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Jim acosta is joining us now from las vegas where donald trump will hold a fundraiser today. Jim, people are looking at what he said each day and its harder and harder to keep up with what his position is. Thats right, brianna. Were playing this game of following the bouncing policy. That is what has been happening all week long with Donald Trumps policy on immigration. He told fox he was softening on immigration and considering a plan that would allow the undocumented, if they have been law abiding to stay in this country as long as they pay back taxes. But as we heard from his interview with Anderson Cooper yesterday right here on cnn, he is not saying that at all. He is saying that the undocumented in this country, even if they have been law abiding, will have to go back to their country of origin and touch back and immigration and then get in line and come back. Thats essentially what his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway echoed earlier this morning on Good Morning America on abc. Heres what she had to say. He said no path to legalization. No path to citizenship and no path to amnesty. You can return home and then if you want to go stand in line like everybody else is, the thing we learned in kindergarten. That would be evaluated on a casebycase basis. Now, i did talk to a Senior Trump Campaign adviser earlier this morning, brianna. I was asking this person because a report out of new jersey saying new Jersey Governor Chris Christie was advising donald trump on this and leading to the soften on immigration. Senior trump adviser said, no, that is not the case. This is donald trump who is ounding out these changes and these shifts on his policy on immigration. Jim, tell us a little bit about whats happening there in nevada. This is a battleground state. Hillary clinton had been there and you have donald trump spending the day in lake tahoe and las vegas. Whats happening there . Who is leading . Yeah, according to the latest polls here in nevada and, as you know, from being out here on the campaign trail for many, many years. This is a battleground state and it is, once again, according to the latest polls Hillary Clinton has a slight lead in nevada, but donald trump is making a big play for the state, obviously. Hes going to need this state in all likelihood if he has any chance of winning and that goes to this strategy that appears to be, you know, sort of evolving inside the Trump Campaign as to what his policy is on immigration. If he can somehow land on a softer policy on immigration, that is going to appeal to latinos and that is going to appeal to the suburban middle class workers who are uncomfortable with what he said so far on this subject. He is going to be holding a fundraising event here in nevada later tonight. We understand the cameras are going to be allowed in there. Well be waiting tasee if donald trump has anything new to see on this subject. Has been like sort of following a bouncing ball all week long in terms of keeping track of this issue. Jim acosta, thank you. Donald trump says one part of his immigration plan is set. He insists he is going to build a wall along the mexican border. It is dealing with the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. In an exclusive interview with cnn Anderson Cooper his first action will be to get rid of the bad dudes. We know the bad ones. We know where they are, who they are. We know the drug cartel people. We know the gangs and the heads of the gangs and the gang members. Those people are gone. But thats a huge number. But thats jeb bushs policy. I dont know anything about jeb bush. He wasnt building a wall. Jeb bush wasnt making Strong Borders. Im not knocking jeb bush, but i was with him for a long time. He was mocked for saying, look, you cant deport 11 million people. It now seems like first, i want to see whats going to happen. Were going to deport many people. Many, many people. They have not committed a crime. We have crime all over this country. If they havent committed a crime, is there going to be a path to legalization . No, theres no path to legalization. You talked about paying back taxes. Less people leave the country. When they come back in. If they come back in, then they can start paying taxes. They still have to leave the country. There is no path to legalization unless they leave the country and come back. So, that means of the 11 million who are here, even if they havent committed a crime. You keep saying 11 million. You dont know what the number is. Thats the estimate. Using the existing laws of our country. Using the existing laws, millions of people are deported every year. You know that, right . Yeah. People dont talk about that. Its obama. They dont talk about that. But you have a lot of people being deported. Were going to do that vigorously. We are going to go with the laws that are existing. Were going to have a very Strong Border and not have people coming back in. When the drug lord and all the people thrown out, theyre not coming back into the country. If you havent committed a crime and youve been here for 15 years and you have a family here and a job here, will you be deported . Were going to see what happens once we strengthen up our border. We will have a Strong Border. As strong as any border there in the world. We are going to have a real wall and tremendous protection. Both technological protection and Everything Else and then well see what happens. Lets bring in now our panel to try to decipher Donald Trumps latest position on immigration. Reporter for real clear politics and a National Reporter for the Washington Post. Earlier in the week, donald trump himself talked about a softening. That is a word that came out of his mouth to describe what he was considering. And, yet, it