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Like senator earnest -- as my colleague and friend, rachel maddow, points out in her amazing new podcast, ultra. >> fellow americans, america prepares to take the last step before entering another world war. i call upon the youth of america to put a stop to these an american pro european doctorates. the people should make known their protest, write your congressman and senators, telephone them, wire them, come to washington to see them. you must do this now. immediate protest will block the way ...

[dramatic music] [clock ticking] - and now, members, i have personal testimonies. people learned that we would be speaking against this bill today and asked us to be their voice in this chamber. because we had two days to prepare, it gave us time to ask for letters. - this is from patricia, from bellaire, texas. we received over 16,000 stories from women who wanted so much for their voices to be heard. and this from julie in pflugerville, texas. from joy in fort worth. from martha, in luling, te...

Refugee program. and many of these programs are related to the u.n. beyond that, what we can also say is that there is an american law that allows for asylum. the use of title 42, a 1944 law that was done around the same time we were imprisoning japanese americans in internment camps, it is exacted to give harm and cruelty to these individuals. >> so, if thats the case, why is it still in use today, and what is -- its a health law, right, that is being used for immigration policy. what is the im...

Creation of a. > jewish state then you have to go to america, america is the rising power in the world. they packed everyone, went to united states, and soon after, he died. my father spent war years in the united states agitating alone for a jewish state. roosevelt, didnt like that. he didnt want to activate his british allies, my father could not make headway with the democrats. he did something astounding, he went to the republicans, nobody did that. and he argued that the platform, republica...

Jewish state then you have to go to america, america is the rising power in the world. they packed everyone, went to united states, and soon after, he died. my father spent war years in the united states agitating alone for a jewish state. roosevelt, didnt like that. he didnt want to activate his british allies, my father could not make headway with the democrats. he did something astounding, he went to the republicans, nobody did that. and he argued that the platform, republican party platform ...

World war ii hero john heffernan finally laid to rest after returning home tuesday. he was kilted in action 80 years ago after japanese forces shot down his b25 bomber in burma. he was considered missing since 1944 and remains werent found and identified until last year. his funeral was held yesterday in new jersey. he was laid to rest in st. johns cemetery in queens. beautiful to see us following through on hero like that. and where else in new york, disbarred lawyer who fire bombed a police ca...

Keep grinding and grind we do. harris: historical story about general patton, you think about world war ii, and the role he played. battle of the bulge. those moments that were so critical historically to the movement of our country to western europe and eastern europe. but even he needed a prayer. he would call on a chaplain. >> he is a great illustration of you dont have to be perfect to pray. you have dont have to have everything in in our life in order to pray. you can call on god any time. ...

Majority of americans do not want to talk rusty. they dont want authoritarianism. and i think that this week is almost a morality play that shows americans at their best. and goes absolutely to the beginning of american history and shows why american soldiers and american people, and gettysburg, on d-day 1944, and also in demonstrating for equal rights at salma, and a lot of other places, this is the best of america, and we are seeing americans saying that we are in the majority, and we are keep...

A normandy veteran, he was building bridges and taking up mines, which landed him in a village in northern france in 1944. one afternoon, with rations of pilchards and jam on bread in hand, he suddenly noticed a girl. she was staring at me and i thought, whats she staring at? i looked down and it was the bread. so i offered her the bread, i dont remember her taking the bread, but i remember her running across the village square and going into the church. i never saw her after that. but then in t...

Of kindness that has been remembered for almost 80 years. in 1944, normandy veteran reg pye gave a piece of bread and jam to a stranger whilst fighting in france. hes kept a photograph of the girl he helped in his wallet ever since but never expected to see her again. fortunately, luck was on his side. lucy vladev reports. we landed upon the beach, because it was late getting there. we broke down on the way up, it was american landing craft, you can see that. and the corvettes were circling us. ...