provided to ukraine. in february of 2004, russia began the military campaign against ukraine against the advice and urgings of congress and his own administration, president obama refused then and throughout the remained oref his presidency to provide lethal assistance to ukraine. in the house, manager schiff joined many of his colleagues in a letter writing campaign to president obama urging that the u.s. must supply ukraine with the means to defend itself, end quote, against aggression, and forcing president obama to approve additional efforts to support ukraine s efforts to preserve its sovereign territory and including defense weapons to the territory. and then the house of representatives overwhelmingly
during your time as attorney general of california you had the opportunity to lay out the legal groundwork for same-sex marriage legislation. you officiated the first same-sex marriage in san francisco. thanks for that. given these it was my joy. given these facts, your perspective of the lgbtq plus community is likely more liberal than other parts of the country. how will you leverage your liberal californian perspective when reaching out to voters in small conservative areas. what i will do is tell them the story of not only that day after we defeated proposition 8, but i ll tell them the story of valentine s weekend in 2004. so back when and let s set this clear. back when a lot of democrats were talking about civil unions in february of 2004, i was performing marriages.
i spent my liar working on lbgtq isnow. we need a justice department that is on the side of all of the people. let s just set this clear back when a lot of democrats were talking about civil unions in february of 2004 i was performing marriages. there can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone, any organization in america that denies the full human rights and civil rights of every single one of us. my solutions are these. first of all to make sure that hiv community can get the drugs they need. i also believe our asylum
of getting that approval, every step from growing to harvesting to manufacturing is all carefully controlled, regulated and rigorously tested to strict standards, so every plant, every dose is identical, safe and effective. it is an expensive and painstakingly slow process. it s taken hundreds of millions of dollars and a decade to develop their first drug for the pain and spasms brought on by multiple sclerosis. as a neurosurgeon myself, i was curious how well this medicine could work. theresa pointer was diagnosed with ms in february of 2004. for years she struggled with pain and exhaustion. she tried just about everything, but found the drugs prescribed to her were ineffective or had awful side effects. but one day in 2005, she read in the newspaper about clinical trials for a marijuana based medicine. have you ever tried cannabis?
did chew on this for months. the papers did. the tv news organizations did. this was a major journalistic ever. the earliest wujz from that clip just from our archives, the earliest were february of 2004. the last one i showed was from september of 2004. this was going on all year long. in fact the last story i showed you was specifically from september 8th, 2004. that last clip with andrea mitchell reporting on the new reporting from the boston globe and newly found documents, september 8th, 2004, nbc nightly news, september 8th. nightly news airs at 6:30 p.m. that night, september 8th, 2004, 90 minutes after that nightly newscast, another network aired their own original story on that subject that night. and it was just one in a series of stories, right? they added their own original story to the mounting people of