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Emancipation proclamation. 154 years too soon. there are people opposed to it being a marbnational holiday an against reparation. well talk about that on the show. >> is there any good argument in your mind for opposing it as a national holiday? >> yes. there is. i can understand where people are coming from. as long as you educate yourself and present a valid good argument. mitch mcconnells argument is not a good argument. >> making juneteenth a holiday. >> no. think about it. what was columbus...

About the country celebrating the 100 years of the freedom 100 years too soon because we cannot be free until they are free, meaning the people who are discussing these issues now and who are opposed to reparations and who are opposed to talking about slavery. then he says, god bless you and godspeed. i feel like thats where we are now. 154 years celebrating the emancipation proclamation, in many senses 100 years too soon because many people still oppose it being a national holiday and still peo...

Will it happen? >> i think it would be tremendous and i think it should be. let me read something to you. >> please. >> this is one of my favorite books. this is a letter to his nephew and it was on the 100th anniversary it will be hard. you come from sturdy. men who picked cotton and built railroads. you come from a long line of great poets. one of them said the very time i thought i was lost my dungeon shook and my chains fell off. it talks about the country celebrating the freedom of the 100 ...

We get things done for you. remember senator sanders said he had a question for third way, will you support me if i am the democratic nominee. we reached out. we got an answer. yes, unequivocally. thats a quote. the cofounder pointed out that sanders press secretary bragged on twitter for voting for jill stein in 2016, not hillary clinton the nominee. but they said, yes, senator, theres your answer. so today, juneteenth, it was on this day 154 years that slavery ended in texas. d. lemon, 46 stat...

He repeatedly demonstrates he is out of step. senator cory booker also weighed in saying i can tell vice president biden that he is wrong for using his relationships with eastland and tammadge. but on capitol hill today, the house of representatives held the first hearing on reparations for slavery in more than a decade. and its happening on a very significant day for our nation. juneteenth which commemorates the united states 154 years ago abolition of slavery. between 1619 and 1865, about 4 mi...

Candidates today? what are you happening they will reveal and in what kind of detail? >> sure. well, as you know, we conducted the largest survey of black people in america in 154 years. it is called the black census project. what we learned is that 85% of our respondents are really concerned about low wages that are not enough to support a family. we learned that 85% of our respondents are very concerned about the lack of affordable health care, and 86% of our respondents are incredibly concern...

Copy of the report but im going from the headlines. >> i got you from. >> tell me how the report came o out. this is some real deep diving into how the people feel in the black community. >> thats exactly right. the black census project is the largest survey of black people thats been conducted in more than 154 years. when we say the largest, we mean we surveyed more than 30,000 black people in all 50 states from rural and urban communities from lgbt communities and straight communities. we surv...

This. and were learning about it in realtime today. and i hope these documents will get wider view, because the allegations contained within them are horrifying and they deserve to be read in public. >> we actually have a clip of ted deutch bringing this report before the judiciary committee this morning. lets just take a listen to a minute. >> over the past three years, there have been 154 sta staff-on-unaccompanied minor -- let me repeat that, staff-on-unaccompanied minor reports of sexual ass...

Into missouri, iowa, illinois and indiana. slick roads caused accidents that killed three people. they warned people not to get behind the wheel, showing this crash here in your screen. 2:00 yesterday afternoon they got nearly 4000 calls for service and responded to 870 crashes at that point. at one point delays for as long as eight hours. the story moving eastward where the ralph northam has declared a state of emergency there. d.c. expecting up to a foot of snow. freezing rain will be the bigg...

And started railing about. but that share of people crossing the border has dropped dramatically and now 60% of people crossing the border are either families or unaccompanied children. they are actually flee they are fleeing gang, they are fleeing poverty. they are families. theyre not terrorists or things like that. to prepare everybody for the discussion tonight about the wall, i thought it would be useful at what numbers were tucking about, 154 miles long. trump wants to build a thousand mil...