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community do something for me was the caucasian comedienne of the most to do for an african american in hundreds of years. just me on my record, let me do my job. i think i would be a good mayor. i would let my mentors, henry marsh. legendary civil rights lawyer. part of a law firm that brought one of the companion cases to brown the board. he was elected the first african mayor in richmond. henry and i had been friends since i moved to richmond. he asked me, looking good in the face if i would work my heart out for everybody in the city i told him i would. then he said, look, go ahead and run. you will run with my blessing. as long as you never forget who you are working for and never forget the privileges that major success possible. and you never forget that we are extending you an opportunity that nobody ever extended us. you remember those things. i ran, i won, i was a two-term
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mayor and i tried to honor that promise every day since. stoodlater henry and i together to watch barack obama accept the democratic party nomination for president. henry and i worked together on the floor. when the boats but barack obama over the edge. i turned to henry and his are streaming down of our cases. i asked henry what he was begging if you just said to me, my dad was the smartest man i ever knew they only let him be a waiter. that is what he was thinking. deceased, theg most consummate the avenue and yet he was held down and could not be all he wanted to be because of society at the time. without thebe here example of my republican father-in-law who integrated virginia schools and they got frozen out of virginia politics for the rest of his life and i would not be here today without
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henry marsh, a dear friend who look at a guy instead we will take a chance on you if you will stand true to principle. if hillary wins and if i win -- [applause] if hillary wins and if i win this fall, and have the honor of serving as you're vice president, 2000 peoples who stories i will carry with me at my civil rights clients, my heroes like henry marsh, just ith i worked with, -- jesuits worked with companies of the values. the wrongs of this country. i arned more from them every day. so many things that i know that are wrong, i have not felt the sting of them myself. i've know them because i am able to listen. and because of my spanish fluency, i don't same a great spanish fluency but i have the ability to listen and that is an important thing to have. you to tear down the barriers
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that remain and hold ourselves to the ideals that set us apart. nadia race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, or anything else, everyone in this country should get a fair chance. everybody should be treated that way. [applause] it starts with facing our history. as governor of virginia i did something or other government had done, i officially apologized on behalf of the commonwealth of virginia for slavery. [applause] i've done the same thing as mayor for richmond. i worked with my friend to plan and fundraising construct and unduly civil rights memorial on our capital concert i worked on a project to digitize all the records of the freedman's bureau. oral history of slaves taken from the civil war to so we could digitize them so that more people could search and get geological data about their families haveany
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been able to find connections. [applause] or when the history that is rich in its whitewash to leave out the profound suffering of folks, what message does that send about the value of your life and experience? that is of the congressional by caucus and i are working together to form a commission to memorialize the 400 anniversary of the arrival of african slaves at jamestown. if we had a federal commission to commemorate the 400 anniversary of the arrival of the english at jamestown. we had a federal commission to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the arrival of the spanish at saint augustine for good. --, florida. if english lives in history medicaid if spanish lives in history matter. an african american life in history automatic also [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [laughter] -- ought to matter. because black lives matter. [applause]
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hillary has ultimate fighting these fights for a long temperatures in a passionate advocate for children and families for a decade. decades. she is been focused on the issues of systemic racism and inequality in whether it is in our economy, criminal justice system, our schools, and everywhere else. she is poking prickly about the work that all americans, especially white americans need to do to write these wrongs. seedlings taken on these inequities are one of the most important tasks. i agree with her. i believe one of the reasons she asked me to be a running mate is because she knows i will be fighting right alongside of her. newary's proposal to a commitment to equity and opportunity for african-american history we have to -- we have a real plan. you can check out the details on hillary clinton.com. we are not afraid to show the details. hundreds offor billions of dollars in new investment in our cities just like baltimore and richmond and cities with the urban league all
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of the country. hillary and i are big fans of congressman jim clyburn of south carolina and his 102030 plan. to placesding going where 20% of people have lived in poverty for 30 or more years. we have to focus our resources on the resources were they will to the most good. we have to have a targeted approach. to operate persistent poverty. rural, indian country, coal country. the plan includes $20 billion aimed at creating jobs for young people. the unemployment rate as you know, is twice as high as for young white folks. we have to get all of our young people in a path to good paying jobs so they can develop their skills and dreams. we have to make sure that we are not only creating the jobs but connecting black communities to where the good jobs are. which means being strategic about our investments and
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transportation and transit. i was a mayor. mayors get the connection between housing and transportation and work. they have to be connected. incidentally baltimore, cities like richmond, cities around the country, especially cities that don't have a subway system or in some cases like richmond, in a comprehensive metropolitan bus system because of some reticence , we have to do more work. we have to do better. we have a real plan including expanding access to capital to support black entrepreneurs, especially black women who represent the fastest-growing segment of women owned businesses in this country. [applause] that is a success story and you see something sometimes you want to invest where something is not working. sometimes you have to invest where something is starting to work in with investment you can accelerated.
