two>> sexes? >> i believe that there's a definition for intersex as well that i want to acknowledge but sexow is -- >> three -- trying to understand -- thoroughly confused -- soro you're born i'm talking abt biology. male, female, and what else? >> i believe

mr. chair. >> thank you, senator kennedy of louisiana's recognizer five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being here mr. chairman into your colleagues. thanks all oft you. thanks for giving so much sure country as you know our fiscal year are federal government's fiscal year begins october 1. where the process of putting g together budget. if we pass a budget we, meaning congress passes a budget that increases spending by let's say 10%. roughly six and $50 billion. what will be the impact on inflation? >> it depends if it were funded by tax increases or other spending cuts i guess in your hypothetical it's not. i think deficit spending at the margins stimulates at the margin but is a big economy the epic october the impact on budget? >> probably a small effect on inflation ultimately. but there would be an effective stimulation off the economy. i would be more demand which would in general. i'm not commenting i'm sort of commenting on fiscal policy here nonetheless to be in effect. >> and just asking you about basic economics. i just read a piece by one of your economists fr

mr. biden is the incumbent, but he is not the only candidate. i want to get your take. marianne williamson has declared her candidacy, and also robert f. kennedyt 17%. far behind mr. biden's 70%. but this is someone who has been pushing conspiracy theories when it comes to vaccine efficacy, on election fraud as well. what does it say to you that he is polling in double digits? tamara: what it says is something we have been talking about in this segment for a long time. which is there is a share of the democratic party who maybe likes joe biden but does not want him to run again. and it is clear they do not want him to run again. you throw a couple names out there, kennedy is sending people recognize, they say, ok, kennedy. it is not necessarily his campaign is taking off in any way. it is more of a place for people to go who are concerned about president biden's age, who did not think he was going to run again, who don't want him to run again. and what i will say is as we talked earlier about the democratic party and that whole party infrastructure, that is set up to make sure that them -- that president biden does not have a legitimate or rea

official invitation of his counterparts, president kennedy will visit venezuela, nicaragua and cuba at the head of a high-ranking delegation. during mr. raisi's visit to the latin american region, several cooperation agreements will be signed between iranian officials and these three countries in various international fields. we did that let's draw the road map of the 20-year cooperation between tehran and caracas. let's continue our conversation. the new horizons of iran-venezuela oil cooperation. moving in the direction of energy exchanges with the aim of neutralizing american sanctions and ensuring the mutual interests of tehran and caracas in the islamic republic, despite the threats and sanctions of the enemy's progress. we had many and we will have many improvements after the energy goal that was realized in the 13th government. in this government, cooperation in the field of valley energy, thermal power plants, repair of refineries in venezuela, and in relation to the export of technical and engineering services, can be a field of cooperation between it should be two countries and by signing the first and most important contra

mr speaker. next speaker, please. good evening supervisors. my name is caroline kennedy. i live in district eight, and i'm a cork team member of rescue itself if i understand the mayor's budget proposal properly , she's adding about 500 shelter beds and 500 housing slots, bringing about 1100 people off the streets. that's over the next few years. that's we need more impact, and we need it faster. that is not meeting the need. um, and even though the mayor's proposal would pay for much of this capacity with one time reality from $60 million from the oco fund. um by relying under the sources of revenue, i'm understanding that the city could still find the other recommendations. despite the reallocation, first for the day , and families, not our city desperately needs to find more funding for all and house population, said built families and transitional age use. and if we all agree that we have a crisis very much underscore what supervisor chan has said about looking at more innovative ways using other departments services to close the gap that hsh is experiencing, and it's

is in touch with us, a senior researcher of the harvard kennedy school atomic control project, greetings to you . good night. good night to you, mrsana. an important issue and we understand not only for ukraine, but also for the whole world, for all of europe, what is happening now at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant , well, what are the risks according to your estimates, because these risks persist every day, and precisely because this the station is now under the control of the russian occupiers. well, as you mentioned, the water level in the cooling pond remains high enough, that is, there is literally no imminent danger today , fortunately, and i understand that the ukrainian energy atom operator also anticipated this situation because there were reports about the mining of the kakhov dam, and they probably expected such a situation, the pond was filled to full capacity to its full capacity, and accordingly, also because the power units do not work at full capacity, they are in a state of cold shutdown, one power unit was the last hot shutdown, now it has also been brought into a state of cold shutdown, that is, the requir

