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49,000 jobs were added in january, a pittance of the number needed to offset devastation from the pandemic and failed former administration's failed efforts to help the american people which amounted a little more than let them eat cake. even worse, long term unemployment, being out of work longer than six months is very close to the high set in the great recession. almost 40% of jobless americans in january were long term unemployed. right now there are an estimated 10 million fewer jobs than before the pandemic. remember, anytime someone says the failed president was so great for the economy, this is where the rubber hits the road. thankfully, we're now not under the cartoon leadership of the former president. joe biden has plans based on experts, strategy, science to help the american people on the economic and medical front in the fight against the covid-19
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pandemic. the biden administration is deploying 1,110 active duty service members, including teams from army, air force, navy, and marines to support five fema covid-19 vaccination centers across the country. the first team set to arrive in california in ten days. the biden white house also says it will soon utilize defense production act in several ways to procure equipment and supplies for pfizer to make additional vaccine, to tap six companies to make 61 million at home covid-19 tests by end of summer, and built factories to produce raw materials needed for nitrile surgical gloves. a billion pairs a month. all of that means jobs. all of that should have been done a year ago. the biden administration also isn't ruling out using defense production act to aid in production of johnson & johnson's one shot vaccine which is currently awaiting emergency
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use authorization from the fda. that should come any day now. the federal government is set to ship 10.5 million vaccine doses a week for the next three weeks to states, that's 20% increase compared to the failed former administration. starting this coming week, the federal government will ship vaccines straight to retail pharmacies across the country. first shipment of 1 million doses going to 6500 pharmacies, eventually reaching 40,000. states were left on their own after receiving vaccine from the failed former administration and at much lower quantities than promised. nearly 27 million americans have now been diagnosed with covid-19, more than 461,000 americans have died. roughly 3,000 americans continue to die every day from this disease. with no time to spare, president biden set to move forward on the $1.9 trillion relief plan as soon as possible. >> i'm going to act.
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i'm going to act fast. i would like to be doing it with the support of the republicans. i met with republicans, some really fine people that want to get something done but they're not willing to go as far as i think we need to go. if i have to choose between getting help now to americans hurting so badly, getting bogged down in a lengthy negotiation or compromising on a bill that's up to the crisis, that's an easy choice. i'm going to help the american people who are hurting now. >> all of this was set up by the senate's passing of a budget resolution on thursday with vice president kamala harris historically casting the tie breaking vote. first time a woman or black american ever cast a tie breaking vote on the senate floor. that was from the historic to histrionic. marjorie taylor greene has responded to being thrown off
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budget and education and labor committees calling democrats and 11 republicans that voted to remove her morons for giving sun like me free time, whatever that means. it should be noted her tweet calling people morons has grammatical area and shouldn't be up for debate. she's -- in attempt to apologize or explain, marjorie taylor greene on the house floor said i was allowed to believe things that weren't true. i was allowed to believe things that weren't true. it is unclear who other than marjorie taylor greene allowed marjorie taylor greene to believe things that weren't true. maybe she thought mystery
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science theater was a documentary. she's now fundraising off removal from committees, and least self aware statement in human history. two other members of the m.o. ronic wing, louie gohmert and andrew clyde from georgia were fined $5,000 not following new security measures at capitol hill following the january 6 insurrection. they have 90 days to pay, or it will be deducted from their salary. they seem completely not to care that those security measures are in place for them. >> i screamed my colleagues to follow me, follow me across the aisle to the republican side of the chamber so we could blend in. but within moments, i recognized that blending in was not an option available to my colleagues of color. >> how can we trust that you will address the suffering that
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white supremacy causes on a day-to-day basis in the shadows if you can't even address the white supremacy that happens in front of you at your house. >> several more people have been charged for their roles in the siege, including a woman seen on camera using a batter ee rim. she was shouting directions into a megaphone through a broken window to other insurrectionists. three more members of the domestic extremist group the proud boys, a group that canada has deemed a terrorist group, on the same level as isis and al qaeda. two of those wrote murder the media on the capitol's memorial door, have also been charged with conspiracy to obstruct congress. as for one of the other people the mob was trying to murder, former vice president mike pence, he is launching a podcast, comes as election technology company filed a
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$2.7 billion lawsuit against a host of characters that pedalled lies about the company and the election, including guiliani, and sidney powell and others. the earth is round. two plus two equals four. joe biden and kamala harris won the election. the election was not stolen, rigged or fixed. these are facts. the second impeachment trial of the failed former president begins this tuesday. and the mountain of evidence points squarely to his guilt on incitement of insurrection. by the insurrectionists own words, they were rioting and doing what the failed president told them to do. it doesn't matter, the failed former president fled to his topical golf resort in florida. what happened, the attempted coup does matter and cannot be let off the hook.
