it will go to massachusetts. it will go to texas. it will go to all of these places to be reinvested. why? because this is a dynamic, vibrant economy that can become better. this is an attractive place. we just need to make it better. the other argument that he made was essentially, look, is this really going to create growth? and he's right to point out that not all tax cuts are created equal as it relates to growth. the whole purpose, though, is not simply growth. it's also tax relief. i've got a constituency that got jammed by democrats in the illinois general assembly this year with a massive tax hike on the middle income folks in illinois. they need relief. so part of this is to offer relief. now, the way that we approached this is to say, let's create this as it relates to the investment, the unexpensing. you look at the tax foundation, nonpartisan work that they've done, and they'll tell you that investment that we're making, that is throwing away depreciation schedules and telling small businesses, if you invest you can write

it will go to massachusetts. it will go to texas. it will go to all of these places to be reinvested. why? because this is a dynamic, vibrant economy that can become better. this is an attractive place. we just need to make it better. the other argument that he made was essentially, look, is this really going to create growth? and he's right to point out that not all tax cuts are created equal as it relates to growth. the whole purpose, though, is not simply growth. it's also tax relief. i've got a constituency that got jammed by democrats in the illinois general assembly this year with a massive tax hike on the middle income folks in illinois. they need relief. so part of this is to offer relief. now, the way that we approached this is to say, let's create this as it relates to the investment, the unexpensing. you look at the tax foundation, nonpartisan work that they've done, and they'll tell you that investment that we're making, that is throwing away depreciation schedules and telling small businesses, if you invest you can write

in massachusetts free press, the massachusetts chapter of the aclu, fight for the future and countless other groups have led the fight to defend net neutrality and helpne citizens make their voices heard. i urge every american to speak out about why net neutrality matters, and i urge the fcc to abandon its plan to kill net neutrality rules and instead ask our fcc to defend an internet that is fair and open to all. thank you, mr. president. i yield. >> watch c-span3, thursday at 10 30:00 a.m. eastern for live coverage of the fcc's vote on net neutrality. the vote is to roll back net neutrality rules passed during the obama administration and intended to reduce regulation of the internet. live thursday, then 30 a.m. eastern on c-span3, c-span.org, or listen to it live with the free c-span radio app. ♪ >> c-span's "washington journal," live, every day, with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning ohio republican congressman warren davidson discusses the alabama senate race, and upcoming fiscal battles. democratic congressman henry cuellar talks about reforms and

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from michigan, the longest serving member of the ways and means committee, and a well-deserved one minute, i might add, mr. levin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for one minute. without objection. mr. levin: in all of my 35 years in congress, this is one of the most deceitful bills i've ever seen. it's deceitful when republicans say the bill is focused on the middle class. it's really aimed at making the very wealthy even wealthier and forcing millions of middle class families to pay higher taxes. it's deceitful when they say it makes the tax code simpler, even as legislation creates complicated new loopholes, while allowing existing ones such as carried interest to continue. it's deceitful when the bill will increase the outsourcing of american jobs by providing a lower tax rate on foreign investment compared to investing here. it's deceitful about the debt. republicans say

punishuthority had to massachusetts bay colony. again, you brought in the royal governor, who was now a british and you also have the massachusetts government that was basically shut down. any town in the colony were not allowed to meet, which was an affront to how people have been governed for at least 100 years. you have a series of responses , amongst those are the reactivation of the militia system. that meant that men were required to come out of training and practice area and then you had the minute companies, younger men who were better equipped and expected to turn up in an minute's notice, hence the name. you have these companies training and preparing for something. chargetish officer in was aware of the growing tensions in the colonies. he was also aware of armaments being collected around the colony as well. some armaments were stolen out of boston. a particular interest in proclaiming fort bragg. a brass canyon of a particular incident which made its way out here to concord, the home of colonel james barrett where most

the gentleman from massachusetts . mr. mcgovern: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: we are strongly opposed to this rule. and i have to say to my colleagues this is really a sad day, not only for the institution, but for the united states of america. it is frustrating that we are here today doing a third continuing resolution. you know, for those who are watching these proceedings, we should be passing appropriation bills that fund the government for an entire year. we shouldn't be funding the government week to week, month to month, but yet my republican friends have ended up doing such that. they can't get their act together. they are in control of the house of representatives. they are in control of the united states senate. and are in control of the white house. they simply cannot govern. they are lucky that the american people can't sue them because they would be sued for political ma