seems like now hes moving back towards a harder line and weve heard from, for instance, congressman steve king. Very conservative who said he feels better now about what he heard from donald trump. You had sarah palin saying that trump had been wishywashy. W now hes realizing this is not feasible. Over the summer a lot of feedback from Top Republicans and donors saying you have to take a different posture on this issue. That led to a consideration of a change in rhetoric. But there doesnt appear to have been an analysis of the policy behind that rhetoric. In realtime were seeing him adjust his position. Even polling audiences with sean hannity saying what should i do . Multiple times last night not being able to answer the question that anderson posed to him. What does it mean for people in this country who dont have proper documentation but havent committed a crime. He is going to have to answer that question in a speech he is promising to give. If there might be someone hardline on immigration, even if someone had the buy in which he does. Yes, this is how im going to do it and im going to sell you something. You might think it is donald trump. Is he confronting the reality of the fact that this is why people flock to him because he said build a wall and because there was talk of a Deportation Force and if he goes astray from that, its just a nonstarter for all of them . Well, theres definitely a concern that some of his core supporters could be really upset by any substantial change in policy or even in tone when it comes to immigration because, as you said, part of his initial attraction for many of these people was not only the build a wall promise, which is a big part of it. But also this promise that he would deport people who are in this country illegally and uphold the laws of this country, as he said. So, its not necessarily a concern that some of these people would then go and support Hillary Clinton because she is so far from where they are in terms of policy and tone. That its really implausible. But you really do have to start to worry if youre donald trump and his campaign and especially if we wake up on the morning of november 8th and trailing in many polls or even before then when you take into account early voting and maybe some of these people will then decide while donald trump isnt what we thought, maybe we just wont turn out to vote, ultimately. He is relying on people who arent normally likely voters. He sort of turns some people into that. I want you to listen to what jeb bush said. Jeb bush is much, from a Republican Point of view, softer on immigration. We certainly heard that. But this is what he is now saying in a radio interview as he blasts donald trump. I dont know what to believe about a guy who doesnt believe in things. I mean, he doesnt, this is all a game. He doesnt, his views will change based on the feedback that he gets from a crowd or, you know, what he thinks he has to do. Life is too complex. For me, i couldnt do that. I have to believe what i believe and if its popular, great, if its not, i try to get better at presenting my views. But shifting my views because its political to do it, thats what politicians do in this country. Thats what trump is trying to do right now. Donald trump is in a donald trump is facing this real cuno no one has a pathway and then ask you the large chunk feeling the way about this as jeb bush does. I think what governor bush is getting at is something incredibly risky for donald trump right now. At the core of his appeal is the sense that he tells it like he sees it. He doesnt adjust his views to be politically expedient and he runs the risk of having people think now that hes adjusting his policy because hes entered the general election and he has to appeal to latinos who feel incredibly turned off biz his candidacy. Thats a very tricky balancing act for him. It will be interesting to see in this speech, once it finally does come out, how he manages to balance those pledges of securities and saying he will have a Deportation Force with now some realities about what the policy entails. Under a lot of pressure to come up with a coherent message next week, right . Weve seen him just within this past week vacillate between a path to legalized status for people who immigrated to this country illegally, but who have been upstanding citizens with no criminal records since then to whatty we heard with his interview with Anderson Cooper last night, he would require these undocumented immigrants to return to their country of origin and return to the United States before they could earn that legalized status. Which is a policy i think many republicans would say is unreali unrealistic. Why not just deport them at that point if theyre going back to their country of origin. No consistency from donald trump in terms of policy. He hasnt really specified at any point or gone into the specifics of what his plan would be. Now, hes being pressed to do so and certainly thats going to be difficult for him, based on what weve seen so far. I want to talk to you now about Hillary Clinton because she is responding to, obviously, some of this fall out from the Clinton Foundation and just a lot of people saying, look, there is the appearance of a conflict of interest. You should have sort of, with this plan, with bill clinton stepping off of the board, with not accepting corporate or foreign donations if she is elected president. Some people are saying, you know, you should have done this sooner. But she is also now saying that theyre looking for partners to take over some of the work of the Clinton Foundation. Lets listen to what she said on msnbc. I appreciate, you know, the concerns that people have expressed and thats why i made it clear that if im successful in november, we are going to be taking additional