this will be part of my effort to continue the national conversation about the importance of the artsin our lives. to close out our anniversary celebration, we'll host a national convening in conjunction with the kennedy center in october 2016. our focus will be on the future of the arts in america and this convening will bring together artists, thinkers, policy makers, as we continue the dialogue about how we can strengthen the arts sector for the next 50 years and explore how the arts are a critical component to imagining and building and securing our future. throughout this coming year we'll also be posting new multi-media content on our website that show cases the impact of the arts on the nation in partnership with our wonderful state arts agencies, our great regional arts organizations. this content will include more than 60 videos highlighting the role that the arts play in every u.s. state, district, territory, and region. we'll also produce a dozen milestone videos detailing the key grants in the history of the national endowment for the arts and how those grants have made an

her favorite color of pink, which reflected in her wardrobe, she was voted one of the nation's best dressed. the senate at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series, "first ladies." examining the public and private lives of the women who fill the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency. from martha washington to michelle obama, sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on "american history tv" on c-span3. u.n. generale assembly heard from several world leaders this week at its headquarters in new york city. among the speaker was ukraine's president, talked about russia's aggression in crimea and urged members to push for the release of ukrainian citizens. he also spoke about peacekeeping efforts and the need for u.n. aid in ukraine's eastern region. this is almost 30 minutes. >> [indistinct chatter] president poroshenko: distinguished mr. president, your colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of ukraine, i sincerely can graduate -- congratulate on the election of the president of the 70th session of the united nations's general assembly. i wish you, mr. president, every succ

this is the second national. this is the first national. >> how is it that the flag that everyone thinks of as the confederate flag is that one? >> that has more to do with what happened since the war. this design, and really more often today we see it in a rectangular design, it just caught on as the emblem of the confederacy. we can get into speculation as to why, but one of them is that this is robert e. lee's army flag. his was the most successful. it is a striking design. it achieved the stated goal of being different from this flag and the u.s. flag. i mentioned that we usually today see a rectangular design. that actually is the battle flag of the army of tennessee or the confederate naval jack. technically speaking during the war, the square pattern was the battle flag of the army of northern virginia. another thing to comment about that is that sometimes that is called the stars and bars. that is not correct, at least in terms of the terminology the confederates used. the confederates called this the star

baseball was the national pastime by the early 1900s. it was not a natural occurrence any more than the rise of the steel industry or the transcontinental railroad, or the meatpacking industry was natural. dare i bring up human initiatives? human ingenuity, and human energy? the three important ingredients that explain the surging economy in the late 19th century. it took all of those three things and much more to bring baseball into the lives of millions of americans, where it remains more or less today. i love this quote. "whoever wants to know the heart and mind of america had better learn baseball." and i would add whoever wants to know the history of america had better learn baseball. why? baseball writers have often claimed that the 19th century game embodied the best and worst of american character. and in claiming so, they point to the fact that baseball was much more than a game. it was more than entertainment. the best of america is found in baseball's expression of 19th century rural origins, and its adjustment to a new urban

of the arts at national endowment of the humanities. calledlebration concert as celebration of american creativity will feature performances up a number of american musicians and a broadcast nationally on pbs on january 8, 2016. in december of this year, we will participate in an anniversary event in conjunction with the national endowment of the humanities at the lyndon b. johnson presidential library in austin, texas to honor the president who signature brought organizations. i will visit communities throughout the country meeting with local community leaders, arts organizations, artists, federal policymakers to see how the arts are making a difference in the places as they call home. effort toepart of my continue the importance of the arts in our lives. to close out our anniversary celebration will host an national convening with the kennedy center in october 2016. our focus on the future of arts in america and this convening will bring together artists, thinkers, policy makers as with the team the dialogue about how to strengthen the

live on the national mall, surae chen, wusa9. st>>> ahill ead, jaw-drngoppi video of the moment of a suspension bridge gives way underneath backpackers. >>> plus, the white house turns pink. that's for a good cause. >>> and the divide over gun control in america as the president visits of scene of last week's oregon college shooting. the weekend is here. forecast time. allyson. >>> yeah, i needed a light jacket. i thought i would grab my cavs jersey. the coldest night of the season tonight. a gorgeous afternoon. cool and breezy. we are going to be into the 60s for much. day. sunshine in the afternoon. 50s as soon as the sun sets. tomorrow 40s and 30s for >>> we were just talking about, my kids are so anxious for a dog. we took my neighbor's dog for a walk yesterday. it was great. if you are taking the dog out to take care of business, it's a little chilly? >> it is. especially during the afternoon. temperatures aren't going to warm up much. it's typically chilly in the morning, of course. during the afternoon you will feel it when