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from michigan, the longest serving member of the ways and means committee, and a well-deserved one minute, i might add, mr. levin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for one minute. without objection. mr. levin: in all of my 35 years in congress, this is one of the most deceitful bills i've ever seen. it's deceitful when republicans say the bill is focused on the middle class. it's really aimed at making the very wealthy even wealthier and forcing millions of middle class families to pay higher taxes. it's deceitful when they say it makes the tax code simpler, even as legislation creates complicated new loopholes, while allowing existing ones such as carried interest to continue. it's deceitful when the bill will increase the outsourcing of american jobs by providing a lower tax rate on foreign investment compared to investing here. it's deceitful about the debt. republicans say

we actually know something about that kind of choice in my home state of massachusetts. on january 19, 2010, massachusetts elected a new senator to represent them here in washington. the result was just as shocking to democrats as last night result was to republicans. it also came when we were in the middle of another historically important policy debate here in washington,a healthcare. a lot of people thought the democrats should ram through the final version of their bill in congress before brown could be seated. now, i could stand your and read you a quote after quote after quote from republicans who now control the senate talking about how unfair that would be. how corrupt that would be, and how anti-democratic that would be. i could go on and on about how today's senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said this would be gamesmanship. but i wantt to talk about what democrats actually did. democrats rejected the idea of ramming through the bill before seat in thetake his senate. almost immediately jim webb a democratic senator from virginia called forf a suspension of

i do not know how many people go to quincy, massachusetts.ams' home, a modest house relative to monticello. it is hard to get to. it gets a fraction of the visitors. why? he is not in the same league. ue.ebrity leak -- leag even then, at one point, when they reconcile, the friendship broke up but they came back together in 1812 and exchanged about 158 letters. adams wrote three to every one of jefferson's. adams says to jefferson, how many letters do you get in a year how many do you receive? this was 1820 and jefferson said he gets 2000 something. adams says he only gets 200. they are 10-to-1. jefferson felt obligated to answer them. jefferson was corresponding with the czar of russia and with great people. adams was not in that league at all. so adams said, i will write more than you, because i know you are busy answering other people. he had to answer over 2000 letters. so they are in a different league then and they still are in our consciousness. there is no way adams could compete with jefferson. jefferson stands for america. unfortunat

he never became one of the richest men of massachusetts and he resented that.e suffered a little bit of contempt from some of the wealthy massachusetts men for that reason. -- if you are in the same you were in the same room with the two of them, what would you notice? mr. wood: adams would be talking and was sarcastic. jefferson was reserved and kept his arms folded in front of him when he talked. ands said what he thought offended a lot of people. jefferson was the opposite, obsessed by politeness and civility. he lectured his sons in-laws on that issue. he thought politeness was crucial and part of being enlightened. civility was very important to jefferson. adams you about this but just could not help it. he said he did not have the gift of silence. brian: what kind of an environment did they grow up and? mr. wood: jefferson grew up in a slaveholding society. he became one of the wealthiest planters in the colony. with grew up in braintree very little connections. 's mother was a randolph, one of the most prestigious families in virginia. silvera silverston

