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[applause] s delivered to the commencement at tulane university in her hometown of new orleans. >> how do you introduce a woman who was on a first name basis with the world. is speaking ellen at your ceremony, and everyone instantly knows who you are referring. or hosting of, the academy awards, her career as a standup comedian, and her daily hosting of an award-winning tv series "the es show."ener and of course, her dancing. [cheering and applause] >> most recently, her career has turned even more glamorous as the new face of cover girl cosmetics. [cheering and applause] 2000want you to flash back with me, tulane's first ceremony after katrina. our speakers were president george h.w. bush, and bill clinton. the atmosphere is electric with excitement. the graduates are gleeful. who would dare follow that. in at the and as a surprise, wearing a hotel bathrobe and with a three minute talk, steals the show. ever since, each graduating class, when asked who was the selected speaker, says, we want ellen back. you came back and ellen came back. please join me to welcome ellen degeneres. [che

university -- ellen the generous -- ellen degeneres, speaking at tulane university. announcer: four years after serving his second term as president, ronald reagan gave the commencement address at the citadel, a military college in charleston, south carolina. he outlined his ideas on the nature of character and what it takes to make good decisions as a leader. decisions as leader. [cheers and applause] [captions performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national 2019]satellite corp. pres. reagan: thank you. thank you. you, general watts, faculty,shed guests, families and friends of the citadel class of 1993. thank you for that gracious welcome. i'm delighted to be here on this glorious day of hope and om

generous -- l degenerous at tulane university in 2009.plause] sen. hawley: thank you very

generous -- l degenerous at tulane university in 2009. [applause] sen. hawley: thank you very much. president gibson, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, it is a privilege to be here in this great city on this fine day to mark this auspicious occasion, for today king's college will send into the world an accomplished class of young women and men sitting your before me, trained and ready to serve christ in our time, and that is reason indeed for celebration. reason indeed for celebration. to the parents of the graduates here today, i say to you,. you are surely proud and rightly so. this is a day to give thanks for all the lord has done. to the class of 2019, i say, you make me feel old. right, nevermath my strong suit, when you were born, i was almost finished with college. i am 39 years old this year and that is about the time of laugh -- like when you start looking for things to make you feel young, and that is what you know i ran for the senate. [laughter] senator hawley: where the average age is dead. [laughter] senator hawley

we will look back to may 2009 for tulane university. watch speeches tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at www.c-span.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app. some notable, commencement speeches from around the nation this year. speaking toawley graduates at the kings college, a private christian school in manhattan that has about 500 students. [applause] senator hawley: thank y

will look back to may, 2009 for comedian of and generous speaking at -- ellen degeneres speaking at tulane university. watch commitment speeches tuesday at 8:00 eastern on c-span. listen on the free c-span radio app. announcer: four years after serving his second term as president, ronald reagan gave the commencement address at the citadel, a military college in charleston, south carolina. he outlined his ideas on the nature of character and what it takes to make good decisions as a leader. [applause] pres. reagan: thank you. thank you.

we will look back to may 2009 for tulane university. watch speeches tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at www.c-span.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app. some notable, commencement speeches from around the nation this year. speaking toawley graduates at the kings college, a private christian school in manhattan that has about 500 students. [applause] senator hawley: thank you very much. guests, it is a privilege to be here in this great city on this fine day to mark this auspicious occasion. today the college will send into the world and accomplished class of young women and men sitting your before me, trained and ready to serve crisis in our time, and that is reason indeed for celebration. to the parents of the graduates here today, i say to you,. you are surely proud and rightly so. this is a day to give thanks for all the lord has done. to the class of 2019, i say, you make me feel old. right, nevermath my strong suit, when you were born, i was almost finished with college. i am 39 years old this year and that is about the time of lau

