do you remember when you first came to connecticut? >> yes, i remember i was very nervous, but i know it was going to be. a better opportunity for me to learn. >> but alicia says those opportunities never came to fruition even today. could you read this or would it take you a long time? >> it's impossible to see his words everywhere. >> alicia graduated from the hartford public school system last year, but she says today she is illiterate. she still doesn't know how to read or write. when she was an early education. >> they were just either tell me to sit in the corner and sleep. um, or just draw pictures, flowers for them. >> and when she was in high school, she relied on speech to text programs and other apps to read and write essays. so if you had an assignment where you had to write something, you'd open up a document like this and then do what? >> i would go here, to use the text to speech. >> says dictate, dictate. >> yeah, i love pizza. >> this is how you would do your assignments. >> and then cats of the world. >> vacaya sporti

do you remember when you first came to connecticut? >> yes.i remember i was very nervous, but i know it was going to be. a better opportunity for me to learn. >> but alicia says those opportunities never came to fruition, even today. could you read this or would it take you a long time? >> it's impossible to see his words everywhere. >> alicia graduated from the hartford public school system last year, but she says today she is illiterate. she still doesn't know how to read or write. when she was an early education. >> they were just either tell me to stay in the corner and sleep. um, or just draw pictures of flowers for them. >> and when she was in high school, she relied on speech to text programs and other apps to read and write essays. so if you had an assignment where you had to write something, you'd open up a document like this and then do what? >> i will go here. to use the text to speech. >> dictate, dictate. >> yeah, i love pizza. >> this is how you would do your assignments. >> and then cats of the world. >> vacaya sporting a twin p

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tammy duckworth posted ts -- her colleague from new mexico reacted thisay -- and from e use, connecticut democrat hayes released this statement- ♪ >> democracy is always an unfinished creation. >> democracy is worth dying for. >> it belongs to us all. >> we are here in the sanctuary of democracy. >> great responsibilities fall once again to the great democracies. >> american democracy is bigger than any one person. >> freedom and democracy must be constantly guarded and protected. >> we are still a democracy. >> this is also a massive victory for democracy and freedom. ♪ >> following a contentious oval office mting between trump, vance, and zelenskyy, the president posts --

and from the house, connecticut democrat, jahana hayes released a statement saying today's oval office meeting was deeply troubling. the u.s. must defend democracy over authoritarianism and it is indefensible to side with putin over our steadfast allies in ukraine. president trump is scheduled to adjust a joint session of congress on tuesday to lay out his priorities and vision for the country in his second term. we will have live coverage beginning at 8 p.m. on c-span followed by a democratic response. we will also take fewer calls and get your reaction on social media. that is live on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span.org. ♪ >> democracy is always an unfinished creation. >> democracy is worth dying for. >> democracy is for us all. >> great responsibilities fall once again to the great democracies. >> american democracy is bigger than any one person. >> freedom and democracy must be constantly guarded and protected. >> we are still at our core a democracy. >> this is also a massive victory for democracy and freedom. ♪ >> following a contentious oval office -- ovalffice meeting be

and after the battle was over the white soldiers in the 10th connecticut said that the 54th had fought like heroes. shaw was especially gratified with the performance of men they had stood as men shoulder to shoulder with white soldiers. and they had done their job. well. best known of the actions of the 54th in the climactic scene of the film glory is the assault that the 54th makes at fort. part of the defenses of charleston harbor. after their fight on july 16, the 54th went into an all night march and then went into camp on 17th, anticipating assault against fort wagner. the next day on the 18th, the fort itself was manned about 1700 confederates, 17 artillery pieces, and was encircled by three foot deep, dry, a formidable obstacle that the 54th was going to assault. and despite to make the assault across a mile length of open beach chauvin volunteered the 54th to lead the attack. fort wagner. other regiments would then follow support and so late in the afternoon on the 18th, the 54th formed up on the beach, waiting the command to advance. at that moment, the brigade commander, sha