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joining me, "the washington post" reporter, eugene scott, host of the next four years podcast on amazon, and contributor to the book, 400 souls which we will talk about in the next two hours. one of the latest dives into the heart of the matter after a campaign full of questions advancing racial equality is a foundation of biden's presidency so far. good morning, eugene. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> eugene, i want to talk about this particular issue. after the election of joe biden and through the transition period until the inauguration, there were complaints raised by a number of black supporters of the president, people of color as well, saying these are the groups that took joe biden over the finish line to get the nomination for the economic party and possibly to earn him the election and didn't feel their levels of representation were appropriate in the new administration. have those concerns gone away?
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>> they have remained and will likely remain as the administration continues, not because there's lack of confidence in the biden administration to have representation reflect the population of the united states but this is just something that groups constantly have to keep their eyes on. i don't think most americans who don't think about this matter, especially white americans, realize how underrepresented so many groups of color are at tables of power and influence in washington, d.c. and this isn't something that happens just because leaders prioritize it, it is something that happens when groups stay on the necks of those in positions of power. that's why you will continue to see women's groups, black groups, asian american groups, lbgtq groups want to be sure that people from their populations are involved in shaping policy moving forward, especially since these groups were so underrepresented in the
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trump administration. >> we were having a conversation with my producers about the significance of the now transport secretary, former mayor, pete buttigieg as the first openly lbgtq cabinet secretary. what does that do, what does that mean for lbgtq rights, might be great for the transportation department and high speed rail, what is the elevation of someone like that to a cabinet position meaning to people that think that lbgtq rights were set back in the trump administration. >> well, they were, and there were at least 200 laws or policies introduced in statehouses in 2020 alone that lbgtq rights leaders considered to be discriminatory. seeing buttigieg be the first senate confirmed gay cabinet member, it is significant based on a conversation i had with the director of victory institute, an organization that gets lbgtq
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elected and put in positions of power. and we're in a time where we look at teen suicide rates, and the group with the highest suicide rate are lbgtq, seeing them in positions of power lets them know the future can be bright, not so dark, even though now they may be a situation where their options are limited. buttigieg's presence and presence of other individuals at the top levels of government can shed light and hope, not just for lbgtq americans but for their communities and people who wonder what their future could look like in a country that recently put forward an administration that did not celebrate adversity. >> you put a tweet out that speaks to a little of my history. you obviously know it. you may be too young to experience it, i actually owe a lot of my career to lou dobbs.
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he was the most notable business journalist in the country, decided to abandon business journalism in favor of concerns about what he called broken borders, outsourcing america. he began his xenophobic view of things. you tweeted lou dobbs left cnn as hard line views on immigration became bigger part of his personality. he was early proponent of birtherism against barack obama, landed at fox news in 2010 where he became must watch tv for trump. that came to an end yesterday. >> it absolutely did. it is in part because of what the conservative media complex, industrial complex beyond lou dobbs has allowed to be normal, constant misinformation aimed at persuading viewers to view the truth and facts in a different direction and as we have seen as you reported previously, there are real consequences for that type of misinformation,
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xenophobia and racism, violence, insurrection and riot that led to the death of five people and suicides of two police officers. this is something that many individuals who perpetuated the lies and myths are held accountable for because this is irresponsible and impossible i think for many of these networks to look at their hosts and journalists and others they allow to have positions of influence and allow them to remain in place. there are real consequences to this too, financially and when it comes to light. >> money does talk. when i say oh, my career, he stopped covering business and created opportunity for me to do so. sideways thanks to lou dobbs. good to see you. eugene scott, "the washington post" reporter, host of the fix and the next four years podcast. contributor to a book everybody has to read called "400 souls."
