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Birthday. Abraham lincoln was [ cheers and applause ] born 209 years ago. Of course he was tragically assassinated at fords theater in washington by a member of ms13. [ laughter ] i read that on the white house website. Is that not right . Lincoln was known i was looking him up today. He was known as honest, a the great emancipator, the rail splitter, tight coop. He had a lot of nicknames. He was like the diddy of 1863. [ laughter ] even had his own vodka. [ laughter ] you know, its funny. When you think about president lincolns hat, the tall stovepipe hat he wore, and then you think about Don...

Married in november. He just shouldnt have happened to, um, him like that. He wasnt supposed to die like this. Reporter williams joined police, colmes sister, elderly father and moore tuesday begging for someone in this Montgomery Village neighborhood to step up and come forward now that they know nearly two dozen people may have been involved. There are still no arrests. Do we as a community allow for someone, a neighbor, a friend, to be violently assaulted and murdered in our neighborhoods and do nothing about it . Reporter police canvassed the area again tuesday passing out flyers. One neig...

Good morning, everyone its tuesday, february 13th. We begin with the Trump Administration where officials continued to offer tangled explanations about the departure of a high level aide accused by two former exwives of Domestic Abuse. To the white house chief of staff calling the allegations true without a definitive statement on who knew what when, heres a brief recap for you. Why would the president accept his resignation if the president thinks he did nothing wrong. I think that was a personal decision that rob made and one that he was not pressured to do but one that he made on his own. W...

One year. Dana john roberts is standing by. John . Reporter lets go through the highlights of the infrastructure plan so that everybody at home can be sure they know what it is that the president s proposing. First of all 1 . 5 trillion in total. However the federal contribution of that is about 13 , 200 billion. That will be in federal seed money, grants and loan. 50 billion for rural infrastructure. Those will be block grants to governors. Stream line the permitting process to a period of two years. Thats at the federal level. Then changes to trade, education and licensing, expanding pell gr...

A current example of revisionist history is the Turkish record on the Armenian Genocide, the first genocide of the twentieth century. In 1915 to 1923, T...