before he can go on to a general election a republican named mark mol narrow who said america with its imperfections has always been great. tonight cuomo is defending his remarks saying he was referring to women s equality and the evolution of legislation to help all americans. admittedly, did he make both of those points before saying we were never that great. what was the great time that you want to take us back to? when america was great? before the environmental protection movement? before marriage equality when it was just a man and a woman? before these new immigrants started to come across the border? and before the women s equality movement? that s when america was great in his head. he wants to take us back to that point. and we have to show you this for context.
with its imperfections has always been great. tonight cuomo is defending his remarks saying he was referring to women s equality and the evolution of legislation to help all americans. admittedly, he did make both of those points before saying we were never that great. what was the great time that you want to take us back to when america was great? before the environmental protection movement? before marriage equality when it was just a man and a woman? before these new immigrants started to come across the border? and before the women s equality movement? that s when america was great in his head. he wants to take us back to that point. and we have to show you this for context. it is possible that his fellow new yorker donald trump got under cuomo s skin and in his
interest, 63% of democrats and only 43% of republicans what do you make of that? i think it is essential because every single right is at stake and we have talked about the right to choose, women s equality, and health care. and these are things coming. this particular memo, i agree with your other guests and jim and i worked together when we worked for harry reid, i agree when they prepared this white paper on kavanaugh, it reeks of federalist society values which are, there should be freedom, that is what the federalist say, freedom, but not for the people to breathe clean air, and not for the ability to drink safe water, not for the ability to have a decent work place that is fair. but they are so unbalanced in that. and the last point i make at
a loss in row vs. weighed wiade concern a lot of people. that s right. it was a decision that upheld our constitutional right to liberty and to privacy, and also, i would add, to women s equality. their ability to equally participate in society. so those principles upheld by the due process clause in the equal protection clause are important for people s rights in many arenas apart from abortion. i d also like to add to what jennifer ruben said about the importance of getting out to vote, and the ways in which our current democracy is structured in a very undemocratic way so that we have a situation now where a majority of the people oppose the views of the president and his administration, that is putting an assault against all sorts of
meghan uses her fame to fight for women s equality across the world. as an ambassador for the nonprofit world vision, meghan travels to a remote village in rwanda where young girls walk hours every day to access clean water for their families. this is the water that she s going through all this work to get. but all that changes when the world vision team builds a new well. these girls are able to stay in school because they aren t walking hours a day to go and get water. and this clean water source has changed the entire community. she has a sense that if she s been given a platform, if she has some influence, that there s a responsibility she has to use that for good. laura dewar is the chief marketing and development officer for world vision. she travels with meghan to india in january of 2017.