Good afternoon. Im carol hunter, editor of the Des Moines Register and welcome to the Des Moines Register political soap box. [applause] a little bit about the soap box. Each candidate gets 20 minutes to speak. They can choose to speak for five minutes or 20. How they use their time is up to them, but we do have a timekeeper that cuts them off at 20 minutes. We at the Des Moines Register are believers in the power of civil discourse. We ask you to uphold the best of iowa traditions and let our speaker have her say without interruption. And our next speaker is Mary Anne Williamson. Shes the author of 15 books. Shes a speaker and shes a spiritual thought leader. She ran for the democratic nomination for president in 2020 and she is again seeking the democratic nomination in 2024. Please welcome Mary Anne Williamson to the soap box. [cheers] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, iowa. Its great being here because the iowa state fair, the iowa Des Moines Register soapbox i
Numbers of illegal crossings as recently as june but now warned the tide is turning reporting a drastic increase so far this month despite extreme heat and new restrictions put in place by Homeland Security. Republicans point to a border wall started under President Trump but never completed. Not a coincidence the thoughts on Physical Barriers Go Hand In hand with what we see as the consequence. The fruit of decisions. The white house insists their border plan is actually working. Listen. As we have said multiple times, our border enforcement plan works. It the deterrent. Diplomacy and enforcement. We have seen that plan working. Gillian officials in Sanctuary Cities including new york and chicago are struggling to support thousands of migrants and Asylum Seekers. It is a major rift in new york between the governor and mayor adams. Cb cotton is in new york with details on the emerging feud. We begin first in El Paso Reporting On The Trump border wall that never came to be. All up and d
Im carol hunter, editor of the Des Moines Register and welcome to the Des Moines Register political soap box. [applause] a little bit about the soap box. Each candidate gets 20 minutes to speak. They can choose to speak for five minutes or 20. How they use their time is up to them, but we do have a timekeeper that cuts them off at 20 minutes. We at the Des Moines Register are believers in the power of civil discourse. We ask you to uphold the best of iowa traditions and let our speaker have her say without interruption. And our next speaker is Mary Anne Williamson. Shes the author of 15 books. Shes a speaker and shes a spiritual thought leader. She ran for the democratic nomination for president in 2020 and she is again seeking the democratic nomination in 2024. Please welcome Mary Anne Williamson to the soap box. [cheers] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, iowa. Its great being here because the iowa state fair, the iowa Des Moines Register soapbox is an incubator o
Good afternoon. Im carol hunter, editor of the Des Moines Register and welcome to the Des Moines Register political soap box. [applause] a little bit about the soap box. Each candidate gets 20 minutes to speak. They can choose to speak for five minutes or 20. How they use their time is up to them, but we do have a timekeeper that cuts them off at 20 minutes. We at the Des Moines Register are believers in the power of civil discourse. We ask you to uphold the best of iowa traditions and let our speaker have her say without interruption. And our next speaker is Mary Anne Williamson. Shes the author of 15 books. Shes a speaker and shes a spiritual thought leader. She ran for the democratic nomination for president in 2020 and she is again seeking the democratic nomination in 2024. Please welcome Mary Anne Williamson to the soap box. [cheers] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, iowa. Its great being here because the iowa state fair, the iowa Des Moines Register soapbox i
in philadelphia where the suspect was wearing a ballistic vest. good evening, bill. as you mentioned, this has been an incredibly violent fourth of july holiday weekend including a mass shooting in philadelphia tonight that left four people dead and four others injured. it happened in southwest philly after police say a man in his ballistic vest opened fire with eight people shot in total including two juveniles. police now have that suspect in custody. meanwhile, in baltimore, police are hunting for suspects after shooting left two people dead and 28 others injured at a large block party in the brooklyn home area. the fbi offering a $28,000 reward for any information that can lead to an arrest the city s mayor is vowing that the shooters will be caught. this was a reckless, cowardly act of violence that has taken two lives and altered many more. as i said earlier, we will find those who are responsible. we will not stop until we do so. in washingtoning d.c., police are