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And remarkably effective and enduring. Willie brown is a game changer. Thank you, willie, for all your work, talents, brilliance, heart, your and forgiving a damn. Thank you. [ applause ] on that note, i believe i should bring mayor brown to the stage. Is that correct . Ladies and gentlemen, mayor willie brown. [ applause ] that was remarkable. But then again you are a vocalist. Mr. Mayor, kristin, vernal, vernal was rather reserved tonight. Last week when we were at macys during black History M...

You. From the artist ry to king oliver to armstrong from the magic of duke elg ton, the elegance of nat king coal to the prestige of lady day this is formed from the African American communities to the south literally lifted this nation to the status of a super power. [ applause ] mr. Mayor brown, your commitment to the preservation of our american art form resulted in the creation of hundreds of jobs and thousands and thousands of nights of employment for jazz musicians in the city of San Franc...

People. This is evidences not only by examining willies record in public life but i can a test to this personally. When it was a long line of people waiting to see him. A long and varied line. Some people it struck me we have a very broad Cross Section to see people who willie had made time for. I saw this every time i came to city hall to visit mayor brown. While he was certainly making time for me and hes always been very open with me and i appreciate that, willie. Hes never ever not responded...

Hes a celebrated presence, locally, nationally and also a dynamic leader. One can easily ascribe the words to his career, dazzling. Its a dazzling career full of deeply significant and dazzling first as weve mentioned. His mayoral inauguration included a party to which 10,000 people attended. Local restaurants provided 10,000 meals to the homeless. Who does that . On that kind of a scale . Willie brown does that. [ applause ] im so glad you are applauding. It gives me time to get water. If i wer...

Business administration, which fills our commitment to women entrepreneurs. The sequester has the potential to undermine this very promise by reducing sba funding. As a result, loans to women will be reduced by 250 million, translating to an decrease of 2,500 jobs. This means fewer women will be able to access affordable capital to turn their ideas, their dreams, into reality. When it comes to contracting, we have been fighting for so long we even took the Bush Administration to court to impleme...

The marches began here just a couple of hours ago, crowds walking from freddie grays neighborhood to city hall. So far todays protests have been loud they have been focused and they have been peaceful. Not so peaceful last night after a citywide curfew went into effect. Many people who refused to go inside were convinced otherwise by baltimores Police Officers. The streets were mostly calm and clear by midnight. One group that is definitely not happy with the charges levied against Six Baltimore...

Or send us an email. Here is the front page of the Washington Times this morning. Sharing the stage, president obama and john boehner is today. Joining us on the phone is ed okeefe who is a reporter for the Washington Post bring us uptodate on the sequester. Guest we are waiting to see what happens on friday where leaders will get together to sort out a way to move forward and the blunt the impact of the cuts or stave them off entirely. It will be a date date not entirely focused on this. All of...

Women are suffering from greater rate of Breast Cancer than ever before in our history. And here we go slashing and burning a budget. I dont like to use the term war on women, but, mr. Speaker, as a woman it sure feels like it. And sequestration definitely has that impact. Joining me today, and i will yield just a few moments, my good friend from new york, carolyn maloney, who has been quite a leader on a range of womens issues, and she knows clearly the devastating impact of sequestration on wo...

Morning. Take a little bit of a while. We brought in 4,000 people this beek to keep the city safe. Athena jones and nick valencia are here in baltimore. Begin with nick right there in the crowd, dozens of people. I got a chance to hear first happened what the hand had to say. The governor spoke two hours ago about the unwinding of the National Guard. We still do see, frederica, a presence here around city hall. That is expected to change in the coming days. No realtime table given for just how l...

Now, just across from city hall at the war memorial she stood on those steps flanked by some of her staff and investigators. She announced that her office filed 28 criminal charges against those six officers who she stressed wrongfully arrested freddie gray back on april 12th. Mosby detailed today how these officers repeatedly failed to help this 25yearold as he was in that prison transport vehicle, as he suffered a fatal spinal injury in Police Custody. She detailed it all. The statement of pro...