. >> you can't take action if we have a denial from the planning department so mr. ray will be working with the people in chinatown so should them there's a continue use so for the february 3rd hearing. >> i know in the past we have not had the ducks in a row but approve the permit. >> the planning and police are the to me need. >> a motion to continue. >> second. >> there's a second any public comment i don't see any on that motion to continue to the february 3rd and commissioner frost commissioner lee. >> commissioner perez commissioner moshoyannis commissioner tan that motion passes next up is whole foods. >> all righty so this one is doing business as whole food effort to revitalize ocean avenue and do their second sunday event first one in january whole foods times to get in on the action so we have a lady for the live permit here not past 10:00 p.m. >> hi you want to introduce yours and let us know. >> i'm the store manager on ocean avenue and we are applying for the permit to senator of o m a and revitalize our cultural in the neighborhood we did the test to prog

mr. ray kelley director of national legislative service veterans of foreign wars, ms. diane zumatto national legislative director of amvets. we are also going to be having testimony from mr. en's de planque legislative director of the american legion. mr. blake you are now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman and members of the committee. on behalf of the co-authors of the independent budget seated at the table, i would like to thank you for the opportunity to testify on the 2016/2017 budget. we ask that our report of independent budget for the department of veterans affairs for fiscal year 2016 and 2017 be admitted into the official hearing record. >> without objection. >> thank you mr. chairman. let me begin by saying we believe this is probably the best va budget we have seen in my years being up here on the hill. that being said recent media reports have pointed out that va's have hundreds of millions of dollars in resources carried over in recent years. the va has done a questionable job of managing resources that have been given in the past that

mr. ray kelley director of national legislative service veterans of foreign wars ms. diane zumatto national legislative director of amvets. we are also going to be having testimony from mr. en's de planque legislative director of the american legion. mr. blake you are now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman and members of the committee. on behalf of the co-authors of the independent budget city near the table i would like to thank you for the opportunity to testify on the 2016/2070 budget. our ask that our report of independent budget for the department of veterans affairs for fiscal year 2016 and 2017 be admitted into the official hearing record. >> without objection. >> thank you mr. chairman. let me begin by saying we believe this is probably the best va budget we have seen in my years being up here on the hill. that being said recent media reports have pointed out that the a's have hundreds of millions of dollars in resources carried over in recent years. the va has done a questionable job of managing and sufficient resources that have been given

mr. ray kelly, director of national service veterans of foreign wars, the national legislator director of amvets, we are also went to be having testimony for mystery into plank , legislative director of the american legion. mr. blake, you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee. on behalf of the co-authors seated here, i would like to thank you for the opportunity to testify on the fy 16 and 17 budget. i asked that the report of the independent budget be admitted into the official hearing record. >> without objection. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we believe that this is probably the best v.a. budget that we have seen in my many years of being a peer on the hill. that being said, recent media reports of point out that the the a had hundreds of millions of dollars in unspent resources carried over in recent years, we do not dispute that fact. the v.a. has done a question will job of managing the insufficient resources it has been given in the past

i'm ray suarez. mr. ambassador you wanted to respond? >> absolutely.know from talking to people in elite moscow they are very unhappy with the policies that have been happening within russia. the people had an implicit deal with mr. putin he would have his way with policies. between oil prices and sanctions he ha has not delivered prosperity. polls show mr. putin is still very popular but his popularity is a lot lest than it was a few weeks ago. if body bags come home, his popularity will go through the floor. i'm not saying that's what's going to happen to him but this is a danger for him that's why he hides the bodies. there is another point that is more important. mr. putin has a revisionist course. if you listen to what he said over the past seven eight or even ten years he has a right he says to intervene wherever, he believes the rules of the post-cold war world has to be rewritten. he has committed provocations against the baltic saits. he sees anest an estonian counter-- >> let me put that to fredericka bindi. stop saying this can't go on in uk

perspectives like lieutenant peralta's and mr. ray and raymond as folks involved in law enforcement, which is a profession that i am not involved in. but who had very thoughtful and proactive suggestions for how to move forward. those are the things aisle really be turning over in my head tonight. we want to be sure this is not an echo chaemmber but diverse in thought. so thank you. >> excellent. sue. >> well i have to thank the co-chairs again for giving me this opportunity and the president. it's been an amazing day and i've been in law enforcement for 35 years and i've heard things today that really reawakened some of the thoughts that i've had. one of the things that was so clear to me is there's so much pain out there and there's so much frustration. and i think that really resonated today. and i think that's why we're struggling so much. there's so much pain on the part of mother who is's lost children. and there is pain on the part of the police officers who east lost partners and love ones. i think that makes it more difficult