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: thank you, mr. speaker. with that i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from texas, a valued member of the ways and means committee, mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. doggett: between tweets, trump apparently had time to take those calls from his rich friends that kept asking for more and not even this lap dog republican congress initially did enough to satisfy the trump family and their billionaire buddies. instead of adjusting the differences between the house and the senate, republican conferees last week secretly concocted even more benefits for them. those real estate moguls like trump, who had already been granted preferential tax treatment, can now take advantage of an entirely new loophole that was not in either of the previous bills. and just in case their endless loopholes left some donor behind, the republicans have provided a new across-the-board tax cut for billionaires. it's working families who

then me a delegation from massachusetts who was presenting him with a list, something hawthorne found very amusing. said hawthorne was -- he said lincoln was the home latest man that he is ever seen, and that slippersaring shabby when he met the delegation from massachusetts. he liked him for his wise and kind look. praise to me because you mustn't forget that one of his dearest friends was franklin pierce. you may have forgotten, because franklin pierce is not exactly a name to conjure with these particular days. he was a southern sympathizer, which is all you need to know for the purposes of this talk to think of hawthorne, being friends with franklin pierce. that's what i used to like to

a walrus mustache edward frank jones' 6th massachusetts. not only were six of the men killed in the streets of baltimore, but the rebels also sealed off the roads to the nation's capitol. where regiments from around the country were gathering for training. butler, who was in philadelphia at the time of the riot, would be undeterred. floating down the chesapeake bay detour, hemporaneous unmoored his troops into washington. he blithely ignored the advice of maryland's governor who most earnestly advised the general to disembark his troops elsewhere. indeed the curious admonition really invited butler's suspicions of allegiances. it seemed to butler that threat to the union could lurk behind the mask of loyalty. an important lesson he learns the very first week in the field. everywhere he turned in the old states, he confronted disquieting evidence of treachery. at the united states naval academy, superintendent blake was considerably alarmed for the safety of the old frigate constitution. if prompted butler to lug the relic from its mooring p

as a longtime historian, what impact does it have on you that you were born in concord, massachusetts, grew up around boston? what has it done to your thinking of history? gordon: it made me a fan of john, just because he was a good old yankee. i am not sure that being a new englander has affected me onsciously, i do not like to think that i am letting the present influence my conception of the past. so i am not sure. but i am a new englander for sure. brian: can you remember when you first heard about john adams? gordon: probably not until high school. i did not know much about him, not until college. i had not gotten to see his home until after college. so it was a long time before i got to know him. now, because i did three volumes in the library of america about his writings, i really got to know him. i think i got to know him better than i know most of my friends. he is really something. brian: you said in your book that he had a diary and thomas jefferson did not. why do you think one had and one did not? gordon: well, i think adams was somebody -- first of all, an old puritan i

that is the message of massachusetts. you could replace massachusetts with alabama and say the exact same thing today. so, madam president, in sum, on process, on policy, and on politics, pausing this tax bill and going back to the drawing board is the right thing for republicans to do. i hope for the sake of this country they'll do just that. i yield the floor.

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. >> the senator from massachusetts. we are in the middle o of a andn important debate in washington. republicans have hatched a partisan proposal behind closed doors that were to shovel a trillion dollars in tax giveaways to giant corporations and the wealthy while undermining the health care and raising taxes for millions of middle-class families. if it passes, it could affect the lives of every single american for an entire generation. last night the people of alabama elected a new senator to represent them here in washington. so, now republicans who control the senate faced a choice will bwhilethey allow the senator elt jones to take a seat among his colleagues before a final vote on the tax plan? we know something about that kind of choice in my home state of massachusetts. on january 19, 2010 massachusetts elected a new senator to represent them here in washington. the result was just as shocking to democrats as last night's result was to republicans. it also came when weave we weree middle of another historically

