the: thomas shannon is third highest ranking official in the state department. he is a standardbearer of diplomatic integrity. he is leaving. tingerved as ac secretary of state. ofhough the total number employees has not diminished significantly, they have suffered a brain drain of experience and respected diplomats. others were pushed out or resigned because they could not support the america first foreign policy. morel is low among many remaining employees. shannon councils some of them. it's sad. the state department plays a fundamentally critical role in protecting us as a country and managing the relationships we have with the rest of the world. that morale is down. we produce some of the best places to work rankings. the survey was from april to june last year. overall government numbers went up, state department numbers went down around senior leaders. it's challenging to be able to look at the data because we don't have good metrics on the highest performers. there is a lot of evidence that suggests the state department is not bringing enough talent and

the: thomas shannon is third highest ranking official in the state department.e is a standardbearer of diplomatic integrity. he is leaving. tingerved as ac secretary of state. ofhough the total number employees has not diminished significantly, they have suffered a brain drain of experience and respected diplomats. others were pushed out or resigned because they could not support the america first foreign policy. morel is low among many remaining employees. shannon councils some of them. it's sad. the state department plays a fundamentally critical role in protecting us as a country and managing the relationships we have with the rest of the world. that morale is down. we produce some of the best places to work rankings. the survey was from april to june last year. overall government numbers went up, state department numbers went down around senior leaders. it's challenging to be able to look at the data because we don't have good metrics on the highest performers. there is a lot of evidence that suggests the state department is not bringing enough talent and to

who has accused supreme court justice clarence thomas of sexual harassment is calling for his impeachment from the bench. journalist angela wright shannon says thomas repeatedly pressured her to date him and made comments about her breasts when they worked together at the equal employment opportunity commission in the mid-1980's. she's one of multiple women who have accused thomas of sexual harassment, including renowned law professor anita hill. the co-founder of the fashion brand guess, paul marciano, has stepped down after supermodel kate upton accused him of forcibly groping her breasts after a photo shoot in 2010. guess's stocks have dropped more than 20% since upton publicly accused marciano a few weeks ago. president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner is reportedly facing off against white house chief of staff john kelly over kushner's interim security clearances. kushner is among dozens of white house officials who have been -- accessing classified information using limited interim security clearances, as the fbi has refused to grant them full security clearances due to issues in their background checks. among o

shannon. pennsylvania, bob asher. senard cyni drew mckissick. that is an unusual one. [laughter] dan lieberman. campbell. scott goldman. rob armstrong. james dickey. thomas wright. rob anderson.

thomas homan. great at it with us. >> thanks for having me. >> shannon: you seem to not be worried about being in theersy when it comes to issues about the rates, the enforcement of the backlash are getting. >> i don't mind being here, i'm not running a popularity contest. we are enforcing the laws enacted by congress. >> shannon: that something i know that many people think that the previous administration had a different take on the way to handle that. >> exactly. at last eight years we weren't allowed to enforce laws that are on the books. we were relegated to a very small portion of the laws in this present, even though people say he created a bunch of executive orders, he could have written them in one sentence. you will now enforce the laws enacted by congress and you have taken an oath to enforce. that's what we are doing. >> shannon: you made a lot of news when you get another interview on fox. you told california, which had become a sanctuary state essentially, that you better buckle up, you will have enforcement there, that you have a vested interest in making sure that the influx that you

shannon. an american treasure. >> jimmy: she really is. >> she is. the -- texas' own thomasden church, fantastic, yeah. >> who is legendary for all the right reasons. >> jimmy: yeah. >> who i adore. >> jimmy: what's happening this season? this season is more -- last season was -- >> battle. >> jimmy: you guys were getting a divorce. >> last season was battle and a a cautionary tale. and then this season, it's the season of hope, jimmy. >> jimmy: yeah, i love this! i love this, sarah jessica parker. you are a ray of sunshine, i love this! >> it's, you know, it's -- >> jimmy: what we want! >> what liberation is meant to promise, you know. it's freedom, it's choices, it's trying new things. it's new people, maybe you kiss somebody that you might want to kiss that you never got to kiss for so long. i mean -- you didn't -- maybe you didn't even know they existed. so you didn't even know you wanted to kiss them. like, there's all sorts of that -- >> jimmy: hope! >> and then there's two teenagers who are -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> difficult. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, teenagers are di

shannon. pennsylvania, bob asher. senard cyni drew mckissick. that is an unusual one. [laughter] dan lieberman. campbell. scott goldman. rob armstrong. james dickey. thomas wright. rob anderson. martin blackwell. cynthia dunbar. washington, jeff kent. susan hutchison. larry pac. melody potter. wisconsin, tom tribal. brad courtney good richard . richard george. thank you, susie. i would like to call upon jane temkin for the report of the proxy committee. >> thank you, madam chair. theproxy committee reviewed proxies admitted to the secretary of the rnc. the proxy committee has determined all 21 submitted proxies are in order. on behalf of the project committee, i conclude this report and moved that the rnc except the report of the proxy committee. >> without objection, the report of the proxy committee is excepted. say that aneighta agenda be sent to members of the committee. front of you is a final agenda. without objection, we well commence with the agenda. readingl dispense the at the minutes. hearing no objection, call upon the committee to approve the minutes of the general session of the 2017 rnc summer meeting. without objection, the minutes are ap