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the national business league and i received the national human rights award from the national education association. so i'm retired now. i have no job or responsibility, but i'm talking today on a larger scale about the statue and removal of the statue at the asian and library place at city hall, and i did a little research. i've been reading madeline albrieth's book, looking at the history of world war ii where the actual refugee programs that were done were for removal of people that were in theworl refugee programs that were done were for removal of people that were in thistory of world war the actual refugee programs that were done were for removal of people that were in twhere programs that were done were for removal of people that were in thistory of world war ii wh the actual refugee programs that were done were for removal of people that were in the government of russia. it relates to american indians how? during the first part of world war ii, adolf hitler sent people all out over the united states to visit -- he paid a large amount of money for american indians banquets had his staff come

mcgovern: i'd like to ask unanimous consent to insert in the recora letter from the national education association strongly opposed to this bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: at this point i'd like to yld one minute to the distinguished gentleman from new york, mr. gel. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. mr. engel: i thank my colleague, and i rise in opposition to the rule. snap is a lifeline for 40 million low-income americans and millions of working families. it is the most effective anti-hunger program in the country. it's a proven pathway out of poverty for america's most vulnerable families and yet instead of protecting successful programs like snap, this cruel bill would take over $23 billion in benefits away from children, seniors, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and working families struggling to make ends meet. my colleagues on the other side of the aisle argue the requirements in this farm bill will help people find work, but if they are really interested in promoting jobs, allow people to care for them

and according to the national education association, and this is what they say this is boiling down totion for teacher pay and 41st for per pupil funding. >> this is about priorities. we have a general assembly that wants to invest in corporate board rooms instead of public school classrooms. we're going to make sure that may 16th is really just the beginning. >> well, that's basically what the republicans who control the legislature are saying that this is about politics. they point out that they have given teachers raises for each of the last five years there's one baked into the budget for this year of about 9% but north carolina does underperform the nation for education. if you look at our 2017 rankings, they finishes 32nd for education, not dragged down just by funding but also low test scores of course, this is one of six states where teachers have staged walkouts. look at arizona. teachers won a 20% pay raise there. thatstate finished 49th for education. colorado, 12th place for education. hurts the state's sixth place overall ranking. kentucky teachers want a pay raise and add

to make sure there are more good school places. the joint general secretary of the national education union. associatesystem in those counties where there is selective education. is selective education. is a wider gap between selective schools and nonselective schools. schools and nonselective schools. with free school meals from disadvantaged homes. disadvantaged homes. that gap continues throughout life. continues throughout life. can determine a child's academic future. future. plus is that the children who pass it overwhelmingly have been coached. it overwhelmingly have been coached. they have been coached. coaching costs a lot of money. costs a lot of money. mixed ability, normal schools, they would do just as well. would do just as well. have none of the bad effects of grammar schools. grammar schools. school and one that went to a selective school. selective school. that same child has not been educated twice? has not been educated twice? you can compare prior attainment and do large—scale studies. you can compare prior attainment and do large-scale studies. do large-scale studies. katie, what

the teacher corps, you know, the national education association will be completely opposed to that.ca, it would teach personal responsibility, all the things they hate. so, yeah, all the more reason why we should do it. the only people i feel sorry about for in all of this would be the drill instructors. [laughter] pete: you and me both. go to basic training, basic military service near where they live, is that the concept? >> that's dreaded basically, one extra year. pete: one x-ray year, infuse values the public schools are not doing now. abby: if you're not going to join the military, get to know these men and women, because as you said they are outstanding individuals and they are what makes this country so great. frank buckley, interesting piece if you haven't already read it, thanks for being with us this morning, and have a great weekend. >> thank you. pete: thank you, sir. all right. well, former obama d.o.j. official sally yates claims the d.o.j. operates free of politics politics. really? congressman ron desantis here to respond coming up. abby: and a historic vote making

