That has been in the making for nearly 100 years. Paying it ford ward is just the icing on the cake. It is a beautiful story. Maybe it is one that the world needs to hear. Reporter elwyn lopez, nbc news, california. It absolutely is a story the world needs to hear. And it goes to show you that you never know how the amazing Ripple Effect of one act of bravery, what it can produce. On that extraordinary note, i wish you a very goodnight. I told you i was giving you sweet dreams. For all of our colleagues, thanks for staying up late with me. See you at the end of tomorrow. In the summer of 2004, The War In Iraq was raging. Fighting had intensified and evidence of american torture at the prison had just come to light. Democrats were promising a new direction for the war. And to make their case, they had just nominated a decorated war veteran to be their nominee. A man who had been awarded the silver star, the bronze star, and three Purple Hearts for valor and combat. Thank you. Im john ke
Democrats were promising a new direction for the war, and to make their case, they had just nominated a decorated war veteran to be there nominee, a man who had been awarded the silver star, the bronze star, and three Purple Hearts for valor in combat. Thank you. Im john kerry, and i am reporting for duty. [ cheers and applause ] senator john kerry made his Military Service in vietnam Essential Part of his campaign for president that year. In the weeks after he accepted the democratic nomination, kerry consistently led the incumbent, resident george w. Bush in the polls, but then in august, everything changed. That was when these campaign ads started airing. I served with john kerry. I served with john kerry. John kerry has not been honest about what happened in vietnam. He is lying about his record. Is a central image of john kerrys campaign, the candidate, literally, wrapping his arms around his vietnam friends, but now republicans are challenging his war record with other vietnam ve
Come to light. Democrats were promising a new direction for the war, and to make their case theyd just nominated a decorated war veteran to be their nominee, a man whod been awarded the silver star, the bronze star, and three Purple Hearts for valor in combat. Thank you im im john kerry, and im reporting for duty senator john kerry made his Military Service in vietnam a central part of his campaign for president that year. In the weeks after he accepted the democratic nomination, kerry consistently led the incumbent, president george w. Bush, in the but then in august everything changed. In that was when these campaign ads startedca airing. I served with john kerry. I served with john kerry. John kerry has not been honest about what happened in vietnam. He is lying about his record. Its a central image of john kerrysl campaign, the candida literally wrapping his arms around his vietnam teammates. Now republicans are challenging kerrys war effort with a tv ad featuring other Vietnam Vet
graham made and the quote was he joined the race to turn theside of isolationism within the fact that his campaign, although numerically not significant, that it did have some success. any takeaway from that particular point about did he have an impact on the isolationism within the republican party throughout this campaign? this was a big part of the reason why graham ran in the first place. if you remember how this race unfolded over the course of the past year, we were talking so much, this is before donald trump, we talked so much about rand paul and his impact on the republican party, and you even had ted cruz getting pulled that way into this sort of liberty movement as people would describe it, some of its critics like graham would call it isolationism, and he really saw this as kind of a purpose, a reason for him to be in the race. i don t know if i d go so far as to call it a crusade but it s not unlike that. this is an issue, foreign pol y
immigration and help the party move and they want to. they have national ambitions and by their very definition, need to bring people. if you listen to their rhetoric they want to change and who the tea party listens to and i think immigration is a messy tough test case and have no idea how it plays out but if rubio and rand paul are for it becomes interesting. there is always somewhat solidarity of foreign policies for rand paul. he is successful on foreign policy as he has been on domestic policy? and demonstrating there are things there whether you want to call it isolationism or what it might be. i think will be interesting. get to the next op-ed from the national journal. the secret republican plan to repeal obama care. republicans are doing their best