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30% of americans say they know someone who is transgender. so 70% of the country is coming to know transgender people through reporting of what rhonda sanchez has to say, or gray gambit. sarah cade, these are obviously very terrible conch cultural times. was there a spark, a moment in the last ten years or so, when there was such a violent and hysterical overreaction to drag shows, lgbtq clothing. was there a moment? or a couple of moments? do you know? i would say pre-marriage equality we saw quite a bit of legislation, proposed legislation, basically george bush ran on banning lgbtq marriages so we did see a big backlash and a blip in a moment, when there was progress happening. whenever there s progress, ....
Cultural times, but was there a spark? was there a moment in the last ten years or so when there was such a violent and hysterical overreaction to drag shows, lgbtq clothing, was there a moment or a couple of moments, do you know? so i would say pre-marriage equality, we saw quite a bit of legislation, proposed legislation. i mean, basically, george bush ran on banning lgbtq marriages. so we did see a big backlash and a blip, a moment when there was progress happening. whenever there is progress, there is a snap back reaction to it, right? that s what we re seeing right now. as people are understanding how transgender and gender-conforming folks are, it s a snapback. majority of people, americans are welcoming. ....
Done in this area, you know, there are some signs of hope, some glimmers of hope, on the horizon, we re hearing from officials that sunday is the target date to restore power, to most of the people in this area, and sort of buildings that can withstand power and can accept power, we also hear that sunday is the date, the target date for the restoration of power, and water services, so there s some glimmers of hope on the horizon, there s some progress happening, but still so much work that needs to be done here, hallie. shaq brewster, thank you. there is so much work. and gabe you know with the people on the ground in puerto rico, they know that, and you have reported from the island so many times and what it has been like with the aftermath of hurricane maria of course years ago and now this. talk to me about the mood on the ground and what you ve seen change and what you have not seen change. yes, hurricane maria is about five years ago. and here we are, yet again, an island that ....
To go play in russia and it s impacting the russian clubs. they won t be invited back for a long time. it s sad on many levels. lebron james criticized how the u.s. government is handling britteny s detention saying if he were her i would be feeling like do i want to go back to america? what did you make of his comments? i know lebron. i think we all know what lebron meant and where his heart is. people are making too big of that. thankfully we ve heard from bg directly. we know there s a lot of progress happening. with that, we feel good about the administration s commitment to bringing bg s home. she s an american and getting her home will be a win for all of us. her name was inescapable at the wnba all star game. all the players changed into jerseys with griner s last name and her number, 42. how important is it for players to continue to do everything you can to keep her name in the ....
Amendments, throughout the committee process and we earnestly believe a bipartisan bill will be a better bill. reporter: with all the progress happening, sitting taxable by the end of the year is a tall order. there are only 34 legislative days left. a lot needs to happen in that timeframe to get a bill to the president s desk. andrea: there is discussion the house and senate might work fridays, which is shocking, to get this done. melissa: let s bring in the white house columnist with old newspaper, thanks for joining us. we heard that tweet, when we talk about getting close to a budget, getting closer to tax reform that could be that fourth bracket and at the same time we see the stock market reaching higher levels because of a positive move forward but a lot of work has to be done. an enormous amount of work, a lot of detail and it is an issue ....