most african-americans are a service democrats and probably 2 thirds of white voters are registered as republicans so that's a shift from years past yes do you think that racial tensions got worse as a result of president obama being elected to the presidency it's too easy to just say well he was a black man therefore white people didn't like him. there are there are people who just say look we don't want socialism we don't want these huge government programs but i think obama also put in you know he constantly seemed to me to play a race card what race card do you think he played i think he played a card i think he played the blackguard. do you support president trunk i support him oh many things i think his economic policies are sound i think his position on trying to secure our borders is signed on. and parker supported president trump's

response to in august 2017 unite the right rally in charlottesville virginia trump acquitted white supremacist organizers of protesters who came to confront but i should be. i think is blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either graue he was organized to protest the removal of a statue of confederate general robert e. lee violence or rocked it in more than 30 injured in a counter protester dead. but you also had people that were. very fine people on both sides he wasn't talking about there being good people among the white supremacy and clay and there were a lot of other people who were there that were defending that monument who were the good people that were there defending the monument i'm sure that there were some people who were just history buffs i mean not everybody who thinks a monument should say he should stay where they are is a racist one doesn't need to be racist in order to. still be ok with

a system that systematically oppresses nonwhite groups. and that's what's affiliated with the republican party it's not that everyone in the party is a racist it's that the party is not interested in addressing any type of systemic racism white voters without a college degree flock to trump in the 2016 election partisan tensions are heightened by the fact that white americans are expected to become a minority within the next 30 years. that's a huge factor there is a sense of threat that white americans feel about that and ultimately it's going to create a situation in which republican candidates are going to have a much harder time winning elections and so they really have 2 options one is to reach out to racial minorities or to bring the system in fact republican attempts to rig the system are also fueling political anger in north carolina it started when republicans won both houses of the state legislature in 2010.

guineas. and it is the republicans pushed through a new voter i.d. law and redrew election districts in their favor it provoked a fierce backlash the moral monday movement led by the reverend william barber the 2nd then head of the north carolina and. again. last may reverend barber was back in the state capital supporting teachers who had come to pressure legislators from more education funding why did you launch the moral monday movement of the legislature in the 1st 13 days of the getting in 2013 everybody from the teachers to the poor to the sick then they attack the voting rights they knew that he would hurt minorities women and students but it was just they wanted to roll back same day registration early voting day to me more 1718 year olds to pre-register the vote

this was an all out war on the ballot. a legal challenge to the republican voter id law in 2016 federal appeals court judges struck it down saying the law was designed to target african-americans with almost surgical precision we want we want to voter suppression and the people found out that even didn't you don't just have to wait until there's an electoral season but this past december north. carolina republicans passed another voter id law the n.w.a. c.p. and other voting rights advocates are challenging it again in court do you think race is at the core of division in america today racism is always in play it in this country but the problem is how we talk about racism we tend to talk about racism when something like schollers will happen which is a form of ugly vile racism or racism when somebody call somebody a name but the racism that is deadly in terms of the long term health of the country it's a statement racism to

a kind of racism people can actually shake your hand look at you never call you to in word but when they sit in office they pass racist voter suppression the republican senate leader and house speaker in north carolina declined our request for interviews nationwide 25 states have made it harder to vote since 201015 passed voter id laws claiming it's needed to combat voter fraud democrats say the claims of fraud are an excuse to suppress the vote and have introduced legislation in congress to stop it we heard loud and clear from the american people that they want to be able to get to the ballot box without having to run an obstacle course we have this 5050 politics in which elections can really depend on the 1000 votes here and there and both sides have come to believe the electoral system is not legitimate in the republican side it's voter fraud and there are quite excited voter suppression the drug man is a senior fellow in the political reform program at new america his book breaking

the 2 party do loop will be released later this year what i call a do loop is a way of describing a kind of reinforcing feedback loop that keeps getting worse and worse over time and partisan polarization is like that because once the parties distrust each other more which then justifies more and more aggressive actions and the rhetoric inflames upon itself and you get to this point where where that you've created this unbridgeable chasm manipulating the boundaries of. an electoral district to ensure has a majority of voters favoring a party what's known as gerrymandering also feels partisan distrust gerrymandering which republicans have been particularly aggressive in the last decade creates the sense that whatever the outcome is somebody cheated. in 2018 republican candidates for congress in north carolina got 50.39 percent of the vote but 110th of the state's 13 congressional seats last march the u.s. supreme court heard a case challenging republican gerrymandering in the state republicans in north

