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Was not right. It was wrong. And hurtful. And america is better than that. Not long ago, some people thought that a catholic cannot be a president. And an africanamerican cannot be a president. They were wrong then and they are wrong now. Reporter the year before john f. Kennedy was elected one in four americans wouldnt vote for a catholic to be president. Nearly half said they wouldnt support a black candidate. 50 years later the pope set to meet with the first africanamerican president in the ...

Of this 90 onth the east shore weight over by east 150 second. No issues whatsoever. I 90 on the west side of town by west 25th. The roads are wet and i think one of the issues we will have on the side streets is garbage cans all over. Due to the wind last evening. Coming in along eastboundi, i five minutes on 77 northbound up to 490 and 271 northbound, uneventful. 480. Just where like it if you get out there andi dry. Waning christie, back to you. Our top stories morning asrn the water saver an...

Nation and our rights of determination. Amy then outrage grows over new jersey governor Chris Christies decision to settle an 8. 9 billion toxic contamination claim against exxon for less than 3 cents on the dollar. New jerseys state has urged a judge to reject the settlement. And we will remember the pioneering independent journalist and filmmaker Danny Schechter. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Newly reelecte...

February 23 has come and gone and the annual report has not been given . Im not sure the question you are asking. To whom is it referred . I them with the gao. Oh. You are are all over saying it, right . You are the accountability office. We have done our first audit which is what im here talking about today sir. What im concerned about what it alarm you all that they might not be able to meet the person that needs as far as personnel . Thats all they have been able to hire. We understand and so...

Senator as you know there were originally seven Pilot Projects that we looked at. For them were approved in three of them are not approved including the 70 Million Dollar mississippi grant. We were deeply disappointed as well because he wanted to try to make this work but at the end of the day the state in nta couldnt agree on terms because the states plan didnt provide the necessary level of detail we needed to meet the statutory requirements. As you know under the btop program there were speci...

Freedom fighters. Preuss, welcome back bruce, welcome back to the Wilson Center. Congratulations on this accomplishment. Lets begin with some context. Anonymous soldiers begins as world war i was drawing to a close and the british have conquered jerusalem. In palestine in the 1920s, 1930s the british fail repeatedly to reconcile competing arab and jewish demands. It was the british mandate destined to fail . Before i i answer that if i could just think the Wilson Center for this event. If i. If ...

Access network would cost. Im out of time. Thank you. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Thank you to you and the Ranking Member for holding this important hearing. As a former prosecutor and cochair along with senator burr of the 911 caucus in the senate, i know how important it is to support our First Responders. Im also the state that had that bridge collapse and while everyone saw on tv the First Responders show up and repeatedly dive into that water to look for survivors and all the work of...

We will speak to ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo Patino. President Obamas Administration is living in the past. It is time to make plans based on respect for our sovereign nation and our rights of determination. Amy then outrage grows over new jersey governor Chris Christies decision to settle an 8. 9 billion toxic contamination claim against exxon for less than 3 cents on the dollar. New jerseys state has urged a judge to reject the settlement. And we will remember the pioneering independen...

We will speak to ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo Patino. President Obamas Administration is living in the past. It is time to make plans based on respect for our sovereign nation and our rights of determination. Amy then outrage grows over new jersey governor Chris Christies decision to settle an 8. 9 billion toxic contamination claim against exxon for less than 3 cents on the dollar. New jerseys state has urged a judge to reject the settlement. And we will remember the pioneering independen...

First net is their first priority. Because this is no pra jorty of comment about people that we work with, but first net is a secondary item for them. They have a fulltime day job and we pile on top of that. We probably dont get the urgency that we feel about things. So to the degree we can take accountability and responsibility for those functions well obviously follow all the rules and regulations but we would have an opportunity to move more quickly. Id like to see what we can do about improv...