2020 democratic president ial candidate senator cory booker spoke at the New Hampshire institute of politics and new England Councils politics and eggs breakfast. Senator booker talked about why hes running in the direction of the country as he did. Book for about one hour and then took questions from reporters. Good morning good morning wow. I never thought i would see the day i would be so excited to be here because i may begin in this is politics eggs. You have accomplished something historical already. Theres always one. [laughter] how do you know someone is a vegan . Dont worry, they will tell you. Ive got 19 more minutes to speak to you and im looking forward to answering your questions. I want to jump right in on the theme of my campaign, but more importantly, the theme of my life. I think that the most important theme of this country. Our founders were not perfect geniuses and they enshrined in our founding documents a lot of bigotry and hate and in the decoration of embedded t
Vegan . Dont worry, they will tell you. Ive got 19 more minutes to speak to you and im looking forward to answering your questions. I want to jump right in on the theme of my campaign, but more importantly, the theme of my life. I think that the most important theme of this country. Our founders were not perfect geniuses and they enshrined in our founding documents a lot of bigotry and hate and in the decoration of embedded they called native americans savages and women as secondclass citizens but that was not the defining character of the country that has endured in the spirit they brought to humanity. They broke with the course of human events and said we would be the first nation and oldest constitutional democracy that would not be founded because we all look alike or pray like or are descended from the same branch of the family tree but they said we would be the First Society to put values and virtues on the highest aspirational ideals of human kind. It has been a tough experiment
Good afternoon. I will speak and then bill dorn from fema and then well have meryl paul thomas. Commander of the United States coast guard hell speak today and introduce himself to the folks of louise say in the. Theres five parishes. Parishes. Did speak with the administrator of fema earlier this morninging where he confirmed the president did sign the declaration upon our request and obviously if we need to and the situation warrants we half can add additional parishes and we do have a long way to go in this particular storm. As we told you all and the folks of louisiana last week this is going to play out over several days. Thats whats happening. The storm is more less stationary. This is actually moving towards the east in our direction. That makes this obviously a dangerous situation for our state especially those people on the western portion of our state. While the Tropical Storm is finish ed finished it will remain a Tropical Storm and will drop a lot of rain. We believe this w
All that, plus lady lady. Tributes pouring in for comedy icon jerry lewis. Big ben goes silent but the outrage is loud. And epic grab. Unreal wow a kid makes the catch of the year, today, monday august 21, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today. Todays total eclipse with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Guys in graphics taking this very seriously. Were been talking about it since 1979. We want to start on this monday morning. Its a frantic search for navy sailors off the coast of sing poor. After the collision of an oil tanker and the uss john mccain. We have more from bill neely. Reporter good morning, matt. The seas off singapore are in darkness now but the search for the ten missing sailors is now intense by air and on the water. So, too, the search for answers. How on earth did this happen to one of the worlds most sophisticated warships . Especially since its not the first time. A gaping hole in its water line, a
And it. L we were hanging on the edge of panic. Fareed health care hysteria. Wars. Mass shootings. Gunman opened fire fareed racial violence. This guy is a racist. But barack obama made some big bets that paid off. Troops came home. Gase got married. S got married. Enemies were vanquished. Millions on health care. Sometimes tragedy gave birth to hope. He sang Amazing Grace he channeled that as president and it was a profoundly important moment. Fareed but as a new era begins. Mr. Trump your moment of liberation is at hand. Saide black guy smiled and that president smiled and said im a black guy named Barack Hussein obama and im president of the United States. Fareed what is the legacy of barack obama. Charlie he also wrote an essay dedicated to the power of populism called populism on the march why the west is in trouble. Im pleased to have you back on this program. Fareed a pleasure as always. Charlie lets begin with barack obama. What is his legacy . Fareed as an individual, hes trie