the mechanical sequester hitting us in 2013 as well as the flattened spending imposed by the ray ryan deal. mr. deputy said that was not the worst outcome we could've had and it did give us some stability, but it was never the department decision to be down at that level for extended time. i think this budget is consistent with where we have been all along. we have a trough, as the deputy alluded to driven by reductions that we have to dig out of. if i could get the next slide. >> the strategy is the same strategy described in 2012 in the qtr -- cutie -- qdr. following mathematics chart will show you over time our budget request. the base budget on the bottom and the war funding on the top. you've heard the numbers on your charts so i will not take time to read them out. i want to take a little time with the next chart showing of the funding lines over the next couple of years. the line on the top the f.y. 13 , budget was the budget that we submitted and developed after the budget control act was agreed to. this is a number you have probably heard many times out of this department. the $487 bi

. >>> here are the scholarly, and dignified miss martha ray and mr.e a favor? >> certainly. what is it? >> tell me, what does documentary mean? >> jimmy, you mean you don't know the meaning of the word documentary? >> that's one of the few. >> if any oscar category reflects changing times, it's documentaries. the academy established the category during world war ii. early oscars went to government sponsored films. designed to bring a war home. by the 1970s, documentaries were approaching war from a very different point of view. >> i remember watching the oscars when "hearts and minds" won and the producers came on the stage and for a speech they decided to read a telegram they received that day from the wrong side of vietnam. >> it says, please transmit to all our friends in america our recognition of all that they have done on behalf of peace. >> most of my being was involved in trying to end the war in vietnam. it was raging and i felt, how could i be in front of all these people and not say something? >> the winner is jane fonda. >> thank you, than

mr. ray kelly, director of legislative service veterans of the foreign war. ms. tional what is latest rector. we are also going to be having testimony from mr. ian at the american legion. mr. blake, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. on behalf of the co-authors of the independent budget seat at the table i would like to thank you for the committee to testify today on the va fiscal year 2016 and 2017 budget. i ask that the report of the independent budget of the department affairs veterans affairs for fiscal year 2015 and 2017 b. knitted into the record. >> without objection. >> thank you mr. chair. let me begin by saying this is probably the best va budget that we've seen in my many years of being being here on the hill. that being said recent media reports have pointed out that the va has had hundreds of billions of dollars and i'm spent resources. over in recent years. we do not dispute that fact. in fact the va is a questionable job of managing the resources they've been given in they been given in the past. we believe that the problems in t

mr. herbert hoover. ♪ ♪ >> sit down, ray. >> thank you sir. >> could you tell us what it means?ll it is the library on war, revolution and peace. the purpose of it is to present the complete history of this world since the beginning of the first world war i. it has many objectives. one of them is to aid in the development of measures of peace out of the display of the experience of the world. it covers economic, military other questions. it is now the haven of historians from all over the world. because the german war library was destroyed in the last war, the french war library was destroyed, and the british war library was greatly damaged. this is practically the only complete story of what has happened in the last 50 years. >> how did the idea of the library start? >> i was crossing the north sea on a usual journey to belgian collection with relief and i had to book to read written by andrew p. white. he was the great historian of the french revolution. and he complained in that book that he had not been able to present the life of the people in general of france because of t

mr. freeman, that you and you alone murdered ray liuzza.the jury knew where we were coming from, they were able to see the lies in kevin freeman's original story. >> informant richard perkins also took the stand. this time his testimony was devastating to the prosecution. >> perkins admitted that one of the prosecutors put him in a room with kevin freeman before they testified at the original criminal murder trial and said, you guys get your story straight. >> perkins also admitted receiving $10,500 after thompson was convicted. >> we were able to show why perkins implicated thompson. perkins was a street kid who needed money desperately. he saw a chance for more money than he had ever seen or imagined in any one place in 1985 and he went for it. >> for the first time in 18 years, john thompson was finally able to take the stand and proclaim his innocence. >> you could hear a pin drop. i mean literally. he finally had a chance to explain to a jury why he had the murder weapon. >> john thompson's testimony was that he did have the gun, but h

