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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 question. i am all the way with you on this. in addition to that hate crime, that act of terror in orlando, florida, as we know just on august 3rd of this year, 22 were killed in a walmart in el paso, texas. not an act of god. not by force of nature. not a random event. entirely predictable in america today. especially with a president who has sent a signal in the clearest terms, when he issues a transgender troop ban, when he denies the rights of our fellow americans because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, or who describes immigrants as rapists and criminals, and in a coun...

Kelly in that interview with "the los angeles times" where he talked about the people around the president can give him all of the information and from there it's up to the president to actually use it. it confirms what rex tillerson said a few weeks ago, which was very much in the same vain. this appears to have been very much like other things the president decided upon, like a military parade, like a transgender troop ban. smfsing th something that was decided upon on the fly and had to make work. in this case they were not able to make it work. the president prevailed upon him to take a mo...

You are right. it's a false choice. you can do the military and get the goodlatte bill in, right? that's the fundamental piece on immigration which is polling higher than obamacare for republicans. we failed on the premier piece that he ran on and that the american people want, wages have been flat for 30 years. and everyone from bernie through president trump wants to fix the mess in the swamp. and i could have just come back to town and said let's do two week cr and made some major moves. >> laura: it would have been gutsy. >> that would have been gutsy. that's his strength. he has a good gu...

You are right. it's a false choice. you can do the military and get the goodlatte bill in, right? that's the fundamental piece on immigration which is polling higher than obamacare for republicans. we failed on the premier piece that he ran on and that the american people want, wages have been flat for 30 years. and everyone from bernie through president trump wants to fix the mess in the swamp. and i could have just come back to town and said let's do two week cr and made some major moves. >> laura: it would have been gutsy. >> that would have been gutsy. that's his strength. he has a good gu...