On facebook or twitter using the hashtag cspanchat. Remarks from rick perry who spoke for about 10 minutes. [applause] good morning,. Good morning in america. We are getting to stand in the presence of american patriots. [cheers and applause] i am reminded this morning of words thats big to the american soul. Words spoken by thomas littleon, who said a rebellion now and then is a good thing. Our country is in peril. Our deficit is at a record amount. Our economy, the economic recovery is stagnant. Our place in the world is weakened. So i have a simple solution. Ime for a little rebellion on the battlefield of ideas. [cheers and applause] instead of looking to washington to find the front lines of the battle, i ask you to look to the states. We find the laboratories of innovation. 50 different experiments in democracy are taking place. Twog the states, we see visions for america. There is the vision, and there is the vision commion in blue states where the state plays an increasing role
State of florida versus George Zimmerman verdict, we the jury find George Zimmerman not guilty. Your gps monitor will be cut off when you exit the courtroom over here, and you have no further business with the court. Michael in response protests held vigils and rallies across the country. Thousands of people pored into time square in new york yesterday and today and in los angeles protesters actually shut down the freeway for 20 minutes, and there were also protests in chicago, San Francisco, denver boston, detroit, washington milwaukee, atlanta, philadelphia, and miami. There were a few isolated insids insids incidents in oakland, with smashed windows, the vigils were almost entirely peaceful. The president called for calm saying, quote. But protesters are demanding further action by the Justice Department. The naacp has called for civil rights charges against zimmerman. Barbara boxer issued her support and so have the more than 450,000 americans who have signed a petition demanding t
Consequences of elections. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday t night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,029 of the trump administration. A day between this weeks public impeachment hearings, the president flew to the friendly confines of a trump rally tonight in louisiana, while there is word of a new witness ready to break ranks and go against the white house order to remain silent and defy congressional subpoenas in this impeachment inquiry. The Washington Post reports that mark sandy, a career employee over at the office of management and budget, will appear in a closed door session with lawmakers on saturday if subpoenaed. This has been confirmed by nbc news. B the post writes that he would be the first omb employee to testify in the inquiry after omb acting director russell t. Vogt and two other political appointees at the agency defied congressional subpoenas to appear. Sandy could provide insight into the process
Plus, gunfire and grenades in syria, even after a u. S. Led agreement to pause the fighting was announced yesterday, President Trump hailed the deal as great for the kurds, but what did turkey gain in the process . We start this hour with the growing fallout over the comments made by the president s top aide as he tries to walk back a big claim about the president and ukraine. Both republicans and democrats are calling Nick Mulvaneys initial comments deeply damaging to the president s impeachment defense. In a rare White House Briefing mulvaney acknowledged that aid was withheld from ukraine for political reasons and told reporters to, quote, get over it. Watch this. Did he also mention to me in the past the corruption related to dnc server . Absolutely. No question about that. But thats it. Thats why we held up the money. Just to be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo. It is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happens as well. We do t
Attorney general despite a waiting helicopter in the backyard. The speaker compares the president to nixon and spells out the crimes she believes hes guilty of. The democrats have received a brutal lesson in the consequences of elections. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,029 of the trump administration. A day between this weeks public impeachment hearings. The president flew to louisiana tonight for a trump rally while back in washington, a new witness whos ready to break ranks and go against the white house order to remain silence in this impeachment inquiry. The Washington Post reports that mark sandy, a career employee over at the office of management and budget will appear in a closed door session with lawmakers on saturday if subpoenaed. This has been confirmed by nbc news. The post writes he would be the first omb employee to testify in the inquiry after omb acting director