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Push for change where its needed. He spoke at the Mccormick Place in chicago. This is an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 44th president of the United States, barack obama. [cheers] president obama hello, chicago ts good to be home. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Its good to be home. Thank you. Thank you. [cheers] president obama you can tell you can tell that i you, you you can tell that im a lame duck because nobodys following instructio...

[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. I work with the events if you could take a moment of silence your cell phones and make sure they are not audible during the presentation, that would be great. We will have about an hourlong event have to bee given to the r and the other half to questions. Please use the microphone when you have a question once we get to that portion of the event. We are recording so that helps. Before you get in line for the signing, if you could fold up your cha...

We are going to have about an hour long event here, half of the time given to the author and the other time given to your questions. We have a microphone right over here, please use that microphone when you have a question, once we get to that portion of the event. Cspan is here and we are recording, so that helps us make a more full recording. And finally before you get in line for the signing which would be in the table, fold up your chairs and put them against the wall. The race and justice o...

Now id like to introduce our head fable, please hold your applause until all head table members have been introduced. From my left, michelle amber, reporter for the National Press clubs wire and retired labor reporter for bloomberg bma. Chris, a journalist and former writer at working america. Liz shuler, secretarytreasurer of the aflcio. Skipping over the podium, jamie horowitz, owner of pr work and head of the npc headliners booking team so hes the person that helped organize todays lunch. Tha...

Next, remarks from cio Richard Trumpka on his relationship with President Trump. He said he would be pushing the president to broaden workers bargaining rights regardless of whether or not they are Union Members. This is an hour. Before we get started i want to remind our audience to silence your phones. Feel free to follow along today using the pressclub. Secretary treasurer of the cio. Thank you jamie. Skipping over our speaker for a moment, lead automotive investigate reporter for consumer re...

Briefo offer just a introduction to Justice Kagan. City,s born in new york she received her undergraduate education at princeton, where she graduated summa cum laude. She then visited oxford as a graduate fellow from princeton, and she earned her masters degree there. She returned to harvard law go, graduated three years later, laude, after being the editor of the harvard review. She worked for the d. C. Court of appeals, and later, the Supreme Court. After her clerkship, she practiced law for s...

So if the president can support that and certify that, then this falls away. So, we do not say that this deal is not allowed. We simply say that u. S. Institutions, financial institutions, cannot be used for this. And we cannot and will not use the Exportimport Bank at u. S. Tax , a u. S. Taxpayer funded entity, to do this. At the end of the day in april of this year, secretary jack lue told us that. That there would be no access. In eith and either he misled the United States citizens and this ...

This has been my Foreign Policy during my presidency. By necessity, we work with all countries, and many of them are not democracies. Some of them are democracies in the sense they have elections, but not democracies in the sense of actually permitting participation and dissent. But our trajectory as a country has been to support the efforts of those who believe in selfgovernance, who believe in those ideas that began here so many years ago. And it is not simply a matter of us being true to our ...

This has been my Foreign Policy during my presidency. By necessity, we work with all countries, and many of them are not democracies. Some of them are democracies in the sense they have elections, but not democracies in the sense of actually permitting participation and dissent. But our trajectory as a country has been to support the efforts of those who believe in selfgovernance, who believe in those ideas that began here so many years ago. And it is not simply a matter of us being true to our ...

Were very grateful for your generosity and support. Now, to offer just a brief introduction to Justice Kagan. She was born in new york city, she received her undergraduate education at princeton, where she graduated summa cum laude. She then visited oxford university, as a graduate fellow from princeton, and she earned her masters degree there. She returned to harvard law go, graduated three years later, magna cum laude, after being the editor of the harvard review. She worked for the d. C. Cour...