. >> national association of international educators. there were objections to the court of human rights. and i would like to bring up a different aspect which is injection of human rights. the u.k. has been an important voice in this area and the united states has abandoned its role and if the u.k. is less ocal after brexit? jennifer: i'm having to comment. part of this is, if you remember back to the leadup to brexit, one of the issues that may was commenting on, one of the things they had said is she would love to see is u.k. out of the jurisdiction not or in addition to, getting out from the court of justice european union. there had been a number of decisions handed down by the human court of human rights that were anti-u.k. and said i would like to be out of that jurisdiction. we haven't heard a lot more of that talk. i don't think there has been a discussion. it is a separate legal regime, whu are a member of the union union does not affect your legal status as a participate in the human rights regime. because you have a lot of no

the president of the arizona education association says she is proud of the deal which ends a six-day walkout. >>> nationalty adviser john bolton meets with the south korea security adviser in washington today. he is there to lay the ground work for the summit with kim jong-un. the focus is on location and broader elements of the talks. this as "the new york times" is reporting the pentagon is preparing to reduce the number of military in south korea. we have alexandra field with the latest in seoul. what is the reaction there? >> reporter: dave, south korea's national security chief has been told directly by an official in washington it is not true. the president is not looking at that. a source familiar with the administration and issue says this is something the president could look at in the future after nuclear weapons are gone from the korean peninsula in its entirety. as you look at the possibility of the peace treaty to bring an end to the korean war 65 years after the fighting ended. would there be a need to maintain the 30,000 u.s. troops stationed on the korean peninsula? the president has compl

regulations and forbid the secretary of education frling acting outside the scope of the law and protect speech and of free religious freedom. the national associationf scholars released a top-to-bottom review concluding that it represents the best opportunity to reform higher education in decades. with a few tweaks, the prosper act should be passed at once. o emimportant areas, federal student aid reform and protection of freedom of speech shows why. currently federal student aid is a system that encourages students to take on debt and incentivizes colleges to raise he tuition. and has four dozen options. the prosper act simplifies federal student aid and making it easier for students to see their options and caps the amount of money that they can borrow from the federal government and streamlines into a single grant program and single repayment program and eliminates special interest projects such as loan forgiveness which privileged government employees after 10 years of payments, end quote. reallyaker, ms. peterson encapsulates the beginning of this article, the reasons why we should be passing the prosper act. it passed out of the committee in

national history center hosted this hour-long event. >>> good morning! and welcome to the congressional briefing on the higher education act. i'm anita jones. i'm the executive director of the american historical association. and it's the american historical association through its national history center that is sponsoring this event. this is an effort simply to provide historical background on important issues that are coming before the congress. it is not an effort to lobby anyone to take a position on any side of a particular issue. but we think it's important to know the historical context. that's what we're trying to provide today. we want to thank particularly the noel foundation which has provided a grant to cover the cost of this. and that's much appreciated. and let me begin by introducing patricia graham who is going to be our first speaker. she's the warren of history education at harvard university. she is someone who's spent much of her life in education but also much of her professional life in public outreach and actually public positions. she has taught at indiana university, harvard, radcliffe institute, columbia university. she's been dean of the harvard graduate school of education. bu

educated, trained and have practical experience. >> andrew works for the national fire protection association. he estimates including their own training program only 30% of firefighters across the us have been trained at all to handle something like this. we contacted more than a dozen fire departments around the bay area that all say they have had some sort of training on electric vehicles. san jose fire says just like this hands-on fire training every recruit is talk about the hazards. >> as they become prevalent they are getting in more crashes and we have to be aware. >> in the meantime mountain view fire has banned crews from touching damaged batteries until it is verified it is deenergized 100%. and with more electric vehicles on the road every year it is a safety issue which could affect every firefighter in the united states. >> we wanted to share that with the rest of the service. not only with our firefighters but the rest of the fire department to know the challenges we face and what they could face. >> the mountain view fire department is considering several changes including a spe

opportunity in many cases to be well educated, trained and have practical experience with the vehicle. >> reporter: he works for the national fire protection association, he said only 30% of firefighters across the u. s. have been trained at all to handle something like this, we contacted more than a dozen fire departments around the bay area who said that they had some sort of training on electric vehicles. just like this live hands-on training everyone has to be trained. >> we have to be aware of this.>> reporter: they have ban the cruise from touching any damaged batteries until they have verified 100% that it is the energized. with more electric vehicles on the road every year it is a safety danger that could affect every firefighter here in the united states. >> we wanted to share this information to know with the challenge that we faced and the potential challenge they could face if they are in the similar situation. >>>> reporter: they are thinking about creating a specialized team to handle these incidents. they may get this hot stick which is similar to this one but the new one is being tested to allow them to quickly and safely check to see

national history center hosted this hour-long event. >>> good morning! and welcome to the congressional briefing on the higher education act. i'm anita jones. i'm the executive director of the american historical associationnd it's the american historical association through its national history center that is sponsoring this event. this is an effort simply to provide historical background on important issues that are coming before the congress. it is not an effort to lobby anyone to take a position on any side of a particular issue. but we think it's important to know the historical context. that's what we're

