Washington and i just got in about an hour ago. We were on the tarmac. And then thats when i realized one of the things i dont miss about in congress is sitting on the tarmac at Reagan National airport waiting to get here or sitting on the tarmac at laguardia to go there. Welcome to theodores books. Its wonderful to have you all. Many of you know that i did leave the United States house of representatives after six years and very rare form i left undefeated and unindicted, which is a triumph these days and when i left my my desire was to just get some kind antidote to six years of sound bites 16 years of trying to things in 60 seconds or less. Theres actually something that is technically called a one minute speech on the floor of the house, one minute speech. Explain your position on the Affordable Care act in one minute. I wanted to avoid fighting in the screaming, in the yelling, in the partizanship jabs. And what better place to do that than to open up a bookstore where you cannot
decided for an entire country that their christian doctrine is the only way. let me reiterate this. a woman s right to choose as a human right. a person s ability in choice to bring life into this world is their choice. in america, where guns are the leading cause for death, an ar-15 has more rights than a woman. does now, the supreme court wants to mandate birth in a country where 17 million children are hungry, and more than 420,000 children or in the first care system. none of this should be a surprise. why? we warned you. every time we told you to vote. this is a decade old republican promise, when barack leblanc was blocked from putting a one gorsuch, kavanaugh, and they handmade in, were nominated and confirmed, we tried to tell you. now, here we are. joining me now is erin haines, msnbc political contributor, editor at large for the 19th. michelle cullen, she is a cofounder and consecutive director of she wrote mississippi. and amy miller, she s the president and ceo
Documentary presented here at Sundance King in the , wilderness. , morefelt many ways predictable outcome because in the north, the racial hypocrisy was very subverted. It gave the of karens of being appearance of nothing like the south. The south was the center of all evil and the north was a place of the higher experience. King said, that is not the case. They make a we will speak with the team behind king in the wilderness, including Pulitzer Prize winning Historian Taylor Branch, filmmaker Peter Kunhardt, and writer trey ellis. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from park city, utah. Longtime usa Gymnastics Team doctor larry nassar has been sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for sexually assaulting and abusing more than 100 young female athletes, including olympic gold medalists, under the guise of providing medical treatment. This is michigan judge rosemarie aquilina. I need
Was of President Trump, actually before the election and shortly after when i listened to him and he expressed this sentiment, which was, with Hillary Clinton and her transgressions and the way she handled the classified material and up to the secret server next to the bathroom up in new york, in her place, the president s position was, we need to move America Forward and we shouldnt go backwards on this or looking back. Lets move forward. And the public has litigated that. Thats where President Trump wanted it to be, but it wasnt to be because the left could not accept the idea that the American People had spoken. So they began to manufacture and continue the manufacturing of this Russian Investigation, allegations that there were investigation and i dont doubt that they made it. But we doubt that they had any impact on our election and we have seen zero evidence that the campaign of President Trump had any kind of relationship that went on with the russians that promoted or coluded i
Welcome to the Second Annual Free Expression awards dinner. Were honored to have you join us tonight to celebrate six men and women whose lives and work have been the embodyment of Free Expression. Standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together and let me move on to other subjects. David bradley, a wonderful supporter here is genius at. This the sprob i dont know any jokes. Bt First Amendment. Unless i go all George Carlin on you. And we have to keep this dinner pg. So i did what a modern person would do, i gook willed. I mean i asked alexa, i mean i asked siri. About jokes about the First Amendment. Not much luck there. Not due to the technology. Of course. There are many stories about someone making a joke of the First Amendment and countless stories about whether the First Amendment does or does not cover jokes about mothers in law, police, or various ethnic and vrabel minorities. The answer by the way is yes, yes, and yes.