Organizationally and politically. We have two reporters asked question. Niall stanage and Darren Samuelsohn. Thank you for being with us. As we get started, two questions on the mechanics. What are the numbers on your website so far . How many people have you enlisted in your campaign to impeach the president . Tom i think we are somewhere over 3. 6 million people. I have not looked at it in the past couple of days. Im sure it is over 3. 6. Inan you are running ads markets. Have any stations refused to run your ad . Tom foxs refused to run our as a couple of times. As far as i know everybody else has agreed. Susan what is your reaction to the reception do been getting . From the station owners . Tom i would say this has been we have tapped into something larger than we thought we would what we began. Our original goal was to get one million signatures. Fastert happened much than we thought. It has gone much longer than we thought. We raise our goal. Right now our goal is to get the 5 m
Susan our guest on newsmakers this week is tom steyer, the businessman, philanthropist, environmental activist has been spending much of his own money over the past year and a campaign to impeach president trump. We will talk about that effort organizationally and politically. We have two reporters here to ask questions, Niall Stanage and Darren Samuelsohn. Thank you for being with us. As we get started, two questions on the mechanics. What are the numbers on your website so far . How many people have you enlisted in your campaign to impeach the president . Tom i think we are somewhere over 3. 6 million people. I have not looked at it in the past couple of days. Im sure it is over 3. 6. Susan you are running ads in markets. Have any stations refused to run your ad . Tom foxs refused to run our as a couple of times. As far as i know everybody else has agreed. Susan what is your reaction to the reception do been getting . From the station owners . Tom i would say this has been we have ta
A wall against trump, blocking the entrance to the Convention Center with a massive cloth banner painted like a wall. Were going to be walling off hate, xenophobia, and continue our pledge to take the committees from people in positions of power and do not look out for the benefit of all of us as a community. Today we are drawing a line in the sand. To start protecting their people because we as a Community Know the solutions. No one else is going to do it for us. This is a call to action and a message to trump and anyone who feels like using xenophobia and hate as a means of power, that is not the solution and we are going to fight. Amy meanwhile, at least 17 people were arrested during another demonstration outside the rnc after a protester attempted to burn an american flag. Burning american flags is legal under most circumstances. Police used horses to try to break up the protest. Another shocking video of Police Shooting an africanamerican man has emerged. It happened monday in no
A wall against trump, blocking the entrance to the Convention Center with a massive cloth banner painted like a wall. Were going to be walling off hate, xenophobia, and continue our pledge to take the committees from people in positions of power and do not look out for the benefit of all of us as a community. Today we are drawing a line in the sand. To start protecting their people because we as a Community Know the solutions. No one else is going to do it for us. This is a call to action and a message to trump and anyone who feels like using xenophobia and hate as a means of power, that is not the solution and we are going to fight. Amy meanwhile, at least 17 people were arrested during another demonstration outside the rnc after a protester attempted to burn an american flag. Burning american flags is legal under most circumstances. Police used horses to try to break up the protest. Another shocking video of Police Shooting an africanamerican man has emerged. Itit happened monday in
Caller im with the people that think we should not be involved in another war in the middle east. Troops for us to send in when we have the iraqis saying that unless we send our people in to die for them, they are going to put their weapons down and not fight. We do not belong being the police of the world. If these people dont want to stand up and protect their own selves in that area of the world, we should not be doing it for them. Host thanks for the call. Harold from illinois. Good morning. Caller good morning. I think we should reinstitute the draft. Thatd it very strange people like romney had all of those young men and women in his family, and not a single one of them has served in uniform. Why is it always the poorest people in this country to have less to gain are always one to sacrifice . Why were they watching those tanks move in on that city, and they were dropping extensive ordinance on jeeps . It doesnt make sense. Something is wrong. Host thanks for the call. Laverne jo