attorney and attorney general for the state of connecticut for 20 years and investigation a prosecutionmacks of stalinist russia. as stalin's chief of his secret police said. show me the man and i'll show you the crime. that's the way the so-called justice system operated. in that autocracy. we are facing the same terrifying weaponization of justice here. >> i know that you've written to the acting u.s. attorney for dc, ed martin, who seems to be quite a character, about some of what he said, and he is only acting personally, i think that some of these are impeachable offenses from officers united states. we'll see what happens. i don't have much trust in the current republican congress. you met, you were part of, i think, roger wicker. was he in the meeting with you today? >> he was. >> okay. so roger wicker, who's the chair of the armed services committee, mississippi senator, he posted this picture. it was that saying that the deal was a huge step forward in securing mutual prosperity and peace for americans and ukrainians. it was a picture of him shaking hands with zelensky. he then

and i'm just not going to be a part of that. >> that was senator chris murphy of connecticut, talkinghinks we can expect from president trump's address to a joint session of congress on tuesday, and why he's decided to skip what will surely be a performance to rival those nominated for oscars tonight. joining me now, max rose, former congressman from new york and senior adviser to votevets, a progressive group that supports military families. and hayes brown, writer and editor for msnbc daily. gentlemen, thank you both very much for coming to the sunday show. so as you're the only former member of congress sitting here at the table, max, your assessment of what senator senator murphy said. do you share that all we're going to see is president trump spew lies, lies about his alignment with russia? sure. >> and i would defer to the senator who i respect as to what we're going to see. but i'll tell you what we're not going to see. and that is donald trump. give one proactive proposal to lower costs. we're not going to see him defend at any point the fact that he just fired tens of thousa

he didn't name names, but i certainly asked him, why is the rank and file senator from connecticut theout in front, so loud at a time where maybe leadership leader schumer, leader jeffries should be doing the same thing he said as he said, as murphy said there in that interview, that they don't benefit from sort of the status quo. they have to be out in front. he did say the party was a big tent, but certainly they're trying to copy a little bit of what trump was so successful in doing and trying to get these other people in this populist message to vote and hold up the party. he's trying to bring those voters back to the democratic party after those stunning losses that we saw in 2024. chris. >> thanks so much for that. joel. we just got a press release from chuck schumer, and he's one of the folks who has some invited as his guests, some people who were fired. one of them is a disabled army veteran. she was receiving disability but wanted to work, so she was working at the buffalo va, helping fellow veterans obtain her benefits. benefits. she was fired. a usda worker who was fired fr

here with me now is democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut. thank you so much for being here. sure. what's your reaction to what you just heard from the president's national security adviser? do you think there's hope of salvaging this relationship with ukraine? >> so it. >> is absolutely. >> shameful what is happening right now. the white house. >> has become an arm. of the kremlin. every single day. >> you. >> hear from the national. >> security adviser from. >> the president, united states, from his entire national security team, kremlin. talking points for the last week, the white house has been pretending as if ukraine started this war. that's essentially saying that poland invaded germany at the beginning of world war two. there are still facts in this world. and the fact is this vladimir putin is a brutal dictator. russia started this war, and the entire pretext for that meeting yesterday was an attempt to rewrite history in order to sign a deal with putin that hands putin ukraine. that is disastrous for u.s. national security. that mea

host: that is debbie and michigan, this is joann in connecticut, good morning. i just want to say, this is supposed to be a ceremonial signing. zelenskyy was disrespectful. we have given ukraine an awful lot of money. we have the money. doesn't know what a mediator is? they try not to take sides. we have more ships, planes, close to our shores by russia. we don't want another war. zelenskyy to me looks like a shakedown artist. it has been reported that the democrats talk to zelenskyy before this meeting. does he realize that his people are not going to win this war? the reality is they cannot beat russia. host: you said the mediators, is that our role? caller: this deal, that is what it is, trump is trying to mediate between people. does anyone think ukraine is going to win? do they want to save -- send more money to ukraine? put our soldiers in ukraine? i don't understand that. you will not beat russia, unfortunately there is nobody else left basically to fight this war. host: this is jimmy in shreveport, louisiana, good morning. caller: i don't agree with a lo

