congress doesn't like being overstepped. so you have people on the democratic side a lot of house members who are taking trump to task but you also have a lot of republican senators who feel as though they are no longer part of the conversation what trump is done in this and think that you point to some interesting things here. he's using this to basically circumvent congress and congressional powers but also i think to bolster this authoritarianism that he personally believes that he thinks that the buck stops with him and he's fine with doing that this is the same president who when obama was in office talked over and over again tweeted over and over again about his use of executive powers about him signing so many executive orders and how much of a problem it was and now we're seeing him do actually more than what obama did and he is trying to make sure that. he basically sizes things up for this election he knew that it was going to take a long time for anything to get through congress the deliberations were not anywhere where people expected them to be and i think that he is using this to say ok well maybe i'm doing something where they're american people even though that

something is outside of his powers something of the group forget about executive you know executive orders there and they're not laws they're not passed by congress they're not things that every citizen has to obey or every u.s. business has to but in truth they're really just for government employees at the end of the day they're really just like here's the president's kind of idea of the direction the government is going to go in but and that does eventually filter out the citizens but they're not like you're going to get in trouble let's say with the tick-tock ban that's a private company a bigger that way it's not like you can ban tick tock it's absolutely ridiculous but when you dig into what these things you know what's what some of these executives really it's you know it's not what they appear to be especially movie mirrors they have years ago and you know trump is a great advertiser he's a great marker of himself and i think that he's selling things that the general public doesn't understand no one of his new orders allows employees that make less than $104000.00 that's the majority of america to delay their payroll tax until

january he no january is obviously x. after election day but to do that you also have a massive bill post-election trying doesn't care because well it was already over you know these are the 1st payments meaning rental you do have to pay them exactly but his argument is he can change the federal laws to make those parts those into a permanent tax cut that would permit tax cut only happens if he were elected and the payroll tax funds would come directly from social security and medicare has been wanting to pull away from payroll taxes since before he got elected he doesn't believe in social security or medicare and he's fine with getting them both it's interesting too because the other order that he talked about that's a great great point remember mation brought up the other order of the $400.00 a week which isn't the $600.00 extra that we're getting the word we were getting but now the $400.00 extra that would come in for. on employment to pay for that though he's going to pull from the $44000000000.00 in federal funds that have been set aside for natural disaster relief while we're in the middle of hurricane season or about to be where experts are now predicting over 2525 named storms named storms

that little ones may be going to are going to be hitting the atlantic coast i mean possibly the pacific this is not something you want to do plus states are going to chip in to as much as $100.00 about $400.00 as well and states are broke from fighting coves they are cash strapped already there are so many states florida being one of his favorites that has only paid out 2 percent of its unemployment benefits already i don't know how this is going to actually be helpful for states where does the money come it really is and at the end of the day we've got to get away from this executive order obsession because look the bush administration started the start of the obama ramped it up hugely in his administration and now trump's like clearly taken it even further down there we got to pull back from that because at the end of the day we're not we're not governed by a king or queen congress is there to do that we don't executive orders are being abused you know 3 presidents no then we have to start using congress for what it's used for yes. with covert 19 numbers starting in cities across

america round about now many local leaders are faced with some tough decisions ship they reversed course on the openings of restaurants stores and nail salons and hair salons how can they ban interstate travel effectively and what will people stop having house and beach parties even with the news of rising coronavirus cases americans still seem to be living their best lives this summer is that the pandemic is a joke my hometown chicago seems to be fed up with the lack of vigilance tourists are taking during this time chicago is known as the jewel of the midwest for its skyline its downtown area fine dining shopping and beaches. summertime shy brings thousands of tourists and more importantly poorest dollars last year alone chicago a tourism record of $58000000.00 visitors generating over $140000000.00 in hotel spending alone the tourism is big bucks but with coated it's also risky business.