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we'll talk about it later in the show. good to see you. thank you. joining me, terrorist analyst malcolm nance. author of "the plot to betray america." how team trump embraced our enemies, compromised our security and how we can fix it. good morning. good to see you. >> good morning. >> let's talk about the fact that the trial begins this week, trial of the insurrection of donald trump. he has been impeached. the senate has to decide if anything happens to him. his argument is i am leaving office, i left office anyway, this is moot. it continues to deny the reality we see in testimonies for members of congress, in letters from congressional staffers, in videos that we continue to see about how close so many people in that building were to death. putting aside effect on democracy, there were people close to being killed that day.
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there were people killed that day. >> you're absolutely right. it came to be a near thing that most senior leadership of the united states government could have been incapacitated, injured, killed, or taken out. the vice president of the united states was in the building, vice president elect of the united states was in the building, speaker of the house and president of the senate pro tem. if they had been incapacitated, it would have left donald trump as the only sworn senior officer in the united states government that afternoon. there were people that attacked the building with the intent to cause harm. we know that what we call in the terrorism business murder cells or capture and kill teams were individuals that stated they were going to go into the building and do that. the fbi is building conspiracy cases against several militia members who intended to do that. this is far more dangerous thing than most people realize.
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it wasn't a walk in the park, it was an attack on the american institution itself, and individuals like congresswoman ocasio-cortez, more noteworthy people, nancy pelosi, maxine waters would have been at a minimum marched out of the building and humiliated. we don't know what the actual intent of every person in the mob, but a mob acts violently, they will go out of control. >> there's a question about whether they will move to convict. i am fascinated by people in the house that were at risk the same way the democratic members were of the house and senate would have a question about this, but regardless beyond that is something else. the idea that as former president, donald trump would be entitled to intelligence briefings. there are concerns. michael cohen, former fixer, publicly stated he will try to sell u.s. intelligence secrets
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if it helps him financially. joe biden asked by norah o'donnell of cbs said i would rather not speculate out loud, i think there's no reason for him to get the intelligence briefings. what value is getting intelligence briefing, what impact does he have other than he might slip and say something. what do you think. is the danger he slips and says something or the danger that he tries to monetize america's secrets. >> i think the second one is correct. donald trump will attempt to traffic in that information. we already saw during his administration to jared kushner trafficked in intelligence, gave that to the prince of saudi arabia, which led him to purge his oligarchy of hundreds of billions of dollars based on a list issued by u.s. intelligence. this is not something we can allow to happen. donald trump does not need top secret special access information, he didn't listen to it when he wayne office. why should he have access now.
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if you give it to donald trump, his entire family will use the information. i am certain at some point we are going to find out where u.s. information was monetized for their own personal gain. you know what, read "new york times" or go on parler, have someone explain it to him. >> good to see you as always. thank you for joining us. malcolm is the executive director of the terror project on strategy, tactics, radical ideology and msnbc terrorism analyst and veteran of naval intelligence. coming up next, opening day in the bronx, substitute hot dogs and homeruns for in knock -- inoculations. here's the line right now to get vaccines. we're going there next. get vaccines we're going there next [ thunder rumbles ] [ engine rumbling ] ♪♪
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the nfl getting on board with president biden's covid vaccination efforts telling the president they would make all stadiums available to become mass vaccination sites. not just the nfl. sport stadiums are being turned into vaccination centers. not sure why it has taken this long, it includes yankee stadium which aims to inoculate one of the neighborhoods hit hardest by
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it, the bronx. aaron gilchrist is live there to tell us more about the efforts. good morning to you. it is cold outside yankee stadium. not preventing people from lining up for inoculations this morning. >> reporter: not at all, ali, we have seen hundreds lined up already this morning. there are two lines going now. this side of me, this is a line for people that have appointments. 15,000 appointments made available in the first week of vaccinations here at yankee stadium. on the other side, people that don't yet have appointments, hoping they're able to get one today, at least an appointment today to come back in a few days. look, the reality is, we have known this since the pandemic started, there's uneven impact on communities of color and low income communities. so this site opening here at yankee stadium, the city and state wanted to have this available for folks that live here in the bronx. you have to be a bronx resident to come here for vaccination. this part of new york city, this borough had the highest covid-19
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positivity rate in recent counts done in new york city of all five boroughs. they want to be sure folks that live in the bronx have access to vaccinations. we talked to some people in line today about the process of getting an appointment here or not getting an appointment. how hard was it to get an appointment? >> tried to go through online, i couldn't get through online, that's the reason i'm here today. >> reporter: so the young lady we talked to was a teacher here with her parents, they were able to get appointments today. they said the process once they were able to get online was fairly quick for them. folks again in this line are hoping to go into one of the ticket booths at yankee stadium to sign up for an appointment and come back to get the inoculation next week. a lot of the line is moving fairly quickly. hopefully they'll be able to get shots and get the second shots in the near future.
