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country. and also when you think about 5g and the accountability of big tech, those are some of the top issues right off the bat. when you think about especially on the broadbent issue because i looked across my district and northwest in central ohio, i know there is a lot of area in my district that we do not have broadband. it is so important we get it out there and so important after seeing what happened with covid. we saw everything from telemedicine to tele education, people working at home. it is been essential that broadband be out there. so i think this is an issue that is not democrat or republican or independent, it is all our issue. >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. a lot to get to. you want to begin with
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headlines. from the front page of the new york times, the deadliest day yet in gaza as the efforts at cease fire fail and vegan netanyahu vowing useful force on hamas. one of the photographs is a palestinian man, whose wife and three children were killed in the attack. according to the new york times, 192 have died including 58 children. in israel, 10 dead including one child. the jerusalem post reporting 31,050 rockets have been fired to the israeli territory, pointing out that for 60 of the rockets failed. the so-called iron dome defense system has an intercept rate of approximately 90%. this headline from the washington post, dozens killed in a predawn is really strike. that is the latest on the situation in the middle east.
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we want to begin with an opinion piece from daniel henniker on the democrats. the headline is, "democrats are killing the american dream." here are some of the details. joe biden's american family span replaces individual striving with middle-class entitlement. the american families act makes a reality officially clear, democratic party is giving up on the american dream. the american families plan and democratic legislation implicitly imposed several questions, is the idea of upper mobility important? how should upward mobility happen, through washington or individual efforts? should the habit of individual striving to give way to a or important goal of nationalized paternalism. the transition began when democrats enacted an insurance bonus of $300. that bonus pushing benefits past wage rates and indisputably is
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causing many to shun previously held jobs? why bother? held out for state compensation that reduces the incentive for me to work. skip the work choice public school teachers across the country have made the past year. hakeem jeffries. >> it is clear to many of us that the differences between democrats and republicans at this particular moment in time couldn't be any starker, it can be any clearer. house democrats are fighting for everyday americans, fighting to crush the virus, to provide direct relief to everyday americans who are struggling, and to lay the foundation ultimately to supercharge our
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economy, working with president biden and senate democrats to stand up for every day americans. the american rescue plan, the american jobs plan, the american families plan. house democrats are fighting for the people, house republicans are fighting amongst each other. host: that from akeem jeffries. the headline is democrats are killing the american dream. here more details from that piece. if the american families plan passes, we are all behind the same dependency, generations of similar welfare compensation eroded the dream for many black americans by disincentive eyes a upward mobility. hundreds of thousands living in public housing built for them in the 1960's. the unions, teachers refusing to
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return and the democrats do not apologize for the male governance and you want to the nonpoor. reaction from marsha blackburn on the senate floor in april. >> many of our tennesseans have also expressed concern with some of the provisions that were there in president biden's address. this is doubling down on decades of failed policy that were seeking to prioritize incentives on the wealthier state, overlooking is family and communities what pushing defendants -- dependence on a welfare state. there was not anything earth
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shattering, a price from the price tag which is eye-popping and will take your breath away when you stop and think about it. for a long time, my democratic colleagues have champion programs that treat people like individual clients instead of families and communities. so here we are and the biden doctrine is a commitment to spending trillions and trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars. we are talking 6 trillion since january 20. those dollars are being spent to incentivize dependence on the federal government, to supplant the nuclear family with the federal government and to centralize control here in
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washington, d,c, .c. host: this from our twitter page , chris johnson, demonstrates -- democrats are destroying america. jimmy is on the line. good morning. caller: good morning. i don't think there is an american dream. blacks, there are people actually living on the streets that don't have a decent meal, can't get a decent meal. and then there are people where i watch lester holt, reeking news -- reeking news, --
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breaking news, they have more money than god. what is the american dream? the politicians are there to keep us in line. they don't have term limits. they get all kinds of money and nothing ever gets done. that's my thought on it. host: thanks for the call from west virginia. the host of a serious xm program every morning and a cnn anchor and contributor on his website, the headline, take this job and shove it. he points out the following, joblessness and manufacturing and live event production, restaurants, construction are going on answered for companies to sweeten the pot. in mcdonald's in pennsylvania, a $500 bonus upon higher offered.
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a mcdonald's in florida is paying people $50 to show up for an interview. a chicken express in texas supporting science warning customers to be patient with them getting, no one wants to work anymore. if conscious and life events resurrect, roadies have taking skills elsewhere, leaving venues worried they will -- if concerts and live events resurrect, roadies taking skills elsewhere, leaving venues worried they will not have enough people to take them. your take on this? caller: i agree with the previous caller regarding term limits. every decision they make is based on the next election. it has nothing to do with the people. but that is off-topic. it is a harsh statement and very sad piece.
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in my heart i don't want to believe that the democrats want to kill the american dream. it is hard to believe that could be such nefarious motives and our country, but i think we have to believe it. you can at all the dots of the events that are happening, and it really just points -- you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to connect a lot of these dots. we really have to stop going back to our past. yes there are some miserable things in our past, but that's not going to do us any good now. we never look at how far we've, and all it is is negativity. it really is killing everybody's dream. it doesn't matter if you are american or not. this is a worldwide thing, taking away an individual prosperity and individual pride
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in what you do. we don't need the government doing the thing for us, and they really have to get out of the way. it is so awful. as far as people not working, the pandemic has changed a lot of things, but i don't think we should be giving any more money out. we really need to get back to work. there is nothing more for the individual than working and accomplishment in yourself in your own abilities. so i do believe the american dream, families, destroying the nuclear family, it is so contrary to the way things are and have been, not just in the united states, but everywhere. host: thank you for adding your voice. another headline from the
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hill.com, inflation fears grow for the white house. rising prices putting increased pressure on the president and federal reserve to prevent inflation from derailing recovery from the coronavirus recession. on the democrat line, luis from oklahoma. good morning. caller: i'll tell you what. i agree with the man about the native americans and the blacks who have always been treated badly. myself, i have always lived in a fantasy land, my own world. i don't have a dream. if anybody is killing anything it is trump. he has killed much more people than israel or gaza.
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he has killed a lot more than them over the virus. why isn't he in jail? host: thanks for the call. device chair of the democratic caucus defending the enhanced unemployment program -- the vice chair of the democratic caucus defending the enhanced unemployment program. he is with the -- here is what the congressman said last week on capitol hill. >> we know the american rescue plan and principles within it are popular. we know that because even in our republic colleagues are talking -- our republican colleagues are talking, vote no. as we turn the page and continue to talk about the jobs plan and the families plan, we are going to be focused on legislating. we are going to be focused on
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delivering results for our communities and we will let them do what they are going to do. host: on the democrats, are they killing the dream, the opinion piece by daniel henniker. that is the basis of our question. we have paul from the democrats line. caller: good morning. the democrats are not destroying the american dream for people, and when i see a tax cut that rewards, the 1%. 83% of the benefits and i see these billionaires and major corporations evading taxes because of high-priced lawyers and accountants, that's whose storing the american dream. -- that's who is destroying the american dream.
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host: next is sarah from california. caller: i am an independent. i quit the republican party. this rhetoric is ridiculous. washout blackburn, they have destroyed so much of the white community -- marsha blackburn, they have destroyed so much of the white community by taking money from the pharmaceutical companies and dumping it on the white people, kaiser permanente said there is more white deaths and a large part is because of the opioid epidemics and suicides that come with it. the government is going to favor a certain segment of the population. it has been favoring -- the
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republicans have been favoring the rich so much that it is going to have to balance out. we used to have moderate republicans like nelson rockefeller, even thomas dewey. the party has been given over to people who just want the rich to be richer and anything helping the poor is called socialism and that is how i stand. thank you for letting me speak. host: politico pointing out the treasury department will be announcing enhanced childcare benefits kicking in on july 15. if you have a child under the age of six, you will get benefits of approximately $300 per child and $250 if your child is over the age of six. nytimes.com has this headline, job growth slowed in april modeling expectations -- m
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uddl expectations. -- muddling expectations. federal regulations prohibit people from continuing to collect complement insurance if they turn down suitable work. economists found little evidence to indicate unemployment benefits discourage people from working. at the same time, many schools and daycare centers not back to normal operations and have kept them from taking a job. millions of others temporarily laid off and say they're not actively job hunting because they expect to be hired back once it is fully reopened. on the republic line line, carl is next. caller: good morning. host: how are you? caller: i'm great. when i voted for trump, i
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compared trump to biden. trump worked in the private sector. he built skyscrapers, golf courses, and signed paychecks. as far as i know, biden was a lifeguard at a pool when he was in college. that is the only private sector job he ever held. you've not to look at it, he don't understand what the average person out here is going through. biden is a socialist. he thinks government can take care of all of our problems. i wish that someone in the media would look at hunter biden's laptop.
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if he would have the guy on once . i watched his interview with tucker carlsen for one hour. he made the same statement to the fbi, under penalty of perjury, he could have gone to jail, and yet nobody in the media is interested in that conversation. i believe the biden family, they sold this country out to china and that is just the way i see it. host: thank you for your voice. catherine has this on facebook, can an individual who upward on their own? i have a masters degree and put in the time that have stool loan debt. do millennials have the same opportunities as the same generations or have big businesses found enough loopholes to tip the scales in
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their favor at the cost of the individuals? your view on all of this? caller: good morning. i would like to tell the previous color to listen to -- caller to listen to marcus he now. that was a bunch of lies. it sounds like a person making an opinion. maybe he is getting urged to do this by the coke brothers. the republicans have been destroying this country for a long time, since reagan. trump came in and bumped it up a notch. who gave the tax break to the rich and trying the trickle down? who tried to kill health care 67 times? who has not done anything for the people? who didn't want to get the
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vaccines going? the republicans. look what they have done to liz cheney. i think it is going to be something good to watch the further destruction of the republican party. it sounds like mccarthyism again through this man who is nothing but the back end of trump. i don't understand where he is going with that. wall street journal is nothing but a bunch of lies and i would call it fake news. the publicans are the destruction of the american dream and if we don't stop them they are going to start race wars. we need police reform. we are not talking about taking funding away from the police department. we are talking about getting rid of the mass weapons of destruction's they show up with when black people.
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that is what we need to fix. host: this is from --, there is no way to monitor someone who refuses and offered job paid we are asking the question whether democrats are killing the american dream. next is felix from north carolina. caller: good morning. how are you? host: we are doing great. good to hear from you. caller: i have a great topic, how many lives -- lies do we have to listen to before we listen? wall street journal opinion page, let's have an internal argument. jot this down and allow one of your people to look it up, you can show with the democrats are twice as good on the economy as republicans. worst jobs, worse track record.
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what it does, it is not the article but the chart that goes down from 1945 with truman all the way up to bush 43. obama is in their and it came out that democrats do twice as many. this is direct evidence. you are putting and propaganda, why don't we put in reality. have one of your people pull it up and look at it. it's as president, jobs created and payroll expansions, all i can say is god bless americans and all those who protect and serve this great country. godspeed on your endeavors. host: thank you from north carolina. the president back in washington today, focusing on the vaccination program. joining us is captain doyle, for the washington examiner.
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thank you for being with us. guest: good morning. host: let's talk about what the president will be discussing today. what do you think we will learn new? guest: people here about biden building on his message to get out and get vaccinated or wear a mask. there was confusion of the are marked by the cdc of the rabbit overhaul and i think that he will be looking to reassure americans and to push the message that americans should beginning vaccinated. host: there has been hesitancy for people to get the second vaccine. how does the administration plan to deal with it? guest: they are looking to push the message that as soon as you get your second shot you can resume on a life.
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you can sit with friends in the vaccinated section at a sports game. i think that will be key to ensuring that they are able to up the total number of people getting shots and ultimately coming back for a second. host: you have a headline from the washington post, the director of the cdc defending the abrupt reversal unmask recommendations. she made rounds sunday morning including this week with martha raddatz posting and was asked about mixed messages. >> this is an important point, and that is about individuals and what individuals are at risk of doing if they are not vaccinated. if they are vaccinated, they are safe. if they are not vaccinated they should still be wearing a mask or get vaccinated.
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this is not permission for widespread removal of masks for those who are vaccinated it may take time for those to be comfortable removing masks. has to be made at the jurisdictional, community level. some have been hit harder and have lower vaccination rates could we wanted to deliver science at the individual level we understand these decisions have to be made at the community level. martha: let's talk about the unmasked and on vaccinated. his specialist told the washington post there is no way to know who is vaccinated and who is not in most scenarios. the likely result is that almost no one will wear a mask. she went on to say the risks would dramatically increase as most stop masking. do you dispute that? >> what i would say is the unvaccinated people need to work to protect themselves and mask
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