nadia is also author of a book called sisters and the statehouse. tell us briefly about this book and what you are writing about. host: in that book i wanted to investigate the policy priorities of black women. i did so out of response to the black womendirth of elected officials. local scientists don't see much use in looking at the variation. most of them are democrat, boating the same way. but what i show, is that they are not a monolith. they bring different calculus to bear how they vote. they might arrive at the same position but they do so from a variety of reasons. most of them are tied to identity that is. motherhood, nationality, ethnicity, in terms of class, or sexual orientation. these identities are just as salient for people who have dominant group identities and marginalized group identities. it is important to pay attention to those intersectional identities that make a play into people's politics and there understanding. host: 2018 has officially a reckon -- a record number of nominees, at least 183. professor brown, who are some of

also, purdue university nadia brown on the uptick in women and minority candidates running in the 2018 midterm elections. and in our spotlight on magazine segment, commentary magazine contributor, levine discusses the failure of congress and what he argues is causing their weakness. washington journal, live beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> sunday night on "after words" economist discusses her book edge of chaos. our democracy is failing to deliver economic growth and how to fix it. she is interviewed by jason furman, former chairman of the council of economic advisers during the obama administration. >> my name is lisa rubenstein, and i work in the child adolescent and family branch, at the substance abuse and mental health services administration. key principle in our branch is the importance of youth voice. you heard joseph this morning with his really great messages and now i'm really

and we will discuss women and minorities running for office with political professor nadia brown. and commentary magazine contributor yuval levin discusses his article about congressional --. ♪ good morning. it is saturday, august 25. we are going to follow-up on an interview president trump did on tv earlier this week. when asked how he things he's doing as president, he gave himself an a+. do you agree with the president's assessment, or do you think differently? republicans, call 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002 is your number. president trump gives himself an a+. here's one of the headlines following the interview. trump gives himself a grade of a. this happened during interview with one of the hosts of fox and friends. [video clip] >> i give myself an a+. i don't think any president has ever done what i've done in this short -- we've only been here two years. biggest tax cuts in history. two supreme court justices . justice gorsuch has been a start. -- a star. the only thing i'm doing badly is the press doesn't cover me fairly. winning,thing a

. >> tanto asÍ que nadia y armando casi se quedan por fuera. >> nos dijeron que tenÍan cÓmodos espaciosperan que les depare a lo mejor para el futuro. >> es una fecha que no se puede olvidar tan fÁcil. >> le cuento que alguna ceremonia se llevaron a cabo en espaÑol, el idioma no puede interferir en el amor de una pareja. >> y en telemundo 408 recibimos informaciÓn de Última hora hace unos instantes se reportÓ un terremoto acaba de sacudir a una de las islas del pacÍfico sur al menos siete movimientos telÚricos han sacudido a la regiÓn es el mÁs grande hasta el momento. >> un incendio quemÓ 39,000 acres, no se reportaron daÑos de estructura, fueron por chispas causados por un vehÍculo que pasaba. >> el poco viento y el humo de los incendios y la poluciÓn de vehÍculos es el manejo de calidad de aire emitiÓ una alerta la cual se extenderÁ hasta maÑana en toda el Área de la bahÍa. >> (grito( >> preso de la ira termina arrestando por la aerolÍnea que viajaba. en ex de comisiÓn a. tenemos detalles de este evento. >> tambiÉn detalles del pronÓstico para este fin de semana, a la vuelta de la pa

the entire battalion comes out of the woods in the direction of nadia crapart.walked dumbly, resigned. we advance $100 at the most and then the german machine guns address with bullets. we have massive casualties. soon all of my stretcher bearers are busy caring the wounded. midday, we are going to attack. about 100 american volunteers join us. the fifth company has an especially high number of wounded. they are startlingly hot. the sky is lit with gas shells. a group of americans are torn to pieces. later in the evening, an american company is broken up. they dig deep trenches. they watch us when the shells whistle pass. >> >> [ speaking french ] >> i am sergeant paul zimmerman, first company 40th regiment. in two weeks i will be 25. one month from now i will die in a field hospital. i thought in other places -- today i am here in belleau wood where a wave of enemy forces is overwhelming the riflemen. they will drown one after the other. soon i will find myself and a handful of my comrades around it. how can one stay alive in front of these bullets? no, waves o

