warl world war ii vet. police picked up the suspect and charged him with first-degree murder. police insist the motivate was robbery, not race. emotional day in newtown, connecticut. students head back to school for a new year in a different building not far from where 20 of their classmates and six can educators gunned down last december. plans will be proofed to demolish the school where the massacre occurred and build a new one in its place. a mesles outbreak tied to a texas megachurch has sickened 21 people and the number could grow. the victims range from 4 months to 64 years old. 11-year-old sarah, who received two double lung transplants after her parents challenged the nation s organ system gets to spend the night in her own bed. she is leaving the hospital today and a news conference with
yesterday, there was a lot of birther talk but nobody put the kibosh on that one. i think that s right. we talked about this last week. racist rhetoric coming from the republican party in recent weeks and months. reince priebus and the rnc silent on this and not cracking down and not criticizing and, at the same time, we also see reince priebus looking the other way as republican policymakers statewide implement the voter suppression laws like in north carolina and texas. come vote for us we want your support. but, on the other hand, they are making it impossible for min minorities and others to reach the polls. along the lines of race, kelly, we have now new information, the story about that rodeo clown who wore president barack obama mask earlier this month saying this wasn t racially motivated and said he would be honored to shake the president s hand if he
gentlemen, good to have you here. reverend love, start with you. during your meeting yesterday you focused on how civil rights and equality are closely tied to voting rights and closing the gap on education, employment, and access to health care. like in 1963, 50 years ago, we are also facing serious voting rights issues signed into law in north carolina. the justice department is going to sue texas over its state s voter i.d. law. tell all of us, during that meeting yesterday, did president obama signal he plans to bring up these new efforts to restrict voting rights when he delivers his speech tomorrow? he didn t share that he was bringing this up in his speech. he shared with us his passion for maintaining equal opportunities for everyone as it relates to voting and getting to the ballot box, leading a level playing field so everyone has an
texas governor rick perry iscalr politic, if his words. joining us now to defend texas, texas attorney general greg abbott. welcome, sir. great to have you here today. uma, great to be back with you again. uma: you know, eric holder is saying the voter i.d. laws are a racist plot in his words to disenfranchise the minority voters. what is your reaction to that claim? that comment on his part is stunning because the very week that the eric holder administration and barack obama came to tect to sue texas, to pre came to texas to sue texas to prevent volter i.d. days before that they arrested a woman in for the worth, texas, for voting illegally five times in the very same election. so the reality is voter fraud if state of texas is real. the united states supreme court already upheld the constitutionality of the voter i.d. as one of the ways to prevent voter fraud like that from taking place.