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i'm senator from connecticut. i really enjoyed listening to all the panelists and i really enjoyed how you about specifically the division within the weak liberals and how that impacted american politics during, the founding. my question is, with regards to the current politics and the current political overtone window, do you do the panelists think that the rise of more post liberal figures and thinkers like patrick deneen, like vice president elect j.d. vance, has altered the overton window within american politics. and whether we still have that broad liberal coalition. thank you. the first senator from connecticut has never made any sense. and in my my estimation. maybe you should take it up. you've all since you said there's a consensus about this. well, look, i americans have always had a wonderful tendency to overestimate the degree of radicalism that exists in our society to the rest of the world. we seem like we are arguing in the middle. often and to ourselves. we seem like we are at the at the at the ve

. >>> a connecticut man that ate the parts of another man he murdered was granted supervised releasem a mental hospital. while citizens are outraged. msnbc is happy to report they found a replacement for the 7:00 p.m. hour. it is true. >>> rachel maddow slammed her own network for the decision to replace on-air talent. it does look bad that msnbc fired a black woman and kept on two white women. >>> according to a poll, trump still doesn't score well with female voters aged 18-24. he's seeking advice now from bill bill a check. >>> wisconsin democrat governor tony evers back to redefine a bill that defines mothers as inseminated persons. millions of wisconsin residents are telling him now to go inseminated himself. i didn't know they had a governor. >>> a french company set the record for the world's largest cheese fondue. guess who bought a one-way ticket to france. >>> a psychologist recommends adults might want to reconsider visiting childhood hobbies. this must be advice for women, because men revisit their hobbies every time their wife leaves the house. >> you are on fire tonight

if you don't show up, people like chris murphy and the democrat from connecticut saying i'm not going to show up because i can't stand the president. you're not doing your job and don't want to be part of the solution. all the democrats working to bring -- be cohesive, your job is one of the 135 people serving their country, state and districts, you're there not to just support the president, but you are there to have this communication and receiver malik taylorful dialogue back and forth -- respectful dialogue back and forth and not to do a protest and some sort of ridiculousness. i sat there on the floor and watched democrats when donald trump honorred ordinary americans that did extraordinary things and served their country and should have stood and applauded, it wasn't about donald trump, it was about the people they were honorring and they sat there with -- on their hands and didn't do a barn thing. it was embarrassing to this nation. good luck, democrats, you have no plan. they didn't do anything to dismantle medicaid and i get fired up on this and you should going and doing you

host: kevin in connecticut.t was president zelenskyy who also responded after yesterday's meeting on social media posting this on x. "thank you america. thank you for your support. thank you for the visit. thank you potus, congress, and the american people. ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working for exactly that." president zelenskyy also spoke yesterday after the meeting on fox news. during the interview he reflected on the meeting and what it means for the future of u.s.-ukraine relations. [video clip] >> the public spat in the oval office in front of the media, you think it served ukrainians well today? pres. zelenskyy: i think that this kind of spat is not good for both sides and -- both sides in any way. i cannot change our ukrainian attitude towards russia. they are killers for us. this is very clear that americans are the best of our friends. europeans are the best of our friends. putin with russian, they are our enemies. it doesn't mean we don't want peace, we just want to recognize the

host: that was kevin in connecticut. it was president zelenskyy who also responded after yesterday's meeting on social media posting this on x, "thank you, america. thank you for your support. thank you for the visit. thank you potus, congress and the american people. ukraine needs lasting peace and we are working for that." president zelenskyy also spoke yesterday after the meeting on fox news during the interview. he reflected on the meeting and what it means for the future of u.s. and ukraine relations. [video clip] >> the public spat in the oval office in front of the media served ukrainians well today? >> i think this kind of spat is not good for both sides. i am very open but i cannot change our ukrainian attitude to russia. this is very clear that americans are the best of friends. europeans are the best friends. putin with russia, they are enemies. it does not mean that we don't want peace. we just want to recognize the reality. the real situation. [end video clip] host: let's hear from cindy in connecticut on th

new york city and had gotten a job doing a production of "kiss me kate" at a dinner theater in connecticutke up in my tonsils had abscessed and i couldn't talk. i couldn't swallow, and i couldn't sing. i lost the job. because i couldn't do it. i came back to new york with my tail between my legs and my survival job was office work because i learned to type in seventh grade. pay attention in school, children. i learned to type in seventh grade, i could do office work and i was working at an accounting firm. one of my coffee cooler meets happen to be the son of lena horne's manager and he told me they were casting background singers for her show. i should talk to my agent about it. long story short, i did. i was cast in the show and on the stage with the legendary lena horne when i was 22 years old. it was an experience that really -- [applause] yeah, it really informed my career moving forward. >> stephen: when you make it to broadway for the first time, did your family all come? >> tamara: yes, my family came. my family, my teachers from school, everyone came. my mom came and when my mothe

