and with joining today, by young chick bong research fellow at the own state university institute of north korean studies in sol from boston. g rebound is urgent and follow in public policy at the harvard kennedy school, and also from sol in bottom. trone, is there a todd, south korean ami, the tenants, general. thank you. all of you for joining us. if i can start with you general john . so it period of marshal went from the the some of the 3rd, some of the full for just 6 hours. yes, it seems the crisis is fall from of it. yes. so the military involvement portion ended within 6 hours. unfortunately the political after mass still continues and i think your reports put in a pretty good summary of where. ready we are right now. the next question is when the actual impeachment process involving president unit will start and how the composition of the constitutional courts will be formed. whether we will have 3 new judges or not. so those are the main issues, the citizen i'm very disappointed that this whole political situation that we have is not being resolved politically. general chun

he's instilled guy and young shake boss who is a visiting professor at your own state university and is an advisor of the ministry of national unification of the south korean government. his life from so young, shake a bone. thank you again for being with us. let me ask you about this latest development in this 9 that are correspondent was telling us about the defense registry, and official saying that that the martial law will hold until the president list said, despite the national assembly voting to blanket who ultimately, what does the law say who ultimately has the final decision on this? as well. of course though, according to the constitution, the prison has to go find on his own making power and to present will upset the national assembly resolution to resume the martian law that corporations emotional ration will hold. but that there are 2 different realities. so the one really reality that prison paper, it says that marcia lo fault. but the other reality is that the much a little bit go ration is deemed invalid and gone constitutional by the s m united most decision made by

he's a visiting professor at the own state university, and he is an advisor for the ministry of national unification of south korea's government and his life from so thank you very much for being with us. so in the last few minutes to parliament has voted to block the martial law decoration by the president. what do you think is going to happen next? now? what will the president next will be after this set vote fight upon it? well, uh the president may have resist. yeah, the resolution has that the probably a month with a unanimous precision $198.00 members of the file, the amount of 10 data events and meetings and all of that a voted in favor of making it the mass. i took it up in the doctor's to lift it up by some law. it is up to the 1st downstairs on use on, you know, to, you know, lift a mazda low or still reduce the demand from the upon the i'm not stuck. so this policy does not staying with the press done because the situation according to the code, 77 of the south can constitution. so imagine low declaration should be something very serious, serious, say as a serious as us to go

they can't afford lunch and each state sets their own programs and within each state, each school district does. you've got states like minnesota that have adopted universalfree lunch. so no matter who you are, you get that lunch. you've got states like. yes, absolutely. you have states, georgia and florida, that refused money to pay for school lunches for during the summer. it's called the sandbox program. and it's not extra money. there's no additional cost to the state. the money's already there. you just have to accept it. and so a lot of this is ideological. there are people who do not believe that children deserve to eat if their parents can't to pay for it. and that is a level of meanness that i do not understand and i cannot countenance. and if you want to learn more about this, i actually have a podcast called assembly required. and just this week i had tom colicchio as our guest talking about our food insecurity system and what we should be doing. but when it comes to school lunches, children going hungry is not just about the the pain that child feels. it lowers their likelihood of being able to turn hungry. children cannot learn to think about

own story. did you go to college in the united states? mr. al mubarak: yes, sir. i went it northeastern university in boston.mazing four years of my life. david: what did you study? mr. al mubarak: i studied political science. david: you didn't study museums? mr. al mubarak: no but i was emfat-itted. david: when you went it college and said you're from abu dhabi what did they say? did they know where it was? mr. al mubarak: i was lucky. i went to a university where they had a lot of international kids so they knew about it was but they didn't have a lot of information. the funny thing is every student i went to school with have come to abu dhabi and i was with you in freshman year and sophomore year we have come here and it is amazing. david: do they ask you for pretickets to the louvre? mr. al mubarak: sometimes they don't. i don't give the professors free tickets but students i did. david: if i said i'm going to leave in an hour inform i have appear who are to visit what should i visit? mr. al mubarak: what i believing do in an hour you being a cultural enthusiast i would probably recommend you visit the s

so this ensures they will have their own zip code and the greatest university in the nation, l.s.u., louisiana state university. it has this broken up bifurcated system. i want to thank my friend from colorado, ms. boebert and thank mr. raskin and charm comer. but post office should be able to do this on our own. i hate we have to spend time in congress because this is red tape. thank you. i appreciate you working together and i urge adoption and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. raskin: i thank the gentlemanfrom louisiana for his remarks. we add the postmaster general in the oversight committee and we are facing a crisis in lots of parts of the country in terms of undelivered mail, late mail, inefficient delivery taking place. in the meantime, the costs are going up and up. the post office is really the only federal department that is defined by the constitution itself. it is in article one of the constitution and the post office created the national transportation network, the postal roads and created national information network. benjamin frankl

