thank you, washington, d.c. thank you. yes! yes! yes! thank you, washington, d.c. thank you! you all are beautiful, thank you, washington, d.c. it is incredible to be here with you. how many of you saw the cnn town hall last night? [applause] we get bigger every day and you are early adopters, you discover things early and yang is about to go mainstream. [applause] we are in the shadow of the washington monument, the lincoln memorial, i think near for the first time in eighth grade, how many of you had a trip to d.c. in eighth grade? [applause] the first time you went overnight with your classmates and were nervous and trying to find roommates and prove you have friends. you go to the lincoln memorial and it sinks in, you get it, you get the gravity of what the country went through and the man who helped bring us back together. i brought my family here to the lincoln memorial a couple of months ago for president's day. my kids are only six and three so they did not get it but -- they definitely did not get it. [laughter] but we get it. am i right? [applause] this country is g

[applause] thank you washington, d.c.. thank you all. yes. yes. thank you, washington, d.c.. thank you. you all are beautiful. it is incredible to be here with you all. how many of you saw the town hall last night? yang gang gets bigger every day. you are the people who discover yang gangly but the is about to go mainstream. we are standing here in the shadow of the washington monument and lincoln memorial and this is a time, i came here for the first time when i was in eighth grade. it was one of the first times you were going anyplace overnight with your classmates and were nervous and trying to find roommates and prove you have friends. they bring you here and you go to the lincoln memorial and it sinks in, you get it, you get the gravity of what the country went through and the man who helped bring us back together. i brought my family here to the lincoln memorial a couple of months ago for president's day. my kids are only six and three so i don't think they got it but -- they definitely did not get it. [laughter] mr. yang: but we get it. am i right? [applause] mr. yang:

that is a washington, d.c., solution to a problem -- i guess we will get better. there was one meeting i had, and i have a staffer and colleague with me and i thank god for because if i told you this and he was not there to verify coming would be like, that did not happen. he said to me, andrew, you are in the wrong town. no one in this town will do anything about the problems you describe because this town is a town of followers, not leaders. [boos] mr. yang: and the only way to do something about it is a wave crashing down on our heads. that is the only way we will wake up. >>, oh, it is coming. mr. yang: i looked at that and did not say this but i thought, challenge accepted. [applause] mr. yang: how many of you saw i am poling at 3% nationwide as of today? some people still have not heard of andrew yang. when they find out about me, oh, my gosh. the internet has me at fifth most likely to win the nomination. we know the internet is very, very smart. why is that? i am proposing, as you heard, the freedom dividend, $1000 per month for every american adult starti

that is the sentiment really that we've heard from conservative republican lawmakers here in washington d.c. . that's a little home for you in washington thank you so much let's go to the venezuelan tops not enjoy not ask. who's our correspondent that joins us on the line you're welcome osca what's the latest. well we've seen that there are some classes and some acts of repression and now where the concentration is being held in the media we've heard reports of people being run over by some of the tanks. the military is using to repress these protests we've also heard of detentions binding metairie people that are military that support one way though some high end military or banking officials but none of that has been confirmed however we are seeing that there are crowds gathering in support of one way though not only in caracas but in other parts of the country as well and is it just quiet their supporters on the streets. now there are also mothers of supporters in the near of the presidential palace for me to float is some of the leaders have asked for people to defend the color of mine

. >> coming up tonight will be the white house correspondents association dinner in washington, d.c. at the same time, president trump will be holding a rally in green bay. let's talk about the white house correspondents dinner with the white house reporter from politico. good morning. >> good morning. >> as background for our viewers, tell us what the white house correspondents dinner is, how long has it been around, and why is it important? >> it has become this full weekend of parties, political intrigue, it has ballooned into a 4 day affair. >> normally, if i'm not mistaken, the president attends this dinner, but president trump is not attending, and has not since winning the white house? instead, he will be in green bay? why is president trump not going to this dinner? >> he says it is a very boring dinner that was mean to him last year and the previous years. he doesn't want to reward the press with attending their premier function every year. it has become a point of contention. his staff notld to attend the dinner and the events around it. they may relax that a little bit. p