nadia, virginia, independent. thatr: i find it is taking you are twisting yourself into a pretzel and denigrating your own integrity by pursuing this whataboutism. let's focus on being an american first rather than a conservative. let's stop talking about democrats and republicans and liberals, basically you're saying that all of these honorable people who have come ,ut, republican and democrat who have come out and said what this president has done to the office of the presidency is heinous and you're saying, our entire justice system is incompetent. you are saying someone who commits bank fraud -- and i am a banker -- you're saying someone who commits bank fraud and tax evasion and is complicit with fraud,sident to commit you are saying -- you are laughing it all away. ann: a lot of anger there. you might want to see someone about that. is the idea that it is the country first, which is precisely why people like me were so excited about the trump presidency. it is republicans versus democrats and i think the tru

and purdue university's nadia brown on the uptick in women and minority candidates. and in our spotlight on magazine segment, commentary magazine's contributor and -- contributor yuval levin discusses his piece of the failure of congress. c-span's washington journal, easterninning at 7:00 this morning. join the discussion. at a dinner held by the ohio republican party, president trump encouraged activists to work on voter turnout for the november elections. he also talked about the economy and immigration. this is an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, donald j. trump. >> i am proud to be an american where at least i know i am free and i won't forget the men that died to give that life to me and i will gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today there is no doubt i love this land usabless the president trump: thank you very much, everybody. it's great to be back here. remember, you cannot win unless you get the state of ohio. remember that? [cheers and applause] president trump: i heard that so many times. you need the state

. >> nadia an armando said i do today. >> happy, excited. a little nervous. >> at a wedding ceremony in redwood city and date was no accident. >> because we just heard it was good luck. i mean, we want the best for our wedding for the rest of our lives so hoping, you know, that good luck is dead on. >> reporter: august 18th, 2018, or 8/18/18, which is also a pal indrome. >> by popular demand. >> reporter: jim says that the san mateo county clerk's office, there are typically about four weddings a day. today they booked 20. >> a couple of weeks ago, we started getting a lot of calls from residents if we would be open today because it's a very special day in terms of the number 8. >> we decided to pick a special date. we didn't know the meaning till she told me about it. >> reporter: this bride says her good friend helenxplain it this way. >> eight to chinese means prosperous. one in front of it, it means daily. so you're prosperous daily. it's a very good sign. >> reporter: one groom told us he just liked because it would be easy to remember.

nadia told me last week hundreds of thousands have also left. it was then that those in washington who were following these horrifying events started building a coalition to campaign for the official designation of genocide. congress legislated that the secretary of state make an official determination by a certain deadline in 2016 whether or not there was genocide and not secretary of state did so. on march 17, 2016. it was repeated again under the trump administration in 2017 by the secretary of state so this was an official designation. i've heard people say there was no official designation. there was. it was done at the behest of congress. it was done at a press conference call for that purpose in the state department twice. congress passed resolutions that declared this agenda as well and in congressman thornberry's office to get this designated. genocide of course is the greatest of all human rights abuses but this is only the second time the united states has declared genocidewhile it was going on . the last one was in darfur, it is the

>> that's nadia and isabella, 9 and 8 years old. and they've been so eager to go see taylor swift. they didn't think they were going to get to go but they're such good girls their parents were like let's make it happen for you. needless to say this probably was a pretty fabulous day for them. >> let's go see her. >>> the phrase no honor amongst thieves is not just a phrase. it's reality. we have two videos to prove it. first to england where three guys on a motorcycle pull up. first guy rocks up, starts smashing at this window with a drick. he's accomplice buddy throws a brick. >> oh. >> and knocks him out cold. >> you need to get better friends, dummy. >> that's so funny. >> oh, no, i've killed kenny. >> oh my goodness. >> who i imagined to be a security guard in a high visibility vest. he goes after the criminals, they split, and they both leave their buddy behind. >> he was collected by police. the other two guys are still outstanding. >> now this next video from brazil where security footage captured this. a gate opening up and a car pulling out. when suddenly, that man comes f

university's nadia brown on the uptick on women 2018 midterme elections.nd in our spotlight on commentaryegment, magazine's contributor discusses his piece about the failure of isgress and what he argues causing their weakness. c-span's washington journal. at 7:00 a.m.ng eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. to bring, we continue you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. you doark mills, what do for a living? >> i'm a senior fellow at the manhattan institute, where i write aboutand policy and energy policy. tech'm also a partner in a venture fund where we invest in software companies for the oil business. >> how did you get there? >> how did i get which? >> ha ha! are right now. >> on the faculty, as a fellow, at northwestern university engineering