steps. But the fact is winding down some of these programs takes time. You just dont turn on an off and on switch. Even trying to negotiate with partner groups takes a lot of serious efforts. I know the foundation is looking for partners. But thats going to take some time to carry out. Yeah, it does take time and shes had years is when i hear her say that, i wonder why perhaps did the Clinton Foundation not have a plan for this sooner . They knew this was going to be a problem, the foundation. Right. But even last year when she started running and i think youve heard a lot of republicans say, if this is a potential conflict of interest for the president of the United States, why wasnt it a conflict of interest for the secretary of state . This is all been amplified because shes in the middle of this huge fundraising spree right now raising huge dollars for the Democratic Party for some of the very donors who have been major supporters of the Clinton Foundation. I think that just puts another spotlight on what has been this vulnerability for her, which is her longstanding connection to these donors and a prurceptierc that they have access to her. Do you feel it was a lastminute decision maybe Hillary Clinton and bill clinton had a sense, okay, this isnt going to go away, we have to deal with this . It doesnt seem like it was in the works a year ago to make this change. Im sure this question has crossed their minds prior to this stage. What is possibly detrimental to their campaign is that they didnt start this discussion publicly until there was this very searing criticism of the Clinton Foundation and this spotlight on some of the connections between the foundation and the state department that raised these questions. Okay, what was the conflict of interest then . Is there going to be a conflict of interest if Hillary Clinton was in the white house . I would say if you had raised this a year ago, it would be far less, voters would be far less skeptical of how serious they are about putting up a firewall. But because theyre raising this now when theyre under this very intense scrutiny, people start to question. Well, what are their motives here . Are they serious . Its so close to election. Thank you so much to both of you. Coming up, donald trump and Hillary Clinton trading jabs. Its not over policy and not over the issues or the polls. They are accusing each other of bigotry and hate. All of this as maines governor challenges the lawmaker to prove hes racist. Much more ahead. You may be muddling through allergies. Try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. And zyrtec® is different than claritin®. Because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. Try zyrtec®. Muddle no more®. Lots of vitamins a c, and, only 50 calories a serving. Good morning, indeed. V8. Veggies for all. G new cars. Youre smart. You already knew that. But its also great for finding the perfect used car. Youll see what a fair price is, and you can connect with a truecar certified dealer. Now youre even smarter. This is truecar. 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You know it, the fbi director knows it it, everybody else knows it. She should be in jail. What she did with erasing 33,000 emails. She shouldnt be out talking about inner cities or running for president. Comments like those from donald trump have become the basis of his outreach to minority voters telling them they might as well vote for him because their lives are already in bad shape. And here to talk with me about donald trump, his candidacy, his campaign and the man himself is mark fisher. Senior editor for Washington Post and michael crannish, investigative political reporter for Washington Post. They have written a new book called donald trump revealed. Donald trump had a very public battle with your newspaper. I want to talk a little bit about that. That was sort of ongoing as youre doing that. You still have an incredible amount of access to him. Gave us more than 20 hours of interview for this book which was in stark contrast to what he was saying at rallies and calling reporters low lives and that sort of thing. Theres a big difference between what he does for applause at a rally and what he does in private where he was generous and gracious with us and took all questions. He didnt answer all of them directly, but he took them all, which is more than you can say about his opponent. So, we were very pleased by the relationship we had with him. Of course, since the book came out, he has taken a little bit of a different tone. Okay, lets actually read that tweet. But i do want to mention something that i found the same thing when i interviewed him. I was very, i dont want to say surprised, but because he is so brash sometimes, he was very gracious to have me there to interview him. He was exceedingly polite. You know, kind of gave me a hard time during the interview but also had a feeling he was being a good sport about it. Was that your experience as you interviewed him . He spent hours with us and hours with our colleagues from Washington Post. Had us to trump towers twice. Showed the walls of magazine covers of himself. Hes very proud to show those things off in person. This is what he tweeted. And then were going to get to whats in the book. The Washington Post put together a hit job book on me. Dont buy. Boring. But im also looking at the back of the book which tells a different story. At first he says on april 12th, hes not going to be reading it. But then april 21st he says if its a bad book it would be detrimental to me. It shouldnt be a bad book. If youre going to do it, you might as well get it right. This is a lot of fun, lets keep talking. He kept expanding the length of our interviews double, triple the time because he was learning stuff from us about his family