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>> aaron, thank you for the reporting. enjoy yankee stadium, means something different than it used to, but it is a good thing, saving people's lives today. by the way, wealthy people cutting the line to get a vaccine, stop doing that. you'll get a turn. using money and privilege to protect against the virus is selfish and means others that need it more are pushed out. imagine waking up to a whole new world. a british team that slipped into a coma three weeks before the uk went into covid lockdown is now regaining consciousness. a 19-year-old suffered a traumatic brain injury after he was hit by a car march 1st, last year. ten months later, showing signs of improvement. family says it is like he slept through the pandemic and they're trying to figure out how to introduce him to the new normal. why is everybody wearing a mask. more velshi after the break. more velshi after the break. - oh. - what's going on? - oh, darn! - let me help.
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when it comes to health care in america, the more you have financially, the more you know, the better you're going to do. same truth playing out in the covid vaccine rollout. there aren't enough vaccines available for everyone yet, that's why there are restrictions who can get them at the moment. we spent a year honoring front line andy sengs workers as heroes, praising them for courage battling the pandemic head on, made sure we got the care we all needed. as vaccinations have gone on, it is clear many aren't according the respect we claimed to have for them. there are a growing number of people jumping the line, people using their connections with those that control vaccine doses to get to the front of the line, making appointments, not telling them they're not part of a group eligible to get vaccines. or those like the soulcycle
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instructor that got classified as an educator to get her vaccine. then there are those with means to travel to get the vaccine. in the earliest days of rollout, snow birds from out of state, including from canada, traveled to florida, some on charter jets to take advantage of that state's unregulated vaccine distribution process. all of this has only exacerbated inequalities that existed long before covid. associated press analyzed vaccinations in 17 states and two cities, found black people in all places studied are vaccinated at levels way below their representation in the population, despite contracting and dying from covid at levels that are much higher than their rate in the population. the cdc notes that black, hispanic, native americans are dying from covid at three times the rate at which whites are, given higher proportion of them are the essential workers that kept things running. many of the people also live in so-called vaccine deserts, don't
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have vaccination centers close to them, or systems in place that make it difficult to get a shot, things as simple as restricted online signups when people don't have internet at home. are there exceptions to the wait your turn rule? yes, there are, but for good reason. our friend dr. stanford that runs the covid consortium said they recruited healthy members of the divine nine, black sororities and fraternities, fighting stigma against vaccines in the black community. these people getting vaccinated are playing the role of models. more and more people needing and eligible to be vaccinated are doing so as a result. look, it is a privilege to get a shot in your arm before someone else who is eligible and needs it. hundreds of thousands more americans will die from covid, many from communities that do not have that privilege. so please, don't skip to the front of the line. the system has already pushed
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them out. if you have the means, biggest thing you can do is stay home, let those who can't afford to do so get their shot first. dr. jones, epidemiologist, former president of american public health association joins me now. dr. jones, there are preventables. lots of things about the health care system that are broken, unequal. one thing we can prevent is ask people that don't have to get to the front of the line to let other people that need the vaccine get it first. we will all get ours in time. >> that's right. three huge reasons why people should do that. first is fairness as you talked about. the second is if you want to save the most lives we can, this is the way to do it to get the vaccine to those more exposed. but the third thing is if we want to decrease the possibility of developing new variants, we also need to get the vaccine to those most exposed either at work or where they live because
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these variants happen when people spread the virus, so if you are more exposed, you're more likely to get the virus and spread it. it is not even understanding that health equity is about providing resources according to need, i understand. i'll say this. i understand in this war against the covid-19 coronavirus, all of us want to put on a bulletproof vest, right, all of us do. but if we really want to be right with the bullets flying and the like, we need to give the bulletproof vests to those in the line of fire either at work or where they live. >> what a great way to put it. thank you for that. i want to talk about some developments the last few days, including president biden says he will start to ship vaccines directly to drug stores and pharmacies to ramp up