and purdue university's nadia brown on the uptick in women and minority candidates. in our spotlight on magazine segment, commentary magazine's contributor and -- contributor yuval levin discusses his piece of the failure of congress. c-span's washington journal,

come back, we will talk with purdue university professor nokia brown who will talk to us about -- nadia brown who will talk to us about the increase of women going into the midterms. and yuval levin of commentary magazine will talk about the failure of congress and what is causing the weakness. we will be right back. ♪ >> sunday night on sunday night on q and a, national constitution center president and ceo jeffrey rosen talks about biography of william howard taft. >> he never learned politics. he told his aid who served roosevelt and taft as an intimate aid, i will not play a part for popularity if people want to project me, that's their prerogative. he had a madisonian view. his heroes are james madison and alex enter hamilton at john marshall who he considers the greatest american ever. they believed majority should rule but only slowly at thoughtfully over time so that reason rather than passion could prevail. taft believes the entire system slow the popular passion so the people can be governed in the public interest rather than through action. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on

. >> host: get your point, nadia. a lot of anger there. >> guest: a lot of anger there might want to see someone about that. two points on that. one is the idea that it's the country first and not republicans and democrats, precisely why people like me were so excited about the trump presidency. i don't think it's republicans versus democrats and i think the trump candidacy exposed that. i think it's this town, republicans and democrats, united against the people. and trump totally exposed that. he came into office with the people behind him. yes, i agree in theory, though, clearly not with the ick mix indication of what nadia was saying, that, yeah, what but america first? i think 9 posers republicans and 100% of democrats all they care about who is pulling the strings, donors and more current news, in the primary for -- i have one more point on indianaa. the what-about-ism. a crucial point. but primary for governor in wyoming, pitted -- i think it's the state treasurer against a very, very wealthy man, foster frees,

nadia, come on up. come on up, please. i will make this a little shorter. everybody ready?three, two, one. gay! congratulations -- yes! congratulations. we have tours of the centre. if we have not seen the park over the buses will be running through, stay behind and we have people who will take you around. enjoy. starting scent a, hundreds of buses will be coming here. enjoy. thank you, again. thank you. [♪]

nadia, come on up. come on up, please. i will make this a little shorter. everybody ready?three, two, one. gay! congratulations -- yes! congratulations. we have tours of the centre. if we have not seen the park over the buses will be running through, stay behind and we have people who will take you around. enjoy. starting scent a, hundreds of buses will be coming here. enjoy. thank you, again. thank you. [♪] >> good morning everyone. you guys sound as excited as i am. i am so happy to be here today. this is a project that so many people, who came together to make it happen, the masonic street scape improvement. how about a hand for the beautiful plaza. this project is a transformational redesign of what most of our streets in san francisco will be looking like. so many beautiful amenities. you can see the plaza back the nice stonework. you will hear about that today. you can see the new cycle track which is raised for cyclists. you know, it is beautiful. the street design itself. all the landscaping. all the beautiful things that our city is evolving into. this is a model s

nadia, come on up. come on up, please. i will make this a little shorter. everybody ready?three, two, one. gay! congratulations -- yes! congratulations. we have tours of the centre. if we have not seen the park over the buses will be running through, stay behind and we have people who will take you around. enjoy. starting scent a, hundreds of buses will be coming here. enjoy. thank you, again. thank you. [♪] >> i'm warren corn field and we are doing a series called stay safe, we are going to talk about staying in your home after an earthquake and taking care of your pet's needs. ♪ >> here we are at the spur urban ken center and we are in this little house that was built to show what it is like in san francisco after an earthquake. we are very pleased to have with us today, pat brown from the department of animal care and control and her friend oreo. >> hi. >> lauren. >> could you tell us what it would take after an earthquake or some other emergency when you are in your home and maybe no power or water for a little while. what it would take for you and oreo to be comfortabl

nadia, come on up. come on up, please. i will make this a little shorter. everybody ready?three, two, one. gay! congratulations -- yes! congratulations. we have tours of the centre. if we have not seen the park over the buses will be running through, stay behind and we have people who will take you around. enjoy. starting scent a, hundreds of buses will be coming here. enjoy. thank you, again. thank you. [♪] bayview. >> a lot discussion how residents in san francisco are displaced how businesses are displaced and there's not as much discussion how many nonprofits are displaced i think a general concern in the arts community is the testimony loss of performance spaces and venues no renderings for establishes when our lease is up you have to deal with what the market bears in terms of of rent. >> nonprofits can't afford to operate here. >> my name is bill henry the executive director of aids passage l lp provides services for people with hispanics and aids and 9 advertising that fight for the clients in housing insurance and migration in the last two years we negotiated a lea