own story, did you go to college in the united states? mohamed: yes sir. i went to college in boston at northeastern university.mazing four years in my life. david: what did you study? mohamed: i studied political science. i was always infatuated with museums. david: when you went to college in boston and told people he were from abu dhabi, what did they say? did they know where it was? mohamed: i was lucky, you know? i went to a university and a place where you had international university kids from all around the world. so, they knew where uae, abu dhabi was. they did not have a lot of information about it. the funny thing right now is, every single student i went to school with has come to abu dhabi. and when they have come down here they have called me and said, remember i was with you freshman year, sophomore year? i have said, yes. they say, it is amazing. david: do they ask for free tickets to the louvre? mohamed: sometimes they do. i do not give my professors free tickets, but the students i do. david: if i was going to say to you i have an hour to visit something, what should i visit in my one hour? mo

state owned bridges. >>> we are seeing the first evidence of ground squirrels in the bay area. study conducted by uc davis and university of wisconsin observed these squirrels. showing them hunting, eating, and killing rodents. >>> blanketing heavy parts of the bay area today. behind the haze, you see there is sfo. you can see why there were so many flights delayed at our airports today. drivers in the east bay also had to deal with low visibility from the fog. this is what it looked like in walnut creek. you could barely see what's ahead of you. people were dealing with that all around the bay area. meteorologist zoe mintz here to tell us what we could expect in the way of that. and leaving some extra time. >> basically every morning through the rest of the weekend will be foggy. so give yourself extra time. it is just kind of what we expect when there is a lot of moisture on the ground, still evaporating. nowhere else to go. so that is exactly what we're seeing yesterday and today and we will continue to see it into tomorrow as well. right now though, we're seeing a bit of upper level cloud coverage. a bit of shelter

state university. amna: for the first time since he fled the country, he had ruled with an iron fist and willingness to kill his ownand power, assad was heard from today. in a statement from exile in moscow he said -- at no point did he consider stepping down or seeking refuge that said he was evacuated from syria by russian forces after he left damascus. geoff: assad also said the country has in his words fallen into the hands of terrorism. that is a reference to the forces that led the lightning campaign marching a new chapter in syria's rebellion and leads the nation. the seeds of the revolution were sewn to the south of damascus by students and young people in 2011 as they arab spring took hold across the middle east. our special correspondent reports on how the city that fostered uprising now celebrates the deposing of a dictator. reporter: this is where it all began. the writing on the wall that sparked a revolution. in early 2011, a 15-year-old student scribbled a prophecy on the walls of his school in a southern city. >> the first wall we rode on was here. we wrote "down with the regime." and on that while

own neighborhood. i knew a couple of kids that went to a place called central connecticut state university.he is a high ranking executive at m mobile o. another guy is just a glorified insurance salesman. $53 billion in endowments, they could spend some of that money to make up for whatever shortfall that arises because of tighter restrictions on visas or less funding at the universities. cheryl: some of the ivy leagues universities do great research, in the medical field and technology. but the behavior of the presidents, in particular earlier this year in front of congress was disgusting to be frank. >> obviously, that was one of elise stefanik's major wins she had, by taking them on and taking them on hard but i think people are just tired of being lectured and you look at -- going back to the endowment, how many billionaires, millionaires took the money out that they were supposed to continue to put into the endowments for the schools and they're like i'm done if they're going to continue to that. cheryl: bill ackman led the charge in particular, because of the protests. >> why should t

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explore this was to own who, who is a professor of political science and founding director of the us, be it and i'm research center at the university of oregon in the united states. welcome to the w professor. i said this described as the world's biggest bang for what the true on my line do. well, uh she embezzle money a massive amount of money. like you said about $12000000000.00. my illegal means the to the customers deposit into a bang out to invest a to speculate on the on real estate. right. so she use and as i understand it, it's illegal in vietnam for any one person to to hold with a 10 percent of a bank. but she somehow managed to circumvent this yes, she has a very strong personal connections to the top vietnamese, communist leaders, especially the party boss of whole team and city and facilities, believe the political connections she was able to do what's what she did, which is to you know, almost take over the commercial bank and then, you know, take the deposit out to, to speculate unrealistic. so how did she get quote uh, well, uh, she get caught. uh, the certainly you know, like she has been doing this since she was doing it since uh, 2012 also. an

