Im frances rivera. Happy super tuesday, 2014. The polls are open this morning in six states from coast to coast. The key races to watch are in kentucky, idaho, and georgia. The primaries there will highlight the republican establishment versus tea party battle. In kentucky, state republican leader Mitch Mcconnell is up against Tea Party Challenger matt bevan. Mcconnell leads him by 20 points in the latest bluegrass poll from the career journal. A win for senator mcconnell today would set the stage for one of novembers Top Senate Races against democrat allison lund lundergan grimes. In georgia today, a crowded seven way Senate Primary field will be narrowed down to two with a runoff to be held on july 22nd. Recent polling suggests david purdue and Jack Kingston are most likely to face off then. And finally in idaho, matt sincen is poised to defeat brian smith. Today, primaries will shape the ballots for critical contests this november. New this morning, in a surprise move, thailands arm
Fascism that demands absolute allegiance. Will the message that worked in 2016 convince voters in 2020 . Iowa republican senator joni ernst up for reelection this fall will join me. Plus shes taking a tough line against the administration on the Armed Services committee. How dare he still call himself skmander in chief. And the buzz of vp choice. With months to go before he picks a candidate for Vice President , Tammy Duckworth joins me coming up. Hello, im dana bash in for jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is honoring freedom in strange times. Happy 4th of july weekend. As americans celebrated the countrys birthday, President Trump did nothing to try to unify a nation still crippld by the coronavirus pandemic and deep cultural unrest. Instead he used the occasion to deliver two divisive speeches in front of Mount Rushmore friday night, he outlined an us versus them message framing most protests on radical assault on american life. We will never allow an angry mob
Their career doing manual labor jobs, doing Service Industry jobs. This is one thing that really hasnt changed you know ,com,com ma lots of different aspects of the clinical. Broadcast Television Cable news the rise in Canada Center collections big money in politics and client unions, while all of this is happening one of the constants during the last 100 years or so is that workingclass people are not getting elected to political office. Historian john ferling examines the repertory between Thomas Jefferson alexander hamilton. This program from a History Center is just over an hour. [applause] hello everybody and i want to thank the atlanta History Center for inviting me in and providing much nicer weather for me than six years ago when i came in and my wife carol and i were driving in that day. We looked at the monitor on the dashboard of the car and it was 103 degrees as they came in. Its much nicer tonight. I want to thank you for coming out and especially on a night when my Pittsb
I ask him one of my favorite questions. Ive fallen in getting quite steamed up about what is happening in arizona, also happening in uganda. And the common theme being an apparent attempt to use religion to basically attack gay people. Thats the antithesis of religion. Religion is about love and respecting others and respecting your fellow man, and do unto others as they would do unto you. We look at the basic route of all religion in the world is treat others as you would expect to treat yourself. How can you stand under a veil of god, a veil of love and propagate such hate. Look at what happened right now in uganda. Where president mussolini said the president , home mow sexuals are disgusting, why should he force his beliefs on to uganda, and so an and so on. Outrage from most americans about this. Right here in arizona is an attempt by lawmakers to do something that is not dissimilar. To empower businesses to say, if youre gay, im legally entitled to discriminate against you. Seaso
Spending but has no funding for the president s border wall. This comes as we could see a vote on health care this week. Of the. Gary cohn said this morning, the votes are in. It will pass. I think the votes are there and it is it will pass this week. It is close but i think it will pass. Were also following todays may day rallies across the country. Thousands of workers take to the streets on protest President Trumps policies. Well talk to our reporters here in new york city and los angeles. Weve got it all covered on this very busy news day. Chris jansing is at the white house. And chris, what are we hearing from the white house about donald trump saying he would be open to meeting with kim jongun, in fact saying he would be honored if the circumstances were right. This is extremely controversial and the president himself acknowledged as such. He said, and im quoting, most political people would never say that. But im telling you, under the right circumstances, i would meet with him.