yeah, my thought, a lot of problem, you just got to go to the news the the, the me good evening, hot water, infrastructure, roads, rail bridges, waterways and the high speed internet. how about universal pre k job skills, training and technical education? older care and environmental sustainability efforts? the path to a comprehensive infrastructure package for america ailing system was always the road less traveled. american politicians have kicked the can down the road for far too long, leading the nation with bridges, one national disaster away from class,

water wave threatening flooding into communities, and a high speed rail and amtrak expansion projects that are continually delayed. let's dig deeper on the last 2 report cards from the american society of civil engineers, us infrastructure for a d plus and in 2018. the report urge the u. s. government and private sector to increase infrastructure spending by at least 2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years. that may sound daunting. but if necessary, bailing infrastructure is tied to a country's economic downfall. the by the administration took infrastructure seriously initiating a multi trillion dollar package that spoke to the needs of a nation impair. that package was quickly shot down by republicans who didn't believe in the human infrastructure, infrastructure aspects of the package and refused the tax. well, the corporation and billionaires now a bad partisan infrastructure bill,

a $973000000000.00 package, is getting the president by taking it on the road, trying to build coalitions around it. but this is a new bill. victory did by make too many concessions from the original package. only time will tell, but the battle royal is already set with house speaker nancy pelosi bowing to hold up the bipartisan infrastructure deal until the senate approved the larger 2 trillion dollar infrastructure plant. republicans are livid and democrats are split and on another front, the centers for disease control and prevention extended the eviction moratorium through july. the band was originally set to expire this week. it's a brief reprieve that only further highlights the housing and security crisis across america. where nearly 7000000 tenants are currently behind on rent, and the homeless numbers are set to search in just a few weeks. let's start watching the hawk. if you want to know what's going on

a city and you want to rush this letter, so you what you always the roy, throw strike, math grade, they leave them a deceptive manipulate. so math, put these weapons. so we know you're welcome everybody to watching the hawk. i'm myisha cross. joining me now is richard, professor of economics and international bears and co founder of democracy work. good to see you, professor. good to be here. thank you. well, professor wolf, america. broken infrastructure is no secret to anyone, and i know especially not to you. after decades of kicking the can down the road and stronger instances of natural disasters, we've reached crisis mode with 2 infrastructure bills in front of them. what is the democrats play now and can the, by the administration count on a bipartisan bill, actually getting the both that need and the senate from republican well,

what you have are 2 things that are clashing on the one hand, as you rightly say, we have been taking this 10 down the road, the convenient thing was to not spend money on infrastructure in the hopes that people wouldn't notice till the politician could run around saying she didn't raise your taxes. and therefore, you should vote for me because he hoped, or she hoped that you wouldn't notice and couldn't see that the infrastructure that we all the end on the roads, the highways, the bridges, all of that wasn't being taken care of a little bit like what we're learning about that horrible collapse of the building outside of miami and we have to face that and they haven't wanted to do it. now we had in the, in a sense the emerging urgency of it was an economic system that has crashed and that needs the government to come in to save it both on the president trump. now,

under biden, massive amounts of money are being spent by the government, because without it, our economy is going to change. so we have a compromise, we're going to spend it on infrastructure. but here's the real tragedy. because the republicans want to appear to be those who save us from taxes, they whittle down what the democrats want to spend, and the end result is too little and it's too late and it doesn't deal with the problem. and so i'm very worried that in all this maneuvering in the end, the government won't come in and the private sector will continue its decline. i think he might have just hit the nail on the hair head there. i think that's the worry of a lot of people across the country who are invested in the initial infrastructure plan. professor the initial plan with 2 trillion dollars. it focused on a broad set of infrastructure goodies and an expanded definition of the term that took hits from republicans and some moderate democrats. do you think speaker pelosi

is taking the right stance and basically holding up the bi partisan much smaller package until the thin it moves on the larger one. what could this play mean for everyday american? well you know it's, it's this maneuvering. i hope she can pull it off, but i've, i've been around long enough as i know you had to know that one thing you say. and then 2 days later in the back room, something gets worked out and everybody comes up with some face saving kind of p r that the dish out on the media. and we all have to live with the results. it's not a good sign that the president goes back down. it's not a good sign that she's only saying these things at the last minute. and in the, in the end, i think corporations are laughing all the way to the bank that they've got these politicians bickering with one another about how much to cut back when what they know. and we know is that the government has to step in even more massively than it

