Fellow soldiers boarded a convoy to embark on the first ever u. S. Army coasttocoast motor transport train averaging a mere 5 miles per hour, it took the caravan two months to reach San Francisco, driving along the local lanes and the state roads, but they were in such disrepair that the soldiers had to fix 88 bridges themselves just to complete the journey. Years later, that same young soldier, dwight d. Eisenhower, found himself again on the road, but this time as a general commanding the allied forces in world war ii. Along the pristine freshly built roads of the german autobon. Troops and eisenhower took full advantage of the roads built by nazi germany and using them to defeat the axis forces, and the super highway left a lasting impression on the general and one that would grow into the grand plan once he became president. Even before the election, he envisioned a national highway system 40 miles long that would be quote as necessary to defense as it is to the National Economy an
Affirmative action, women, president obama, you name it. Don lemmon is in ferguson for us tonight. He joins us now. So what exactly did this officer say in this speech . Reporter youre going to hear some of it. Ill play it for you, anderson. I think you hit the nail on the head. This isnt going to do much to convince people that this isnt a broader problem with the Police Department. Youre exactly right. So dan page, anderson, a 35year veteran of the Police Department, was speaking in front of a group called the oathkeepers back in april. It was on videotape. And he starts making these inflammatory statements about gays, about women, about Domestic Violence and on and on. And today, the Police Department got wind of it. We notified them and they commented on it. But first, i want to play for you the very disturbing thing he said about Domestic Violence, saying that they should just shoot themselves before the police get there. Listen. When when those when the inner cities start to igni
Tribune captured the moment before and after 37yearold Jason Van Dyke shot mcdonald 16 times last october. This is officer van dykes own vehicle dash cam. Bile out of focus, you can see mcdonald cutting across the front of his police car and passing a nearby burger king. Moments later, after six seconds after getting out of his vehicle, officer van dyke begins to shoot the teen as he walked down the street, wielding a knife. Continuing to fire even after mcdonald fell to the ground. Just minutes later, another dash cam shows mcdonald lying on the street. The other officers at the scene, never opening fire. Van dykes Attorney Says the officer was in fear for his life. But says the videos dont show a complete picture saying mcdonald was hafrsing business owner, waving a knife for about 18 minutes on a busy street. Him stabbing a squad car windshield that was manned with two Police Officers inside there. Reporter Late Wednesday night, president obama react to get deadly shooting saying he
Made him stronger and is there a disconnect between the powers at be and the rest of america . Plus, new yorks top cop on capitol hill on the capitol hill shooting, i should say, and the search for terror suspects in brussels. Weve got a lot to get to and well get to all of it tonight. I want to begin with cnns chief correspondent dana bash. You have news on the Cruz Campaign. Whats going on . The name of the game is to keep donald trump from getting enough delegates to get the nomination outright and i am told by a top aide to john kasich excuse me, john weaver, that they have been trying to work behind the scenes with ted cruzs campaign to do that, coordinate. Not only that, that mitt romney, the gop nominee from 2012, reached out to jeff rowe, the Campaign Manager for ted cruz, to try to get him to call the Kasich Campaign. So he was trying to be a behindthescenes broker to get these opponents to get together for their common enemy. Heres the problem, though, don. The Cruz Campaign,
Toleave. I cant watch him still without thinking of his bad lip reading take. Last night, ted cruz said, as were watching ted cruz, mika, ted cruz said that, you know, people shouldnt stay home in november. Right. Ted cruz should have stayed home last night. He should have stayed home. Because if his intent was to hurt donald trump, all he did was help. He helped. Make him look like a sympathetic figure. Not easy to do. And ted cruz just it was an embarrassing moment for him. He hurt himself. I think most everybody in the hall thought that he hurt his political prospects for the future. A mess. Its july 21st. Were at day three, live again from cleveland. The site of the Republican National convention. Tonights day four, along with joe, me, and willie, we have managing editors of Bloomberg Politics and cohosts of with all due respect. Got them both . Hard to do, and the legendary columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. There were boos for cruz. This was supposed to be the rollout