carolina and maps to create safe seats so they could ignore the will of the people but in june the courts republican appointed a majority ruled against the effort to rein in partisan gerrymandering every indicates shows america to be the least well functioning democracy of any establish democracy andrew rannells a professor at the university of north carolina helped develop the standards used to measure election quality around the world they using computerized maps to literally draw lines around. one way streets and an tiny little houses in farm country you can pick out every house you want to be in a district what you're doing is you're just making sure your party can almost never lose that district so the real contest is not in the general election but in the primary contest where candidates vying to be the nominee of the party favored by the gerrymandering when you create safe seats the democrats appealed to the

extremes of the democratic party republicans its appeal to the extremes the republican party if districts required you to appeal to the moderate center then we would see very different type of republicans being elected but when you draw a district that relies upon the primary then they're going to rally the faithful with dog whistles with racism with homophobia with behaviors that create fearful. it's about the other the mexican coming in the latino i want a wall that's what we saw in the north county truck to help shoot down the socialist radical agenda in the republican primary for a safe congressional seat candidates were trying to outdo each other as diehard conservatives flock is pro-life pro-gun and with the radical left cherry late term abortion and infanticide i felt called to found our most appalling chilling. when sort of talk station f.m.

one of 7 am to a 40 ok today is voting day and you have until 732 goes to the polls and primary game for that house conservative talk radio host lockwood phillips was filling the airwaves with calls to turn out when people spent a lot of discussion of course by all the candidates supporting the president his radio station was the 1st in the state to a right wing radio host rush limbaugh and he's an affiliate of fox president trump's favorite news outlet is president trump popular in this part of the state absolutely because he's not part of the ruling elite class that we in north carolina and many blue collar voters perceive washington d.c. has become are you concerned about the hyper partisanship in america today yes it's removed a willingness on the part of local voters and participants. to sit down and talk and a den of 5 the problems that they have at their immediate community i do think that

race is at the root of the proportions and should to know you don't know we have racial issues in this country but they are being solved the problem is you've got folks in certain quarters and i have to say liberal quarters who don't want that solution because it's a great way to keep the community stirred up you know if you take the confederate statue issue or black lives matter it's the people who are raising new issues and they want them to be addressed i appreciate that they want to be addressed but for what purpose it's identity politics if you have an agenda the 1st thing requirement is you must become a victim you must have an identity what about a white identity after president obama there was a shift of like 15 points of white folks into the republican party your point is i'm missing that identity politics encompass more than just democratic identity politics there's a republican identity politics oh arguably yes there's no question so what do you

feel is driving hyper partisanship and the real issue and i've got it my hand and i want to display it is this device that digital environment has oxer moronically counter-intuitively shut down the communications because what happens is people go into their echo chambers what about some of the material that comes off for fox i mean it's pretty inflammatory right i don't know what you call it inflammatory it's insightful they are simply providing the information they get and i with a fox studios alert to which is officially over the mole the report is out and the president of the united states has been totally and completely vindicated essentially what people do when confronted with information that they don't want to be true if they find a lot of ways to argue against it and one thing that helps is to be given a list of those counterarguments and often if you turn to partisan media i'll tell

us all the reasons that that the true thing is not true. and then we get our answer if we feel satisfied and we and we can move on there's very little objectivity so what we end up doing is we maximize our differences which in many places are moderate they asked are you concerned about the divisions in america today do you think they're worse than in the past i think that the sixty's was about like today you know it was an awful lot of on rails so i don't think it's necessarily more but i think you today we minimize the things that we have in common stars on everybody believes in free speech everybody believes in freedom of the prince everybody believes in due process of law i'm not sure a president trump believes in the due process of law the court what the mother reported shows mahler's report basically said there was nothing that rose to the level of crime it was pretty obvious there was no effort on the part of trump to

