When your local pride parade happens. There are a few places though in the United States that do their pride parades at different times. Where i live in western massachusetts, the city of northhampton northhampton is so awesomely lefty up there, we peg our gay pride parade to may day, because yeah sure those were riots, but its International Workers day, comrade. And theres also the city of miami beach in south florida. They hold theirs not in june they hold theirs in april. They hold theirs earlier than everybody else. And i dont think in miami beach that its for any specific political reason. In miami beach, they just do theirs in april because its nice there in april. Of course it is traditional to show off a little of what youve got at a pride parade. Its traditional to be a little so miami beach may be the one place in america where you can guaranty that in april, it will probably be warm enough outside to do your topless thing or wherever else youre going to be celebrating your p
This morning my question can president obama end perpetual war . And plus the real fight over reproductive rights. It is about access. And we will go below the line to hear from americas homeless children, but first, these boots were made for combat. Good morning, im Melissa Harrisperry. This week marked the second of two seismic shifts in the United States military in just over two years. The first was december of 2010 when president obama signed the repeal of the dont ask, dont tell law and ending a policy that mandated shame and secrecy as requirements for service. The second happened on thursday when defense secretary leon panetta joined the joint chiefs of staff chairman Martin Dempsey and made this announcement. We must open up Service Opportunities for women as fully as possible. And therefore today, general dempsey and i are pleased to announce that we are eliminating the direct Ground Combat exclusion rule for women. And we are moving forward with a plan to eliminate all unnec
Religious freedom mean freedom to discriminate against gays . Arizonas Legislature Took its stand. All of the pillars of society as we know it today are under attack. Should the governor sign the controversial bill or veto it . I will do the right thing. On the left van jones. On the right Newt Gingrich. In the cross fire, granderson who is against the bill and ken kucuccinelli who is for it. Is arizona trying to protect religious freedom or legalize discriminati discrimination . Tonight on crossfire. Im Newt Gingrich on the right. Im van jones on the left. Tonight the nfl, american airlines, marriott and even mitt romney and john mccain all agree with me. Arizona governor jan brewer needs to veto this socalled religious freedom bill that would actually legalize discrimination against gays and lesbians. She has until saturday to make her decision. Governor, one of the greatest achievements we ever had in america is simply this. We got rid of six words. Those six words, we dont serve yo
Hearing. Were also watching this today. Intelligence fushls want to see evidence to back up the claim he was wiretapped by his predecessor. The House Intelligence Committee gave the white house a dead line to show proof. That dead line comes tomorrow. Cnns athena jones is here with more on that. Youre at the white house. Any indications on whats going to happen tomorrow. Theres no indication that the white house is prepared to offer any proof to back up the president s unsubstantiated allegations. Reporters have been asking the white house since last saturday to provide that evidence. Instead of doing so after a couple days of being asked that, they decided on sunday to call for these congressional investigation ps. But the president himself also has been dodge iing these questions. He was asked repeatedly by a report eren standing a few feet away from him about any evidence he might be able to provide and he ignored that it reporter. The Vice President also dodged a direct question as
Happening and why. We do want to begin with the explosive news about President Trump and russia. It involves donald trump junior. Breaking in the last 30 minutes, the New York Times reporting that donald trump junior met with a russian laier after being promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton. This directly contradicts what don junior told msnbc news that this meeting happened in 2016. He was asked to attend by an acquaintance and was not told the name of the person i would be meeting, and russian adoption policies. If the times report is accurate it would be the first evidence of someone very close to trump, his own son, meeting with the russians to try to damage Hillary Clinton. Also according to the times reporting that don junior brought in Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner all working on the campaign. Paul manafort working as the Campaign Manager at the time. Don junior requested they attend this meeting. All of this coming after President Trump spoke out about that meeting