the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. a little while ago, i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him. [crowd chanting] please. to congratulate him. on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. john mccain. gently, but firmly, and managing a crowd of republicans for booing the election of our nation s first black president. at the time, this was seen as an important moment, it wasn t as though statesmanship was exactly the norm in the republican party. it was sort of the opposite, actually. remember, john mccain s running mate, sarah palin, who was a proponent of birtherism, that conspiracy theory that unfounded racist fearmongering that undermined the historic election of our nation s first black president, and that turned conservatives against barack obama, that you could probably hear in the booing of senator mccain tried to hush that night. mccain d
[applause] free baba now free baba now free baba now free baba now free baba now [banging] they dont want to show us the warrant imagine youre in your pajamas and youre about to wake up for the day to begin theyre taking my husband. And they take you away from everybody you love and you know, even though youve lived here your entire life. Or imagine youre baba sillah and you go to isis headquarters, do what youre supposed to do you check in. And you go there thinking, then im going to go to work, then im going to go see my babies at night, my wife, and im going to live my life. And they end all that. No ban. No wall these are racist laws that are tearing families apart in a way thats in opposition to everything that this country is supposed to believe in. Weve been on this track of creating this aggressive, relentless challenge to isis actions to shine a light on whats wrong. [traffic sounds] what id like to do is to talk about the day when ice came to pick you up. They knocked on the
hello, welcome to the programme. a0 migrants who crossed the english channel were brought ashore by the dover lifeboat this morning. so far, just short of 3000 people have crossed in the first two months of this year. that s twice as many as the equivalent period last year. the prime minister says stopping these boats is one of his top five priorities. tomorrow, we ll see how he proposes to do it. his new policy, that s been heavily trailed, suggests that going forward migrants who cross this way will be removed and banned from future re entry and automatically their application for british citizenship will be rejected. we will talk about what is proposed in a second, but let s first hear from someone farzad. he arrived by small boat in 2019, fleeing persecution in iran. he was granted asylum a year ago. he s been speaking to bbc radio 4. now, farzad, if you were in france, where presumably you were safe, and you heard that it was the law in the uk that if you arrived on a bo
[ cheering ] robie: this place was a boomin . you couldn t get through this town down there. but it s dead now. about eight or ten coal mines shut down at one time. coach: let s go! it s the same halftime speech every single week. quentin: there is so much negativity surrounding this place that no one ever focuses on the positive. they see us as ignorant or hillbillies. daniel whitt: overdose capital of the east coast. quentin: but there s more here than just poverty and illiteracy and drugs. there s a lot of good people here. coach: when you walk on this field, you better have tunnel vision. don t look left, don t look right. you look at that scoreboard, and that should burn in your heart. do you understand me? we got some ground to make up. and once we make that ground up, we ll take off. let s go. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting cold
[applause] free baba now! free baba now! free baba now! free baba now! free baba now! [banging] they don t want to show us the warrant! imagine you re in your pajamas and you re about to wake up for the day to begin they re taking my husband. and they take you away from everybody you love and you know, even though you ve lived here your entire life. or imagine you re baba sillah and you go to isis headquarters, do what you re supposed to do you check in. and you go there thinking, then i m going to go to work, then i m going to go see my babies at night, my wife, and i m going to live my life. and they end all that. no ban. no wall! these are racist laws that are tearing families apart in a way that s in opposition to everything that this country is supposed to believe in. we ve been on this track of creating this aggressive, relentless challenge to isis actions to shine a light on what s wrong. [traffic sounds] what i d like to do is to talk about the day when ice came to