warmest embrace ever. like a family reunion down here. this audience around me is a family portrait of america. nothing segregated here, nothing cut off. there s unity in the air here and that s the big question that we, can president obama reignite the sense of national unity, do it in spirit, open with a gusto capable of roaring through the first tuesday after the first monday in november? if he can it will be the spirit of charlotte the country will give the credit. with me former new mexico governor and u.n. ambassador bill richardson. thank you. back in 2004, barack obama s inspirational speech inspired a country as he spoke about unifying the red states and blue states. let s watch. there is not a liberal america and a conservative america. there is the united states of america. there is not a black america and a white america. and latino america and asian america. there s the united states of america. the pundits, the pundits like to slice our country into red stat
like a family reunion down here. this audience around me is a family portrait of america. nothing segregated here, nothing cut off. there s unity in the air here and that s the big question that we, can president obama reignite the sense of national unity, do it in spirit, open with a gusto capable of roaring through the first tuesday after the first monday in november? if he can it will be the spirit of charlotte the country will give the credit. with me former new mexico governor and u.n. ambassador bill richardson. thank you. back in 2004, barack obama s inspirational speech inspired a country as he spoke about unifying the red states and blue states. let s watch. there is not a liberal america and a conservative america. there is the united states of america. there is not a black america and a white america. and latino america and asian america. there s the united states of america. the pundits, the pundits like to slice our country into red states and blue states, re
it s a deal. the 11th hour on the capitol hill keeps the government running. who was the biggest winner, and another fight on the horizon. we have live reports and reaction from washington. fact checking donald trump s berther claims. did he tell the truth in a recent interview? 50,000 jobs in a day. a fast food giant gets ready to make a lot of hires. could this put a dent in the nation s unemployment numbers? good morning. i m alex witt. welcome to msnbc saturday. talking about cutting it close. a last-minute deal on capitol hill last night kept the government from shutting down just after midnight the house approved a stop gap measure to keep federal programs funded. without it, 800,000 workers would have been told to stay home until congress could sort it all out. the bill cuts roughly $38 billion in spending. once the final version is approved, it will keep washington running for the rest of the year. compromise came after the gop dropped a contentious provision to
as we begin, my dear friends, and suggest we be mindful of those who were also involved in the accident and their families. i have only one point i would like to make concerning senator ted stevens. that is to say that senator stevens was a man of god. there are certain circles that would find it rather surprising, if not difficult, to put god and a politician in the same sentence. [laughter] however, think about it. each of our senators and congressional delegates are challenged to love those whom they serve. certainly, if we think of the words of st. john the apostle, who wrote one of several of the letters of the new testament, he showed a pattern for linking the love of god with love of neighbor. he put it very simply and very straight. if you cannot love your neighbor, you cannot love god. the two are inseparable. the two are mutually demanding. if we could borrow a line from one of the ancient, one of the long ago broadway plays, they both go together. you cannot have
tough situation will clear whether a military option in iran would work. now supposing the israelees ke keep now would you secretary shultz sit on the israelis and try to stop? they had it supported by iran, armed by aran. and then nothing. they have rockets that can hit televisions. they say they want to wipe it out, iran says the same thing. repeatedly, hamas and gaza say the same thing. they you were asking here, which is how does this all go together? and therefore pushing in terms of trying to get some solution on the israel/palestinian issue is essential. trying to figure out some way to have containment of iran. i am not sure what the effect of bombing iran is generally. you raised the question, are we prepared to have a third war with a muslim country. that s right. i think that we are not in office, so people that are, have to consider the effects of all this will be. and whether there are other ways to go about dealing with this. there may be some moment