. >> senator kennedy of louisiana is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr.rman, and to your colleagues thanks to all of you for giving so much to our country. as you know, our fiscal year, our meaning the federal government's fiscal year begins october 1. we're in the process of putting together a budget. >> that's the fed chair in front of senate banking. let's talk about the economy and macro view of the markets. our next guest says the interplay between the stock market, stubbornness and strength of the market and financial conditions are getting tricky joining us former goldman sachs chief economist jim o'neill, now chairman of northern stone it's great to have you back. what a day to talk to you about not just the fed chair but what's happened in the uk and some of the moves in switzerland and norway are we at a moment >> just think how lucky you are you're in the in the uk, guys. you know 6 1/2 years after brexit, looks like we haven't a clue what we're doing about anything including inflation control. >> do you think the uk -- we had this debate yeste

mr. president, has the reapplthereelection campaign go? maria: peter doocy pressing on what the president is missing in the campaign trail. op-ed pointing out kennedy's. he writes many democrat voters are still not accepting the idea that they are stuck with joe biden. lee, your thoughts? robert kennedy has been doing well. >> he's going to continue to grow in the polls. we were talking about this earlier because no one is really taking a shot at him. they are not taking him seriously even though he popped into the 20's. you know, the question about joe biden being out there on the campaign trail, he wasn't out in the campaign trail when he was first running in 2012. maria: it's the basement strategy. >> he's in the white house, he's the president of the united states, he will use the power of incumbency and advisers will keep him at summer home. he will not be in the campaign trail any time soon. cheryl: how many interviews has he given since president, under 10. sometimes he missteps and misspeak which they obviously know. you can tell that the white house press secretary is careful making sure he's not out there in front of the cameras as best as

it was bobby kennedy was one of the councils finally committing who said to him something to the effect of mrthe president of brother teamsters and the secretary-generalst mid atlantic pension fund and all of these offices. great office and power is capable of doing both very great good and very greatly developed. hoffa leaned into his microphone set i intend to live up to both of my responsibilities. and so it is up to us. are we going to live up to our responsibilities to do good and evil are justt our responsibiliy to do good? this is what matters in this is why we all in fact in our great country created equal. you get to choose. finally the talk of moral courage makes me a little uncomfortable as an elected official. everyone understands how the from plastic and making radical prices in a radically unjust and violent worldly structural necessity make a short current in the long-term demands active moral engagement and social progress collide constantly every day in our public, life. none of us can get it right every time. it's often impossible to even fully understand the moral consequen

mr., chairman i think my time is up. thank you. >> thank, you senator hirono. senator kennedy? >> thank, you mister chairman. thank, you general, for being here this afternoon. thank you. i read somewhere, i don't remember who said, it but i remember it was once observed. it was once observed that i parent who stops loving their children, if a parent stops living their children, the children will not stop loving the parent. the children will stop loving themselves. i know we can agree that we should encourage parents to be involved in their kids lives. >> absolutely. >> and i am sure we can agree that we should encourage parents to make their kids do their homework. >> yes, although sometimes there is some resistance to that. >> and make sure they get sleep at night so they can be ready for school? >> yes. >> here is what i have always been confused about. didn't he wonder stand the chilling effect that it would have to parents, when you issued your directive, and you directed your criminal divisions, and your counterterrorism divisions, to investigate parents who are angry at school boards and administrator

kennedy: i am asking you about basic economics. i just read a piece by one of your economists from the san francisco fed, mr.shapiro, who is arguing that labor costs have virtually nothing to do with service inflation and a negligible, uh, is a negligible factor in broader inflation. and i read this stuff from some of your people and i just wonder what planet they parachuted in from. if congress passes a budget, in my prior example, that reduces spending by 10%, roughly $650 billion, what impact will that have on inflation? chair powell: so that would -- you know, you would have less stimulus for demand and he would be cutting programs if you did that and therefore you would be slowing the economy down and the impact would be less demand. neither of these ideas affects the supply-side at all, so less demand would mean less economic activity and spending and have an negative effect on inflation. sen. kennedy: more stimulus by federal spending is inflationary. is that right? chair powell: so we have been in this situation where inflation was so stable for 25 years, you remember, at almost nothing that we did m

