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Party vote against her. but when you look at whats happened since she has come in, certainly there is cause for alarm among democrats not only because of the proposed cuts to the budget which pretty much touch on everything in terms of public education that you would be concerned about for the future in terms of afterschool programs, programs to help underprivileged children. but possibly even more troubling than that is this report which elizabeth warren herself writes about in a cnn article th...

Just a minu egypt. republicans will not go to repeal obamacare despite the urging of the president. they didnt have the votes to pass it. but congress the avert a government shutdown. for now passing a short term funding bill for one week. joining me, brenda lawrence, good afternoon. >> good afternoon, chris. how are you? >> good. lets start with the 10:00 resolution. you voted yes so the government gets on stay open another week. how confident are you that youll have a budget deal next week t...

Feel like -- im curious if you feel this having lived through george w. bush, a kind of george w. bush 2.0 trajectory increasingly in what is actually taking shape in a concrete sense. >> not 100%, but by and large, thats true. look, here is the republican party mantra and how they manage to win elections should tell us something about the state of the democratic party. bottom line for republicans, hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks for the top 1%. cuts in health care, tr...

Had you on the show before and other democratic colleagues have said this, even others outside elected office, say he campaigned in one way. he was breaking with sort of the republican orthodoxcies. here he is, and it looks like i feel like -- im curious if you feel this having lived through george w. bush, a kind of george w. bush 2.0 trajectory increasingly in what is actually taking shape in a concrete sense. >> not 100%, but by and large, thats true. look, here is the republican party mantra...

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Childrens eyes. with afterschool programs and home visits and summer camps -- chases parents are both convicted felons, he came to new hope at age 8. now 17, hes a straight a student heading to college. >> helped me so much. it changed my entire outlook and i like to give back. i really do. i like to come here and i volunteer twice a week and give back to what they did to me. >> reporter: for daisy -- >> when i first comed here i had dislevel ya and this is the great spot and i really like it. >...

Out. states start getting word on federal grants for the rest of the fiscal year. later this month, teacher layoffs and changes to afterschool programs start. agriculture programs for the poor affected and cuts could start affecting opening a fishing season in federal waters, as well. the next month, the cuts really hit. furloughs of government workers take effect. could result in flight cancelations, delayed meet inspections. national parks may not open. and as april 15th arrives, tax day, of c...

With the presidents agenda as he laid it out in the state of the union. for our children to live up to their potential, we have to live up to our obligations to them with greater investments in afterschool programs, job training, as well as mentoring programs like becoming a man, a program the president just saw with the kids here. it is programs like these that provide our young people with the moral grounding that they too often are not getting at home. but the real measure for us after all th...

You have been marching, you have been religious, youve gone to jail. 465 death, including gunfire. 62 children. give us a sense of what goes on. >> when you have communities that suffer from high unemployment, no infrastructure, a shortage of afterschool programs, you create a perfect storm. and then you have communities that have more guns than computers. children live in fear. how do you study in school if youre afraid to go hoechl, youre afraid to come to school. people have been shot in thei...