the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. luetkemeyer: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on this bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so order. mr. -- so ordered. mr. luetkemeyer: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he wishes to use under the rule. mr. luetkemeyer: thank you, mr. speaker. today the house will consider the financial institution customer protection act, an act i introduced to promote greater transparency among banking members. for the last few years the house has expressed bipartisan concern around operation chokepoint the initiative that sought oto the separate legal businesses from the financial services they need to survive. people may think it's limited to payday lenders or the banks serving them but it's not. it's spread to many issues including tobacco shops, pawnbrokers, an amusement gaming companies, to name a fe

that is the message of massachusetts. you could replace massachusetts with alabama and say the exact same thing today. so, madam president, in sum, on process, on policy, and on politics, pausing this tax bill and going back to the drawing board is the right thing for republicans to do. i hope for the sake of this country they'll do just that. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. ms. cantwell: i ask the tworl be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. cantwell: today we are closing in on a critical decision that will have a lasting impact on innovation and the innovation-driven economy of the united states. the fairm of the f.c.c. has decided to repeal a critical consumer protection known as net neutrality. this is a wrong-headed move, it's misguided and being driven by big cable interests that want to continue to gouge consumers and charge them more as they charge for slowly making sure

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from michigan, the longest serving member of the ways and means committee, mr. levin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: mr. chairman if you'll listen, this bill is trickle down at its worst. except for the very wealthy, it's at best a trickle and for millions not even that. and for the economy at large a discredited theory. it is a deficit time bomb. the speaker said to the middle class, don't worry, the expiring tax cuts will surely be extended. that means the real deficit from this bill is 2k4rrs.5 trillion. a -- is $2.5 trillion. a tremendous deficit wrapped in your hypocrisy, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: members are continued to be reminded they should address their remarks to the chair. the gentleman from texas recognized. mr. brady: i yield one minute to the gentleman from kentucky, mr. barr. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. barr: i rise to applaud the great

ralph waldo emerson was born in 1803 in boston, massachusetts. a a local boy, he spent his life in the city, but for a brief time came over around 12 and continued to visit the property throughout his life. in 1834, when he and his mother ezra ripleyisit, was here, becoming elderly and they helped to care for him for a brief period of time. even though he was born a city boy, it was a home for him. in put himself in the upstairs a study. , hea brief nine months overlapped with ezra. this early this early vision, with people who lived and worked in this room, including emerson. he sat at a chair like this one. people came together to reproduce this chair, where ature" andote "n looked out over the landscape. one thing people always notice if they have seen the original and they look at this one that is reprinted, this one is green and the original chair is black. in fact the green chair, when , it wasfirst set in it green. but later victorians loved to keep things black so the chair has changed. what people notice is when they sit in it, it envelo

a representative flies to massachusetts to bring the card in for authentication.>> within 24 hours. >> but while the auction house gets to work, flo's mother is admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. >> may 13th. she was 100 and sound of mind right till the end. and every night, she would just say, "thank you for taking care of me," and then a big smile, and she'd say, "did we get the money yet?" >> later that day, mildred sasso passes on. and what may be the world's oldest baseball card is now florence's strange inheritance. it doesn't take long to confirm the card is real. >> given the fact that it was in florence's family for nearly 160 years, that's great provenance. and provenance is always key. >> the 1928 obituary of archibald's brother, john, provides a crucial piece of evidence of the card's authenticity. >> that newspaper obituary noted that john was an ardent fan of baseball and he had an original photo of the brooklyn atlantics. so that obituary was referring to this very card. >> remember the 1865 brooklyn atlantics card that sold for $92,000? that

william galvin, secretary of the commonwealth of massachusetts. said that is in his crosshairs this is the next sort of -- i don't want to say shoe to drop, this has always been a concern for bitcoin investors. what would that regulation look like >> for those on coinbase, they are regulated by states, like he said, that's fantastic he's talking about these other currencies trading on other exchanges. they should all be regulated you should feel good about that, the regulations are there to protect you. the one thing i will disagree about, bitcoin is not a fraud, it's the first permanent global decentralized ledger of records. that is the use case for blockchain that exists. there is -- he said there's no "there" there. that's the "there" there >> it exists because there's something that people can invest or you can call it speculate in. the reality is that they don't have jurisdiction in the underlying but they do in securities based on the underlying that's what those guys are there to do, and i think they're having a difficult time watching the

