Connection between money and legislation. Media groups did twitter and rallies. We had the canvassers create a tumblr. They took a picture of each person at the door. Each senator had the personalized people knew where the voters were. Night they sent an email with all the pictures. Theyre getting pictures of people in their district. Those picturesng and lots of different ways throughout the campaign. We had the day when we did a ben and jerrys ice cream giveaway at the capitol. We had groups that could go a little further. Including hundreds of banner drops from bridges and highway overpasses. Everyone was driving throughout new york. One day they did a money drop. The role of money on voting on the senate floor. They did a bunch of creative actions. Performing at the Governors Fund raiser. We had a multi coalition rally. 21 of us got arrested and that heightened the tension. Not only so was the stop and frisk bill. All the issues that were being blocked. We had 33 democrats and 30 r
[ cheers and applause ] good evening, everyone, and welcome to a historic night. Cnns democratic president ial town hall, equality in america. Im don lemon, thank you so much for being here. There was a time when people were afraid, and you know many still are. Theyre afraid to come out to their friends and their families for fear of the consequences. Now it has been four years since the Supreme Court ruled same sex marriage is legal. It is a big step. But there is still a whole lot of work to do. Tonights cnn and the Human Rights Campaign have been hosting an unprecedented event where members of the Lgbtq Community and their allies can ask the candidates questions that are important to them. Well soon hear from senator amy klobuchar, julian castro, and businessman tom steyer. But first i want you to welcome to the stage now congressman beto orourke. Hey, everybody, good to see
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Striking the officer behind the wheel. Just missing the officers carotid artery. His partner drove him to the hospital. Back in 2017, a gunman killed an officer as she sat in her patrol car, also in the bronx. In 2014, two years were shot dead in their police car in brooklyn. In this case the commissioner is certain what the motive was. Let me be very clear. This was an assassination attempt of two new York City Police officers. Reporter mayor bill de blasio adding on to that that too much hatred being directed at Police Officers. He tweeted, tonight we saw a heinous assassination attempt against nypd officers in a marked police van. Thank god we can report our officers survived and will be able to go open to their families safe and sound. This Morning Police dont have an identity of the gunman. We have the picture but they are pledging to bring him to justice. Pete, jason. Pete isah. Thank you. These two gentlemen were in a neighborhood that had spike in gun and violence. So theyre do
Tonight. Its been an incredibly dramatic day. The last time i saw all of you was saturday night during our coverage of the South Carolina primary. Former Vice President joe biden thumped the field in South Carolina, as you know. The polling average heading into South Carolina showed joe biden likely winning South Carolina by about 15 points. Instead he won by double that. He got nearly half the vote in a sevencandidate race. His closest competitor, vermont senator Bernie Sanders, was almost 30 points behind him. South carolina was by far the state in the primary thus far where africanamericans wield the most electoral clout. Senator sanders only polled at 16 , 16 among africanamericans in South Carolina, but joe biden won more than 60 of the africanamerican vote there. And that was that in addition to the overall size of his win, which was a very strong signal for bidens chances in the many diverse states that are about to come down the primary calendar all at once. Bidens victory in S
Well tell you about it, all happening now. Jenna tv news anchors, is that what this case has come to . Rick i guess so. Jenna youre okay, you havent gotten any strange emails, have you . Im not sure about jon. In the meantime, air force one is gearing up for another journey today as the president gears up for another big speech on the economy. Welcome to happening now, im jenna lee. Rick and im rick folbaum in for jon, and the president taking another road trip, getting away from d. C. Where he says politics are partly to blame for the lousy economy. Today he is headed to florida after speeches yesterday in illinois and missouri. The president calling the scandals plaguing his administration phony distractions and claiming that republicans are standing in the way of growing the economy and helping the middle class. Take a look at the latest fox news polling numbers. 57 , a majority, say they do not see signs the economy has started to turn the corner while 38 say the worst is over, and