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Great day to preview the National Museum of African American history and culture with cbc college. Amazing. Cspan has live coverage of the Museum Opening on saturday money. Now remarks from president obama about the attacks in news eric new york, new jersey and minnesota. Pres. Obama good morning, everybody. I want to say a few words about the explosions that occurred here in new york city and interesting and the other device that have been found in interest. Ive been monitoring the situation cl...

State legislators have told me, i, i told them, why do you take the medicaid money . They said because we dont want to leave any federal dollars on the table. And that is the biggest influence that i can see with legislators. Now some with political aspirations have not done that because they have said, ive got future political aspirations but, but, within a couple of years, they go after that money and i can tell you that louisiana did not take the medicaid money until the new governor got in. ...

Today primary voters went to the polls in five states, connecticut, rhode island, maryland, delaware and pennsylvania. We have live Election Night results and analysis and live candidate speeches beginning in a half hour on cspan. Today two senators discussed the constitutional role of the u. S. Senate in confirming judicial nominees including nominees to the Supreme Court. Democrat Patrick Leahy and republican orrin hatch, both members of the Judiciary Committee, discussed their views on judici...

Michael whimore, when did you notice politicians using shakespeares quotes . I noticed it in 1989. Politicians are often saying shakespeares words. I think its important something for america, the ability to quote shakespeare gives them weight. You tell me if im wrong, robert byrd greatest in the senate . I agree, he was called the cisero of the senate. Very fond to using ornate. Hes deceased but we have many statements using shakespeare. Drawn from thy gore. Of these covering heavens, all on th...

Case for why he is the best equipped candidate to beat Hillary Clinton in the general election. This morning, donald trump had this to say about protest. He said the protesters in california were thugs and criminals. Many are professionals. They should be dont with question they should be dealt with by law enforcement. He goes ahead of the states republican primary on tuesday. He will be speaking to supporters at the south end. That will be live at 7 00 p. M. Eastern time on cspan two. Meanwhile...

Conduct their investigation and were going to continue seize opportunities to the reporter Marcella Robertson has been following this story all day she has much more here her report coming up today at five in the age of social Media School Threat real or not can quickly reach a large audience and thats why the bees Public School district is delivering a new and Important Message to students before posting something online all the seed heads he is looking into this for so lisa whats the message t...

Hackers will get it and china will get it and we will be less safe. That leads me to a question about the use of encryption by the fbi. Are you encrypting all of your your agents,l of and personnel, and payroll, and systems . Data. We use encryption on a significant amount of data. Id like to follow up with that because i was stunned that the office of personnel did not have that important data encrypted. The federal government should protect itself by encrypting this data. We know that were bei...

In keeping bad actors from using unbreakable encryption. Which is open source, free, and widely available from Companies Based overseas. As the chairman argued when we had this debate in 1999, only y allowing the use of strong encryption not only domestically but internationally as well can we hope to make the internet a safe and secure environment. I agree with that sentiment and you have made some of the public statements that i hope you can help us to reconcile that view with your call for sp...

Can you tell us what kinds of things we are doing in chicago . Your agency and the federal government to help the people of the city. Director comey we are trying to focus on some of the predators who are focusing on this violence. We do taskforces, we do Drug Task Forces and as i said, we operate on an ad hoc basis to try to lock up repeat offenders. As ive look at the challenge of gun violence in the city of chicago and i see that there is if we took a map of the city of chicago and we put lit...

Landmark cases. Director james comey testified before no bright a committee. H this is about two hours and 45 minutes. Good morning. The Judiciary Committee will come to order. Welcome, director komi. We are happy to have you here with us today. Commend your distinguished service and i am confident you will continue to serve honorably. Today, the fbi continues to face the effects of one of the worst National Security leaks in our nation wash history by Edward Snowden two years ago. Was aa freedo...