my brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life. to be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. those of us who loved him and will take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. as he said many times in many parts of this nation to those he touched and who sought to touch him, some men see things as they are and say why, i dream things that never were and say why not. that was senator ted kennedy at the funeral of his brother bobby. second funeral he would have to mark and today is june 6th. david ignatius, two monumental things happened on this day, of course, the assassination and the death the assassination and the death of bobby kennedy on june 6th, 1968, a day that really marked in many ways a low point, the chaos of the 1960s and i must say also a
On two of his Controversial Campaign promises. Hes pledged that construction of a new wall, to run the length of the us Mexican Border, will begin within months. Hes also signed an Executive Order increasing the number of staff to patrol that frontier. But the white house has distanced itself from suggestions there could be a return to some of the more extreme Security Measures which were dropped under president obama. James cook reports. Donald trumps vision of a Fortress America the new president ordered the construction of the great wall on the Mexican Border and he said it would begin within months. A nation without borders is not a nation. Beginning today, the United States of america gets back control of its borders. We are going to get the bad ones out, the criminals and the drug dealers and gangs and gang members and cartel leaders. Is over when they can stay in our country and recover it. Strengthening and expanding the existing barrier on this frontier will be hugely expensiv
On two of his Controversial Campaign promises. Hes pledged that construction of a new wall, to run the length of the us Mexican Border, will begin within months. Hes also signed an Executive Order increasing the number of staff to patrol that frontier. But the white house has distanced itself from suggestions there could be a return to some of the more extreme Security Measures which were dropped under president obama. James cook reports. Donald trumps vision of a Fortress America the new president ordered the construction of the great wall on the Mexican Border and he said it would begin within months. A nation without borders is not a nation. Beginning today, the United States of america gets back control of its borders. We are going to get the bad ones out, the criminals and the drug dealers and gangs and gang members and cartel leaders. Is over when they can stay in our country and recover it. Strengthening and expanding the existing barrier on this frontier will be hugely expensiv
walking through the cemetery with by then the old men who had charged those hills and at one point they re telling me these extraordinary stories and i just said, man, what were you thinking? and he said, that s the thing, we were 18 year olds, we weren t thinking. they told us to go up the hill, we said okay. he said it s amazing. he said he said that when he came back to the states a few years later, when he was 23, 24, he thought to himself, he said, i would have never done that at 24, at 25. not in a million years. he said, but at 18 i knew i could do it. yeah, you know, i was there last summer with my kids, i took my kids over there to see it and they re old enough to appreciate it, and just walking through the american cemetery where there are more than 9,000 americans laid to rest, a cemetery that was established, by the way, on june 8th two days after d-day in
hello and welcome to the cnn newsroom. the news unfolds live this saturday, march 10th. a top world diplomat asks syria s president face-to-face to stop the carnage and killing in his country. former u.n. secretary-general kofi annan is in damascus meeting syrian president assad, opposition activists say 30 people were killed in fighting across syria. nick robertson joins me live in a few minutes to talk about any progress the two men may have made. israel launched air strikes against suspected militants in gaza again today. it is the second day in a row. at least 15 palestinians are reported killed, more than 20 others injured. a palestinian authority spokesman blames israel for ramping up violence in the region. israel says the air strikes targeted terrorists who attacked civilian communities near gaza. in washington state, a search is under way for a suspect who allegedly shot a female deputy and stabbed a judge before fleeing. the incident began yesterday afternoon