in walks the chicago department of health public health authorities shared an update this week stating officials may start checking social media profiles to collect evidence on. this is supposedly meant to help track their behavior because many travelers post pictures and videos of their gatherings on facebook twitter and instagram but privacy advocates are already calling foul the american civil liberties union a.c.l.u. is prepared to file a lawsuit against the city of chicago for any application of social media monitoring that threatens liberty and privacy. privacy on digital platforms isn't the only issue coded 1000 is bringing to light in the u.s. as vaccine drug makers are fighting against the clock to get a vaccine ready and on the market the big legal question is could the government requires people to get it or will people actually do their jobs if they don't get the vaccine. and the answer may startle you legal precedent dating back to 905 allow states to impose fines and other wish if

a vaccine is refused this all begs the question when do individual rights and liberties outweigh public health. that is the question that has been on the tips of people's tongues since the start of the pandemic that is what you always hear whenever people talk about whether they want to wear a mask or whether this is going to happen my individual liberty my individual liberty it's a hard question as do i think the state should be finding individuals for not getting vaccines and things like that that's a tough question to answer that's one of those ones words like well once we actually get a vaccine it's good to think about it ahead of time but once we actually get it once it's no longer mysterious and magical bring down the road then maybe we'll cross that bridge but as far as the state or city of chicago monitoring tourists what tourist who's traveling to chicago right now in the midst of all this craziness with cobra to go take pictures in front of the great lakes you would be surprised really there been thousands of people who have traveled to take pictures and part of the beam which as a chicago i don't understand the fascination with bend metal thing but ok and they

are flooding the beaches as soon as the mayor reopened the beaches they were closed for the 4th of july but they opened immediately that next week more and more people showed up but then with this digital monitoring is that we see city governments and state governments try it for various things and when you open that pandora's box it's hard to close it better so there's a reason why a lot of the advocates are pushing against the digital and social media monitoring because no one can tell them we don't know how far this data collection is going to go and even if it's said to be used in a public health crisis who knows how long it's going to be mined or if it will affect people long term or you know what could actually happen and how does that open the door to future abuse over things not as important as a pandemic you know well we need to monitor everyone social media because of the excesses then you get like a trickle down effect you know there has 5 to be. consequences for violating surveillance rules and posse and and policies in the tragedy is there's not a lot of surveillance rules to begin with you know there's not

a law protecting the constitution was shredded with the patriot act when it came to light and you know for the 4th and 5th amendment so we're kind of in this dark area right now where we don't really know what the rules of surveillance by our government will be and it's pressure on them because social media is one of the easiest ways to surveil someone and in all honesty companies businesses people's employers are already doing that without the permission of individuals themselves so i think that you know what they use it for is more of the question than whether or not there's surveilling because we're getting some every day and i mean i think that's the big question i want to kind of this is like are we really that bad as a society that we need laws to tell us to be civil but we need laws need government watching our social media just to make sure that we're not out spreading the disease but i don't think we're going to a level of big brother isn't that scary because it's a certain point we have to believe that the public is going to do we tell them to do people are dying there is this virus that's spreading around everywhere in order to decrease that you need to social distance that should be all that we have to

tell people you know clearly it isn't so i think that you know cities and localities they are grappling with this because america unlike a lot of other nations who literally follow the rules and seems to have a very hard time putting other people ahead of its head of themselves you know we were very selfish and i think the democrats kind of exposed the selfishness it's interesting when you get into the legal process for vaccines because mandatory vaccines because it all goes back to as you mentioned 100005 which was the supreme court case of jacobson versus massachusetts and that's the legal precedent for mandatory vaccines through fines and loss of social access due to the spread of smallpox smallpox was no joke about but now we have a vaccine no one really gets it that often we hope states have the authority to mandate vaccines but this could create a patchwork of state. that require them but then some don't so then it becomes like well if i go to town to see i've got to get the back see him but if i go to you

know illinois suddenly i don't and that creates a big problem when it comes to trying to contain this leak no absolutely it would end up looking the exact same as the mass mandates and you never know where you have people in places where it's absolutely mandatory for you to wear them and then you have somewhere it's not a think that it's hard when you don't have a federal mandate or you don't have states that are all on board with a public health crisis and we're just not seeing that they've turned this into a political football and states are choosing it and when they want to mandate anything and you know we could avoid mandating vaccines and we could avoid all of this mess or monitoring tourism social media by simply being civil to each other and wearing a mask and staying away from each other 6 peat that's all it takes a step i know all right as we're going to break remember that you can also start watching dogs on the man do the brand new portable t.v. which is available on all platforms coming up we look at the 70 but then a verse 3 of the nuclear bombings of nagasaki of europe and erosion as well as the future of nuclear power proliferation state to watch in the.