[applause] s delivered to the commencement at tulane university in her hometown of new orleans. >> how do in

tim cook who deliver the commencement speech at tulane university didn't talk about the burdens of debtof climate change. >> this status quo won't last. get to work on building something better. in some important ways my generation has failed you in this regard. we spent too much time debating. we been too focused on the fight and not focused enough on progress. >> reporter: cook cited hurricane katrina as a climate change disaster that still affects tulane and all. >> trace gallagher, thank you. the southern plains also known as tornado ally experiencing severe weather outbreaks. and there are more storms in the forecast overnight. steve harrigan is tracking it all in his home city. >> reporter: residents of geronimo, oklahoma had no warning as an ef to tornado was bearing down on them saturday morning. >> all of a sudden the roof went, gone. >> wents above 111 mph overturned trucks, demolished houses and injured three. >> the gentleman who lives in the house without walking around in his wife was in the house and she was standing up through a window that collapsed on her bed. >> may i

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[applause] s delivered to the commencement at tulane university in her hometown of new orleans. >> how do you introduce a woman who was on a first name basis with the world.

and may 2009 4 l and the ellen degeneres at tulane university. this and on the free c-span radio app. tomorrow, the chair of the joint aching at thef brookings institution about national security. 10:30 a.m. live on c-span. there will be online at www.c-span.org, and you can listen on the c-span radio app. . now. she serves as director for the center on religion and civil society at the heritage foundation. much of your work has focused on the equality act, which passed the house early this month. a 236-173 vote. remind viewers what the equality act purports to do. guest: first of all, i give for having me on. we believe all americans have human dignity. our concerns about the act is that it elevates sexual orientation and gender identity ideology to become a civil right. to codify that in federal law would amend the 1964 civil rights act as sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. our concerns are that there are equality concerns on both dies. causeurn would disagreements on things like gender identity and sexual differences into what would

the apple ceo gave the commencement speech at tulane university in new orleans.e told the grads that his generation focused too much on debating issues instead of trying to solve them. that includes climate change and social injustice. cook also called on the graduating class to make a positive difference in the lives of the less fortunate. >>> back to our microclimate weather coverage. heavy rain creating dangerous conditions in the north bay including what you're looking at there, falling trees. a huge fir tree came down today on three cars, led to a chain of problems in monte rio up there in sonoma county. when that tree crashed down it did damage to the cars. it also brought down power lines that sparked fires at two nearby houses. luckily, fire crews were nearby attending to another fallen tree, quickly able to put out those flames. they say it could have been much worse. >> rob, this is just pretty unbelievable stuff. we've been getting this kind of weather. we're two weeks away from june. >> it's unusual for the time of year and how strong the system is ev

i look back to may 2000 94 comedian ellen degeneres peaking at tulane university. watch commencement speeches tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years, c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress about the white house, the supreme court and public policy events from washington dc and around the country. make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979, c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. we continue showing you commencement addresses from around the country here on c-span. up next, to governors, republican eric holcomb of indiana, the democrat gretchen witmer of michigan. later from the c-span archives, former president reagan's 19 and a three commencement address at the citadel military college in south carolina. >> anderson university is a private christian college in anderson, indiana. governor eric holcomb of indiana, who took office after mike

best picture and grossed over $200 million and was the beginning of a movie franchise her job at tulane university was not cutting it. the ad in the newspaper seem to jump out at her -- for sale, chris steakhouse. chris was selling his business. i can do that said ruth, positively. that was a bold statement and having experience running a restaurant was not something on ruth's resume but she had faith in god and she believed it herself and she knew the name chris steakhouse had rate value. for 40 years they built up a loyal clientele and all she had to do was keep it going. ruth mortgaged her house, $180 $18000, to buy the restaurant. from that board day forward the woman with a degree in chemistry and physics learned restaurant management on the job. i don't know whether i was any of or plain stupid but i never thought i would fail, she said years later. the hours were terrible but customers saw how hard i was working and they wanted me to succeed. besides, i thought my employees would respect me more if i worked right along side them and so i did. for the next ten years her business g