then the nobel committee with the consent and quartet and national dialog. peaking native language] we know the nobel peace prize for 2015 the national dialog quartet of tunisia and mike harris is executive of advising ngos and he joins us from london. so surprise, is this? >> it's a huge surprise and it's also a really, really excellent decision by the committee. the arab spring has seen pessimistically but there is one country that stands out and that is tunisia where civil society has played an absolutely crucial role for building the foundations for what could be an extremely successful democracy. i think what the committee are pointing to is that struggles for human rights and democracy and often extremely challenging it exercised and the broader community play an active role, you know, and there can be established democracys and so it's appointed to two things and it's appointed to the arab spring and appointed to the role of movement and there is also a broader pointer to the importance of ensuring that civil society is represented in those dialogs bet

we are the new majority of this nation. there are some that would like to deny this and they're using hatred and racism. but they can't delay the inevitable: they have created an american apartheid. we demand the end of mass deportations and mass incarcerations. we demand justice or else for the 43 disappeared students. we demand freedom for oscar lopez, the longest held puerto rican prisoner. freedom for nelson serrano, 13 years in prison facing right now in prison and also on death row. we're asking freedom because we are the new majority. in florida they would like to execute innocent persons in nelson serrano. we are one people, one nation. thank you. gracias. [ speaking foreign language ] >> justice. >> or else! >> we want to present to speak a few moments to us. she is going to be speaking in spanish. not that that's our original language but that's the language that our conquerers imposed upon us. it's the language that the majority of people in the western hemisphere speak. it's the language that allows us to communi

hawaii's unemployment rate is among the lowest in the nation,. strengthening this law required consistent efforts by advocacy groups, businesses and government agencies to bring about the change. it also showed the importance of taking those first steps down the road to a low-carbon economy. whether they seem too small to make a difference or too large to be possible, you have to start. once you do, ambitious goals are more within reach than they may have originally seemed. hawaii is blessed in a number of ways, including with ample sunlight, steady winds and volcanic energy. but hawaii is not unique in its ability to generate substantial quantities of electricity from clean, renewable resources. the national rerenewable energy lab analyzed clean energy potential across the country and found renewable generation from technologies commercially available today is more than adequate to supply 80% of the total u.s. electricity generation by the year 2050. that's with technologies available today. as these l technologies improve and the cost of clean e

the star ledger. he's a former national press club president and the member of the national press club speakers' committee who organized today's events. thank you, jonathan. calliope parthemos, chief of staff for the mayor of baltimore. bruce johnson, anchor reporter at wusa tv. chris chambers, professor of media studies at georgetown university. and john dillman, a reporter at wnew fm and the coach of the national press club softball team. [ applause ] i also want to welcome c-span and public radio audiences. you can follow the action on twitter, use the hashtag npc live. that's #npclive. 35 years ago today a telephone call was made from yankton, south dakota, to the national press club and history was made. in a small room upstairs here at the club, c-span created the first regularly scheduled national tv call-in show -- a tradition that continues today with the washington journal program. the press club today is placing a permanent recognition of that call, that historic call, on the wall outside of that small room upstairs where the call was made so future generations will always know that part of his

executive director of the national security network. i'll be back in a moment with a final thought on general assembly week and a peaceful world. stay with us. it's inside story. >> there's a line of police advancing toward the crowd here. >> ferguson: city under siege. >> it isn't easy to talk openly on this base. >> and america's war workers. >> it's human trafficking. >> watch these and other episodes online now at aljazeera.com/faultlines. i just had a horrible nightmare. my company's entire network went down, and i was home in bed, unaware. but that would never happen. comcast business monitors my company's network 24 hours a day and calls and e-mails me if something, like this scary storm, takes it offline. so i can rest easy. what. you don't have a desk bed? don't be left in the dark. get proactive alerts 24/7. comcast business. built for business. >>> today brought reminder after reminder that diplomacy is a game played with the most brutal of tools and the most formal of rules. today the russian military officially informed nato

road in the nation's capital. my name is john hughes i'm an editor for bloomberg's first word. as bloomberg's breaking news desk here in washington and i'm the president of the national press club. our guest today is u.s. women's world cup winner abby wambach the world's all-time international goalscoring leader but first i want to introduce her distinguished head table which includes club members and guests of the speaker. from the audience is right, pam lembo, senior public affairs officer at the canadian embassy. salome head of communications at the swiss embassy. rachel oswald, foreign-policy reporter for congressional quarterly and a native of rochester, new york. our speaker's hometown. judy wambach the mother of our speaker. angel live this, president of d.c. media connections and a member of the national press club softball team. sarah hoffman, the wife of our speaker. jerry jastremski washington bureaus chief from the buffalo news chairman of the national press club speakers committee and former president