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vaccinations. is that going to result in greater access to people that otherwise had difficulty getting the vaccine? >> no, not necessarily, because there are many communities in the country, these are communities chronically disinvested over the years, pharmacy deserts. we need to actually talk to folks in those communities to find out where would be the best place to have our vaccine distribution site. i understand some pharmacies are thinking about partnering with other organizations, perhaps boys and girls club, ymca or the like. we certainly should be thinking about using community health centers which are standing in the breach so long in terms of bringing help to disinvested communities, but actually, maybe we should talk to the mayors, talk to city councils and get some ideas in your setting, what would be the best. >> community health centers are an issue we should discuss at
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some point. what we are seeing today, we saw one of our reporters at yankee stadium. we heard the nfl say use our stadiums. we have 1110 members of the military deployed to federal vaccination sites. we have some states using national guard, and fema and money from fema coming. are those the things that help? yankee stadium in the middle of the bronx, hard hit area where people have difficulty getting access to the internet, let alone places to get the vaccine. do those things move the needle in terms of health equity? >> it is where people are. in foxboro, the stadium outside boston was used. many black and brown folks might have difficulty getting there. what we need to do is put the vaccination sites, to disseminate them into communities right where they live, so people don't have to get on a train, have to try to get an uber or however to get
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there if they don't have a car. use churches, community health workers going door to door. we need to be creative, we need to be intentional to get the vaccine to those most in need. >> well said. thank you for joining us. she's an epidemiologist, former president of the american public health association. always appreciate your time. we are highlighting black excellence all month long. who embodies that better than madam vice president kamala harris, she makes it look easy. history shows there were many obstacles standing in the way of someone like her getting the job she's got. there was one woman that walked so harris could run. they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. speak to deborah watts about emmett till about the lynching that continues 66 years after
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17 days ago kamala harris broke through centuries worth of obstacles to be the first woman of color, of south asian heritage, first graduate of historic black college and university, and first black woman vice president of united states of america. whether or not you share her politics, who she embodies is the future of the country, one growing more racially diverse. it started after becoming the second black woman to serve in the senate, she announced plans to seek the democratic nomination for president. harris boasted her candidacy on mlk day in 2019, and used a familiar but red and yellow lettering and logo, reminiscent to shirley chism, first black
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woman nominated to congress. her run for president ran short, but impact on women of color in politics and culture was and is significant. shirley chism entered congress, representing the 12th district of new york. three years later did she do what john lewis might have referred to getting into good and necessary trouble when she chose again to disrupt the political landscape running for president. it was a familiar long shot campaign she mostly financed with her own credit card, but it was more than symbolic gesture. her slogan, unbought, unbossed was far more than words for a campaign poster. she lived those words while breaking barriers for women, specifically black women, telling them all if they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. and she encountered sexism, racism her entire life, experienced and spoke about it in her political life, none of
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it deterred her from the bigger mission of embracing her history, who she was, and working toward change. historian, author, inspiration and founder behind black history month carter woodson spoke of the importance of black history saying, quote, we are going back to that beautiful history and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements. a year before her death, she echoed that sentiment summarizing her own life saying i want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to congress, not as the first black woman to make a bid for the presidency of the united states, but as a black woman that lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself. i want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in america. in that, she succeeded. and in kamala harris, she can see success of the road she helped pave. ess of the road she helped pave. there was nothing i could do.
