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we basically, natalie and i are reporters that cover everything from state government, state politics. the thing this year is a u.s. senate race in the governor s race. i don t know if anybody is out of town. a very close race in the u.s. senate. very close candidates. running up against marsha blackburn. a republican who is a supporter of donald trump. what we want to do this morning is facilitate a conversation about the state of politics today. we are going to go down the line. we will give everybody a brief intro. i am natalie allison. we have a podcast called grand division. we put it out weekly. doing a couple excerpts. what we do is we talk about politics and policy in tennessee. we tried to make a point to talk to the people who are involved in that. sometimes it s the politicians themselves. it is a lot of fun. you should check it out. maria cole. the director of program management for the foundation. we have jennifer kavanaugh. the diminishing role of fact a ....
an examination of the state of american politics. good to go? you guys ready? welcome to saturday morning. my name is joe ebert. i m a political reporter. we basically, natalie and i are reporters that cover everything from state government, state politics. the thing this year is a u.s. senate race in the governor s race. i don t know if anybody is out of town. a very close race in the u.s. senate. very close candidates. running up against marsha blackburn. a republican who is a supporter of donald trump. what we want to do this morning is facilitate a conversation about the state of politics today. we are going to go down the line. we will give everybody a brief intro. i am natalie allison. we have a podcast called grand division. we put it out weekly. doing a couple excerpts. what we do is we talk about politics and policy in tennessee. we tried to make a point to talk to the people who are involved in that. sometimes it s the politicians themselves. it is a lot o ....
heavily invested. this is one of several protests around the bay area which started in san francisco. a section of san francisco s market street was closed as demonstrators made their case for stopping the construction of the north dakota access pipe line. the company behind it awaits the approval of the army corps of engineers to build part of the pipeline under the missouri river. but it s like where is it safe to destroy people s water sources because it s got to go under the river in order to get to where it s going and it doesn t need to be going in the first place. reporter: maria cole lives in missouri. she s visiting her daughter in the bay area and felt she had to voice her disapproval. it s going to run downhill. it s going to affect the mid well. i m from the midwest. it s coming through those states, and we are all going to suffer when the water is polluted. the north dakota access pipeline would run from north dakota to illinois transferring crude o ....
picturesque parks, grade meadow park at ft. mason. the woman suffered some scratches, i understand, and was certainly shaken by the experience. nathan sergeant with the national park service says a jogger helped the nanny and called police. officers did detain a man who fit the suspect description. this is an individual with some mental health issues. he was transported so sf general, and he s there now undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. reporter: this is just one of several reported hate crimes across the country many feel have been fueled by the presidential election. at uc berkeley, a couple of men allegedly threatened and taunted a muslim student and in san jose a student told abc 7 news someone pulled off her head scarf last week. san francisco mayor ed lee says he s taking all threats seriously, including the attack on the nanny. it gives me great grief to hear that that s happening just like any of the incidences that reflect a higher level of discrim ....
annual mummers parade, so too did protesters. i ve got smiles, and i ve got the someone yelling you go away. they are just more interested in attacking then in listening. so there is not a lot of comprehension, in general. reporter: philadelphia police say two people had to be arrested during a parade, near broad and spruce, one for disorderly conduct, other for disrupting the parade. protesters we spoke to said they showed up friday to bring awareness to a host of issues. some working to draw attention to the death of tamer rice a 12 year-old boy when police mistook a pellet gun for a real gun. it is just unconsciousnable. it absolutely demand justice. reporter: others advocating raising the minimum wage, to $15 an hour. it is black lives matter, it is which is part of all lives matter. people need a living wage. they need to be able to have hope in their lives. reporter: and another thing we saw a lot of today was law enforcement. spokesmen with the philad ....