nadia papier, mayor of belleau will present her welcome message. [ speaking french ] >> translator: mrs. prefect, ladies and gentlemen, members of parliament and the senate, rentive of the president of the regional council, president of the departmental council, generals and admirals, commissioners. ladies and gentlemen, members of the regional council, and the departmental council. veterans and dear guests, ladies and gentlemen and gentlemen. the memorial day ceremony in this centennial year will have an historical dimension. assembled in this place bathed in natural serenity, we're going to live through and share moments of intense emotion that will forever be enshrined in our hearts and in our minds. 100 years ago on this land of south aisne, our soldiers of all nations were fighting each other. they were brothers, they were sons, husbands or fathers. they were young, they were men. these men in the flower of youth were thrown into the most extreme inhumanity. so much so that those who will come out of this hell, the hell of war, will barely be able to speak about it. and yet, 100 ye

nadia, come on up. come on up, please. i will make this a little shorter. everybody ready?three, two, one. gay! congratulations -- yes! congratulations. we have tours of the centre. if we have not seen the park over the buses will be running through, stay behind and we have people who will take you around. enjoy. starting scent a, hundreds of buses will be coming here. enjoy. thank you, again. thank you. [♪] as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flower es, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in t

nadia, come on up. come on up, please. i will make this a little shorter. everybody ready?three, two, one. gay! congratulations -- yes! congratulations. we have tours of the centre. if we have not seen the park over the buses will be running through, stay behind and we have people who will take you around. enjoy. starting scent a, hundreds of buses will be coming here. enjoy. thank you, again. thank you. [♪] >> chairman brinkman: thank you for your patience. will go ahead and call this meeting to order. the tuesday, july 17, 2018, meeting of the san francisco municipal transportation agency, board of directors and parking a authority commission. please call roll. [roll call] >> clerk: dr. heinicke will not be joining you today. do you have a quorum. be advised that the ringing and use of cell phones, pagers and other sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited. any person responsible for one going off in the room may be asked to leave the room. cell phones set on vibrate cause microphone interference, so we respectfully ask they be placed in the off division. new publ

nadia, come on up. come on up, please. i will make this a little shorter. everybody ready?three, two, one. gay! congratulations -- yes! congratulations. we have tours of the centre. if we have not seen the park over the buses will be running through, stay behind and we have people who will take you around. enjoy. starting scent a, hundreds of buses will be coming here. enjoy. thank you, again. thank you. [♪] sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't

that by -- vice chair, james davis, greg hopper, supervisor jane kim, boris linkedin, ed risk in, nadia'ssay, bruce r. instead, lisa ortiz, to me chan chan and former board member from transit. [applause] >> also i would like to give a shout out to the project team which was guided by the tjpa and ron alameda from public works as well as all the staff from all the various agencies who worked on this project. let's give them a round of applause. [cheers and applause] >> this project, as many of you no kak has serious financial and schedule challenges that required a deep design or construction experience-based leadership approach. the creation of the salesforce transit centre provided san franciscans with thousands of new permanent jobs and tens of thousands of union jobs. in fact, between workers and materials, nearly every single state in the united states contributed to this project in some way. more than 5 million -- [applause] >> more than 5 million work hours where we logged for this center and we exceeded our city's a local hiring requirement. how about another applause for that. [a

nadia, come on up. come on up, please. i will make this a little shorter. everybody ready?three, two, one. gay! congratulations -- yes! congratulations. we have tours of the centre. if we have not seen the park over the buses will be running through, stay behind and we have people who will take you around. enjoy. starting scent a, hundreds of buses will be coming here. enjoy. thank you, again. thank you. [♪] >> in november of 2016, california voters passed proposition 64. the adult use of marijuana act. san franciscans overwhelmingly approved it by nearly 75%. and the law went into effect in january of 2018. [♪] >> under california's new law, adults age 21 and over can legally possess up to 1 ounce of cannabis and grow up to six plants at home. adults in california can legally give up to 1 ounce to other adults. >> in the state of california, we passed a law that said adult consumption is legal. if you are an adult and in possession of certain amounts, you will no longer be tried. you will not be arrested or prosecuted for that. that is changing the landscape dramatically.

