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>> we have a president to rescind obama-era protections for lgbtq students. another action to kick transgender people out of the military. right? so this president and this entire administration who with his vice president who believes in conversion therapy has been an enemy of the lgbtq community so the audacity of him to get on twitter and wish anybody a happy anything related to pride is audacious and shows how out of step he is. >> i want to show you in fact in the last few months and years,...

Presenting one idea to change the party and country. and what we expect to here, if you are paying attention to the presidential election, you notice there are no shortage of big ideas going around. so we may hear from senator harris, her middle class tax cut or bernie sanders might talk about medicare for all. im tolding kirsten gillibrand will talk about her national leave family plan and shes focused on issues. this morning she released the national lgbtq rights policy proposal and well pull ...

I want to correct the record on something that you raised. i personally never supported any kind of conversion therapy. i never advocated for conversion therapy and, frankly, i didnt know what conversion therapy was until just the last few years. i think it was when i was first running for congress when someone was asking me about it. i was raised in a very socially conservative home. my father is catholic. he was a leading voice against gay marriage in hawaii during that time. again, i was very...

Or the military but i know i want to be of service with my life and this practice of karma yoga -- people are familiar with the word karma. actions. actions that we take -- this means using those actions that are of service and has a positive impact whether we work in business, education, health care or anything, any of these principles that are universal principles, nomt limited to hinduism can be applied in every one of our lives. >> thank you. lets get back to the audience. a musician and sof...

Gabbert, and her meeting with bashar al assad in syria and the controversy surrounding her previous work for an anti-gay group that backed conversion therapy. can she use tonight as a national reset? >> reporter: well, she certainly is trying to introduce her candidacy as someone talking about foreign policy. that is essentially all that she is campaigning on, and drawing on her service as a military veteran. she served in iraq, so that is what she is bringing to this conversation. and i can tel...

>> how recently did you convert. >> like most people when donald trump announced he was running for president, i thought it was a joke. i was laughing right along with every buddy else until it got to be around the primary and it became very clear that he was probably going to be the republican candidate and all of a sudden things got really scary because again that liberal media machine that targets people like me and other minorities started using our identities against us because this is what...

Convert. >> like most people when donald trump announced he was running for president, i thought it was a joke. i was laughing right along with every buddy else until it got to be around the primary and it became very clear that he was probably going to be the republican candidate and all of a sudden things got really scary because again that liberal media machine that targets people like me and other minorities started using our identities against us because this is what they do. >> what did yo...

Controversial conversion therapy. refusing on lgbt rights have shifted dramatically in more recent years. in a statement, the congresswoman says she regrets the positions she took in the past. >> she may also have real problems with her ties of a secret meeting with president assad and denying that assad was behind a chemical weapons attack, a murderer. so that i think may be even a bigger issue. meanwhile secretary of state mike pompeo meeting with the crown prince and other top saudi officials...

Given her past, past, will they matter for democratic voters. conversion therapy is insane and abusive. it nevada should ha many people were tortured with this horrible streemt. treatment. its true many didnt support same sex legalized marriage. she was very young and she says sort of following the lead of her father so were talking like in her early 20s or you know, younger. and so i think that people can

Report, so i think that will be a sticking point in the hearings going forward. >> its kind of like asking a supreme court justice who comes up for congress, how are you going to rule on an imaginary case that comes up to you? or roe v. wade, thats precedent, right? you just dont know in the end how theyre going to rule. and i think thats kind of where you are with barr. >> lets talk about tulsi gabbard. she is running in hawaii, she announced, on cnn. people are surprised to learn she has these...