will get the less acceptable organs. but i will say, going back to my interest in the early 20th century, americans have been experimenting with animal organs since the late 19th century. it's very striking to me, for example, when somebody means a -- needs a skin transplant because they have been badly burned, they may bring a puppy to the doctor's office and the skin from the dog will be used to graft onto an injured child or injured adult. bill: do you think the american public is more accepting of that sort of procedure or those approaches than they were 100 years ago? professor lederer: it is hard to say. again, i think people who are faced with a catastrophic loss of function or nonhuman appearance, whether they had their face destroyed in a fire or some disease, are willing to go to great lengths to be made whole. i think that is a remarkable feature, the willingness to try new things on the part of many american -- on the part of many americans. and there are doctors who want to be able to address the real needs o

but there's the concern that wealthy people will get the human organs and people were will get the less acceptable organs. but i will say, going back to my interest in the early 20th century, americans have been experimenting with animal organs since the late 19th century. it's very striking to me, for example, when somebody means a skin transplant because they have been badly burned, they may doctor'suppy to the office and the skin from the dog will be used to graft onto an injured child or injured adult. bill: do you think the american public is more accepting of that sort of procedure or those approaches than they were 100 years ago? is hard toederer: it say. again, i think people who are faced with a catastrophic loss of function or nonhuman appearance, whether they had their face destroyed in a fire or some disease, are willing to go to great lengths to be made whole. i think that is a remarkable feature, the willingness to try new things on the part of many american -- on the part of many americans. , thanks forlederer being with us here on american history tv. professor lederer:

many of them in the veterans benefit organizations. so we did have a negative impact on the ability to process claims as people left jobs and we didn't fill them. i'm now pleased that we are going back and making sure we are filling those positions that are necessary. we have to get those claims down. reporter: i want to take a step back on this whole issue because people would hear 100,000 claims backlog and a secure wait for appeals. these are not do issues to the a .a.t -- to v is it something you have been dealing with for years, even before you got there as the director of health. so what do you see has changed now? or is it an accumulative affect of improvements made that we will eventually see things? basically, why optimistic that you will see changes on the appeals and backlog? >> i've said said i don't expect a change in the appeals without legislation. and that is why it is absolutely critical. one of my priorities that i'm working with the house and senate on is to make sure we get appeals legislations done in this congress.

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uc davis student organic farm and is a former member of the california organic certification board. i think there is tremendous promise there. it is getting across the political hurdle. >> so if that married couple can sit together at dinner >> they can even write a book together. it is called [inaudible] thank you! it is wonderful. >> how long will it be before crops like hard red wheat are going to be able to accomplish nitrogen fixation? >> oh my gosh that is a great question. one of the dreams in 1985 when plant genetic engineering was invented was to be able to do nitrogen fixation from bacteria. date associate with the roots and give the nitrogen different forms of the plant. but the problem is that it involves literally hundreds and hundreds of genes. both on the bacteria side and on the plant side. it will be quite some time before someone can engineer hundreds of genes in a crop to be able to do this, if it can be done because there is a lot of energy requirements and things like that that might not be suitable to plant cells. it is m

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director of the you see davis student organic farm and a son of a former member of the california organic certification board. i think there is tremendous promise they are. it's getting across the political hurdle. >> so that couple can sit together at dinner. [inaudible] yes, thank you. wonderful. >> next question is on your left. >> i wonder how long is it going to be before crops are going to be able to accomplish nitrogen fixation? >> my god, that is such a great question. one of the dreams in 1985 when plant genetic engineering was invented was to be able to do nitrogen fixation from bacteria. bacteria fix nitrogen from the air in the soil and they associate with the wrist and give the nitrogen different forms of the plant. the problem is that involves literally hundreds and hundreds of genes, both on the bacteria inside and on the plant side. and so, it is going to be quite some time until someone is going to be able to engineer hundreds and hundreds of genes at a particular point in a crop in order to be able to do it. if

the bureaucracy of the world health organization was the enemy. and give her the lying, cheating and stealing. people were on the field and kept running up against the world health organization repeatedly. dan learned to get around the bureaucracy. i should add that da henderson, the man who was, who ran the smallpox program died just a couple of months ago by the way. he blames me and my book over not getting a nobel prize for medicine.i hope he is not right. they honestly deserve it. >> what about you donald? zika didn't really hit the scene until 1947 in uganda. one might assume you have a bit of an advantage since you have only had to put 70 years of stories. >> and there were very few stories. zika was discovered in 1947 in a monkey. the cage was hoisted in the tree in the forest. then it disappeared and there were no tests for it for a long time. it really only came on the radar a couple of years ago when it started, and somehow left asia and started with outbreak that the cdc investigated. this is one of the others that we fought over with