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businesses owned by black women is one of the areas that are really starting to grow. with more bezos as we can to take off. this is something you are focused on. it -- acted it, let's ensure equal pay for women. [applause] this is one of the simple things we can do. it would benefit women of color in a very significant way. we have to reduce inequality in our educational systems starting with greater access to early childhood education. pre-k. [applause] universal brca is not just great for the economy and a lifesaver for working parents, other research shows it is the way to give the kids the best possible start in life. when i was governor of virginia, it is where you have one signal term for four years. i happen to draw the term that coincide with the worst recession since the 1930's and that meant i had to make a lot of painful moves. thatne area of government i significantly expanded was pre-k education.
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40% more kids, low income kids, were in pre-k classrooms all around virginia when i left. i know the power of that investment and so does hillary clinton. to reversewe have the dangerous slide back towards resegregation of our schools. it is a huge step backward for our country and it's bad for our kids to ought to be able to with how to live together the community of people they will be working with. every child in america deserve to live in -- learn in a great school. we have a plan to rebuild, and if a structure and support for schools is not just about school construction, it has to be about the renovations of schools and communities that were put a long time ago but need renovation so that the students can learn a 21st century way. oncology hillary and i have a plan to make your everybody wants to go to college can afford to. you get tax credit to businesses that invest in training and apprenticeships. there are many great pass to a
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great job, not just college. career and technical training. the plan includes a $25 billion investment in historically black colleges and universities and other minorities serving institutions. [applause] hbcs, you are all thinking about your hbc's, i bet there are some non-virginians who are alums of the ones i just mentioned have produced the finest leaders in our countries history and are still doing critical work today and that work is needed tomorrow. we have a plan, and this is so we have to tackle this criminal justice reform. [applause] the urban league has been very thoughtful about that. i practice law enough to know that the legal system is stacked against those who have believed
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our. we have seen the toll it takes on families torn apart by excessive incarceration and children growing up, going up in homes shattered by prison in the poverty that prison produces our sellers. we have to not just acknowledge that, there is starting to be an acknowledgment, even a bipartisan acknowledgment that we need to do something but we're still waiting for action at the federal level. we have to take action to end the era of mass incarceration. i want to commend president obama. just yesterday he commuted to life sentences of more than 240 nonviolent drug offenders, including some from virginia. [applause] you know this. we can't rely on executive action of mine. we have to reject the whole system. we have to dismantle the school to prison pipeline. cut mandatory and him sentences berkman of them -- low-level nonviolent drug offenders should we have to make sure there are jobs and support available when people get out of prison so that
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when they want to get their lives back on track we give them a path to get the last back on track. -- lives back on track. [applause] these are issues i worked on as governor of virginia and cosponsored much of the criminal justice reform currently pending in the senate and hillary has made it a priority because we are country, thank god, we are second chances are possible. we believe in second chances as a people. we just have policy that necessarily put that belief into action. finally, this is the one i feel ,ost acutely as a former mayor ndshave got to rebuild the bo of trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve. [applause] we have to do it. this is something across our nation. their communities where those moms are very strong, but there to make ranges where the distance is too great, too many african american families,
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morning the lives of family members killed by police or who died in custody and at a federal level, we still don't even keep track of the data to know how often it happens. that tells you that it is not a priority when we don't even bother to measure it. people here baltimore know this so very well. just as people. virginia know this. uprofound distance has grown between law enforcement and too many places that distance is dangerous. dangerous for the communities and dangerous for our police. we had national night out, i imagine most of you have national night out events in your communities, we had a national night out celebration i n richmond. a family did it on their front porch to bring the community and placed together. there reason they did it was their boy had just graduated from the richmond police academy coming into being a police
