His mother afeni, takes the family reigns. In 1997, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation is created to provide training and support for creative students. That same year, the university of california, berkeley offers a course entitled the poetry and history of tupac shakur. Afeni shakur i speak to him all the time because it matters to me what he thinks about what were doing. It matters to me. So i believe that he hears me. To this day, Tupac Shakurs killer has never been found. [ music ] bill hey, good morning, everybody. It is a friday. We love fridays around the full court press. Thank you for joining us here on current tv as we come to you live from our nations capitol bringing you up to date on all of the big stories here in our nations capitol. 15 republican senators just refused to get up. Get over it. They wrote a letter to president obama asking him to withdraw the nomination of chuck hagel, which he is not going to do because there are enough republicans to join democrats do voi
What does this leave room for . A quick resolution here . Obviously thats what a lot of people involved with this would like to see. The players, the nba association would like to see this as well. People trying to figure out what her stance is going to be on this. She has been married to donald for 50 some years. It has changed in recent weeks. She was previously sitting court side and now she has been up in the box. She said she wanted to stay but now this may make room that perhaps she will sell it. She has said that she wanted to keep the team. She cares about the players very much. Remember when it first broke and she said she called or actually doc rivers said that he had gotten a call asking if she could come to the game and being respectful. That was early on what does need to be figured out is since this team is owned by the family trust, how will that all be broken down. And if they get divorced in california, 50 of whats his is hers and 50 of whats hers is his. We will be ge
Dominican republic. One of cnns affiliates on the island reports, this video capturing the shooting. You see ortiz fall to the ground as people around him scramble. Now, david ortiz is more than just a ball player. He is a touring figure in boston who helped bring that city together after tragedy. He is be loved by fans and players alike. The encouraging news this morning. Police and big papis family say he is out of surgery and out of danger. Well have much more details on that story. Meanwhile, a lot happening in the 2020 race. The majority of democratic hopefuls making their cases to iowa voters last night. Joe biden was not there. He had a family commitment. That allowed the other candidates to talk about him, and a new cnn poll captures the state of the race in iowa. Lets begin with cnns alexandra field on oush breaking news on david ortiz. A long night but a better morning for david ortiz, for his friends, for his family, for his fans. He is a giant of boston, a giant of baseball
Just a couple hours ago shows a bounce for former Vice President joe biden, a big bounce. Biden has broken away from the pack 39 of potential democratic voters say he is their top choice for the nomination. Senator Bernie Sanders is way, way back in second with 15 . Today biden begins campaigning in iowa where he is doing much better this time around than during his previous runs. This morning biden takes on President Trumps signature slogan. The president has a motto, make America Great again. Do you have one . Make america moral again. Make america return to the essence of who we are, the dignity of the country, the dignity and people treating our people with dignity and this god awful deliberative vision thats being taken in order to separating people for his own power. Cnn political director david chine joins us with the numbers hot off the presses. Its a biden bounce from that announcement. This is the First National poll weve seen taken entirely after joe biden got into the race
Good morning, congressman. Good morning. Why did you throw down your gavel and march away from the chair . Well, because frankly i was embarrassed to remain as the chair presiding over what should have been a very shameful moment for all of us, and that is here we were in the house of representatives and every person who spoke violated the house rules. I presided i was asked to preside to try to make sure it was a fair kind of a thing and thats what i did. So i admonished every single speaker, democrat and republican and thought all i want to do is get through this ugly situation without adding any chaos to it. And then, of course, the motion to take down the words of the speaker i thought were just a total disgrace because i could have set the stage to take down the words of other republicans i spoke with, but i just wanted to get through it without embarrassing us anymore. Explain that to me because nancy pelosi was punished for her words. I think she was sort of rendered silent for