. >> reporter: mark davis is a liter policy expert at tulane wiversity.t does opening bonnie carre spillway mean to the rest of the country along the mississippi river? >> opening bonnie carre is keeps essentially the chemical corridor, the port of new orleans, all of the population centers here in business. >> reporter: bonnie carre was tenstructed after the great ofssissippi flood of 1927. om homas the most destructive let me show you what's happening right now. loe million gallons of water is flowing through the spillway every single second from the mississippi through here into lake pontchartrain and then into the gulf essentially just being rerouted around new orleans. john, an official told me a short time ago the fact that most americans don't know we are in the middle of a major flood fight here in south louisiana is a sign that this is working exactly as it should be. >> dickerson: amazing. david, thank you. l are learning more tonight about an american airlines pilot who was hauled off by police just before a flight. turns out he was wanted for

to may 2009 for comedian al and the generous speaking at two and degeneres -- ellen university.t tulane in for theews are presidents. kirkus reviews calls it a milepost. it makes a fast and engrossing the -- read. with graduation and father's day approaching, it makes a great gift. read about how noted presidential historians rank the best and worst executives. explore the life events that shaped our leaders. and the legacies they have left behind. now available as hardcover or e-book. wherever books are sold. >> house speaker nancy pelosi received this year's profile in courage award. she was presented the honor by president kennedy's daughter, caroline, and his grandson, jack schlosssberg. that ceremony now from the john f. kennedy presidential library in boston. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome ambassador caroline kennedy, honorary president of the john f. kennedy library foundation. [applause] ♪ ms. kennedy: good evening. thank you all for coming to celebrate with us. i know that every year that everyone here has so many things that they could be doing and so we really are ho

will look back to may, 2009 for comedian of and generous speaking at -- ellen degeneres speaking at tulane university. watch commitment speeches tuesday at 8:00 eastern on c-span. listen on the free c-span radio app. announcer: four years after serving his second term as president, ronald reagan gave the commencement address at the citadel, a military college in charleston, south carolina. he outlined his ideas on the nature of character and what it takes to make good decisions as a leader. [applause] pres. reagan: thank you. thank you. thank you, general watts, distinguished guests, faculty, families and friends of the citadel class of 1993. thank you for that gracious welcome. i'm delighted to be here on this glorious day of hope and promise. it is indeed an honor to have the privilege of speaking to you today and to receive an honorary degree from this distinguished institution. surely my service record alone can't explain my presence here. more than half a century ago i was made a 2nd lieutenant in the horse cavalry reserve. not enough to warrant the honor you do me today. but i do hav

foure will act to may 2009 comedian ellen degeneres speaking at tulane university.atch commencement speeches tuesday on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. c-span'ss are in for book. it recently topped "the new york times" new and noteworthy column. and from "the new york journal of books," it makes a fast and engrossing read. with father's day and graduations fast approaching, it makes a great gift. historians rank the best and worst presidents. explore the life events that shaped our leaders, challenges they faced, and the legacies they left behind. it is now available as a hardcover or e-book today at c-span.org or wherever books are sold. >> memorial day events took place around the country today to on c-span, we marked the occasion with the ceremony at arlington memorial cemetery. general dunford spoke about the need to remember the fallen. oftoday's generation soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guardsmen are probably following in the footnotes of an unending line of americans who have answered the call

. >> reporter: mark davis is a water policy expert at tulane university. >> what does opening bonniean to the rest of the country along the mississippi river? >> opening bonnie carre keeps essentially the chemical quarter, the port of new orleans, all of the population centers here in business. >> reporter: bonnie carre was constructed after the great mississippi flood of 1927. that was the most destructive river flood in u.s. history that forced nearly 700,000 people from their homes. >>> actress felicity huffman is the latest high-profile defendant to plead guilty in the college admissions bribery scandal. carter evans has the latest. >> reporter: actress felicity huffman left the federal courthouse in silence swarmed by shouting reporters. inside, the former "desperate housewives" star broke down as she admitted to the judge she paid $15,000 to have a proctor correct the answers on her daughter's college entrance exams. she talked about her daughter needing more time on exams since she was 8 years old and admitted everything the prosecutors said she did. in a statement the actress

delivers remarks at boston university law school, and look comedianay 2009 four ellen degeneres at tulaneversity. watch online anytime at cspan.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app. presidential candidate and south bend, indiana, mayor pete buttigieg sat down with robert custer of "the washington post." they discussed the mueller investigation, climate change, and immigration. event hosted by "the washington post". [applause] >> good morning. welcome to "the washington post" like i'm bob costa and i appreciate you coming here today. you're kicking off our 2020

