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how did you defeat george allen? former senator webb: first, i spent a lot of time thinking about it before we announced it. people were worried. people become worried that you have to make a decision and get out there and do these things. i wanted to be clear in my head that i could put 100% of my energy into a campaign before i decided. i announced it nine months to the day before the election. we had no money. i decided to put the issues out that we cared about and to stay on the issues as best as i could, rather than getting sidetracked and a lot of the other things that are inevitable in political campaigns. we stayed on message. we never approached the money that the other side was able to raise, but we got 14,000 volunteers to come out and help us. i think that was the difference. mr. scully: i have to ask you about the moment when george allen used the term "macaca." did you realize at the time it significance? former senator webb: for me, the key moment -- i think what happened with that moment, and george a
how did you defeat george allen? former senator webb: first, i spent a lot of time thinking about it before we announced it. people were worried. people become worried that you have to make a decision and get out there and do these things. i wanted to be clear in my head that i could put 100% of my energy into a campaign before i decided. i announced it nine months to the day before the election. we had no money. i decided to put the issues out that we cared about and to stay on the issues as...
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former senator webb: george allen can probably give you more insight. people who were dismissing the campaign started to pay attention. that is when we started getting money, and the deciding moment in my view, was when we did "meet the press," when tim russert had us side-by-side and asked us some tough questions and i was able to explain my views, and that was our big turning point in terms of campaign finance. former senator webb: mr. scully: -- --mr. scully: what did you find when you came to the house? former senator webb: we understood the process, the military, five years in the pentagon, and i did not really expect the way that campaign-finance drives american politics, and there was a lot of commentary. that was a stunner to be in the middle of it and realizing what campaign-finance did two campaigns. -- to campaigns. mr. scully: what would you say was your biggest accomplishment in the senate? former senator webb: i think we had a lot of accomplishments despite the paralysis. we brought right out of our office the best g.i. bill in history, on
former senator webb: george allen can probably give you more insight. people who were dismissing the campaign started to pay attention. that is when we started getting money, and the deciding moment in my view, was when we did "meet the press," when tim russert had us side-by-side and asked us some tough questions and i was able to explain my views, and that was our big turning point in terms of campaign finance. former senator webb: mr. scully: -- --mr. scully: what did you find when...
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he was friends with the coach of the washington redskins, george allen.e once allegedly called a play for the redskins, there is some dispute about how it played out. nixon loved sports. our houston call up arnold palmer -- used to call up arnold palmer. nixon did not let down his guard easily. monica was around him all the time and even she barely saw the kind of relaxed, it was hard for him to unwind. even with his own family. brian: what was his story about running in place 300-400 times? evan: before he gave a speech, he would jog in place to get his wind up. he would have a little bit of wheat germ to get some protein. he was very ascetic in his way. he would have a pineapple ring with cottage cheese for lunch. he was proud of that. there is a debate about how much he drank. i can't resolve it. he had a low capacity. i think towards the end, even julie in her memoir says both her mother and her father drank more than they should have. i don't think he was a crazy drunk. although i have to say, there is a conversation between kissinger and another man
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even george allen former conservative senator and governor of virginia today said, told the "washington post," it's time to accept this and move on. tom sherwood thanks so much. >>> today's historic decision adds a new dimension to one of the biggest events of the year for democrats. hillary clinton drawing hundreds of supporters to george mason university's patriot center tonight for the fund-raising dinner, virginia bureau chief, julie carey joins us live with the preview. >> reporter: the doors just opened a while ago happy virginia democrats heading inside, hear from hillary clinton at 8:00ment to the supreme court's decision today legalizing same-sex marriage across the country has folks here looking ahead to an all-out celebration inside and they will be among the first to hear what candidate clinton has to say about the historic ruling. there were rainbow stickers at the ready as hillary clinton supporters lined up early for tonight's vehement. this jefferson jackson dipper is an annual gathering but with hillary clinton as the headliner, it had to be moved into the pay the tree