educated, trained, and have radical experience with the vehicles. >> reporter: andrew works with the national fired -- fire protection associates. he says including his agency's own training program, only 30% of firefighters have been trained at all to handle something like this. we contacted more than a dozen fire departments around the bay area that all say they've had some sort of training on electric vehicles. just like this hands on live fire training, every recruit is talk about a hazard. >> as they become more prevalent, they are getting into more crashes. we have to be aware of that. >> reporter: in the meantime, mountain view fire has banned its crews from touching any damaged batteries until it is verified that it is 100% deenergized. and with more electric vehicles on the road every year, it's a safety issue that could eventually affect every firefighter in the united states. >> we wanted to share with -- that with the rest of the fire service. not only with our firefighters in our department but to the rest of the bay area fire departments and -- on what they could potentially face. >> reporter: creating a specialize

by our side in our hand and had for decades associated with a group of left wing politicians the second intern. national they all believed that if they educated workers about their true situation workers would all refuse to go to war against one another as instead the international problem would join forces and unite and spark a world revolution. that's just and that didn't happen which was a crushing blow for many socialists lenin included. the first world war was the first total war which demanded not only mobilization of an army but mobilization of the civilian population to meet the needs of the morrisons and this was something the system simply could not cope with. increasingly food was short the only party that is calling clearly for an end to the war is the bolshevik party using this rising tide of antiwar feeling lenin begins to argue that the bolshevik party must seize power in the name of the soviets. marx is often said to be the determining inst in the sense that he thought that socialism would come about fairly inevitably from the contradictions of capitalism lenin was much more of a volunteer a study he believed in will power and

educated, trained, and have practical experience with the vehicle. >> reporter: andrew works with the national fire protection association. he estimates that including his agency's own training program, only 30% of firefighters have been trained at all to handle something like this. we contacted more than a dozen fire departments around the bay area. but all say they've had some sort of training on electric vehicles. san jose fire says every recruit is taught about the hazards. >> as they become more prevalent, they are getting in more crashes. we have to be aware of that. >> reporter: in the meantime, mountain view fire has and its crews from touching any damaged batteries until it is verified that it is 100% deenergized. and with more electric vehicles on the road every year, it's a safety issue that could eventually affect every firefighter in the united states. >> we wanted to share that. we wanted to not only with our firefighters in our department but to the rest of the bay area fire departments to know what the challenges or that we face if they were to encounter a similar situation. >> reporter: concerned several

national governor's association, back-to-back actually. and one of my initiatives was called america's work education for jobs and we talked about throughouthe nation our lining education courses and topics with the skill sets needed in today's modern economy. we launched oklahoma works. we divided our state into different regions based on workforce funds we received, available for federal government and local government, assigned a person over that region to bring businesses and education together along with those state agencies, and say tell me what type of orders you have in your area of the state, and what are your job openings, and then to get that conversation going that collaboration going between business and education. that's one of the ways we hope that we can certainly keep our jobs filled in our state but also give people the opportunity to climb a clear path and to do better in life. >> what is that look like specifically in terms of how you interact with employers? do you have a regular meeting with them? where do the pieces get put together there? >> we do, actually. we have a civic business leader every single region that w

education. we're working closely with the national governor's association and others. we're sort of bringing everything we can bring to bear. information sharing. we have suspicious activity reporting. we're updating that process. working with state and locals training. it goes on and on. yes, you have a full commitment from dhs. >> is there a lack of funding we need to be aware of? >> much of this is what we already do. it's bringing it to bear and expanding the circles in which we've traditional provided this. but if i find any, i will be happy to reach out to you and let you know. >> sure, i appreciate it. secondly, and i know this has been discussed but i wanted to raise it independently as the aviation security piece we talked about the transition from the screening devices. ideally, we want them in all the airports. i think there's 450 in the country airports that we have. and i certainly hope that -- cost is never an issue here. with all the tens of billions of dollars we spend on aviation security, i think this is money well spent. my question is is there any c

national lawyers association policy conference. the event kicked off with a speech from representative of the dc board of education attendees also heard from oklahoma state attorney general mike hunter and arkansas state attorney general leslie rutledge. >> good morning. smarter with carter. words that resonated throughout one of the bluest cities in the country during the 2016 election. washington, d.c. the woman behind the slogan was ashley carter. currently the highest elected republican in washington, d.c., who not with standing a sea of blue voters, residing in the nation's capital, was elected to the board of education. ashley won her seat with tireless campaigning in every ward and community in the city including those regularly overlooked by city leaders. her massage of closing the achievement gap, giving parents and children options and her promise to hold policymakers accountable won the voters over. ashley's victory proves republicans can win in the most challenging circumstances by out working their opponents and ensure people hear their message. today, i have the honor and privilege to present the 2018 betty sutter murphy

