Good afternoon. Its kind of quiet in here. I walked in and i felt like i was at a funeral. Well have to do something about this. The bodys not here. It was really somber and everything. I know the weather is impacting us, but id like to welcome you. My name is johnny taylor. Im the president and ceo of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Welcome to our headquarters. This is home for us. We share this building with gallup, our partner in the work that well be embarking upon in the next several years and id like to welcome you to our home. Id like to start up and tell you why we are here and turn it over to the panelists is to introduce a very special person in the room. A whole bunch of special people, but a very special person here is the founder of the Thurgood Marshall college fund, dr. Jois payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ] payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ]o payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ]y payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ]c payne. Dr. P
Falls church. And on the orange, blue and silver line, at potomac avenue. This came along with some new details today about actually how bad this problem has been, consider this, says in their letter today in just the last two weeks, from april 23rd, to just yesterday, probably include today, as well, fda officials have investigated 15 safety events, nine of those have involved smoke and fire incidents. Anthony fox said he would shutdown metro if it did not adhere to these fda directives, earlier today, well, Board Chairman jack evans, he was out at the meeting, the council of governments, trying to get them to understand the severity of this problem. When it was over, we asked evans about secretary foxs words about shutting down. Evans says, he agreed with the secretary. If secretary fox degrees it is un safer, i agree with him. As you saw before, myself and the board have no reservations about shutting down the system if it is not safe. We not sending trains out there. And putting pe
Reporter now this move was made today during another big change in metro leadership. There were three new members of the board who all took their seats, and they are appointments by the u. S. Secretary of transportation anthony fox who stepped up the safety rules and repair work that are now underway with safetrack. There was also an eye opening revelation tonight by the other new face on metro leadership front. Patrick lack of inhas only been on the job a month. Its been like trying to drink from a fire hose. Despite the breakdowns in at the safety issues, metro has no regular investigative dedicated body for investigation. Likewise, the chairman jack evans says hes responding to growing questions about how metro previous leadership was allowing spiralling and disrepair in the system. Evans says metro these questions anymore. He says at some point there is goes be to a day of reckoning about what went on at metro for years. One of the gaping holes in your Safety Department is that alt
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16th president made it abundantly clear to Young Americans everywhere i say to all those Young Americans that are watching this today on cspan, that they can go forward and achieve whatever it is they want to achieve, because the 16th president of america made that very, very clear. You can be born common and become uncommon. If you have an extraordinary hunger and desire and you are prepared to do whatever it takes to keep getting up off that mat and getting back up on that horse. Last one. Yes, sir. I tell you, its interesting that you would say lincoln. Im wondering, given everything that you said, what you really think, will bring us to the point of action, because i suspect what im suggesting is that it requires lincolnlike leadership, and i say that because the roots of liberalism historically, if you look at prior to world war ii, and as an perch chamberlain coming back and declaring peace forever, only churchill stood up in parliament and said we have today taken the first draf