In selma. Congressman lewis passed away last week of bank pancreatic ca, he was 80 years old in addition to his more than three decades in washington, lewis was a giant of the civil rights movement. Famously led a march from selma site of the memorial across the ed monobridge to Montgomery Alabama for Voting Rights in 1965. After police descended on march percent dozens of them injured including lewis himself he suffered a fractured skull. And we have Live Team Coverage of tonights memorial. Well discuss john lewiss life and powerful legacy with Eleanor Holmes norton and dr. Taryn who was once an intern for congressman lewis but we first begin with first steve [inaudible conversations] reporter just really a stunning picture here when you think about the history involved. Weve just seen the coffin of john lewis being taken into the church here by a military honor guard. It was 55 years ago, just a short distance from here on bridge when he was leading 600 nonviolent protesters they wer
That she is maybe one of the best political people in washington. Her father was the publisher of Time Magazine in its heyday and ambassador to austria. Henry married louise gruenwald and is one of the last so just when you think you know everybody in new york, you dont she is it. Mandy ran all the media for his Elizabeth Warren and tammy baldwin. The firsttime president ial so you need to understand she is amazing. Incredible, fabulous. Its a nice small room. Hey, undersecretary. Well done. Congratulations. Are you enjoying at . Its fun, yeah. Its hard. Is the work hard . No. I mean technically its okay but everyone is super smart so id have to do my problems and then work on the board. I get it. I get it. At the same time im trying to represent everybodys equity. Actually that was good training. Im just saying thats the best it was so personal and when everyone is a democrat and you agree on everything except with little gradations its all process personality. In the state its tribal
And Hillary Clinton looking ahead to november. When you hear what trump and cruz say, its not only offensive. Its dangerous. We are going to fight for every last vote before california and the d. C. Primary. Plus i approved the deployment of up to 250 additional u. S. Personnel in syria, including special forces to keep up this momentu momentum. More american troops. But they wont lead the fight. Will they . Lets talk live in the cnn n s newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me. Major twist in a political season that has already tossed aside the normal playbook. Donald trumps challengers are joining forces for a single goal, to keep the nomination out of mr. Trumps hands. Having donald trump at the top of the ticket in november would be a sure disaster for the republicans adding having him as our nominee would set the party back a generation. Good morning, carol. This is an extraordinary deal between john kasich and ted cruz, nonaggression pact with a divide
White house staffers set to testify this week as part of the russia investigation. Bannon said that the heart of this case is money laundering, and i think theyre going to want to know what does he mean by that . Real question is whether the Intelligence Committee is willing to gather the information that we need to protect ourselves. Announcer this is new day with chris cuomo and allison cam rat toe. This is tuesday, january 16th. 6 00 a. M. In the new york. Congress returns to a sobering reality. U. S. Government may be headed to a shutdown on the oneyear anniversary of donald trump presidency. Making it less likely that lawmakers will reach a deal on spending and immigration in the next four days. President trump is blaming democratic senator dick durbin for misrepresenting those comments. Durbin stands by his story on the president s profane comments. He also says the president also accuses durbin of now trying to blow up this deal to protect hundreds of thousands of these socalled
Covers the activities of the are border very closely. What do we know about this record roundup . Well, we know that the immigrants were encountered yesterday morning. There were over 1,000 of them, the majority of them were family units. That means a mother and a child would be counted as two. We know over 900 of them came as family units. And they are all from central america. Guatemala, el salvador and hondur honduras. Were seeing more and more large groups because there is safety in numbers. As they make treacherous journeys and because so many of them find it hard to go legally. If you of the big caravans last fall, those were people going directly to the ports of entry where they could climb asylum. And many had to wait months. A lot have given up and are now trying to cross illegally between ports of entry where it is dangerous and not given the same amount of care. Border agents often about a control in pairs, so it can be assess difficult to assess the hu humanitarian needs of