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Tonight, a ceremony honoring former secretary of state and former senator john kerry. President obama and massachusetts senators elizabeth born in Edward Markey pay tribute. Heres a preview. Senator warren think about where we are. As any who follow the news and friendly those who do not, it is deeply worrying about the dangers around the globe a Nuclear Showdown with north korea, destruction of the deal that has prevented iran from already developing a nuclear weapon, russian interference in u....

Anniversary of the date when the delegates in philadelphia concluded the work of the constitutional convention. They sent the constitution to the people beginning one of the greatest 10 month debates in american history. With the ratification of the constitution. Rook has provided copies of their final product to tens of thousands of teachers and students all across the country, and you all have a copy of this at your seat today. To celebrate Constitution Day, we are honored to have chad readler...

Learn, debate, and celebrate the greatest vision of human freedom in the history of the u. S. Constitution. You that we can engage in this meaningful work. On behalf of jeff rosen and the team at the Constitution Center, fornt to thank all of you everything that you do to bring the United States constitution to life. There are friends of the Constitution Center whos dedicated support helped make a night like tonight possible. I would like to invite them to join us on stage. Please help me welcom...

Boston has given this nation some of the greatest leaders in the country, from john adams, to john f. Kennedy, and that is something that we are very proud of. Secretary kerry is in that same tradition. As a diplomat, he has called many places home. I do not know these been at any address longer than here. Thank you for being a boston voter, by the way. [applause] in case you are not committed, walsh is on the ballot. But in all seriousness, the secretary is a true bostonian and a good neighbor....

Spoke at this 90 minute event and resented senator kaine with the award. Presented senator mccain with the award. Good evening everyone and welcome to the Liberty Medal ceremony, honoring a Great American hero, u. S. Senator john mccain. Will begin atmony 7 00. In the meantime, i would like to take this opportunity to offer some thanks and shared a few special moments. Onlyspires citizen as the place where people from around the world can come together to learn, debate, and celebrate the greates...

Quite often, most of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who stuck together because they believed in the rule of law. Cspan and the National Constitution Center Welcome you to the landmark cases. We explore the people and stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most famous decisions. Tonight you will be learning more ab...

Good afternoon. I am pleased to kick off todays event on education savings accounts and the future of educational choice. Our event today is straightforward, and in a moment, i will give the podium to our speaker, jeb bush. I will join him on stage freight the conversation together, and following that, my former colleague, now the executive director of the center for advancing opportunity will join the distinguished group of panelists, which i will let him introduce the details. Todays event a l...

An hundred 70 primary schools have experienced a shooting on 1999. Since columbine in our question is, should there be compromise on it Gun Legislation. Owner, 202 gun 7488000. Ll others, 202 7488001 send us a tweet or join us on facebook. Good sunday morning. Thank you for being with us. In a moment we will hear from Vice President pence weighing in on the debate over Gun Legislation. We want to begin with a piece from usa today florida students want to be a Tipping Point in the gun debate. Rea...

Unfortunately, we saw another tragedy with the School Shooting in parkland, florida. Betsy devos the education , secretary, we just learned, has made comments that Congress Needs to hold hearings looking into these types of issues dealing with School Shootings. Your committee and your leadership you have not chosen , to go that route into gun violence. Do you think that mrs. Devos recommendation is a good one . Rep. Goodlatte we will consider that. We do believe that communities need to make sur...

Michelle obama. Joined by the artists at the portrait gallery, home to the only complete collection of National Portraits outside of the white house. Here is a preview. Each of these artists had to walk into the oval office yikes i almost wanted to start each conversation by apologizing for putting them through this process. Just to get this job they had to come to the white house, to the oval office, and get grilled by the president and first lady. Im sorry. [laughter] im so sorry. It was not l...