. >> that's a commencement speech at tulane university saturday.ook told students to ignore the political noise, to make a real difference. cook commented on how tech separates society, noting algorithms, wrap up in ideas we already agree rather than exposing opposing viewpoints. >>> ahead, "early start" coronets with the latest between iran and the united states. >>> the official end of iran. a new warning from the president just as tensions were simmering. >>> the first republican lawmaker says the president committed impeachable offenses, but the rest of the gop is not behind justin amash. >>> some of those hosts are not always there in good faith. i think a lot of people tune into this network who do it in good faith. >> mayor pete buttigieg makes his case on fox news hours after the president said fox shouldn't even cover the democrats at all. >> my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans. >> the morehouse college class of 2019 has a lot to smile about, their student loans will be paid off. >> from all of us here in the situa

he teaches law at tulane law school.al deadlines coming up in just a few hours from now. let's start with the request for attorney general bill barr to provide congress with an unredacted mueller report. what are the legal requirements for him to do this and what are the possible legal ramifications if barr decides not to comply? >> so, the house has actually asked for an unredacted copy of the mueller report and then all of the background materials underlying that report. now, one of the issues there is that the report and the underlying materials contain what's referred to as grand jury materials, information that is related to the taking of evidence by the grand jury. by law the attorney general actually can't disclose that information. there's all sorts of other information that he doesn't want to disclose, but by law he can't disclose that information. and so what's happening now is there is a tussle between the attorney general and the house where he's resisted providing the unredacted report and all the unlying in

delivers remarks at boston university law school, and look comedianay 2009 four ellen degeneres at tulane university. watch online anytime at cspan.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app. presidential candidate and south bend, indiana, mayor pete buttigieg sat down with robert custer of "the washington post." they discussed the mueller investigation, climate change, and immigration. event hosted by "the washington post". [applause] >> good morning. welcome to "the washington post" like i'm bob costa and i appreciate you coming here today. you're kicking off our 2020 candidate series and appreciate your time. let's start with the news is it time perhaps for democrats to start impeachment proceedings? >> i learned as a young democrat to think cautiously before offering advice to nancy pelosi. but what i will say is that it's very clear the president deserves impeachment in the case for impeachment is being built at each passing day by the white house. what we have now is a steady process of taking apart any semblance of respect for the rule of law. you see it and we sought early on bu

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district of new york, and we close with ellen to generous at two lane -- ellen to generous -- eneres at tulane university in 2009. : thank you very much. guests, it is a privilege to be here in this great cy

i'm here at tulane, i assigned all 160 kids in my class to read the mueller report, not specifically russians, to talk about obstruction of justice, and to talk about exactly how foreign governments can interfere in our elections. i think the big first step, and i saw rob reiner on your show earlier is, get people to read this report. >> so tom, in our nuance-free universe, political universe, tom brokaw says, leave it alone, don't do anything. what you're saying is, if there's evidence, follow it, but don't jump to impeachment before any investigation. >> any prosecutor in any mid-size city in the country, they would go methodically through, who are the people we should be talking about, what's the removal lule of law, not jua news conference and say we're going to convict him, we're going to have an impeachment proceeding. the forefathers put it very clearly how we have to work through all these procedures so all three branches of government have their own protection and their own place in it. the presidency obviously has a much larger place but at the same time you have to follow

there are remarks at boston university law school and look ack to may, 2009 for ellen speaking at tulane. watch speeches tonight. watch online any time and listen app. free c-span radio >> c-span's washington jourm live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning -- >> tomorrow look at oversight of the justice department and intelligence community as the agencies investigate president trump. judicial watch hosts the event t 10:00 a.m. on c-span2. remarks in joint of chiefs of staff on current national security threats. it starts live wednesday at 10:30 a.m. wednesday on c-span. . she serves as director for the center on religion and civil society at the heritage foundation. much of your work has focused on the equality act, which passed the house early this month. a 236-173 vote. remind viewers what the equality act purports to do. guest: first of all, i give for having me on. we believe all americans have human dignity. our concerns about the act is that it elevates sexual orientation and gender identity ideology to become a civil right. to codify

