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Coming? >> you know boycotts have worked in history. during the 60s. civil rights movement, boycott of the bus system of alabama we, had freedom riders go in and try to look at what was discriminatory and racist, in the south. and it took that type of participation and involvement by the whole country to change that environment. >> i am going to tell you something. >> what you are seeing today is a sense of -- out rage and a sense of -- a sense of obligation by those of who have discretion, who ...

Another violation, you come across those that happen to be here illegally. you can charge them with that state crime. >> councilman, do you believe it will require some other crime to get the police involved? >> i think our history, unfortunately, has many, many examples, not only in arizona but in other states that in the past, has allowed for the kind of subjection to this kind of discretion and it is very unfortunate. as an american, i would walk or travel or drive through arizona with a sens...

They are now crossing gang zones. chicago does not have a significant bus system here, and so you have a kid, that kid has to take a city bus or walk to a school. so, theyre walking through gang zones. if you dont look directly at the problem and say im going to sit down with these folks and make it clear that you have to confront it and then continue. >> you tell mayor daley if he wants to do it, well put it on tv. its an interesting 82nd. >> no, no, thats how it needs to be, not on television,...

Appointments, grocery stores. in my district, we have a phenomenal bus system that helps our senior citizens get to the county hospitals. when that is cut, you really are dealing with the lifeline in our communities. >> does it need to be a black agenda? >> its not a black agenda. were talking about an agenda thats going to make america stronger. were talking about developing foo tomorrow eformula and resources directed to chronically unemployed. wherever theyre chronically unemployed we need to...

And people are basically attacking the stores. being on an island, its very concerning. you think about water and things like that. the more the media talks about it, the more people get out the door and get going and get the water and the gas. thats basically whats happening here. theyre talking about concerns about the homeless people. we have a big homeless population. a lot of them are on the beach and how are they going to get notified? the red cross is talking about opening shelters. the c...

Bloodied during a voting rights march in alabama in 1965, they decided to skip this event, but their names were still on todays program. but they pulled out a couple days ago to protest the invitation of president trump. he did not address that criticism during his brief remarks. he spent about 40 minutes here at the museum touring the facility. he saw an exhibit on the freedom riders who were the folks of course who helped to desegregate the bus system. that exhibit includes dozens and dozens o...

Because its like war with all the high drama, the peril, the adventure no one is shooting at you. its predictable you know where the storm is going to hit and can you get over there its very different when your family is the target of the storm. when we lie in the path as we do here in new york right now. you are torn. im torn now. should i go to atlantic city where i can be in place saturday night for the storm hitting or should i be here? you know, i have got four of my five children are here....