Veteran advocacy groups and Democratic lawmakers are teaming up to stop Donald Trump’s plans to build a 250-foot “triumphal arch” outside of Arlington National Cemetery. The Weeknight hosts break it down.
Veteran advocacy groups and Democratic lawmakers are teaming up to stop Donald Trump’s plans to build a 250-foot “triumphal arch” outside Arlington National Cemetery. The Weeknight hosts react.
The Trump administration plans to reinstall Arlington National Cemetery's Confederate Memorial, defying a congressionally mandated commission, while removing language explaining how the monument romanticizes the Confederacy and sanitizes slavery. CNN's Jake Tapper reports.
Retired U.S. Army Major General Paul Eaton joins Alicia Menendez to discuss VoteVets new campaign aimed at stopping construction on President Trump's 250-foot triumphal arch. The group is raising concerns that the construction will interfere with military burials at Arlington National Cemetery.
Opponents of the 250-foot triumphal arch project say it could disrupt military burials at Arlington, during construction and after its completion.
A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.
Preparations are currently underway to begin excavation work for President Donald Trump’s 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial. But the project faces a federal lawsuit brought by three veterans and an architectural historian. Jonathan Lemire blasts the project, calling it an “obscenity,” and says the land between the Lincoln Memorial and the cemetery is “a sacred place.”
The Trump administration's plan to construct a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., is set to move forward with initial excavations amid a legal battle over its impact on historic sight lines.
The Trump administration’s plan to construct a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., is set to move forward with initial excavations amid a legal battle over its impact on historic sight lines. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Excavation for a 250-foot triumphal arch to mark the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, initiated by President Donald J. Trump, is set to begin on Columbia Island in Washington, D.C., despite facing a lawsuit from opponents claiming to be concerned about its impact on historic sight lines. KEY QUOTE: “We are pleased to announce that after a very long wait (over 125 years!), we are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for the Great Triumphal Arch and…Open
The planned 250-foot-tall structure near Arlington National Cemetery is one of the president’s top construction priorities.
Three aviators who served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots program during WWII are reunited at Arlington National Cemetery’s Women’s Memorial.