Security numbers. Guess what . Dozens of states objected, including the republican secretary of state in mississippi who told the commission they should go jump in the gulf of mexico. I have an even better idea. I think they should go jump in lake superior. This is a beautiful lake, one of our best great lakes, but it is a little colder this time of year, even in the summer. I think they would enjoy it. I asked my fellow citizens, this fourth of july week to find a body of water nearest you and go tell the commission jump in a lake. President trump will be heading for europe next weekend for a series of meetings with world leaders. For whattop in poland is being called the three cs summit which includes leaders from central europe, balkan states and the balkans. Then he will head to germany for the g 20 summit where he is expected to have his first facetoface meeting with russian president vladimir putin. Other leaders include chancellor chart chancellor Angela Merkel of turkey. Tonight, an interview with conservative author david harlots, looking at the history of the communist party. He talks about human nature and what he calls the list the of a perfectvision world. If you have this vision of heaven on earth, that can be achieved if you get rid of the oppressors. Want to take on the means of production, institutes and social justice. Outlaw the pronouns he and she, whatever it is. This visionre it to wanting. Ture, it is the reason america is wanting is because like every society, it is a reflection of who we are and since we are in a christian the firsthis is what 18 chapters of genesis are about. The root cause of social problems is us. Andere given the paradise if you are not religious, treat it as a parable. We were given paradise, much better than socialism or social justice because there was no death, no pain, no suffering. Trees,uit fell from the youin order to enjoy this, had to for go the knowledge of good and evil and really, the knowledge of evil. Prone to beings are evil where the corruption is within us. Once you understand that, you are a conservative. Can see the entire interview with David Horowitz on the history of the communist party in his views on socialism, conservatism and liberalism tonight at 8 00 eastern here on cspan. This week, during the july 4 recess in prime time on cspan, technologydebate on and privacy and whether Tech Companies should be required to disclose customer data. Some suggest we ought to build a technology and backdoor in order to allow Law Enforcement access to data. The problem is you cannot build a backdoor that works only for the u. S. Government, good guys, or other people with good motives. If you build it for them, the encryption will be weekend for everyone. Justicena Supreme Court quinn bullock. The most important and injuring decision a president will ever make is who to appoint to the United StatesSupreme Court and judiciary. Hillary clinton talking about women in politics. Women are often the first to spot conflict on the horizon when theirr way and insight and information is leads toit often consequences that might have been averted. Every average citizens do not fully understand the complex forces that have increased their economic woes. Createc insecurity conditions that are breeding grounds, breeding grounds for racial and ethnic tensions. This week on cspan. The mayors of Charlotte North Carolina and gary, indiana took part in a Panel Discussion on the role of k12 afterSchool Programs. The Panel Focused on how these programs can impair students for the future workforce. This was part of a National Afterschool summit hosted by the Arnold Schwarzenegger institute for state and Global Policy at the institute of at the university of southern california. [applause] i was going to lead everyone in a stretch because in my secret life when im not doing this, and when im not being a mother, i am a spin and structure spin instructor. Before we get started, i just wanted to say that ive had the honor of working with all of you in this room that afterschool is such a special place and it makes such a difference in the lives of the kids and the families and communities we serve. Its a huge Ripple Effect and the reason we have been able to save this program and expand this program is because of all of you. The tremendous leadership and voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger down to some of the people who are not represented in this room, our staff lines every day, creating the dreams. So i just wanted to thank you all. Give yourselves a round of applause. [applause] , have such an amazing array of talent. Preparing focus on our kids for the workforce and tying back to the creativity and entrepreneurial drive, how do we get our kids to really see themselves with the jobs of the future, the jobs we need here in america . It will be how we make america great. There has been a lot of attention on her military homeland security, growing our defense, but to have a strong military, we need strong people in that military. Militaryy provides not only training for our kids, but a great career path and career opportunity. Thewhat are some of recruiting challenges our military is facing and what role can afterschool play in conquering this challenges . At afterSchool Programs, if you run into people who dont believe making the investment in use is the right thing to do, let me offer you a slightly different lens. , ages 17 to 25, 71 of them cannot qualify to join the military. 