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Governor you are recognized. Thank you mr. Speaker and mr. Lieutenant governor and chief justice, associate justices of the arkansas supreme court, constitutional officers that are here and distinguish member of the arkansas General Assembly. This is an occasion in which we can gather together of the elected officials to reflect to where we are in arkansas and talk about our successes, our challenges and what we need to do and where we have been. First, let me express to the speaker my condolenc...

This is live from new york city im stephanie sy. After more than half a century the Confederate Flag will soon no longer fly on the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol. It was approved overnight after more than 13 hours of debate. The governor is expected to sign it today. Diane eastabrook is live in columbia, South Carolina. Tell us more about the governors plans. Reporter hi, stephanie. We just found out a few minutes ago that the governor plans to sign that legislation here at the sta...

So this fall i think were going to be having many discussions how that should take place and ive hope to have meetings with the supervisor and maam lee and dejohn so we can get a sense of where people are and well have some real interesting deductions in the fall about that maybe october next item. Item 4 board of directors new and director business. Seeing none executive director report. Good morning, everyone we have a full agenda and director reiskin needs to leave at 11 30 i want to say we w...

We have quorum mr. Chairman. Communications anything. I did want to note the tjpa board of directors will noted meet in the month of august. Thats good i have one short thing ive talked to a couple of Board Members were transitioning from a construction to is an trablg and phase two sort of thing and so this fall i think were going to be having many discussions how that should take place and ive hope to have meetings with the supervisor and maam lee and dejohn so we can get a sense of where peop...

In San Francisco how the uptick in different laws and how they effect San Francisco homelessness population they have a documentary and interviews and give interesting information about the interaction for Law Enforcement as well as legislative initiatives and the Homeless Coalition is interested in bringing that first discussing it with the chief and the command staff and having a presentation so i hopefully it will make a time for them on our schedule. Yes. Thank you Vice President and lastly ...

With iraq, the u. S. Had just invaded afghanistan, and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color code alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts, yellow, orange, red, and said it was to keep people in a state of fear, and that we needed another color coded alert to say, theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us, not wholesale invasion of countr...

Coming up next from earlier today code pink founder was on the indepth program to discuss her writing and answer viewer questions. Among her books bridging the global gap how to stop the next war now into and at the most recent, drone warfare. Host Medea Benjamin how and when was code pink found it . Guest we were a group of women environmentalists sitting together in a retreat right after 9 11 talking about how he we could deal with the Climate Crisis and during the lunch break we started talki...

Climate crisis and during our lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack, the u. S. Invaded afghanistan and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color coated. It was really to keep people in a state of fare fear and that we needed another colorcoated alerto that theres another way of dealing with this. Thats when we came up with the idea of code pink. We wanted to be ho...

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Minutes. Palestinians celebrate a landmark deal between fatah and hamas that brings the two sides together after a ten year split. The u. S. Says its done being a member of the uns cultural body unesco citing anti israeli bias and israel says it will pull out too. I believe theyre starting to respect the United States again donald trump raises pakistan for its role in the release of a u. S. Canadian couple and their children held hostage for years by the taliban. In doha with other days sports i...