i love washington, d.c. and the work here that i get to do. i miss december rattly the love of my life, lisa, when i fly out of atlanta and i fly up here and i get to go back home. i vote in georgia. i'm from northeast georgia. 52 years of what i believe is one of the best districts in the world. and the people there are the ones who vote for me. if you ever disconnect from you're from to coming up here, you end up in a mess. washington needs to go back and watch a few more schoolhouse rock videos. make it simple. i'm just a bill. sitting on capitol hill. now it's just a bill, sitting on capitol hill anymore -- we just sit around. we got to get back to an executive that uns its constitutional role. any executive to administer the laws. not make them up. that says instead of worrying about a bill and how it would be interpreted, make a law that makes sense. and make it clear so that the executive can carry it out. and, by the way, we need a judicial system that says it's time to stop giving the chevron and other differences back to the administ

she has a job because of what you did in washington, d.c. it's time we take the message that we all know and applying it in such a way that people can understand. when we do that as leaders, that is called leadership, that is saying what we do matters, and it matters to the people we're elected by. i love washington, d.c. and the work here that i get to do. i miss desperately the love of my life lisa, when i fly up here and get to go back home. i vote in georgia. i'm from northeast georgia, 52 years of what i believe is one of the best districts in the world. and the people there are the ones who vote for me. if you ever disconnect where you're from to coming up here, you end up with the mess we're in right now. the last thing i'll say is, washington needs to do back and watch a few more "schoolhouse rock" videos. i'm pretty simple. >> just a bill sitting on capitol hill anymore when you sit around. we've got to get back to an executive that understands his constitutional role, any executive it is to administer the law not make them up. we h

i want to say why see is the problem of washington, d.c. for this association, just to let you know, over the last few years, we have become a problematic organization of congress. both the house and the senate. because we have forgotten the main thing we were sent here to do. the main thing we were sent here to do. think about this. for those of us who served in legislative bodies on the state and federal level. the main number one job of a congress person or senator is to legislate. is to actually understand legislation. look at the laws. look at the problems in our country. find solutions and legislate that i saying, i have an idea, you have an idea let's come , together and see how we can make this better. the problem is, most legislators, that's not what they want to do. it's much easier to do a press release, a press conference, to do other things than the hard work of legislation. my career in congress is only six years. and in that six years, we have had three or four major pieces of legislation. they were bipartisan pieces of legis

>> i grow up in washington, d.c., southeastbe d.c. t specific, and it was tough being born in the '90s. my dad did take part in the crack era, and the era where the violence was the highest in washington, d.c. and my mom had sickle cell anemia, and i had to make the decision to go on the streets like everybody lse i met in my life or do something else and i made that decision at 12 years old, and became the man of my house and played football, stuck inschool, and really overcame a bunch of different things including homelessness, poverty and violence. >> danny, your parents were very young and you call yourself a s statistical anomaly. >> yeah, i was 14 when my parents made a decision to invest hair liv their lives in made sure i played spos and engaged with mentors and i was able to overcome. >> you met in school and were roommates? >> yeah, roommates, party planners and teammates. >> when did you come up with the plan this business? >> it washe fact that we knew we wanted to solve problems, and for us it c was justing up withm the b

embassy in washington d.c. for two weeks now american support this event is when his embattled mechanism i do it to occupy the building day and night they want to stop representatives an opposition leader and self declared interim president why don't from setting up shop in the leftist group calls itself the embassy protection collective is only one of its leaders shows us insight margaret flowers doesn't play in venezuela is needed for the country's economic and humanitarian crisis so much as. if the united states actually cared about the economics of. and then venezuela we would stop the economic coercive measures that we're using you know the preventing them from having access to their gold in the bank of london or being able to use petro dollars you know we would stop you know we would let them have the assets that they have here in the united states of the united states is holding onto we would stop pressuring other countries who try to you know provide goods to them. other activists say they're concerned