national unions, calling for the strikes. noah: this started from a grassroots organization called arizona educators united. we worked collaboratively with the unions, the arizona education associationto move this forward. it started with educator standing up, saying we need to bring a change. educators only the one that brings that change. that has been powerful for us, especially in a conservative state, to have educators advocate for themselves and students. juan: to what degree did the west virginia walkout inspire or give people a sense that they could do this? hard to put into words. it was incredibly inspiring to see that. here in arizona, all the educators were watching that , and youhat movement look around at your own situation and you say, we need to stand up and do something as well. we are last in teacher pay, 48 in per-pupil spending, why are we not doing something here? to see west virginia stand up and fight back, you look at your own situation, and you have to stand up and fight back. that was incredibly inspiring for us in arizona. amy: i want to turn to arizona governor doug ducey speaking to the press last week about the teacher walkout. >> if we pass a 20% pay i

educate their own writers. here in this room we have the national songwriters association and the songwriters of north america whoure that their membership is aware of how the system works and making sure that all the royalties get paid. >> as far as you are concerned the idea is to use the best practices for finding the songwriters and making sure that you have various ways that you can assure that they get a. >> we need to work in partnership with additional companies. they are matching in the neighborhood of 70 to 90% of the revenue they are generating for playing the songs. when i can't ein the owner that creates a problem for both sides. it's a liability for problem for the digital company and a problem for the writer. by coming together to partner in the way that we have to achieve such consensus there's practically nothing else so well with riyadh in the music and technology industry to come together on this bill. >> do you think they should consider using consulting expertise in the music industry likes we have a vibrant native hawaiian music industry. to ensure that the names are correct in the database

educated. and i will say home prices are increasing. the national association increase by 4% over the next 12 months, and some states like washington and colorado they might even see price gains of 8%, which is nuts. but with that said, buyers aren't really all that concerned because they will wait, they will rent, they will sit on the sideline until they find something they want, or they'll also buy something that might need some renovations. they might say, well, this is kind of a fixer-upper. we'll buy something that's maybe less expensive, carry that mortgage. once they save up some extra money, time and convenience, they'll also put that money into their home. they'll build that equity, they'll add some upgrades, and then they too might also become a house flipper one day. stuart: i think you're being awfully relaxed about this because if i'm a first-time buyer or somebody in my 30s, a second-time buyer, i don't want to be waiting around while prices and interest rates rise. i want in now. and your industry -- >> i mean, but, stu, you bought a house at a 1

educate their own writers. here in this room, we have leaders of the national songwriters association and the songwriters of northe committed to making sure that their membership is aware of how the system works and making sure that all these royalties get paid to the proper owner. >> so, as far as you're concerned, that the idea is to use the best practices for finding these songwriters and making sure that you have various ways that you can assure that you've got everybody. >> we need to work in partnership with the digital companies. today they're matching somewhere in the neighborhood of between 70% and 90% of the revenue that they're generating from playing these songs. when they can't find the owner, that creates a problem for both sides. it's a liability problem for the digital company, and it's a problem for the writer that's trying to make a living. and so, by coming together to partner in this process in the way that we have, it's why you've achieved such consensus. there's practically nothing else that we all agree on in the music industry and the technology industry, but we have come together on this

education, fighting for health care, those are not just indigenous issues. they're issues for every single idahoan. leland: how much support were you getting nationally, especially from the democratic governor's associationnd others? do they think this even has a chance to be much less winnable, but a fair fight with whoever wins the republican nomination? >> i think once we win on may 15th, we'll see them come together. and those libertarian, unaffiliated and we'll see the support at play as we speak so the democratic governor's association will certainly be there. the democratic party, the national level will be there for support. leland: i'll take that to be that they're not there yet? >> oh, well, yes, i know they're watching this race closely. leland: so you're endorsed by cher, that's something we hear at least on twitter. we appreciate you being with us, ma'am. thank you, good luck, and come back and talk to us if you win after may 15th, it will be an interesting race. >> we will be back, leland. leland: thank you. liz. elizabeth: after the break, ahead of kim jong-un's anticipated meeting with president trump. one u.s. official says america and north korea are working toward the same goals. what