Im Peter Alexander here in for Andrea Mitchell. We are following that Breaking News from georgia where we are monitoring an incident. Its 40 miles outside of atlanta. As you just heard, the Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is directing all available resources to that Schools Campus right now. You can see the pictures we are getting. The Chopper View from above. A lot of Police Presence and other Emergency Vehicles on scene right now. We want to get to nbc News Correspondent Anne Thompson joining us alongside Jim Kavanaugh and former Fbi Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi right now. Anne, acknowledging we are learning little bits of information, trying to get a better understanding, whats the best information you have been able to gather at this point . Reporter right now, we know that the High School has about 1,900 students. They are from grades 9 through 12. We have seen many of them come out of that building, the building is said to be on a hard lockdown. The governor put out this statem
Dissuade Vladimir Putin . I think this is a good sign, a Shot Across The Bow to remind americans of this kind of behavior. We talked a lot about it in 2016. We should have talked more about it in 2020, by the way. They did various activities then. I applaud what the biden administration is doing right now to remind everybody that this is happening. They obviously have very good technology to uncover what has happened. Thats a good reminder to the russians, and i think the very fact that theyre doing this is a gentle reminder to all americans to be careful about what theyre reading when the source comes from russia. And i want to remind everybody, you can go on x right now and find rt, the very people that are being indicted right now. They are freely tweeting. They are freely propagating their disinformation on the united states. That is good reminder, i think, to americans of who these actors actually are working for. Theyre working for Vladimir Putin. They are not independent news ag
Cspan2. Hello, everyone and welcome to the commonwealth program. Im going to be your moderator for today. Im so excited to do this. I have a few things before we announce our wonderful sunny hostin. As we continue to host Virtual Events they are grateful for your support with the members and other members, so we hope you will also consider making a donation. You can do it online or you can text 415 3294231. You can text the word donate to that number. Id also like to thank the Bernard Foundation for supporting todays event. I like the name of that event. My overwhelming, deeply i cant even tell you how much i love this woman but it is my pleasure to welcome my friend sunny hostin, Emmy Awardwinning legal journalist and cohost of the view. I worked with her for many years and we talked about so much like sisters and brothers we fight but its all love. Her new book is called i am the truth a memoir of identity and justice between worlds. Its a revealing look at her incredible story. She
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lets turn our attention to one of the important issues, and it is this. 20 Million Students and their families are in the middle of what has to be the strangest first semester of college in at least a century. Almost everything has changed for students except one thing, students still have to answer 108 questions on the dreaded fafsa form, federal aid application for pell grants and Student Loans to help go to college. For years now ive carried around the fafsa as a prop to make the case for simplifying it, but its no joke, especially this year. Many students are questioning their investment in a College Education at a time when many classes are only offering online courses, many of low income students who would benefit most economically from college long term are putting it off altogether. There was an 8 drop in the number of black undergraduate students enrolled in summer sessions compared with last summers enrollment according t
I want to start first by thinking everyone for being here. We are all here to discuss a moment in Howard University history, and a lot of you were here in the our zoom tonight, were direct participants in that moment so we invite you to use the chat in the q a to share reflections as we engage in dialogue. After our dialogue well take questions from now. And then finally this is being simulcast via youtube so share the link and those who may not be able to join us here can also view the program. April r. Silver commented that there are two howards. But she left it there. Almost as if to signify that what is known aint got to be reminded me of the famous score activist and former dean, kelly millers statement in the 1916 Howard University yearbook, quote, those who feel it know. Theres a howard hidden from view that nevertheless comes to the surface often and forcefully because it represents an alternative black political culture to use the word odd cedrick robinson. The culture that xi