Haunt candidates in 2020. Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. On tuesday, four more states have their say at the polls. Arizona, illinois, ohio, and florida all have president ial primaries. One platform democratic hopefuls agreed on Environmental Justice. Swing voters named Climate Change as a key issue, one that could win or lose their vote. While this green revolution might seem new, it has deep roots in places like the far south side of chicago. During our listening tour last fall, our special correspondent joie chen learned the forgotten history of the Environmental Justice movement, and one woman who made it happen. Joie the tears fall hard here, and often, at this streetside memorial to all the lives lost in a poisoned community. Do you think you know most of them . Cheryl yeah, i know charles lamb senior, because i knew his son chilly. He was sick. He died of cancer. Joie the browns. The smiths. The rays. So many more. This is a lot of sufering. Cheryl this is
Resident trump wayne and yesterday on the protest. Saying this. To the leaders of iran do not kill your Protesters Thousands had already been killed or imprisoned by you and the world is watching. More importantly the usa is watching. Turn your internet back on. Let reporters roam free. Stop the killing of your great iranian people. The u. S. Blaming the attack on iran. No group has claimed responsibility yet. To you first. I just told up this New York Post. The protesters wont trample them. They call it a real enemy. With iran admitting that it downed the ukrainian airliner and this is the response in the streets. A lot of the outrage comes from the beginning that they denied that they have done it. I think the people knew they were being lied too. It reminds me of prior to the fall of the berlin wall. I think this is one that is good to get more and more attention i think the world should be watching and stacked one thing is when the treated adversity. He hes speaking directly to tho
Overnight. Its wednesday december 18th early today starts right now good to be with you this morning. Im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. A monumental morning in washington, d. C. , where the house will likely vote to impeach President Trump by days end. For six hours lawmakers will debate the two articles charging the president with abuse of power and obstruction of congress before casting their votes this evening if the house does impeach the president , his senate trial is expected to begin early next month. And mr. Trump will find himself in rarefied company. Only two president s have ever been impeached Andrew Johnson and bill clinton the senate acquitted both. Richard nixon did face the threat of removal, but he resigned before a full house vote expect today to closely mirror december 19th, 1998. Thats when the house voted mostly along party lines to impeach president clinton on two charges. Nbcs tracie potts joining us now with details from d. C. Tracie, weve got a historic d
Monuments. If youre not interested in that, you are in the wrong room. I will give you that warning at the beginning. Representative connellys office for arranging the room, and the people of the 11th district of virginia for electing representative connelly , since he has been the one generous enough to this. I want to thank amanda. , the assistant director of the National History center for doing all of the work. The National History Center Offers these briefings because everything has a history and when some of those everythings are within the realm of public policy, it is our obligation as historians to provide the Historical Context essential to inform debate and decision making. That obligation forms the soul advocacy position in these the sole advocacy position in these briefings. We are not here to convince anybody on legislation. We are here because change requires understanding the change that have brought us to the structure in the first place. We have discussed in these mee
I want to thank representative gerald connollys office for aranging the room, the 11th district of virginia for electing representative mcconnolly since hes been generous enough to be doing this and i want to thank the History Center for doing are had the work. The national History Center offers these briefings because everything has a history and when some of those everythings are within the realm of public policy, then its our obligation as historians to provide the Historical Context essential to inform, debate and decision making. That obligation forms the sole position in these briefings. Were not here to convince anybody of any particular legislation. Were here because understanding the implications of change and hence shaping its direction requires understanding it changes that have brought us to this juncture in the first place. And weve discussed in these meeting rooms the histories of immigration, Civil Military relations, executive orders, social security, commerce in outer