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ALJAZAM News June 11, 2014

And after a decade of trying, on the verge of a summer success. We begin tonight with a politicalup ate and impacting the leadership of the house of representatives and the second most powerful republican in house lost to a Tea Party Candidate tonight. Cantor is out. There are a long of long faces here tonight. It is disapointing sure. I believe in this country. I believe there are opportunities around the corner for all of us. I look forward to continuing to fight with all of you for the things that we believe in for the conservative cause. Thank you all very, very much. And this is david brath, hes the man that beat cantor. He was considered a long shot canned kate that lacked a lot of Campaign Funding and taking a conservative position on a number of issues, especially on immigration. We are joined from washington with more on this upset, randall . John, i dont think any political experts would have predicted this outcome, the defeat of the House Majority leader. One leader describes it as an apock lip tick moment. Cantor held a financial advantage. He had a war chest of 5. 4 million. The challenger with 200,000 and this time money didnt matter. The voters of the 7th district, responded to the opposition of Immigration Reform and accused cantor supporting amnesty. In the closing days of the campaign, cantors comments becoming conservative and it was too late. We need to focus our efforts as conservatives as republicans putting forth the solutions to help solve the problems for so many working class middle families that may not have the opportunity that we have. He argued that cantor wasnt conservative enough and had become part of the washington establishment. It is the most symbolic issue that captures the differences between myself and eric cantor in the race and capturing the difference between main street and wall street. Now, he was also very, very vocal about the fact that there needed to be change and many in the Republican Party are no different from the democrats and there needs to be a housekeeping and keeping in line with the principles. He also has seminary in the background and moral issues was one of the keynotes of the winning victory. Hes now facing democrat jack tr tramel in the general election and he also teaches at the college. It is an amazing storm. We have political contributor jason johnson, and welcome back. Good to see you. You had time to take this in, what are your thoughts about it . My first thought i cant wait to hear the faculty meeting with these two. It is going to be a very, very interesting race. It is frightening a lot of the republicans. The tea party doesnt have to win much, but getting a scout this big, a lot of republicans are afraid and now the democrats are paying attention to the race too in a chance they are able to pick up a seat in virginia. Tlch there is a lot of attention on this district. 200,000 what he raised, how do you win a congressional race with that money . You can win a congressional race when the incumbent is bullying the people and angering people. Cantor was trying to stack the deck to get his way. This wasnt a matter of coke brother money coming in, this is a matter of the local voters and local republicans. There is an another candidate representing our interests better. Money does impact politicpol. The numbers are quite incredible. Talk about political bullying, does the really voter know what that is and have a sense of what you are talking about there . In a republican primary they do. This is only for the party faithful. This is the only issue that is going to be on the ballot. You are talking about the people that go to the local republican meetings and the people who are paying attention to the local politics. Eric cantor trying to stack the deck and saying how to local Republican Party should be run, that provided a stark contrast between the two and the money didnt really come into play. So a new House Majority leader, at least, and how is this going to impact the Republican Party nationally . Well, there will be a scramble and could be impacting the legislation pushing forward over the summer. There was an alternative obamacare piece of legislation he was putting together. When Frank Underwood is beaten he doesnt have a lot of power. He really has no authority. This could affect the legislative agenda and having a huge battle in congress. This race is interesting. We have one professor and another professor, and neither are expected to win. I dont believe that the democrat has a lot of political background as well, does he . No, he doesnt. I promise you a caravan of cars coming down from d. C. And helping him out and putting a lot of money into the race. This was supposed to be something simple, this now becomes a hotly contested race. I put it in the republicans column to win. It could turn out to be competitive. Jason, thank you. A number of other races are influenced by the tea party, 91yearold texas congressman ralph hall lost his seat in a primary challenge this year. He lost to the tea party backed John Ratcliff and mississippi is facing a runoff election. He department sere enough primary votes. Well, children are travelling thousands of children in search of the american dream. It is a story of desperation that we have been following for the past several months. In the past year 50,000 children have been found trying to cross the southwest border. Too often if the children are not found crossing the border they are nouned in shallow graves. Heidi is joining us from texas with more on that. Heidi . Hey, john, you are right. It is a story of desperation. Especially here in this 53 mile stretch of the border where each day Border Patrol comes across 137 children trying to cross. Let me repeat that, 137 