the national debt topped 40% of g.d.p. for the first time in 1934 and two years later the first balanced budget amendment was introduced in congress. 80 years ago members of congress began to realize that an unwritten constitution was no longer strong enough to limit the national debt. good intentions are not enough to balance the nation's checkbook. senator miller tidings, a maryland democrat, introduced the first balanced budget amendment to reach the senate or house floor. the 1947 appropriations committee report on his proposal, senate joint resolution 61, opened with these words: "in no other way except by an amendment to the constitution can congress be compelled to balance its budget in peacetime." unquote. the judiciary committee held its first balanced budget hearing in 1956 on amendments introduced by senator harry byrd, a virginia democrat, and senator carl car 'tis, a -- curtis, a nebraska republican. the national debt today is nearly five times what those distinguished senators denounsed as staggering. here's w

located on the national mall in washington, d.c., the national gallery of art was a gift to the american people from financier andrew melon, who served as treasury secretary from 1921 to 1932. up next, we visit the museum to learn about early american portrait painting. in this program, we feature the work of gilbert stuart, whose unfinished portrait of george washington is the image on the $1 bill. >> hello. i'm dianne stephens. john trumbull is an artist who was well known for his history paintings in america. he aspired to be a history painter. then he eventually went, like copley, to england and studied. spent a couple years with benjamin west. benjamin west was an amazing figure who welcomed almost every painter we're going to talk about today, studied with west at some time. this is his portrait of alexander hamilton, who was a very prominent figure among our early fathers of this country. and it's interesting that here alexander hamilton is hanging next to gilbert stuart's portrait of john jay. alexander hamilton, john jay, and john madison wrote the federalist papers. john jay in

coach of the national press club softball team. [applause] i also want to welcome our c-span and our public radio audiences. you can follow the action on twitter, use the hashtag npc live. that is npc live. 35 years ago today a telephone call was made from yankton, south dakota, to the national press club and history was made. in a small room upstairs here at the club, c-span created the first regularly scheduled national tv call-in show, a tradition that continues today, with the "washington journal" program. the press club today is placing a permanent recognition of that call, that historic call, on the wall outside of that small room upstairs where the call was made. so future generations will always know that part of history at the national press club. the man who took that phone call that day? well, he is brian lamb, the founder of c-span. brian is a broadcast legend. he is a journalist. he's past recipient of our highest honor, the fourth estate award. and he is a personal hero of mine, and i know some others here. at the nati

nearby, the united nations headquarters stands by new york's east river. cretary-general and the u.n. chief protocol take there majesties into the great chamber of the united nations general assembly. statesman of more than 100 countries have stated their views. afghanistan has proved over the years to be one of the strongest supporters of the united nations. within this council chamber, ambassadors work to preserve the peace of the world. there majesty's 12 day visit to the united states of america draws to its end. they will fly 12,000 miles, halfway around the earth, to return to their mountain kingdom. home awaits. the arrival of the royal plane in kabul stirs loyal hearts to beating faster. familiar banners, friends, loved ones, mountains, who can count the myriad cords that tie us to our homeland? it is the end of a long and successful journey. his majesty, king mohammed zahir, first in to the united states of america, is now safely home. thanks be to allah. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the nation

the peace together. for here, too, as well and more fortunate nations are makers of tomorrow. here be new einstein's, madame currys, or new hitler's, mussolini's tojo's, for the access had carefully contrived a legacy, a legacy designed to drive down nations into one common ruling, jeopardizing the next generation for the next round. for germany in particular, of ripping thece entire fabric of a nation's life , so the state of enduring weakness could be assured, liberation or not. the czech village that once filled this valley, then was wiped so completely off the face of the earth so that not even rubble remained. for all the women were sent to concentration camps, of which these are among the surviving few. for all the men and boys of the village were shot and buried in one common grave. and all the little children sold for 50 marks of peace to various german families, and perhaps lost forever. the effects of which will linger long after men like these, captured ss men, have been tried and condemned. and their bigshot counterparts who created to a greater degree a design for

the nation's report card from the national center for education statistics shows room for improvement for those and other students across the country. country.cbs 2 news reporter llaney moore is live in the newsroom with the details. today i visited the clear creek amana school district.i talked with the principal and a teacher about what tiffin elementaryschool is doing to keep improving. improving. inints first year, tiffin elemenary has about 50 fourth mrs. stewart's class.right now...the class is working on math.heather stewart14:34:1010 like to see a lot of the kids be successful. i like that 'ah ha' moment.for students whose lightbulbs didn't come on as quickly some of their peers.s.the clear creek k amana district has teachers to help out.the district also has teachers to help advanced students...and teach their teachers.14:43:06 to be able to separate our kids into different groups and leveled groups so we can make sure that they are getting the instruction that they need versus just teaching in a whole class.principal dan dvorak took a look at new numbers frfrom the nation's

