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Twitter. Or post your comments on facebook. You can also email us. Well get to your thoughts here in just a minute but joining us on the phone is peeper baker of the New York Times. What is the u. S. Response so far . And what is the president weighing . What are his options . Good morning. Its nice to talk to you. It is a tough situation for barack obama obviously. There are two different distinct issues here as you raised them already. First is for the american side and the european side getti...

Fellowship former president of the prison fellowship when he was there he liked to talk about the fact that today we lock people up because we are mad at them when we should be reserving prison and jail space for people who we are afraid of. There are obviously people who have committed crimes and who are dangerous enough that they need to be kept away from rest of society. They built the prisons and the prosecutors build them up. I have to say one thing in trying to get real Prison Reform throu...

Your specific term. I just want to say this, that the word institutionalization, for these programs, is not one that weve started talking about as a community, say, in the last six months. Under the leadership of the agac, the attorney generals advisory committee, our first chairman was todd jones who had been a former u. S. Attorney in the late 1990s. He came back he said he is a recidivist came back as u. S. Attorney again starting in 2008. Todd preached from day one in institutionalization. P...

Mental health is the single biggest driver of well being in this country will he act on a recommendation from the think tank forum and tackle the poorly supported melts by this government signing up to the employers mindful framework and tackle those issues . I will look very carefully at the Center Forward report that he mentions. I think it is important and he helped to do this in government that we now have a situation where Mental Health is given proper parrot of esteem through the pairty of...

And 1890s we had concentrations ,f wealth, we had inequality and we had concern about the influence of money in government. We spent the better part of the 1890s giving speeches all over wisconsin. If you were not a speaker for your club or your group, he would give the speech. He went to county fairs, to every kind of event that you could imagine and he built a reputation for himself. By 1900 he was ready to run for governor. Advocating on behalf of the people. He had two issues. Primary. He di...

Scotland will vote on whether to be independent or stay with the United Kingdom. This is about 50 minutes. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the hilton glasgow. Please help me welcome mr. John howie, the chairman of cbi. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, a very warm welcome to the cbi annual dinner. Im pleased to welcome the right honorable David Cameron. This years dinner is taking place exactly three weeks before scotland goes to the poll...

We have with us, moving from the left to the right geographically otherwise erhaps [laughter] lurk, the attorney maryland, the former states attorney in Montgomery County, former president of the National Association of attorney generals. Next to him is jeff. Assistant for Camara Harris of california. Jeff oversees criminal law as a special assistant in california. Next to jeff is cyrus vance, the District Attorney. Those of us in manhattan know him well. Next to him as anthony, the commissioner...

Was born and raised in new orleans. I am the second youngest u. S. Attorney fry now in our country and happen to have lost a brother to street violence in new orleans. We are using the student pledge against gun violence where we are going to all 450 schools on one day, october 15 of 28. Were simply asking the young people to pledge not to bring a gun to school. Weaponomise not to use a and promised to use the influence with family and friends to ensure those individuals to not use a weapon to r...

Are able to function with it and they are able to get through, weather with their colleagues or because they know how to manage it, they continue with it, but they still have some of the symptoms. That is another thing that goes along with what you were saying, you have ptsde does not mean you are addled with all kinds of disabilities, but it could be that it is something it affects your sleep light might narrow like nightmares. And traumaticsd brain injury overlap, a lot of times has to do with...

News 4 at 6 00, ill it will you about two key things police say might have prevented this teenager from becoming a victim. Live from arlington, julie carey, news4. Now to a story we first told you first on 4, we are talking act a systemwide slowdown on metro. The Transit Agency says the speed restrictions are in place now because of the potential for rails cracking from this cold. Our transportation reporter adam tuss first told you about this breaking this story this afternoon on twitter. Hes n...