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Hundreds of people run through Hereford dressed as Father Christmas to raise funds for a hospice.

Melton Dorian ward will be keenly contested in May 4’s election with nine candidates on the ballot papers.

Angry and powerful black voters who said no more. we need accountability. we need a different kind of prosecutor. so there was a special election -- not a special election, but a special campaign to oust anita afl reds. kim fox is now the prosecutors. she is much more progressive. this is the same story, by the way, ari, in philadelphia recently and in houston, where mobilize the communities, especially led by the movement for black lives, have said were going to exercise the power of elections ...

With republicans choices. part of this is to eliminate public support for the most vulnerable people in our society for health insurance and rely on private charity is what you are saying. >> kate, i know you to be a thoughtful republican whos run a party in a southern state. is your view at this moment that the partys getting it about right on health care or they need to change? >> ari, one of the things ill tell you is that when you look at medicaid, and you look at 68 million people, $545 bil...

August work period. it is important to travel and listen to your constituents but i think we should get straight to work on the around-the-clock hearings on the replace plan. >> joan walsh and dorian ward. joan, do you think regular citizens speaking out here has had an impact? >> oh, absolutely, ari. i grew up in the shadow of the reagan revolution when republicans were the party of family values, supposedly. and one thing thats happened in the last couple months is that medicaid is the agency ...

Their fathers, grandmas -- with their family, their daughter. and medicaid lets them do that. the republicans have now become the party of taking these people out of their homes and away from their families. and we just have to keep pointing that out. thats whats happening. >> dorian, i know you look at policy and economic decisions a lot. a lot of bankruptcy in the united states are related to health care crisis. not to people making bad personal financial planning decisions, but having an unex...

Chicago a couple of years ago called the boyd shooting. i called out anita alvarez back then because she charged that officer with reckless conduct and not murder. the judge came back during the bench trial and said, this was murder, not recklessness. therefore, he has to be found not guilty. i called anita alvarez out back then saying she did that to pacify the fop. now im not saying prosecutors and all prosecutors do this. what i am saying is, in chicago, under those times -- you have to reali...

Since his proposal of a ban -- universal ban on muslims entering the country last week. so if trurnl continues to move ahead while the gop decides it is time to slam on the brakes does that mean the party is about to spin out of control? could i just remind everybody, not a single vote has been cast. like not one! and we were reminded this is a perennial story. each cycle it is a moot point. so maybe there will be an epic historic showdown on the republican convention floor. or maybe it will jus...

Scientists, this is fact against what justice scalia said -- the vast majority come from highly selective institutions, harvard, stanford, m.i.t., yale. so when you add up the numbers and not cherry pick something that fits your prevailing world view, the evidence in terms of justice scalia is not on his side. this is the common argument, affirmative action actually hurts the people you help. >> scalia said this, one of the briefs pointed out that most of the black students dont come from school...

At the roosevelt institute to join us for this discussion. we should note also for purposes of this conversation at least, he also graduated from yale as well, an ivy league -- >> a state school like the u.t., and then yale, yes erchlts so modest. just your initial reaction to what we both read. >> two things. you can read what he said as wanting to go back to a pre-brown v. board of education, meaning we should have black students attend black colleges, or less are colleges in some way, because...