and he wanted to tell stories about his past. Obviously, his favorite subject is donald trump and thats what we were asking about. You also asked for serious topics. Immigration. So much on the mind of so many people right now as we await his speech. What was it that you learned from him. If i can just read this quote because he ridiculed mitt romneys crazy policy of selfdeportation. It sounded as bad as it was. He said in 2012 and he lost romney. All of the latino vote. He lost the asian vote and everybody that is inspired to come tathis country. Hes talking about immigrants that are inspired by the american dream, which is different than what we hear. When you read that quote, its extraordinary. His analysis and then to turn around and propose a forced deportation policy which is essentially what he proposed when he announced in june 2015. He looked back and had a very different view then and had to do with his changeability. His chapter in the book and the reason we felt justified and fair in using that title. He changes the position on many issues, immigration, taxes. So i asked him, what do you say to people who ask whether you have any core beliefs given all these changes and his response was not to pound his fist on the table and, yes, i have the core beliefs and he said, im a business person. I want to be friends with people who are in office at the time. Some interesting things in this book and one that struck me was an admission when you talk to him about what he reads. And specifically about whether hes read a biography of a past president. He told you he has not ever. I was curious because here he is just weeks away from possibly becoming the next president of the United States. Are you thinking about how youre making decisions and who youre going to be modeling yourself after. Have you read any biographies of great president s . He said, i always wanted to but i never had the time. So, i pushed a little further. What do you read . It turns out, he really doesnt care to read that much. He doesnt like when people bring him big reports or briefings. He likes to make decisions from the gut. He believes strongly in his own instinct. Common sense. He believes that he can feel what a crowd wants as we see some of his policy changes. Hes skeptical of people who write and read big, long reports. Thats incredibly interesting that it seems like you describe him as having a limited attention span, but also being selfaware that he does. He is very focused on what he knows best. As a builder, he is expert in what he does. You can see the sense that hes learning on the go. This is, after all, a man who has never been in public office. And trump has made up his own mind and he is this provocter and he comes to his own thoughts and that was very successful during the primaries. You can see him trying to stretch and pull back as he tries to court more voters for the general election. Many things like this. He hasnt read a biography as a president. He has a limited attention span. He doesnt have many friends, you reveal in the book, as well hes looking at that and saying this is a hit job. Supporters of his say this is a hit job and what do you say to people who may accurately look at your book and say, this does not paint a particularly flattering picture of donald trump. You can pull things out that are highly critical and you can pull things out that are hugely supportive. What youll find is that this is a book that spans from his ancestry back in scotland and germany all the way up through the republican convention. At every turn were looking at how did he succeed . How did he run into trouble . Its a biography that tells the whole story. This is a man who has had enormous successes and a man who has six corporate bankruptcies. This is a man who has won people over who believe in his strongly and also people who find him offensive and insulting. The roots of all that is what we try to get at. What is it about his family and his upbringing. All those stories we talked to hundreds of his classmates and neighbors and so on. And i think he can get a good sense of where this all came from. It is a fascinating read and it helps in a way create a record of someone who doesnt have a traditional one, as well. Thanks to both of you for joining me today. Coming up, a sitting governor threatening another lawmaker and a voice mail so vulgar we had to bleep out a word. A good portion of it, not just a word. Some of you, i may warn, may still be offended. This is the governor paul richard lepage. I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist. Well have you listen to the rest right after this. Approaching medicare eligibility . You may think you can put off checking out your Medicare Options until youre sixtyfive, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. Keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. The rest is up to you. 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We do want to warn you before we play it, we have bleeped out the obscenities but some viewers may still find it offensive. This is governor paul richard lepage. I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist. [ bleep ]. I want to talk to you. I want you to prove that im a racist. I will spend my life helping black people and you little [ bleep ], socialist [ bleep ]. I want you to record this and make it public because i am after you. Thank you. Well, he did get his wish there and all of this stumming from the comments by the governor back in january. Cnn Phil Mattingly picks it up from here to explain how it got tath to this point . This stems back tathe crisis in january. Facing a very serious problem on heroin and pain killers. When the governor was trying to talk about that issue, he made comments in january that were considered very racially