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Adults acting as activists. i got involved in the anti-vietnam war protests. im as proud now that as i was then. >> the washington examiner reports greta began suffering from depression as a child, by her own admission because she learned about climate change at age 8. is that what happens when children are told the world is going to end? >> exactly. weve got to address climate change, but we should not be telling children the world is going to end. that is what is terrifying them. they are bein...

And california sued in its 60th lawsuit to defend on these types of issues. as a follow up to this type of agitation in the streets, what we need to be seeing is real policy action primarily in the united states. i would say who has the ability to lead internationally but all around the world. >> so, you know, we need the action but we also need these protesters to be unrelating. they need to take a page out of the playbook, if you will. if you go back to the vietnam era and you go back to the e...

Vote. and i think one of the most important things is talking to the people who dont agree with you. because thats the only way things have gotten done is talking to each other, not ignoring each other, not screaming at each other. but having discussions and coming to a comp mrs. >> this reminds me when i was in high school and i was too young to vote but i was during the anti-vietnam war protests. and in my case i was going with my brothers who could vote. and even though i could not vote i did...

Vote. and i think even though i cant vote i can have conversations with my parents and my family and friends and talk about politics and inspire them to vote. and i think one of the most important things is talking to the people who dont agree with you. because thats the only way things have gotten done is talking to each other, not ignoring each other, not screaming at each other. but having discussions and coming to a comp mrs. >> this reminds me when i was in high school and i was too young t...

Thousands of people taking to the streets calling for an end to gun violence and action at the congressional level. lets discuss, with us is molly ball. cnn legal commentator and president of the senate conservative fund ken cuccinelli and commentator and former hillary clinton campaign manager robby mook. when you look at the images and you hear what we heard today from the rally here in washington, does this feel like a real movement, something comparable to the civil rights movement or the an...

Immigration reform came shortly after. and then a fair housing act. >> there was also medicare and medicaid, major components of the social safety net we know today, pushed through congress and signed by johnson. the great society is what he called his domestic program. for a few years in the 1960s it felt like lbj could do no wrong. his popularity would never sink and influence with congress would never wane. decades of bottled up progress finally uncorked with a president with a magic touch. o...

Of thought in democratic circles outside the white house, particularly, that the president cannot afford to back down twice, two times in a row in the face of republican opposition. a group of former military and foreign policy officials in support of chuck hagel are circulating a letter today and trying to counteract this republican conservative criticism. >> conversely i would expect no opposition, nothing significant to john kerry. he is one of the old establishment members of foreign policy ...

Serving in that war that he supported or any other war. romney men dont go to war. mitt romneys father didnt, mitt romney didnt, and his sons didnt. in august of 2007 in a defensive response as to why his sons did not serve in the military in the iraq war, mitt romney said one of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected. he actually said that. romney men support war. they support wars that other people have to fight. mitt romneys father was in favor of the vi...

I really dont recall thinking about the political positions when i was knocking at the door in france. there were anti-vietnam war protests in france while mitt romney was there. the french fought the vietnam war before we did. we took over from the french. the vietnam war was covered by the french news media every single day that mitt romney was in france. and romney went on to say, i was supportive of my country. i longed in many respects to actually be in vietnam and be representing our count...

Bowling alley. and three killed. >> orangeburg is a story thats not much of america remembers and forgotten by history. and happened at a time when there were a lot of deadly forced used against african-americans. it was the year that martin luther king was assassinated. it was a year, i think, bobby kennedy was assassinated. it was the year that we had war protests going on. and deadly force was used here in orangeburg, i think, because of a lack of respect of human life and especially african-...