we saw secretary mattis and joe dunford taking time out after the president s formal remarks to shake hands with service members, a thrill for them to chat it up with the high and the mighty here. president trump singled out seven people, including search-year-old christian jacobs. same time, same place, same ceremony last year where the president first met young christian. last year, after the wreath-laying ceremony, christian walked over to me, with confidence, shook my hand and looked me in the eye and asked me if i would like to meet his dad. he loved his dad. marine sergeant christopher jacobs who died when christian was just eight months old. the president told christian that as he grows up to a young
work. so often out of sight and out of mind. kehinde lifted them up. and gave them a platform. and said they belonged at the center of american life. and that was something that moved me deeply because in my small way, that s part of what i believe politics should be about. is not simply celebrating the high and the mighty, expecting that the country unfolds from the top down, but rather that it comes from the bottom up. families all across america who are who are working hard, and doing their best, and passing on the wisdom and the resilience
of mind. and this artist lifted them up and gave them a platform. and said they belonged at the center of american life. and that was something that moved me deeply because in my small way that s part of what i believe politics should be about is not simply celebrating the high and the mighty and expecting that the country unfolds from the top down but rather that it comes from the bottom up. [applause] families all across america who are who are working hard and doing their best and passing on the wisdom and resilience and stories to their children in the hopes that their lives will
of mind. he lifted them up and gave them a platform. he said they belonged at the center of american life. and that was something that moved me deeply because, in my small way, that s part of what i believe politics should be about, is not simply celebrating the high and the mighty, expecting that the country unfolds from the top down, but rather that it comes from the bottom up. families all across america who are working hard and doing their best and passing on the wisdom and resilience and stories to
of his arrest. they re looking at us and saying, the quote, actually is, we are brutal. our justice system is brutal. to rapists? i hope so. because we showed pictures of strauss-kahn in handcuffs. in europe, the great, the high and the mighty are taken into custody in very quietly. you don t put them on television. you don t show their pictures out there and it s wafted away. they are confusing an affair by a french politician with this, which is a flat-out right! calling rape sex is like hitting somebody over the head with a pot and calling it cooking. remember that what marion barry said? she set me up. it s eerily reminisce cent.