charged. Then he doubled down on them again this week. Take a listen as we play both of them. Guys with the name d. Money, smoothie, shifty. These types of guys that come from connecticut and new york. They come up here and they sell their heroin. Half the time impregnate a young girl before they leave. Every since i made that comment, 90 of those pictures in my book and its a threering binder. Are black and hispanic people from waterberry, connecticut. The bronx and brooklyn. Now, brianna, its worth noting the 90 number doesnt correlate with any public numbers weve seen from authorities in terms of arrests or in terms of who is bringing the drugs into the state at all. But those are the types of comments that have drawn from civil Rights Groups about what the governor was actually trying to say there. Now, the governor hasas you not and as youve seen defended the comments in january and almost doubled down on them in some way. Anyone who covers politics says governor lepage is known to say inflammatory things. I was donald trump before donald trump. But, clearly, this is an escalation of sorts based just on that voicemail alone. So, is there any apology . Has he said anything to back off of his inflammatory remarks . Kind of, but not really. The governor did, his office put out a lengthy statement just a little bit ago. He said when someone calls me racist, i take it very seriously. I didnt know the state lawmaker from a hole in the wall. It made me enormously ang rewhen a tv reporter asked me. The absolute worst, most vile thing you can call a person. I called gattine and used the worst word i could think of. I apologize for that to the people of maine. Apologizes for his language in the voicemail. In talking to reporters after he left that voicemail, the governor said he wished it was the 19th century so he could challenge the state lawmaker to a duel and said he would be aaron and not backing off entirely. That is so weird. Okay, Phil Mattingly, thank you so much for that report. 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Joining me now from austin, texas, is cnn president ial historian dugly brinkley who is going to give us a little Historical Context here. Just compare for me, doug, how bad this is. He is saying that Hillary Clinton is a bigot. He frequently calls her crooked. He is saying she is a friend of racist. How unusual is this . Its very unusual. Its brutally ugly out there right now. Now, we can go back to the 19th century, brianna and talk about the civil war. Ill just take us back to 1964 when Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson was the nominees. They made a pact never to devolve racist attacks on each other and they both lived up to that pledge. The reason they did that is because they both said its not good for the country. I dont know anybody who is sane in america that thinks Hillary Clinton and donald trump calling each other bigots and racists every day and this isnt stirring it up, it is the two of them. I think they need to take a big timeout and go back to the Goldwater Johnson pledge of 64 and stop making their country suffer through all of this. So you hold them both to account on this . I think donald trump has run a bigoted campaign. But i think Hillary Clintons got to take a high road on it and not get down in the muck with donald trump. Shes done that for a while, but i think she now sees trump is vulnerable on this front. It is better to make other people make the charges because it just becomes inflammatory. As you saw donald trump turning to his supporters saying Hillary Clinton is calling all of you who support me racist. He had a little bit of a comeback with that. So, i think we need to take the debate to a better and higher plain. Any time racial politics of this kind gets involved, whether its the willy horton ads during George Herbert walker bush or bill clinton, its never good for american people. It becomes, it makes meanal ds disgust would the political process. She is trying to hold him to account for who his supporters are. Among the white supremacist groups. He talked about, donald trump responded to this in an interview. Heres what he said. Do you want White Supremacists to vote for you . No, i dont. Not at all. I will tell you, this is not about hate, this is about love. We love our country. We want our country to come back. We want our country to be strong, again. Doug, it seems like normally when a republican is asked or any, i mean, any politician is asked about something, a racist group, there is this almost knee jerk condinaticondenination tha trump doesnt fall though script. He goes off the script. He is the king pin of dog whistle and inuelaw and order i clever way of being a bigot. Lets not focus in 68 on the vietnam war. Lets talk about crime on the street and africanamerican riots and ghettos. It worked for a while for nixon, but, of course, it caught up with him by 1973 and 74. Taking america to the gutter politics. And i would argue that Donald Trumps candidacy, if he loses is going to be known in history for bigotry and zedoing these kd of dog whistles. You know, when he talks about the wall and talks about latino americans the way that he does, he does it in a law and order way. Were going to get all the drug dealers. But people are smart. They know what hes saying. Hes looking for racist votes and White Supremacists have been flocking to donald trump. Hes insistent that is not what hes saying but we will look back in years to come if your assessment is right. President ial historian, thank you. You are looking at some brandnew images that we have. This is from inside iraq. This is a town liberated from isis. Just 24 hours ago. Cnn is one of the few Media Outlets embed would the iraqi army. We will have our report, next. Covering is caring. Because covering heals