On this monday, december 16. For republicans please call you can also tweak at us. Question is posted on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. You can also email us at journal cspan. Org. We will take your calls in just a few moments but first lets turn to the New York Times to get the latest on the nsa. The headline says american intelligence and Law Enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former nsa contractor extracted. That is from this weeks New York Times. On cbs 60 minutes, they took a deep dive into the nsa and spoke with leading intelligence officials who disagree or not with offering Edward Snowden amnesty. [video clip] my personal view is yes, it is worth having a conversation about. I would need assurances that the rest of the data could be secured. It would be more than just an assertion on his part. Is that a unanimous feeling . Its not unanimous. Among those thinking making a deal is a bad idea is general alexander. This is a
Thoughts this morning, for our democrats, 2025853880. 3881. Epublicans, 202585 202585endents, 3882. Mails,n always send us e journal cspan. Org. What would you tell your present live or senator your representative or senator about what to do in syria . On obamas reflecting looking to congress. The stories in the papers today, here is the New York Times that is the New York Times. The Washington Post picks up this morning by adding this in their story how would you tell your legislator or your senator, europes tentative, to vote on syria . Here is your chance to tell us what you think. We divided the lines we will hear from secretary of state john kerry yesterday. Chicago, illinois. Go ahead. He left us. To shingletown, california. This is david. How are you . Caller fine. Host what would you tell your legislator . I would tellller them the exit strategy is not to going to syria. We cannot afford any wars. I noticed they were beating the war drums. They are only concerned about money. B
My name is jerry streets. I work at a church in you have in new haven. I was also a chaplain of Yale University for 15 years and have been a member of Divinity School since 1987. For 63lived in basia years. Was from a prominent africanamerican family in and part of my family was polish catholic. Members i have of that kind of experience is how home at basia, but in the neighborhood, it was considered just black. We think about our local experiences and our history of race. For me, i think one of the greatest challenges for us, to have a different kind of language and critique for the world of culture and racism, not culture and race. Draw station i tried to from that, all the good things, one of the ways culture functions is that it can be a conduit for ideology, four perspectives. And racism for me is the ways by which we take any aspect of any Ethnic Community and privilege it or disqualify it over others. So it is not just a matter of looks. It is a language, it is the distinctions
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Leftwing progressive ideas, and some major ideological divides on display mostly on healthcare and immigration and with the dnc raising the threshold for the next debate tonights performance might be the last for some of these candidates. We have fox News Coverage tonight, bret baer, peter doocy, we start with Kristin Fisher was live with tonights make or break debate performances. Heading into tonight there was so much talk about the most progressive candidates going head to head, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders but instead, turned out to be a fight between more moderate candidates and those 2 progressives who are really the soul of the Democratic Party and no issue was more important than the issue of healthcare. Here is Bernie Sanders responding to some of his opponents who called his plan for medicare for all political suicide. You are wrong. Right now we have a dysfunctional healthcare system. We should deal with the tragedy, healthcare is a right but why be th