and president who just gave the green light to neo nazis and other white supremacists to continue to tear this country apart but the log cabin republicans are sticking with them and the question for the rest of us in this country is will you join the fight against white supremacy and the racist policies of his party and some of the party's it may fall to me to defend him but to explain from his point of view but the fact it turns out that the fascists who rioted killed and maimed in charlottesville as they did were especially vocal in their hatred for blacks jews and  rule bills that had been proposed in their special session but in jackson michigan arsonists burned down the home of jack davis well that was a brief foray into good  news gay students in suburban missouri have been censored in their yearbooks but many are rallying to their side that story kind of has a happy ending i think in many ways well they're so adorable and professional admirable around to unfolding i think like most americans i mean i have a special connection to charlottesville because i went to the university of virginia and spent time there and it wasn't it wasn't a racial paradise let me tell you that but you know it's become a very liberal town and it has you know it has a has a jewish mayor an african american vice mayor you know it's a it is a liberal relatively liberal college town but and so to see this you know and it all you know so and i have to say you know let's take it step by step you know that our friend james essex of the a c l u they're the ones who went down there and said no no no no no you can't  show the neo nazis off to macintyre park up the road you you've got to let them up next to the statue now i'm very sensitive about st amendment rights on the right to make your point where it's supposed to be made all that kind of stuff but there was a huge safety issue here that anyone could have seen and you've got to keep people separate when they're that volatile and it wasn't done and i'm so i'm not happy with the fact that in these little side streets of the old  town and charlottesville that this was able to one fold i think that one of the most disturbing things i rather saw this week was the discussion of the charlottesville police standing back and in fact standing around laughing as these clashes were beginning to take place clearly they were not prepared and not willing to take responsibility for controlling that and there needed to be a much much  larger police and national guard yes presence everybody you know was and their mother is condemning the white supremacists and the nazis even trumpeted that did me for five seconds right condemning condemning condemning condemn it folks this is a war those people had guns yeah they are feeling empowered with their fure donald trump and i guess what i call them a lot on facebook you know they they are feeling empowered and there is going to be more violence unless we contain this you know we grew up at a time when j edgar hoover was allowing them to run around and then the f b i fell into better hands and they shut the k k k down they brought do i wonder where this is going what is what in fact is their goal d and what needs to be done to shut them down you know we have a picture of you know a lot of the people were came all the way from reno nevada to march and then he gets caught because his picture is in all the papers in the country and say oh we know him he lost his job when he came back by the way but you know he said you know i believe the replacement of the statue of robert e le honor and respect what they did and then you see all these people posting things like you know hey white people built this country on the backs of slave labor africans including in new york and a lot of black people will say black people built this back and i'm saying yeah that that the enslaved africans were the ones who did the labor to build white house the university of virginia all those places were built by enslaved people one of things another of the most interesting things i learned this week and you do learn a lot of pay attention to this is that all these monuments to civil war generals and police mainstream media stops a civil war heroes i've heard that today civil war generals politicians whatever were built fifty years after the civil war were built in the early segregation specifically and erected fifty years after the civil war to make that point woodrow wilson showed birth of a nation not the recent one the original but that used to play against other high schools and in the queens chapter fred trump the father of the president was a member and was arrested in the klan rally this is what makes this isn't fake news we're not making this up it's all documented in the newspapers of the day and of course as rachel showed you know they had huge marches on washington the klan right down the center of by the capitol you know and and they controlled who could get nominated by the by the democratic party which was the racist party in those days pretty much in the twenty's until ausmus came along that path like they didn't want him because they hate catholics and they hate and you know we're going to show you how they hate gays because at this rally in charlottesville this is this is you know they were certainly chanting anti semitic slogans you know jews will not replace us but this is something else that they chanted at that rally these people course the president says there were fine people in that crowd well the forces people would would have left you know would have come of course but fine people would not stand there if that was happening well this is mine one of the few demonstrations get a little too eerie well ok let's talk about that and what the president talks about with the old left and the attacks i'm not comfortable with the violence that is the president and present in the anti anti far groups and the way they acted at berkeley and have acted in other places but in this case i think they were being exercised in self defense cornell west says and others say they saved his life look i'm in general against violence these people were carrying guns i don't know what you're supposed to do with them i'm surprised that people do a lot of people to get shot instead you had somebody using a vehicle was a an instrument of terroris actions are rationalized by the right you should really watch there's been a lot of talk about this vice documentary two thousand and twenty four