that permeates the organization. when you have that in the financials and even the academic mission which is education and research are critical to us. they all have to -- our research must and we spent about $700 million on research including an age funding, it must be driving to meet unmet needs of the patient. whether what problem are they solving for our patients in education, we have five schools including a medical school, we are working on creating the most innovative healthcare workforce for the future so that 20 years from now the people sitting in chairs like this understand the healthcare system much better than i did when i graduated from medical school to drive change. it's all around a single, cultural value of the needs of the patient comes first. that unifies us. more than any financial arrangements, bylaws or anything else. >> i think our situation is similar in concept. as the people from cedars-sinai already know, i'm a recovering strategic planner, that's how i started out in the field. it stuck wi

the reason is because the lead organization that is helping to transform value on both sides of the economic equation and health care. we have systems and hospitals and settings of care come together to organize to be able to deliver clinically consistent incomes and to help move through the system. on the demand side, a big part of our client base our large purchasers of health care who work with unions, large employers and governments. they are looking at value a little differently. what i'm talking to my supply-side clients, there are a lot of conversations about the science, making sure we have the best outcomes. the demand side, the purchasers would rather that people never went to the supply-side in the first place. there is a lot of conversation about how we keep people healthy and engaged. what do we do to reduce the burdens that are required? we have learned over the years -- and you can see when i graduated -- i have learned over 27 years in health care that it really is local. that is true for health care as well. what is great for one population is not going to be right or exactl

the different non-profits? >> yes, numerous organizations. >> the numerous organizations? >> right. >> i would say that we are organization at the asian pacific fund sense folks want to collaborate and find ways to work together particularly around civic engagement and some the grant are supporting that work but it definite takes funding. i think a great modfrl effective collaboration is one that-deeply involved in which is san francisco pathway tooz citizenship which brought together a group of 5 or 6 non-profits working together to move the needle on those wanting and ready to become citizens in san francisco eligible to do so. i think with the right funding partners in place because collaboration takes time above and beyaunds the core work and the right martners and leadership in place we have self help for the elderly and grateful annie chun is the lead organization and know there are folks here around the table involved with it but that is a great model to look to in terms of how to create something that works for non-profits to collaborate more effectively. >> thank

he has been associated with the organization since 1979. he was on the executive staff on montefiore hospital. chairman as the past of the board of trustees and is the past chair of the american association of medical colleges. please welcome him. [applause] i will ask both of you gentlemen to kick off with a few opening comments. >> it is great to be here and i ,ould like to thank our host but also our colleagues at pepperdine for running this forum. it is really a pleasure. we started the day with a fascinating conversation on some of the nuances of health care, but also an overview that i think challenged us to think about the expenditures of health care and quality of care in the united states. one thing that we hear a lot about is how bad health care is in the united states. for some of us that does not quite tell the whole picture. i would like to start with a thought exercise. beenr a loved one has diagnosed with an incredibly serious condition. maybe it is a rare cancer. you have to get care and get there soon. how many of your going

.) >> i also want to note and i'm very thankful to a lot of the organizations legal, social, immigrant oriented and religious oriented and particularly those members of our muslim and arab community in san francisco and the bay area for being worked out brave for being worked out self-less mcnair city our city as well. >> (clapping.) >> today, we be participating in a historic signing summer off a non-are corporation with identify based registry ordinance that's a mouth full of words but basically, we're saying we are not going to approve a registry in their city or in this country. >> (clapping.) >> is all of supervisors and i know commissioner coppel and supervisor safai led this but supervisor ronen was instrumental in making sure that we have a accountability in this. >> (clapping.) >> all of supervisors supervisor president london breed and everyone else here today worked together with your police department and health department our immigrant rights groups all the public safety original groups our airport was engaged thank you, again, for leading a great airport in san francisco

and with no control in place, there'll be no stopping the organ trade. eeks after the us dropped its biggest non—atomic bomb in afghanistan there is still heavy fighting between the afghan army and the extremist group that calls itself islamic state. so it's been hard to assess the real impact of the blast. moab, the so—called mother of all bombs, was dropped in a remote corner of eastern nangarhar province. bbc‘s afghan‘s auliya atrafi is one of the first reporters to get access to the area. on the road to achn district where the us dropped its mother of all bombs. islamic state militants are active here but this missile caused little damage. and as we get closer, we begin to see the first signs of the massive explosion that rocked these mountains. afghan forces say the bomb killed around 100 militants from the so—called islamic state. the target was a network of caves, like these, used as a hideout. translation: these caves are left from the time of the soviet invasion and they were also used by the taliban. now is militants are using them too. the cave

