You once again good afternoon and we want to welcome you to the National Black writers conference and thank you for so much for being a part of this great conference. Again lets get the organizes a big hand for organizing and putting this together. [applause] they always do such a great job. This panel is part of the great job that they are doing today. Race ,com,com ma power and politics is the title of our panel. Our moderator is marcus ford. William jelani cobb Obery Hendricks Michele Wallace. Thank you and good afternoon. Good afternoon. Hello. We would like to first of all thank you for coming to the 14th annual black writers conference. My name is wallace ford. Im the chairman of the Public Administration department at Medgar Evers School at inappropriate business and the other is the commentary blog soon to be in book form called love and hate the time of obama and a host of inclusion showed which can be seen in various parts of the country. The introduction has to do with the t
Leading into l. A. X. And passengers back inside the airport now facing delays as airlines work to get things back on track. The scare at l. A. X. Comes just two weeks after a similar incident caused widespread chaos at new yorks jfk airport. Both incidents highlighting how on edge travelers are following recent terror attacks abroad. And just where did this start . L. A. X. Is shaped like a large horseshoe. At the end of one of those horseshoes, this would be terminal eight, gate 82. They say a passenger who had made it through tsa said that he had heard this loud noise that sounded like gunfire. Back to you. And paul, in an unrelated story, police found a man in a zorro outfit that they thought might have been connected to this. Reporter not connected as of yet. He was surrounded. Several officers around him, up to as many as eight, and him saying the whole while that this is not a real sword. Well see what in the world this had to do with anything. But clearly panic had set in at l.
Theres nothing wrong with georgetown. Its a fine place. Right . Its a wonderful place. But its the only choice at the end of a distinguished career, after all that. Its not the end of a hallmark movie. Its the end of a really bad Reality Tv Show brought to you by someone who knows a lot about that. Why did you you previously testified that you sought advice from ambassador sondland at this time about what to do. Is that correct . I did. And why did you reach out to the ambassador . Because this was clearly so political and was not going to be you know, the state department was not in a position, shall we say, to manage the issue. It didnt appear to me. And so i asked ambassador sondland, who said that he, you know, he was a political appointee. Said he was close to the president , and so he had just been in ukraine for a ship visit with some of his eu colleagues from brussels and so i reached out to him for advice. When this was no longer a ukraine kind of, an interview with mr. Yut si
The president sparks a medical mystery with a sudden trip to Walter Reed Hospital that he insisted was part of his annual physical but sources say his visit was far from normal. And kims Cold Shoulder. North korea vents frustration saying kim jongun is, quote, no longer interested in denuclearization talks with President Trump. Is the dictator really prepared to walk away . Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. A ninth person just added to the list of witnesses slated to give live televised testimony this week in the impeachment inquiry. Diplomatic aid david holmes testified behind closed doors on friday that he overheard a call between Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland and President Trump in which the president pressed for an update on whether ukraine would investigate his political rivals. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has just sent a letter to her democratic colleagues saying, and im quoting now, the facts are un
Into the Office Following bloombergs tenure. I want you to listen to this statement from bloomberg earlier today. I got something important really wrong. I didnt understand that back then. The full impact that stops were having on the black and latino communities. Now, hindsight is 2020, but as crime continued to come down as we reduced stops and continued to come down during the next administration to its credit i now see we could and should have acted sooner and acted faster to cut the stop. I wish we had, and im sorry that we didnt. And now we have mr. Mayor de blasio here with us. Thank you for coming on in. First, i just want to get your reaction to this apology today. Do you believe it was sincere . Ana, you know, im looking at that and i just have to say people arent stupid. They can figure out if someone is honestly addressing an issue or whether theyre acting out of convenience. For years so many of us said when he was mayor of new york city this is hurting people, this is cre