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black history month is the black family. as we celebrate the history of black struggle, we remember the story of one family's long fight for justice following a heinous crime. this is the story of emmett till, after flirting with a white woman, after they tortured and killed him, they were killed. his mother never gave up the fight to bring attention to the injustice and what was happening in the united states. >> i believe the whole united states is mourning with me. and if the death of my son can mean something to other unfortunate people around the world, for him to have died a hero would mean more than for him to just have died. >> mamie's open casket funeral
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for her son is seen as inflection point at the start of the civil rights movement. he was lynched, he was killed, murdered outside the justice system for an alleged offense without a trial. killers serving as judge, jury, executioner. if you believe that's a thing of the past, don't. they're very much part of the present, from amod arbery to killings of george floyd and rayshard brooks last year. these sparked something of a new civil rights movement. joining me, deborah watts. good to see you. you have for a long time fought to keep the memory and understanding of these things which we have come to know as lynchings in the public consciousness. what does it mean to you every time you see another of these
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instances where police or citizens take decisions into their own hands, kill people that are not given a chance to defend themselves or given a trial, and i mean, it is modern day lynching. >> yes. yes. well thank you very thank you much for having me here today. it is a sad part of our history. it is black history month. a sad part is it was a continuation of things that happened before emmett, and through emmett and now today. it is a wound that is continuing to be opened. it is something that i think our country needs to reckon with, with the hatred and racism and the power that is brought upon black and brown people in america, and so we need to make sure that we're understanding how we are contributing to this
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continuation, to this throw line, if you will, that is continuing in our country, and so i just would like for us to reflect on that and to look at how we can reckon with our past and then make sure that we can move forward toward some type of reconciliation because we've not paid yet for some of our past sins whether it's slavery to jim crow. i'm sorry. yes. >> when george floyd died there was stuff going around that he may have passed a counterfeit $20 bill. i don't know if it was true, but whether it was true or not how did he end up dead? same thing for emmett till. he was accused of flirting with a woman, carolyn bryant and whether or not it was true he ended up dead as a result and it turns out that is not likely true and there is a woman probably responsible for the events that led to emmett till's
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death who is alive, by the way. it's hard to reckon without justice. >> that is true. that is so true, and that is something that we are continuing to pursue and all of the other families, as well. that is due them. the accountability, transparency, truth and justice needs to prevail and we need to continue. those families, just like ours are seeking something that our country's never given us, and so what we want to make sure is before we can move forward toward any kind of racial reconciliation that we deal with the past. we are owed the truth. we are owed justice, and our justice department has about 152 other names of those cold cases where their families are still out there that are looking for justice and truth and accountability and that's missing right now and we need to look forward, that how you can rectify the wrongs in this
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country and that has to do and we have to look really closely at our justice department, and someone has said, how do you expect the justice department who has never been considered something that's been for us, if you will, for african-americans. when we think about black lives matter we think about how in our country from the equity perspective, from the economy perspective, health disparities and education disparities, environmental disparities that occur. how can we think that our judicial system would work for us when it has never been built for us. so we are still hopeful that we can achieve that kind of justice, whether it's in the courtroom or outside of the courtroom. we're currently asking for a petition and we're asking people to sign a petition that demands justice to bring carolyn bryant ana who is still alive, bring charges to her as an accomplice
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to emmett's murder, and for george floyd's murder, we can name the names and count those cases where no one has been held accountable and so those things need to change in this country before we can move forward towards any talk about reconciliation or racial reconciliation in this country. >> yeah. it's an important conversation because 66 years after emmett till's death i think a lot of people think that's a settled matter and it's a bad thing that happened and it's a settled matter. there is someone that triggered that chain of events that remains alive and uncharged today. thank you very much for joining us. deborah watts is the cousin of emmett till and the head of the emmett till foundation. velshi is just getting started. jared bernstein, a member of the president's council of economic advisers and cory booker joins tiffany to talk impeachment and his bold new proposal on
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good morning. it's saturday, february 6th. i'm ali velshi. we begin this morning with renewed help with americans awaiting financial relief amid the pandemic. president biden is closer to passing his top priority, the $1.9 billion relief package for millions of struggling americans. the house passed a reconciliation process, the tool that will allow democrats to pass the relief bill with zero republican support if necessary because it bypasses the filibuster. it was a 50/50 party line vote. vice president kamala harris historically casting the tiebreaking vote. the house adopted it by a vote of 219-209 in the afternoon. this comes as the united states added just 49,000 jobs in january and unemployment dipped to 6.3%. this is not nearly the kind of growth we need to see to recover from the deep, deep hole that we're in. we're still about 10 million jobs down from before the pandemic.
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>> we can't do too much here. we can do too little. we can do too little and sputter and the end result is it's not just the economic impact to rebuild, and it's people's lives. real, live people are hurting and we can fix it. >> more good news this week. drugmaker johnson & johnson applied for emergency use authorization for its potential gamechanging single-shot coronavirus vaccine this as the biden administration announces to use the defense production act to ramp up production of at-home tests and protective equipment over the next month. the defendant department is deploying 1,110 troops. the first team is set to arrive in california in ten days. the pentagon also weighing a broader request from fema to call up 10,000 active duty troops to help battle the pandemic and this morning nbc
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