use the russians or the russians she used have you talked about obstruction on your radio show no well it's come up once or twice it's again something that. is in the eyes of the beholder quite frankly the moeller report or shack test for your partisan politics if you're a democrat you think that there's got to be something criminal in there if you're a republican you think that trump is exonerated do you think race and identity are the central dividing line in american politics today yeah the 2 parties are fundamentally split over race and identity race and identity is the core dividing line in american partisan politics today. we had a divisive period the 1960 s. but those divisions cut across the 2 parties there were racial liberals and both the democratic party and the republican party so there was a forum for working out those divisions within the parties as challenging as they were now those divisions are amplified in reverberated through

a lot. politics because we have a 2 party system and it forces people to get into one camp or the other so i think if we had partisan polarization that was purely sectional north versus south as we did in the $850.00 s. we would be on the verge of civil war right now next week the schisms over immigration and religion tearing america park. america is divided like never before each side is so convinced that they are absolutely correct that the other side is dangerous heaven has a wall of strict immigration policy elbow smart people in power investigates the partisan politics eroding civil norms are vital to american democracy are you concerned that the the political divisions today could lead to violence or it will

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hello and welcome i'm devika pollen you're watching our desire live from it's good to have your company also coming out. south korea says north korea's part projectiles of its east coast but donald trump plays down young as we said. dozens killed in 2 attacks in the yemeni port city of aden while the fighters claim another hit on saudi arabia. was it leaks president signs a peace deal with the leader of a former rebel movement and ignores of hostility. south korea threatening to retaliate against japan for imposing trade restrictions the 2 sides failed to make progress at a summit in bangkok and has now decided to remove south korea's preferential status

hundreds of products could be affected this route was sparked by a dispute going back to world war 2 south korea demanded compensation for victims of forced labor jury in the japanese occupation and roebuck bride now can join us from seoul with the latest so what's been the reaction from the blue house. that there's been a very swift response here south korea's normally very divided political parties almost speaking with one voice in reaction talking about their profound disappointment we've also had a statement from the presidential office here talking about the south korean government being a deep sense of regret we're expecting to hear from in jail in south korea's president in about an hour or so this decision had been widely expected here despite last minute lobbying efforts to try to prevent it but nonetheless it doesn't make it any easier to accept this is seen by many people as

a real slight here this is effectively japan saying we don't trust you with our high tech stuff so there is and there is also a suspicion that despite japan's denials this is very much linked to this ongoing row over japan's war time record and specifically to this court case we've had a very controversial ruling by south korea's supreme court that certain japanese companies are liable and should pay compensation to victims of forced labor during world war $2.00 they have had their assets seized here and now south korean government says this is nothing to do with us this is a purely legal decision with the courts here are independent but this is special is in japan that politics is played here and this is very much the south koreans raking over the past and exploiting the deep seated feeling here that japan hasn't really atone for it since joining world war 2 indeed in south korea has said it

will retaliate so what steps are they expected to take. most immediately we can probably see an uptick in this public campaign with protests on the streets we have a boycott to japan goods campaign going on in public which is being gathering a lot of support it's affected japanese car sales other products also affected the number of visitors from south korea going to japanese destinations a number of airlines have been cutting routes and flights and so on but as far as the government to government relations are concerned there is a feeling here in south korea that this really it does mark a profound shift now and especially between 2 allies very important regional allies specifically there is a and into an intelligence sharing pact that the 2 countries are involved in that comes up for renewal later this month and now this was put in place a few years ago mainly to deal with north korean nuclear testing missile launches

and so on so it's very important that they do share intelligence but there is a feeling here growing there in south korea that you know if japan isn't going to share its high tech gadgets with us why should we share our intel with them that in turn has the united states extremely concerned especially given the increase in missile activity in north korea and also when you look at regional adversaries here like china and russia working closer together so that does concern the united states that all of this impacts on a lot of other stuff that happens to be happening right now in this part of the world if you rob thank you well. explained the reasons behind japan's decision. the trade minister mr sicko today after the decision before just half an hour he held a press conference on the explained that this is a procedure that is because japan has discovered some material some japanese

material exported to. be everything north korea. he also explained this is not a good position and he also emphasized that now even though south korea is out of the white the so-called white list but it is still in the same zone with asian countries with taiwan with india which are countries that have very good relationships with japan and at the same time they enjoy many trade very good trade relationship relationships with the country so in a way he's trying to push away accusations that this kind of that is going to affect the global supply chain or are going to affect. global consumers all over the world so he's saying that basically what companies have to do you know even japanese companies who want to support their products to south korea now they have they have to go through the same procedure but. so many countries that this what if