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i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. you're watching cnn "newsroom." >> we start this hour in upstate new york. police are following new leads in the search for two escaped killers. >> authorities are looking at surveillance video from a gas station. near the prison in donnemora. that's where search dogs first detected a scent, which could be the killers. >> reporter: police dogs picked up a scent that investigators think came from killers richard matt and david sweat. the best leads so far have been found just a few miles from the maximum security prison where the two staged their spectacular escape. small clues in a massive search. food wrappers, a shoe or boot print, and matted grass where the two may have bedded down for the night. quickly checkpoints went up on the main highway leading from the prison o to nearby platsburg. checking back seats and trunks, a former inmate who testified against matt spoke to cnn saying he is worried the brutal killer may come after him. >> he is dangerous, kul and like i said, very ev
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i'm george hall live in charlston, south carolina. >> i'm natalie allen. and i will be back with another hour of news for you right after this. >>> a community in the united states copes with grief aer
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george. i'm natalie allen. and you are watching cnn newsroom. ♪ >> we start this hour here in charleston south carolina. the scene of a mass shooting that happened inside of this church. it was a day ago that its members welcomed a stranger in to their arms for bible study session. he ingratiated himself with the group. he made them feel he was not a threat and then he started to kill people in cold blood. dylann roof is the plan police say opened fire inside the emanuel african-american episcopal church on wednesday night killing nine people. police caught roof across the state boarder in shelby north carolina. investigator and charleston's mayor say they are treating the shooting as a hate crime. >> i don't know how you define terrorism. i think i would consider it a hate crime. obviously for him to pick an african-american church and shoot african-american members, there's something weird and bad and hateful going on in his mind. >> we do not know why roof opened fire in this historic church. there seemed to
george. i'm natalie allen. and you are watching cnn newsroom. ♪ >> we start this hour here in charleston south carolina. the scene of a mass shooting that happened inside of this church. it was a day ago that its members welcomed a stranger in to their arms for bible study session. he ingratiated himself with the group. he made them feel he was not a threat and then he started to kill people in cold blood. dylann roof is the plan police say opened fire inside the emanuel...
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i'm george howell in charlston, south carolina. >> i'm natalie allen at cnn center in atlanta. our coverage continue is now, george? >> natalie, thank you. this city, it is the center of a great deal of pain on this day. this church behind me, it became the center after crime scene on wednesday night after a dwunman walked in, allegedly motivated by hate. that gunman 21-year-old dylann roof, the suspect captured thursday across the border in north carolina. then brought back here to charlston. police say he spent an hour at wednesday night's prayer meeting before killing nine worshippers in cold blood. authorities opened up a hate crimes investigation into this shoot ppg take a look at this. this is a still image from a very chilling snap chat video. it shows that bible study. it was shot by one of the victims before the violence unfolded. and you can see if you look closely, the suspect highlighted there in the corner. the impact of this attack, horrific, it is magnified when you consider where it happened. in this mother, mother emanuel ame church, a landmark in the united sta
i'm george howell in charlston, south carolina. >> i'm natalie allen at cnn center in atlanta. our coverage continue is now, george? >> natalie, thank you. this city, it is the center of a great deal of pain on this day. this church behind me, it became the center after crime scene on wednesday night after a dwunman walked in, allegedly motivated by hate. that gunman 21-year-old dylann roof, the suspect captured thursday across the border in north carolina. then brought back here to...
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i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen.ing cnn "newsroom." >> we start this hour in paris. the french president is condemning violent protests by taxi drivers over the on-line ride service, uber. >> yes. we will wait and see what this day brings. thousands of taxi drivers went on strike if paris thursday. stopping traffic with burning tires and blocking roadways with their cars. they say uber is unfairly and illegally stealing their business. >> a lot of chaos on the streets of paris. jim bittermann is there live with more. jim, good day to you. taxi drivers are complaining that ub are is stealing their business and the government seems to sympathize with them. >>. >> reporter: in fact george there is a complaint settled against uber pop basically
i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen.ing cnn "newsroom." >> we start this hour in paris. the french president is condemning violent protests by taxi drivers over the on-line ride service, uber. >> yes. we will wait and see what this day brings. thousands of taxi drivers went on strike if paris thursday. stopping traffic with burning tires and blocking roadways with their cars. they say uber is unfairly and illegally stealing their business. >> a lot of...