nadia, come on up. come on up, please. i will make this a little shorter. everybody ready?three, two, one. gay! congratulations -- yes! congratulations. we have tours of the centre. if we have not seen the park over the buses will be running through, stay behind and we have people who will take you around. enjoy. starting scent a, hundreds of buses will be coming here. enjoy. thank you, again. thank you. [♪] [roll call] >> clerk: item 2, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on any matter within the commission's jurisdiction that does not appear on the agenda. speakers shall address their comments to the commission as a whole. commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with a speaker. the lack of a response by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. >> is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> clerk: item three, approval of the minutes, discussion and possible action to approve the meeting minutes

. >> there hasn't been the last girl book written which was nadia mirad's comment and brave account of what happened to her as a ya yazidi. but we don't have that equivalent for the christians. so could you tell us a little bit about that? >> yeah. first, just allow me to think the hudson institute and the ambassador of iraq and bayan for the great remarks they a made p. i also agree completely with our yazidi sister that this is something we need to be speaking about. i want to say that the picture behind the title itself what is the condition of the christians, yazidis and other minorities. so what happened, i think most of the story's been told, has been told by the international -- by a lot of activists, ngos, families, a lot of went there and heard the story, what happened there. the life was taken from the people, nina, because of their simply they didn't agree of what isis believed. there was a lack of protection and from entire iraqi isf also -- i'm not saying that there wasn't peshmerga, there were some problems down there in beginning when isis came. but until this moment we

he was a member of the committee and two, about two weeks later, i had the opportunity to meet with nadia morand who was not really well known to the world yet. and i had never sat with him before or someone before who had been through that type of trauma and i just remember feeling even just talking about it, this sense of, we needed to do something you anger, disgust that we needed to do something and we had meetings during the summer. we pushed emotions through in the house of commons. and then from there was committee, we had pushed up different studiesto , you know, i pushed a subsequent study because i knew these women were getting support when they came to canada, that they had experienced extreme trauma and not so much as a condemnation but an opportunity to change our processes to get this right and i'm very proud of that work because it reflects the fact that even in one of the special things about canada is that we are not discussing it immigration, we are discussing how and i fully believe that we have a responsibility to protect the world's most vulnerable and an important on

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kingsley, nadia, natasha and tom, the results come through, how are you feeling? really good.s is the principle here as well. good morning. nice to see some happy well. good morning. nice to see some ha p py fa ces well. good morning. nice to see some happy faces here. a lot of the talk has been about the new exams, 90% of gcses in england now, a new grading system, a lot more pressure on exam time as well, how has it translated here? this is the biggest change to the exam system in the last 30 years and it's not just the exam system in the last 30 years and it's notjust the grading, but it is all about the content and the depth of the exams. they are new exams and staff and students have had to get to grips with those quickly. stressful? yes, it is stressful. teachers have taken it in their stride. we are always working with curriculum change. it is good to review the curriculum. it is good to review the curriculum. it is good to do it at an appropriate pace so that we can do the best for the children. but the work that has gone in from teachers across the country has been un

(nombre en inglÉs) yo soy nadia torres regreso contigo a los estudios felicidad >>> 5 pulgadas de lluvia viajaban id equipo de fÚtbol barcelona de guayaquil. el conductor perdiÓ el control del vehÍculo que a continuaciÓn volcÓ sin saber las causas. todos venÍan de ver el partido de cuenca de la serie a ecuatoriana. algunos dicen que el autobÚs perdiÓ el freno y para evitar el abismo el conductor lo estrellÓ contra un puente. el presidente electo de mÉxico quiere retomar el antiguo tren maya que unirÁ los pueblos de aquÍ a 4 aÑos el precio 150 mil millones de pesos. raÚl torres tiene los detalles de esta iniciativa quÉ tal raÚl?. >>> asÍ es este saludo con esta vista del segundo piso del perifÉrico por debajo corre una vÍa similar. una obra mono numental la consÓo lÓpez obrador, ahora anuncia el tren maya que cruzan selvas, ciudades coloniales, rÍos submarinos por supuesto en el sureste del paÍs. tendrÁ un costo de 6 mil millones y 8 mil millones de fondo, se espera que estÉ funcionando dentro de 4 aÑos vamos a escuchar el anuncio que hizo andrÉs manuel lÓpez obrador. >>> ayudemos para ah