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officer come i've know him since he was five years old, the fifth of his lifelong dream and i looked him -- into his eyes and kids like him and police officer to of been around for a while, there are some the honorable police officers who don't get in the job to fight crime, they get to the job to prevent crime. that distance that has grown up for a lot of reasons stands in the way. montrell jackson, what of the police officers killed in baton rouge on july 17 wrote about that distance on his facebook page just a few days before he died. he said when i'm in my uniform, i get nasty, hateful looks. when i'm out of my uniform, because the color my skin, some people look at me and consider .e a friend -- threat he was talking about that distance. he happened to be one of those good police officers was killed. he concluded saying these are trying times, please don't let
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hate infector heart and then he said to any protesters, officers runs in family, i'm working these streets and if you need a hug or what to say prayer, i've got you. him give meers like hope. there is a lot we can do. let's invest in training. training budgets are with a bunch that most got hammered when we went to a national recession. rescission, but just have to be cut, what is the first thing that gets cut? turning. ning.ai we have to invest in more training to deescalate these situations so they don't turn violent. hillary has pledged to do that. let's support independent data collection investigation and if necessary, prosecution of police involved deaths and let's learn from the committees that are doing it right. we brought come down richmond embracing community policing, not zero policy -- tolerance
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policy. there are cities all across the country doing it. we just have to go to the places doing it right and do more of it. let's apply that nationwide. if hillary come as she said million times, -- as she has said many times, everybody benefits when this respect for the law and also when everybody is respected by the law. and you alln and on know that hillary clinton is famous for being a policy wonk and i am too. as you said, if it is about your kids, if it is about your business, if it is about your job, it is not a detail, it is a big deal. being about details is what we are about because these things matter. if you elect us in november, you have two people in the white house working hard on these issues every day listening, partnering, bridge building and we will go after it.
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look, we're not going after it on her own. we want to do it in a in robustp and even dialogue. hold us accountable for the promises we are making. we have a lot of for to do and you know that better than anyone. we have a lot of problems that it, thising and face campaign has laid to rest on divisions that the remain in this country. racism, sexism, islamophobia. america has some healing to do and the urban league is so well-positioned to be part of the healing group to help this nation. it is more than about laws and plans, more than about policies, it takes people from all walks of life reaching out beyond themselves, beyond them comfort zone -- their comfort zone and try to see things from other points of view which really means try to see folks and humanity. when i started to practice civil rights that anybody who is a person of color, frankly anyone who has -- a religious minority,
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you have to learn the ways of the majority of the survival instinct. you have to learn in order to survive the ways of the majority. so often those of us in the majority, we are not forced to learn the ways of anybody else. we can insulate or wall ourselves off without intending to. we have to force ourselves out of our comfort zone to learn about the realities of all the beer for parts of this wonderful american tapestry. that if the work we have to take on our shoulders. that is we built -- build communities in the country as vast as ours. to conclude, and i do consider urban league support his friends, we need your help to win this fall and i'm not ashamed to come here and ask for it. please call your friends, please call your families, please make sure they are registered to vote. i don't if you sought, last week, there were a series of 14 -- court cases tracked down in a number of cases arbitrary restrictions try to hold people
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back from voting. [applause] the most severe upset the restrictions was in north carolina, construct down by federal court that found that the restrictions had been put in place intentionally to block african-americans from only participating in voting. what is it to audience in greensboro, if you know anybody who ever said to you that their vote doesn't matter, just say this, if your but does not matter, let the other side working so hard to keep you from being able to vote? if they think it matters, and that should tell you that it matters. and volunteere and participate and knock on doors and do everything possible. claim the democracy, put in our hands. whether we elect will not magically fix any of the problems described but i can promise you this, with a clinton-kaine administration come he will have a best president and vice president will be a partners. we will work our hearts are. reduce inequality, battle
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against incorrect injustice and give all of our children, auguste children because they deserve -- all of god's children a chance they deserve for a bright and healthy future. we will stand up and say that love trumps hate, and let's elect hillary clinton to united states. thank you. [applause] >> more road to the white house coverage continues tomorrow. hillary clinton will speak at the national association of black journalists at the annual convention. we will take you there at noon eastern live on c-span. and in the evening, on the green bay, wisconsin where donald trump will hold a rally for his supporters. that is live at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span.