. >> the gentleman from massachusetts has been talking to me at three in the morning. >> [indiscernible] >> [crosstalk] does no good to wear out this team when we could be here at 7 a.m. i appreciate working with you. i saw you on the floor yesterday. >> yes. >> further comments? >> i yield back. >> the gentleman from georgia. >> i move the committee print april -- grant a rule to provide the consideration of the tax for the pool -- rule fives the motion should be considered as read, 20 minutes of debate on by motion, equally divided the ranking minority members. the committee on ways and means, and the rule provided by rule 21 should not apply. >> is there an amendment or discussion? >> the gentleman from colorado. >> i want the house to concur resolution 97, and the house of representatives to make corrections to hr-1. i am glad this is coming back to our community. we have another opportunity to added some of the provisions that are important to businesses in my district and across the country. provisions,nor rule,tent with the bird as well as the types of provisions that are being c

, which is taking massachusetts, which is taking the lead on same-sex relationships. all of a sudden, couples are getting married in the courthouse. >> well. i don't think that cara would've gotten married -- just because she didn't feel like a piece of paper was that important. but ann really wanted to have the same last name as brianna. >> reporter: in the years that followed, there were happy times with brianna -- the little girl who meant the world to them. a day before ann died, they attended service at the reverend lori souder's serene church and everyone seemed so contented, fresh from a vacation. >> when i stand at the pulpit and i look around and it's like they're here. they've returned. i knew they were away in florida and they were full of light. >> reporter: when suzanne cordes saw them after the service, they struck her as a couple who had it all together. >> they were showing me pictures of a trip they had gone on. and they seemed, like, perfectly happy. >> reporter: so how to explain the horror at the bottom of the stairs? poor ann lying stiff as a mann

reporter: carol rhodes is the executive direct effort of the massachusetts aclu.e dismissal of all the convictions based in part on evidence farik handled. >> tens of thousands of families who have been impacted because their loved ones had to serve time in jail and prison. >> reporter: this isn't the first drug lab scandal in massachusetts. in 2013, chemist annie ducon who worked at a state lab in boston pled guilty to falsifying the results of drug tests over an eight-year span. in april, the massachusetts supreme judicial court made the historic decision to dismiss nearly 22,000 wrongful drug convictions in cases that she worked on. >> her output was predacious and frankly unrealistic so she was making it up. >> the magnitude of this disaster is grand to say the least. >> reporter: she is a former assistant district attorney. she says the cases involving farik will likely be thrown out and will be difficult to prosecute again. >> they're going to have to undue all these cases which will take more time than it probably did to prosecute them in the first place. >

. >> trying to get from new york city to northern massachusetts for christmas and just got too icy into mass pa-- massachusetto stop for the night 40 miles short of where i'm going, i'm going to try now but still raining and below 32 degrees and as you could see, everything is coated in a sheet of ice. >> reporter: it was slow going on the mass turnpike but not too bad by saturday. the nation's airports busy as expected. but analysts say of the 107 million people traveling in the next week, 97 million of them will be driving. >> less traffic up there. > arrived. chris pollone, nbc news, tukes bury, massachusetts. >>> storm team 4 meteorologist somara theo dor joining us. so i think today was -- you almost didn't need the heavy coat but it was windy and it is not december-like at all. >> no, we hit the low 60s. around 63 in the district. but things are going to get a lot colder as we head through the week. and the rain you're seeing should be out of here pretty soon. so take a look at your radar right now. the heaviest of the rain would save the best for last. it is headed out of here to