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george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. you're watching cnn "newsroom." >> we start this hour in paris. the french president is condemning violent protests by taxi drivers over the on-line ride service, uber. >> yes. we will wait and see what this day brings. thousands of taxi drivers went on strike if paris thursday. stopping traffic with burning tires and blocking roadways with their cars. they say uber is unfairly and illegally stealing their business. >> a lot of chaos on the streets of paris. jim bittermann is there live with more. jim, good day to you. taxi drivers are complaining that ub are is stealing their business and the government seems to sympathize with them. >>. >> reporter: in fact george there is a complaint settled against uber pop basically banning uber pop from operating on the streets of paris. the company has appealed that ruling and the appeal is yet to be heard. they are continuing to say that chauffeurs should drive. what happened this morning is that the interior minister said that anybody who urges the chauffeurs and drivers of these uber pop vehicles to driv
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arab emirates, so just a few highlights from general john allen was saying, bringing in ibrahim here in doha conflict resolution professor at george opportunity university here in qatar. you were listening what food out for you. and was there anything that general john allen didn't say that you wanted him to say? >> thank you doreen. this is an important question. there are some new items that he added to the conventionalist strategy that the u.s. used to run in the region. and here i have to explain that we have to differentiate between new items and the efficiency and effectiveness of these items and the strategy. meaning, one is that the counter messaging which is a new strategy that they are using that was missing in the previous force that they they had in the past so. they are, in other words having involving what we call the war of ideas. to fight daesh or isil as i said. if now the other thing is, which is a lesson i understand that they learned from that battle of tikrit, that after the -- taking over tikrit, the larger scale loot that go we say in tikrit. now they are trying to establish a fund that deals with what john
arab emirates, so just a few highlights from general john allen was saying, bringing in ibrahim here in doha conflict resolution professor at george opportunity university here in qatar. you were listening what food out for you. and was there anything that general john allen didn't say that you wanted him to say? >> thank you doreen. this is an important question. there are some new items that he added to the conventionalist strategy that the u.s. used to run in the region. and here i...
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thanks for watching this hour, i'm natalie allen, "cnn newsroom" continues next with george howell. >>> one suspect charged, but escapees still on the run. a prison worker faces court, accused of helping convicted killers make their jailbreak. >>> the deadly mers virus in seoul, south korea. health officials believe the outbreak is now slowing. >>> and ready for battle. in iraq, militia fighters turn their focus on the city of fallujah, determined to drive isis out. from cnn world headquarters here in atlanta, i'm george howell. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> we start this hour in upstate new york. that is where a prison worker now faces up to eight years in ja
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i'm george howell live in charlston, south carolina. >> and hello, everyone. i'm natalie allen, at cnn center in atlanta. this is cnn newsroom. >> welcome to you. we begin hoere in charlston, south carolina. this church behind me known better as mother emanuel. it welcomed a stranger in, welcomed in assuming he wasn't a threat. to-year-old dylann roof, the important police believe opened fire in the methodist emanuel episcopal church. police caught roof just across the border in shelby, north carolina. investigators and the mayor say they are treating the shooting as a hate crime. >> i don't know how you define terrorism. i do know, i think i would consider it a hate crime. i think obviously for him to pick an african-american church, and shoot african-american members, there is something weird and bad and hateful going on in his mind. >> then there's this picture from social media, from the app snap chat. it shows the bible study taken by one of the victims, tywanza sanders. you can see the suspect highlighted there. there was a possible sighting of suspect, a florist on her w
i'm george howell live in charlston, south carolina. >> and hello, everyone. i'm natalie allen, at cnn center in atlanta. this is cnn newsroom. >> welcome to you. we begin hoere in charlston, south carolina. this church behind me known better as mother emanuel. it welcomed a stranger in, welcomed in assuming he wasn't a threat. to-year-old dylann roof, the important police believe opened fire in the methodist emanuel episcopal church. police caught roof just across the border in...
