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As the National ConstitutionCenter Awards the 2017 Liberty Medal to senator john mccain. [applause] throughout his career, senator mccain has put his the devotion to the u. S. Constitution above faction or party. He is the kind of independent citizen statesman James Madison envisioned when he stressed that the u. S. Constitution created not a direct democracy, but a representative republic. Madison and the framers of the constitution believed that direct democracies have led in greece and rome to rule by demagogues and the mob. By contrast, in a representative republic, citizens would delegate power to enlighten representatives. A chosen body of citizens whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice wi ....
Flight to san jose. After another passenger reported seeing him texting about molesting children. He s now in even bigger trouble federal agents are taking over the case. Take vo Court Documents unsealed today indicate Michael Keller and gail burnworth, the woman he was texting, met online a year ago. They re both from the seattlearea. Prosecutors say the two admitted to having a sexual interest in children, and their texts described in explicit detail what they planned to do to two Young Children in burnworth s care, once she drugged them. Because the texting occurred across state lines, local prosecutors say it s now a federal case. Take sot oc so we have decided to dismiss our state charges against him so they can remove to federal court and prosecute him there, on charges that will carry a much bigger sentence than ....
The east bay will clear. Then we will look for the slow clearing across the bay. With that it will be a cool afternoon. By 10 00, were sunny in most east bay neighborhoods. 3 00 in the afternoon, we have the clouds up along the coast. It will be in the 50s there. 60 in the city. The rest of the numbers and a look at mothers day in a few minutes. 8 01 is our time. One person is in custody after being involved in a hit and run crash in San Francisco. It happened just after 11 30 last night at brotherhood way. Police say two cars collided head on. One person was taken into custody for a possible dui. No word yet on any injuries. Happening now the san mateo bridge is closed for the weekend. A live look from our camera. You can see this is not the normal sight that we see on a weekend. The traffic issue not the only thing that were dealing with across the bay area. Katie has details. I asked my daughter come to visit me at our house . S ....
The week in parliament. Hello again and welcome to the week in parliament. Lifting englands lockdown, the Prime Minister promises to trust the people. The common sense of the british people got us through that first phase of this disease. Im absolutely confident they will get us through the next as well. Theres a new slogan are you staying home or staying alert . Or just confused . What the country needs at this time is clarity and reassurance. And at the moment, both are in pretty short supply. And as mps are told to get back to work, is the new high tech Virtual Parliament about to switch off . Stay at home, stay alert to what . Work from home, come to work, come in on monday, come in on wednesday. Its like a comms hokey cokey. But first, how was your monday . For the newspapers, it was to be happy monday, even magic monday the day borisjohnson released england from loc ....