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We come from over 50 states and over 120 different countries around the world. you have to understand how these different backgrounds the students hold play a role in the community that we have here today. >> in the st. louis dispatch, were witnessing the power of todays college athletes. agree or disagree with them, you would be foolish to ignore them. they are becoming increasingly aware of their power, especially when it comes to issues of race. i wonder if the tipping point was the football ...

A former pastor in arizona claims starbucks is the latest combatant in the war on christmas. he is speaking out in an online video and social media about the holiday cups which are red with the starbucks logo. >> do you realize starbucks wanted to take christ and christmas off their brand-new cups. >> more than 12 million people have watched that video. the ex-pastor wants like-minded patrons to order their coffees under the name merry christmas. so the baristas have to write it on the cups. sta...

The list, and thats ted cruz. cruz though has been doing well nationally. new hampshire maybe isnt the place hell necessarily play particularly well because there is such an establishment-heavy state and ted cruz is positioning himself in his campaign as the antiestablishment guy. but nationally hes right up there behind marco rubio. its interesting when you look at these guys. theyre both first-term senators. theyre both the same age, 44. both cuban-americans. marco rubio was asked this morning...

Personal political or ideological laboratory. weve seen states ban the box all around the country, my home state of pennsylvania being one of them. it hasnt had negative impant on hiring or led to increased criminality among employers. ben is misrepresenting the facts here, im sure by accident. hes suggesting that no one is accountable and employers dont have access. somehow employers dont have access to peoples backgrounds. for important jobs and security jobs you still can do background checks...

Failures. >> as best we can tell in a very cursory search, it appears as though metro jet is not black listed from the eu. they list a number of eu destinations, in france and italy and those kinds of places, as places they fly. do you make anything of that in terms of what kinds of levels of maintenance they would have to perform, number one, go ahead. >> i would give it a plus. if theyre not listed on the eu black list, thats a leg up in the maintenance supervision. >> supervision. what about ...

Head-to-head against ben carson. >> sarah, thanks so much. what does all this moean for th republican race? a big night tonight. cnn politics digital reporter great to see you. way different dynamic tonight ben carson, all of a sudden on top. one poll, one poll, but its a lot different tan weve seen before in terms of donald trump. how do you think this will change things tonight? >> absolutely. donald trump is one who pegged his entire campaign to the pom numbers, now for the first time using h...

Two decades that saves lives and keeps families in tact. now, to maintain this progress, ive spent a lot of time this year with people of all backgrounds working to reform our criminal justice system, to think about how can we make it work better. i visited a prison in oklahoma. met with inmates and corrections officers. i just last week visited a community in west virginia and met with recovering substance abusers and those working on new solutions for treatment and rehabilitation. ive met with...

Hard-fought progress that you and so many law enforcement officers have made over the past two decades that saves lives and keeps families intact. now, its to maintain this progress that ive spent a lot of time this year with people of all backgrounds working to reform our criminal justice system, to think about how can we make it work better? i visited a prison in oklahoma. met with inmates and corrections officers. i just last week visited a community in west virginia and met with recovering s...

Because of family history. and also environment. so if you have trauma in your life, as many people who are coming from different backgrounds, who have a parent who is been violent to another parent, domestic violence, or a parent without alcoholism or addiction, or mental illness, believe me, the children are higher risk. we know that from the studies called adverse childhood studies. then people have genetic risk too. you compare it like with any other illness, you have genetic and environment...

Legislative branches even in democratic states like california. there are a series of things weve tried to do legislatively that have either been watered down or rejected because of intimidation and the tactics the nra are specialists at. the opportunity now is to go direct to the voters, that overwhelmingly support common sense backgrounds and empower the voters. they wont be intimidated as politicians are intimidated by the nra. thats what were counting on next year. >> this wont be an easy fi...