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for you who know about the denomination we started in 1887 through our founder richard allen who left then st. georges episcopal church because they told him to pray after the regular members prayed, and that is how the nomination began in a fit of civil disobedience and a little issue with the theological fairness, if you will. >> and we are just getting this into cnn and we are have learnlearning the names of two more victims. tyanza sanders is a graduate of allen university in columbia south carolina, and he is the youngest victim and the reverend pinckney the state senator, and he was also a graduate of allen university in columbia south carolina and among the others who were killed sharonda who was a speech pathologist and a track coach who was seen here with her son. and we are sending is our deepest sympathies. we will get more thoughts when we come bakck. up to daiday and the heart and soul of south carolina was broken. >> nikki haley the governor of south carolina very, very emotional moment for her, indeed for everyone watching not only here in the united states but indeed the around the wor
for you who know about the denomination we started in 1887 through our founder richard allen who left then st. georges episcopal church because they told him to pray after the regular members prayed, and that is how the nomination began in a fit of civil disobedience and a little issue with the theological fairness, if you will. >> and we are just getting this into cnn and we are have learnlearning the names of two more victims. tyanza sanders is a graduate of allen university in columbia...
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little something about our denomination, we started in 1787 through our founder richard allen, who left then st. george's methodist episcopal church because they were telling him he needed to pray after the regular members prayed. that is how our denomination began. a set of civil disobedience in a little issue with theological ceremony, if you will. nermeen: he went on to talk more about the history of the church. >> again, let me welcome you to mother emanuel. just a little story about our church and how it really ties into the life of african-americans in south carolina, and also little bit of the nation. i mentioned to you earlier that the founder of our church's name was morris brown, who later became the second leader of our denomination, founded this church in what was actually a three-part circuit in the african-american community outside of the city of charleston. the street right in front of the church is called calvin street. the several hundred years ago it wasn't calvin street, it was called boundary street, which meant that is where the city boundaries were. and outside the city boundaries
little something about our denomination, we started in 1787 through our founder richard allen, who left then st. george's methodist episcopal church because they were telling him he needed to pray after the regular members prayed. that is how our denomination began. a set of civil disobedience in a little issue with theological ceremony, if you will. nermeen: he went on to talk more about the history of the church. >> again, let me welcome you to mother emanuel. just a little story about...
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john bush's blows allen 90% government contracts were spying on americans before 9/11. georgeush handed them drones, spying to the utah spy agency. he had the original anthrax suspect, whose son was ceo of seamen -- zmen. you do not show the drone victims, our military sacrifices, you do not show fallujah which is 10 times worse than hiroshima. the bush family, walker side, they have a prison program. they are collecting phone conversations, skype, texts, hotel bills, toll roads, we are the kgb with limitless power. john roberts gets to select all 11 pfizer judges -- fisa judges. he helped jeb bush lopp fordo with ted cruz -- host: you let our guest respond. guest: there is a bunch and we will only focus to others. she mentions of aic, which is a major intelligence contractor. there is a book called "spies for hire" of that came out some years before. it discusses the influence of the intelligence contractors on the process. you often see the government handing out multi-tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars contracts to a handful of agencies with limited dating.
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george methodist episcopal church in philadelphia pulled black worshippers off their knees and dragged them from the church to enforce racial segregation of worship. in response black men and women led by richard allen and epsilon jones founded their own home in the a.m.e. church, which considers itself the oldest christian denomination church founded by black people in the world. it is the liflg, breathing embodiment of the black church. not as i was reminded i by one of my campus chaplains this week, the church of the black people but the black church the institutional structure committed to a god of liberation, a definitive space for the worship of human freedom and equality and welcome to all children of creation. and charleston's emanuel a.m.e. is the oldest in the south. to walk into the womb of mother emmanuel, to worship for an hour with her people to take their lives in calculating cold blood -- is to strike at the very heart of the black american struggle for freedom. to strike mother emanuel is to strike the tap root of resistance and the birthplace of the sacred atonmy. it is an attack against the place where enslaved black people rejected the biblical mandate to obey your masters and in
george methodist episcopal church in philadelphia pulled black worshippers off their knees and dragged them from the church to enforce racial segregation of worship. in response black men and women led by richard allen and epsilon jones founded their own home in the a.m.e. church, which considers itself the oldest christian denomination church founded by black people in the world. it is the liflg, breathing embodiment of the black church. not as i was reminded i by one of my campus chaplains...