we, the people, in order to form a more perfect union 221 years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched america s improbable experiment in democracy. the document they produced was eventually signed, but ultimately unfinished. it was stained by this nation s original sin of slavery. i chose to run for president at this moment in history because i believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together, unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes, that we may not look the same and may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction towards a better future for our children and our grandchildren. this belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the american people. but it also comes from my own story. i m the son of a black man from kenya and a wh
generation and their time. so i don t think that there was a sense of my difference racially as i was growing up. i mean, hawaii was a sort of a unique kind of melting pot. then when i was six, my mother remarried an indonesian, and we moved to indonesia, which certainly made me feel different, but it had more to do with the fact that i was an american living in a third-world country than the fact that i was an african american. it probably wasn t until i came back from indonesia, and i was around ten years old or so, that it became an issue. i obtained a scholarship to a prep school in hawaii. at that point, suddenly i looked around and said, you know, there aren t that many folks who look like me. when he first came into school, when barry first came, i was excited. for me, being a little girl, i haven t been there from first grade to fifth grade, i had been by myself. and when i say by myself, i just mean because i m the only little black girl there. and being teased all the time
able to get compensated and it will not hurt the american public at all. eric: the bill isn tr in the senate is just to explain 30% penalties for companies that break the sanks and that means that there could potentially be some justice. an interesting story. when barry first came home, we were invited to a dinner i think it had to do with the soviet jewelry. it was a new york real estate tycoon who slapped barry on the back and said, i got everything i ever invested out of iran, what did you get? you know what what did we get? we have gotten 444 days of pain and suffering by the hostages, by the family, by the children, by the mothers, by the extended families. and 30-odd years now of further suffering because the stories if you knew just a part of
my next guest knows a thing or two about getting married in the public eye her wedding was watched by 2 million people. real housewife of new york and star of the hit reality show bethany getting married. bethany frankel joins us. also here is presidential historian barry landow who has previously attended a clinton family wedding. i am going to go to barry first. with our last president jenna bush got married while her father was in the white house. yet there didn t seem to be the hype or the engagement that we are seeing with chellie clinton s wedding. the clintons capture america and the world s imagination having hillary clinton as secretary of state having her as united states senator. people love to love a love story. is there also a feeling that we watch chelsea with her mom and dad go through some difficult times and she is come out and great and smart and she
two about getting married in the public eye her wedding was watched by 2 million people. real housewife of new york and star of the hit reality show bethany getting married. bethany frankel joins us. also here is presidential historian barry landow who has previously attended a clinton family wedding. i am going to go to barry first. with our last president jenna bush got married while her father was in the white house. yet there didn t seem to be the hype or the engagement that we are seeing with chellie clinton s wedding. the clintons capture america and the world s imagination having hillary clinton as secretary of state having her as united states senator. people love to love a love story. is there also a feeling that we watch chelsea with her mom and dad go through some difficult times and she is come out and great and smart and she