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own merits. elizabeth: those are students from the university of michigan on why they are happy their college and statenclusion. "usa today" saying a divided america. rutgers study says it made things worse, that it promoted false perceptions of prejudice and racism in america. let's bring in the senior adviser at america first legal, the author of the book "parents of the world unite," ian prior. it's a pleasure to see you again. >> thanks. elizabeth: students are saying, you know, falsely perceived prejudices, dei made things worse. what do you think? >> well, look, i think this is something that's been going on in a academia, in corporate me, hollywood for years. but it was under sort of the more political correctness. and then post-george floyd, you know, what really happened is they take this political correctness, and they put it in one of hose gain of function labs and turned it into dei. and they just went so far, and so many people just did the not approve of it. look at the polls even back then, whether it's employees, students, customers from these stores, it was not something they wanted to

university presidents. we've had a president of the united states. we've made enormous progress on our own.rt discriminating against another group because a group was discriminated against before, that makes no sense. that. david: yeah. >> what we need to do is learn from our mistakes and make progress. teafd dvd well, it makes sense, i would just say, for those people in the dei industry. [laughter] there has been this whole industry created, and you know it very well. it's, it's -- you see it in the government, you see it in the school system. a lot of spending in our education system is not spent on teaching kids the three rs, but teaching them about guesserty with these -- diversity with these special diversity trainers and so forth. you're seeing this diversity industry, they're not going to let go easily, are they? >> they're not going to. but i'm delighted to see, you know, walmart and ford -- david: yes. >> -- and, you know, a loot of other -- a lot of other companies starting to back off of this. some of the universities are starting to as they're seeing the results. we really have

best deal with your own threats and that is why 20 different law enforcement agencies met at rutgers university, a meeting called by readership in new jersey, new york, several states think what we are trying to do, put law enforcement together to see if we can't operate on a standard platform and protocols from the bar reporting from what we are looking for for authorities to detect and mitigate drones. >> reporter: since mid-november the mysterious drone sightings have been reported in 11 us states including new york but the nypd told fox news on friday that aside from a collection of possibly unauthorized drones in new jersey last month they haven't found anything irregular since. >> we have seen no anomalous drone activity in new york over the last 30, sixty, ninety days. it is true there are more and more drones being flown in the sky as people are focusing on this issue, they are seeing what has been there. >> federal authorities continue insisting there is no threat to public safety, either don't have or refuse to provide specifics to ease people's concerns. the temporary flight restrictions over critical infrastructure in new york and new jersey will contin

own state lines. joining me to discuss these efforts is michelle goodwin, professor of constitutional law and global health policy at georgetown universityor of policing the womb, decibel women and the criminalization of other had. also with us as marc heron, senior counsel at the center for a productive rights. thanks for joining us. mark, let me start with you. the attorney general ken paxton likely knows that new york courts will not support this lawsuit, challenging shield laws. what do you think is his real objective? >> i think that is right. this is exactly the kind of chaos that we predicted would happen if the united states supreme court overturned roe and this is exactly what is playing out because we know that antiabortion politicians are not going to be satisfied with just closing the clinics and in their state. they won't stop until everyone, until abortion is banned for everyone nationwide. and in texas, the trigger laws have closed all the abortion clinics. so one of the only remaining avenues, the lifelines available for texans to access abortion, is through telemedicine, through telehealth. accessing abortion from provid

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institutions like my own, yale and other universities, need to take on multiple threats at once, because they affect us. for instance, the attacks on immigration. the united statesiversities. you start attacking that system, making it harder and harder and more frightening, essentially, for people to come here, you're going to undermine that. that means universities have multiple stakes in this, and that is going to be true about all of our institutions. they are going to have multiple stakes, so we need to have everybody fighting multiple things at the same time. >> your thoughts on this, i mean, do you think that there is -- there should be a cohesive strategy in how you try to fight these, even at organizations like the is the lu, they have already identified things that they could potentially go after in a court system, but also outside of the courts, politically a grassroots level, we are going to be fighting on so many different fronts. >> yeah, i mean, in the first trump administration, he had a lot of trouble fighting in court and he lost a lot of court battles, so that is definitely worth doing. and the courts were able to slow a lot of his legislation