has or it risks. real economic collapse. and that's the reality. we are on a government wide support for this economy. you may not like it, you may not want them place it, but that doesn't make it go away. and my fear is, this is kind of fiddling while wrong burns here. this is time taken away. this is money that has to be spent is back is not, was professor will we know that biden is actually out on the road today? do you think that that ro show will work, or is he caving to republicans that won't ever support the bipartisan deal anyway? we know that, that the, both in the senate are still a little bit area. do you think that this bipartisan deal actually, even thing is a chance and is the road show just trying to say, face, at this point? that's my fear. because you know, if the president is willing to put his reputation on the line and go around the

country, which i support. and then even doing this weeks ago, he should have been building up the pressure to let the politicians know that if they don't support this, he is out there building up the momentum that will give them a reason that hesitate because of their own political skin being in the game, to wait this long to make the concessions, and then to go out, seems to me to lose all the power that going out and being the president who all the people to help him get something through. that could've been a very powerful move. but it could have been, should have been done much earlier. and professor, we only have a few seconds left. but the cdc extended the moratorium on evictions through the end of july bill that provides just a few more weeks of safety. for many, many people across america, what do we need to do?

long term housing insecurity is very real. and this, this moratorium isn't going to last forever. well, i'm flabbergasted by there's, this is a government that has no plan. it's going month by month, literally week by week, people are agonized because they don't know how to going to solve this problem telling them it's another few weeks down the road is hardly come for. we have no now for 16 months that people are not paying rent and that this is a problem for the landlord. you've got have a plan, then that saves people from paying rent. they can't afford and then helps the landlords who are confronted with this, particularly the little ones, the mom and pops, who rent out an apartment or 2 in their home. we should have had a plan using a tax program that goes after the rich people who become richer during called it the have a fund that helps the land, the small landlords, so that the people don't have to be a bit of the landlord. don't have to go bankrupt. those were the problems. we knew

that for 16 months, and instead of dealing with it, we have this analyst games playing. that simply postpones the catastrophe. $7000000.00 people out on the street will be a political and economic catastrophe. and everybody has known that for months couldn't agree with you more professor wolf and the white house honestly should be giving you a call. thanks so much for joining us and informing our audience. thank you for having me. the summer olympics just keep bringing controversy. this go around, it's not cobit related. olympic organizers, more specifically in international olympic committee, spoke to person told yahoo sports on monday that it is quote, highly unlikely that unaccredited people from overseas, which includes in fits and caregivers, will be granted entry into japan for the game folks. that's

a family separation policy. there seems to be a very narrow piece of wiggle room in special circumstances. but overall olympians with young kids are forced to compete at the highest level, millions and millions of miles away from their baby. mothers have tried to get exceptions for the coney and rules, but to no avail. the youngest children often still breastfeeding and not being able to while their moms prepare and compete, puts those kids the disadvantage. the culture wars are heating up to. let's be honest, republicans just won't let them die. when barry is facing a barrage of attacks from the right in the wake of her protest on the podium during the olympic trials of the weekend, the hammer thorough refused to acknowledge the national anthem. fox news. oh sean handy said barry shouldn't be allowed to represent the u. s. a at the olympics at all. but the by whitehouse took a different tone highlighting free speech and people protest right here to break it all down. is rti sports producer for gina? i am good to have you regina. thank you for having me. well regina,

i just like i told you before, the show you are always bare a bad news, but we're ready for it regina. this is a story that is not new. there are women women athletes choosing to have children or deciding when to start their families and being essentially punished for that is something that they've been dealing with for a long time. there was already a concern about female athletes or among female athletes about being separated from their kid. but now we're seeing this be elevated and heightened in a different way. we're talking mothers being separated from babies, still breastfeeding children for the duration of the olympics in the ios, the seems to the port that what type of messages in the sending to female athletes . i think it's the message is pretty clear that you want to come to the olympics. maybe put whatever plans you have for your personal life on hold. and now to play devil's advocate, there will be some people, you know, what if there's somebody really, really want maybe then that isn't the best time. but if you're a woman or someone who is able to have children, and this is something that may be just happened, you're looking at in the face and going, okay,

what am i supposed to do for 2328 days away from my child that i'm still feeding nourishing and keeping alive. and so, you know, the, i see the need to go organizing. committee said, you know, there might be some special circumstances regards and children. they'll consult with the see on that. that was like a little tiny crack in that door. myisha and you know, one canadian bass player can goucher, she said back in march, you know, you're making me choose between breastfeeding my child and being olympian. and why should i have to make that? why should i make that sacrifice? absolutely, i think equal to a very strong thing here because mil limpy and also have children and they're not being that we don't see the same type of controversy they have babies as well. but now the moms are being extremely punished. it appears and they're raising their voice is do you think anything's going to change? no, i think that's always how it's been with olympia in the mouth plates in general, you know, or so we and williams, for example here where the cat, through the french open. because she had issues post birth with her daughter who are, oh my gosh, you maybe shouldn't have come back. it's that same charity that you know,

