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Screeria nigeria. Obamas executive orders on immigration. And later, a hearing on Home Ownership and mortgage lending. At an event hosted by the center for American Progress, state legislators from texas minnesota, and new jersey spoke about what their governments are doing to help the middle class. Topics include the minimum wage and health care costs. This is just over an hour. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for braving the cold. For those of you watching at home, we had a big snowstorm her...

Expenditure of our federal resources in incarceration and the i think the average on mandatory minimums is about 11year incarceration and so without going too far, are you suggesting that those resources could be applied in other ways to make us safer . Absolutely. As ive looked at the spending of the department of justice and seeing that the bureau of prisons each and every year takes up a larger and larger percentage of the department of justice budget, that money has to come from somewhere an...

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for braving the cold. For those of you watching at home, we had a big snowstorm here in d. C. , and it was difficult for a lot of people to get in, and we have a pretty full room considering the circumstances. So welcome to all of you. Thank you to winnie. One of my first jobs in politics was here at the center for American Progress when it was still just a fledgling organization with about i dont even remember at the time. But winnie was my boss here, and it wa...

Bill daly and bill crystal editor of the weekly standard. Then look at president s, past, present and future. The authors of three new books, author of the bully pulpit. And peter baker author of days of fire. There are no leftovers here, this is face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, face the nation with bob schieffer. Cbs news political director john dickerson. Dickerson there are two breaking stories this morning first a metro north commuter train derailed i...

Germany summons that u. S. Ambassador and claims america it is threatening the latest in the summit. A pilot dies in a crash. The military faces criticism for causing one of the biggest fighters. And football clubs with a tax plan. They are conserved concerned it will prevent them from playing here in france. First, germany has become the latest country three days after france do some of the u. S. Ambassador over spiking claims. Onslow Angela Merkel dass ch ancellor Angela Merkel complained to p...

Bloomberg knows better than that. Thatheard some people say we stop crime. I can go door to door and stick it in. We cannot do that. I wish you would emphasize that we cannot allow Police Officers to do that because the constitution says you cannot. I appreciate the point. That is one more point from the judges ruling. Judges ruling. It may lower the crime rate but it is unconstitutional. That is not where we begin, that is where we end. Situation, you can lock down an entire city. In that parti...

Welcome to the second panel of this form. Many of you do not know me for a good reason. This is actually my first day at brookings. Visiting fellow at the center on the United States and europe. It turns out brookings has a hazing ritual they make you moderate an allstar cast on your first day. So i have with me james gold geyer who is a visiting fellow usc as well as of course professor at stanford and leading russia expert fiona hill is a longtime scholar at bookings with the various governmen...

Sea and redeployed for a Paratrooper Division is to poland for training and exercises this week the president announced a new commitment to reassure the European Security for the 1 billion fund that would allow us to keep equipment in europe and expand exercise of trading and to expand personnel to continuously rotate and increase assistance to ukraine moldova and georgia. It is vital day not be engaged alone and taken steps to encourage the partners to do the same to take part of deployment and...

Thank you for coming. It is an interesting time for the Housing Market. I guess we could have said that any time in the last five years are so. Things are changing a bit. After more than five years of declining markets, we seem to be doing somewhat better. Home prices are going up. Foreclosures are at a fiveyear low. On the other hand, we are still suffering from a serious overhang from the crisis. More than 4 million households have lost their homes through foreclosure. This has been bad for fa...

We will get to them in just a few minutes. Rodney was talking. Was thinking about the what this all means for this area. The governor asks you to sit on this board, went to get a local businessman perspective. What does this mean to the community and the state of virginia . Left with a lot of possibilities. Obviously we are a huge military base here. Barber is the Largest Naval base in the world. So it is vibrant. The economic engine is definitely the port of virginia. We started off by saying i...