state university. amna: for the first time since he fled the country, he ruled with an iron fist and the willingness to kill his ownto stay in power, former syrian president bashar al-assad was heard from today. in a statement from exile in moscow, assad said -- quote -- "at no point" did he consider stepping down or seeking refuge, but said he was evacuated from syria by russian forces after he left damascus for his family's hometown near syria's coast. geoff: assad also said that the country has, in his words, fallen into the hands of terrorism. that's a reference to the forces that led the lightning campaign that marked a new chapter in syria's rebellion and now apparently leads that devastated nation. but the seeds of that revolution were sown just to the south of damascus in the city of daraa by students and young people back in 2011 as the arab spring took hold across the middle east. special correspondent simona foltyn reports now on how the city that fostered uprising now celebrates the deposing of a dictator. simona: this is where it all began, the writing on the wall that sparked a revolution. in early 20

owns it. and after sued another for copying her look. >> this is is from the cbs "newshour." in the west from the waller cronkite school of journalism from arizona state universityoff: american diplomats were in syria for the first time since the u.s. shut its embassy in 2012. they met with serious defacto new ruler, ahmed bashara. and assistant secretary of state told reporters. he was committed to ensuring that terrorist groups cannot pose a threat inside syria or other countries. >> i would characterize the discussion as quite good. very productive detailed. we ranged over a wide set of issues, domestic and external. he came across as prague make it. it was a good first meeting. we will judge by deeds, not just by words. >> u.s. officials also said they're expanding their search for austin theis, the american journalist who was kidnapped 12 years ago. for perspective, we turn during the george w. bush administration. thanks for coming. >> my pleasure. >> help us understand the u.s. dropping the $10 bounty whose force led to the ouster of al-assad. >> ahmed at one point was an islamic state. at one point he was alaska. he had his own offshoot. but he and the o

owns a vibe after one social media influencer sues another for copying her look. >> this is the news hour from our studio in washington and from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityamerican diplomats were in syria today for the first time since the u.s. shed its embassy in damascus in 2012. they met with the defected new ruler and announced that the $10 million bounty that the u.s. placed on him would be removed. assistant secretary of state told reporters that he was committed to ensuring that terrorist groups cannot pose a threat inside syria or to other countries. >> i would characterize the discussion as quite good. very productive. detailed. we ranged over a wide set of issues, domestic and external. he came across as pragmatic. it was a good first meeting. we will judged by deeds, not just by words. jeff: u.s. officials also said they are expanding their search for the american journalist who was kidnapped in damascus 12 years ago. for perspective, we turn to a former u.s. ambassador to syria. thank you for coming in. >> my pleasure. jeff: help us understand the significance of the u.s. dropping the bounty it had offered for the syrian rebel leader whose fo

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southwestern state university where she leads the institutes efforts to promote the well-being of family caregivers throughout our country. she is an inspiration for many and a legend in her own, right? i'm very pleased to be here this afternoon to speak about caregiving an issue. that is very important to me. it's been part of my life since i was 12 years old and my father was diagnosed with leukemia at age 44. we lived in a very small town and all the neighbors rallied around but i still vividly remember going to my secret hiding place. the outdoor privia if you can believe that to cry. that's why i could be alone. i was the oldest child. and i felt the burden of needing to help care for my father and my three younger siblings yet. i was afraid and didn't always feel like being strong, but my mother depended on me. less than a year after my father died. my mother's mother died and my grandfather came to live with us. he was 70 and lived to be 95 my mother cared for him at home until he died. i helped as much as i could but i was married and living away much of the time. during the last few years of his life. he was bedridden and totally depended on her our family members ne

own golf courses. they're just a very well respected name. >> a family that includes nino mangione, a republican state delegate in maryland who is the suspect's cousin. luigi mangione attended the university of pennsylvania, where he graduated in 2020 with masters and bachelor's degrees in computer science. he was a member of the phi beta psi fraternity. social media photos show. he later worked as a software engineer for the online car sales company truecar. according to his linkedin page, his most recent address was in hawaii. >> there was nothing came off weird about him. he had great friends. he had a lot of female friends as well. he was a relatively unassuming kid. he was down to earth. he was smart, well adjusted socially. >> he maintained an active social media presence for years, posting smiling photos from his travels and gatherings with friends. then suddenly, his social media went cold. posts from x. this past october show concern from friends. one says, quote, hey, are you okay? no one has heard from you in months and apparently your family is looking for you. in recent years, mangione suffered from back pain and underwent surgery for treatment. his injury grew worse after an