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>> coming up this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, the life and legacy of content or hamilton. >> his augment that though war had been a common struggle. all the states were fighting together for the liberty of all. assumed the deaths of the -- debts of the 13 states and they would all be treated as one debt . >> saturday evening. on the economic achievements about xander hamilton. and at 10:00, a 1945 war department film the last bond document the final month of the be 29 super fortress eric campaign against japan including atomic bombings. sunday morning at 10:00, the third and final 2000 presidential debate between
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democratic vice president al gore and george w. bush. >> allowed to protect themselves and families. i believe that we ought to keep guns out of the hand of people who should not have been. that is why one background checks at gun shows. >> i think some commonsense sense gun safety measures are certainly needed with the flood of cheap handguns that have sometimes been working their way into the hands of the wrong people. but all of my proposals are problem, gunat safety. >> c-span. the contenders. two figures herein for the presidency and lost but change political history. saturday night. the 1928 and credit company and former new york governor al smith and the 1940 republican presidential on the window with be -- when dell will be -- wendell wilkie. window, pictures
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of my opponent and his associates on the new deal ticket. i don't know of any more appropriate place to put those pictures. >> for a complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.org. this morning on the washington journal, a discussion of the tampa bay times political fact project. at our table, angie with political act, here to talk about fact checking the campaign. let's begin with what is polit ifact. caller: we called -- guest: we publish reports every day that fact check what campaign -- candidates say on the campaign trail. we have a rating system. if a statement is really
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accurate, it gets the true rating. less accurate make it mostly true, have true, mostly false or false. completelyent is inaccurate or ridiculous, it pantsands on fire -- on fire. host: how do you make sure you are giving campaigns and candidates the right ratings? guest: this is the second -- this is the third campaign we have been fact checking. and likeurnalists most, we are listening to the news and seeing what the candidates say. we are listening for things that would make the average person say i wonder if that is true. that is how we pick the facts to check. we don't balance the ratings in any way, because we think the facts need to speak with
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themselves. the ratings are whatever they are. do that whenyou the truth is not always clear? guest: we have a method for fact checking? every fact check is little diversity there is a of political discussion we have in the u.s., the we emphasize a few principles. we emphasize original sources, primary documents, primary evidence, our reports are written in a way that the entire story is, this is what we said, we wanted to know if it was accurate, so we reported and researched and here is all the evidence we found and of the end of the story, we assign a rating because we are online first, we publish all of our sources online. there is a source list with every story. we find people are skeptical and they want to verify our work and see for themselves. our reports run in newspapers across the country that have our
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articles, but online, people can see the sources and investigate for themselves and they seem to like that. host: i want to show our viewers hillary clinton on fox news, talking about the claim by fbi comey and whether or not she gave honest testimony before congress. >> after a long investigation, fbi director james comey said in of those things that you told the american public for true. >> that is not what i heard irector comey say, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify. he said my answers were truthful and what i said was consistent with what i told the american people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain
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e-mails. i was communicating with over 300 people in my e-mailing. they certainly did not believe and had no reason to believe that what they were sending was classified. in retrospect, different agencies come in and say it should have been, but that is not what was happening in real time. >> and a congressional hearing on july 7, director james comey directly contradicted what you had told the public. >> secretary clinton said there was nothing more classified on her e-mails sent or received, was that true? >> that is not true. >> secretary clinton said i do not e-mail any classified material, was that true? >> there was classified material e-mailed. >> he directly contradicted you. not only directly contradicted, he also said that you were extremely careless and negligent. looked at the whole
