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dwight: good afternoon and welcome everyone to the u.s. commissions briefing called the impact on international religious freedom. my name is dwight bashir and im the director of outreach and policy at the commission. and i know many of you are looking forward to this weeks the irfa summit, which has officially got underway. we have with us the co chair of the irfa summits congressional advocacy day. so i wanna invite him, just for a minute, to say a few words. amjad khan. [applause] a...

Well, we dont have a platform. We recognize that, historically in the Republican Party, all kinds of people have had different views on all kinds of important issues. But, there have been certain principles that are broader than particular issues where every republican disagreed and they dont anymore. This has been turned on its head. Just to give you one example, americas involvement in the world, peace through strength, we had a majority of republican members of the House Of Representatives wh...

That does it. We are done . Thats it. Velshi is going to start right now. Ali velshi, take it away. It is nice to see you all. I am in chicago today. I love the city and i am going to be at the chicago humanities fest with jen psaki this afternoon, so that will be fun. A little field trip for us, but i am glad you are holding down the fort on that end. Have a great rest of the day and i will see you tomorrow. And thanks to you at home for joining us. Today on velshi, the story of a symbol of ele...

Talking about u. S. Federal entitlement programs sunday night on cspans q a. American history tv, u. S. University officers icon for aikrishnaures s prakash. He focuses on the separation of powers and argues that the United States constitution does not focus on what he calls double duty. This is a 45 Minute Program in the Supreme Court chamber. I would like to express the societys gratitude to our host this evening, Justice Clarence thomas. Justice thomas has been wonderfully generous and giving...

Justice thomas has been wonderfully generous and giving of his time to the society when we called upon him. I want to thank him for taking the time away, particularly this first week of october when things are humming here in the court. We are also grateful to the court at large for allowing us to have this series here in the courtroom. It is my particular pleasure to to introduce Justice Thomas this evening because in the 11th circuit, we refer to him as our judge. Our justice. He was born near...

In the humility humanitarian stuck in theople city. I am jessica summers. This is bloomberg. Julia live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york. Im julia chatterley. Scarlet im scarlet fu. Joe im joe weisenthal. Julia we are 30 minutes away from the close of trading, as another atlantic hurricane threatens to make landfall. Joe the question is, whatd you miss . One Million Immigrants in limbo, as President Trump announces the end of an obama era immigration program. And a state of emergenc...

This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Reporting tonight from washington. Mr. Trumps own Justice Department appointing a special counsel to investigate. Margaret brennan is at the white house. There was no collusion, and everybody, even my enemies, have said, there is no collusion. Reporter President Trump said the appointment of special Counsel Robert Mueller to probe Russian Election meddling is dividing the country. Well, i respect the move, but the entire thing has been a witchhunt,...

Will not tolerate leaks from his team to the media. Dean reynolds has been talking to voters in trump country. Lee county, illinois. Reporter at bill and dicks barbershop in dixon, illinois, guy vol was getting a haircut and weighing the news of a special counsel investigating the Trump Campaign. Everybodys looking for something to dig at. Theyre looking its a witch hunt. Thats what he tweeted this morning. Reporter a lifelong republican, a trump supporter and an avid consumer of conservative me...

Change in political tone needed after lawmakers were shot at . Epublicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. Join us on twitter or go to facebook. Com cspan. We will start with the president , who canceled his agenda yesterday and made a statement to the country. Here is what he said. We may have had our differences, but we do well to remember everyone who serves in our Nations Capital is here because they love our country. Agree we are blessed to be americans, that...

Congress. This is about 25 minutes. Host i want to welcome back matt schlapp. Thanks for being with us. Guest it is not good friday. [laughter] host lets begin with this sentence and finish it, please. Estate of the Republican Party between the president and republicans is guest uncharted. We have never been here before. We have never elected a president with such shallow roots. Maybe jimmy carter was similar, but he had been elected governor of georgia. An interesting relationship when congress...