racketeering and organize crime and i think it was bobby kennedy who was one of the councils on the committee who said to him something to the effect of well, mrent of the international brotherhood of teamsters and the secretary-general of the mid-atlantic teamsters pension fund at all of these offices that a man of your great office and power is capable of doing both very, very good and very great evil. hoffa leaned into his microphone and he said i intend to live up to both of my responsibilities. and so it's up to us, are we going to live up to our responsibility to do good and evil or just our responsibility to do good. this is what matters and this is why we are all in fact, in our great country created equal. we get to choose. finally, the talk of moral courage makes me a little uncomfortable as an elected official because everyone understands how the complexity of making political choices in a radically unjust and by the world and the structural necessity of making short-term legislative compromises, and the long-term demands of active moral engagement and social progress collide constantly every day in our public life. none of us can g

kennedy was saying. this was not just a legal issue. this was a emotional issue. this was an issue of life or death. host: you write in your book that mrs. evers was watching the speech at home when, while waiting for her husband. guest: that is right. you think about moments where the entire country is on the same page, so to speak. that is a great example of it. host: ralph in men what, -- ralph in new york. you are on with clay risen. we are talking about the 60th anniversary of john f. kennedy's civil rights speech. caller: i am a you wa worker from upstate. when i was in grade school, we were insulated from what was going on in the south. the reason i learned about the civil rights movement, through my union, the uaw, taught me that. the interesting point of all of this was a member of the house, his name is william. he was a congressman in the house. he added a poison pill during the closing day. he added gender in order to defeat the bill. it backfired on him. that was a lot of people, a lot of people do not know the extra category was added to defeat it. the credit goes to president lincoln johnson that got this bill passed. 197

kennedy was saying. this was not just a legal issue. this was a emotional issue. this was an issue of life or death. host: you write in your book that mrs. evers was watching the speech at home when, while waiting for her husband. guest: that is right. you think about moments where the entire country is on the same page, so to speak. that is a great example of it. host: ralph in men what, -- ralph in new york. you are on with clay risen. we are talking about the 60th anniversary of john f. kennedy's civil rights speech. caller: i am a you wa worker from upstate. when i was in grade school, we were insulated from what was going on in the south. the reason i learned about the civil rights movement, through my union, the uaw, taught me that. the interesting point of all of this was a member of the house, his name is william. he was a congressman in the house. he added a poison pill during the closing day. he added gender in order to defeat the bill. it backfired on him. that was a lot of people, a lot of people do not know the extra category was added to defeat it. the credit goes to president lincoln johnson that got this bill passed. 197

mr. chairman, i had a good question, i was saying something nice about my friend senator kennedy.but i want to pick up where senator kramer start. >> you can go ahead. >> i may talk about you later. i think what you mentioned we could talk about how we got here and what standards are appropriate and right and wrong. i was complimenting senator kennedy how he described quality of the management at the institutions. in case of svb 42 billion dollars in 6 hour on that run, i don't know -- that was 25 cents never dollar. nothing would have stopped that. i don't think we really i give you a lot of credit for your part in your short period of time this run, i'll have to start with welcome everyone. to my republican colleagues, there were laws in the 30s that if you accelerated a bank run, there was a penalty paid. i think some of the folks of my old industry, very responsibly wednesday night before the run, exacerbated, that they were as familiar with the institution, i would like to know where some of that money ended up going, we have not talked about that, and have not talked about a

kennedy referred to it as a pronouncement. so, anyway, just to make sure the full picture is presented mr. park: yeah, justice kavanaugh, i think that every institution in state will differ. i mean, we have states coming to the court and saying we have reached our diversity -- ional benefits of diversity goals. w't need to engage in any race-conscious admissions ocess at our state flagships, and -- and we are at the p where i think the expert evidence here pretty definitively shows that we are able to meet w feel is an inclusive diverse environment through minimal consideration of race, and -- there based on this qualitative process, but there is no strict numerical benchmark. justice kavanaugh:f the things the other side has emphasized is that in the period since grutter, in the two decades since grutter, that we have more experience with states that don't alle-based admissions, california,ooter, washington, michigan, and others. and that examples now show with greater confidence than of the questions we were asking before, somee race neutral alternatives cannot have the riskeating people