In america occupied by the National Guard after dr. King was assassinated because of the riots. And i became a county councilman almost by accident. I got elected to the United States senate when i had no mind of running at age 29, then Vice President to our first black president , now president to the first woman Vice President. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] in my career, i have been told i was too young. By the way, it did not let me out of senate elevators for votes sometimes on a joke. Ive been told i am too old. Whether young or old, i have always been known, i have always known endures. Ive known our northstar. The very idea of america is that we are all created equally and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives. We have never fully lived up to that idea. And we have never walked away from it either. And i wont walk away from it now. I am optimistic. I really am. I am optimistic. [applause] my fellow americans, the issue facing our nation is not how old
humanitarian pauses. the white house says that israel has formalized a plan to pause military operations for four hours each day, giving civilians times to get out. what israel is saying about this. and president biden saying the u.s. hid a site in sir ra, quote, because they struck us. what the pentagon is sending to the region to deter more attack. how a man in arkansas received a whole eye and partial fail transplant. it s being called completely uncharted territory. all of this is stories are coming in right here to cnn news central. 80,000 palestinians went through a corridor through gaza today. from israeli officials, the white house says israel has formalized a plan for four-hour-long pauses every day to allow evacuations from gaza. it s also to allow humanitarian assistance into the enclave. nic, israel had been carrying out these pauses, to a degree, over the last few days. now it s a formalized plan. reporter: yeah. it s interesting here. the idf i
landmark relief bill. the house gearing up for a vote on the $2 trillion plan. it could get to the president s desk as early as tomorrow morning. that s a big deal. as a matter of calendar, it would beat the sunday deadline for renewing programs for the jobless. biden visited a hardware store that will benefit from this kind of support today, and he contrasted this money and the way he is going to deliver it, the new approach here with discredited trump programs where some of the money went the people who just didn t need it. an awful lot of that went to bigger businesses that in fact weren t supposed to qualify. in the last administration fired its inspector general. so a lot of money went to people who shouldn t have gotten help. we ve got several aspects of this story, but we begin immediately with our experts, former governor of vermont and former presidential candidate and also a doctor howard dean, and washington post reporter libby casey. good to see both of you.
Not close. And four years later in an environment that is more hostile, kay hagan comes pretty close to winning a senate seat despite 125 million being spent, and she did that in large part because we turned out tens of thousands of more of the most disenfranchised people in the country in a state where republicans shortened the early vote period from two weeks to one week and eliminated a lot of the easilyaccessible voting sites for africanamericans and for young people. Thats the lesson that democrats have to take. Theres no question there are a lot of disappointed democrats and my message to them is take a few days, have a drink or two, get a little bit of rest, pick yourself back up because theres an election in two years and thats what we should be looking at over the next couple of months for what is going to definitely be another election cycle. The one candidate for president to did go to campaign with gary peters is the senator elect. What is next for you . I think i have four
Republicans expanded their majority in the house of representatives. This is 15 minutes. I missed you all. That is what the president said yesterday. He did . I hope you did not believe it. Never do. [laughter] good. Im going to start by congratulating my friend, senator Mitch Mcconnell. As you know, mitch and i have worked very closely together over the last eight years and i dont think i could ask for a better partner or do i think the senate could have a better majority leader than Mitch Mcconnell. Also, i express my gratitude to the people of ohios eighth congressional district. You know, my mission is the same today as it was in 1990 when i was first elected to build a smaller, less costly, more Accountable Government here in washington, d. C. And right now i believe that means continuing to listen, to make the American Peoples priorities our priorities and to confront the big challenges that face middle class families starting with the economy. You have heard me talk many times a