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And the growing divide between rich and poor, a new report says half the worlds wealth is in the hands of just 85 people. We start this news hour in lebanon where there has been an explosion in the capitol beirut and counsel people have died and also injuries. The blast happened in southern beirut in a stronghold of the armed Group Hezbollah and we are joined now from beirut and you are there at the scene of this latest explosion, what is happening now . Well, i am standing on a bridge that over...

What i thought i would do is i have three short excerpts to read tonight. Then we could have a little discussion and sign books. Has anyone actually read the book yet . Some people are still working on into. Just to give some context the format is unusual. It is the category stretcher basically written prayer merely as a memoir and a very personal story about my experience trying everything i could possibly fate of and how i completely failed and how i tried to make sense of that failure to put ...

To put people to work to do it that is why we need to put people to work. Moderator the next question is for mike bost. Much has been made of timber. I have to start to say as i noticed it is amazing that i do that all the time that i have only ran two times and my wife says she has bought me or ties than that. So i need to explain. Maybe, just maybe, there are times when we need our legislators to stand up. I will tell you if someone violates your right or on the house floor in washington or in...

Why my constituents elected me to be here. These are places populated by the people who dont ask for much from the government, they pay their taxes, pay their bill, get up in the morning, send their kids to school and go to work and come back home in the evenings and go to ballgames and go to parents house and take care of their relative, take care of their neighbors, look after their school, look after their communities and what they want is just a government that leaves them a alone, that does...

Connell off to a good start. Raspberry instead of apple. We have to rush to the news here. Dagen eckerd over the weekend. We have it all covered. Connell first the markets. Last week was a rough week for stock markets. The dow was down 2. 1 last week. The worst week for the dow and more than a year. They spoke in apple shares. It is kind of casting over the market a little bit. Retail continues a little bit. They reported their numbers for the quarter. Very convenient that Dollar General got an ...

Able to scale up the number of cases they are referring and mentoring without additional funding and additional staff. Additional resources and commitment from firms will be meaningless unless the Legal Services organization received significant additional funding. We therefore respectfully request that you approve the supplemental funding for San Francisco Legal Services organization so they can expand their staff and resources and thereby leverage available open resources for children and fami...

Law firm with 11 offices including 2 here in the bay area and San Francisco and palo alto. Im also a cofounder and board member of the National Association of pro bono counsel. Professional organization of attorneys managing pro bono practices at law firms around the country. It is in that capacity that im here today. On behalf of the association of pro bono counsel and our Law Firm Pro Bono counsel members, i would like to stress express the strong as possible support for the supplemental fundi...

Association of pro bono counsel and our Law Firm Pro Bono counsel members, i would like to stress express the strong as possible support for the supplemental funding for Legal Services providers. Although many of our law firms already do promote pro bono work for children and families in the areas of asylum and guardianship and special immigrant juvenile status, we are not able to do that work on our own. We do not work in partnerships with Legal Services providers. Which provides training, scre...

Many of our law firms already do promote pro bono work for children and families in the areas of asylum and guardianship and special immigrant juvenile status, we are not able to do that work on our own. We do not work in partnerships with Legal Services providers. Which provides training, screening, and mentoring, referral, and expertise. However, many of these organizations were already at capacity work on reduce staffing before this crisis. They are simply not able to scale up the number of c...

Are making our choice for president , are we bargain hunting . Are we looking for a deal, somebody who will give us everything we want but cost us nothing . Well, you know what they say, buyer beware. A bargain is not always a good deal, which brings me to the beloved childrens story a bargain for frances. Frances is a little girl who decides to have a tea party with her friend, thelma. Now, frances mother reminds her to be careful because every time she plays with thelma, frances seems to get t...