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CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello-20150323-14:45:00

imagine it's 1979 and you and i were listening to ronald reagan. [ applause ] and he was telling us that we would cut the top marginal tax rate from 70% down to 28%. that we would go from crushing stagnation to booming economic growth to millions being lifted out of prosperity and abundance and the day he was sworn in our hostages who were languishing in iran would be released. and that within a decade we would win the cold war and tear the berlin wall to the ground. that would have seemed unimaginable and yet with the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150323:14:44:00

sacred honor to igniting the promise of america. imagine it was 1777 and we were watching general washington as he lost battle after battle after battle in the freezing cold his soldiers with no shoes were dying, fighting for freedom against the most powerful army in the world. that, too, seemed unimaginable. imagine it is 1933 and we were listening to president franklin delano roosevelt tell america at a time of crushing depression at a time of gathering storm abroad that we have nothing to fear but fear itself. imagine it is 1979 and you and i

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CNN Special Report-20150322-01:18:00

are african-american. we're finally saying, you know what, blacks do this, too. >> there were whites who fed the fear in atlanta. as fbi chief, john glover had moved into this upper class white neighborhood. his 12-year-old son was playing outside one afternoon. >> some guy in a pickup truck, he was out in the yard in our side yard. we were on a corner. we lived in -- we had a corner lot, you know. said, i'm going to get you, nigger, as he was driving by. >> kasim reed, seen in these childhood photos, was only 10 when the first two bodies were found in the woods close to his home in the summer of 1979.

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CNN Special Report-20150322-01:06:00

>> in the spring of 1980, no one wanted to believe a serial killer was loose in the city, even when bob buffington spotted a disturbing pattern. >> there had been a sharp increase in the number of children under the age of 14 who had been killed. >> when he told his boss at homicide, the major threatened to transfer him. >> and i truly think that they were afraid that there would be a panic. >> it was this mother, after the loss of her 9-year-old son, who finally forced police to listen, but not until almost a year after her boy died. camille bell and her children lived in these project apartments. poor to the eye, but rich in mind and spirit. yusef bell was an honor student in the gifted program at school. on a warm october sunday in 1979 he walked away on an errand to buy snuff for an elderly lady downstairs. >> he went barefooted in a pair

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150321:14:34:00

announce via tweet or a speech indoor indoors or out, the anoumpbsment is carefully crafted, the timing, the location the backdrop, the words, all is carefully selected for maximum impact. and it's a tricky business. the class of 2016 has plenty to go on based on predecessors. john kennedy announced his candidacy in the senate caucus room to a group of reporters. there was little fanfare and even took some questions. >> i am today announcing my candidacy for the presidency of the united states. >> senator kennedy, if you don't win the presidential nomination will you accept the vice presidency? >> i shall not be a candidate for vice president if i fail in this endeavor i shall return and serve in the united states senate. >> r or a candidate can take the reagan route. in 1979 reagan made his

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150321:14:42:00

system the incumbent mayor will face a runoff election leading off to the february 24th election, emanuel had raised $15 million in campaign funds. also an endorsement from president obama. money, yes, endorsement, yes, butt votes, 50% of them no. the mayor had 45% of those. the run off was on it is on and it will happen on april 7th. he will face commissioner garcia. he immigrated from mexico with his family to become a citizen in 1979. he's served on the chicago city council and in the illinois state senate. recent polls show him with a commanding lead over carr garcia garcia. joining me now live from chicago is commissioner garcia.

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Crimes of the Century-20150321-03:06:00

his arms and burns around his eyes. then on november 15th, 1979, a bomb is placed in the cargo hold of american airlines flight 444 heading from chicago to washington, d.c. in mid-flight, it sets off a smoldering fire. 12 passengers suffer smoke inhalation. >> the pilots were able to land the plane at dulles shortly before they said to us later it probably would have burned through the hydraulics and dropped the plane out of the sky. >> authorities now begin to suspect the bombings are linked. all doubt is removed seven months later. a suspicious package arrives at the home of percy wood, the president of united airlines. the subsequent explosion inflicts cuts and burns over large portions of wood's body. >> now, come 1980, we know we have a serial bomber. and so the fbi started working as a joint task force with atf and because we had bombs in the mail, with the postal inspection service.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150320:10:35:00

and we saw how that hasn't helped the prime minister abe potentially negotiate behind the scenes there, didn't go anywhere. the concept of isis, of course is growing significantly. this hit on tunis as much as it may have been expected. frankly, it wasn't expected by the tourists. they've been coming in this is the one country where we actually had a democratic government that had been established. it's a government with both the seculars and islamists together. and suddenly it's not a major oil producing nation tourism is going to get crushed there. the economy is going to take a big negative hit. the same things that brought the tunisians into the revolution to begin with those conditions are now going to come back. >> general let's turn to iran. we spent a lot of time talking at the frosty relationship between the president and benjamin netanyahu. the subtext of that obviously is what's going on in geneveageneva. i personally have concerned about a deal with iran. i've grown up just not trusting the iranians since 1979 any more

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150320:18:20:00

the tourney is blowing up online. there are 340,000 mentions on twitter of the two terms, march and madness. last night it peaked. and including the seeds advancing to the round of 32 and today you can expect it to peak again with more than a dozen words. and also trending nasa said that arctic sea ice shrank since tracking began in 1979. 50,000 square miles of ice disappearing. in this nasa video you can see how this grew over this year's season. now look at the yellow and you can see where the ice is low near russia and alaska. nasa said it is the difference between this year's ice pack and the maximum coverage in the last 35 years. and the last trending story, a 5-year-old boy with a rare

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150319:14:55:00

of technology taken out of commission so with that five things that are obvious lieutenant. number one, i may or may not have had one of these, apple's newton designed to be your own personal digital assistant. first went on sale in 1993 and discontinued five years later. number two, the sony cassette walkman. oh, remember the day when we could just play all our beatles cassette tapes on these things? first went on sale in japan in 1979. sony officially stopped selling the cassette player 33 years later. number three a two-for, the flown disc and cd-rom coming in all shapes and sizes, now used more for coasters than computers. number four, how about when your cell phone couldn't take a selfie? believe it or not, kids these things used to be hip, and there's the guy who created it marty cooper in 1973. i needed a briefcase to carry my first cell phone around. number five combine that phone with the maps and you've got a problem. thankfully for all passengers i

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