The message affairness. Our job, as americans, is to restore that basic bargain that says if you work hard, if youre willing to meet your responsibleties, you can get ahead. It doesnt matter what you look like, it doesnt matter where you come from. Fairness, justice, e quality. That was the president s focus last night on every single nation. Creating a plan for the country that would create a more perfect union. Make highquality preschool available to every single child in america. Pursue a bipartisan market base to climate change. A Bipartisan Commission voting to improve the speens of america. Equal benefits for their families, gay and straight. Send me a comprehensive reform bill in the yies and i will sign it and america will be better for it. Thats the promise from this president. And he wont let anyone stand in the way. Hell fight for whats right. Just like he did on gun control. Last night, he brought us to tears and he brought us to our feet. When he began to talk about hadiya
Block richard cadre, president obamas pick to head the Consumer Financial protection bureau. Thats the agency Elizabeth Warren set up to make sure big banks dont prey on regular americans. But, today, 43 republicans sent a letter saying theyre worried the agency has too much power over the banks. And they wont allow the nomination to go ahe. This is outrageous. The right wing is doing everything it can to block this president. To stand against working class people. And to stand up for wall street. That i had theyre even willing to hurt the economy itself. Its thats what it takes to hurt the president , theyre willing to do it. Any immediate economic setback or the perception of one could weaken obamas clout. Maybe a sour economy is worth it if it will distract obama. Theres a lot of talk these days about how the gop can come back politically. The quickest possible way politically with a contracting economy, if it happened again in the next quarter, thats a recession. Shrinking the econ
Going home for commit nothing crime. Thats the bottom line. And so after 56 witnesses,ings 12 days of testimony, and 16 hours of deliberation, the jury in the case of the state of florida versus George Zimmerman came back with a verdict. In the Circuit Court of the 18th judicial circuit in and for seminole county, florida, state of florida versus George Zimmerman, verdict, we the jury find George Zimmerman not guilty. Some called it shocking. Others said it was entirely predictable. But for defense attorney don west, it was simply long overdue justice. I think the prosecution of George Zimmerman was disgraceful. I am gratified by the jurys verdict as happy as i am for George Zimmerman, im thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty. But it makes me sad, too. That it took this long under these circumstances to finally get justice. As George Zimmerman was acquitted, lawyers for the parents of Trayvon Martin said that though their sons life was cut short, his story
Sometimes its all in the way we think or feel or cant do either. It all breaks down and we, too, become danger, even lethal. When these things happen, we make the news and we feel something. As we watch the story of a man killing others, killing out of vengeance or Human Interest itself, what do we make of it . Its easy to tell these stories, and we did, i did, here on television. This story of a former military officer telling his story out in a cabin fighting it out knowing its all come to this. Last night, here was a part of the human story, the american story, someone who just couldnt deal with what came. That hardball for now. Thanks for being with us. Politics nation with al sharpton starts right now. Thanks, chris. And thanks to you for tuning in. Tonights lead, a more perfect union. President obama tells republicans to get on board or get out of the way. Today, the president hit the road to promote the new second term agenda that he unvailed in the state of the union. He went o
United states longer. It is a harmless gas. Good to have you with us tonight, folks. Thanks for watching. Well start with an issue that is right in front of us and destroying our country and thats Climate Change. There are four examples that are happening right now that im going give you tonight that really are abnormal. Every single day we see weather getting more severe because of changes in the environment and there are currently two hurricanes in the pacific heading for hawaii and this is not a radar image that you see too often. In fact, it is very rare. Hurricane iselle is expected to crash into the big island later tonight. This is going to be the the first hurricane to hit thathawan 22 years. Would you say thats rare . I would. Iselle would be the first hurricane in history to hit the big island. The category 1 storm is expected to slam hawaii with sustained winds of 80 miles an hour. The second hurricane, julio is expected to pass just north of the islands. Very rare and still