minutes on h b o you can certainly find it on h b o on demand but it's been passed around a lot if you weekend and they were quite open and explicit with her and they were very upset with with the beautiful avant garde trump for marrying a jew well and the president for handing over his beautiful daughter because the photographer who shot the whole thing said i saw him and the st thing he did is he backed up the car up the street so he could get a real head of steam so that they could shoot down and kill people that is undisputable well there are a lot of lies he has battled and that leads me to oh for god for the st time they were saying the guy the other side was saying he was one of ours he has no they weren't even knowing but but i look at trump who really has lost emotional and all of this but i'm trying to figure out what is going on with him and it's always going on with him but i think you know he is a big liar obviously all day every day but i think he for some reason fascism you know get violent too sometimes but they are fighting fascism we fought a war over fascism you know a little more i'm not arguing with you i'm just trying to figure out what's what doesn't yes that's what he does is that this is an element that has to be purged from society because he is a part of it he has no value he's one of the leaders of he has no knowledge of racist he is a racist he's tutored by roy cohn he's two hundred and five his father history but this is what he believes well i mean and yet the republican congress is not willing to get rid of well that's what i want you know that's what i want to talk about and it's not enough for republicans to just condemn even just to condemn his racism we've got to focus on your the racist policies that have been perpetuated and quite frankly democrats haven't fought hard enough to stop them i remain perplexed by why the republican congress which could have mike pence as president who would do everything they want a lot more efficiently than trump but they won't get rid of trump well they're afraid of they're afraid of trump's base things are out of control and they're getting more going to get more out of control the longer he stays in there are they waiting for his approval ratings to drop to five percent well though they're certainly doing things to separate themselves but they're not changing any policies people are attracted to the democrats these days because they're not but you know and the mainstream media and the establishment republicans and democrats are still raw i didn't your little hobby horse of this guy is you know disruptive yes he's disruptive that's the point and that's what you supporters want and until you grapple with that in a real way and stop trying to hold him to a standard that he doesn't believe in and his supporters don't believe in you we're going to get nowhere with him but when his supporters are pressed about are you happy that he's dismantling the health care system you know health insurance system are you happy that he wants to you know privatized medicare are you are you happy that he's cutting taxes for the wealthy are you happy that he's deregulate deregulating everything so that your air will be and water will be dirty i mean are you are you really happy about these things they don't have to be because that none of that is that they think is as important to them as his disruptive challenge to the mainstream well i think  the woman who was killed the thirty two year old woman heather hire i watched her memorial service this morning need to and her you know her mother her brother said they killed her to shut her up and you have only magnified her voice one hundred fold she sounds you sounded like a great activist she would she was involved in everything and you know she was a champion of civil rights and yet so she's killed by a vehicle all these and this is not a new thing but and twenty people were wounded yes many of them critically but that north carolina house of representatives this week passed a bill to allow you if your vehicle strikes somebody when people are protesting you're not responsible and this is this is catching on and right wing legislatures across the country on the grounds that it's accidental it's crazy it's nice to see that trumps economic council has had to be disbanded by because it became for drugs well mr president you could set new policies about drug pricing and you're not doing it you're just giving in to the pharmaceutical company and he was sitting at your right hand and one of your little can just say anything to him th may run for senate in virginia against him kaine at the trumpet your national how to how artists have you no shame no sense of decency i mean can i say this word on free speech pigs i guess we're now considered moderate non trump republicans who are condemning him and nicole wallace and all these people you know oh i worked for george bush he was a unifier he brought people together and i was george bush lying about weapons of mass destruction and start of the side of strategy and let's not forget that george bush also got reelected in two thousand and four by putting anti same sex marriage amendments on the balance of states across the nation it has been a bigoted party since racist democrats started joining it in the south after the passage of the civil rights act which they all voted against so these people like strom thurmond they became republicans n started his southern strategy it's all based on racial a dread and you've got to own that or we're not going to get past this you can't act like that was the golden age of the republican party you know racked and you can't keep the republican fascists out of that we want to sort of want to get trump out but i mean he you know bannon gorka and miller we really need to keep the heat on there on the other hand you know it's like maybe the best thing to do was to try to ignore him he's got an enormous amount of power though and he's if he gets to corner he's going to start a nuclear war and i think he's going to do that not because of any global problem or anything like that or or you know no one to distract to the one time bomb syria and the investigate it's not the investigation of the russia of you know russian a difference in elections it's his it's the criminal enterprise of the business that he ran and he knows and that's why i didn't re taxes as soon as that's exposed he's a criminal his whole family are criminals i'm not exaggerating this