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June 20, 2012
Thing in the world today. this is a high school graduation, typical sight this time of the year. but these young women are graduates of a school set up specifically for girls who are pregnant or who have already had young kids. its a school that supports its young moms with day care and with parenting classes, along with the traditional fall academic load. it is not an easy school to run, enrollment is never predictable, but at this school, the katherine ferguson academy in detroit, it is very m...
June 19, 2012
Arm the right people if that can be found, to help these people get out of this plight? >> i do think that there is going to be a move to try to create some civilian safe zones, to try to have the kind of support for the opposition that would allow it to defend itself but it is really about the civilian atrocities that are taking place and that is what the international community is outraged. but at the same time you dont want to alienate russia at the same time you need them on iran which is st...
June 18, 2012
When ted kennedy and i had comprehensive immigration reform, it was a obama -- senator obama amendment that was one of the factors, there were many, it was one of the factors that killed comprehensive immigration reform. and the issue was on the -- on the guest worker program. >> right. but you cant deny, the conservatives in the republican party that made a republican president who championed this issue unable to get this done. >> i think the major factor was probably on the right. but it was a...
June 18, 2012
In both houses of congress. nothing was done. no proposal was made. i was asked -- >> but youve been -- youve been for comprehensive immigration reform for a long time. you worked with ted kennedy, you worked with president bush. the republican party moved to the right on this issue and made that impossible. isnt that -- you cant lay that at president obama, can you? >> i can if you have 60 votes in the united states senate and overwhelming majority in the house for the first two years of your p...
June 18, 2012
Nothing was done. no proposal was made. i was asked -- >> but youve been -- youve been for comprehensive immigration reform for a long time. you worked with ted kennedy, you worked with president bush. the republican party moved to the right on this issue and made that impossible. isnt that -- you cant lay that at president obama, can you? >> i can if you have 60 votes in the united states senate and overwhelming majority in the house for the first two years of your presidency. no matter what th...
June 18, 2012
congressman arthur davis says hes voting for mitt romney this time around. hes going to tell us why. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." the cold war is long over, but a chill has settled in in the relations right now. the key shoous, moscows support in the regime for syria. it may help fuel a brutal crackdown. president obama is addressing that issue headon at the g-20 summit in mexico. dan lothian is joining us right now. dan, whats the latest on this tension between the ...
June 17, 2012
To help rig the election, not to fix a broken system. and i do believe its breathtaking the president of the united states would say stop enforcing the law. >> this is obviously a way to divert attention from very bad news the presidents had for the last three or four weeks. i think thats very clear. what i would like to see is marco rubio and others are coming up, democrats and republicans with the dream act that i think we could negotiate on. everyone has sympathy for the plight of these young...
June 17, 2012
In both houses of congress. nothing was done. no proposal was made. i was asked -- >> but youve been -- youve been for comprehensive immigration reform for a long time. you worked with ted kennedy, you worked with president bush. the republican party moved to the right on this issue and made that impossible. isnt that -- you cant lay that at president obama, can you? >> i can if you have 60 votes in the united states senate and overwhelming majority in the house for the first two years of your p...
June 17, 2012
Comprehensive fashion, as well. he is willing to do that, and is ready to do that. he understands the plight of these young people. all of us are very concerned about that aspect of this issue. but i would also point out, i dont think romney -- mitt romney as president of the united states would say were not going to enforce existing laws. thats the first time ive ever heard of a president doing that. it may have happened. but certainly not in this fashion. >> let me talk a little bit about the ...
June 17, 2012
as the victims. he was on the run since yesterday, wanted on three counts of murder. one person is dead and several others hurt in toronto. the overhead part of a concert stage. look at that. it broke apart and fell 50 feet. a man killed is getting ready for a radio head concert. the show was cancelled. whether it was good, no high wins. they are trying to figure out what happened there. a state psychologist will examine former penn state coach jerry sandusky tomorrow. a friday court o...