to washington d.c. now where the venezuelan embassy just like the country's presidency is in limbo left wing activists supporting venezuela's president nicolas maduro have been occupying the building trying to stop diplomats who support opposition leader from taking it over the u.s. recognizes by dole as venezuela's leader but the activists say the u.s. government is helping engineer a coupe on humphrey as more. venezuela's power struggle is playing out here the country's u.s. embassy in washington d.c. for two weeks now american supporters of venezuela's embattled nicolas maduro have occupied the building day and night they want to stop representatives of opposition leader and self declared interim president one by door from setting up shop in the leftist group calls itself the embassy protection collective is only one of its leaders shows us inside margaret flowers doesn't play in venezuela as leaders for the country's economic and humanitarian crisis so much as her own you're right if the united stat

to washington d.c. now where in recent weeks the venice walen embassy has become an outpost of the country's political crisis activists supporting but as well as president nicolas maduro have occupied the building that trying to stop diplomats who support the opposition leader why do from taking. the u.s. and the organization of american states recognized as venezuela's president but the activists say the u.s. government is helping engineer a crude but it's way she w. sullivan humphrey sent us this report from the embassy. venezuela's power struggle is playing out here the country's u.s. embassy in washington d.c. for two weeks now american supporters of venezuela is in battle nicolas maduro occupied the building day and night they want to stop representatives of opposition leader and self declared interim president one by door from setting up shop in the leftist group calls itself the embassy protection collective is only one of its leaders shows us inside margaret the flowers doesn't play in venezuela

washington d.c. diplomats for opposition leader won by dole out. i'm from aspen thanks for joining us at least fifteen people including six children are dead after sri lankan police raided a suspected islam is hideout the country's been scrambling to crackdown on extremist militants since the bombing that killed more than two hundred fifty people on easter sunday the country's president has promised to check every household in sri lanka if necessary. another bomb blast in sri lanka this time the victims suspected militants blew themselves up as special forces closed down on their safe house. residents say this densely populated neighborhood was the scene of an intense gun battle left several days a young girl and a woman who were khuda live from the rubble. and they could probably be their family members a mother and daughter they were sent to the nearest hospital. actually they had already gained consciousness as the army medical team had given them attention immediately. as investigators try to pie

so this is the schematic for the civil defense headquarters in washington, d.c. located in lorton, virginia. what we have behind are actual items from this headquarters. we have the geiger counters that would pick up the radiation signals. we have the original crackers and the biscuits that would help you to sustain life if you are stuck in a fallout shelter for two or three weeks on end. we have the emergency drinking water, nuclear attack survival kits that would put in shelters so that people would know they could survive a short period of time after the fallout. original medical tags, nuclear brochures. one of the original portable phones that is as big as a bread box. these fallout shelter signs were very prevalent during the cold war on most government buildings and school buildings and libraries that had basements. they would automatically be turned into a civil defense shelter. then up here, very unique. this is a fallout forecast chart, and this one was actually used there at the civil defense headquarters. so if the bomb dropped here and the wind was go

live in washington, d.c. let's get a little smarter. >> it's under assault -- it's under assault but not when we're here. they tried for a coup, didn't work out so well. and i didn't need a gun for that one. trying for an overthrow and we caught them, we caught them. far left radicals in congress want to take away your voice, your jobs, your rights and they especially want to take away your guns. >> maria butina will be sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiring against the u.s. as a russian agent. >> what the government says, she was an access agent. she was trying to influence americas particularly through the national rifle association. >> there's an american creed, it's about decency and honor. we've not led merely by the example of our powers, the power of example. it's about moving to the future. it's not about recreating what we did. it's about taking the same decency and the philosophy and taking it into the future. there's so much we can do. i have to be much more aware of the private space of men