that's the stuff that moamar is going after that's why he's panicking like this yeah quite frankly maybe he did that press conference because he knows more  that stuff is going to come out and you'll report on this and he'd rather be known as the races then put in prison i'm not going to be happy until he is and they're also ready to roll back the obamacare protections for transgender people  yes the party to health and human services as well they're going to you know this is part of their attempt to destroy obamacare as they call of a portable care act they're going to take out the nondiscrimination provisions no sex discrimination no gender identity discrimination that is going to go because they're going to this is where they're going to start inserting in these religious freedom clauses so they're going to give health professionals the right to refuse to treat without penalty without nondiscrimination laws so this is going to be the big guinean of what we're going to see across the government what trump promised early on  locked and loaded and ready to sue and they're the party of justices also getting involved in a lawsuit brought by a four christian women in a texas prison  prompted by the alliance defending freedom who are supporting them the women are fighting and the obama rule allowing trans women to be house in a women's prison they say there's too much danger to them now they are in a different building than the trans women who are in prison nonetheless they feel very in danger because of these trans women in the prison so the department of justice said in their filing in the suit look you're not really in imminent danger because you're not of the same building so you haven't proved any danger so we're going to file against you in this lawsuit trans people serving in the military and remember he did this out of pique because he wanted to pass a bill that funded his war that is why he did it yes and there he needed votes of a few right wing members of congress and the support of tony perkins and other outside right wingers on that defense appropriation bill and the only way they would support the bill was if there was an anti trans component to it so that's when he announced in a one morning suddenly unexpectedly that he was going to ban all trans people from serving in the military that got the support in the votes of the right wingers and they passed the defense bill that included some funding for his wall but people have been questioning this and the service chiefs all stood up and said i know well about all the service chiefs certainly the head of the coast guard said no the head of the joint chiefs of staff said no no the head of the joint chiefs of staff said the it's not in place because we don't have any formal policy against it now the secretary of the navy did speak out this is unprecedented so this is a guy  week at another press conference that was quite controversial was asked by a reporter thank god occasionally they get in another question shall i read the question sir why did you decide to announce the respect for the community i think i have great support and i've had great support from the community and a lot of votes like the french general of the military is working on it is doing the work it's been a very difficult situation and i think i'm doing a lot of people a favor by coming out and just say as you know it's been a very complicated issue for the military it's been a very confusing issue for the military  saying they don't need to get rid of the trans members everything's fine depending on their trans member james mattis had defended the policy when this was st proposed as an amendment to the defense authorization act so this is more a lie now one of his excuses for doing this of course was that they trans military members were costing too much money which we found out of course was one quarter what the military is spending on by aggro for the military let alone other  way some of this has been put on hold because of the north korea situation absolutely essential against they do this they did this in the iraq war for getting rid of gays it was called a stop loss order no would cost to train and replace the troops the trance troops that would be thrown out if they took a sort of middle number of five think twelve thousand five hundred nobody knows exactly how many trans people there are in the military but that's a semi conservative number one billion dollars to replace those troops with new troops training so much more expensive you know they're all their graduation hormones would be like three or four million dollars yes one billion dollars replace these let's not forget that you know very few friends or troops have actually come out and that up until last year they were allowed to come out although i imagine some more open in certain circumstances and we were already on hold in terms of admitting recruits who were transgender so this is a relatively new thing they want to stand up for patriotic americans a lot of my they they they don't like being ambushed by truck but they're starting just starting to stand up for themselves to get a lot more aggressive about the law here's the new rumor last week the rumor was that the white house had transmitted guidelines for the ousters to the pentagon but in fact it was put on hold because south korea north  both but here's the new rumor they're not going to kick out anybody they're going to let people serve it but they will not take new recruits and they won't cover medical procedure certainly it has been ratcheted down several times now but he is still out there at press conferences saying he's doing the military a favor because if they told the truth they would want to get rid of the trance troops and i don't suit lambda legal is suing the city of houston to preserve the l g b t employee benefits after the texas court of appeals said that the state could ignore zero burger fell ruling yes i mean this was a case that's gone back and forth in the courts and we hope to prevail in the long run i hope but more exciting for the moment at least is that texas did complete it special legislative session a day or a lay by the way and session don't forget this session was called primarily although there were some other issues on the table primarily a thirty day special session which cost millions of dollars  o because the lieutenant governors especially had up about banning trans people from life basically and dan patrick and the and it passed