71 . They go into three large buckets obesity, not completing high school, or having a criminal record. From the earlier panelists and Research Many of you have Access Programs torschool the very root causes that create those barriers. That is just meeting the minimums. As we talk to that, about the changes that exist in our workforce today, it is an increasingly complex world that the military needs to operate in. So we need use coming in with higherend skills to go to the technology and to go to that complex work lace. AfterSchool Programs offer that opportunity for access the complex workplace. It is really the ability to dream, to have access, and to see themselves in that workplace and then the possibility, and in a path to that possibility. If we dont make the investment, we are already experiencing difficulty recruiting in the military. Think about all the other segments affected first responders, Law Enforcement, our trades. Is a wide reaching impact, but it just so happens the military has data we can apply. This goes far beyond the military. This goes yard our nation and is a National Security imperative. Thank you. [applause] clapp, please. As we think about other sectors, obviously, hightech is one of the most exciting and challenging areas and is one of the places where our country is excelling. You, what dosk afterSchool Programs do to encourage students to learn about and prepare for jobs in the hightech world . Be onst, its an honor to such a distinguished panel and to be joined with everyone here. When you look at our industry, Internet Companies, these are very high skilled, hightech jobs and probably all 50 states for our countries, we have a shortfall in the United States graduating with education in the stem field in particular, for computer coding and engineers, i believe next year, shortfall will be about a quarter of a million of u. S. Based students graduated with the skills they need to work for Internet Companies and highTech Companies. Those jobs have to come from somewhere and by getting kids involved early, particularly in middle school, to show them a path forward. Opportunity to work with the afterschool allstars and bring some kids around to visit some of our Companies Like twitter, facebook, amazon and others. When you see these middle school kids walk around the companies and talk to the engineers and learn how they got there, they get to see a path forward. They say wait a minute, if i study math and science and stay to high school and college, i can go to a place like this and have a high paying job and it sets the bar in a way maybe they would not have thought of otherwise. Maybe they would not not it was possible to work in these innovative Tech Companies. Part of it is selfish reasons. We want to have students grow up , learn anded states have a diverse and educated workforce that we are able to get domestically and we want to instill that and part of it is starting in middle school, and part of it is being afterSchool Programs because those three hours afterschool have a huge impact on their lives and we want to be part of that. Excellent. Thank you. [applause] comes to afterschool, we all do our homework on research and data matter. I think is the stories and the kids that drive us but having the research and ada behind it really helps us make the case. Mayor roberts, i would like to ask you about charlottes task force and the report on economic mobility for children, what you looked in there and what you found and what are the implications for afterschool . That is why i have my show and tell here. I have a copy of the task force right here. We had a coming together of our city, our county, our Business Leaders, our nonprofit leaders around the opportunity gap that exists in charlotte and many of our major cities. We were spurred by a report that came out done by harvard in berkeley that looks at generational poverty and the ability of folks born in poverty to move out of poverty within a generation. Ofrlotte ranks the lowest the 15 metropolitan areas. We dont like being last in anything, but that did bring us the political will, and the governor talked about ringing democrats and republicans together, we focused our community on changing that statistic. In this report they looked at so many things and it took two years. They wanted to have a blueprint for implementation and a scorecard, a way to make sure things were being implemented that were recommended. Changeare going to generational poverty, you have to focus on the young people. The three areas we looked at were early childhood, college and Career Readiness, and Family Structure and support. , alll three of those areas three of those areas play a role. If you are going to change the opportunity gap, we were very conscious to look at our childrenbarriers that born in a tough neighborhood with concentrations of poverty some of the systemic racial barriers in our community because of the way we developed and because of racial segregation that was actually written into law and in charlotte, we discovered that. If you look at the wording of the afterschool component, expand access to programming that activates career awareness and preparation and connect more students to opportunities. There is a conscious awareness that afterSchool Programs do that connecting you do not time to do this in a seven hour school day. You connect that learning to what does it actually look like in a career. We have great things going on in charlotte. We need to help fund them better and coordinate them better. They are things Like Technology is missing. We have Technology Jobs that go unfilled. We try to find workers from other places. We have talent right there in charlotte. We have a group called Hip Hop University that students with technology through hiphop. It is fun. It is creative. All of that