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today as russia has developed a possible vaccine 1 for covert 19 reuters and other news outlets around the world now reporting russia has indeed become the 1st country to grant a regulatory approval to a covert 19 vaccine after less than 2 months of human testing a move moscow likened to its success in the cold war era of the space race and apparently russian president vladimir putin is so high on the efficacy of sub vaccine that he had one of his own daughters take it. there is no actual word yet on a u.s. president donald trump has put obama tiffani on an intravenous drip of madrox a clerk queen and lysol in an effort to outdo his russian counterpart will keep you and keep you abreast of that does happen and while asked by experts and political a political as well now dust off the old cold war $2.00 debate over moscow's potential vaccine on cable news channels and social media to no end the virus

itself continues to flourish here in the u.s. especially inside the walls of united states prisons work order analysis by the u.c.l.a. school of laws code 19 behind bars data project and john hopkins the novell coronavirus is now infecting american prison inmates at a rate more than 5 times higher than the overall u.s. population and that's climbing in fact at the federal correctional institution in c. go bill texas the federal bureau of prisons reports that more than 1300 of the approximately 1750 prisoners held there have tested positive for covert 19 these brutal statistics have led to multiple uprisings among the incarcerated populations across the united states just last week in georgia violence broke out of where state prison where the atlanta journal constitution reports that quote tensions were running high due to cope with 192 people incarcerated at the prison have died of

the disease while 22 inmates and 32 employees have tested positive so with covert 19 on fire inside us prisons exposing even more horrors of our prison industrial complex i think that's a good place to start watching the hawks. what's going on in a city. that is so. see as this you always still see a. great city desolate systemic dissent says so. which. brings up the bill. and welcome everyone to watching the hawks. and imus and joining us today to discuss the state of u.s. prisons as we get deeper into the 1st year of the coburg 19 pandemic is the president of the n.w. c.p. in georgia mr james wood all and dr andre m. perry author and fellow with the metropolitan policy program at the brookings

institute thank you both for coming on today. so look over thing. overcrowding lack of proper medical care unsanitary living conditions were already major issues in the u.s. prison system how is covert 19 exacerbated these existing issues dr perry your thoughts. well you know if you mentioned it they were deluded to their presence or . that. virus or its products. area. or are. very. they're also. very people have little recourse and so we need to look for examine the conditions in prisons and we need to socially distance people and create the kind of conditions that enable people to thrive and so. the short of it is that prisons are in the

main places that are conducive for virus spread and other illnesses. and james here in washington d.c. a family of an inmate recently died from kobe while being held in north carolina was an important of his death by the bureau president until over 100 days after it occurred when we talk about coburn in prisons we often only focus on the guards the staff and inmates but how has this crisis affected the families and communities surrounding the u.s. present system. well thank you for that question and as a son of a father who currently serving a sentence in a georgia state prison i've known too well what that impact does my father got cold in 90 we were not able to know really know what the status of your health was you know legal counsel was not able to visit these inmates we had complaints of people not even being able to get the kind of recreational time accustomed to serving tom

so you know this situation has exacerbated it i was just on the wire many ways yes which is what between izing just i frankly just been so there must be action taken action taken now to not only save a lot of ours but also to save money every single person. the prison system in this country you know has been has been damaged and broken for a long time that's why i agree with a lot of people that say you know we need to abolish the prison system as we know would rebuild it from the ground up trying to turn it into a place of reform rather than incarceration but i also want to talk about something else because gentlemen if we can't keep covert from spreading like wildfire in a locked down secure environment like a penitentiary how can we begin to expect to contain covert in our schools james i want to start. well what we have to look at really what this disease is actually

doing and i honestly believe that we have done ourselves a disservice when we're not honest from a state and national level as to what are the risk factors involved in this situation if we as a community programs as a ton of the money in commerce over the actually all the lives of people who live in our communities big we can actually defeat this disease this virus in so as we as it relates to school and we talk about opening up colleges and universities we talk about opening up well i mean every nursery you know what we're talking about is not the actual help of people but rather how can we keep money flow into people's pockets how can we keep the bottom not up in margins here in such a basket and we don't lose billions of dollars for me economic standpoint but also as a as they are up more so the 1st step is actually our time he was lobbying not money but in the 2nd part of actually make sure that people have access to you know resources dr perry or what are your thoughts on that i mean discours even stand

