stay and how you defend yourself in those contexts is one of those conversations that we need to be having so muchmore as a culture. i think it opens up so many doors for people . megan is herself a writer and activist. she left the westboro baptist church in 2012 and isan educator on topics related to extremism and communication across ideological lines. at the age of five megan began protesting homosexuality and other vices alongside fellow members of the westboro baptist church into beaconkansas. the church was founded by her grandfather and consisted almost entirely of her extended family . the group gained notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy . as the church s twitter spokesman megan was one of the few thatinteracted with the outside world . and twitter did something for. maybe we can applaud it it caused her to begin doubting the strict church leaders and their message it humans are sinful and fallible how can the church i
it is 2:30 now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk with shaun ley. holding up placards outside the funerals of dead american soldiers. celebrating schoolroom massacres. westboro baptist church has been described as the most obnoxious, hate filled group in america. megan phelps roper was part of that group. she was born into the church. she carried those hate filled placards from the age of five years old. but as an adult, firing off tweets against online critics, megan began to doubt. eventually, she left the church altogether, but she paid a high price. the church was founded by her grandfather. she was shunned by those she loved the most. can she still really regard the people who taught her to hate, to desire more death, that the world was going to hell, as her beloved, wonderful mum and dad? megan phelps roper, welcome to hardtalk. from the age of five, in 1991, you were involved in your family s demonstrations, later taking part in pickets of the funerals of dead soldier
ability to overcome them than be anywhere else in the world. we begin tonight with growing presidential primary field. will hurd, former texas congressman and former cia officer, has thrown his hat in the ring. re-election was a tough fight, and he served on the house intelligence committee. why is he running for president? will he sign the pledge and support the nominee no matter who he or she may be? what will he do if he were president? let s find out. congressman will hurd, thank you for joining us. thank you, and amen, i agree, we are lucky to live where we live. trey: what did you see when you surveyed the existing candidates that led you to say, i m jumping in and going to run to be leader of the free world? sure, there is a path for a dark-horse candidate like me. i recognize the challenges i have ahead, the reality is, we are faced with generational-defining challenges, everything from china trying to surpass united states as global superpower to inflation that i
daybreak on today s tmj4. i m susan kim.and i m vince vitrano. let s start with a check of weather and traffic together. here s storm team 4 meteorologist brian gotter. stubborn clouds stuck around yesterday with highs in the mid to upper 60s and a light breeze. clouds lingered overnight along a cold front, with a gusty northerly breeze, and lows in the 40s and 50s. behind the cold front, today is partly to mostly cloudy and chilly 50s, and a brisk nw wind at 10- 20 mph. bring a sweatshirt, or even a jacket, for the packers game this evening at lambeau. it will be sunny and 52 for tailgating, and dropping into the low 40s by the end of the game. at least the wind will now let s get to tatiana cash for a look at the roads incident free traffic building dry roadsnational to zoo at 11 to 5 closed an unruly passenger has to be taken into custody at mitchell airport after a flight from new york. pete zervakis is live at the airport with a new statement from the airline this morni
they are going to push back and treat the theocratic mentality and have a vision because otherwise there s the cognitive dissonance that prevents the advancement of the ideas that can happen this laboratory in america. take your medical and now to step further in europe for two trading symptoms instead of addressing the root cause. i assume you could analogize this to a misdiagnosis. in this instance that we missed a diagnosis as a malady that has brought about as a result of poverty and the result of lack of educational opportunities or a career opportunity what might we mess? we would miss the fact that the prisoners in saudi arabia and syria are fighting not for poverty against poverty. they are fighting for freedom and for liberty and in this great society we can even recognize the voices, the descendents voices but if you look in the cold war s being told that their voices don t matter at all that matters is the economic plight and in the meantime marker from the c