we are broadcasting from washington, d.c. in breaking news, venezuelan opposition leader juan guaido says a coup is underway in caracas. guaido appeared in a video this mine was soldier saying he is "starting the final phase of operation liberty." this comes as jailed activist leopoldo lopez claimed he's been freed by sympathetic officers in the military. he called on venezuelans to rise up against the government of nicolas maduro. lopez also appeared in a video posted online. >> what is happening in the capital today come all venezuelans who want freedom should come here, disrupt o ord, join and encourage our soldiers, join our people. morning, venezuela, let's do it together. amy: the announcement was welcomed by the president of the european parliament who called it a "historic day for the return of democracy and freedom to venezuela." backing of the trump administration and many members of congress, including republican senator marco rubio florida who tweeted "after years of suffering, freedom is waiting for people of ven

trump: and we are going to washington, d.c. to drain the swamp. >> to be american means to hold your government accountable, because america has a corruption problem. in a recent gallup poll, 75% of american respondents said the political corruption was widespread in the country's goernment. when an american thinks about political corruption, it is common to think about criminal bribery and illegal money, but that is not all that constitutes it. political corruption can be defined as any abuse of power or distortion of democracy that undermines the interests of the people. so what is the role of citizen accountability in our government? >> we live in a representative democracy. it's essential and definitive of what america means that we hold our representatives accountable. if they don't reflect the people, then the entire concept of the american experiment does not work. the american people are behind, what happens when you get to dc is a totally different story. >> our obsession with corruption is an american tradition. >> ou

law struck down was a law in washington, d.c. it was a ban on handguns, but also a ban on the use of long guns for anything but recreational purposes. you could own a rifle or shotgun , but it had to be locked or disassembled and you could only unlock it or assemble it for authorized recreational purposes like hunting or target shooting. a d.c. court held specifically that if a burglar is breaking into your home, you are not allowed to assemble your gun for self-defense, and use it for self-defense because that was not a recreational purpose. you could take your gun and bang someone over the head with it, but you can't shoot someone with if if they threaten their life, so the supreme court stepped in and ruled on this case. one of the remarkable things about the case was that the lawyers who pursued it, although they were trying to invigorate and provide judicial protection for the nra's view of the second amendment, the nra was opposed from the lawyers and lawsuit in the get-go and did everything they could to stop the case from

secretary of state mike pump aoe is hosting foreign ministers in washington d.c. to mark the seventieth anniversary of the founding of nato secretary general is appealing for transatlantic unity the time of tension and division within the military alliance on wednesday stoltenberg told the u.s. congress of the threat posed by what he called a more assertive russia clued in moscow's violations of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty our diplomatic etta james bays is that meeting in washington d.c. so how receptive an audience is in finding there well i think in the main meeting which is taking place now what they call the plenary meeting of the north atlantic council that's all the foreign ministers twenty nine of them sitting together i think that message of trying to keep the unity and and the concerns about russia is shared by most of those ministers as ever is the case here both sammy where the real business is done is not around that big table it's in the margins and some of those issues that are being talked about i think while they're all here in was

. >> more interviews from the state of the conference annual washington d.c. privacy, cyber security and artificial intelligence. on the computer get is, want to introduce you to daniel weitzner, mit professor before you massachusetts institution, where were you? >> i've been i'm a thief for over 20 years, since 1998. i came to mit from the electronic frontier foundation. i helped that get off the ground here. 1998, i thought we finished with all the interesting internet policy issues began to work with the pattern of the world life, a bunch of interesting technical questions. i took about four years off from mit, was deputy to technology in the obama white house. worked on issues of global issues, things like that. >> what you thank you accomplished there? >> i think we did some combination of certainly helping the federal government to make better use of data and online systems to provide better services to citizens and to work more efficiently. i think i spent a lot of time on consumer privacy bill of rights so we spent a lot of time raising the issues of h

