Your next president. I want to tell you a little story that starts about my first opportunity on fox news. Not very polite. Thats what the fox news host called me during a nationally televised town hall. Why you ask . Because i walked on to the stage and i started to hold fox news accountable for hours of lies they told about womens reproductive freedom. Hours of lies they told about w important our civil rights are, our human rights are and i called them out right on the stage of thain own network. Not very polite. You Better Believe im not very polite. Im never going to be polite when the Republican Party is attacking our constitutional rights, our human rights, our civil rights to decide when and how many children were having, under what circumstances. Those are our rights. I wasnt very polite when i went down to georgia and i stood up and said were standing up to legislators cross the country. I wasnt very polite when i ran for congress in 2006 in a 21 republican district against a
Hello South Carolina democrats. My name is Kiersten Gillibrand and i am the u. S. Senator from new york and i am running to be your next president. I want to tell you a little my firstt starts about opportunity on fox news. Not very polite. Thats what the fox news host called me during a nationally televised town hall. Because i walked onto the stage and i started to hold fox news liesntable for hours of lies they told about womens reproductive on their own network. Not very polite. You Better Believe im not very polite. Im never going to be polite when the Republican Party is attacking our constitutional rights. Our human rights, civil rights, to decide when and how many children we have under what circumstances. Those are our rights. I was not very polite when i went down to georgia and stood up and said we are standing up to legislators across the country. I was not very polite when i ran for congress in 2006 in a two to one republican district against a four term incumbent and won
Conference here in washington, d. C. [ applause ]. I am a counselor with the center for American Progress and i am excited to moderate this discussion on the Climate Crisis and our response to it. This past year has shown we are in the thick of it. The sort of ground us on this, i want to read a quick paragraph that struck me in a recent New York Times magazine piece. It is describing the impact of wildfires in the northwest. Here is a quick description. The sun turned blood red always all but plotted out. Disappearing along the city skyline. The sky turned green or scipio or nearly tangerine. Sometimes there were weeks where you were advised not to open your windows or exercise outside. Sometimes there were long stretches when you were not supposed to breathe the outside air at all. So, we are in the thick of this crisis and we are also in the thick of a start of a response to it. As folks have mentioned it several times today, last Year Congress passed the largest investment in addre
Exelon. My name is navin nayak, counsel for the center of American Progress and im excited to moderate this discussion on the Climate Crisis and response to it. The past year has really shown that we are in the thick of it. To ground us on this, i wanted to read a quick paragraph that struck me in a recent New York Times magazine piece. Describing the impact of wildfires in the northwest. Here is the quick description. The sun turned blood red and all but blotted out. Disappearing along with the city skyline. The sky turned gray or sabia or tangerine. Asked floated down like snow. Sometimes there were weeks when your advise not open your windows or exercise outside. Sometimes there were long stretches when you are not supposed to breathe the outside air at all. We are in the thick of this crisis. We are also in the thick of a response or a start of a response to it. As folks have mentioned several times today, last Year Congress passed the largest investment in addressing the Climate C
Time in jail for giving the guns that youre afraid will be used against you about your allegedly abusive spouse than the abusive spouse. How is that justice, chris . When i was doing a prosecution for Domestic Violence cases, the reason you actually have that plan that says you cant own a gun, chris, is because violence comes after these sorts of crimes. I mean people are fearing for their lives. So her mind was to take the gun out of this persons hand and hand it to the authorities, and for that shes punished . I mean that doesnt make any sense to me. Its kind of that moment when common sense leaves the building, and instead people say, lets follow the letter of the law as opposed to, come on. She didnt steal the weapons to put them on the black market. She said, i dont want to be shot by this weapon. Here you go, officers. This is the same look, thats my issue about only in america, which is where youll have someone who is like, listen, i want a weapon. Im a lawabiding person. I want