CNN N. H. Town Hall: on Civil Rights

Deval Patrick: Events in Charlottesville show we are in deep trouble

PATRICK: I got thinking about it most especially after Charlottesville. I was worried about this president from the beginning. Disappointed. And I kept thinking that the gravity of the office would somehow settle on him. It seems kind of quaint to say that now, doesn't it? And then Charlottesville happened, and I thought, "we are in deep trouble. He is bringing out so much of the worst of us." We had a rollout plan in November of '18. And 2 or 3 weeks before, my wife, Diane, was diagnosed with uterine cancer.

Explanation from Wikipedia: The Unite the Right rally was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi rally that was conducted in Charlottesville VA, from August 11 to 12, 2017. On Aug. 12, a car was deliberately driven into a crowd of people who had been peacefully protesting the Unite the Right rally, killing one and injuring 28. The driver of the car had driven from Ohio to attend the rally.

Tom Steyer: Increase disability funding; we all succeed together

STEYER: I believe in the idea that we're in it together, that we succeed together, and that looking down or not investing and giving a chance to anybody who is an American is something that to me is deeply wrong. So when I think about disabilities, it starts with the Individuals with Disability Education Act. Basically the federal government says that they'll pay approximately 40 percent of the cost of the education of individuals with disabilities, and they pay about 13 percent. So to me, the real question here is partly a policy of making sure that we fund people's abilities to succeed, but beyond that there is a question here about attitude that goes towards people with disabilities, people of different race, people with a different sexual orientation, or however we want to cut the American pie.