that and it should also have included a repeal of section $230.00 s liability protection for social media companies naturally the donald is none too plus there's the n.d. double a now waits a vote in the senate where it will more than likely get passed through the democrat out of washington representative adam smith the chairman of the house armed services committee gloriously amounts to throw up on high but today the house sent a strong bipartisan message to the american people are service members in our national security are more important than politics. yes far more important than politics they are and apparently far more important than the american people as well because while congressional democrats and republicans apparently can come together and sing kumbaya over handing the military industrial complex more than $740000000000.00 of our tax dollars they just they just can't seem to find the money or the time to pass a bill to protect and fund the millions upon millions of americans who are heading

into the holidays that are unemployed and have over $5000.00 in rent due yes $5000.00 behind on their rent the washington post reports that according to moody's analytics nearly $12000000.00 renters will owe an average of 5 $1850.00 in back rent and utilities by this january. that my friends is why we are always watching the homeless. if you will go on a cd you streets. that are so let's see the prices you always stay see a rolls royce gracie see this lease systemic deception is the late show which i would say when the bill is. welcome on the watch in the entire world winter and i'm in the so made to look at

this they can come together magically to give about 740000000000 to the pending. you know. millions upon millions 12000000 americans can facing eviction come january but not enough money for them to get along and you know twitter is a blaze for good reason because this is something that the american people have been a crying about now for months and something and it's a cliff we all saw it coming predictability in june we knew it was going to happen before you know right after christmas and i think that at this point there is a level of desperation that should be understandable most of these individuals don't have another lifeline we're talking about many people who have been unemployed their unemployment is about to run out we're talking about people who don't really have savings they've already burnt that we're talking about small businesses they didn't get those p.p.p. loans people are desperate right now and we have 8 congress that for whatever reason life to talk about the american people and what the american people need and want but when push comes to shove have

a very hard time providing basic necessities at this point because we have country after country where we've seen over 1000 hit them as well and they've done a far better job of taking care of their of their people than america and the tragedy is felt like we've talked about this subject at least $34.00 times this year because it's always seems like the we always as a country have enough money for a 1000000 zillion other really interesting projects that come down the congressional way when it comes to passing of legislature but never for the actual like needs of the american people and i wonder of the issues that why we see so many people now so blinded american of love with trump that they're buying into the idea that oh my god the election was overturned because we're talking about an oppressed dejected people the washington kind of left in the dirt a long time ago why i think you hit the nail on the hit there because what we know is that those depressed and dejected people no matter where they are on the globe that leads to a rise of authoritarianism in the sewer a rise of these dictatorial regimes because they're looking for anything that can

help them get on their feet again and to donald trump's credit he ran on once and then try. to the 2nd time but you know kobe kind of blew the question that he what he read on trying to you know build an economy that works for everyone now granted his policy didn't follow through with those things but that was something that he sold people on that in addition to the fact that there was a belief that you know immigrants were the reason that a lot of things went wrong. you know it's interesting because senate military personnel subcommittee chairman that's a long name republican tom tillis in talking about this recent m.b.a. that they passed told me i intend to vote for i understand the president's concern with section 230 but there's so much in this authorization that we we have to move forward with it there is a lot in this authorization and you know i don't want to see a repeal section 230 we've talked about that before. and the you know it's like donald fighting to keep you know confederate maims on military bases again stupid things to fight over but there is a lot in this bill that is

a little alarming number one the bill actually bards us troop reductions in afghanistan germany and south korea without significant justifications but doesn't really say what those significant justifications would be it targets china was 6900000000 prescribe for a new pacific deterrence initiative over the next 2 years it builds a 2nd virginia class submarine and contract authority for up to 2 columbia class submarines and it authorizes you'll love this man $1000000000.00 for that wonderful wonderful f. $35.00 joint strike fighter program that's been just a beacon of government military wasted asked for 93 more of those why are we talking about those issues when everyone is singing kumbaya saying how great the end is well one of the things about riders is that when you have writers to deal for the most part unless you're somebody who is in congress strongly pushing against it the majority of people don't notice what those writers are so i think that you know you illuminating those here is a very strong thing because even with the people who are against the repeal of 230

none of them have mentioned anything else that's included in the bill at all and it's a messed up bill at the end of the day. joe biden has made a controversial pick for the next secretary of defense though the pick up retired 4 star general lloyd austin is historic the president elect's choice does pose you questions artie's alex hell of it as more. he's a familiar face in american. terry circles but not someone who spent a lot of time in the public eye until now retired 4 star army general lloyd j. austin is president elect joe biden's nominee for secretary of defense the choice is a big step towards biden's goal of creating a diverse cabinet austin would be the nation's 1st black defense secretary the 67 year old military man has been described as intensely private and research sharp an individual who has masterfully avoided the spotlight while leading some of the u.s. as largest military campaigns often spent 41 years in uniform most notably as head

of the u.s. forces in iraq and between 20132016 he led the u.s. military central command which oversees troops across the middle east central asia and parts of south asia while his impressive resume may make the west point graduate look like the perfect fit for defense secretary to the dismay of progressives and antiwar activists there is plenty of controversy surrounding austin as a general lloyd austin was one of the individuals who spearheaded the invasion of iraq in 2003 and was involved in the highly criticized war from beginning to end in addition austin played a key role in arming so-called rebel groups in an effort to overthrow syria's president assad on the program failed last an actively campaign to resurrect it austin built a personal relationship with joe biden which began in 2014 when the president elect was v.p. during that time austin was credited for initiating an international coalition

against isis the same year he backed immunity for u.s. troops from war crimes prosecutions by the government of afghanistan right after retiring the former general took a seat on the board of raytheon technologies an arms benefactor which spends millions a year on lobbying the us government and is known for supplying weapons to saudi arabia which have been used against civilians in yemen. and is also a member of an equity fund which invests in defense contractors simply put lloyd austin has profited from war good or bad austin has some hoops to jump through before he can lead the pentagon the retired general needs the help of congress to get the position the government body would have to waive a law designed to ensure civilian oversight of the military the legislation requires that former military brass are out of the game for at least 7 years before they could become secretary of defense biden is well aware of the hurdle but he defended his choice in an atlanta magazine op ed saying austin also knows that the

secretary of defense has a different set of responsibilities than a general officer and that the civil military dynamic has been under great stress these past 4 years i even with biden's pat on the back if there seems to be some uncertainty about the choice i'm going to have to study the. bottom line is that. forced into very late no mean will figure out where to go from there. i haven't talked to my colleagues yet about that i want to hear what they have to say biden selected austin over the long time front runner for the position michele flournoy a former senior pentagon official a biden supporter floor and i would have been the 1st woman to serve as defense secretary floor annoying is a member of the same private equity fund which invests in defense contractors as austin for watching the hawks i'm alex mileage. oh goodness gracious what do you

think of his pick because he did i in my sense it just seems like same old same old at the end of the day you know you see that same resume in you know coming in the military you know coming out of the military all the time you know was in the military decorated you know led some u.s. wars went to the military industrial complex made a little bit of money and then comes back and so i am and i feel like that's every pick no matter i never no matter who the who the white. house if he was at the forefront of the white house at the time i don't necessarily have a problem with this pick personally and i think that his 4 decades of service speak for themselves him being a private person noting that he was a part of some of these more controversial missions in iraq and afghanistan totally understandable but i think that by choosing him not only because of the influence of him being the 1st african-american in that position but also acknowledging the fact that he has a congressional hurdle to get over before this can even happen in a congressional hurdle that even some democrats have pushed back against my my senator senator tammy duckworth who also served in the military pushback notably

saying that she supports him however she definitely believes in that civilian you know you have to be one for at least 7 years and she would not vote to bypass that i think that that speaks volumes and for buying to know going in that this was going to be controversial just because of that alone i think that that says something about his reasoning and what he was looking at when he decided to choose him it makes one wonder why he chose him knowing that that hurdle was going to be there and knowing that ok we're going to we're going to bend the rules right now and coming out of you know 4 years of all you heard from the democrats was look at how donald trump is bending the rules or justifiably you know look at all donald bending the rules and not listing the rules and throwing the rule book out the window to kind of come in and say ok i'm one do the same thing with this pick with like you said every pick that they parade up for the pentagon position really comes from the same background regardless of skin color or or gender it's always that same revolving door i was in the military i come out i go to raid the lockheed i

get paid and then i come back in a most of them act as a broker for these companies and doing business deals you know inside the government but i agree i think the 7 years shouldn't be broken this year i do think that you might be qualified for and he should in 7 years be up for this but at the end of the day there's a reason we have that there's a reason that we try to make the separation so you're not getting someone. who either is an active general or is so close to it but they're still going to be influencing up to me people in america to influence them on what to do agree now also wonder why florida who had been considered for so long at the last minute counted out it's interesting interesting all right everybody remember as we go to break you can also start watching the hawks on demand for the brand new portable t.v. which is available on all platforms definitely check it out coming up civil rights attorney robert breaks down the democrat and republican parties relationship with black america you don't want to miss this stay tuned to watching the whole.

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black lives matter black votes matter but this black representation matter whose voices are rising to the top and whose voices are being quilt. what started as murmurs in the national context became reverberating demands as the campaign cycle went on and black men voiced their disdain for democratic party they felt excluded them we heard from the likes of davy charlemagne the god ice cube and a chorus of other celebrity black men in the truck campaign began making great forward appeals to black men seen quakes and their support for democrats but is this all smoke and mirrors or is there something deeper that the democrats need to provide before this bio demographic disappears former florida gubernatorial candidate gillum launched his podcast real talk

a few weeks ago his most recent episode featured c.n.n. commentator bakari sellers commenting on the democrats' current state with black men take a listen. first of all black men are treated as visible by the democratic or period and that's been an indictment of our already for a long period of time until election season where we scramble and try to figure out how we can get charlemagne in a jew and. a black man in barbershops come out of we do that every will be they'll be calling us again in august of 20 twentieth's to try to figure out how we can beat marco rubio in florida getting black me into the pose of. this all comes on the heels of legacy civil rights organizations like the. national urban league and others calling out the biden ministration for not consulting with them look providing enough black leadership and high level positions we talked a little bit about this on last week's show and acknowledge that time would tail and it has since friday biden has met with civil rights leaders and further

appointments have been acknowledged like incoming defense secretary former general lloyd austin and congressional black caucus member represent of marcia fudge of ohio who's being tapped for housing secretary. on top of all of this an independent police monitoring group released a report showcasing how ill prepared the denver police department was for the george clooney protests and as you can imagine that led to chaos mounting tensions and human rights violations joining us to unpack all of this is civil rights attorney philip welcome robert. thanks so much well robert cnn's mccoury sellers offered a steaming critique of the democratic party's neglect of black men do you agree or disagree with his assessment and if you agree what can the democratic party do to be inclusive and responsive to the needs of black men. to enter what's been very nice about what the democratic party thinks of african-american men of this is not something new you know of also you can go back to reverend jesse jackson statements afterwards obama will do what the word so has its top notorious statement off

camera about feeling castrated by the democratic party and not advocating you know african-american issues the problem with all the. army are important to black men. somehow it gets the base of the democratic party african-american men are generally more fiscally conservative they're more interested entrepreneurship they're more interested in family values of them perhaps one of progressive base so the idea is to get them to be quiet long enough so they can bridge so you can convey the support from other parts of your base and keep taking that can down the road so we're going to have to happen and what we're going to call come to jesus meeting where the democratic party sits down and finds out what gender i don't they can actually put forward that will that will help african-american men but also one that moved through the portal the ports. it's interesting because when you look at all this you know black americans are considered the backbone of the democratic party for many many years now many decades but for black men a sizable part of the selector a to b.

who are a sizable part of the electorate to be considered an important or not taken seriously you know once that voting ending what what one side voting ends what messages. as a son to them and how how do you think this played out in the 2020 presidential elections. all along the way that think it played out as he saw the direct appeals by the trump campaign for trump even right now i kid you can probably name more blacks or get to present from them for president joe biden there it's very difficult stuff on an agenda for african-american men but it's not going to be attacked by republicans that thought can be attacked by liberal groups by progressive groups of it's all of the debate it's one telling off later and raphael warnock what we feel warm up and see him or all punch it's not come off as being an angry and aggressive black man versus a white woman in that debate so because of that a very difficult for us to get in to in the across the across the board room for that reparations is something that probably has 90 percent support among black men

that does not play well for other groups therefore you don't talk about it or talk about criminal justice reform and drug laws we don't talk about richter at the rhetoric of nature of it and we would sing the individuals who have been victims of the west 30 years of war on drugs drugs and also. giving them programs in an issue that will how we're going to break them into society these are things that are they are popular among white men but the democratic party very afraid to step out on that and be aggressive for both issues so it's but let me but simply turn out but not too so it's but anything in return so that's the issue that you want to read into the idea of putting forth an agenda to scare off the other parts of the base to move up and to being too radical too liberal but also getting them to try it out and that's why you often see higher boater turnout numbers for black women then for black men. and robert black leaders are calling on by to basically showcase his loyalty to the black community the one that arguably saved his campaign and dealt him a margin of victory in states like pennsylvania michigan georgia and others in light

of the recent appointments do you believe that by the administration is doing enough in elevating black leaders and are there any key posts still outstanding that you'd like to see a black person feel. a little faces don't matter policy matters you know george h.w. bush appointed clarence thomas been part of the drop in the story because you put a black person there does not mean they're going to be able to carry out a black agenda once joe biden starts carrying out again but i don't there are important african-american men of the african-american community that's what i think before we start with but this idea that simply we're going to stick a black guy here and that's going to be enough if things don't change on the ground you know we had a black president for 8 years and many african-american men feel that not enough with the environment sort of the particular position that they 'd are what will be involved but if you start tackling those systemic issues that over incarceration african-american men the over criminalization of the system the criminal justice

reform ought to promote efforts that will help restore the black man's ability to be the head of household and part of the family again remembering that i and certainly programs were put in place that were meant to help help black women but what the embers also that was that it made it more economic and it had been paid just to not have a black man at the hall because you're seeing more governmental systems by being a single parent versus the into their households we have to see that we can hold still effort made by the government to we're going to be problems that's how you get them back back in the fold thinking about defense secretary or a black secretary is not going to be enough you know i want to ask you this robert because i think what you're speaking to is a lot of those major issues is what led to last summer's 2020 summer of protests for george floyd and the. now you have this new report pointing to the flaws in the denver police department's preparedness for those george floyd protests as they rush across the country and it's alarming what you found in that report one of the

key takeaways and we'll policing entities learn from their mistakes so that you don't have what the denver police were doing to those protesters over the summer. bigger issue is that it's been months you know we had protests in 20 cities around the country fire threat marches all those things what the structurally change what the federal of the solutions in place to date that stuff like george will from happening right now what's a lot lot of different today than when they. were beaten by the police well over today that will stop being so the point is the least of our. government will structure. them in sidewalks if you want you can make a block was better a 1000000000 you can fly flags but nobody's willing to actually take on the law and we're going to step out on that limb in the policies that are needed to demilitarize our police departments to protect the lives of african-american men in

particular and to get a little place where a black man does not have to think that picking up what sandwich what we're told and hanging shots of the young man and it's columbus ohio robert thank you so much for saying that because i don't i think we need more people saying that the we have to stop with just the window dressing and actually put real action in place robert thank you so much for coming on and talking to us today always a pleasure sir. thank you. while the future will always be wildly unknown that hasn't stopped the european space agency from giving us a peek into our future or at least the future of the stars above us and what is being described as watching 40000 stars blaze across the night sky all at once the european space agency recently released a brand new 62nd time lab simulation of where researchers predict these stars are headed in the next 400000 years this simulation comes courtesy of recent data collected by the gaia satellite which contains detailed information of more than 1800000000 celestial objects this data includes the precise positions the last of

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