ilya veni hobbs a professor at the haven't and school of communication and media at the university of rhode island spoke to us she told us how some state of the union differed from his previous public statements. if you don't watch the news and if you aren't participating in media culture this is the only time you've ever seen donald trump grabs you by the idea that he's a statesman but most of us are processing last night's speech in relation to how we've experienced him over the last year right and that's of course this this was quite a performance but it looked like a scripted performance it looked like he was giving a republican. speech and it didn't look at all like the president we know. that as professor hobbes turning out to some of the stories making news around the world the e.u. and norway have kicked off a margin morning etting in brussels to discuss whether to provide extra funding to palestinian refugees the u.n.

with renee hobbs a professor at the harrington school of communication and media at the university of rhode island she is currently a guest at the d.w. academy in upon miss hobbs thank you very much for joining us on our program first what is said i hear it thanks for joining us what stood out to you in trump speech well to me it looked like donald trump was pretending to be a statesman and the contrast between his identity as a giving his scripted performance and his tweets they gap was overwhelming right this was in a park a president that i recognized based on the last year of his presidency. now in this first year it's been a very divisive one but in think speeches like this miss hobbs we have heard donald trump make a point of delivering a message about unity let's listen to one clip from his speech all of us together as one team one people and one american family can do anything we all share the same hall the same heart the same destiny and the same great american flag. ok so donald trump there saying we are one to team and this was part of what the white house said was a bipartisan appeal d

passionately for the poe people of the state of rhode island and in the decades since, he has shared his wealth of knowledge with the students at the university of rhode island, dedicating himself to preparing the next generation of leaders. as he retires from that position, i want to say that bob served for the right reasons. to make a positive difference in his community and improve the lives of people around him. i am proud to call him my predecessor in the hall ofs -- halls of congress, my dear friend and mentor to this day, and i happily congratulate him on his retirement. i know that in one way or another, bob will continue to serve his community as he always has, with integrity, passion, and wisdom. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to honor officers cory helms and dylan cole of the monroe, north carolina, police department. who on december 26 risked their lives to save two families flapped a burning home. officers helm first a-- helms first arrived but he was pus

of what we called low risk subrecipient monitoring. i just left brand university's director of research, a moment ago and this was the university of rhode island's request, you get things like brown university and university of rhode island working together on a project, and the supposed obligation to monitor a subcontractors, now applies to each of them. so you have uri, and brown monitoring, and both monitored by omb. can you help reduce the bureaucratic and reporting burden to your subrecipients? >> senator, we don't particularly enjoy doing that kind of low risk monitoring either and we have, in fact, thank you to the cures bill, put together a proposal of a way that we might reduce the amount of low risk subrecipient monitoring. there are certain situations that don't quite need that. many of them do, those are-- >> would you descriinclude us i cycle and be helpful in giving advice making sure that goes forward at a good pace. >> be happy to. >> doctor gottlieb, you've done training to connect two. but the original testimony that we had from fda from the drug and device sides, what you needed was a third pathway for drug device combinations

, and hospitals shifted just 2% of their contracts to rhode island companies, it could if our colleges, universities and hospitals shifted just two percent of their contracts to rhode island companies, it could add more than $50 million to our economy and create hundreds of new jobs. this year, we'll launch "supply allow ournitiative to biggest employers to buy from local companies like evan's. andy and i do as much local shopping as we can and we want to make it easy for our biggest employers to do the same. [applause] most of ouro: manufacturers are small businesses, too. for every electric boat, there are dozens of smaller manufacturers like farsounder in warwick and swissline precision in cumberland. lester, manufacturers in roe island -- last year, manufacturers in rhode island created 1,500 new jobs. my dad spent his career in manufacturing, and making a living making things gave him so much pride. let's bring that pride back. this your, i am again proposing to the legislature the rhode island manufacturing initiative. it's a good plan that helps smaller manufacturers buy new equipment and hir

won't be sitting at president trump state of the union address on tuesday because she has a prior commitment to speak at roger williams university in rhode islandritical of the president come is not uncommon for supreme court justices to miss the state of union address. it's than scalia, clarence thomas all skipping several of president obama's addresses. it doesn't look like president trump will be saving the day for prince harry and megyn markel's wedding. telling pearce morgan he doesn't know if he's been indicted yet. despite the apparent oil snob, he said i really want them to be happy. they look like a good couple. there have been rumors that prince harry will invite president barack obama. a high school teacher in california cut plan in our military. gregory sauceda was a compliment going as far as referring to complement his -- [inaudible] who had no choice but to serve. they are not high-level thinkers. they are the lowest of the low. rachel: the student who recorded salcido's comments -- the school district is investigating it. pete: i hope they're investigating it. it is so typical of the left trigger when john kerry said. you better

and shares universal values of human dignity and the value of every human being and it's very, very damaging. >> congressman, we appreciate your time. congressman david cicilline from rhode island. >>> any moment now we're expecting to see president trump at the white house. these are live pictures because he is set to sign a proclamation for martin luther king jr. day. of course this is amid the firestorm over his shocking comments. we'll have more ahead. heartburn. no one burns on my watch! try alka seltzer ultra strength heartburn relief chews. with more acid-fighting power than tums chewy bites. mmmmm...amazing. i have heartburn. ultra strength from alka seltzer. enjoy the relief. dear freshpet, zooka had digestive problems and wouldn't eat. then i fed him freshpet. i use herpecin l.re, it penetrates deep to treat. it soothes, moisturizes, and creates an spf 30 barrier, to protect against flare-ups caused by the sun. herpecin l. >>> and we are keeping an eye there on the white house because any moment president trump is expected to sign a proclamation honoring martin luther king, jr., day. we are going to bring that to you live. this all comes with the president now denying

universities and local governments, particularly cities,orchestrates the filling of these unfilled jobs and the creation of new ones , we will not solve our middle-class problem in this country. >>. >> new rhode island to learn more about the literary history. next we visit a redwood library, the oldest library in the country. >> we're here at the redwood library and apnea in newport rhode island. we've been here since 1747. we were founded and the library was built in 1750. we have a collection of ranging from that release. up to donations of rare books. to the present of about 15,000 volumes. but my colleague and i have pulled out today some of the treasures of the redwood library. growing from some of our oldest holdings into our original founding collection. and then documenting various manuscripts, accounts of newport and its history. but the foundation of the redwood library and atheneum, abraham redwood, the founder asked for books to be brought back from england that were useful in everyday life and would be useful to the members in addition to just not being intellectually stimulating. >> with that b#500, the agents of the redwood library, john had a list of books that the numbers would lik

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