the senate easily and then the house was led by a business minded republican who doesn't want this for the state who seems to is name is joe straus he seems i have a sensitivity to the issue i don't to be responsible for suicides we'll talk more about that later and international news  happening more and more well i mean i guess it gets to the to the statistic that we're hearing about from you know from the anti violence programs which is that there were there been a record number of murders of  there was one hate violence related death every six days and two thousand and seventeen so i mean and this is all due to this poison is atmosphere that has been whipped up in the country by trump and his supporters and instability for that it happens in large and small ways this smaller way in tucson they have a nice four way rainbow cross walk there in tucson very lovely but some vandal came along and decided to deface it with paint not a huge deal but just an indication of the kind of hatred that's out there better a better story for michigan the one of the boyers who handled the same sex marriage cases there dana nestle is running for michigan attorney general she represented a wet lesbian couple there they were just trying to get their names on the adoption document and it became of the big same sex marriage cases and before the supreme let's do our favorite story of the week yes from carney missouri to out a high school students opened up their yearbooks and found th same little stay friends they had made had been censored had been taken out of the yearbook and they are totally adorable and their little statements couldn't have been more cute and lovely not the lea offensive to little suburb outside of kansas city and here is the video an openly gay students in the carney school district say that their quotes were removed from the yearbook without warning our nathan vickers went to find out why hot off the press new your books for two thousand and seventeen karni hai graduates joyce levinsky and thomas swartz i went and got my yearbook and i was flipping through it just to find a quote there was nothing there like every senior submitted senior quotes before graduation but the school had removed it and it was a blank picture under my name both of the teens are openly gay they each chose a quote they found funny and inspirational my was of course i dress who i am and i'm proud of who i am and then and feel like an instructor is i took that from me the corner school district says it has reached out to both boys in their families and that it didn't intend to offend them in a statement district administrators explain their your book policy to v five writing in an effort to protect our students courts that could potentially offend another student or groups of students are not published it is the school's practice to err on the side of caution doing so in this case had the unintentional consequence of offending the very students the practice was designed to protect we sincerely apologize to those students they need to know what they did is wrong and i want to be able to tell other p my story about what happened t he t v five news well this sounds like one of the sounds like one administrator who got it wrong there is an openly gay member of the school board his name is matthew ryan hunt and he is printing up stickers for every single year book it's that margaret thatcher the prime minister of britain said in passing a law against talking about gay stuff in schools so what happened in fresno well they held a school board meeting and you can go online and see this i would have shown it to you but it's just too long and too hilarious and too whatever but the this school board is meeting in a public meeting the audience is there and various members of the school board are trying to say to the audience i'm sorry about board members sudden and just shutting them off and he he was not having any of it hurt well they kind of shut off these basketball players the women basketball players at pepperdine university who had very christian school a juror been against them in terms of sexual orientation discrimination but they were claiming that yes but the it's still considered a landmark case in the sense that their claim based on sexual orientation went under a truck went to trial under title nine which was they were said yeah you can sue under title mine for sex discrimination for sexual intention discrimination so i was the case but they won both that that  we've heard this kind of story but she had you know had an interaction waiting on a group and this and she has this tattoo with these two bars rainbow hours and here's what they did with the bill they paid the bill but they left zero is a tip and they wrote a note on the bill that said can't tip someone who doesn't love jesus bad tattoo this was a a christian thing to do not on certainly not on a sixty dollars tab wow awful rockford illinois but a family of five family values there aren't you just admit you're cheap for the ten commandments insisting on it and the other for not complying with the same sex marriage law i think the person who came in rd in the voting evidently got his votes from very there might be a great awakening in this country maybe maybe me and began an appeals court is allowing anonymous document changes for transgender the you know they have a law that says you have got to put a notice in the newspaper have change your name and saying they sort of demonstrated there may be some danger in that and we're not and so they can do it without oh we told you last week that the federal court in virginia was declaring the ga because he was graduating from high school well the a c l u has now decided to cancel the gabbin graham case that that existed but there finally new one to continue to pursue the issue of trans kids access to the proper bathroom and high schools and i hope the virginia has been chastened by its recent encounter with the hard right well in another part of virginia hampton roads they have an l g b t life center there and they've just announced that they're going to expand and build a medical clinic and off for perhaps two clients but and i don't know quite what to do with these stories but now that there are two of them i think we should mention them of  the guy and and both the men who are dead the young men were african american the people they were with were not the illinois case is a murder and people have been arrested for that in west hollywood