you can be a male and have children to be an app that you can't be a woman who's had a child to be an app because you know what? motherhood just so much more important. and there are, you know, conservative stand on free speech rights and protests rights 247 until it happens to be with an african american who does not want to stand for the pledge of allegiance or who does not want to be in for the national anthem. so we're seeing this attack on when barry specifically from leaders on the right, who feel as though she's being an american a. what do you, what are your thoughts on that? and this is me mindful that this is someone who is a, an active black lives matter protester and somebody who has been standing on this for years. i'd say that to protest is one of the most american things protest, healthily, we're not talking insurrection. we're talking like stand up for something that is a legitimate issue like systemic racism, our country. she's been doing the most america thing. we have a right to hurt us in our constitution. you know, the republicans said take it like they're attacking, she's attacking their patriotism. patriotism can still be criticizing your country and as she's doing so the call to be pulled off the olympic team. i think that's an

american because you're now telling a woman who's representing a part of our founding principles to protest as an american, against your government, you're allowed, they're saying, you know, i know you don't like it because you're not doing it the way we think. you should be doing your mentally right and we're going to have to definitely have you back regina cuz we're running out of time. but thanks for joining no problem. as we go to break, remember that you can also start watching the hot on demand to the new portable tv available on all platforms. coming up, we'll explore why conservative are raging a race more at the pentagon. they to, to watching the hot ah ah, after the fight in some european leaders such as germany's merkel and frances macro

called for renew dialogue with russia. the baltic states in poland said not so fast . thus, there is no consensus within the e u on how to move forward. the ball remains in brussels court. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century. what other chapters called gun violence school shootings, homelessness. first with my job, then it was my name was my siblings. i have nothing. i have nothing and it's not like i don't try. i live for resources, i look for jobs. i look for everything i can to make this pass and all i end up doing is passing the road to the american dream, paved with dead refugees, and very idealized image of the older america. native americans look past to happen every single day. this is a modern history of the usa, my america on

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the the, all the conservative love to get fired of anger and always being in bite mode seems to be what defines them. well that and ignoring america's racism, white supremacy, elders are fighting words for republicans that my friends is why the big bear boogeyman critical race theory just has to be stopped. joking, joking, would know on a serious note, republicans have a few things more than racism being brought to the forefront and walked chairman of

the joint chief mark, milly last wednesday, the secretary of defense lloyd, often in general, milly appeared before the house armed services committee to talk about the 2022 defense department budget. during that hearing accuse child sex trafficker, what preventive mac gave decided to throw out critical race theory in the u. s. military and express upset at the military. speaking of its history, a poor behavior towards black service members, millie made a painstaking, really clear that c r t isn't taught in the military, but reminded the conservative that west point is a college of the open minded and well read. in what followed that statement was a passionate defense, a black history and acknowledging atrocities that defense has been viewed over 6000000 times on twitter. one line in particular, that conservative, raging melissa quote. and i want to understand white rage, and i'm white. and i want to understand it. so what is it that caused thousands of

people to assault this building and tried to overturn the constitution in the united states of america? what caused that? i want to find out. i want to leave the same party that swears up and down. patriotism is there, north star, and the love of the military is who they are. are now attacking the military and threatening that it should be funded my how the tables have turned in start race and any discussion. and republicans lose the value they espouse. well, with the exception of white supremacy that values here to stay. joining me now for a deeper dive into general milly statements and how the military of grappling with the racial reckoning is richard berkshire, executive director of black veterans project. good, see richard. you as well. thank you for having me. well, richard, i know that you're on the front lines of this and have been for a while. general milly wasn't even prime to discuss critical race theory or race much at all at that hearing. conservative kind of tried to box them in. and the 1st

black defense secretary lloyd, often at the same time what republicans got in return was probably the most astute recognition of the importance of black history. how white supremacy caused the january 6th erection and the dangers that poses for the nation. what are your thoughts on the mili testimony that's now been seen over 6000000 times on twitter? i thought it was courageous, but i'll contextualize that by saying that the 1st black secretary, this man could not o pine in the same way. and the chairman could write, and so he was being an ally in that moment and leading in to something that the secretary of defense didn't have the capacity to say, i mean you had the capacity, but he didn't have the political, i guess climate to be worth right about and so i think it was an important conversation. you basically define critical race theory for the most part and said that it's a necessary component of how we teach american history in for the fostering of an inclusive military. that's central to you know,