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transcript of everything that was said, and what i believe is that i made a mistake, not using two different e-mail addresses. i have said that, and i repeat it again, today. it is not anything that i ever would do again. we looked at this exchange very carefully. this is the kind of thing that catches our attention. we found that clinton was wrong. we looked specifically at her statement that said everything she said was true all. we rated that pants on fire. as chris wallace said, there was some classified information and -- in her e-mail. she repeatedly said there was nothing marked classified when she sent or received it. , to get the full context forit was a very small f messages. the classification marks were not in the headers.
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we really get into the details of this stuff. you can see how she thought she was right. their fulli did investigation, they did find classified information. her publicot endorse remarks as being truthful. he did not say she lied either. he said, basically, that is not what the fbi found in their investigation. host: let's get to calls. florida, independent color. we will talk a little bit more about statements may by both candidates. caller: we need to take a view and hindsight is 2020, looking back in time, comparing things now over the many years gives you the best balanced perspective. only 10% of the richest americans now have the same good lifestyle that the average
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american hat in 1965. in 1965, the rich were paying any tax rate of 90%. 1972ad from 1948 to increases in worker productivity directly matching increases in worker ranges. deficit is trillion because the rich have not paid their fair share of taxes over the last several decades. the low wages for u.s. citizens now is due to the massive integration -- immigration that has taken place over several decades. the more people in the country, the lower the wages. it is that simple. we do not create 2 million new good paying jobs every year. we allowed 1.5 million legal and illegal foreign nationals in the country every year. since obama has taken office, more of the new jobs have gone
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to foreign nationals then u.s. citizens. all this should be very objective and taken into account. fact check that all quickly? guest: i can put a couple of reporters on that statement for a few days. the wealthy used to pay 90% tax rate. that is true. when we look at historical tax rates many time during the eisenhower years, and the highest tax rate was 90%, 70%. during the reagan years, those tax rates started to come down. they are now much lower. we fact check claims about inequality as well many times. you cane many ways expect that. sometimes people talk about wealth that usually means homeownership. sometimes they talk about
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income. it is all a little bit different. one thing we have noticed is that inequality, he said, was worse when the recession was the worst. that is because so many people lost their home values or lost their jobs. now the recession seems to be in the rearview mirror, the inequality statistics, there is still a lot of inequality, but it is not as dramatic as it used to be. the last thing i will mention on immigration, he talks about immigration lowering wages. this is one of the hardest things for us to fact check because in the broader economy summary things can affect wages. is immigration one of those things that affects wages? it is certain one, but it may be outweighed by other trends. many say immigration is an overall improvement to the
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economy because more people are being productive. there is also some evidence that they do lower wages for people who are in low-wage jobs. mixed evidence there on immigration. lancaster, ohio, republican. caller: i do not like hillary clinton. she lies. nothing is going to happen. she is going to be just as bad as obama if she is elected. i love donald trump. of things that people wish they could say. guest: -- host: let's take a point about hillary clinton lying many times. do you tally statements of each campaign? guest: we do. we look at tally of every candidate with a scorecard on
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political act. people can look at hillary clinton clinton or donald trump and see how the statement we have selected rate. number one, we picked statements for their news value. we're not taking a random sample. if someone makes a statement that is likely true that is every day, it will not make it to our site. we like to correct misinformation. we fact check a lot of statements that sound wrong. about hillary clinton's record, she is -- we have been fact checking her since we started in 2007, and overall the impressions i have of her is she is very careful, she studies public policy a great deal. we do not often capture in a misstatement -- cash her in a misstatement of policy matters. she is pretty accurate. we have found misstatements more
