Bringing a chicago neighborhood together by focusing on its most basic needs. How you going to change anything in your neighborhood, if you really cant start with the place that really sustains the neighborhood . And thats the food, right . Woodruff and, its friday. Mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. Sreenivasan all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the Senate Republican Health Care Bill has suffered another critical defection the fifth so far. Nevada republican dean heller announced in las vegas t
Around mass incarceration and gun violence, raising wages and benefits for our families and keeping immigrant families together. Today you will hear from speakers from Pico National Network, a National Latina evangelical coalition, the 11th episcopal district of ame church in florida, the Ohio Baptist State Convention, religioureligious Action Centerf reform judaism, United Church of christ, bread for the world. You can follow the conversation today using the hashtag together we vote and would like you to know for president as they called an option and that will be listened only to respond, respond to email requests. Id like to begin. We had arranged a speakers today and coming from all of the country. Id like to begin with bishop who served as pico National Director political director. [applause] good afternoon. I am the political drug of the Pico National Network ecosystem providing bishop international. We have gathered today to lay out a plan for people of faith to engage in how th
Last week we heard about trumps hopeless vision of our country. Said, i alone can fix it. Trumps person of the constitution. In order to form a more perfect later, i centuries or ask not what i can do for my country, ask what my country can do for me. [cheers] donald, you are so vain. [cheers] you probably think the speeches about you. Speech is about you. [cheers] here is what i know, we have got to stop donald trump. Our great country stands spans a continent but we are all connected to each other no matter where we live. When a minor in virginia has the dignity of a new job in the advanced steel industry, we all have dignity. When the engineering student in the Sunshine State bills the solar panels of the future, we all succeed. When the auto worker in detroit bills the electric vehicle that drags us forward, we all win. [cheers] whether you are in michigan or maryland or missouri montana. [cheers] when point water itst water poisons children, it hurts all of us. These are our child
[applause] president obama this marks the First Official state visit by a singaporean Prime Minister in over 30 years and celebrates the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between our two nations. It is a reflection of my friendship and partnership with Prime Minister lee in the past eight years. Its an opportunity to repay the hospitality that the Prime Minister and the people of singapore showed me when i visited during my first year in office. We were there for the apex summit with the tradition of dressing of shirts that are somewhat colorful, a tradition we will reserve only for those summits and are not duplicating today. A halfcentury ago, when singapore was an island of rural villages and crowded tenements, few would have imagined a day like today. Singaporeans pride themselves as being the little red dot on many maps with a big impact on the world. In less than a generation, under the vision and stewardship of Prime Minister lee kuan yew, singaporeans transformed their n
Trump holding a rally in colorado in the air and space museum in denver. And you can see that live on cspan. The democraticof and Republican Convention speeches fromured this weeks Democratic Convention includes first Lady Michelle obama, Vice President joe biden, bill clinton and Hillary Clinton, the getting beginning saturday night. We will also show you speeches from last weeks Republican National convention, including , mike pence,ruz and donald trump. Former secretary of state and new york senator Hillary Clinton accepted the democratic nomination last night introduced by her daughter chelsea. Reaction to her speech from donald trump. Here is that speech from last night. Please welcome chelsea clinton. [cheers] thank you. Thank you. [cheers] it is such an honor for me to be here tonight. Im here as a proud american, a proud democrat, a proud mother. [cheers] and tonight, in particular, and very proud daughter. [cheers] mark and i cant quite believe it, but our daughter charlotte i