the maintenance of the democratic project. but i also, i thought it was really interesting when you said that the right wants to define the military. i'm totally for that. i mean that we don't agree on, but certainly for that. and the racial reckoning we discussed the previously is not a term that at least black people jump on board with, but it seems to make it in white circles. the racial reckoning is they call it a term coined after the murder of george floyd is taking place across multiple sectors. it's not just about police reform. how do you see it playing out the military? what's funny, because i was talking about racial reckoning in the terminology this morning and made a jo, it's really a term to attract people because we know that black people in america always undergoing this racial reckoning agreement. it's permeating particular people who are in positions of power to potentially change the status, the status quo. so as i lost track of your question of you repeat the last part. so

how was this playing out in the military? we saw that the racial reckoning and term the police were form. you know, there, the civic things that activists are asking for. what do you think is happening in the, in the military, what are black either? you know, current service men or those who are veterans like yourself, what is the expectation? what are you asking of the military in terms of reaching that racial reckoning were asked for 2 things, decency and transparency, right? the military has had protocols in place really tend to be segregated fully in vietnam, but it hasn't actually lived up to its duty really to protect the service members that they've integrated into this institution. and so what we're asking for the black veterans project as a 1st step is transparency around racial bias survey data. we were able to push to get one years worth of that data release, only 2017, which was pretty damning. it said one in for service members, it's seen white nationalism in the rank. this is one year into the truck president t, i imagined commanded sentiment. but it also said that $1.00 and $3.00 minority service

members felt uncomfortable and would likely not speak up about issues of race discrimination for fear of retribution. so this is just scratching the surface to some of the issues that we know exist and have and have historically. and so, you know, i always make the correlation that, you know, doing the due diligence around reading our white supremacist. and i think the secretary of defense is kind of emphasis on extreme is, is the wrong step. i think it's a starting point, but extreme, it's always been there. and right now you can belong to a group. and still, 3rd, you have to actually commit to kind of a crime to get kicked out, which i don't, i think it's a very low bar. it's a military, it can be on apologize about how it moves forward with the policy when you have something like, don't ask, don't tell that was put in place if the which fund again to l g b t q, people being able to serve openly. certainly the military has a capacity to discriminate, didn't want to,

we're just asking to discriminate against those who discriminate. so it's not a, it's not a big ass, but for whatever reason, the implications are there are people at all levels of the military that will be implicated. right? who may very well be at risk of losing their jobs and defense secretary lloyd austin. he has a heavy load ahead of them. one goal is to root out central radicalization of the military. like he just spoke of white supremacists and dismantling a system that historically hasn't benefited black service members. do you think we will see progress on these fronts and did general milli statement signal that progress was a possibility? i think that statement was certainly historic in many respects. well, i mean we had a black commander in chief, right. so, i mean, i don't necessarily know 11 black men at the helm of this machine is going to be able to trickle down the kind of shifts that we really need. it's going to take, it's going to take time and perhaps planting the seeds there. what i've been saying is we,

there needs to be full transparency. i think military institution has gone on its own, you know, has been on its own in many respects and determining what race, what equity looks like. and that's expensive for working class people specifically for working people of color. and so that the more provocative conversation. but certainly i think that there are steps being taken that will be in hopefully a major shift in the military. and, you know, one thing i like to also kind of note is that we have a diminishing military, right? when we might, at one point, we had a military expansive that it touched in, upwards of 30 percent of the population. right. if you look at world war 2, now you have less than one percent of people who serve. and so this is a very elite view, right? and so there's a lack of diversity in the special operations corps, which will likely end up predominating in the years to come. when we think about how technology is shifting, the way in which our military even appears to organize itself. so all of these things are deeply important and they have to be confronted because the military,

like everything else in american society passed to shift right left, a lot to think about richer berkshire. and we're definitely going to have to have you back on to pack more. thanks so much for joining us. thank you. and that is our show for you today. i'm a mr cross. don't forget to keep watching those hog and have a great day and night. everyone, i me the news. i still think it comes right on police report. in december 2020 a group of anti finishes. fill out a film crew access for 3 months. 3rd row, like if people, organization, it's an idea that must be opposed that channel out the game ground. they make their

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