And power to solving its d domestic problems. He said a Great Society depends on its abundance , and end poverty to which were totally committed in our time. He told the audience to picture an american where the cities are beautiful, environment is cleaner, schools are better and people healthier. He talked in economic and spiritual terms of what a better and healthier america would look like. Now its 50 years later. Did the Great Society programs hit their mark . Did we get close to johnsons vision . Or did it put a tax burden for the next 50 years. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. January 8, 1964, president Lyndon Johnsons state of the union address. This Administration Today here and now declares un unconditional war on poverty in america. I urge in congress and all americans who join with me in that effort. [applause] it will not be a short or easy struggle. No single weapon or strategy will suffice. But we shall not rest until that war is won. The riches
There will be a vote on this later. What we see over the course of a day day are a lot of motion to table. Not the wrecked up and down votes on hand. Motion to table means they are going to kill it come euthanize it here. Democrats are trying to engineer some of these boats to put republican senators facing tough reelection campaigns this fall on the record. Susan collins of maine, Courtney Gardner of colorado, tom phillips of north carolina. You can imagine this is an effort to do that but they said we didnt vote against witnesses, documents, subpoenas, what we did was we were voting one step away. Here is a change. We think the articles of impeachment, the case that the house prosecutors are going to make is going to be spread out over three days. The reason is there was a lastminute change made by the Senate Majority leader at Mitch Mcconnell moments before they started the trial today. In fact, it delayed the start of the trial by about 18 minutes. If you look at the document that
Rare step of calling on the white house chief of staff to apologize to a member of congress. And now, for five days in a row, the president s handling of the families of fallen american soldiers has been at the center of the news. A continuing story of the president s own making. The president has now spoken, for the first time, about his comments the chief of staff made in the White House Briefing room yesterday. Fourstar retired marine general john kelly was moved to discuss publicly something that is intensely personal for him, his sons death in afghanistan, just to stress how sacred that topic should be. Now, in a new interview, the president is talking about it again. He was so offended, because he was in the room when i made the call. And so were other people, and the call was a very nice call. He was so offended that a woman would be that somebody would be listening to that call, he was he actually couldnt believe it. Actually, he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. This is
Had Editorial Board has taken the rare step of calling on the white house chief of staff to apologize to a member of congress. And now for five days in a row the president s handling of the families of fallen american soldiers has been at the center of the news. A continuing story of the president s own making. The president has now spoken for the first time about his comments the chief of staff made in the White House Briefing room yesterday. Four star retired marine general john kelly was moved to discuss publicly something that is intensely personal for him, his sons death in afghanistan, just to stress how sacred that topic should be. Now in a new interview the president is talking about it again. He was so offended because he was in the room when i made the call. And so were other people. And the call was a very nice call. He was so offended that a woman would be that somebody would be listening to that call. He was he actually couldnt believe it. Actually, he said to me, sir, thi
Evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. As we come to the end of day 274 of the Trump Administration, tonight, the Washington Post Editorial Board has taken the rare step of calling on the white house chief of staff to apologize to a member of congress. And now, for five days in a row, the president s handling of the families of fallen american soldiers has been at the center of the news. A continuing story of the president s own making. The president has now spoken for the first time about his comments the chief of staff made in the White House Briefing room yesterday. Fourstar retired marine general john kelly was moved to discuss publicly something that is intensely personal for him. His sons death in afghanistan, just to stress how sacred that topic should be. Now, in a new interview, the president is talking about it again. He was so offended because he was in the room when i made the call. And so were other people. And the call was a very nice call. He