this is the only way you can invest in syrians. this is why syria has to have a long-term plan to recover. syria needs at least $60 billion to recover. with all the destruction that we have in all of our cities. i will end here and i will be more than happy to answer questions that you have a. thank you very much. [applause] the first thing i would like to ask you, trying to look more into the new syrian position, my concern is that the rights of the minorities and in the new syrian opposition has not been really addressed as the same issues were also presented. how do you address this issue? your last. trying to think about what is going to happen next, that is an issue that the new syrian position should address. the rights of the minorities is an important issue. sometimes we emphasize the issues from their own perspective. when the syrian uprising started, christians, alliance, and christians being killed by participating. he decided to go back to his hometown. he i
just for me, but for our state, i m hopeful now for our nation that people will recognize we shouldn t be discriminating and have laws on the book that discriminate against our friends, our neighbors and fellow citizens. what you did yesterday in minnesota is something i have never seen. it wasn t just a public apology, but you did it in the body you used to work. what was it like to go back in there in that role and tell them what you had to tell them? it was very freeing. the emotion came because it literally occurred to me as i sat down, this is a public apology. i was there to say trust me when i tell you that you can vote your conscience and your own compass and be okay. i should have done it. i regretted i didn t do it. it was it was very liberating quite honestly. lynne, cannot thank you enough for joining us tonight. thank you very much. thank you, lawrence. hope for the pope. let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews in washington. let me
2,000 years. vice president biden will lead the u.s. delegation to the vatican for the formal ceremony making the pope s installation. pope francis is the first pope from the americas. he s the first to take his papal name from st. francis. the friar who more than 800 years ago took a vow of poverty and devoted his life to helping the poor and the sick. in fact, pope francis is known as a humble man of simple habits. the ap says he often rode the public bus to work, cooked his own meals, and often visited poor neighborhoods. francis is also the first pope to come from the jets with order, an order with a long tradition in work and civil rights in this country. this new pope has a unique ability to focus the world s attention on the sick and the poor. the wrongs we inflict on each other and the rights we hold as human beings. let us pray for his success. thanks for watching. i m al sharpton. hardball starts right now. hope for the pope. let s play hardball. good eveni
jim mcmann for one. he says he actually got addicted to thinks painkillers, even taking them in the off-season. another player in the lawsuit here, mcmann s former chicago bears teammate richard dent. he is a hall of famer. so let s get more on this story, this developing story from ed laugh endra. ed, tell me more about the lawsuit. hello, brooke. it s an extensive lawsuit. about 85 pages long. i ve had a chance to go through all of it here this afternoon. and it is filed on behalf of eight players. three of those players were part of that 1985 super bowl chicago bears team, richard dent, jim mcmann being two of those. we ve heard over the years a lot of different crazy stories that the lengths the football players would go to to stay on the football field. but this lawsuit is accusing the nfl and doctors of working together to ensure that in some cases, recklessly, and in some cases illegally, were prescribing pain medications to keep these players and these lawyers for t
government wanted to get them off the streets to keep them from asking questions because the mining company admitted yesterday that there was no escape chamber and there wasn t even an alarm when the fire broke out. in virginia two coal miners were killed in boone county. the politics of coal are now at the center of the senate race in west virginia. we learned this week in tuesday s primary there will be two women facing off many the fight for the seat. only three people have won elections from the state of west virginia since 1959 in the last 55 years and all of them are democrats. rockefeller is one of them. . and current senator joe mansion. the democratic tradition in west virginia is seriously threatened as the state moves closer and closer to the national republican party. it s a move that s only accelerated many the obama era. now with controls on the line, it s up to the democratic nominee in west virginia natalie tenant to fight that trend and keep that seat in her