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Were going to call this meeting to order. I like to welcome our witness today Central Intelligence Agency Director john brennan. You appropriately note in your Opening Statement that this hearing takes place against the backdrop of a heinous act of violence, perpetrated by a troubled and evil person. The committee has been consistent in consistent contact from the fbi with Early Morning hours on sunday and its been provided a great deal of information on the status of the investigation. I know t...

Well. Thank you. Director jarvis, the information that i have is that the eeoc function or functionary still reports three levels below you. So when did you actually did you change that reporting level . And when . I moved it up. No, it has been moved up. But i agree with you and this is an issue that ive discussed with our hr, that i believe that in order to really meet the standards expected of us in eeoc and particularly in light of these new issues that have come out that clearly there is th...

Context for todays Public Affairs issues. 1976,rs ago, on july 1, president gerald ford spoke at the opening of the Smithsonians National air and space museum in washington dc. Leading up to the anniversary, reel america is showcasing a series of nasa films. Up next, science reporter suited for space. Half hour nasa tv program, one of 13 produced with m. I. T. And wgbh boston. This episode traces the development of spacesuits, beginning with the Mercury Program and looking at a live support syst...

Manufacturing center in the late 1800s through the depression, combining its location on the water with the coming of the railroads. Today it is ohios most second populous city. With the help of Charter Communications, as cleveland prepares to host the convention, we take a look back at the history. We visit the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum to find out by it lost the distinction of the motor city. Became the city where highend automobiles were built. There was a lot of wealth in the the. So, th...

Salaried position to hourly positions. What we have seen is an executive branch that issues orders they say they dont have the authority to issue but do it anyway. We see a department of justice that decides which laws they want to enforce and which hay dont. We see a Supreme Court that changes laws rather than sending them back to congress to be changed. And of course we see agencies that carry the rule of law. Ladies and gentlemen, if we truly want to put america on a better way, we need to re...

What is necessary to reduce the hatred in this world. To curb the violence. May he watch over this country that we call home. Thank you very much, everybody. Cspans washington journal. Live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. The executive director of gun coowners of america. Plus, the executive director of the human rights campaign. He talks about the orlando nightclub shooting and what concerns his organization has. Afghan ambassador to the u. S. Will share his perspective o...

The Republican Party has been beat in the 1892 election. Grover cleveland has come into office, mcclellan has been the governor of ohio. The republicans think that the election of 1896 is going to be dares and he wants to be the nominee, but is not the front runner. Hes not the favor of the party bosses. Next, artist Joel Iskowitz tells the stories behind designing a congressional gold medal. He spoke at the museum of American Finance in new york city, for just over an hour. Good afternoon, ever...

Next from st. Paul minnesota with the help of our local cable partner comcast we talked to carole connolly. I turned a corner and suddenly without warning i stand this whole amir and there it is my mothers face staring back at me in disbelief. The phase i once swore i would never have. Carole connolly the poet laureate of st. Paul minnesota. What is a poet laureate of st. Paul minnesota . Guest at all sort of started when a legislator put a bill in the legislature to make a poet laureate since m...

He didnt want a biography. He wanted a story of his life of flight. He failed anything that he did any of the astronauts could have done so he wanted them to get equal credit. He was that type of a guy. He never thought of himself as being anything special but he wanted the story of flight told him we were going to do it and when he passed away we had already worked one chapter out and i decided to go ahead because and do the flight because people suddenly they made sense. I looked around mike a...

Evolved outwe have of this institution, out of this movement, to help make the world a better place. The one thing we did not do, and we do not understand, poverty. The world from the triple evils of racism and war and poverty. We didnt understand poverty because we dont understand economics. The economics that you all are being taught is probably irrelevant to the future of the world in which we live. Get mad if you want to. Think about it. [laughter] you are talking about ,ationalist european ...