video and editing, that is technical. There is a lot that goes on there that kids are really good at learning. That is a way into a possible career. Whether it is media, technology, i. T. , software development. These are the kinds of things that we have to come together as a community to help implement and support. We are working with some of the area is mrs. To support that, to see that technology need. Microsoft has stepped up. We have other software companies, the largest bank in the country, bank of america has been a supporter. We need to continue to focus. What is interesting, as mayor, i actually have no technical responsibility for the schools. We have a school board funded by the state and county. The city focuses on infrastructure. I also get in front of a lot of people. I can be a convener. I know that our workforce is not going to survive or be a grow and thrive without focusing on kids. And on families and that support that after schools provide. That link to creativity, Career Readiness and awareness. I have talked a lot as mayor about how we bring people together to support our schools. The other thing i love about afterSchool Programs, they are very nimble, adaptive, creative, responsive. The schools have so much curriculum, challenge, and so much policy challenge, but the after School Programs can fill in the gaps thickly. More quickly. We have helped mobilize the private and nonprofit sectors to fill in those gaps. Like the need for technology training, how can we remember and respond to 21st century challenges that will change every year. 20 years ago you didnt have social media managers for companies, now every company has one. Theyre going to be more jobs in robotics and things coming to the floor that we, as adults, cannot even foresee. We have to help our kids be open to planning for and give them those critical connections. [applause] i want to get back to the value of partnerships, but first, britney. We had a really wonderful discussion about your Afterschool Program. When we talk about pursuing your dreams, you didnt think you could pursue a career in our growing up. How did your Afterschool Program, gold crown, convinced and help you to follow your dreams . Britney i joined when i was 11 years old. I was a lonely kid in middle school. I didnt know anybody. My brother was in that program. I went after school and i found what i loved. I didnt realize i loved art until i wanted to go to college. I went to Community College and didnt know what i wanted to do. I was like, forensic science. That was not what i was passionate about. It was art. My coordinators help to mean get to that point to where i was like, i can do this. I can be a freelance illustrator no matter how hard and competitive it is. I can do it as long as i believe in myself. I know you talk to me a lot about how it was almost a family, your Afterschool Program. They definitely are. What do you think you would be doing now if you didnt have the fortune to get a gold crown. Britney who knows . I dont even know. For those of you who do want to know, stop by later and make sure to see some of the postcards and art. As matt said, it is spectacular. I have been talking to her about hiring her myself when the conference is over. Britney i have stuff. Take it. Works mayor mayor, do you see the multiple ways that afterSchool Programs can impact the students, families, and communities. Why are you a champion for these programs . I am a champion because of the multiple ways that afterSchool Programs help and how they ultimately help the community. In gary, we are different from charlotte and other cities, we are literally rebuilding a community that has been hit by financial disasters, as a result of a reduction in industry. When you are rebuilding the community, while there is a time that you focus on adults, the primary focus has to be on the children. It is to provide opportunities for them and to really set a high bar. Typically, for us, our parents set the bar. I can remember in the seventh grade coming home and having my first report card of middle school 4 as and 2 bs. I was satisfied that my dad looked at me and said, what about those 2 bs . From then on that was my focus, not to have the bs. Except in physics, where i would be glad with that. That is another conversation. I have an Afterschool Program for you. Mayor i still need it. The point is our children dont always now have those expectations. It is not that our parents dont love them, or they dont want to set those expectations, but there so busy trying to provide food, clothing, shelter. They have their own set of challenges. In the afterSchool Programs we can set expectation. We can provide additional exposure. We can provide opportunities to see things that you dont necessarily see on television. Are children watch an inordinate amount of television today. They watch many of the same things, videos, reality television. There is nothing wrong, governor, with reality tv, in context. They dont always see positive things on reality tv. If we can widen those horizons, and tap into, the mayor talked about the Hip Hop University, into their passions. Our boys and girls club they are developing a recording studio. We know that everybody has a rap career in their future. Ok, maybe it is not rapping, but it might be producing, it might be serving as a sound engineer. There are so many opportunities. A videographer. We really want to tap into that passion. We also want to raise the bar. Maybe it is not employment, but maybe it is becoming a food entrepreneur to deal with food deserts. We are doing all of those things that are afterSchool Programs in gary. Awesome. [applau