this guy is the loathsome reprobate from connecticut. he is a cancer in the body politic.costly on cable tv trashing trump, trashing elon musk, just trashing every single time that he possibly can. just finished a meeting with president zelenskyy here in washington. this is what murphy posted. confirm the ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement. putin gets everything he wants, there are no security arrangements for ukraine. murphy's office posted that at 11:15 a.m. on friday. just an hour before zelensky was meeting with president trump. and then murphy attach a picture of zelensky at a conference table with murphy seated on the opposite side. the purpose of the meeting was to sign the mineral agreement he and trump represented have negotiated. this was supposed to be a formality. he twice refused to sign it after promising to so he will back on the deal multiple times. and thanks to murphy we now know he had no intention of signing it on friday when he met with trump. like the original russia hoax that to trust first or russia 2.0 was born a political des

you are exactly right like guys chris murphy a troublemaker from connecticut and he had his left wingking point. he doesn't want peace. i don't know what he wants because he will not defeat russia and the war will go on forever and hundreds of thousands and millions of people will be killed or they will be injured. he has a bad actor here. he has a very bad actor. don't forget, lindsey graham basically called for his resignation. lindsey graham is the biggest supporter of the ukraine. this is a fatal mistake. europe will not bail them out and trump has to stay with his gun. the minerals deal is the key. you sign that and you bring boots on the ground, that is huge. it is a trip wire. if not, who knows what. >> emily: friday clinic follow up on friday, the president said i don't want an advantage but i want peace. for some reason it seems that openness to using military should not be confused with dedication to peace. the warmonger-or less president. >> trump knows but a great negotiator any has to be an honest broker. >> harris: but he has been and zelenskyy has not been. >> larry: th

connecticut senator chris murphy leaning towards not going. >> democrat needs to make up their own mind. i think that speech will be a farce, a maga pep rally, not a serious talk to the nation. >> one democrat who will be there former house speaker nancy pelosi. 84-year-old says democrats should attend so they can show united opposition to any potential changes to social security, medicaid or medicare. you may remember pelosi generated a lot of attention for tearing up trump's state of the union speech in 2020. trump at the time called it disrespectful. tomorrow night michigan's newest senator slotkin will give the rebuttal. democrats call her a rising star. new action also at democratic party headquarters party filing its first lawsuit against trump of his second term. dnc suing trump claiming actions against some independent executive agencies broke elections laws. democrats are looking to shake things up. newsom a lot of talk in 2028 is launching a podcast to get his message out. >> bill: a lot to talk about. mary kathryn hamm is here. noah rothman. hello to you. noah, hakeem jeffrie

the governor of connecticut. >> for those of us in the west they are all the same up there.ughter] >> you are sympathetic to regulation and i would say you could have 40 different states all doing their own regulations with the lack of initiative coming from the fed. i worry we are >> hundreds of hours in her state legislature defining high-risk algorithms but i think it will be 100 legal cases and those jobs will go to georgia where they will go to china. i worry about that. >> and the fact that the feds have not acted is but but this s their job to do this privacy would legislation. there's no privacy or alvarez make transparency. in europe is doing it too much. by the way some is great but the fact they have a state-level institute impossible to run an impossible for these companies and bad for innovation capitalism. the government had to start to make these choices rather than either doing too much or giving away the bank which is what is happening now. >> this is a rare space for governors. usually we say we want more state authority. i think most governors here will sa

host: that is debbie and michigan, this is joann in connecticut, good morning. caller: i just want to say, this is supposed to be a ceremonial signing. zelenskyy was disrespectful. we have given ukraine an awful lot of money. we have the money. doesn't know what a mediator is? they try not to take sides. we have more ships, planes, close to our shores by russia. we don't want another war. zelenskyy to me looks like a shakedown artist. it has been reported that the democrats talk to zelenskyy before this meeting. does he realize that his people are not going to win this war? the reality is they cannot beat russia. host: you said the mediators, is that our role? caller: this deal, that is what it is, trump is trying to mediate between people. does anyone think ukraine is going to win? do they want to save -- send more money to ukraine? put our soldiers in ukraine? i don't understand that. you will not beat russia, unfortunately there is nobody else left basically to fight this war. host: this is jimmy in shreveport, louisiana, good morning. caller: i don't agree w

