Should College Athletes be paid outside their scholarships . If your answer is yes, we want to hear from you at 202 74880 00. If your answer is no, College Athletes should not be paid outside scholarships, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. Oryou are a College Athlete you are a former College Athlete who are you are in the family of a former or current College Athlete, we especially want to know what you think at 202 7488002. You can always text us your answer at chilly8003 202 748 and we are always 202 7488003. We are also on facebook and cspanwj. There was a hearing on capitol hill this week where the ncaa president discussed what the ncaa is doing on the issue of compensation for student athletes. Heres what he had to say. [video clip] there are legitimate concerns being expressed about the fundamental fairness of our system. We share those concerns. We agree student athletes should be allowed to benefit from their ,ame, image and likeness, nil and we are in the process of ide
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Everyone please sit down. Know we have people trickling in, but we are starting anyway. Ok. Welcome to the Wilson Center to those who are physically here and those who will be watching us on cspan and by other means. Harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center and former member of congress who is proud of her role in helping create the department of Homeland Security. Today we are pleased to cohost ural Homeland Security Experts Group meeting with support from the miners association, american airlines, and mckinsey. It is the group of the best americann the Homeland Security. It was found over 10 years ago and is now rebooted and housed at the minor corporation. Secretary and my dear friend Michael Chertoff and i are honored to be cochairs, and rob walker is the newly minted director. Mission is to offer independence, nonpartisan advice to key government officials as they face hard security programs, raise awareness, and offer solutions. We are nonpartisan and we hope we add val
Soaring today. The feds fight over the future playing out realtime in jackson hole the big focus turning to the fed champ powell, to his speech tomorrow morning lets go to Steve Liesman live in jackson hole for us we got a dose of fed speak today at least. We did. We had the First Official to speak at the annual gathering in jackson hole beneath the tee time but they didnt tell the markets what they wanted to hear about the need for deep Interest Rate cuts in the months ahead. I didnt think the cut was appropriate necessarily, but i went along with it to get back to neutral i am on hold right now my forecast is just to hold. My sense was weve added accommodation. Right. And it wasnt it wasnt required in my view. I think were in a good place relative to the mandates that were asked to achieve now, dallas fed president Robert Kaplan said he wants to avoid cutting rates if he can, but he says he is open minded about rate cuts. He also is concerned that the big decline we had in bond yield