a chance if we can even keep covert from from turning our prisons into even worse nightmares than they already are. well 1st of all i want to. see the president said my father also died in prison and i just want to be clear that the. that structural racism that actually put us in position to be in prison the structural racism that robs school districts of the resources needed to protect children come from the same racist street and so no we won't be able to protect children and communities because one that the federal government have not passed a spending bill that enables school states and school districts to purchase the p.p.s. to socially distance in in classrooms and on buses to provide the technology so

when you do have to shut down a school they can do remote learning and so and they not been able to get those resources to schools because they simply do not care about black people and so for me it's clear that this is an epidemic we'll have more epidemic so there are always some type of tragedy it will repeat itself time and time again until we sure are eradicate the structural racism that continues to put black people in in a vulnerable position. powerful and very true and my heart goes out to you i also lost my mom in a prison as well he died from cancer. nearly 100000 kids 100000 kids in america have been affected with kobe 19 in just the last 2 weeks of july states like georgia are refusing a math mandate for students even though experts like dr anthony 1000 recommend all

schools mandate universal mask wearing our schools across the united states truly great to handle in person learning at this stage in the pandemic or do you think there is an alternative and at since you know we mentioned georgia i'll start with you james. well i think that's a very difficult question because one we as community. we don't need the government to tell us what's right or wrong we have a state we have a nation that has not done the right thing but we at the community level we know was guess what so regardless if government mandates we mandate mask or not we need to tell our people to make sure that they wear a mask that's one of the reasons why the issue in executive order myself as a state president in which all of our members all of our supporters all of our friends and family all wear masks when they're on public because i don't need the governor of the state of georgia to tell us what is in the best interest of our people we are on the community in the grass roots level we know what it means to

say. i'm done waiting for. you know government officials to do was in best interest of our people in this you know more than ever to save our people's lot because we're going up. there with schools are not ready. you see the schools on don't even know what day to open schools it's endemic the lack of preparedness that schools and school districts have the congress had 5 months to prepare for this 5 months and it's almost as if the pandemic occurred a few weeks ago and so intil schools have the resources to open safely and meet safety standards as well as educational standards they will not be ready in what was pointed out earlier that as school students congregate in crowded

spaces there since these facilitating the spread those kids go back to their homes and spread the disease of the illness more and so kids don't live in schools they live in communities schools are not some kind of bubble in which they are sheltered from the rest. the community and so we need to protect the community and the schools and till they are. returned safely i would not advise a parent to send their child to a place that is simply not ready to take on on kids safely that's a great point you bring up and very quickly i just want to ask ask you both a bit at the end of all this is that what what do you believe believe colbert has truly shown as far as the truth of the american system whether it's schools or just

a story i think you know you guys a bit more going in the trenches for a long time i mean realistically covert is it not just exposing that the idea of american exceptionalism was always a myth to begin with dr perry you can start with a little bit of time left. yeah i was going to say that it really revealed the structural racism that is present in our country black people are dying at a higher rate and can speak cuz not because of cove it. attacks black people but it it attacks the conditions in which we live and those conditions were set generations ago and they're set every day and so racism is the preexisting condition that we need to get rid of not and not blame it on asthma or diabetes and all those other things that it's structural racism that is making us vulnerable structural racism that it will destroy the resources needed to make our schools safer structural racism that puts black people in prison at

higher rates and keeps them those conditions unsafe and so all this is doing is revealed playing the person issues policy that attacks black people every day in this country. and not had that it's not just you know i and i'm the president and it was me i get it but. it's not just black the this is a very well in many ways what black people have known for 100 years is that the institution the. mere western civilization is here is not here he cares more about our. actual law and so we talk about crowing about when we talk about the unemployment insurance benefits they're not going to talk about us yes literally becoming bankrupt because the people that are in leadership care more about their bottom line unwilling elections than actually living was how it's. we

have a system that's committed more to the preservation of our you seem to privilege in actual people's lives in so that is reflected in racism that's reflected by supreme see that is reflected. in the mist it's a case of the negro is so on so what do you go down a lot. outside of james is powerful stuff but i hate to cut you off got to go to break but excellent excellent stuff mr james wood on dr andrea perry thank you so much for coming on and educating our audience always a pleasure having you both on and the good work that you're doing thank you so much . all right as we go over there you can also start watching knocks on demand in a brand new portable t.v. which is available on all platforms and coming up the battle over public versus private health care is magnified in the time of coverage tonight stay tuned to watching the hawks.

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