mr. routh. >> all right. we the jury find the defendant eddie ray routh guilty of the capital indictment of murder as signed byhe foreperson of the jury. you may be seated at this time. you wish to have the jury poll polled? >> yes, judge. >> all right. the jury to be polled is individual, and we will start with the first seat first. juror, i will ask you the first and each and every juror. is this a unanimous verdict of the jury? >> yes. >> juror two? >> yes. >> juror three? >> yes. >> juror four? >> yes, sir. >> juror five? >> yes, sir. >> juror six? >> yes, your honor. >> juror seven? >> yes. >> juror eight? >> yes, sir. >> juror nine? >> yes. >> juror ten? >> yes, your honor. >> juror 11? >> yes. >> juror 12? >> yes, your honor. >> this completes your service, and i will receive this verdict and have it filed with the clerk with the papers of the court at this time. all right. mr. routh, if you please stand again. having received and accepted the jury's verdict this in this matter by statute, i will impose sentence at this moment for confinement of life in the texas department of corrections without the po

mr. clarence page from the chicago tribune. awesome. ms. joyce jones from b.e.t. there are so many in here. ray baker is somewhere in the audience. mr. clarence page from the chicago tribune. ms. joyce jones from bt. so many of them in here. ray baker is somewhere in the audience. i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge my press club. tristan francis, kenny. and so on behalf of the capitol press club we want to thank you. finally, we want to live to the young people in the back from the middle school wrestling against -- monday to interview the president. we will help them to get that question. thank you. had so if please, please be sure. he will sign it. it's a sign up to a member of the capital press club or the national press club's. we are out there, too. thank you so much for coming. leave your card if you want to be invited to future events. >> next, a hearing for -- farewell ceremony for secretary hagel. and then the future of the highway trust fund. on the next washington journal philip klein discusses the congressional republican approach to the affordable care act. and possible alternatives. afl-cio president talks about

mr. routh please stand. >> we the jury find the defendant eddie ray routh guilty of the felony offense of capital murder asrgeed in the indictment signed by miss staff for as for person of the jury. uh-uh may be seated at this time. you wish to have the jury poll. >> yes your honor. >> request to have the jury poll polled has been made at this time. what i will do at this point individually start at the first seat. first juror and ask you the same question of each and every juror juror. is this unanimous verdict of the jury? >> eddie ray routh convicted in murder of chad little field and american sniper chris kyle. you her it right there. the defense had said that he was innocent by reason of insanity. the jury of 10 men and two women did not agree. we will have much more on that on myfoxphilly.com. here's something you don't see often. a student arrested now blaming 50 shades of grey. what police say he told investigator. >> a driver leads police on a wild chase into this quiet neighborhood when he ditches the car and takes off running. the bizarre spot cops found him hiding plus -- >> phillies go through

ray routh was guilty in the killings of chris kyle and chad littlefield. for the first time we can see and hear what transpired in the room where mr. h was first interrogated. ed lavandera has all of that. >> reporter: this is eddie ray routh confessing to the murders wearing the clothes he wore to the country side country range that day. chad littlefield's blood still staining his boots. >> what happened out there today other than shooting sports? >> i was reasonable and fair with them boys. i can't just keep eating my soul up about this. you know you can't just keep letting people eat your soul up for free. you know. >> it's not what it's about. it's about having a soul that you have to you for yourself and there are. you >> you talk to your sister today. >> i told her i had to kill men today. it wasn't a want to. i had to a need to. >> reporter: a jury heard from chris kyle's wife taya. >> who were you married to prior to february 2nd 2013? >> chris kyle. i'm sorry. i'm not nervous. i'm just emotional. >> reporter: emotional as she remembered the last time she saw her husband. >> chad had an extra set of eyes and then i said mayb

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mrs. mcdonnell will get a lesser sentence. >>> and the defense rested in the american sniper trial as it's come to be noun. eddie ray routh is accused of killing chris kyle and his friend. kyle was the navy s.e.a.l. incorporated in the movie "american sniper." routh's lawyer put on the insanity defense. yesterday a psychiatrist told the jury that routh showed system times of mental illness before the shootings in 2013. >>> it's 4:20 and at this hour the temperatures are still falling. and the wind is going to be blowing all day long. a blustery day. look at the flag here in the nbc 10 studios. it's going bto be a workout. right now in philadelphia 24-mile-an-hour wind gusts. 4 degrees feels like 14 degrees below zero right now. and the pocano mountains will see sunshine but it's never going to feel warm today. the temperatures will warm into the single digits. about 9 degrees above zero for a high for the pocano mountains with temperatures making it feel much colder thanks to the wind. 3 in wilmington. 2 in washington township. look at this, zero for chester springs. 1 below in doylestown. vineland is at 1 degree an