the cases meth overdose that may just be accidental when i there are some very fine gay people yes there are some very bad gay people and we are and you know look i think within within the there are certainly limits to the st amendment but the the ad itself he's an offensive person the ad itself didn't sound offensive it was just promoting his book but people don't like him so they want to take it down i'm not for that taking it down these are getting to be very complicated tricky situations but mostly i am concerned about the future of this country yes thank you to new york governor who issued an order for nondiscrimination on the basis of gender identity by health insurers but they have him you know all this is about people being more you know by long enough let's let him talk he's you know lead people will understand that it's a bad message i mean by exposing by exposing the neo nazis this week yeah by publishing their pictures we may be able to reach you know look there's always been a race is huge racist element in this country but more you expose it the more people will go back into the closet about it and that would be fine with me and people just shut up about it well if they radically i agree with you but i you know these people are gathering strength yes and they're becoming bolder and they're wearing khakis so that one of the neo nazi leaders in the vice thing said trump is a racist that out for us exactly you know because he gave his beautiful daughter to a jew and to national news yes well despite all the stuff this bad stuff from our government in prague  the u s embassy was lit up a rainbow colors for pride we have a picture of that there that's the united states of america at least overseas you're not going to see the white house like that and the time soon now and they had a whole festival they showed our favorite movie last of last year and the oscar winner moonlight and they showed how to survive a plague and brought david france in to talk about that so in the czech republic the u in ontario canada in pickering ontario the garage door of a couple of gay men who had moved back there to live with one's sick dad and they come home and they say they find on the garage door we don't like faggot time to move to thirty days they don't know how to spell faggot how yeah so canada is not necessarily a commonwealth australia continues to be a mess in terms of what's going on with same sex marriage the government is unilaterally trying to authorize this postal ballot that is being challenged in court on are all sorts of problems with it there are in a regular vote there are rules against hate speech but not in a postal ballot so the advertising campaigns which is what we're worried about all along d are going to be idiots and now they find that they're putting bar codes on have a marriage vote in parliament the guy who's administering the vote from the parliament was said it's going to be a unifying thing for the country so penny wong who's an out lesbian in the senate spoke out directly to him in parliament and i do want to respond and to the comment by senator coleman that this could be unifying moment well and that people could be respectful in our families and then come back here and tell us this is a unifying moment he's trailing christian lobby described our children as the stolen generation we love our children and  object as do every person who cares about children and as do almost couples in this country same sex couples who have kids to being told our children have stolen generation you talk about unifying moments it's not a unifying moment it's exposing our children to that kind of hatred and i wouldn't mind so much if you were prepared to speak out on it  you should stand up to some of the people who don't have a place because we know the sort of debate that is already there and let me say for many children in same sex couple parents of families and for many will be opposing this motion and we do so because of our longstanding position which has been considered by the party and our opposition to a plebiscite and what i would say to the crossbench is you made the right decision last time please make the same decision on this occasion here here yeah that was a discussion of the proposal for a full public vote right which was rejected right but now they're on to this postal vote well the legislature is still trying to overturn same sex marriage that was legalized by the court by the time you see the show you may know what they decided in the high give you a pension if you were transgendered person born before nine hundred and seventy five because he was treated so badly reparation this revelation and pakistan wants a gender identity nondiscrimination law and in london we told you that they were trying saying that homosexuality is a gift from god it's not if it is not a choice if it is not a disease in the perspective of faith it can only be a gift he said you know try to be responsible in the way you practice and he didn't say don't practice it which was you know and he backed up his comments later this is you know even our friend bernard law the gay priest said he thinks this is a great step forward you know forty one years ago when i came out i like any closeted teenager and young adult i i had questions about all of this i just didn't think it was wrong well what i wanted to do a lesbian daughter and got to look at not only how many people were there but how many different people there and i thought oh my god how could this be you know well wrong in all these different people offering themselves and me on it not being a sin was doing it in a decriminalization of marijuana and a big thing about the opposing discrimination against the old should be to community in the workplace and they were the national hispanic caucus of state legislature tours there on our side and we bullied and holly hollywood and she said it was worse than anything she experienced as a as a young you know lesbian teen or anything that was scary and lonely she thought people invested in status are the worst and the most closed and you know it's a dark time but if you can hold on until october if there's not nuclear war there reviving howard crabtree's when pigs even though it's ninety minutes with no intermission but we left after that i had a great time at that show and i hope they do a great job well meanwhile you can go to the st east village square film festival next week you can look it up on the wild project dot