On my own. Without congress. And, so, while we still dont know precisely what he is prepared to do, we know that the president doubts that any meaningful collaboration is possible with the gridlocked congress. If he is to build a comprehensive plan for Immigration Reform, he eis going to have to build it alone. This idea of building it all alone has me thinking about another summer moment from president obama. Not summer 2014 when he tried to figure out what to do solo about the National Issue of immigration, but summer 2012 when he was running for reelection and said this at a Campaign Stop in virginia. If youve been successful, you didnt get there on your own. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable american system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If youve got a business, you didda annt build that. Somebody else made
Everyone. Im jeff glor with a western edition of the broadcast. And president obama warned today americas latest incursion into iraq will not be brief. Airstrikes on isis and airdrops for the people they have trapped began yesterday. They will likely continue now for months. Tonight, late word of four u. S. Airstrikes, this time targeting isis armored personnel carriers. The isis militant are members of the sunni branch of islam, at war not just with iraqs shiite majority but also with other ethnic and religious minorities including kurds, christians and yazidis. Their ultimate goal is an Islamic State in the heart of the middle east. Holly williams is inside erbil tonight. Reporter american f a18 fighter jets are flying over iraq once again, this time targeting isis militants. The aim is to help kurdish soldiers, the only force on the ground in Northern Iraq still doing battle with the islamic extremists. The kurdish fighters retreated this week after isis seized more towns and captur
The Supreme Court is fairly out of step with American public opinion these days. The conservative justices’ decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last term led to a sizable electoral backlash at the polls against state and federal Republican candidates. Every opinion poll also shows that public esteem for the court has plummeted over the past two years.In one area, however, the justices were ahead of the curve. In the 2021 case NCAA v. Alston, the court unanimously sided with college student-athletes
london breeze. and huckleberry house and who is here ready to come up? is anybody ready? okay. let s hear it for our friends from huckleberry house. hello. i am jason martinez and this is victor. we work with huckleberry street clinic and i am a health educator and i found there was a need for a group for young men in the community, so i wrote a grant to youth funding ideas and i got $10,000 to have young men s group in the western edition, and yesterday was actually our last day, and i m going to have victor tell you a little more about the program. we run a group over there at plaza east. we just graduated eight boys from the ten week program. (applause). we run groups all the time, but with this group just a bunch of young men and subjects that affect their lives and violence, sex, drugs and media, and also we also do community projects like we just finished up a community clean up and we had them go around the community and pick up trash and things to help the commu