the real national guard scandal from the vietnam era was on the democratic ticket.that was michael dukakis, his running mate was lloyd bentsen, and they alleged that bentsen had done something terrible, he had pulled strings to get his own son, lloyd bentsen iii, into the texas air national guard, so that lloyd bentsen's son could avoid serving in vietnam. that was the counterpunch from the bush/quayle campaign after the questions were raised about dan quayle avoiding service in vietnam. that counterpunch ended up going horribly wrong when it turned out one of the people who lloyd bentsen's son served alongside in the texas air national guard while busy not going to vietnam, one of the other people in that unit was vice president bush's son george w. same unit. he also somehow miraculously found himself with a coveted spot in the air national guard unit in texas along with the sons of other prominent families, rather than in a jungle in southeast asia. in that campaign, despite all that back and forth and lots more besides, ultimately poppy bush and dan quayle won t

everyone was behind it, the whole nation. the way they were able to do that and garner the excitement of the public was amazing. not only through the march of dimes they found almost all the polio research, funded the future trial we will get to but even more incredible to me is that trial was carried out by the march of dimes by volunteers, was carried out by out large research institute for a lot of high-powered well-trained research assistants. it was carried out by school principals, housewives were involved in that enormous trial and collecting all of the data. it really was the public was so engage in the march of dimes. >> really a universal, national effort focused on one disease. we are going to get to the trial in a minute because the whole discussion is an amazing story, two other names, isabel morgan. >> a minor character in the book but not in the world of science and part of the johns hopkins team that was working on polio and one of the first things that had to be done by this group harry weaver got together was

the national defense authorization act, the defense of our nation. and we're moving forward because we're following regular order, we're working in the way i just described in both the senate and the house and that's what we need to do. it's hard to overstate the importance of this legislation for our men and women in uniform and for the security of our nation. so i'm pleased that we're now debating this conference agreement and i look forward to moving to final passage. and in just a few hours, at 2:00 p.m. eastern time today, we will be voting on final passage on this legislation. now, there are several key features of this bill that i want to highlight and i'm going to talk about just a few of them. there's many, many important provisions but i do want to highlight some of them here over the next few minutes. the first is in the area of personnel and benefits, taking care of those who put on the uniform, men and women who wear the uniform, and put it all on the line for us and for our country. this bill represents a continuing commitment to the wel

i am a chief from the buffalo nation. n this place here, mother earth is sick and has a fever. the water of life is depreciating. the water right now our prayers go out to the apache people, the dakotas, those in south dakota as they protect their native land. we are asking everyone of you to stand together in peace and unity that we shall live, we shall live. [speaking in native tongue] good afternoon. my name is jay winter nightwolf. i am the originator and the host of the american indians truths. for the last 15 years on the radio. the only native american talk show east of the mississippi on fm radio. in 1979 i met minister louis farrakhan. i know, but they need to give us more time. indians need a bit more time. use it and you stand on land that was stolen from my people, but yet they say you can't talk but a few minutes. excuse me. we've got a lot to say. [applause] we are tired of rules and regulations. we are tired of being told what to do. we are tired of being told what to say. when our children, the native ameri

the national electoral commission, urging people to keep calm, and the final tally is expected to beut by thursday, but so far, the provisional result and the count that is still going on, the ccm ruling party candidate is on the lead. >>> volkswagen has announced a third quarter operating loss of nearly $4 billion. the latest figures come out after the firm admitted fitting cars with software to cheat emission tests. >> reporter: for the same period last year have vw was operating a profit of about $3.5 billion. now an operating loss for the third quarter of the year of about $3.9 billion, reflecting the depth that this scandal and the work that vw will now have to do to try to repair the damage that has been done. now the new ceo of vw will address investors about now, answering their questions and their concerns. he put out a statement earlier today saying we will do everything in our power to win back the trust we have lost. he'll travel to china later to meet chinese investors going with the german chancellor, of course trying to reensure them that vw is still a trust-worthy bra

i joined the oklahoma national guard. and i'll be -- i'll be flying with the oklahoma air national guard. but thank you for hosting this special order. and i would like folks to understand really what my friend from missouri just said. the president of the united states vetoed the defense authorization because he wants more spending for other domestic programs. this is unprecedented and quite frankly, it is scary for this country. i am still dumbfounded by it, that you're going to hold defense hostage for a domestic agenda. we don't do that in the united states of america. this president somehow doesn't understand that you don't take the defense of this country hostage for a domestic agenda, and yet that's what he has just done. i want to share with my colleagues why we do an authorization every year because the world changes. things get more dangerous year after year after year. we -- as a navy pilot and now as a national guard pilot, we utilize space. i'm on the strategic forces subcommittee on the armed services committ

