Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, the honorable, dr. Ben carson. Cheers and applause] mr. Carson thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you for your courage to be here because in the society that we live in today, it takes a lot of courage to say that youre supporting President Trump. Its rally quite interesting how people have tried to manipulate people and sbi date people and change their minds. This has been going on since weve been in america. You go back to the days of slavery, you know, and lot of the states there were more slaves than there were owners. So what did they do . They had to divide the slaves. So they told the ones in the house, youre better than the ones in the yard. And the once in the yard, youre better than the ones in the field. And then after it was over, the ones, ned one, youre better than the dark skinned ones. Today they say if you are a conservative, youre an uncle tom. Youre a horrible person, youre a demon. What a bunch of crap. You k
Good afternoon, everyone. I dont like to always shout people out at the very beginning that in walking right now is the great, great grandfather, eleanor and her husband. [applause] , it is always special to have them. Welcome, everyone to the Barnum Museum. I know many of you have been here before. Is this anybodys first time . Welcome. We are delighted to have you on this Beautiful Day in downtown connecticut. This is the Barnum Museum. It is in fact the last museum and as we all know he started the enterprise in 1842 and this is the last gift of just the city of bridgeport to the Global Community that we served. Many of you are very familiar with the museum. In 2010, we were hit by a tornado because that is the kind of stuff that happened to barnum. And then a year after that it was hurricane irena and then super storm cindy. I want to also give a shout out to the state of connecticut indoor delegation who really supported the 7 milliondollar bond reappropriation because we are just
Inquiry and the headlines. Impeachmentry probe reaches into white house with new subpoenas. The House Democrats of the committees in charge of the impeachment inquiry are asking the white house for documents related to ukraine and the phone call between President Trump and ukrainian leader. U. S. News world report House Democrats are requesting ukraine documents from Vice President pence, as well. Other headlines this morning from Business Insider, a Second Intelligence official is considering filing with the whistleblower complaint about President Trump and the ukraine leader. And in the Washington Examiner, secretary of state mike pompeo missed yesterdays deadline to provide ukraine documents to the house committee. Your thoughts this morning on whether President Trump has committed an Impeachable Offense. Yes or no . Lets begin with what the president told reporters on thursday before departing on thursday. He is asked specifically, sir, what did you want out of that phone call . [v
New survey looking at School Safety issues. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Next. This good morning on friday, august 30. We will begin with the Justice Department watchdogs latest report that found former fbi director james comey violated Agency Policy by releasing official memos. Your reaction to the reports findings in our first hour. Republicans, 2027488001. If you are a democrat, dial in at 2027488000. And independents, 2027488002. You can also join the conversation if you go to twitter at cspanwj and on facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your calls in a minute. Lets begin with june 2017. James comey had been fired a month earlier by President Trump. He is summoned to capitol hill to testify and asked by senator Susan Collins about memos and releasing them. [video clip] did you show copies of your of theo anyone outside department of justice . Yes. And to whom did you show copies . The president tweeted on friday after
But in this country it feels like who belongs in our demos and the people of our nations his nations highest calling. 10, 20ke up on december 16, picked up the New York Times, saw the headline i am prejudiced, and then we kept talking, and i want to show you the video because it started at cspan sometime before that, and i will ask you to explain the whole thing. [video clip] may be one of you guests can help me change my mind. I am a white male, and i am prejudiced, and it is something i wasnt taught, but it is something i learned. When i open up the papers, i get very discouraged about what young black males are doing to each other and the crime rates. I understand it is an environment of drugs and you have to get money to get drugs, fears, and iese dont want my fears to come true, you know . So i tried to avoid that, and i come off as being prejudiced. But i just have fears. I dont want to be forced to like people. I want to like people through example. What can i do to change and t