assault on gaza. as the two candidates face off tonight at a debate in brooklyn ahead of the new york primary on april 19, we ll speak with stanford university historian joel beinin about the candidates positions on israel and palestine. then to a landmark legal lawsuit 21 kids sue the federal government over climate change. demanding the court to enforce climate recovery plans upon our government, to massively cut carbrbon for future, to honor or constitutional right to life, land, and liberty. amy: and we will look at students challenging stanford university over the issue appraisal diversity. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. about 100 more people have been arrested in washington, d.c.c.,s part of the ongoing democracy spring protests against political corruption and big money in politics. wednesday marked the third consecutive day of mass arrests at the u.s. capitol after 85 people we
assault on gaza. as the two candidates face off tonight at a debate in brooklyn ahead of the new york primary on april 19, we ll speak with stanford university historian joel beinin about the candidates positions on israel and palestine. then to a landmark legal lawsuit 21 kids sue the federal government over climate change. demanding the court to enforce climate recovery plans upon our government, to massively cut carbrbon for future, to honor or constitutional right to life, land, and liberty. amy: and we will look at students challenging stanford university over the issue appraisal diversity. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. about 100 more people have been arrested in washington, d.c.c.,s part of the ongoing democracy spring protests against political corruption and big money in politics. wednesday marked the third consecutive day of mass arrests at the u.s. capitol after 85 people we
better, treating women as equal citizens is better than treating them as second class. i believe that the values that we hold are better. when i made the argument the answer was this, i don t think today we can say better, just different. .. this will be an opportunity to propagate those values that have made us for what we are. countries like united kingdom, the united states, australia, canada, we are not who we are by accident. we are who we are by design because of the decisions that we have taken, the decisions of our forbearers, and the consequences that those decisions had. it is time for us to get back into this decision and going into defeat isis or al-shabaab or what other kind of threat might be is the ultimate or easy military response. this is something that requires a fight by our society and not just others. the lady in the back, please? thank you very, very much for your excellent, excellent speech and bringing us up to date on what this really is. what th
fundamentally different from a presidential election. different people vote. i looked at the house national exit poll and i made this point on the news hour but i will make again. paring the 2014 elected electorate to the 2010 electorate i know this comes as a shock but not everybody votes. what s important to me as a handicapper is who votes and now with the national public opinion is. 2014 to 2012 and the 2014 electorate was more older, more male, or republican, wealthier and more of them said the country is headed on the wrong track. probably should not surprise you those voters voted or republican. but even more than that in 2012, the exit polls said do you disapprove of the job barack obama is doing? approve, 53%, disapprove, 46%. it shocked a lot of us. mid-toed him in the upper 40 s. when people voted, that is who voted. this time, do you approve or disapprove, 44% approve and 55 disapprove. it was a different electorate with a different mood and delivered a dif
he was not using his own personal innuendo and i greatly enjoyed it and i hope you have more guests like that but he was right on target this morning. i am calling to say that i think like many people, c-span is wonderful but for criticisms i almost have none and i am a very partisan kind of person and you all do a tremendous job of showing just about every side of everything of the way people look at things in dc and elsewhere. i take my hat off to you. continue to let us know what you think about the programs you re watching. we are live on this friday morning for another look at the midterm election outcomes and how they will impact states and local communities by the governing magazines where it is just getting started. to discuss some specific initiatives but right now i would like to start with the governors races. you ve been tracking bees and predicting the rankings for more than a year as you ve done in several previous cycles. the republican wave that we saw