mr. routh, if you'll please stand. we the jury find the defendant eddie ray routh guilty of the felony of capital murder as charged in the indictment. that verdict is signed by ms. stafford as foreperson of the jury. you may be seated at this time. do you wish to have the jury polled? >> yes, judge. >> what i will do at this point is individually start at the first seat first juror and ask you the same question of each juror. is this a unanimous verdict of the jury in >> yes. >> jury number two? >> yes. >> juror number three? >> yes. >> juror number four? >> yes, sir. >> juror number five? >> yes, sir. >> juror number six? >> yes, your honor. >> jury your number seven? >> yes, sir. >> juror eight? >> yes. >> jury your nine? >> yes, sir. >> all right, this completes your service as jurors in this matter. i will receive and accept your verdict in this matter and hand it to the clerk to have it filed. >> all right, mr. routh, if you would please stand again. having received and accepted the jury's verdict in this matter, my statute, i will now impose sentencing in this matter, confinement for life in the texas criminal just

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mr. speaker, i have no more speakers. if the gentlewoman from new york has no more speakers, i'm prepared to close once the gentlewoman does. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. ray rice mr. speaker i yield myself -- miss rice: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. in closing, i would like to commend chairman katko as well as the gentleman from south carolina, representative sanford, for their work on this legislation. if enacted, h.r. 719 will bring greater accountability to t.s.a.'s office of inspection and ensure taxpayer dollars are being used efficiently and that past abuses are not being repeated. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. >> mr. speaker, i yield as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you. mr. speaker, i would like to thank homeland security chairman mccaul and ranking member thompson for their support of this bill. mr. katko: as well as the ranking member of the subcommittee on transportation security the gentlelady from new york, miss rice. mr. sp

mr. hyde. gm ron hextall says at times they have under achieved, other times they have played well. both happened in the same game tonight. flyers in columbus, ray em willry faced seven shots in the first period, two go in. johann son makes it the two to nothing. the flyers mount a serious come back. two goals in less than two minutes. then in the second period michael dell zotto ties it up at two. but columbus scores three unanswered gold. they have two goals on the night. and, flyers nine game point streak is over, they lose, five-two. >> sometimes, you know, we make a couple mistakes early in the game and it comes back and bite you in the butt and that is what happened. >> the start of the game obviously has affect on the the outcome. >> you lost the game in the first period. >> the the flyers showed teammate kimmo timonen the ultimate respect, with the stick tap. he skated with the team for first time since being diagnosed with career threatening blood clots. it might be a couple weeks before we see him in an actual game. >> it takes time. it is in the like it will get back in a day or two. it takes seven or ten days, good practice. good spe

mr. obama will sign an executive order directing the government and the private sector to share more information about cybersecurity threats. ray roth ceo of a security firm is at the president summit tomorrow. he says it's a good defense against the breach. >> best way to defeat is to share information as quickly as possible so that the defense can be employed. >>reporter: white house says tomorrow summit at stanford the first of its kind. who is who of corporate leaders planned to seven hour event. manufacture comes while many of the silicon valley giant are hesitant about supporting more information sharing with the government without reforming government surveillance practices. electronic frontier foundation kurt. >> we heard so much about how the government has been gathering our information from the nsa to the dea. fbi. oftentimes without court and without parents. now is the time to the make it easier for the government to obtain information about the american people. >> mr. obama also pushing for limits on any legal liability for company that share too much. white house says only congress can make that happen. >> here's

mr. routh, if you will please stand. all right. we, the jury find the defendant eddie ray routh guilty of the felony offense of capital murder as charged in the indictment. that verdict is signed by the foreperson of the jury. you may be seated at this time. do you wish to have the jury polled? >> yes. >> the request to have the jury polled has been made at this time. what i will do at this point is we'll start at the first seat first juror and i will ask you the same question of each and every juror. is this your unanimous verdict of the jury? you have to answer out loud. >> yes. >> juror number two? >> yes. >> juror number three? >> yes. >> juror number four? >> yes, sir. >> juror number five? >> yes. >> juror number six? >> yes. >> juror number seven? >> yes sir. >> juror number eight. >> yes. >> juror number nine. >> yes. >> juror number ten. >> yes. >> juror number 11. >> yes. >> juror number 12. >> yes sir. this completes your services as jurors in this matter. i will receive and accept your verdict in this matter. i'll hand it to the clerk to have it filed. with the

