Final form between the two candidates running for mayor of chicago, that is a full hour next on chicago tonight. Moderator the stakes in the Mayoral Election could hardly be higher. The bond rating teeters two notches above junk status. The city faces pension debt and reliance on borrowing threatens every other function of government. The question tonight what qualities the candidates for mayor have to change that. Joining us, the city club is helping to underwrite tonights forum. We are Live Streaming this on our website. Welcome to our viewers around the country on cspan. Our political reporter is tweeting. We invite you to join the online conversation. Joining us are rahm emanuel, and jesus garcia. Before we begin, tonight we are doing things differently. We will start by talking mainly about finances with each candidate individually without interruption from the other. That will give the mayor and commissioner an opportunity to clearly answered the questions. Then we will engage bo
Highest level of certainty with people of our state believe Government Action has intruded upon their religious liberty. Right here. She is right here. [indiscernible] governor pence why is it contained . [inaudible] governor pence you would have to talk to the indiana General Assembly. I am pleased to answer the legislative history question. I believe it would be good to make it clear that businesses do not have the right to deny services to anyone. How about you . Go ahead. Should it be legal in indiana to discriminate against gays . Governor pence i dont believe or support in discrimination against gays or lesbians or anyone else. I abhor discrimination. I want to say this no one should be harassed or mistreated because of who they are, who they love or what they believe. I believe it with all my heart. This issue of discrimination has been an anthem throughout my life. I started out in politics as a democrat in high school. I was the Youth Democratic Party coordinator in my hometow
Sexual images with my head on it. To view the ads as highly sexualized rather than a highly competent state leader. There were also suggestions that i abandoned my children when i went to law school. Instead, attention was diverted from a achievement. I was no longer to be applauded for graduating law school with honors while also juggling responsibilities of caring for my young family. I was to be revile for selfimprovement at the expense of doing my fulltime to child rearing. You can see that entire event with wendy davis tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan. On the next washington journal eric of the Washington Institute for near east policy talks about the arab league halt to counter called to counter extremism and political instability in the middle east. Cq roll call reporter joins us. We talk about nations that currently have Nuclear Weapons and how they are monitored. We will also take your phone calls and look for your comments on facebook and twitter. Beginning live at 7 00 a. M.
High noon here in the east. 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. New today, president obama is considering changes to the planned troop drawdown in afghanistan. Secretary of defense Ashton Carter made the comments today in that country, his first trip there since being sworn in. Heres what he said. Our priority now is to make sure this progress sticks. That is why president obama is considering a number of options to reinforce our support for president ghanis security strategy. Nbcs Kristen Welker is live at the white house for us. With a good day to you although certainly the weather isnt that great for you, but why is the president considering this drawdown right now . Reporter i think a couple of reasons. The United States has a much closer partnership with the new Afghan Government than it did with the former government of President Hamid karzai. Secretary carter said the hopeful outlook of the relationship with afghanistan is one of the reasons the president is
Official not confirming, not denying, but clearly putting the administrations point of view out there on this. And ill just read it to you. Referring to undocumented immigrants, it says they not only violate our borders, break the law over and over again by skipping their Court Hearings and absconding from federal proceedings, they launch phony asylum claims only to be no shows at court, ordered to be removed absentia. These judicial removal orders were secured at great time of expense it goes on, and the final graph enforcing these final judicial orders is a top priority for i. C. E. , the immigration and Customs Enforcement and says willful defiance of the laws will not be tolerated. So essentially what were getting is very tough talk from the administration this morning as a follow onto the president s tweet last night indicating that something is afoot, apparently next week according to the president. There have been previous reports, very important to say that the administration h