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[ cheers and applause ] good evening, everyone, and welcome to a historic night. Cnns democratic president ial town hall, equality in america. Im don lemon, thank you so much for being here. There was a time when people were afraid, and you know many still are. Theyre afraid to come out to their friends and their families for fear of the consequences. Now it has been four years since the Supreme Court ruled same sex marriage is legal. It is a big step. But there is still a whole lot of work to do. Tonights cnn and the Human Rights Campaign have been hosting an unprecedented event where members...

The full civil rights of every american and stopped that bathroom bill in texas. there are voters across the state, republican, democrat and independent alike, who voted for me in record numbers last year, not despite, but because. i was talking about treating every single american with the respect and the dignity that they're owed. and because they support ideas like signing into law the equality act so that the full civil rights of every single american are going to be respected, or that we ensure that we make violence against transwomen, actually transwomen of color a national law enforceme...

More now on where the president's fellow republicans stand now that we know the president did ask ukraine's leader to look for dirt on joe biden. former trump 2016 rival senator fr ted cruz from texas. >> i have to say the transcript sure didn't live up to its billing. investigating the election from 2016, it is a perfectly appropriate law enforcement priority. i'm not sure why they think ukranian interference shouldn't be examined. >> but it's not all that black and white across the gop. many republicans do say they

Minutes of the mike months ago the democrats were on tv breathlessly saying you will see an illegal quid pro quo. well if you look at the transcript there's no illegal would croak while in a transcript. the president is asking another foreign leader to assist in investigating, number one, election interference in 2016. now that is a perfectly legitimate and appropriate law enforcement priority. the democrats have been talking nonstop about russian interference and i'm not sure why they somehow think ukrainian interference should be examined. >> it strikes me, you ran for president and you foug...

Because i went into the people affected by crime. what you heard from him was never hearing any side of people locked away for sentences, for example, for crack sentences that were 100 times the sentences for cocaine. you didn't hear him have great answers when he was asked about the differences between opioid abuse treated as a public health emergency and other drug abuse being treated for a law enforcement priority. it's a different experience and he looked out of touch with the concerns that those senators were bringing to bear. >> kamala harris who said she was a young prosecutor flatly de...