There. meanwhile, another sanders rival beto o rourke is pumping out his policy push ahead of the democrats big push. o rourke unveiling his plan to cover veteran s healthcare. leyla santiago has the details. it s a major issue in this election. when you combine that with veteran s issues, that s quite a political point for him, clearly a focus he wants to score some points on. reporter: right. so this is an eight-page proposal. it s got a variety of topic. let s actually get right into it. the first thing it talks about is ending the wars in afghanistan as well as iraq. he s got this idea of a war tax. more on that in a second. he talks about the veterans affairs, more spending for alzheimer s research. he wants this to allow service to be a pathway to citizenship and then focus quite a bit there at the very end of the policy on women veterans as well as lbgtq
Care, that those laws have to come before my department of justice for a review and approval. and until we determine that they are constitutional, they will not take effect. that sounds like it means 60 votes in the united states senate? you know what, everything that we need to do is going to require 60 votes in the united states senate. which is why i say, everybody, 2020 is about the white house, it s also about the united states senate. joining from us the location of that town hall, nbc correspondent ron hilliard for us. ron, good morning. thanks for joining us. senator kamala harris, during the msnbc town hall last night as we just heard, hitting on a number of topics, what do you think and what are you hearing was her standout moment last night? reporter: yeah, good morning, as you just played, that was her big policy push that she focused on last night. this is a methodical campaign by kamala harris, as she s going through, is this now her fourth
We ll look for you tonight, dana, thank you so much. thanks, brooke. we are getting some news just in that the trump administration wants to limit citizenship for legal immigrants, essentially punishing those who receive government benefits like welfare. find out who is behind this policy push. and as rick gates testifies against his former partner, paul manafort, is president trump sitting there watching in realtime, following what happens when a loyalist flips and makes a deal with prosecutors and spills everything they know? we ll talk to his biographer about how he may be feeling next. tech: at safelite autoglass, we really pride ourselves on making it easy for you to get your windshield fixed. with safelite, you can see exactly when we ll be there. saving you time for what you love most. kids: whoa! kids vo: safelite repair, safelite replace
Today, what can you tell us about today s opioid event in new hampshire? yeah. very, very important idea to get up there. i mean, this is something that is ravaging, just hammering states all over the country. not just the beautiful state of new hampshire. you may remember back on the 1st of this month they had that very important policy push at the white house talking about opioids. jeff sessions, the attorney general was there. one of the headlines, of course, that will garner a great deal of attention today, sandra, is this. as as far as the president s new opioid plan it says the department of justice will seek the death penalty against drug traffickers where appropriate under current law. that according to the white house fact sheet. here is the white house press secretary sarah sanders. we can tell you some of the things we have done particularly with the president s budget where it included $10 billion for hhs to combat the opioid epidemic by preventing opioid abuse and help
i want my schools protect ed just like my banks are protected. we must immediately harden the schools. we need to harden them and not soften them up. we drop off the kids at schools of so-called gun-free zones that are wide open targets for any crazy madman bent on evil to come there first. a gun-free zone to a killer or somebody who wants to be a killer, that is like going in for the ice cream. that is like, here i am, take me. so we saw that the president did conduct a listening session with the victims, but realistically, and not just the president, but the republicans, paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, and can they separate themselves from the nra when it comes to the policy push? they k and i think it would be smart for donald trump to do so even though they have heavily funded his presidential bid, he