brian: heather mcghee, president of the demos organization. people want to contact you and get on your website, what is the address? heather: www.demos.org. brian: unfortunately we are out of time. thank you very much for joining us. ♪ >> for free transcripts or to to q-and-a.org. programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> sunday night on q&a. >> so here is the yellow pad where alderman writes down. within a monkeywrench, the lyndon johnston piece initiative. rumored.always nixon d knighted at the time to lyndon johnston, -- nixon d knighted at first to lyndon johnson. aboutcer: on a book richard nixon into his tenure and downfall as president. >> the way the team was assembled was clumsy. they were cynical, burnt out fbi agents who work supervised by president nixon's staff who just wanted to be -- as they said "the cap that brought the dead mouse to the president's door

the region. thank you very much. at least 10,000 human organs, according to the world health organization. billions of dollars are tied up in a trade driven partly by desperate refugees making money by selling their body parts. the middle east is considered the hub of the trade but egypt hosts the largest number of illegal operations. in the second of our series on organ trafficking, our correspondent nawal al—maghafi reports from cairo. cairo, one of the middle east's main business hubs, but now a darker trade is thriving. the network is wide, from migrant smugglers to some of egypt's leading doctors. a crumbling health system and shortage of organs has meant that people wait for years, so turn to the black market where profits are huge. translation: if you've got money, anything is possible. this man matches up those wanting to buy with those desperate enough to want to sell their organs. conflict in the middle east has made hisjob easier. what he is doing is illegal, but but he now claims to feel remorse, so explains the trade to us. translat

some experts say the organization is dangerous. mr. ndrogiannos: these people have stopped watching the news and don't follow the current discussions. they believe whatever this organization puts in front of them. these are mostly people with low standards of living, people who haven't been to school or don't have much social contact. reporter: back at headquarters, sorras' inner circle is confident they'll be able to run in the next elections -- and win. we asked sorras about his record. he's appeared in court on charges of forgery, blackmail, and slander. in 2013, he was sentenced to two years in prison but was released on probation. sorras protests his innocence. mr. sorras: if intelligent people at the international level believed what i've been saying was false, i would've been arrested years ago. we'd all be in prison now, and this interview wouldn't be taking place. so trust your reasoning and see for yourself. reporter: back at the foot of the acropolis, new members take an oath and pay an initiation fee and five euros a month i

ronen and a supervisor sheehy and supervisor fewer so for working on this ordinance with the amazing organizations from san francisco bay area now the mayor and the city leadership are not about symptom lynching about action and i really want to acknowledge mayor ed lee stand up and give him a round of applause. >> (clapping.) >> the player not only cares about our constitutional rights our economic rights and empowerment but the psychological warfare by this president that neither respect himself our or the office of presidency this row is what america looks like and the mayor in the country should look like the day after the election the mayor a began a series of groups to see what is needed to be done immediately this made us ready we are one the first cities in the country to file a federal lawsuit for an give you order regarding the squandering we believe this will oppose the federal funding it unconstitutional under the mayor pathway to citizenship more than 65 hundred people have applied for citizenship and 10 thousand comboiblth teams have kurd in the workshops the mayor has double funding

well, judge gorsuch passes that test, and the american bar association, the organization revered as the gold standard for evaluating judges by the democratic leader himself and the former judiciary chairman, certainly agrees. it said based on the writings, interviews and analysis, we discern that judge gorsuch believes strongly in the independence of the judicial branch of government, and we predict that he will be a strong and respectful voice in protecting it. in addition to independence, the democratic leader talked about his concern that judge gorsuch has earned the support of conservatives. well, that's true. judge gorsuch has earned the support of republicans just as he received praise from many on the left as well, like president obama's former solicitor general neal katyal and president obama's legal mentor professor laurence tribe and left leaning law professor e. donald elliot, so many others. the democratic leader talked about the need for the nominee to offer assurances about how he'd rule on a certain case and assurances that he'd stand up for certain groups. but as judge g

