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As far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all but make no peace with oppression. strengthen the faint hearted. support the weak. help the afflicted. honor all people. love and serve your god whose spirit working in you can do infinitely more than you can ask for or imagine. and may the blessing of god almighty, our creator, sustainer and giver of life, be with you and remain with you this day and forever more. amen. >> go forth from this place in

Just looked at his twitter feed talking about the "new york times." this time, this was the more amenable trump, "the new york times" was a jewel, a great institution, this is the guy who that morning tweeted about the failing "new york times" and had misrepresented why he canceled the meeting to begin with. there is a dr. jekyll and mr. hyde quality to president-elect trump. i worry that somebody who is as thin skinned as he is, who is as quick to react to any kind of criticism -- he is going to get a ton of it when he gets behind that podium. that's the job of the press. that's the entire re...

Side. we have to give them a voice. >> i'll give you another line. you afflict the comfortable and you comfort the afflicted. then why weren't you doing that for eight years during president obama's administration? >> letting people speak for themselves is not actually social justice, it is journalism. one of the biggest mistakes or one of the things that have been exposed one of the biggest failures, one die mentional and the perfect example is how we mess that disability was the most important issues and stories in this election and we did not put a single person with a disability on tv i wa...

A really bad prank. in both cases, it needs to be punished and exploited. >> michael, thank you. i appreciate your expertise. shorten that title. no, just kidding. >> i sure will. >> thank you. >> take care. been hearing a l about the heroin epidemic in america. in new york, in the new york city borough of staten island, there's been a tragic increase in death. but one dedicated nurse is trying to save lives in a new way. molly has this inspiring story. >> hi, eric. drug overdoses have increased in recent years. more than 47,000 lives were claimed by drug addiction. staten island is among the ...

The next few years, but in the mid 1990s, the group splits apart due to internal disagreements. in the end, the coalition is considered groundbreaking for the attention it brings to aids. >> we got the drug companies and federal government to develop treatments that were extending lives and stopping the immediate carnage. >> by 1996, a drug cocktail is introduced that brings about dramatic improvements for many of the afflicted. >> those of us who had under 100 "t" cells and were really sick, our health started to rebound. >> eric sawyer is one of the longest terms survivors of hiv. he now wor...