Eyes Wide Open

The hottest topics in the news and politics is right here on Eyes Wide Open!! We will discuss the civil suit awarded to Eric Garner's family by the city of New York over his wrongful death at the hand of a police officer who placed him in an unlawful choke hold for the crime of selling loose cigarettes.  Serena Williams wins Wimbledon for the 6th time but all the NY Times and others in the media seem to care about is body shaming and disrespecting her.  Climate change deniers are LOVING the story about the "mini ice age" due to overtake our planet in the next 15 years, and they don't even mind that the story is FAKE!!  Our first story comes from the the great state of Texas.  They have found yet another way treat people like they just don't matter by simply refusing to issue birth certificates to children born to undocumented immigrants..."my eyes are covered and I can't see you, so now you don't exist!"  We will talk to Jennifer Harbury, the legal aid attorney who has filed a petition with the U.S. District Court in San Antonio, TX asking the court to order Texas Department of Health officials to issue birth certificates for children born to undocumented immigrants. Surely this latest move to deny birth certificates to these children comes straight from the Donald Trump playbook of "Sound and Fair Immigration Policy!"  Speakling of Trump, does his surge in polling indicate that he is the "id" of the GOP base right now?  On the other hand, Bernie Sanders just may be the very same representation of the base on the left!  Join Rheana Nevitt Piegols, Michael Handley of DemBlogNews and our Eyes Wide Open roundtable panel to discuss all of this and much more!