i've never been to to the oval office from i'm a poor kid from lowell, massachusetts. and i walk in, and there's the leader of our world, and to his far right, my left, is the vice president of the united states. and i stand at the precipice of the oval, right outside. and he looks at me and sees me, and he says, get in here. and i walk into those hallowed grounds, the oval office, and he says, my man, come here. [laughter] and he stands up and he gives me a hug, and he turn toss the vice president of the united states -- turns to the vice president of the united states, and hehe says, mike, do you know who this is? and the vice president says, yes, sir, that's corey. and he says, mike, do you know who this is? andco the vice president says, yes, sir, that's corey lewandowski. and he says, mike, this is the guy who said you could be the vice president of the united states. and i said, well, sir, 60 million said that, but i'm with you. and mike pence stood up, and he said, corey, will you take my chair? finish ian said, mr. suspect, i cannot do that -- mr. vice presiden

i grew up in a town called massachusetts and i'm a blue-collar guy that had an opportunity to be on the campaign and harvard university called me and said wha would you meet with one of our fellows and the difference between what he's done here and what they did at harvard is night and day. it is amazing how you understand what the real america is like and when you go to cambridge massachusetts, they live in a fantasy world. you are so entitled. they have the smartest o, the greatest, the best. what you have here is so different and let me give you one example. they wouldn't let me slow my truck down in front of cambridge massachusetts because they hate everything trump stands for and the fact that he's a populist and they want to make america great again and make sure that the premise made on the campaign trail is fulfilled as a president that is and what they want us there. up there. they want rhetoric, they want things that make other countries great again and it is so refreshing to come to a university in a country where it's okay to say merry christm christmas. i've got to tell you

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growing up in somerville, massachusetts, hogan saw firsthand how one town can be devastated by opioids. as a multimedia journalist for stat, the health and science web site affiliated with the "boston globe," it is also his job is to report on the crisis. as part of our ongoing series of conversations with documentary filmmakers, newshour weekend's christopher booker recently sat down with hogan and his co- director to discuss "runnin'," their film chronicling the opioid epidemic in somerville. >> reporter: alex hogan knows how the opioid epidemic ends for him. >> the crisis is almost done impacting me because i've already lost all my friends, you know. almost all my friends. all my friends that have been using are almost all gone already. >> reporter: since 2001, the filmmaker has seen more than a dozen of the kids he grew up with die due to opioid addiction. people from his neighborhood, people he played hockey with and went to school with in somerville, massachusetts. for those who remain, to hear them talk about it now in hogan's new documentary, "runnin'," the opioid crisis arrive

america has changed since the revolution and in massachusetts, home of the puritans. madison wrote to jefferson that, quote, one of the objections to tunew england in the constitution that is, by prohibiting religious tests it opened a door for jews, turks and infidels, close quote. today the old boston -- where the alarm of 1775 was spread by paul revere is flanked by a jewish synagogue on one side and an islamic mosque on the other. so in other words jews and infidels are on opposite sides. i think it might be prudent for us when we think about, when we reflect about religion and early american constitutionalism, to reexamine in a fresh way if we can, the experience of those early americans. thank you very much. [ applause ] that ends the formal part of my remarks. i did mens madison, and i thought it would be appropriate to give a little shout out to him, the namesake of our foundation. in old age madison wrote the following letter to frederick beasley in 1825. believe in a god is so essential to the moralered order of the world and to happiness of man that argumen

. > healthy farms is a medical marijuana dispensary company in massachusetts. currently have one dispensary open in georgetown massachusetts, and they are to open a second ispensary in harvard square in cambridge. >> an everybody's okay with it, right? > well, the state of massachusetts actually voted to legalize recreational marijuana november. by all account, people are all for it. this is specifically a medical one. the city of cambridge, different municipalitys can decide whether cannabis ey want businesses active in their town. cambridge voted that they were it. with and the city council voted in favor of the location. healthy farms sounds like a lovely name for a company, but all the neighbors are feeling so healthy about this. healthy farms just got a lawsuit. talk to us about that. correct. one neighbor in particular, rog danda. controlling partner of four different buildings in harvard square. healthy farms and 18 other plaintiffs, saying taking part in a racketeering operation because in 're all coming together an effort to create a situation in which