they just gon be done within 90 days. i'm staying with tensions in the region south korea says north korea launched 2 new short range ballistic missiles from the country's east coast on friday if confirmed it will be the 3rd such launch in just over a week early on thursday north korean state media released these images of the leader kim jong un overseeing the test firing of a new rocket launcher system on wednesday. so 1st the latest launches could impact any future talks on denuclearization khan expressed deep regret that north korea's missile launches including ballistic missiles could negatively affect if it's to establish peace in the korean peninsula so we will keep a close eye on the religious movements and prepare. but the us president has downplayed the tests short range missiles we never made an agreement on that i have no problem we'll see what happens but these are short range missiles

a very standard. donald trump has announced more tariffs on goods from china he says he's not happy with the progress of trade talks and wants a 10 percent tariff on the remaining $300000000000.00 worth of chinese imports and fisher as more details from washington. the chinese u.s. trade talks have been going on for more than a year and the americans thought they had a deal a few months ago but see that the chinese suddenly changed their position and that put everything into a state of flux and created the climate where more discussions were needed they also brought 25 percent tabs on $250000000000.00 worth of chinese imports into the united states no further target of swer put on hold when the 2 leaders donald trump and the chinese president met at the g. 20 in japan but after trade talks in shanghai over the last couple of days produced no real advancement donald trump said that he was going to impose further

tariffs on u.s. goods this time 10 percent on $300000000000.00 worth of imports speaking before he left for a rally in cincinnati he said he believes the chinese want a deal they're simply not moving fast enough now i think i think presidential somebody i like a lot i think he wants to make it but frankly is that going he said he was going to be buying from our farmers that he said he was going to stop fenton all from coming into our country it's all coming out of there we didn't do that we're losing thousands of people to felt at all and this was 2 things to highlight 1st of all the united states believes that china is dragging its heels on making a deal for 2 reasons 1st of all that the longer this goes on then the u.s. economy me we can and make donald trump very keen to do a trade deal with china the other with the 2020 alexion on the horizon they wonder

if a different president might be easier to negotiate with the other thing is that donald trump has proven that yet again at the rally in cincinnati in ohio he doesn't quite understand how tired of swag. seeing that china is pouring money into the u.s. economy that is not true it is businesses and people here in the united states who end up paying the tab of the reserve port just last week the see the trade war with china which you remember donald trump said should be quick and easy to when it's costing the average american family of 4 somewhere in the region of $2000.00 a year. iraq and the united arab emirates will strengthen and expand their maritime border security cooperation a deal was signed in tehran by iran in a border police commanders it was the 1st meeting between the 2 sides in 6 years

and it follows a number of incidents in the gulf that that. meeting was practical with the aim of coordinating between iran and the us for border security agreements have been breached in this area fortunately we were in agreement on hunting security at the border between our 2 countries one of the important points agreed upon was holding continuous annual meetings between leaders of the border guards and of the 2 countries in tehran and abu dhabi meetings every 6 months in one of the border areas and in emergency situations communication via phone or fax and meeting at the border. who they were both in yemen have carried out a major attack on saudi an m.r.i. back forces a military parade was targeted by a missile in aden this comes just weeks after the u.a.e. started reducing its military presence in yemen stephanie decker explains. it started as a military parade. it ended in this the result of what he said was

a missile striking agent the seat of the saudi backed government the campus a base for morality trained and supported units among those killed the senior military commander brigadier general need seen here earlier in the week wearing the red bray but it wasn't the only message that he sent on thursday they also said they'd fired a long range missile at the port city of demand in saudi arabia hundreds of kilometers away a 1st in this saudi led 4 year long war 2 brazen attacks with a very clear message they all lay years you know true to this military action by the hearse and i think that one of the 1st thing that they want to do is that moment when the new reason actually during i think they wanted to show this crowd. when they are losing support and their and allies there who are all quite capable of actually hitting them and he didn't quite where they fell them with constable where they fell but they had a stronghold in the saudi led more risk launch to remove the iranian back to things

from yemen or to weaken them at least there seems to be no end in sight the latest attack is kind of a message that. the bucked of forces are going to come under attack and that they are a legitimate target because the are working with the saudi about.