For the iraq war, if you were in favor of the death penalty, if you bobbled on things like the keystone pipeline, if you said singlepayer health care cannot happen, you are too far to the right of the Democratic Party to be the partys standardbearer. Given those policy positions, why should liberal democrats support you and not senator sanders . Ms. Clinton because i am a progressive who gets things done. The root of the word progressive is progress. But i have heard senator sanders comments. It has really caused me to wonder, who is left in the progressive wing of the party . Under his definition, president obama is not progressive because he took donations from wall street. Vice President Biden is not progressive because he supported keystone. Senator shaheen is not progressive because she put she supports the trade tax. Even the late great senator Paul Wellstone would not fit this definition because he voted for doma. We have differences. Honestly, i think we should be talking about
Whether the nsa collects any kind of data at all about millions or tens of millions of americans. He said no. But much more often there is just radically misleading information. There are comments made. There is information provided that if a friend or Family Member did that to you, you would consider them to have betrayed you. You would consider them to have deliberately led you down the wrong path. Here is an example, the collection of all the call records. He does keep coming back to that and not the overseas collection. I want to go through all of it. But for a long time the government said, we wont tell you at all how many times we use this power that the patriot act gave us to collect Business Records. Its the Business Records provision. It would its top secret, which means it would do grave harm to the security of the United States if we told the number of times we used it. Then Congress Passed a law requiring them to disclose how many times they used it. They came out one year
Tough love. A mother seen forcing her son from the front lines of the protests talks to cbs news. Thats my only son. At the end of the day, i dont want him to be a freddie gray. This is the cbs morning news for wednesday, april 29, 2015. Good morning im Alison Harmelin in for annemarie green. For the most part, all was quiet in baltimore, overnight. The first time a citywide curfew was imposed. The curfew went into effect at 10 00 p. M. During the first hour, police used smoke canisters and pepper balls to dispurse a few hundred defiance protesters. 2,000 National Guardsmen and 1,000 police were on the streets to control the racially charged violence triggered by the death of freddie gray. Edward launs lawrence is in baltimore with more. Reporter the streets are quiet in baltimore. The police are talking to anybody breaking curfew in the area, which is what happened to these folks. Police are taking the curfew very seriously. The National Guards troops and humvees are patrolling the em
Mike, president obama forceful in his statement today. Saying he feels very strongly about it, that this is an issue that is front and center. We talked about this a little bit before, but it is instructive when you consider the chaos and our colleague is standing there the after math of the violent events the unrest that has led so so much almost anarchy and a crisis and you compare that to the tran quality and the sunny rose garden as he stood next to a ward loader but obviously the president very passionate about it. There are a number of issues on the agenda, and the trade packet that is outstanding now, between the United States and asia pacific but the president spoke most forcely when asked about the situation in baltimore this is something they have struggled with, after ferguson after long island, after cleveland and after the events in South Carolina just recently, the president taking over the protestors those who are loading in the streets and walking into the vacuum and th
Segregation in the south she speaks out on race in america then and now. If we are to get past our racial differences, its going to come from our kids. We begin tonight with a call for calm and for justice. This is the scene in baltimore tonight. Hundreds are in the streets. The protests follow the death of freddy gray, the black man who died in police custody. There are other demonstrators in new york. Boston. And several other major cities. By and large theyre peaceful with the crowds a powerful message of support and unity. Paul beban joins us now from baltimore. Paul. Reporter well, john, the situation that you characterized there demonstrations, order is being restored, still at the same time a feeling of the city holding its breath, concerned about the days ahead. The mayor here saying the situation remains very fluid. The police saying the situation in the city is stable and they want to keep it that way. The governor calling last nights relative calm a turning point. Hundreds o