own golf courses. they're just a very well respected name. >> a family that includes nino mangione, a republican state delegate in maryland who is the suspect's cousin. luigi mangione attended the university of pennsylvania, where he graduated in 2020 with masters and bachelor's degrees in computer science. he was a member of the phi beta psi fraternity. social media photos show he later worked as a software engineer for the online car sales company truecar. according to his linkedin page, his most recent address was in hawaii. >> there was nothing came off weird about him. he had great friends. he had a lot of female friends as well. he was a relatively unassuming kid. he was down to earth. he was smart, well adjusted socially. >> he maintained an active social media presence for years, posting smiling photos from his travels and gatherings with friends. then suddenly, his social media went cold. posts from x this past october show concern from friends. one says, quote, hey, are you okay? no one has heard from you in months and apparently your family is looking for you. in recent years, mangione suffered from back pain and underwent surgery for treatment. his injury grew worse after an a

states, each school has their own discretion to determine what they're going to require athletes to disclose we filed a bunch of public records request. 14 schools gave us a lot of good info most public universities didn't give us anything it's because they don't have to according to the letter of the law. >> is that going to change >> there's no reason to believe it will change if anything, the only evidence we have is that it will go in the other direction because the states where they are required to give information are worried that there is a recruiting disadvantage against the states where they don't have to give anything. >> what about the ncaa what is its current role how does it see this i don't necessarily want to call it a problem, that's my word, not other people's words, but how do they see this developing >> they have tried to do as much as they can to do as little as they can, and that has sort of been the root of the problem they have sort of punted to the states and said follow your state's laws but every state has different laws when the ncaa has started to pass these regulations on kind of eligibility rules, a lot of times it will conflict with some state laws, not conflict wit

university of pennsylvania, an ivy league school, in 2020. his family owns a nursing home chain in maryland and also a country club there. his cousin, as i mentioned, is a state legislator, so a fairly prominent family he comes from in the state of maryland in the baltimore area. also we have kind of pieced together some information about where he has resided over the past few years among the places where we have found out that he has lived are the states of maryland, pennsylvania and hawaii. now, one of his roommates in the state of hawaii, where he moved fairly recently apparently to seek treatment for back pain this gentleman named rj martin was on cnn earlier tonight. here's what he had to say about his experience with luigi mangione i first interviewed him before he moved in. >> i remember he said he had a back issue and he was hoping to get stronger in hawaii. so he's always focused on trying when he first came, he went on a surf lesson with other members and unfortunately, just a basic surf lesson. he was in bed for about a week. we had to get a different bed for him that was more firm, and i know it was really traumatic and difficult. he mentioned, oh

universe. that meant seeing everything afresh. that meant not taking the word of the community or the church or the state. it also meant a constant sort of re-examination of your own life because he hated the idea of stasis or resting on your laurels. he felt a human that was alive and sentient was constantly reexamining your identity and role in the universe. this idea of being surprised is very bound up this in that, and important in emerson's writing. i wanted to take leaf from him or use that as a thematic springboard and talk to you tonight about some elements in emerson's lives that surprised me while i was writing this book. a biographical relationship, it can be intimate. you think there are no more surprises left, but there are elements in emerson's life that really did surprise me, that ambushed me in a way. i don't mean by their very existence. these are not elements that no one ever heard of. i didn't find them in a dusty archive. they're just elements of his life that elucidated something about his work for me or surprised me and drew me in because there was a kind of emotional power to them or a cultural complexity to them. so i would like to actuall

universe. that meant seeing everything at fresh and not taking the word of the community or the church or the state it also meant a constant sort of re-examination of your own life because he hated the idea of stasis. he hated the idea of simply resting on your laurels. he felt a human being who was alive and sentient was to constantly re-examining your own identity and your own role in the universe. this idea of being surprised and able to be surprised is very bound up in that and very important to all of emerson's writing. i, therefore, wanted to take a . leaf from him or use that as a somatic springboard and talk to you tonight about some elements of emerson's life that surprise me while i was writing this book. a biographical relationship that goes on for 10 years s wit another human being, even a dead one, can be extremely impotent. -- intimate. there are elements of his life that did surprise me, that ambushed me in a way. i do not mean by their very existence. fears are not elements of his life that no one ever heard of. i did not find them in a dusty archive there just elements of his life that elucidated something about his work for me or surprised