>> senator richard blumenthal, connecticut, thank you for your time tonight. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> that is all in for this week. i'm heading back out on the road again to talk about a new book, the siren's call how attention became the world's most endangered resource, just hit its fourth week on the new york times best seller list, which is awesome. monday night i'm going to be in philadelphia, where i will be interviewed by my favorite interviewer and interviewee, my brilliant constitutional law scholar wife, kate shaw. she's awesome. we're going to talk. i hope to see you there. you can get the book wherever books are sold or and this is important at your local library. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. >> is that fair to do the interview with the spouse? is that yes. is that a conflict? >> we ran it by standards and they said, two thumbs up. no conflict here. >> no. >> i mean, is it fair to your marriage? like, what if she's like, yeah, chapter three is a little weak. >> oh no, no, no, that's fair point. no. mostly i'm

. >> larson of connecticut. that is about ending those conflicts. i want to know how much more money, how much richer he is getting because of his. involvement as our co-president next to donald trump. >> now, on thursday, us aid, usaid aid workers were allowed to briefly reenter the agency's former headquarters in washington to collect their personal belongings and clear out their desks. trump's decision to terminate 90% of us aides foreign contracts is being felt all over the world, including in africa, where the us is no longer participating in programs to provide drought relief, hiv prevention and hospitals. this is all happening even as president trump has suggested, that white south africans should be given special asylum status. here in this country, your parents immigrated here from west africa. i can imagine that this may feel personal for you. what is your reaction? >> well, my reaction is that this is disgraceful. america has always led on the global stage, and now we are ceding that role, a role that china may seek to fill. and at the. >

. >> some traveling from as far as connecticut.ing tryouts were this weekend. >> i think this was thursday and booked a flight. so yeah. can i ask you how much you spent on the flight? i had miles. i have miles, i got lucky. >> indoor football is a bit different from the traditional form of the game. the field is about 30% of the size of an nfl field. but panthers head coach rob keefe says the intensity and the big plays are all the same. that's why he's looking for talented athletes to join the 2023 national champions. >> a lot of our players have played in the nfl, played major college football, but a lot of people get overlooked. and so this is what the open tryout system, if you will, is for. we want everybody to come in. that feels like they might be the diamond in the rough that they haven't had the opportunity to play professional football. here's your chance. show us what you have and you might be able to make the team. >> coach keefe isn't sure how many guys he'll bring on board, but the athletes trying out say, even if th

they involve my collaboration with people of another party colleagues like chris -- in connecticut and cory booker in new jersey. many of our policy proposals really aren't partizan at all, particularly when it comes to higher education. you'll read about how i'm working with mark warner to make higher education more affordable. how i'm working with cory booker of new jersey to provide more access to wi-fi and internet platforms, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods. these are important initiatives as well. they're not easy to put on a bumper sticker. they don't win a lot of elections for you. but the critical to the future of our country. so we still have time and space and we should debate the issues we disagree on. but i hope that we can come together and cooperate on the essential issues of our time, because what we have before us is an extraordinary opportunity, and that is to usher in the most prosperous era in all of our history. and that's saying a lot for a country with a history like ours and the full program is available to watch online atall. hi, everyone. it's so grea

connecticut senator chris murphy, who has really been a leading voice in the pushback against trump, has said that he is not going to attend and instead will be participating in a counterprogramming event with the progressive organization. and here's how he described his reasoning when he spoke to our colleague dana bash earlier today. >> i think that state of the union speech is going to be a farce. i think it's going to be a maga pep rally, not a serious talk to the nation. we're going to stop that billionaire takeover, that destruction of our democracy, only by fighting them every single day. a lot of democrats think maybe you should, you know, fight every third day. you should reserve your power and jump out of the bushes at the right moment. i just think that we have to be on the offensive 24 seven. >> now for democrats who will be attending in the house chamber on tuesday night, they'll also have to decide how to respond to trump in real time on the spot. and former house speaker nancy pelosi, who famously ripped up trump's speech during his last state of the union address. she