almost eight years to the day later, on june 12th 1987, ronald ray gone stood out the gate and said mr. gorbachev were tear down this wall. seven months later it was down. if any of you were living at that time had gone anywhere the united states in '79 and said we would be in the middle of the greatest expansion that the world would have seen and the iron curtain would have been down, people would have thought we were crazy. the whole world was changing. i believe it's changing again. this is what i try to tell people. the whole world is changing. you can be a part of it or you can miss it. and i'll end with this. it was the last major speech that reagan made to the republican convention in 1992 in shoe ston. he quoted a guy name james allen. he wrote that july 26th 1775. the whole world was changing in front of mr. allen and he missed it. so what i would say to you and what i would encourage you to share with your friends is that faith is something you need to be strong with. don't be discourage, don't be defeated and don't give up. we've been here before and we can overcome the stru

ray routh. >> an officer in the county jail where routh is going to be held mark o'mara said, i heard mr. routh said, i sot them because they wouldn't talk to me. i was just riding in the back seat of the truck, and nobody would talk to me. they were just taking me to the range so i shot them. i feel bad about it. they would not talk to me. i am sure they have forgiven me. >> well if you think of the sanity, there would be some alternate universe and you don't know what is going on in this universe, because you are in the insane universe, and if you can think back i was thinking this or that or paranoid or i didn't know what i was doing, and so what you are doing is to connecting with the stage in your life where you are trying to say that he was insane, and that is going to hurt his position, because a true insane person says i don't know. i don't know where i was. i dont't know why. i don't remember leaving. that is true insanity, because not only do you not know what is wrong, but you don't know what you are doing, which in effect mean s that means that you don't know what is wrong. so

question of whether the defendant eddie ray routh was sane or whether it was murder in the hands of the jury. closing arguments just wrapped up. the defense seeking to show mrhe grips of a psychotic episode when he pulled the trigger. attempting to prove he knew what he was doing. ed lavandera is outside of the courthouse in texas. he joins

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall! [cheers and applause] tom: joining us is presidential historian and ray gone biographer craig shirleyg us from washington. craig, i can only imagine how ronald reagan would deal with the threats that we're facing in the middle easts. what do you say? >> well, i think it would be a concentrated effort. you know ronald reagan was a conservative, he believed in limited central authority but he also recognized the soviet threat in the late '70s and into his presidency was the greatest threat to america going forward. so you need a thoughtful but coordinated and concentrated effort to, in organizing international coalitions to defeat it as he did with the soviet union in the 1980s. tom: he was able to communicate so well. he's called the great communicator. and is that the secret sauce here, is that what the president says to us and how he says it? because the president that we have today gets a lot of grief about the fact that you heard lindsey graham's statement, you know, people look at it and say the others are going to feel more empowered. not with ronald reagan. >> yeah. he said, tom

question of whether the defendant eddie ray routh was sane or whether it was murder in the hands of the jury. closing arguments just wrapped up. the defense seeking to show mr. routh was in the grips of a psychotic episode when he pulled the trigger. attempting to prove he knew what he was doing. ed lavandera is outside of the courthouse in texas. he joins us now. closing arguments ended less than 30 minutes ago. i know you were listening in. what can you tell us? >> reporter: prosecutors really hammered away at eddie ray mouthrouth far from insane. with a personality disorder. on the gun range that eddie ray routh led true colors show and let his freak flag fly and hammered away all of the excuses, describe all of the symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia. those were simply excuses made by someone a cold and calculated killer. defense attorneys turned around anderson and hammered away at one of the central pieces of evidence we've talked about during the course of the trial. that was the lack of a blood test done on eddie ray routh after he was taken into custody. if you're watching this closely, they've been saying eddie ray routh was in a voluntary dru