children a day. These are the kids who are detained and usually deported but counting themselves as lucky ones because of survived. No one knows the answer to how many have disappeared in the drush and never seen again. In a south texas cemetery, scattered among the head stones and the memorials are the unknown and unmarked graves of people died seeking the american dream. Hundreds of undocumented immigrants are buried here. Bio hazard bags, garbage bags. Lori and the team of volunteers from Baylor University are exhuming the bodies in hopes of returning them to their families. This year the discoveries are especially troubling. They could be children. They could be children. Some of the bags that we are taking out are very, very small. The scientists dont know for sure until the bodies are tested in the labs. With the minors crossing this year tripling the number of the child deaths are climbing as well. Most of the bodies go undiscovered. They are small and once the skav venningers come in, and they are harder to find. That is why we are not finding many yet. How confident that they are out there and how many are out there . I cant imagine. There are so many children. Brooks county rancher sees it firsthand. As a member of the texas border volunteers, private citizens that help the Border Patrol, he often rescues children lost on his land. We find children all of the time left behind here. They were starving to death. They hadnt had foot or watt r for days. They were in bad shape. Dehydrated and throwing up. Sometimes they find small bodies. There a ranch where they found a young boy dead. It is a hot day and more are dying out here. So why so many bodies here . 80 miles north of the border. The check point down the highway is key. The sheriff says smugglers drive the immigrants no further than this point and here is where they take off on foot through the terrain and the nearest town the 15 miles away. They walk all this way throughout the private property and deep sand and these kids cant keep up. The women cant keep up. What happens to these kids . They die. Devastating. It is so wrong that this is happening and happening so long and im amazed that theres not public outrage. This needless loss of life and it is happening so abundantly across the border and there is a calnessous to it. Men, women and children lives ended before the dreams even began. Now what is driving this surge of minors . They are coming mostly from Central America. From el savl dor and countries where there is a lot of Gang Violence and one of the parents is already in the United States and pay for the smugglers and pay them for the children. All right. Heidi, thank you. The number of children crossing the border doubled since 2012 and according to an organization, estimates that ten thousand more kids will try to cross by september. This past weekend hundreds of children apprehended from Central America were taken to Detention Centers in arizona. That is where jennifer london is tonight. Jennifer . John, 1100 minors, children, teens, all under the age of 17 being held in arizona. The hope is that theyll spend 72 hours here. They are processed and then theyll be moved to longer stay facilities in texas and oklahoma and california. What we are talking about at this point because of the sheer number of children m coming across the border it is a humanitarian issue. We reporting on the first wave of the minors crossing in april. We met a young boy, 15 years old, he made the long and dangerous journey by himself from hon durs a. We spoke to him as he was crossing the border. Im axel. Im 15 years old. I want to see my dad and study. The journey didnt get to me. I feel good. They tell me the hardest part is coming. Well see if it is hard in a moment. The hardest part is coming for axel and detained and taken to a number of Detention Centers like this one and we were very interested in speaking with axel again and hearing about the experience, and what he experienced is close to what these children here are experiencing. I spoke with him via skype this morning and asked him what it was like for him. The majority were young and the first center i was in three or four hundred kids and because they were catching so many every day they decided to transfer some of us to another center, including me. The same thing in the next center. Three or four hundred kids and then to another one, that is big and six hundred kids. Being there you are feeling despera desperate. Sometimes you are there for two weeks and seeing other people being reeye nighted with family. Axel is reunited with his father, john, and currently in texas and awaiting a court hearing. So why would the kids make the dangerous trips . Well, john, the short answer is they are looking for a better life and they believe they can find that here in america. Some of the children and the teens that are leaving their home countries in Central America, they are leaving because of crushing poverty and leaving because of the violence. The violence and the insecurity in the home countries is reaching a tipping point. It is not safe for the children to stay home. Despite knowing how dangerous that the journey they have decided it is worth the risk to try to come to the u. S. They are not going to survive if they stay home. John, also, many of the children are led to believe that the u. S. Is going to welcome them if they are able to cross the border and making it to america and not being deported. Thank you. The deadliest case of friendly five, five american soldiers are dead after a helicopter mistook them for enemy fighters. There are other instances of friendly fire, most notably in 2004. This is by far the worst incident of thus far in the 13 year war that america fought in afghanistan. The local reporters have spoken to the local police chief and other