Governance of the country and taken away and will make the opposition safer. But nothing in what we have done is meant to offer any notion to assad there is some legitimacy to his process, that he has some extended period as a leader, so called. We make it clear that assad has lost all legitimacy to be possible to govern this country. And we remain committed to the opposition and committed to the geneva process which calls for a transition government with full executive authority by Mutual Consent of the parties that will layout the structure for the new syria. Thats our end strategic goal here and all of us remain committed to that goal and committed to ending the violence as soon as possible. We understand that removing the chemical weapons still leafs him with artillery and airplanes and he uses them indiscriminantly against his people and we will do everything in our power to continue to push towards the political resolution that is so critical to ending that violence. We will all
Mississippi. Including one dedicated to the states role in the Civil Rights Movement. That event boycotted by several prominent africanamerican leaders like congressman john lewis, Bennie Thompson and the mayor of jackson, mississippi. The president did not mention the controversy in his remarks. He used his speech to pay tribute to civil rights activists, noting the contribution of the late met ger evers and every honored. Today we strive to be worthy of their sacrifice. We pray for inspiration from their example. We want our country to be a place where every child from every background can grow up free from fear, innocent of hatred and surrounded by love, opportunity, and hope. Lets go to white house cour correspondent jeff bennett near the mara laug maralago resort and what was the president s comments. The reaction to the room to the comments, from what im told, this person was struck by the fact that the president appeared to hit all of the right notes. The speech was crafted appe
Always, is in more complications. We offer more evacuation orders are lifted. Allowing people to return home and in some cases, Governor Brown there is nothing left. Affects some houses are burned nextdoor is not. So it is the wind, the vegetation of the construction. All of the combined to make fires dumping people even though we are learning more about what can you say . You lose your house and belongings, people lose animals. It is a horror. To listen people of saint get the alerts on your cell phone ready to go. And springer is joining me from california with an update. Been a pretty good day. If there is wind died down today. This has been one of the things where the wind is moving everything. But it is not or by any stretch of imagination. The and is expected to pick up at the tomorrow morning when the best thing to 60 miles now. We have new numbers out in the are staggering. The six finest one of the 75,000 acres have burned. That amounts to 270 square miles. Just over 1000 stru
To gain the right to vote. To achieve the sacred birth right of equality here. Thats big stuff, thats big stuff. Those are very big phrases, very big words. Here we memorialize the brave men and women who struggle to sacrifice and sacrifice so much so that others might live in freedom. All right, i want to bring in athena jones now. Shes at the museum. So how was the president s messages received today . Hi, fred. Well, there was certainly applause after those remarks. And during those remarks, especially when he recognized the widow of medger evers, who was there inside the museum during the tour. He came, he toured the museum, he saw several exhibit, including freedom writers, who helped desegregate buses in the 60s. He mentioned james meredith, who was the first black student to attend the segregated university of mississippi in 1962. He spent a good deal of time talking about medgar evers himself who was assassinated here in jackson in 1963. Yak sons airport is named after him. Its
Find a middle ground between keeping disgruntled fans happy and respecting players concerns about civil rights. As a sports icons legacy is honored through todays athletes activist from a sports hero and a sports historian later on on that. But first, President Trumps utter lack of shame when it comes to the black community was at its most palpable yesterday in jackson, mississippi, where he joined the states governor for the opening of the museum of mississippi history and mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Not in attendance was an entire slate of civil rights icons and black public servants, united in their disgust that this president with his record on civil rights, policing, and the place of White Nationalism in america would detract from the ceremony with his presence, which drew protests and ultimately an accommodation from organizers. A separate private event for this president. The Civil Rights Museum records the oppression, cruelty and injustice inflicted on the africanamerican