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mr. littlefield were there almost as mental health workers. they had an awareness that eddie rayllness. that's what the jury is going to hear in closing here that they were aware -- not that it is their fault. of course it is not their fault. they never had an opportunity to defend themselves. they were shot they were murdered in cold blood. but in terms of the person who did it was he mentally ill? i think everyone would agree that there had been diagnosed mental illness. the question is did the mental illness cause him not to know right from wrong. >> quickly before we go, some are wondering why the death penalty isn't on the table here. >> death penalty was taken off the table by the state of texas in order to ensure a conviction i believe, to make sure that there is no sympathy at all in terms of skewing how this case is looked at. if he's convicted, he'll go to prison for life. >> more to come today. peter johnson jr. thanks for the insight. >>> they're like girl scouts but they're not selling cookies. watch. >> white policemen are killing black young folks such as women, me

mr. who? >> sorry. 3:00>>> breaking news on "world news now," justice served. the jury in the american sniper trial reaching a sflerkt less than three hours. finding eddie raynd chad littlefield. the family's emotional reaction overnight. >> we are so thrilled that we have the verdict that we have tonight. >> we'll go inside the courtroom for more on this developing story. >>> battle cry. an american's dangerous fight facing isis on the front lines. drawing strength from his christian faith to face terrorists head on. >> i have had a lot of people refer to me as the american crusader. i'm not here for violence. i'm here for peace. >> with a bounty on his head, abc news follows him right in to the center of the war zone. >>> also, it's toy time. we'll check out the latest and greatest from the grand daddy of all toy fairs and playing around with the hottest new gadgets our very own wizard. >> oh look at that. >> pour that out. >> it's disappearing like my career. >> oh. christmas coming early this morning. it is wednesday, february 25th. ♪ >> announcer: from abc news this is "world news now." >>> good morning to you all. i'm t.j. holmes. >> i'm reena ninan.

ray tomlinblin gives his fifth state of the state address. this is a little over 40 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. please be seated. >> mr. speaker, mr. president, members of the legislature, members of the board of public works, justices of the supreme court of appeals, members of congress, distinguished guests of my fellow west virginians. 40 years ago on a night much like tonight, i joined my fellow legislators in this beautiful chamber as a young man and a recent college graduate just elected to the house of delegates. i wondered what on earth i had got myself into. armed with little more than a fresh perspective and a passion to make my home state the best it could be i was eager to take on the challenges i knew we faced as a state. on my first trip down the hall to the supply room to pick up my pens and papers and folders, i was stopped by the house clerk who wanted to know who the supplies were for. and i said well, they're for me. and he responded, well, who are you? and i said well, i'm the new delegate from logan county. and he went, oh. so i was not a page. i just want to make that clear. but i imagine my motions and my exp

mr. president, that we're going to be asking these questions not necessarily about this device the sting ray but there is a multiplicity of devices coming out onto the market, and the question is what about our price? of course, we're reminded every day because we read in the newspaper every day about another data breach. senator thune and i have filed legislation with regard to a data breach that at least the company has the obligation, and if passed into law they would have to notify the poor customers that their data has suddenly been given out there in the internet ether because of that data breach, but a lot of these questions are going to continue to be asked. what about the device called the pineapple? this is one i had no idea. here's what this device does. if i go into starbucks and i use the wireless in starbucks to go into my internet someone can be sitting outside of starbucks in their car at one of the outside tables with this device called a pineapple, and suddenly my device is going on the wireless not in starbucks but on that pineapple device so that suddenly all of my commun

been immortalized in song by ray charles and inspired disney's first african-american princess, but she remains rooted in her ministry and committed to service. so today mr. speaker, i rise to honor some of the people who have paved the way for my generation and some of the people whose shoulders i stand on. so today we congratulate and commemorate leah chase. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker small businesses, the backbone of our economy continue to be unfairly saddled by one-size-fits-all federal regulations. most small businesses do not have the capacity to retain in-house legal or compliance departments and unfortunately many agencies often neglect their duties of assessing how new regulations mayim pact small businesses. there is also a pattern of federal agencies providing inadequate analysis for the long-term rules. despite t

mr. paul callan cnn legal analyst, senior partner at callan legal. a former nyc homicide prosecutor as well as criminal defense attorney. big moment, fellows, this is eddie raysquad car, he's talking about his presence of mind. the jury got to see this obviously compelling for the jury to see the defendant in his own words in the elements so close to the scene of the crime. what do you think it did for the prosecution, mr. callan? >> it's always a mixed bag in this case because it's an insanity case. and you listen to him, half the time you think -- he's mentally ill. he's crazy. the rest of the time you say, you know something, he understands the difference between right and wrong. prosecutors are going to say even in that rambling discourse, he indicates he knows the difference between right and wrong and that's all they have to prove. >> you see indication that this could be used by prosecutors to show plan or? >> absolutely. >> some type of manipulation. >> plan, scheme manipulation all of it in the rambling he talks about how he planned to you know his escape and the killing and there are lots of details that are going to focus on to say he's a planner,