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i want to thank the incredible coal miners that are with us. we can thank them the most, right? [applause] you folks have put up with a lot. in other countries, they love their coal. over here, we haven t treated it with the respect that it deserves. even for defense having that coal is a very important thing for us. so i want to thank you all. this rule will eliminate a major threat to your jobs and we re going to get rid of that threat immediately. we re going to fight for you like i promised i would in the campaign. you were very good to me and i m going to be even better to you. i promise you that. we re going to fight for low energy prices for all americans. there s a spirit of optimism rising a cross the country. it will continue to grow as we sign more and more bills. we re going to make our nation
student loans, you know the crushing burden of student debt is a woman s issue. if you are a black mother trying to raise a son, you know black lives is a woman s issue. listening to kamala harris speaking at a march here, a rally before a large here in washington. pregame program under way now. and then there will be a march. you see the pictures from washington here. there are sister demonstrations you might call them alling a cross the country in boston, chicago, denver and elsewhere. we ll keep an eye on those. we re also keeping an eye on the president about to make a trip to cia headquarters in langley, virginia. it s the phillips lady! anyone ever have occasional constipation,diarrhea, gas or bloating? she does. she does. help defend against those digestive issues. take phillips colon health probiotic caps daily
obviously yesterday in kentucky but one of the factors it seems was voters in kentucky saying let s put the brakes on the pace of social change a little bit. now let s go down to texas, to the city of houston, the fourth largest city in the country. there was a gay rights ordinance on the ballot in houston yesterday. it was a gay rights ordinance that also applied to transgender people. now, the opposition to this gay rights ordinance focused on that specific issue, on the transgender issue, basically making the case that some men might dress up as women so they could go into a women s room and stare at women there or harass them. for instance, the governor of texas, a conservative republican, greg abbott, as the voting was taking place yesterday in houston, he said on twitter no men in women s bathrooms. he said vote against this ordinance. that was the theme that opponents of this used. they weren t talking about gay rights. they were talking about transgender rights. something that
drinking age from 21 to 18 we saw the carnage on the roads thafr and in the middle 1980s raised the drinking age back up as a measure. marijuana s not as dangerous as drinking and driving, but this is social learning and putting of limits on that experiment in colorado and washington. i wonder too what you make of kentucky because the story of the gay marriage debate in this country you know over the last decade has been it went from being a fringe issue to something that if you take a poll nationally right now it s a majority issue. but that s not a majority across the country in every state. i think that s a message in part that kentucky voters were sending yesterday. there s an assumption i think a lot of gay marriage advocates have that this is an inevitability, eventually this will be a majority thing everywhere, it will be a fringe thing to oppose gay marriage. do you think that assumption is accurate? look, it s going to be a federal thing and a regional thing. all these y