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Give the kids a fighting chance and help improve their experience. Let's make dreams come true!

Give the kids a fighting chance and help improve their experience. Let's make dreams come true!

Give the kids a fighting chance and help improve their experience. Let's make dreams come true!

Going, bring it on. >> shannon: yikes. in the meantime, matt, you are working in austin on prop a about getting additional funding for police officers and setting a minimum standard. want to give you a chance to answer one of the critics on that. the mayor has written a opinion piece in the austin american state committee saying this, if prop eight passes and that one part of our budget, mean and the police, is substantially increased, devastating cuts will be required elsewhere. included in the...

Austin is gearing up for another election, where voters will decide the fate of two local propositions and eight state constitutional amendments.Heres everything you need to know to head to the polls.The more controversial, Proposition A, if approved, would establish new minimum standards for the Austin Police Department.

Goodman. listen. >> its been sold as a way to help missouri workers. but look a little deeper and you will see its all about corporate greed. prop a is being promoted by a network of out-of-state billionaires, super pacs and corporate special interest groups. >> no way on prop a. >> get the facts, right-to-work states have worse schools, lower quality healthcare and lower wages than states with strong unions. >> dana: if your business community is outspent 5 to 1 and thats the kind of messaging ...

For the advocates of gay rights. >> pete williams, thank you. the latest developments at the top of the hour. and let me bring in professor 6 constitutional law at nyu school. thank you so much for joining us. you heard pete there, at least the feeling there, we are looking at 5-4 striking down doma. and kennedys remarks regarding congresss actions, 17 years ago, and whether they should have taken this action that was passed in the house and senate, sign bid bill clinton who now has said that do...

Plus one, you get to five. it seems like there are five states to strike down doma. there were those basis saying it was beyond con grosses power. there may not be a majority for a sweeping gay rights. it may be in congresss power. >> compared to the analysis yesterday regarding prop a, two different situations, but nevertheless, the same justices and this is all about same-sex marriage in this country. >> i think you can say the same thing about both cases. he can spite predictions that maybe t...

international journalists. russians foreign minister is in syria trying to keep it from being the latest arab government to fall. many world leaders say moscow is ignoring the slaughter of civilians. ivan watson is in istanbul, turkey, covering this for us. is there any optimism that russia can rein in this violence? >> reporter: thats a big question. the russian foreign minister definitely got a heros welcome as he arrived in damascus. he seemed to be one of the biggest allies and fri...