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in interviews which he is under pressure. in addition to that statement we talked about a few minutes ago, she also spoke in 2008, she tried to defend herself as first lady and her international relations by saying she landed in bosnia under sniper fire. ofrequire,ideo children greeting her at the airport. that is the kind of statement we see from hillary clinton. donald trump is a first time ended it. he does not seem to study policy very much. he makes many errors of fact. his record with us is quite poor, about three quarters of his statements have been rated mostly false, false, or caps on fire. -- pants on fire. he gets a lot of things wrong in his stump speeches where he seems to be talking off the top
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of his head. he does not seem to use notes. he gets basic factual matters of policy wrong. in new york, he was talking about the clintons refugee plan. here is what he had to say. mr. trump: hillary clinton also wants to settle middle eastern refugees in the united states on top of the current record level of integration that we already have -- immigration that we are cap. for the amount of money she would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner-city in america. guest: this statement is completely wrong. we went through the numbers on it &because -- we rated fire. -- pants on fire. the statement is we could rebuild every inner-city in america.
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much less than $100 billion on refugees. a city like new york that needs a lot of infrastructure improvement exceeds that. that is just one city. the numbers are completely off. we do not spend that much money on refugees. america's cities have a lot of infrastructure problems that caused more money than that -- cost a lot more money than that to fix. when republicans say obama wants to put a control on the salt levels. -- assault rifles. they want to take away your second amendment rights. that seems to be effective. that is a lie. they have been using it and getting away with it for years. let me digress. for the first portion of the
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show, donald trump and all the democrats wanted to get in on this. only republicans were allowed in. segmentome up with this on the e-mail thing. you let republicans get in and found hillary. trump.d not go after i don't think that is fair. host: all right. guest: we have been fact checking the second amendment, and it is a republican talking point. they regularly say, donald trump and others, they want to abolish the second. clinton has said nothing of the sort. she even responded to that during her convention speech. she said that people do have a right to bear arms, but like many rights, the government has the responsibility to put reasonable regulations on it.
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just the way you cannot shout fire in a crowded theater, it is not guns for anyone at anytime. whether she checked wants to abolish the second amendment. irate that false. host: a republican. ohio. caller: thank you for taking my call. ands clear that mr. obama the democrats want to change the demographics of the country. did you ever have a chance to fact check what mrs. clinton said to the lady at the airport, i believe her name was pat, the one that lost her son. i have another question. host: go ahead. guest: we have looked deeply at this question. this is about the benghazi attacks that happened in 2012.
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the mother of one of the people who died there give a speech at the republican convention that said she blamed hillary clinton personally and hillary clinton lied to her. lying stemson of around what did hillary clinton wheno the victims'families the bodies were returned to the united states. hillary clinton was there, president obama was there. hillary clinton spoke with the families, all of the families. we do not know what was said. these conversations were not recorded. the mother says that hillary clinton blamed a video. for people who remember this, there was a video that was offensive to the religion of islam. in the middle east, there were riots around u.s. embassies about the video. time, there was thought
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that this video was related to the attack. later it was shown that the attacks were corrugated, it was not spontaneous. the question is what does hillary tell the families? we do not have recordings or independent evidence about it. we have spoken to as many members of the families as we could locate and who were willing to talk to us. some of them said she did not mention a video. specifically they said she gave indolence is, said this was a terrible act, did not mention a video. smith andst patricia another family member said she mentioned a video. we have not given this fact check a rating because it does seem like a he said, she said
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