Opportunity in education swung open so their daughters and sons could imagine a life for themselves beyond washing someone elses laundry or shining someone elses shoes. Because they marched, City Councils changed and state legislatures changed and congress changed. Eventually the white house changed. [cheers and applause] because they marched, america became more free and more fair. Not just for africanamericans, but for women and latinos. Asians and native americans. Catholics, jews, and muslims. For gays, for americans with disabilities. America changed for you and for me. The entire world drew strength from that example, whether it be young people who watched from the other side of an iron curtain and would eventually tear down that wall, or the young people inside south africa would eventually end the scourge of apartheid. [cheers and applause] those are the victories they won. With iron wills, and hope in their hearts, that is a transformation that they brought with each step of t
Speaker of the house john boehner said, lets not kid ourselves theres a stalemate. I think were going to get there. I mean, just inevitably a little bit of political theater. Sometimes thats a sign of progress. I think were making some progress, but were still some distance apart. Whats at stake here is very important. Were trying not just to prevent a tax increase on 98 of americans, were trying to go beyond thats going to be good for the long term american economy. But you said youre getting closer, theyre saying youre getting much farther apart. They say that this is not a serious proposal. We have a very good plan. We have a very good mix of tax reforms that raise a modest amount of revenues on the wealthy 2 of americans. Combined with very comprehensive, very detailed savings that get us back to the point where the debt is stable and favorable. If we can do that carefully, we can invest in things to make america stronger. We can rebuild infrastructure. We think those are Good Inve
Santorum opening up today about his daughters disability. And why Chris Christie must be glad this week is finally over. And our very special guest this morning, senator al franken from minnesota. We begin with the latest on american isis hostage Kayla Mueller. Until isis claimed that mueller was killed in a Jordanian Air strike before all that the American Public did not know much about Kayla Mueller or the fact she was being held. Los Angeles Times revealing new details overnight in the year and a half the mueller family spent holding the painful secret of their daughters capture in the hopes of securing her release. The efforts to contain that secret were extraordinary. All contain kayla herself. Young woman who spent years doing aid work around the world. Three months before she was taken hostage, mueller told a local kuwanis club about her work assisting Syrian Refugees in turkey. For as long as i live i will not let this suffering be normal. I will not let this be something we ju
Obvious reasons, they cant reveal too much about him, but nick, back with us over the phone. What are you learning about how significant his recapture is . Sure. According to Law Enforcement source here in mexico, were told that el chapo is back in the same prison that he escaped from last summer in july. And were told from the official that are not taking any chances. They cant suffer the embarrassment again. It was just such a stain of a legacy of the president , after he was captured, only to allow him to escape. El chapo back in the same prison, were told heavily guarded under 24 hours surveillance by guards. Theyre not giving us specifics of where he is, whereabouts with in this maximum security prison. Were told by mexican officials, but we are told that he is being heavily guarded and monitored. They dont want to take any more trances. Lets talk about this extradition and what mexican authorities have been able to tell you. That it is likely. Under what circumstance, why is this
Congress made the right call recently by not including harmful government mandates that affect our pharmacy benefits in the most recent spending package. Anyone who owns their own business can tell you how important it is to offer competitive benefits to keep employees around and incentivize new workers to join, and Congress not taking up […]