explore temple's impact. visit temple.edu/impact. >> inside stories of the week.art with larry. >> matt, pro-soda tax protestors were shouting "this is our house" at city hall before a bipartisan state committee looking at the economic impact of the soda tax. that's bad politics, because we're gonna have to go to harrisburg for money for the schools, and moderate republicans there might just tell us "that's your house." >> thanks, larry. christine? >> matt, i'm a conservative, i'm a registered republican, and i am not a fan of hillary clinton at all. and yet, we need -- we conservatives and conservative women in particular, need to come out and say to our president, "keep your mouth shut. stop tweeting. break his fingers. do something." because the comments that the president made with respect to mika brzezinski this week on msnbc are unacceptable. and until conservatives start coming out and agreeing that it's unacceptable and untenable for a president to do that, i don't know where we are. >> i got local problems, you know? and that is the opioid problem is kill

explore temple's impact. visit temple.edu/impact. ♪ >> back with "inside story."ladelphia has a new district attorney for now. the board of judges selected kelley hodge to fill the rest of the term of former d.a. seth williams, who, as you know, resigned after his corruption conviction. hodge will be the first african-american woman to serve as the city's d.a. when she is sworn in. here's my question -- and hodge is supremely qualified. i don't think there's any doubt about that. but kathleen martin, who recused herself from being in the mix here, has basically been running this office for several months. why not, nelson, just keep her on the job until january, which is not too far away? >> well, it's because of the state requirement that the board of judges has the obligation whenever there's a vacancy to appoint someone. >> so why wouldn't they appoint martin? >> she decided to level herself out. >> let's pretend that she knew she wasn't gonna win. >> well, i think that it was a glass ceiling to be broken, and so we have an african-american woman. we have now, w

explore temple's impact. visit temple.edu/impact. >> welcome back to "inside story." inside story of the week. >> tamala, democrats are beginning to really gather around senator daylin leach as their candidate to run against pat meehan next year. pat meehan is considered vulnerable by democrats. it's a district that hillary won. you're gonna see national money flowing from all over the country in this particular election. it's gonna be a real big one. >> all right. jeff? >> just this past week, it was announced that senator john mccain is gonna be this year's recipient of the liberty medal, given out by the national constitution center. and who will be bestow the liberty medal itself onto senator mccain? none other than one of our favorite senators from a neighboring state -- delaware -- and now the former vice president -- joe biden. it will be a nice shot of bipartisan across the bow in these very tough times. >> it'll be true affection -- two decades of friendship between the two. >> so nice. >> sharmain? >> tamala, tomorrow thousands of teens in philadelphia are g

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