thank you to the conference organizers and panel members here. project hydra, one of the neat things i find is that you have interesting file folder names. sound more interesting than what is in there at this point, so i'm talking about something that is in the past, is relevant tos what is going on in the present. about two years ago, a german newspaper reported the german intelligence service had discovered 12,000 search terms provided by the nsa that had caused the service to spy on european diplomats, and this story became part of the post-snowden scandal narrative, but for the purposes of this talk, it is important because it highlights how routine this kind of raw data exchange has become. common explanations for this increased interdependence are along the lines that since the end of the cold war, threats have increasingly come from nonstate actors or globalization has forced intelligence agencies to cooperate more. in the most present version of this narrative forced intelligence services to confront the transnational threat and to intensi

and wants the people from cdc and the world health organization igured out the way of isolating potential victims that's what they do. >> that's the war that was one. worse still, donald engaged in war with zika. two days ago the cdc updated its travel guidance that recommended that pregnant women not travel anywhere there is zika virus. what is today's bona fide and zika look like chris mark. >> is a little unclear because it's still cold. we been through your one from my.of view we did very badly, were feeling zika. the advice to women to simply wear deeds and long sleeves is not enough. not a single city in the western hemisphere except miami is like blowing flog out of the back. the mosquitoes live in very close proximity with people. you have zika about 200 miles of the south of tucson. sometime in the near future it will be here. it may be a race between the virus in the vaccine. it's mostly a mild disease but it is completely devastating to fetuses. it's extremely dangerous for pregnant women to get it. what upset me is that neither the cdc

president, often the last stop in the city and county of san francisco community-based organization through the airport and the international terminal to stop at the bakery to buy it before they take off those colors i see them throughout this we have exported in other aviators i'd like to know where we do sell them if i may ask that question sell them in other venues. >> currently our bread is sold only in oakland and san francisco we have a restaurant in the san francisco airport and in my $0.02 for trying to get oath location in june. >> thank you very much appreciate it. >> all right. commissioners, do we have a motion. >> i 0 move to accept all the business applicants presenting for today. >> i prove the resolution altogether. >> motion to approve the resolution for all four of legacy businesses those businesses to be added to the legacy business registry seconded by commissioner yee-riley. >> commissioner vice president adams is absent commissioner dooley commissioner president dwight commissioner ortiz-cartagena commissioner tour-sarkissian commissioner yee-riley commissioner zouzoun

the good news is they are not very organized right now. notice the easterly influence. that is why the temperatures topped out mainly in the 60s, below average for this time of the year. but we are tracking remaining storms moving across the area. atlantic city may hear some rumbling just after midnight. 12:13 ocean city may have one or two isolated thunderstorms. in the jersey shore the neighborhood temperatures in the 50s. and woodbine currently at 53 for you. hour-by-hour-forecast starting at 11:00 p.m. we see the storms moving across the area at 12:30 to 1:00 a.m. and we do have more showers for tomorrow. plenty of clouds and showers. but at least it clears by sunday. temperatures tomorrow topping out in the mid-60s. low 60s by sunday. on monday we are seeing temperatures in the low 60s. keep in mind the average in philadelphia is in the mid-60s. so below average and there will be passing showers on monday. the coolest day of the following week will be tuesday at 60. but then we climb into the 70s on wednesday. look at this. we're going to top out at 80 on thursday,

but we are the major player in the international organizations. we dominate. f we don't raise it, it's unlikely that it will get the attention it needs. if us leadership. i don't think mr. trump will be directing our participants on priorities within these organizations. i really don't think that's necessarily the case. we have to make sure that those that are that corruption is raised. that's why, i hope, that what happens under president obama is a national security priority we need to get that into the top administration. therefore, instructing every agency to make alec elevating ways to deal with this. when you're making it alone, you have leverage. when you have that leverage you can demand certain types of performance and in that performance you can accomplish what the country needs to do and is part of the strategy to fight corruption. it's an excellent point. >> joe with all of her global. i lived in kyiv the year before the revolution working for the global fund to fight aids and malaria. i organized a press conference to suspend a 100 million-dollar g

the year. connecting minority owned businesses with potential clients and organizations that support their growth. it's the minority business expo presented by the greater washington hispanic chamber of commerce coming up april 18th. if you're looking to grow your business it's become quite the ticket here at the nation's capital. joining us to talk about it is anna harvey and angela franco, president and ceo of the greater washington hispanic chamber of commerce and the owner president and ceo of asci translations. thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much for having >> tell us about the chamber and what you do and how you're expanding your outreach. >> it was founded 41 years ago. and our mission is to help businesses to grow. that's really our mission and main focus are minorities and we help them through education, advocacy goovrndment representation. we have several programs to serve them. one is technical assistance and we help them either with a marketing plan, with a financial plan, we help them to incorporate this business and to think through ideas. the second program we have is ne

