we look to the future. a nation continuously striving to be a more perfect union. i m here to speak to another truth. it s because of this congregation and the black community of south carolina and not exaggeration and jim clyburn that i stand here today as your president because of all of you. [applause] that s a fact. that s a fact. and i owe you. and i ve done my best to honor your trust. that means rejecting the small narrow cramped view america as well as lifting up a bigger and broader view of america. but if you do well, i do well. we all do well. we all do well small towns and big cities are doing better. when our freedoms are protected and deny hate as a safe harbor where everyone has a fair shot at a life of dignity and opportunity. and our democracy works for everybody. it benefits everybody. i don t get these guys. everybody does better. even those folks who disagree with us. i m keeping my commitment to you. that s the america we are building together instead of
traffic jams and lengthy delays as nypd officers were forced to use saws to cut through pipes held by the protestors. br bryan, have the protestors cleared out? bryan: quite a disruption indeed. and yes, the pro-palestinian protestors have been cleared out from the brooklyn bridge, williamsburg bridge and the manhattan bridge. we are on the manhattan side, traffic is clear, no protestors. you talked about the pvc pipes, what we are talking about. pretty much chicken mesh wiring and they stuck their arm through the pipe to make it difficult for nypd to get them. they buzz sawed through the pipe to move the protestors from the area. they were forcibly removed. nypd says about 200 protestors blocking traffic at all three of these bridges. it all began about 9:30 this
bridge. we showed you earlier, former president george w. bush is on hand, as well, as attorney general eric holder. but speaking before the president will be representative john lewis, as many of you know, he was a participant in the original march from selma to montgomery, alabama. he was injured in that march on bloody sunday. we re very interested in seeing what he has to say some 50 years since that day. and then after that, the president will be speaking. of course, we ll bring those speeches to you live right here on msnbc. in the meantime, though, the focus is on alabama, as we had mentioned. and the president will be speaking. but the selma march is also being remembered across the nation. in new york city, hundreds of people went across the brooklyn bridge beginning on the manhattan side and they will, of course, be very interested in what the president has to say today, as well. and the president, as we mentioned, here is a little bit of that video of people there
engage the police officers. police officers will ignore them. and every once in a while a bottle gets thrown at a police officer. tonight, i just saw one bottle being thrown. it was very peaceful tonight. ms. ho, thank you very much for being with us. i appreciate that. thank you for having me. we re going to go now to kate osbourne, a producer with the rachel ma maddow show. kate has been in and out of our offices tonight, charging her batteries when she can and getting out among the protesters. i understand you re near the brooklyn bridge. on the manhattan side right now? hello? hi. it s rachel maddow. you re not in trouble. don t worry. tell me where you are and what you re seeing. we re on the brooklyn bridge currently. we re just getting over the beginning parts of the bridge. it looks like they were going to stop them from getting on. and then the police just broke ranks and let everyone go back on. the protesters walking across