plans for initiatives and policy recommendations i wanted to put forth next year. like in any counsel, we have differences of opinions and approaching public health and how we see hiv and and aids pol. i would definitely say that our council were strong architects and many of us were contributing authors of the national hiv strategy which was strongly support and included with the affordable care act. when you talk about fundamental differences, many of us on the council had fundamental differences from the direction this administration seems to have taken. now my impression of aids policy at the national level over the last couple of decades, since the council was first created is it s one of the few issues on which democrats and liberals, people living with aids, the gay community might actually find a few nice things to say about george w. bush. there weren t that many. there weren t all that many issues in that column in terms of the george w. bush
act out was started by larry kramer in new york city. after that chapters began to spring up around the country. the militant group act up gained increasing influence on aids policy. weekly meetings of the new york chapter attract hundreds, mostly young, mostly gay. i realized i only had a year or two more to live probably so why not go out with a bang. so i quit my job on wall street and became a full time activist. let s do a demonstration and keep it there. we had so many angry young men who had lost friends and were terrified they were going to die. pretty scared. but being hiv positive i don t have much choice in that. the fuse was ready to be lit
kramer in new york city, and soon after chapters began to spring up around the country. the militant group act up gained increasing influence on aids policy. weekly meetings of the new york chapter attract hundreds, mostly young, mostly gay. i realized i only had a year or two more to live probably so why not go out with a bang. so i quit my job on wall street and became a full time activist. let s do a big demonstration there and keep it there. we had so many angry young men who had lost friends and were terrified they were going to die. pretty scared. but being hiv positive, i don t have much choice. the fuse wrasse ready to be lit for us to explode. act up, fight back. the gay community which has
president bill clinton, and i want to hear the moment we always think of as his great empathy moment. let s take a listen. i feel your pain! i feel your pain. what we remember from that is that moment. i feel your pain. we went back and looked at that whole conversation. it s been a long time, but it s worth reminding people. it was in a conversation with an aids activist who was challenging him about aids policy. and most of the discourse he says, i feel your pain, but he also says, you better be quiet because i m up here and bad things are happening to me, and it was a very chris christie on thursday, me, me, me speech. but what we remember is, i feel your pain. why was he so good at sort of presenting himself as the great man of the people? you know, and sadly, a lot of times, rhetoric and emotion means more than policy and substance in politics. and we know this. a lot of times our hearts are a
party. james and mary, appreciate your thoughts on both bp and on the big political news. whether we continue we ll go wall to wall. a lot more to cover, including a big announcement from the white house today. the president released a new aids policy. we ll break down the plan and show you shall key moments at the white house and key statistics of how this disease plays out against the country. san antonio s young mayor is on the cusp of huge demographic change. you won t want to miss hi views. in play by play tonight, rush limbaugh versus scott brown and harry reid versus the president of the united states. we ll show you just what we re talking about, and pete dominick and john king will talk about the passing of the boss. love him or not, you have to respect his tenacity to win, and he changed baseball.