according to industry analysts well let's talk more about the latest sanctions pressure coming out of washington d.c. i'm joined now by helena humphrey in washington and our financial correspondent jose luis de haro in new york. let's start with you why is the trumpet ministration choosing now to push even harder on these sanctions. stephen this is gloves off from the trumpet administration it's been upping the ante against iran in recent weeks with the aim of bringing the country back to the negotiating table on the twenty fifteen new deal and is prepared to choke the economy to do so remember that iran has fifty billion u.s. dollars every year from its oil and certainly washington d.c. has been in action a list of measures in recent weeks two years a two weeks ago it names the iranian revolutionary guard part of the government as a terrorist organization and you know trump and netanyahu the israeli prime minister also drawing closer in recent weeks of course israel and iran sworn enemies so essentially d.c. right now is trying to do anything they can to make test runs life more difficult. so it wa

trump: washington, d.c. attorney general carl seen. florida's former attorney general pam bondi, respected by everyone. [applause] pres. trump: and they are joined by many faith and law enforcement leaders. we have tremendous numbers of people here today that are strong believers in out only what we are doing, but also faith and faith is a good thing. thing.ook, it is a great i also want to recognize someone you all know well who worked tirelessly on this project and to achieve it, he went through a lot. i'll tell you what, he got there and he got there with flying colors because he believes and a lot of people -- people believe, conservative and liberal and people in the middle on a jared kushner.

and washington d.c. thank you. when i'm ahead in the news hour including. but less than a week to go before israel's general election right wing parties are surging in the polls. multibillion dollar corruption scandal former prime minister najib razak take the stand. and support the italian footballer who received an unexpected response from his own teammate after being racially abused by rival fans. algeria's former president has issued a statement asking for forgiveness for any mistakes he's made eighty two year old jealousies beautifully to step down on tuesday after weeks of protests the speaker of the upper house is an ally is expected to take its place until elections are held within ninety days matheson reports. hours after president of the disease beautifully had his twenty years in power ended the search for g.b. his new leader has begun the constitution says this man. the speaker of the parliament is eligible to be caretaker president for up to ninety days during which an election for a new president is expected some critics say that people won't

interview with a washington, d.c. talk radio station. >> this should never happen to a president or this country again what took place. you'll see a lot of very strong things come out tomorrow. attorney general barr will be giving a press. maybe i'll do one after that. we'll see. he's been a fantastic attorney general. he's grabbed it by the horn. >> is there any doubt in your mind that president obama had knowledge of everything going on? >> we're talking about pervasive, horrible things that were happening and it would be hard to believe that he didn't know what was going on. we're going to leave that for another day. >> as he awaits the findings,

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nbc's blayne alexander joins us in washington, d.c. with the shake up and what it moons, blain. >> reporter: raj, major shake up within the trump administration and already some lawmakers are saying this is dangerous to have so many positions vacant within the department of homeland security. so kirstjen nielsen has said she's going to stay on the job at least through wednesday to help out with transition, but the big shake up is just another sign of the president's growing frustration at the border. >>> the department in charge of securing the southern border is without a permanent leader. homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen has resigned under pressure from president trump. >> i share the president's goal of securing the border. i will continue to support all efforts to address the humanitarian and security crisis on the border. >> reporter: the president's frustration with nielsen has intensified in policy of separating migrant families at the southern border. nielsen resisted. >> she has said legally he just can't do it. th

there in washington d.c. for us thank you cave well let's speak to bruce fein who is a former united states associate deputy attorney general and he joins us also from washington d.c. based has plenty to talk about but let's start with the whole process of the investigation was it a successful. i think the process. succeeded and member mr muller had twenty five million dollars he hired the best and the brightest legal talent i actually had clerk with one of his deputies they were very very gifted they spent two years the interviewed really hundreds of witnesses tens of thousands of documents mr muller stated that he had no outside influence on him from mr trump from the attorney general otherwise that would have distorted his investigatory tactics and conclusions he stated that he did not seek to subpoena mr trump for deposition because he thought what was already in the public domain was sufficient to impute a corrupt intent with regard to many of the activities that are too long to recites and moreover it w

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