faster. To seal out water, dirt and germs, cover with a water block clear bandage from bandaid brand. Where the Iraqi Military is celebrating a strategic victory over isis. Cnn is getting a first look at a town liberated from the Terror Group Just 24 hours ago. This is a key win on the long road to taking back another city, mosul. Arwa damon is reporting for us from qayyara, iraq. Reporter just take a look at how desolate it is here, how abandoned the road is, at least in this direction. This was the main road that cut through the town. This was the main market here. It was a thriving place before isis took over this town some two years ago. More than two years ago. Then still have this thick black smoke billowing above it. And that is from the crude oil that isis was burning to try to impair visibility of Coalition Aircraft and drones. Residents were telling us they had been burning this crude oil for about the last six months. These forces here are part of iraqs counterterrorism unit. They were the ones that first came in and really led this operation to liberate the city. You see some of the kids, there were a lot more children out earlier. The kids are wearing threequarter pants or shorts now and they werent allowed to do this under isis. It may seem like something that is very basic, but just to be able to do that right now for them is a novel experience to a certain degree. A lot of the residents that we have been talking to are also describing how isis was using them as human shields. There was a father who was here earlier with his 2yearold son and he was saying that isis had fighters positioned in front of his door. They were firing out towards the Iraqi Security forces as they were advancing and then the iraqis countered with mortar fire or somehow his house was hit in a mortar, just described how everything went black and he grabbed his little 2yearold and ran for it out back door. People would have escaped if they could. They just said that they werent able to do so. One of the lamp posts down the street. A little girl that the iraqi army soldier met and showed us a video of, she described how her father was strung to one of these lamp posts for three days because isis accused him of collaborating with the coalition. You just hear story after story like this from this one town that the iraqis have just managed to liberate. They described the fighting as being very intense. There were roads that were inlaid with bombs. They were attacked in all, total, 15 suicide bombers. Suicide car bombs. You see more people coming out over here, children taking coming down the street on their toys. Just to think of what theyve been through and just how 24 hours ago this was an active battle zone. They must have been so afraid. Its really hard to imagine what it was like for the children, what it was like for parents that werent able to keep their children safe in all of this. Youll also notice that a lot of the men are cleanshaven. And that is because under isis, course, they all had to keep the really long beards. Some of the women there arent any out right now. We havent actually seen that many coming out, but the handful of women we have seen, some are still wearing the full black, and that is partially because of the psychological impact of everything and thats how theyve been having to dress for the last two years. Some of them have already taken it off. But what were seeing here is really just a snapshot of the challenges that the iraqis are facing, the sheer and utter horror and hardship that the populations are going through. And you think about what is going to lie ahead as the Iraqi Security forces push towards mosul. Iraqs second largest city and the civilian population that is there, the potential destruction that might be caused there. One of the residents we were talking to put it, he said, look, the town can be rebuilt, the country can physically be rebuilt. But what were paying for in terms of lives lost, that is a price that can never be restored to us. Our thanks to arwa damon for that report. Coming zika cases on the rise. And new screening recommendations nationwide. Details next. Be the you who doesnt cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Be the you who shows up in that dress. Who hugs a friend. Who is done with treatments that dont give you clearer skin. Be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. Stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. Some serious infections require hospitalization. Before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. Before starting stelara® tell your doctor if you think you have an infection or have symptoms such as fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough. 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Finally this hour be, today marks the 45th anniversary of womens equality day, established in 1971 to commemorate the passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. It took more than 70 years for women to win the right to vote and the fight didnt stop there. The equal rights amendment was first introduced to congress in 1923. It took 49 sessions to finally get it passed in 1972. It was sent to the states for ratification but fell three states short. Then in 2014 president obama signed executive orders aimed at closing the pay gap between women and men and the white house announced today that nearly 30 leading businesses have signed the equal pay pledge. But still today women make only 79 cents to every 1 that a man makes, although certainly that is something that has become debatable, i would say, in this current political climate. That is it for me. Wolf is back on monday. Wolf is back on monday. The news continues right now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. 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