Cspan as a Public Service ong with these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Coming up, former israeli egyptian investors taking part in a conversation on tuesday solution in palestine. Gaza, conflict between israel and iran and solutions for palestinians in the west bank, jerusalem and gaza among the topics to discuss. Middle east policy council. Hello, everyone. Nley, and i m the president of the middle east policy council. I want to welcome our audience from around the world for this discussion. As we know, a terrible cycle of violence began october 7th, when hamas launched a brutal and horrific attack against israel, but this is just the latest round of appalling death, and so far, upwards of 20,000 people men, women, and children, from both sides have lost their lives. The world, aghast, has called repeatedly for a ceasefire. There is grave doubt that israel can reach its stated military goals, and hamas threats of repeated attacks against israel v
We received a detailed complaint about inappropriate behavior by matt lauer, he loaded this was the first complaint against him there was reason abrade believe it was not an isolated incident. On twitter, President Donald Trump reacted for sexual inappropriate behavior in the workplace. Check out his past. Matt lauer was the face of nbc news, he was a fixture of the franchise. Reporter Garrison Keillor said he was fired wednesday for what the network called inappropriate behavior. He claims he was fired because he put his hand on a womans bareback while trying to console her. He says he apologized when one woman recoiled and remained friendly until her lawyer called. He says he has no interest in arguing about it. A powerful woman in california politics is [ indiscernible ] hours that lowers behavior. Nancy pelosi is the chair of the Democratic Party womens caucus behind a nonprofit called we set enough. Campaign designed to raise awareness about Sexual Harassment and abuse at the stat
We go through this investigative process and we must insist on the access to do so. We must demand full, immediate, unhindered access to the site of the tragedy, including all parts of the aircraft, missile battery and site evidence and, most of all, proper treatment of the remains of the many victims. President putin by himself can ensure that success and that access and he absolutely must be required to do so. Third, we need to demand an immediate russian standdown in the ukraine. Crimes like malaysia air flight 17 can only happen in such a lawless wasteland of renegades and desperado with their fingers on the triggers of the most advanced weapons. Lawless reigns in ukraine because the government of that nation does not yet have control over its sovereign territory. The situation is greatly exacerbated as a result of president putins outrageous territorial aggression that has already severed an arm of ukraine and threatens the entire countrys disintegration. Make no mistake, the russ
Negotiations are going on right now to get these things passed . Guest what has happened so far is that the senate has pushed for this trade bill and got an advance only with lastminute maneuvering on the Chamber Floor yesterday. You had a band of senators who really want to get the Exportimport Bank passed and that also has a time sensitive deadline at the end of next month. And mcconnell got these senators on board and that bill was advance. Now they are tried to push through today and bunch of amendments and maybe final passage of this trade promotion authority, which would pave the way for future trade pacts by limiting congressional debate that congress will not be able to tinker too much with these major trade deals that are coming down the line. After that, it is going to be this big debate on the nsas bulk collection of telephone metadata. There are two Different Things that are going to go through. There is going to be a vote on the house nsa freedom act. That passed overwhelm
We have on our panel today a community developer, in investment maker, a next general banker and another. They all have a complex role to play. Let me introduce each one quickly. First, bart harvey. He joined enterprise in 1984 shortly after james rouse. He ran the foundation from 1993 until 19 98. He help form the foundations and the Financial Institutions trying to scale capacity of around the country. Like jennifer, bart lives in baltimore and has been in integral part that we will hear about in a moment. Know was started as a small Housing Program in harlem in the late 1970s. Today, it is a program that has scaled. It is now in a 100 programs across 10 countries, helping disconnected youth to become leaders in rebuilding their own communities. And joel is one of those leaders. He is a graduate and now a director in the organization. On top of that, he is involved with my brothers keepers. Next to him is donald brown, the president of an investment firm. They are experts in financin