the two groups through whom the future of these nations comes, the children of these nations. secondly, i've also come to the conclusion that the roots of , suchhings that we value as democracy and human rights, are to be found in the character of societal relations between men and women. democracy atave the national level if you have makinged decision power within the household? i was anyone in the society going to understand democracy if what they see is autocracy within each household? it will not happen. that are oftens not spoken of, but are critical to speak of at this time. without further a do, i think that means that one of the most important discussions we can have is the discussion that we are going to have today. i am thrilled to be part of it, and let's begin. thank you very much. [applause] i would like to invite michele to come up on the stage now. let me just say a few words about her. cofounder and chief executive officer of the center for a new american security. if you are not familiar with that organization, i think it's one of the brightest, most innovative

the national governors association, what's that? e know people are private because we have been trying to get information out of them for the past five or six years and it is hard to get. there are other components to this, one although it was not initially part of the scheme for the common core, when the federal government made the common core part of the race to the top it added a demand that the states also adopt a state longitudinal data system, data mining mining is what we call it. the ideas that students performance on the common cork from kindergarten through 12th grade should be measured and the data from that should go into a national database. as soon as the database stuff got out, and organization named in bloom, went bankrupt. the data collection mandate remains there, the state started to bridle turning the information to the federal government. the two private testing consortia just love the idea, in fact parts liked it so much that they increased it. every bit of of data, every gray, every assignment, everything you d

it was also the national security adviser, my so mucself professional briefer. and i am forever grateful to the cadre of men and women who did that. my job was to make sure they answered the questions and said yes, sir, no, sir, mr. president we'll get that for you tomorrow. but the people who had the facts and presented them so well in language that the president of the united states understood, because they spent enough time with hem that they knew what his needs and wants would be and they would know the questions he would ask, that is an extraordinary commodity to have. and for all those men and women, they are truly remarkable and have a wealth of information, they did a fabulous job, and i take my hat off to them. that did not mean that my day every day started at 7:00 the previous day. i would, at that point get the pdb for the following day. i would sit in my office on the seventh floor of the agency and go through it. i would quite often have questions, usually about why is this in here? or why isn't there something in here on this? and i would call vari

the rally commemorated the 1995 march called by nation of islam leader louis farrakhan. this year's theme was, "justice or else." we'll have more on the march later in the broadcast. republicans are reportedly seeking to recruit wisconsin congress member paul ryan for the post of house speaker, saying he is the only one who can unite the party, after john boehner announced his departure. california congressmember kevin mccarthy, the clear favorite, dropped out, leaving florida congressmember daniel webster, and utah congressmember jason chaffetz in the race. ryan, who ran for vice president alongside mitt romney and is known for backing deep budget cuts, has said he will reconsider his previous rejection of the post. technically, the constitution does not require the speaker to be a member of the house, but all past speakers have been congress members. just 158 families have provided nearly half of the funding so far in the 2016 presidential election. the "new york times" found -- "not since before watergate have so few people and businesses provided so much early money i

and the lady mustangs are set to defend their national title. hear how they say they could possibly improve on their epic season. sports. the morningside women's basketball team lost one game *ever* last season on their way to the school's fourth national championship. the mustangs seemed to have an returning ten players including all five starters from that team! the only thing they may not have an answer for ... ?how do you improve upon such an epic season? improve upon last season...that's a tough question...um? um i guess just coming here every day, working as a team, trying to get better every single day. pushing each other. i would say just on every night we've got to bring our game 100%. last year we had a few games where we started off a little slow. weren't really focused in the beginning of the game. i think we're used to expectations that even through the last year we were number one throughout the year and players learned to deal with that and that's what other people put on us. we know the reality that we have our faults too. there's

at the united nations the secretary of state warned russia not to use isil as an excuse to keep assad >> assad has rarely close chosen himself to fight isil as the terrorists made inroads throughout large swaths of syria and iraq, ranking, enslaving, and murdering civilians along the way, the syrian regime didn't try to stop them. instead it focused all of its military power on moderate opposition groups who were fighting for a voice in syria. >> reporter: it's not clear what it will do if future russian airstrikes go not after isil fighters but instead after the fighters opposed to bashar al-assad. rosalind jordan, al jazeera. >>> let's take a closer look now at the russian targets inside syria. moscow says it carried out strikes against eight isil targets, most isil strong holds are in eastern syria. but it appears that raqqa, isil's de facto capital was not hit, bombs were dropped in hommes, and other areas, and the raid focused on areas not held by isil. a syrian opposition leader says the strikes have killed at least 36 civilians. >> translator: we urged before that the russians

and the founder of the national security state. and this goes back to other questions about continuity and different phases, and kissinger illustrates -- he doesn't create the system. and had an odd amount of power. and the window on to those condors and there has been at tendency to focus on the neocons, for the context. and barack obama doesn't like hillary clinton but that, thinking about ideology, thinking about overlaps in foreign policy establishment. you look at kissinger and the irrational subjectivism of will to power and see a resonance deeper in the american political culture and american exceptionalism to a great degree and forward to the neocons and the argument there and it is not an exhibition, if you expect the new conservatives from american history you don't have 1/3 choice republic, you still have what we have and it would just be manifested in different ways and is the same and that is what i was trying to get at with kissinger's relationship with the neocons. >> i have one question, deeply troubled by many thing

