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Work something out thats going to make people proud and happy. What does that mean . A far cry perhaps from some of the tougher language he had back on the campaign trail. Watch. Martha, we continue to see what you might call the great pivot. Last night that thank you rally in North Carolina we will immediately terminate president obamas two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the constitution to give nam knitty to amnesty to aproks natalie 5 million illegal aliens. Il...

Work something out thats going to make people proud and happy. What does that mean . A far cry perhaps from some of the tougher language he had back on the campaign trail. Watch. Martha, we continue to see what you might call the great pivot. Last night that thank you rally in North Carolina we will immediately terminate president obamas two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the constitution to give nam knitty to amnesty to aproks natalie 5 million illegal aliens. Il...

Markets this morning, yesterday an upday. The nasdaq has seen seven straight positive sessions, the first time that happened since february of 2014. This morning we are flat as wall street awaits the jobs report. Overnight, in asia, take a look, youll see, yeah, asia was higher with japans nikkei up by almost half a percent. You saw gains of better than. 4 from the hang seng and the shanghai composite. In terms of what is happening in europe in the early hours, youll see right now things are up ...

International community to do the things they are doing. In our meeting earlier with us afghan womens council, one thing is so many nonprofits have gone in, lets get some for profits in afghanistan. [applause] figure out ways to help develop the country so the Afghan Government can stand up and be the ones that take care of things in afghanistan. I want to add something to all of this. I am really honored as always to be around you. They have done an incredible job. When i saw the book it remind...

Days for washington dc and that our economy is strong, the population grows by about 1000 people each month. We are making historic investments in our education and the fiscal house is in order. We are working hard to give every washingtonian a fair shot with a good paying job with affordable housing. Just yesterday the legislature approved unanimously to raise the wage and washington dc to 15 per hour by 2020. Yet despite [applause] despite the successes, mr. Chairman, you know that washingtoni...

I think there is a lot you can do. The world is also increasingly normal so increasingly what you do today, what you build, what you say can reverberate not just in this room but around the world. I look forward to the impact you are going to have on women in tech and indians all over. Your work at aei is helping the world, yes it is. She has given back. I want to thank all of you for joining us and invite all of you to join me in thanking sheryl sandberg. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [i...

[applause] good morning and welcome to the center for American Progress. My name is carla martin. Im the the Vice President for policy. It is my honor to welcome to this exciting event. Our lineup today is a real testament to the importance of this issue to this administration and to president obama. Nearly one in three americans has some type of criminal record that creates barriers to employment, housing and many other pathways to opportunity. Some americans with criminal records are even barr...

And then drive it forward in 2017. Thanks for listening. [applause] i know j stand before you and lunch but i am happy to take any questions for you. Just an opportunity to talk about a book. It is called fixing the future and how canadas government worked together to rescue the canada pension plan. It is an interesting story and the same issue as the Social Security except we ended up with a situation where we doubled the contribution rate and built up the reserve fund and stabilized the contri...

Around mass incarceration and gun violence, raising wages and benefits for our families and keeping immigrant families together. Today you will hear from speakers from Pico National Network, a National Latina evangelical coalition, the 11th episcopal district of ame church in florida, the Ohio Baptist State Convention, religioureligious Action Centerf reform judaism, United Church of christ, bread for the world. You can follow the conversation today using the hashtag together we vote and would l...

Ward have returned. Largely because of the fact that the cost of your the value of your property rather was taken into account of how much recovery money you got. So you saw people who had similar damage to more affluent house holds but were short changed 75,000 because their properties were not worth the same. We have to care about the fact that we talk a lot about fossil fuels. But we dont talk as much about the fact that people of color and low income people disproportionately live near these...