in the meantime, apple ceo tim cook wrapping up a commencement address tulane, and what his company hasind with back and forth with china and he sells a lot of iphones there and makes a lot of iphones there. so he's in the middle of this trade war. more after this. whoooo. did you know the exact same hotel room... ...can have many different prices? that's why tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites to find the lowest price on the hotel you want. your perfect hotel room for the perfect price! and i recently had hi, ia heart attack. it changed my life. but i'm a survivor. after my heart attack, my doctor prescribed brilinta. it's for people who have been hospitalized for a heart attack. brilinta is taken with a low-dose aspirin. no more than 100 milligrams as it affects how well brilinta works. brilinta helps keep platelets from sticking together and forming a clot. in a clinical study, brilinta worked better than plavix. brilinta reduced the chance of having another heart attack... ...or dying from one. don't stop taking brilinta without talking to your doctor, since stopping it too

. >> coming from you, other than my mother, my harsh eest peter baker, professor of history at tulane contributor, kimberly atkins, she was covering red sox to the white house yesterday. i didn't like it opini opinionliverpool football, that is baseball. everybody who talked to beat writers say these player have been able to sort through this in their individual choices and they're handling this okay in the locker room, which i believe because alex coria in an incredible manager. that shid said in between twon and i don't understand for the life of me why one white guy couldn't have stayed back and if alex cora wanted to ask somebody else to go, i don't and i don't understand how they allowed that to happen and how that's not going to impact the team moving toward. >> yeah, look this is a microcosm of ma pa nab and to be fair, dustin pedroia was not there. i don't know why. he did not give a reason why he did not go. i don't know if it was in solidarity with players who weren't going or if it because he's tending to himself injury. but it was a very clear le racially divided scene. an

. >> tim cook himself, i don't know if he said it in tulane at the commencement speech he gave over then your iphone stays on your iphone? obviously that is not the case if they're selling this. who knows if they're selling it, but plaintiffs allege they are and they are using apple's serious advertising and anecdotal statements out of the mouth of their chair, tim cook, to show if it is being sold it is against what apple said. boiled down, the allegation is that consumers are being defrauded. if the lawsuit is allowed to go forward it will be a class action, meaning everybody who has one of these will be in a position to collect some cash or something from apple as a result of it. charles: could there be though, something in the fine print that protects apple? you know because we all have this fine print no one reads. feels like ultimately, despite what tim cook may have said apple is prepared for this? >> i would think that the public face of apple would negate statements in the fine print. charles: really? >> i do. because so many human beings involved, they are so huge, they sell s

not only did he have the muslim ban -- let's bring in professor of history at tulane university, walterton. walter, let's start with you. everybody knows that donald trump's campaign in december of 2015 was defined by a muslim ban saying that 1.5 billion people could not enter the united states of america because of the god they worshipped and then the first month of his presidency was completely torn apart and in utter chaos because of his so-called muslim ban. so how does mike pence stand up there and say that donald trump's championed religious freedom when just the opposite is true? >> you know, when they talk about religious freedom, they really are aiming it at christians and they try to call it a christian nation-type thing. they're talking about religious freedom for, say, christian bakers who don't want to bake for gay weddings, but that goes right at the heart of what the first amendment is all about, which is you don't have a state establishment of religion. you don't say if you're muslim, you don't get religious freedom, but if you're a christian baker in colorado, we're goi

with ellen to generous at tulane university. watch commencement speeches tonight at 8:00 on c-span. online any time at c-span. c-span radio free app. >> the complete guide to congress is available now. contact and bio information about every senator and representative, plus information about committees, governors, and the cabinet. handy19 directory is a spiral-bound guide. for $18.95.opy "washington journal" continues. where we began, asking about the idea of a wealth tax. it's the center of a plan to raise trillions of dollars over the next decade for new social programs. this is how it would work according to her website. the wealth tax would levy a 2% tax on households with a net $1th of $50 million to billion. there would be a 1% additional annual tax on households worth $1 billion. hitprojects this would 75,000 households per year and yield $2.75 trillion over the next 10 years. she said she wants to spend that money and from other taxes on new social programs, including childcare and pre-k. eliminated college debt, 640 billion dollars. universal college, $650 billion. charts a