sources and the story is going like this, u. S. And Afghan Forces were conducting operations in a Southern Province of saturdays runoff election. They were ambushed by the Taliban Forces and engaged in a fire fight and called in an air strike and the air strike struck behind the american lines, what we once is that five americans were killed and one afghan soldier and interpreter. At the pentagon, the spokesman there had this to say. Ie can confirm that five american troops were killed yesterday in southern afghanistan. I wont get into the detail about the qualifying on who they were or the specifics of the mission. We have reason to suspect that friendly fire was the cause here. Specifically friendly fire from the air. Now, it bears remembering that president obama announced the end of the u. S. Combat and 32,000 american in combat service there, and in uniform and still an extremely dangerous place and the fatalities have dropped down to 29 thus far this year. Still, operations continue. As the United States prepares for the withdrawal by 2016. Before today the worse case of friendly fire on the soldiers was back in 2002. A u. S. Jet fighter bombed the canadian troops. Engineerman soldiers killed six afghan troops in 2006. And three years ago, helicopters killed 24 soldiers. That is putting a strain on the relations between pakistan and the United States. More than a hundred thousand people fled iraqs second largest city today and escaping the rebel fighters that were seizing the city. The Prime Minister is asking for a state of emergency and the United States is saying that the rebel group is threatening the entire region. They are part of the Islamic State in iraq. They have become more aggressive in Northern Iraq since april when the political rivals took power. A former c. I. A. Counter terrorism director covert operations in iraq and i asked him about the goals of isil. Well, they want to establish a new islamic emirat. They have gone as far as they can in syria. Syria is focussed on the governance and this is freeing up the troops to carry the fight forward inside of iraq. Now the United States is upped the intelligence presence in iraq and reconsidering the military supplies it is offering to the country. Many of the weapons are ended up y the hands of the isil. Commercial drones are now legal over america. More on the upset in virginia primary, what is next for the gop . Ing the pentagon officials on capitol hill. The close door briefings have not stopped the controversy, a may be members of Congress Want to know why they were not consulted about the deal. They needed to bergdahl safe. We are going to pay for this. There is no doubt an in my mind, there are lost lives associated with what came out at this. Many democrats at the hearing said they trusted the process and the leaders in charge of this swap. To the top military uniform leaders, support this agreement, were they involved in it . They assured me they were and did they support it . They strongly supported it because of getting the people back. Republicans say as many as 90 Administration Officials knew about the swap. No members of congress were told. One student is dead after a shooting at Oregon High School today. The school was evacuated but the gunman took his own life before the officers arrived. Tonight president obama is offering the most forceful comments yet about gun violence in america. The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. Its not the only country that has psychosis. And yet, we kill each other in these, in these Mass Shootings that rates, that are higher than any place else. So what is the difference . The difference is they can stack up the ammunition in their houses. Coming up next week, a look at gun violence and the global impact. Guns around the world each night at 8 00 p. M. It is being called the epidemic on the college cases, Sexual Assault reports are becoming common at the universities, even as the crime rates are dropping overall. The Education Department is saying sex offenses are up 50 in 2011 compared to a decade prior. We have a report. We have a big problem and we need your help. It is happening on college cap puss, bars, parties. Videos like this released by the white house are trying to raise awareness about Sexual Assault and the students are getting the message and that is why the sex crimes violence reports are rising. It rose in 2200 to 2001 to over 3300. Sexual assaults are reporting more now and the increase in the reports is a good thing and people are feeling supported in reporting. Annie clark reported an assault while at the university of North Carolina chapel hill. First i was blamed and she gave me an extended analogy on how rape is like a Football Game and i was the quarterback and i was in charge. She refused to stay quiet and bake an advocate for the group of rapes on campus and other victims reached out to her. They filed a complaint. Unc is one of 55 colleges being investigated by the department of education on handling the complaints of Sexual Assault. Students are not told of their options. They are turned away from reporting and then if all the stars align and the perpetrateer is found spos bl for the actions they are likely not expelled. No man has a right ever to raise a hand to a woman. Period. End of story. The white house set up website and clark says change has to begin with education. The burden needs to shift and the Education Needs to teach men and boys how to respect women and what is consent and what do relationships look like. We have can start teaching that in the communities and the schools and at home. On the website, the university of North Carolina is saying it is not tolerating Sexual Misconduct and taking complaints seriously. The oxdental college is c

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