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Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night, and we begin with that deadly explosion at a school in minneapolis, ripping it in half, trapping people inside. contractors were working on the gas lines at the time. the blast near a central stairwell that connects all areas of the building. summer programs were under way. children, teachers and staff were inside. rescue crews immediately began searching through the rubble, and tonight there is word coming in now, the na...

Brentwood. have you been? i have never been to brentwood. >> what you will hear from community members is they are working together to address these issues? >> what are they doing? first of all, i just came from el salvador like an hour ago, a country thats been paralyzed by ms-13. theyve got the highest murder rate in the world. what specifically are these 500 community members doing to fight against ms-13 thats more effective than what the president just proposed? >> well, our organization is ...

Science, english. tests, exams, et cetera. so social studies and civic education tends to be pushed to the side. so i feel like it should be encouraged in the school systems because the majority of our youth are in school of course. and then from there build outside programs. so from there -- >> i agree with her. i went to kenwood too. that was kind of the start of me getting my foot in the door to want to expand and do outside things. i think also funding after-school programs and summer progra...

Exams, et cetera. so soushl studies and civic education tends to be pushed to the side. so i feel like it should be encouraged in the school systems because a majority of our youth are in school, of course. then from there, build outside programs. so you know, from there, yeah. come on. help her out. >> i agree with ayanna. since i went to kenwood too, that was kind of the start of me getting my foot in the door to want to expand and do outside things. i think also funding after school program...

Was? >> the meeting was very serious business meeting. there was not a lot of formalities. it was direct to the point, what do we have to lose with america? we were honest with the president and we said when you depict us as a race of people as being in the most deplorable state it does not advance the relationship of african-americans with you, mr. president, or our sense of respect and hope that you will be the president for all people. we talked about how when you talk about unemployment and ...

What he calls ending budget cuts for armed forces, but with that, an increase in spending for military spending and also heard a number of analysts talk about the $1.2 billion in cuts in the form of grants and after school and summer programs like we saw in the piece just before the vice president, so steve, let me go to you, first, and talk about this proposed plan which does make promises of increased military spending, but also, at the expense of a number of cultural programs that will be sus...

House vote on the gop plan and theyre also discussing the presidents economic agenda. well continue to monitor and bring you comments as they happen. in the meantime, after-school programs are a lifeline for many working parents, but that lifeline could be in jeopardy. president trumps budget includes a proposal to eliminate $1.2 billion in grants for after-school and summer programs. the programs that the president wants to cut serves about 2 million children nationwide. gary tuchman visited ...

>> thats the indicator that we need to be looking at. not everybody is going to be able to make it in this economy and particularly as we shift to an economy that requires more and more education to be able to compete. if you look at the education budget, all of those cuts that target, you know, after school programs, summer programs, the supplemental grant program that goes to poor children to enhance their ability to go to college, being wholesale eliminated, work study that helps low income s...

Department of education, 14% of its budget, the department of transportation losing 13% of its budget. mo eliminating funding for long distance amtrak routes, eliminating 175 million for commercial flights to rural areas. office of community services losing 4.2 billion and this is the low-income home energy assistance program for people who are poor when it gets cold, were taking money out of that, senior and community services are gone, before-and-after school summer programs, $239 million cut ...

Came from the federal government to support flights to rural areas. that is losing as well. national institutes of health, national endow men for the arts, national endowment for the humts. entirely gone. comp rags for public broadcasting, entirely gone. assistance for heating and energy for people who are low income, thats going to be gone as well. other losers, senior community services employment program, before and after school summer programs. some of you will be excited by this, this is th...