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[ cheers and applause ] good evening, everyone, and welcome to a historic night. Cnns democratic president ial town hall, equality in america. Im don lemon, thank you so much for being here. There was a time when people were afraid, and you know many still are. Theyre afraid to come out to their friends and their families for fear of the consequences. Now it has been four years since the Supreme Court ruled same sex marriage is legal. It is a big step. But there is still a whole lot of work to d...

The full civil rights of every american and stopped that bathroom bill in texas. there are voters across the state, republican, democrat and independent alike, who voted for me in record numbers last year, not despite, but because. i was talking about treating every single american with the respect and the dignity that theyre owed. and because they support ideas like signing into law the equality act so that the full civil rights of every single american are going to be respected, or that we ens...

More now on where the presidents fellow republicans stand now that we know the president did ask ukraines leader to look for dirt on joe biden. former trump 2016 rival senator fr ted cruz from texas. >> i have to say the transcript sure didnt live up to its billing. investigating the election from 2016, it is a perfectly appropriate law enforcement priority. im not sure why they think ukranian interference shouldnt be examined. >> but its not all that black and white across the gop. many republi...

Minutes of the mike months ago the democrats were on tv breathlessly saying you will see an illegal quid pro quo. well if you look at the transcript theres no illegal would croak while in a transcript. the president is asking another foreign leader to assist in investigating, number one, election interference in 2016. now that is a perfectly legitimate and appropriate law enforcement priority. the democrats have been talking nonstop about russian interference and im not sure why they somehow thi...

Because i went into the people affected by crime. what you heard from him was never hearing any side of people locked away for sentences, for example, for crack sentences that were 100 times the sentences for cocaine. you didnt hear him have great answers when he was asked about the differences between opioid abuse treated as a public health emergency and other drug abuse being treated for a law enforcement priority. its a different experience and he looked out of touch with the concerns that th...

Administration spent almost $18 billion on immigration enforcement last year. thats more than its spending on all other federal law enforcement agencies combined. a nonpartisan research group, the migration policy institute says immigration has become the governments highest law enforcement priority. it found spending last year was 15 times greater than in 1986.

State? >> i dont think so, because again, the police are emphasizing that its -- theyre taking very serious the matter, they say, of minors possessing marijuana. so theyre not trivializing that. and you also have to remember that things are a little different out here in the most liberal city in the left corner of the country. the context here is that in 2003 the voters of seattle passed a measure that made enforcing pot laws against adults just for possession the citys lowest law enforcement pr...