they involve my collaboration with people of another party colleagues like chris -- in connecticut and cory booker in new jersey. many of our policy proposals really aren't partizan at all, particularly when it comes to higher education. you'll read about how i'm working with mark warner to make higher education more affordable. how i'm working with cory booker of new jersey to provide more access to wi-fi and internet platforms, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods. these are important initiatives as well. they're not easy to put on a bumper sticker. they don't win a lot of elections for you. but the critical to the future of our country. so we still have time and space and we should debate the issues we disagree on. but i hope that we can come together and cooperate on the essential issues of our time, because what we have before us is an extraordinary opportunity, and that is to usher in the most prosperous era in all of our history. and that's saying a lot for a country with a history like ours and the full program is available to watch online at

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they involve my collaboration with people of another party colleagues like chris -- in connecticut andcory booker in new jersey. many of our policy proposals really aren't partizan at all, particularly when it comes to higher education. you'll read about how i'm working with mark warner to make higher education more affordable. how i'm working with cory booker of new jersey to provide more access to wi-fi and internet platforms, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods. these are important initiatives as well. they're not easy to put on a bumper sticker. they don't win a lot of elections for you. but the critical to the future of our country. so we still have time and space and we should debate the issues we disagree on. but i hope that we can come together and cooperate on the essential issues of our time, because what we have before us is an extraordinary opportunity, and that is to usher in the most prosperous era in all of our history. and that's saying a lot for a country with a history like ours and the full program is available to watch online at

one person who won't be there for the surprise is democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut. he's saying today. >> i think. >> that state of the union. >> speech is going to be a farce. i think. >> it's. >> going to be a maga pep rally. >> not a serious talk to the nation. i think donald trump. is going to spew a. >> series of. lies about. >> his alignment. >> with russia. >> about what he's trying to do. to allow elon musk. to essentially monetize the american government, to. enrich musk and his billionaire crowd. and i'm just not going to be a. >> part of that. >> joining me now is mark leibovich, staff writer at the atlantic and msnbc political contributor and the author of thank you for your servitude donald trump's washington and the price of submission. hey, my friend, good to see you, mark. so as we look ahead to donald trump's address before congress on tuesday, we are sure to see typical trump touting what he views as his accomplishments. but there's a new cnn poll that shows his job approval remains negative heading into the address address, rather at 47%. could it

democrats gearing up for their rebuttals to the speech, as connecticut senator chris murphy says he will. >> i think. >> that state of the union speech. >> is going to be a farce. >> i think it's going. >> to be a maga pep. >> rally, not a. serious talk. to the nation. >> i think. donald trump is. going to spew. >> a. >> series of. >> lies about. >> his alignment. >> with russia. >> about what he's trying to do. >> to allow. elon musk to. >> essentially monetize the american government, to. enrich musk and his billionaire crowd. and i'm just not going to be a. >> part of that. >> julian castro. don calloway and susan del percio are back with me. so, don, michigan senator elissa slotkin will be giving the response to trump's joint address to congress on tuesday. is she the right choice and what message should she deliver? >> you know, elissa slotkin is a very talented member of the democratic caucus. i'm happy because she's clearly of the younger generation of elected officials on that national stage. and i think that that's a positive to give this platform to that younger generation. and

i think for some people, like senator murphy from connecticut, not going and being a real leader and a voice of opposition is the right answer. i also think bringing people who symbolize who trump has forgotten can work. but what can't work is just sitting in your seat, being angry and discouraged. we need to fight back. >> all right, pete, how about republicans? how about those republicans like james lankford? how about those republicans like mitch mcconnell? i guess the former lindsey graham, who were supportive of ukraine's efforts to beat back the russian invasion. how will they feel tomorrow night if we see more of the oval office friday version of president trump in this address to congress? >> well, i think it's absurd to say that we are abandoning an ally after what occurred on friday in the oval office. if we were abandoning allies, the president of the united states would not have met with the president of france, the prime minister of the united kingdom, and the president of ukraine in the span of just a couple of days at the white house, he hosted all of them. he would no

