he s going to take questions from the town hall audience, voters. this will be hosted by anderson. and the president spoke today. this was at the tenth anniversary of the celebration of the dedication of the martin luther king jr. memorial in washington and today he talked about his agenda and what a pivotal moment it is. so here is what he said. it s up to us together to choose who we want to be and what we want to be. i know i know the progress does not come fast enough. it never has. and the process of governing is frustrating and sometimes dispiriting. but i also know what s possible. if we keep the pressure up, if we never give up, if we keep the faith, we re at an inflection point. i know i ve maybe overused that phrase but it is an inflection point in american history. and delivering on economic justice. so, how much of tonight do
president who appealed to the prejudice, the good news it is he he ripped the band-aid off and made it absolutely clear what s at stake and i think the american people will follow us, guess what, whether they will or not, we have no choice. we have to continue to fight. god bless you all, and may god protect our troops. hello and thanks for being with us. i m ana cabrera in new york. you ve been listening to president biden speaking at the tenth anniversary celebration of the dedication of the martin luther king jr. memorial in washington, talking about the promise of america and his goal to lift up all americans, especially when it comes to addressing racial and socioeconomic inequality and opportunity, themes that will likely be echoed later tonight in his cnn presidential town hall as the president then fields questions from the american people. john one may be using his prime
no democrats have publicly voiced support for the president s proposals, so far, there s only been criticism from democratic leaders including senator chuck schumer. they re hoping they can get some support, at least persuade them to come over to their side of this, even though right now a senior democratic aide is predicting to our hill team that they will not be able to get the 60 votes to pass that. however, the white house believes that by putting this forward, they will be able to ratchet up the pressure on democrats and put them on defense. president trump making an unannounced visit to the martin luther king jr. memorial in washington today. it s a great day. a beautiful day. thank you for being here. reporter: but declining during his two-minute-long trip to answer any questions on the longest government shutdown in history. come and talk about the shutdown at all? now 31 days old with 800,000 federal workers bracing to miss their second paycheck. hopes to end the stalemate
enough and the president s immigration had went way too far. essentially as far as talks go we are right where we started 31 days ago. president trump making an unannounced visit to the martin luther king jr. memorial in washington today. it is a great day. it is a beautiful day. thank you for being here. declining during his two minute long trip to answer any questions on the longest government shutdown in history. bracing to miss their second paycheck. hopes remained slim as trump blasted nancy pelosi as a radical democrat who lost control of her party. those tweetscomingafter pelosi immediately rejected trump s latest proposal to restore three years for some immigrants including many of those brought to the country illegally as children in exchange for
for the truth, something she will seek to do as a candidate. how would her law and order background play among these progressives? it is really going to be potentially a weak point because, you know, the progressives are going to look at her record. they will look at whether or not she may have wrongly or contribute today not looking at cases where men or women may have been wrongfully imprisoned. it is something that has already come up. they addressed that in a press availability today. it is her first press availability as a candidate for 2020. she is well known in california and well known in washington. in iowa and south carolina not all that well known. she says she can make end roads there because she thinks there is more connective tissue between the midwest and east coast in the trump agenda and in the trump era.