. >> we'll go to ron joining us sa from somerville, massachusetts with mike. quinn, the president and ceo of the museum of the american revolution. good evening, ron. >> caller: hello. i was wondering, did you have any exhibits on france' contribution to the american revolution? >> we do absolutely. france's contributions are enormous. you know that.buan but even so in many ways, they're underappreciated. you learn about their role. frankly brought them into alliance with us.ce you learn about their role in particular yorktown. but it was without question the financial support and the e military support from the frencs that helped sustain the american nation and led ultimately to success.s. one of the things we're very ti proud of is that we have a portrait of a british marine officer who had themselves portrayed after the revolution wearing his north american uniform. you see this officer looking ld just as he would have appeared in the battlefields around yorktown. ic >> michael quinn our first calling asking about the bronze sculptures that are outside the.

marijuana dispensary company in massachusetts. one dispensary open in georgetown, massachusetts. they're planning to open a second dispensary in harvard square in cambridge. >> and everybody is ok with it, right? >> the state of massachusetts voted to legalize recreational marijuana last november. by all accounts, people are all for it. this is specifically a medical one. different municipalities can decide whether or not they want cannabis to be active in their town. cambridge voted they were ok with it. the city council voted in favor of the location. >> it sounds like a lovely name for a company. not all the neighbors are feeling so healthy about this. and now healthy farms has a lawsuit. talk to us about that. >> one neighbor in particular, the controlling partner of four different buildings in harvard square. and 18uing healthy farms other plaintiffs, saying they are taking part in a racketeering operation, because they are all coming together to create a situation in which they can sell marijuana, a federally illegal drug. y

at least 8,000 cases are now in the hands of the massachusetts supreme judicial court.sonja farak worked at the laboratory as a chemist, analyzing chemicals in drug cases. she was arrested after a search of her car revealed even more stolen drugs. during her trial, farak admitted to using drugs in the lab and even manufacturing in the lab of crack cocaine for her own personal use. she was given an 18-month jail sentence. >> this is really a historic case here in massachusetts. >> reporter: carol rose is the director of the aclu. the group is seeking dismissal of all of the cases that farak handled. >> their loved ones had served time in jail and in prison. >> reporter: this isn't the first drug lab scandal in massachusetts. in 2013 chemist annie 'do ookhan who worked at a state lab in boston pled guilty. in april the massachusetts supreme judicial court made the historic decision to dismiss nearly 22,000 wrongful drug convictions that dookhan worked on. >> she was just making it up. >> the magnitude of this disaster is grand to say the least. >> reporter: nicole deborde

it's only available in massachusetts. it's 5: and time for a check on weather. - feeling like spring today - winter arrives thursday with colder air (winter solstice) - mild holiday weekend with rain showers around - cold pattern after christmas today: mostly to partly sunny highs: around 60 winds: southwest 5-15 tonight: mostly cloudy, not too cold lows: 37-45 winds: southwest 5-10 mph wednesday: mostly cloudy, breezy highs: around 50 winds: northwest 5-10 mph coming up at six - decision day on capitol hill. victory. ryan live tease >> now, "good morning washington," on your side. >> preliminary indications are that the train was traveling at 80 miles to our in a 30 mile per hour track. were that right. breaking this morning, deadly speed. the new details overnight after an amtrak train jumped the tracks and what the ntsb says was missing that might have prevented the crash. larry: a toddler in the wrong hands for more than an hour. with a child they didn't even know. autria: decision day on the hill, the gop looks all b