yesterday, the president of the national bar association -- as the president of the national bar association, i've met with loretta lynch. we talked about accountability across the board. that means more than just simply counting us when we are put in jail, when we are charged with felony convictions. when our children are charged as adults, and incarcerated to support the prison industrial complex. true accountability means also holding those accountable when illegal acts like shooting our brothers and sisters in the back, putting them in lethal chokehold, and in their lives well before their time. we want that in the database too. in conclusion, black people, we need your help too. we need your votes to count not just at the polls, but also in getcourtrooms, so when you those jury summons, don't throw them away and ignore them. to come up with an excuse just to get out of jury duty. when we go into a courtroom, those black lawyers don't want to be the only thing black with the client in the room. what we want to see is a jury of our peers. let's mark this 20th anniversary of the million ma

departments and agencies that are critical to our national security. the use of the o.c.o. gimmick -- and it's been referred to that by many people -- in this bill facilitates underfunding those departments, and it should not be supported. we need an all-out governmental effort to provide for our national security, and underfunding state and treasury and other departments is not going to get us that all-out effort. and when it no longer becomes easy to underfund nondefense agencies, my suspicion is that nondefense programs will begin appearing in o.c.o. and there is some precedent to this. for example, in f.y. 1992, congress added funds to the defense bill for breast cancer research. at the time, discretionary spending was subject to statutory caps under the budget enforcement act of 1990, the follow-on legislation to the gramm-rudman-hollings act of 1985. so you have a situation where you were capping discretionary domestic spending, but defense spending was uncapped, and this is the situation that we are, i think, re-creating in this conference report. that initial funding

the national review online said it was insane to filibuster such a common sense piece of legislation. those are the approaches that can be taken on issues that need to be resolved, and the key and both of them, i think if i were to make three or four points -- get your facts straight, take the leadership role, be willing to take the hits at the alliances,build listen across-the-board. [applause] >> we are going to take a couple of questions from the audience. >> hi, senator. first of all, i would like to o thank you for your service to the country. [applause] as a fiscally conservative democrat, i have heard you described as the same way, how does a fiscally conservative democrat work on balancing the budget, specifically if you could get into office, and have a debate coming up tomorrow night, how do you make a splash so the rest of the country can hear what you have to say? i have a long series of positions i have taken. i'm getting a big echo, by the way, from the argue in your room -- from the audio in your room. thank you for the question. we have tomorrow night to discuss a lot

on the other hand, india has expertise and human resources that emerging nations desperately need. ike healthcare, technology, india has been building these expertise for many, many years, however, india is approaching the african continent in a different way compared to its competitor, china. while china has focused on public works, big infrastructure projects like ports and roads, india is looking to play a more capacity building role, institution building role focusing on education and providing the pharmaceuticals that african nations need as healthcare sectors open up across the continent. essentially this is a mutually beneficial relationship. it's one that india is keen to grow. particularly given the global economic climate and what that many african nations are also looking to encourage. >> just over a week myanmar will be holding its first general election in 25 years. advanced voting is already under way for nationals living and working abroad. but none of the two main parties have chosen any muslim candidates. despite them making up around 10% of the population. phil ree

we have is the united nations. please, we call upon you, we , yourto come we need you international protection. , we haved gentlemen tried to pressure israel to solution a two state with israeli government. through the united states, the european union, the united nations -- however, the israeli government insisted on continuing its destruction of the two state solution. currently in is place and imposed in the territory of the state of palestine and against the palestinian people on one hand. extensiveive severed privileges to israeli civilians. is this possible? this is the question we posed the united nations. a transitional agreement signed with israel stipulated that the agreement should be implemented within a timeframe of five years, ending in 1999. the full independence for citizens and the termination of the israeli occupation. theisrael stopped withdrawal of its forces from ceas classified as b and which represent more than 60% of the territory. israel intensified its activities everywhere. and breached al

it was handed to the national dialogue quartet. the nobel committee rewarding the group for its decisive contribution in building democracy after tunisia's uprising. a close political ally turns on chancellor angela merkel. the state for mayor of bavaria threatens to take her to court if she does not stem the flow of migrants. the spiral of violence continuing in the middle east. israeli soldiers kill six palestinian protesters in the gaza strip. we will bring you the latest. ♪ >> thank you for being with us. they eclipsed chancellor angela merkel and beat the pope. this year's nobel peace prize has gone to the relatively unknown tunisian national dialogue quartet. this coalition of civil society groups played a decisive role in the transition to democracy after the revolution of 2011. the road to democracy has been anything but smooth. >> they fought for peace and democracy, but with words instead of weapons. the global spotlight is now on the tunisian national dialogue quartet for its work bringing democracy to the north african n

