we fought through the wilderness and threw open the doors of richmond slave jails, all to save the constitution and renew its promise of equality and freedom. we stormed the sands and scaled the cliffs of normandy. we drove tanks through the gates, we planted the stars and stripes on iwo jima and saved civilization. we marched on washington and won the right of suffrage for women. we marched over the edmund petttus build. we about built rockets to the moon. we built the largest economy, the greatest military in history, and we buried the soviet union beneath it. the american people are always there for one another. when neighbors are hurting, strangers load up their minivans and head that way. whether it was when the towers fell and people rushed across the country to search through the rubble or whether it was when the winds blew here in iowa and the floodwaters rose. so i ask you to remember who we are. if you are attempted to despair. we re americans. and there s nothing w
13th, impeached, indict-able, and unrepentant. as he pursues another bid for the white house, the former president in the current front runner for the 2024 republican nomination continues to tessa limits of the law even as he remains tangled up in a multitude of legal troubles. all of this on full display for the public over the past week. on tuesday, a jury found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer and former magazine columnist ej carroll, who accused trump of raping her inside a bergdorf goodman dressing room back in the mid 1990s. yet just one day later, trump appeared on a nationally televised town hall event and mocked carroll again, and continue to claim that her allegations were quote, a fake story. now this is not an isolated incident for donald trump either. it s a pattern of behavior, he has a long history going back decades of weaponizing the legal system to his advantage. in just the last few years, we ve repeatedly witnessed
targeting firearms storage it s called nc safe. democratic governor roy cooper joins me now. thank you for being with us. you know, those two stories just two in a building number of stories you know them because your state lives them. tell me what this plan entails and why you think this specifically can help make a difference? there are too many tragedies that are happening every single day like this, and when gunfire has replaced car accidents as the leading cause of injury deaths for our children, we have to do something about it. you know, first, we need stronger background checks. red flag laws. assault weapon bans. but we ve seen a very difficult time in getting that legislation through congress, and certainly, i have a supermajority republican legislature in north carolina. and we can t get them to move on it so, as governor, i m using my deck tiff authority to do what i
[applause] [applause] why not fully fund public education? [applause] instead of giving millionaires yet another tax break, and paying for their children s private school voucher. [crowd chanting] why not pay our children s teachers what they deserve? [applause] why not pass common sense legislation that deals with the fact that gunfire has surpassed car accidents as the number one cause of injury deaths for
from a drug overdose. overdoses remain the leading cause of injury deaths in the united states. with nearly 44,000 lives lost each year. new boston globe poll with new hampshire residents puts drugs as one of the top issues facing the country. a state senior u.s. senator is unveiling the largest response yet to the heroin epidemic. joining me now, jeanne shaheen from new hampshire. senator, thanks for taking a few minutes. i want to get to how this issue is playing out in your state in the primary. but first, let me just talk to you about the response you are proposing. you re looking for $250 million here focused on prevention, on treatment. tell us about what you would do. well, first of all, this is an emergency in new hampshire and throughout this country. it is a national emergency. and we need to respond on a national basis. we need to put in resources that states and communities need to