Will be featured in our new season of landmark cases, which begins tomorrow. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. Beautiful. That is so inspiring. Wonderful live cspan audience, you can see that the great members of the National Constitution center are inspired i this nonpartisan mission of constitutional education and believe it is crucially important for citizens to educate themselves about the constitution so american democracy can thrive. In this mission, we are so excited to be partners with cspan. We have a wonderful collaboration. Landmark cases, which describes the human stories behind some of the most Important Supreme Court cases of all times. That series was inspired by the comments of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg at the National Constitution center a few years ago, where she said how inspiring it would be to hear those stories so people can relate to the cases. Series was such a success that by popular demand we are launching tonight
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Devastating Drought Forces homeowners to dramatically cut back. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. A lot of us got that uneasy feeling today when within hours of each other separate computer outages grounded all United Airlines flights and halted trading on the new york Stock Exchange. It turns out they were unrelated glitches but they quickly got the attention of Homeland Security officials who determined there was no cyber attack. And while that gave us a reason to breathe easier it didnt make the day any better for grounded and delayed passengers or stock traders. And it reminded us all once again of what a razorthin digital threat we all hang by. We have two reports. First Stephanie Gosk on the Stock Exchange breakdown. Stephanie, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. Well the new york Stock Exchange is one of the worlds largest. So when something goes wrong here on wa
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Now, mr. President on an entirely different matter, the ongoing revelations about planned parenthood are more than just disturbing. They literally shock the conscience. A democratic colleague called them quote very troubling. End quote. Extremely troubling and highly troubling. Next week every member of this party will have a chance to join us in reaffirming the senates commitment to genuine compassion and to Womens Health. We introduced legislation last night that would ensure taxpayer dollars for Womens Health are spent on Womens Health. Not a scandalplagued political lobbying giant. Its a simple choice. Senators can either vote to protect Womens Health or they can vote to protect subsidies for a Political Group mired in scandal. I know planned parenthoods entrenched lobbyists have been close allies of democrats in recent years but this moment calls for senators to rise higher and to think bigger. Lets not filibuster Womens Health in order to protect special subsidies for one scandal