the national security strategy addresses the top strategic risks to our nation which include catastrophic attack on the u.s. homeland or critical infrastructure, the threat of attacks against u.s. citizens abroad and our allies, the proliferation and the use of weapons of mass destruction and the effect of severe global infectious disease. the dod strategy for force protection and mission assurance tells us the criticality of ensuring that we are capable of doing these things and perform our core competencies as well. the recently released report requires an integrated approach to the tasks of providing for the military defense of the homeland, combating terrorism, countering weapons of mass destruction and providing support to civil authorities. and my dear friend dave perkins' pamphlet, the u.s. army operating concept, "win in a complex world," the same title as this conference title, poses that the u.s. army is faced with multiple dilemmas. it is faced with multiple operations, must operate in multiple environments, and must work with multiple partners. these are our marching orders. t

richard: the nation of islam remains the driving source.oncerns about unemployment and humanity-police relations. ,> as a former police officer there are rules that need to be changed. richard: this is no longer just a men's event. it is about family. sean brought his twin 13-year-old son's to learn powerful lessons. >> i really want to learn how black men and boys have gone together. richard: security very much in evidence on the national mall. this 20th anniversary event has an additional motivation -- hope. >> we can make a change. we can turn this around for richard: the nation of islam says this be a peaceful event. we do not know how many will show up, but we know the difference from 20 years ago, it is men, women, and children taking part. in northwest washington, richard reeve, abc 7 news. friends held ad candlelight vigil for an upper marlboro man who is been missing for three weeks. hasear-old lubin phipps dementia. he was last seen at a senior outing. did not return from a trip to the bathroom. family members have searched the pa

unrra, the united nations relief and rehabilitation administration. only major source to which the united nations pump into the veins of arteries of stricken people around the earth. emergency items of relief and rehabilitation serve as the plasma of peace. items from six continents and seven seas. an outpouring from each nations heart, to each war stricken friend and neighbor. hundreds of private relief and welfare organizations lend their efforts along with the contributions of governments themselves. all over the ravaged areas, the tired heart a liberated nations, fight to regain strength and vigor. the strong heart of the united nations working hand in hand to help. a welfare specialist from australia. a doctor from cuba, and a nurse from belgium. a child expert from england. a therapist from ohio. canada, norway, south africa, china, operating despite the handicaps of varied languages, and learning constructive new lessons in international teamwork. the nations will learn to work together only by actually working together. by providing treatment a

this idea of open government is embedded in the mission of the national archives. our work is built on the belief that citizens have a right to see, examine, and learn from those records. five years ago, president obama signed an executive order entitled classified national security information intended to overhaul the way documents created by the federal government are assigned classification codes. secret, top secret. the executive order also created the national declassification center within the national archives with the mandate to review for declassification some 400 million pages of classified records going back to world war i. and to do that by the end of 2013. we successfully met that goal in the declassification process, emphasizing a risk management strategy and expanding data capture efforts. and i'm proud to report that the six oldest documents were released. they are classified by the cia. they are just about his last day in office, leon panetta held a press conference announcing the release of these six documents. all formulas for secret inc. most rec

look to the first organization , unitedin their name nations relief and revocation criticizediond, but still the only major source to which the united nations are the veins and arteries of stricken people throughout the years, the emergency items of relief and rotation service the plasma of eats -- peace. ♪ ands from six continents , and outpouring from each nation's heart to reach war stricken friend and neighbor. relief and private welfare organizations blend their efforts along with the contributions of the governments themselves. ravaged areas, the tired heart of liberated nations fight to regain strength and .igor and the strong part of the united nations working hand in hand to help, a welfare specialist from australia, a doctor from cuba, and a nurse from belgium, a child expert from england, a therapeutics from ohio, from canada, norway, , operatinga, china despite the handicaps of varied languages and learning constructed new lessons in international teamwork, it has wisely been said that nations will learn to work together only by actually working together. treatment of

future of these nations comes the children of these nations. and secondly, i've also come to the deep conclusion that the roots of many things that we value such as democracy and human rights are to be found in the character of societal relations between men and women. democracy atave the national level if you have no shared decision-making power within the household? house anyone that society going to understand democracy if what they see is autocracy within each household. things that are often not spoken of but are critical to speak of. so without further do i think that means that one of the most important discussions we is the discussion that we are going to have today. i am thrilled to be part of it and let's begin. thank you very much. i would like to invite michelle to come up on the stage now and all she does we're going to have a conversation with her. she is a cofounder and chief executive officer of the center for a new american security. if you're not familiar with that organization, i think it is one of the brightest most innovativ