>> the state of massachusetts voted to legalize recreational marijuana last november. accounts, people are all for it. this is specifically a medical one. the city of cambridge, different municipalities can decide whether they want cannabis businesses active in the town and cambridge voted that they were ok with it. and the city council voted in favor of the location. julia: healthy farms, sounds like a lovely name for a company. neighbors are feeling so healthy about this, and now healthy farms has a lawsuit. talk to us about that. jenny: correct. one neighbor in particular, he is the controlling partner of four different buildings in harvard square. he is suing healthy farms and 18 other plaintiffs, saying they are taking part in a racketeering operation because they are all coming together in order to create a situation in which they can sell marijuana, which is a federally illegal drug. he is suing under rico, a racketeering law. you can sue three times what it is worth. he is asking for $81.2 million. carol: talk about that. when we think of rico, it is usually us

that's a place -- concord, massachusetts, that every american should visit at some point. you can stand on this ground today, see the house that stands up on the barrett farm up above the river that stands there today. and these are the diagonal braces that stood from the bridge over the river. >> that came out of the river in the 1950s, it was right there where the bridge stood, it was only one bridge made of oak that stood on that site. it matches perfectly, the location description of the bridge. that fighting then brings soldiers from up and down the east coast together. but what happens is because the fighting sparks and men from all of those colonies stream together, they find that they have a ways to go. this gallery is about the beginning of that quest for unity, the scene, we refer to this as a tableau, these are life cast figures, we've pulled 340e8ds off of faces, hands and bodies. very carefully researched and hand sewn this to compensate for the lack of photographs. the scene in 1775, a 2-year-old boy in a red coat, his father had brought him to war, he was in

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. >> you know, i grew up in a town called lowell, massachusetts, not a town of privilege. i'm a blue collar guy who had the opportunity to be on an amazing ride with the most extraordinary candidate in the world, and harvard university called me and said, would you come up and be a visiting fellow? and i went up there, and the difference between what president fall well has done here and what they did at harvard is night and day. it's amazing how you understand what the real america is like and when you go to cambridge, massachusetts, they live in fantasy world. they are so entitled up there. they think that everybody owes them. they're the smart its, the greatest, the best, and what happened and what you guys have here is so different, and let me just give you one example. about five years ago they wouldn't let me slow my truck down in front of cambridge, massachusetts are because they hate everything that trump standded for. they hate at the fact he is a populist and wants to make america great again no a globalist, wants to make sure that the promises he made on the cam

western massachusetts, the unlikely new frontier of america's war on drugs where heroin has become an exploding problem that's begun to touch nearly every family. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ >>> there's nothing like the north atlantic. it's majestic. i love the beach. pretty much had my first everything on a beach. you name it, first time i did it, beach. i was miserable in love, happy in love, alternately, as only a 17-year-old could be. this is where i lived. very happy summer in the early '70s, and that was my room on the left. it's an amazing spot if you think about it, a bunch of knuckle heads working as dish washers, waiters, and pizza servers. we could work on a beach like this. happier, stupider times. you know, i can still hear the play list, the brothers johnson. if you put on marvin gaye right now, i'd burst into tears. what do you do? you

tonight i'm still obsessed with how much alabama looks like massachusetts.eading into 2018, a failed republican senate candidate in alabama did everything he could to lose an unlosable race and succeeded. 2010, a failed senate candidate in massachusetts did everything she could to lose supposedly an unlosable race and yes, succeeded losing it. responding to criticism too passive saying as opposed to standing outside fenway park in the cold shaking hands, ouch, yes, exactly how she managed to commit an almost religious sin in massachusetts with this exchange. >> yeah, but now -- >> i'm not a yankee fan. >> curt schilling a yankee fan? >> no. i'm wrong. >> yeah a rough one. curt schilling was a former red sox hero and pitcher. trying to explain away coakley's loss as a misstep. and then democrats lost seats in the house and senate. 2018, republicans, saw it yesterday. trying to explain away roy moore's loss to doug jones. it's a black swan. no, it won't repeat itself. stay tuned. d. what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear s