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for democrats (202) 748-8000. for independents (202) 748-8002. and you can always text us at (202) 748-8003. as we start this segment, i want to bring you some breaking news out of the g20 summit in europe right now where president joe biden is. the washington post has the story from this morning. president biden and the other national leaders gathered with the group of 20 summit formally endorsing a new global minimum tax on saturday, capping months of negotiations over the round breaking tax accord. the new global minimum tax of 15% aims to reverse the decades long decline in tax rates on corporations around the world. a trend that experts says has deprived governments of revenue to fund social spending programs.

the deal is a key achievement for treasury secretary janet yellen, who made an international floor on corporate taxes among the top priorities of her tenure and pushed forcefully for swift action on the deal. the plan was already endorsed by the finance ministers of each country, but is officially approved by the heads of state putting added pressure on the difficult task of turning what remains of aspirational agreements into distinct legislation. nearly 100 40 countries representing more than 90% of total global economic output have endorsed the deal. they each must implement the new rule in a process i could take some time. this comes from the washington post with the g20 summit endorsing a groundbreaking global corporate and lung tax. what is your important clinical topic you want to talk about. donald is calling from

alexandria, virginia, on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i'm trying to talk about the program that ended. i wanted to make the observation that back in the 60's, vance packard put out a book called hidden persuaders which was describing how advertisements were working. one of the things in the book that he talked about was they were starting to put on tv these many shots -- mini shots which happen so quickly which was an advertisement to purchase this type of cola. what's not meant to be -- it was not meant to be seen by the conscious mind but a subliminal message that flashed during the program, that your mind could pick up. they outlawed that. it seems to me that one of the problems of facebook, or any

other media on the internet is the algorithms they are using to manipulate the viewer, to see the things that they'll you think you want to see. what they think will help them move advertisements. if they keep your attention in the internet that they are watching by showing you stuff that makes you angry because they know that things make you angry is attractive to people, you will continue to watch their spot. it seems what they need to do is outlaw the ability of these people to run these algorithms to make you late you. host: louise is calling from fredericksburg, virginia, on the

republican line. good morning. caller: i agree with the caller from alexandra. i want to talk about the climate crisis. i would suggest that people read the book by michael quite called study of fear. -- michael quite an called state of fear -- michael creighton called state of fear. [indiscernible] host: unfortunately her signal was cutting off. we will go to alan, from new york city, new york, on the democratic line. good morning. caller: good morning. i was looking at program last night called civil war [indiscernible] it basically seemed like it was trying to give a reason why people in the south, patriotic

confederates hold up their heroes of the old south. in this documentary, it lasted about an hour or two, they did not show or emphasize not just the indignation of the statues in the flags but it never showed the primary thing that most black people seem to be -- they did not mention -- there is the white people, but the majority of people lynched were people of color. african-americans. what i really was unnerved about

was the fact that that's primarily why all of these figures of the colonial south -- or the segregated south, they tortured black people. they had mentions over and above the standard of commonality of humanity. host: what talk to our next caller from daniels, west virginia. caller: good morning. there are so many things that upset me that's going on in the country today. one of the main things i think is that the majority of people pay no attention to what's going on. this government, this administration we have now came

into power saying they were going to be the most transparent. the borders are open. they are not required for vaccines. but they want to require it. and we find out yesterday that they are perhaps planning to pay up to $450,000 per person to the illegal immigrants that were separated from family during the trump administration. kamala harris has been missing in action as all of this is going on. she hasn't been to the border where all of the problems really are. she went down there once, but there's so much going on that i

think america needs to wake up. those are issues that i have. plus the high gas prices. our gas is $3.399 a gallon. we were energy independent under the former administration. host: here's a wall street journal article on the issue the the biden administration is in talks to offer families separated by the trump administration around 400 $50,000 a person in compensation, according to people familiar with the matter, as several agencies work to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children, who say the government subjected them to lasting psychological trauma. the u.s. department of justice,

homeland security, and health and human services are considering payments that could amount to close to $1 million a family. though the final numbers could shift. people familiar with the matter said. most of the families across the border -- to cross the border illegally from mexico often include one parent and one child. they would likely give smaller payouts depending on circumstance, people said. the american civil liberties union, which represents families and one of the lawsuits, has identified 5500 children separated at the border over the course of the trump administration, citing figures provided to it by the government. the number of families eligible under the potential settlement is expected to be smaller, people said, and government officials aren't sure how many will come forward. around 940 claims have so far been filed by the families, the people said. the potential payout could be $1 billion or more.

that comes from the wall street journal, where the united states is in talks of hundreds of millions of families separated at the border. let's go back to our phone lines and talk to edward, calling from harrington, delaware on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for your format today. there are a couple of things i would like to talk about today. firstly, people need to understand the difference between climate and weather. they are two different things. weather is what you look out your window, go outside and experience, where climate is the effects that we are having, whether it be something that is happening every thousand years or whatever people want to say, but the desalination of our oceans are causing issues with our title currents that affect the weather. we are having more severe weather because of those

desalination of our oceans. another thing i would like to bring up is, people in america have a tendency to blame others for something that they could probably experience themselves. what i mean, we are so used to having instant gratification, we are basically living in a country of, the landfill. we have plastics, we have things that we just want at the moment, right now, and until we say, how are we going to help each other to get over this situation, where we just have plastic bottles for everything, microwave our food in 10 seconds, we have a situation where we are not concerned about the planet and our country as a

whole. host: let's talk to kenny, calling from wilson, north carolina on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning, jesse. good to talk to you, man. you are very, very smart and know how to carry on a conversation. i want to ask -- the first thing, i know you just read the thing about giving the $450,000, but i would like to ask the same question when they turn around those haitians, are they willing to do the same thing for the haitians? it just don't seem right, the way they treat people who are black who come over here, compared to the others. the big story of the week i wanted to talk about, i think, is democracy. that trumps everything. we lose our democracy, climate, everything is gone.

right now, the thing that the rule of law has gone. you've got to have the rule of law, but trump has really just trashed that. i think biden should have gotten the attorney general to prosecute him. i think this hearing is a joke. they are wasting time, they cannot ask the right questions and people are refusing to show up. they need to be prosecuted the way they were prosecuted -- they would prosecute me or you. they need to take care of the first thing -- i know it is a lot to put on their plate, but we should have done it right after trump call out -- call out georgia. that was when we have the republicans on our side. host: let's talk to suzanne, calling from florida on the democrats line. caller: i want to know why

people can swallow information about $1 million per person per immigrant, who was separated at the border, number one. number two, how can you call mitch mcconnell a republican? he is absolutely a trump supporter does not believe in the rule of law. republicans believe in the rule of law. trumper's do not. mcconnell advised two senator two -- two senators to ignore a subpoena. that is breaking a lot. that itself is breaking a lot. but the laws nothing to a trumper. they don't believe in the law. only republicans believe in the law, and it bothers me greatly, because i think republicans are very valuable people. host: let's talk to stan, calling from scottsboro, but

alabama -- scottsboro, alabama, on the republican line. caller: i appreciate you taking my call. i have listened to the segments this morning about facebook and listens to all the comments about climate change. two comments, sir. i was raised on a farm. i lived on a farm all my life. i garden, i raise my own food. food is going to be the issue. when people are starving to death, they will pay attention to the climate change. for example, the central valley of california. the drought out there hit, and instead of getting our produce out of there, we get most of our produce out of mexico and florida now. back to the trucking issue. there is not a shortage in this country. a few years ago, they pulled everybody's cdl license, mine included, because we were in active and off the road, ok?

back to facebook. i made the comment earlier that my opinion of facebook as they made their recollections in congress, and they need to, my opinion of the high-tech, technology is probably way, way radical. i predicted years ago that technology would be the downfall of the human race. it has continued to prove me correct. people need to find out where their food comes from. goodbye, thank you very much. host: there is a story in today's new york times that talks about the new covid-19 vaccine for five to 11-year-olds, and i want to bring that story to you. the food and drug administration offers a covid-19 vaccine ages five to 11 on friday, it makes 20 8 million unvaccinated children in the united states subsequently eligible for the shot and all across the country,

an opportunity to make big inroads in this effort to achieve immunity against the coronavirus. but in a community that has already struggled mightily with covid vaccine have is and see -- covid vaccine hesitancy, this may prove the toughest vaccination challenge yet. even many parents who themselves are vaccinated and approved the shot for their teenagers are turning over -- turning over whether to give consent for their younger children, questioning whether the risk of the unknowns of a brand-new vaccine are worth it, when most coronavirus cases in youngsters are mild. in announcing the authorization of a lower dose shot made by pfizer and biontech for the age group, the fda said clinical trial data shows the shot will save a harsh immune response from children.

the fda says covid shots are go for children. let's go back to our phone lines and talk to joann, calling from tennessee on the independent line. joanne, good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? go ahead, joanne. caller: talking about the shots for the kids, i really don't see anything wrong with it if it is safe. but everybody is hesitant for the vaccine now because there have been so many side effects. it's proven that the kids don't get as sick, so -- host: have you been vaccinated? caller: yes. host: did you have any kind of problems? caller: i did. sick, flulike symptoms for a couple of days, fatigue, so --

and when they prove the kids are a risk, maybe, i was at a time when we were mandated for polio shots and smallpox before we could go to school. i didn't see anything wrong with that because they saved a lot of lives. when the vaccine is proving to be safer, i think it may still be a good idea. host: let's talk to ron, calling from stafford's bill, kentucky on the republican line. ron, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i appreciated. one of the oldest plays in the books is class warfare. they want to demonize rich folks and take more of their money. the rich need to be doing more.

it seems like instead of wanting to promote policies to help folks better themselves, they just want to take more of other folks money. why not help people to achieve for themselves? better themselves? host: let's talk to matthew, calling from mesquite, nevada on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have two points. one, the vaccine, we have failed in our public service announcements. the same people that are against this vaccine are people who were against the flu vaccine, and it's our public officials faults for not pushing that scenes more and telling them about it being safe. the other problem i had is the

gentleman calling about the million dollar payout to these families who got separated at the border, to the asian-americans that are the victims of violence. completely different. these crimes against asian-americans are done primarily by american citizens that are troubled, inner-city homeless people, mostly, from my understanding, and this is our governments. taking taxpayers dollars and promoting illegal immigration. they are sending a message to everyone who is coming up now in droves, saying if you come up to the border and get your child separated, or some other event happens to you, you will get a huge payday. host: i think he was talking about haitians, not asians. they haitians who came up

through to texas, not asians. caller: ok, my apologies. i was fixing breakfast, so apologies about that. he's got a point there. if we are going to pay these immigrants that were separated from their families $450,000 a person, yes. who's to say we shouldn't be paying all of the other people? my point is, this has been a horrible message. it is the message that hey, if you come up to america illegally, you are going to get a huge payday. host: let's go to carl, calling from inwood, west virginia on the democrat line. go ahead, carl. caller: finally, we are going to get our payout for our slavery

days, but they gave them to the wrong people. they gave them to the illegals that are coming across. host: let's go to randy, calling from cynthiana, kentucky on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning, sir. thank you. vaccines. i thought a vaccine provided immunity from disease. these are just their punic shots that provide you with some type of therapeutic immunity against it being so harsh to you, when you get it. also, it is not even a prophylactic that keeps it from spreading. are these things not true, what i am saying? host: as you know, the flu vaccine does not know that you -- does not mean that you won't

get the flu. they don't promise that you won't get it, they just promise that if you get it, they won't be as bad. caller: call them therapeutics then, instead of vaccines. host: ok. let's go to brenda, calling from fort lee, new jersey on the republican line. brenda, good morning. caller: good morning, jesse. i did have an opinion about the president, and i am just know unhappy that he is so concerned about us fitting the vaccine, which is a good thing. that's a good thing and i am happy about that. all i am trying to say, all these people coming in from other places, he is not concerned about giving them vaccines or even trying. he is now talking about giving them money if they lose their child in a separation or their child is lost. all i am trying to say is, this is america. the president is doing a really poor job.

please, i really hope in the future that president biden gets his act together. he is not doing a good job. thank you, jesse. host: we would like to thank all of our colors for calling in for that segment. coming up next, our spotlight on podcasts sped -- segment features futuro media's julio ricardo valera, host of "in the thick," which focuses on latino politics and culture. you will hear from him soon, we we'll be right back. ♪ >> exploring the people and events that tell the american story on american history tv. two discussions about american presidents. first, john pitney talks about presidential speeches and public

opinion of the 1970's through the 1990's. as communication shifted from network television to cable, and then the internet. then, david o'connell discusses his presidential legacy and what factors contribute to making a successful presidential term. up next, the truman court, law and the limits of loyalty, in which she argues that harry truman established the precedent for the politicization of the supreme court. find a program guide or watch online any time c-span.org/history. ♪