it's the national defense authorization act. it has a history of being bipartisan. the speaker did an enrollment assignment, sending it to the president. never in the history did we have a president say he wanted to veto something of this nature on something that's not in the bill. we should never get to the point in this country where we play politics with our troops. this deals with the future. it deals with the security. it also deals with the payment of how we treat them. i know there's problems in washington, but it should never get that low. i hope the president reconsiders. mr. scalise: yesterday we sent president obama the national defense authorization agent. -- act. this bill was worked through the committee process. chairman thornberry and so many others worked in a very bipartisan way to put together a bill that not only makes sure that our troops are properly funded, increases their way, makes sure that guantanamo bay inmates are not sent to america and given american rights, does so many other things to protect america's safety abroad where there's incr

a rally was held on the national mall to mark the 20th anniversary of the million man march. speakers address incarceration policies, immigration laws, and equal pay for women. islampeaking, nation of minister louis farrakhan, who comes up about three hours into the event. it is about five and a half hours total. >> allahu akbar -- allahu akbarloc [arabic singing] >> there is no god but allah. mohammed is the messenger of allah. singing] ♪ >> mohammed is the messenger of allah. arabic singing] >> come to prayers. singing]bic come to prayer. come to success. [arabic singing] ♪ come to success. [arabic singing] akbar! ♪ >> there is no god but allah. singing] ♪c mohammed is the messenger of allah. >> ladies and gentlemen, , brotherand sisters hector perez. >> we are called to have the spirit of ancestors be with us, to guide us to rebuild our nation and bring unity among our people's. sun.ast represents the female. represents the the south represents the water in children. the stars in the universe belongs to mother earth. ♪ [applause] >> come on, people, give him another hand. l

to the national conversation. moderating our discussion will be offered on michael o'hanlon, codirector of the center for 21st century security and intelligence and brookings. every well-known expert on defense budget. senator mccain position well known for his service to the nation both in u.s. navy and and represent the people of arizona in the u.s. congress. even when the key voices in the fight to strengthen american nationals good to eliminate wasteful government spending and reform government. congressman thornberry has served in the house permanent select committee on intelligence as those on the budget committee come resources committee of the select committee on homeland hod security and is widely known as an innovator and a strategic thinker in national security and the two have been working together to put together the national defense authorization act. in a moment i will turn to mike to frame the discussion but let me make two briefs point of contact. seems to me were clearly into a moment of intensify

game one of the national league division series in l.a. ended with pitcher jacob degrom tying a team record for strikeouts after striking out 13, yeah, players. the mets finished the game 3-1. we'll have more on the big win coming up from laura behnke who is hopefully sleeping in l.a. this morning. >> they looked good last night. i mean, they did not let their long absence from the post season show in any kind of way. >> make as heart grow fonder. >> well done, fellas, keep them coming. >>> coming up on eyewitness news saturday morning, an actor who frequently seems to find himself on the wrong side of the law is in trouble yet again. why is shelbyvillea labeouf in handcuffs this time? >>> it is still a difficult road ahead for people in south carolina bracing for, if you can believe it, more rain it's the final countdown! the final countdown! if you're the band europe, you love a final countdown. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. >>> welcome back, everybody. well, this is t

so, i appreciate the national governors association for what it stands for, and the significant role that governors play in our nation. one of the blessings of being the chair is i have the opportunity to have an initiative, and as john has mentioned, i am very concerned about what i see as a lack of balance -- a change that has occurred in our country over many years, where i think the role of the states in comparison to the role of the federal government is a little bit out of balance, and needs to be changed and improved. i know, as we look at some of the challenges that we see in our washington, d.c., government, and some of the dysfunctionality, i just want to let the people here know, and those that listen and watch, that the states are performing well. they are solving problems. they are addressing the people's so our initiative, "states --ve titled finding solutions and improving lives," i have a card i have given to the governors for anyone that wants to listen and learn about the initiative. for those of you here, we will have them available on the table as you go out. solut

the nobel peace prize for 2015 is to be awarded to the tunisia national dialog quartets. >> the tunisia group wins the prize for paving the way for democracy in the country. ♪ i'm julie gosh in doha and advising syrian forces has been killed near aleppo. another tension heightening in israel and occupied palestinian territories, proposes to end conflict in india but the parliaments still need to ap broov it. approve it. ♪ tunisia's national dialog quartet has been awarded the nobel peace prize and nobel committee honored the quartet for contribution for building democracy after the revolution in 2011. >> the quartet was formed in summer of 2013 when democratzation process was in danger of collapsing as a result of political assassinations and widespread social unrest. it established an alternative, peaceful, political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war. >> the kwar tell is has four important groups and organizations represent different sectors and values in tunisia society and members work to protect the rights of the entire population irrespective of gende