outside the courthouse but, yesterday, the biden campaign held the surprise event there. i don t understand that. we will tell you who was there and dig into that campaign strategy. also ahead, the latest from gaza where israeli forces are moving into the city of rafah. it comes days after an israeli air strike ignited a deadly fire at a camp for displaced palestinians. let s dive in to our top story. after 21 days of heated testimony, the defense and the prosecution delivered closing arguments yesterday in donald trump s criminal hush money trial. nbc news laura jarrett has a recap. the first trial of an american president soon in the hands of seven men and five women. prosecutors closing their case arguing former president trump orchestrated a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election to pull the wool over voter s eyes, they say, by ordering the payoff of stormy daniels and covering it all up. they tried to establish a pattern of mr. trump damaging stories
Chattanooga, and charleston. We want to get your check thoughts on background checks. Should they be strengthened . If you support the idea, 202 7488000, oppose it, 202 7488001, and a third line for gun owners, 202 7488002. You can also check in on twitter and facebook. Senator joe manchin, a democrat from West Virginia who has worked on this issue of background checks, with pennsylvanias senator pat toomey. The hill newspaper reports that under federal law, licensed gun dealers are required to conduct a background check either online or by phone using the National Instant criminal background check system. In every state, the system searches for criminal convictions. But the system only scanned Mental Health records in 30 states because it is not required under federal law. Take a look a listen. [video clip] is there any federal solution to what we are talking about here . I need my friends on the republican side of the aisle to help with the most reasonable, sensible path forward. Bas
Real. We sometimes duplicate and cause campuses to spend more time filling out forms and working with students to have a session in forming incoming freshmen about what the responsibilities are. But each of you be willing to give us specific suggestions about how you see title ix and its rules and regulations clearly the knew regulations allow they can be improved, where the conflict how they can be made more clear so that campuses have the flexibility you talk about. Ill call you present. Would you be willing to do that and to give it to us and has specific a form as you could. Welcome the opportunity to do that. And i no you are so large and it is such a good system that you are bound to have plenty of people waiting through rules and regulations. We dont know what this means and this duplicates this and you have been in so many different positions that you know exactly what im talking about a particularly when he that by around september in order to included in the reauthorization a
We have encouraged all schools have am confident they will produce there own results as well. Ii would like to offer specific comments. The 1st has to do with Response Rates, an issue you raised and it is an important issue. Colleges wantissue. Colleges want to ensure the Response Rate for particularly with the survey of this nature. Unfortunately schools have the Legal Authority to compel students to participate. Having said that there are number of strategiesa number of strategies the schools can employ if the survey is locally administered. The school administers the survey versus the department of education administering the survey which is one of our concerns. They have control over a host of issues. Who promotes it, how is promoted baldwin, how long commanders a solid researchbased group of evidence that can bolster Response Rates. That is an area we know more about and it can be a great resource moving forward. If. If i have another minute i will stop theyre. Her answer illustra
Who writes puerto rico is already an environmental tragedy. Hurricane maria will make it even worse. Then President Trump gives his first address to the u. N. General assembly, boasting about the size of the u. S. Military and threatening to totally destroy north korea. Pres. Trump the United States has great strength and patience. But if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. Amy we will get reaction from jeff sachs on north korea, iran, climate change, President Trump. As continues its ethnic cleansing with more than 400,000 people forced out of burma we will speak with andrea pitzer, author of the new book, one long night a global history of concentration camps. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In mexico, the death toll from the massive, magnitude 7. 1 earthquake has ri