chris murphy of connecticut is one of them. >> i think that state of the union speech is going to be a farce. i think it's going to be a maga pep rally, not a serious talk to the nation. i think donald trump is going to spew a series of lies. a lot of democrats think maybe you should, you know, fight every third day. you should reserve your power and jump out of the bushes at the right moment. i just think that we have to be on the offensive 24 seven. >> and on this speech, specifically, nancy pelosi, the former speaker, said any demonstration of disagreement, whether it's visual or whatever, just let him stew in his own juice. don't be any grist for the mill to say that was inappropriate. well, she is definitely speaking from experience. >> well. >> tearing up the speech. >> that was about. >> as risky. >> as you could get. what she did. >> i think. >> democrats are going to do all sorts of things right. we're already hearing a lot of them are bringing, uh, fired, uh, federal workers in. right. so they're going to showcase those. some people will boycott, some people will they will

i found myself in hartford, connecticut kit, as well as an area called in phenix, arizona, where every child in a predominately latino school had a cell phone, but not for the purposes i thought they had a cell phone because they were actually a miracle county and they needed that as a phone tree in case a parent was detained or deported. so was it for school and education? it seemed to be one of those areas that stood for me. this was before the pandemic before, you know, 53 million school age kids had to go online where some of the largest districts in the country basically had to shut down because they realized that it was just digital disparity in terms of who could actually get access. this was before we realize how many young people had parents who were delivering our groceries and our food purchases while the oldest child at home trying to make sure the three youngest got online? this was around the time that we probably lost about 14,000 kids across various school districts because they just stopped registering and they stepped stopped coming to class simply, they had to do it

massachusetts and new hampshire judicial decision connecticut, rhode island having a abolition of slavery. 19 immediate abolition over time a gradual abolition of slavery. this was an idea that was sweeping the things. and as the governor pointed, vermont said that to. in 1777. but this is an idea that this that makes great advances in the wake of the american revolution and those words in the declaration that are sort of hard to square slavery, aren't they? yeah. so i think in modern times, one of the things that we've seen is an idea sort of separates property rights, personal rights and personal rights are very important, but rights are not so important. so let me just go back a coolidge quote where he says we need not concern ourselves much about rights of property. if we faithful observe the rights of persons. and i think you know what he's getting out there is what i was trying to say earlier is at every stage of this controversy in 76, americans claim to be defending property rights, which they deemed a pretext to the pursuit of happiness. and madison has very capacious definition

. >> from connecticut. >> or jd pritzker in illinois.l states where they have the freedom to be in sort of the warfare mindset day. >> in and day. >> out, our in, our out. and i think that. is the. >> that is. >> the big fight. i think, you know, we know the way politics works is if trump's going to live or die based on his performance, like tell me what inflation. >> looks like in a month. >> tell me what the. >> jobless rate looks like. tell me where wages are and tell. >> me how much chaos flows from some of the decisions of the first 30 days. >> and i'll tell. >> you kind of where his public standing is and whether or not republicans will break. but so far, there's zero sign. you saw it. you had it this morning. the idea that no republican. will speak up and say, hey, maybe vladimir putin is a thug, maybe he's a dictator. maybe he's been held his entire life starting at the kgb to. >> destroy your nation. >> maybe. >> zelinski. >> you could argue. >> whether or. not we. >> should be there or not. there. you can't argue like, oh, he s

joseph banks, famous natural is the famous black abolitionist born right here in connecticut.prince saunders. and they say this is amazing. this be a model for what agriculture looks like going forward. and again, it is not things that that we would necessary admire as a labor system today but in a world of slavery this was light years ahead of of what was happening around and around the americas and in mexico print those codes in spanish they them and print them into spanish. the united states prints the earliest versions from right after christophe becomes king, prints in english almost immediately in philadelphia in 1811. now the rest, the world is paying attention, and they're paying the kind of attention, interest that christoph wanted them to do. so he's using that press to really amplify what the state. initially, the state of haiti, then the kingdom of haiti. what they are doing. so along with about how to control the narrative, about what it means be a king images of his likeness, the laws, making sure he's trying to be more with them. but you can see some inklings of