the march of dimes is a leading organization that is trying to fight the battle against prematurity. as you mentioned, 1 in 10 babies is born premature. my daughter london was born premature, as well. >> a mircopreemie, right? >> right, she was a mircopreemie. she was born under two pounds. i had a really easy pregnancy, and then all of a sudden at 23 weeks, which is roughly halfway through your pregnancy, my water broke. we were stunned. cheryl, we didn't realize that babies could come that early, much less survive. >> and she's so tiny there. >> and so -- you said something about "much less survive" -- the doctors didn't really offer you much hope in the beginning. >> they didn't. in the beginning, they recommended that we induce labor and provide comfort care and let london die in our arms. the statistics just were not in our favor, and we called all our family in from the east coast to have an opportunity to meet our daughter. >> and then, so what happened? how did go forward, turn into such a positive thing? >> well, we decided that we were going to move forward with the pregnan

host: heather mcghee, president of the demos organization. if people want to contact you and get on your website, what is the address? heather: www.demos.org. heather: unfortunately we are out of time. host: thank you very much for joining us. ♪ >> videos are available on c-span podcast. ♪ a" --day night on "q and >> here is a yellow pad where all of the men write down, in the midst of october, we are going to monkeywrench lyndon johnson's piece. this has always been rumored, and of its and pieces came out over the years. nixon at the time denied it to lyndon johnson and david frost, and his biographers. he always said he never played any role in doing this. >> longtime author of the book "richard nixon: the life" from his early days in congress to his downfall as president. >> the way that the watergate burglars, the way that their team was assembled was clumsy. they were burnt out former intelligence or fbi agents that were supervised by young men on staff that just wanted to be the cap that brought the dead mouse to the president's door. "q

. >> attorney james cook represents the organization because they were np the process of being evicted for failure to pay rent. they say a candle was what set the fire. >> if do you have a burning candle that sets something on fire if some of the issues were fixed, maybe the devastation wouldn't be so bad. >> their main focus is bur eeg the victims and helping the displaced find somewhere to live. >> we are to ensure that these individuals have their needs met. we are working to find housing as we speak. >> the lawyer says he will recommend that the victims obtain other attorneys but he could not provide any details beyond what happened. in the next days the organization is collecting donations to help those displaced tenants. >> home people were displaced? >> reporter: we know that the actual building itself was just -- more than just this center, so we believe that more than 100 people actually lived in the center, but the community center had about 50 people living in it as well. clearly more than two-dozen people. >>> today the mayor's office announced that it will be doubling the

he and the vice president came and signed an executive order that cedric the organ be about energy independence. the war on one sector. the fossil fuel sector. see what the problem is i got it breathing down my back. are you going to change that while still being mindful that working have a great country and we have many great places and great resources and we need to protect what's here. when we talk about regulatory overreach. sometimes people interpret that as no regulation. that's not what regulatory overreach really equals. the washington dc they're using power to pick winners and losers.

soapbox derby, the organizers. i hope they'll also join me in congratulating in advance all of the young people from the region who will be participating on june 17. i also want to thank my co-sponsors, gerry connolly, don beyer, john delaney, eleanor holmes norton and barbara comstock. this is a bipartisan resolution. i'm sure everybody will support it, and i'm sure that the excitement of which congressman johnson will be experienced by those young people as they race towards victory and whether they win the number one spot, they will be winners for having participated in this creative contest that makes them better people. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: mr. johnson reserves his time. the gentleman from georgia, mr. ferguson. mr. ferguson: i continue to reserve my time, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. mr. johnson. mr. johnson: mr. speaker, i yield the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields his time. mr. feshson. mr. ferguson

the holiest time of year for christians. we'll talk to a man who keeps those church organs going >>> and a woman goes back to where she was born nearly a century ago, her old home on display now at the smithsonian's newest museum. >>> hi, everyone. we begin with a set of new laws now on the books in maryland. some of them aimed to increase job opportunities and improve our roads statewide but another protect victims of domestic violence from their abusers. news 4's chris gordon has the emotional story behind amber's law. >> reporter: you're looking at a gps bracelet designed to track violent domestic abusers. it warns victims on their cell phone when the person they fear is getting too close. >> it will save lives. >> reporter: angela has made her home in maryland into a memorial for her daughter, amber. amber was brutally attacked by her boyfriend. she got a restraining order but that didn't keep him away. he killed her in 2012. she was notified that the maryland general assembly just before its adjournment deadline passed the law she's worked on for years. it allows the victim seeking a protective order fearing for her life