the this season and also thank you to the center for american progress and the great palace here as well as marc knapper for his keynote remarks. it is great timing to touch base on trilateral cooperate in and to tackle the difficult issue of north korea once again terry at so to answer your question i am supposed to give it couple of comments on number one on itunes prospect for diplomacy number one what has changed is the convention but hopefully we will be more allied and that wasn't there during the trump administration because the previous presidents personalized diplomacy so it's difficult for the diplomats to coordinate policies. that's number one but number two on north korea as president biden said hopefully we will be more principled with more conventional diplomacy that is top-level attention under guarded by a working level preparation if diplomacy is going to start at a thing jessica and franks said the biden administration if it is going to embark on diplomacy it should take advantage of the a legacy that is the opening of the channel with kim jong-un and also the singapore

needs to see continue as well trying to elicit it's good to get you know insight from the center for american progress thanks for joining us from protest in maryland thank you thanks for having me. chance military has promised an 18 month transition to free elections after the death of president idriss deby the army says that he was killed while leading soldiers fighting rebels in the north but then he had just won reelection his son general who will take on the role of interim head of state. of the resign because in the capital and to me that says there is a sense of uncertainty as people trying to get back to normal activities and now. the people in the capital are getting back to normal life activities most of them are working day by day to support their families they continue their work as usual despite their concerns armed opposition groups have issued statements saying that they do not accept the declaration that baby son will be the president for 18 months we have been to the central market in germany all the shops are open and people are doing their daily business as usual that not all governm

to leave it to has good insights as always brought in to us that senior fellow at the center for american progress since joining us from maryland great thank you. a u.s. military ship has fired warning shots at iranian naval vessels in the gulf washington says 3 boats came within about 60 meters of the u.s.s. firebolt the confrontation came as talks continue in vienna on bringing the u.s. and iran back into the 2015 nuclear accord alexia brian explains. a standoff in the gulf these pictures from the u.s. navy has said to show an american warship firing warning shots and iranian vessels came too close the u.s. says monday's encounter was the 2nd this month and that an iranian warship aggressively approached american vessels in the same area on april 2nd it says it had to move abruptly to avoid a collision when the iranian ship comes in front are we also seeing a pattern in which this tends to take place as the 2 sides are getting closer towards some form of an agreement and though progress has been slow it does appear as if returns to deduce u.p.a. is within reach within the next couple of weeks as

of using their influence to push for student loan forgiveness think tanks such as the center for american progress in new america encourage the department of education and the office of federal student aid to help and roll more borrowers in income driven repayment that way you won't have to worry about the faulting on the loan you'll just be paying it off until you die. or at least until there are no more long orders i don't know whatever comes 1st just getting we'll all die before that show ever and in fact i'm pretty sure when we die we don't see a white lie we just see a title card that says law and order purgatory court under an income driven repayment plan you take more than a decade longer to pay off the loan and accrue way more interest and according to the congressional budget office an income driven repayment plan is one of the reasons the federal student loan debt from $187000000000.00 in 1905 to over $1.00 trillion dollars today biden is passing the buck to the department of justice to look into if it's legal to cancel student debt through executive action but if he actually had the sto

let's go to brian get to this is a senior fellow at the center for american progress is joining us from because that's in maryland thanks for speaking to us are you surprised by this postponement no not really there were signals that these elections weren't going to move according to plan on this date in part because it logistical challenges also the covert endemic and then big questions about east jerusalem and the fact that israelis palestinians didn't agree on the modalities for holding elections there so the decision doesn't surprise me and then you add to a fact that. the dialogue between hamas and us was not moving in a constructive space in recent days so it's not a surprise you but disappointing i think for many palestinians were looking for something different here and this will be welcomed however by israel and the united states where you are because according to some media reports they believe that the results of the election should they take place will not favor. and. want to buy himself some time. well i don't know about israel but i know here in the united states the issue

for the next 20 years not the last 20 or brian could cheerless is a senior fellow at the center for american progress and he says the troop withdrawal signals that the biden administration's approach to foreign affairs. i think america has changed our priorities have shifted to where i think president biden is taking foreign policy which 'd is to address coded climate change and china the big 3 cs back then in 2008 he was still just a senator and the head of the senate foreign relations committee he knew a lot about afghanistan and pakistan we were speaking in pakistan and he knew a lot about what it would take to do diplomacy to try to end the war in afghanistan here we are 1213 years later i think many people democrats republicans have every allies that simply keeping troops in places for our long period of time isn't the solution so i think he's doubling down on diplomacy in afghanistan but then importantly he's trying to shift america's agenda to the broader competition in the world we'll see whether he sticks to that timeline it i'm very interested in seeing the fine print of what's actually lef

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joe biden was given his talking points by centers for american progress or whoever else is pulling the for everything he said according to "the washington post." and as a result, corporate america is terrified, they are terrified of getting the woke blacklist. and so you have a situation where major league baseball which still does business with the chinese communist party and also the dictatorship of cuba and pulling out of georgia, a majority black with city, and moving -- black city, and moving one of their most important vents to the lily white state of colorado. elizabeth: we reached out to stacey abrams' office for comment. a group that supports her replied with a statement. it's from the fair fight action voting rights group. they're saying the law shortens the vote-by-mail period and also reduces drop box availability. it does actually extend the early voting days to 17 days, and it codifies for the first time ballot drop off boxes. we didn't have that for the 2020 election. it does reduce the runoff to four weeks from nine weeks but, you know, there's a lot of, like, fastballs

center says the average for in person. one child baby cities, $18.36 an hour and this center for american progress. survey found the cause chalk or california is up 39 to 75% during the pandemic, depending on the age of the child in the location of the child care. and finally mcdonnell's leading many wal-mart stores. wal-mart partnered with some local businesses retail giant is looking at opportunities to partner with barbershops to that space to rental facilities, even some local restaurants as well. live from new york, i'm jane king. back to what's going right for babysitting in california. and which $18.36 is the average nationwide. wow. so like 20 bucks an hour. yeah. for that. for 20 bucks an hour. >> well dinner. and then if you if they take the kids to movie. got to get in cash for that. had to get on how much the movie cost me like if i go to the movie while the kids that's an expensive over next 2 hours. plus my ticket. stay home. thank you, yeah. haha. >> happening this week. the presenting its case in the n .- derek chauvin murder trial. aaron nolan has the very latest from minnesota. >>

i was working as a policy analyst at the center for american progress and a name that you may have heardhat became the first obamacare case that went up to the supreme court. i just thought it would be a good career opportunity for me. i poked my head in her office. at one point i said to her, this is what became ÃÃbig major attack on obamacare. at one point i said, i'm thrilled to do this, i'm really grateful for the opportunity, do you really think it's necessary? this is a silly legal theory, nobody's gonna take it seriously. i was wrong about that. i didn't think anyone would take hobby lobby seriously for a while because before hobby lobby the controlling case the united states ÃÃwhich said that when a business enters in the commercial sphere it has to follow the same laws as everybody else. i mention this crazy judge who said evicting someone is not economic activity. i don't want to dwell too much on that but the reason i bring it up is because these guys are coming up with new and increasingly bizarre ways to interpret the law. much faster than i can anticipate or anyone else can

the last point i want to make is, the center for american progress estimates, the combination of women leaving the workforce, being forced out of the workforce, and reducing work hours, is going to amount to about $64.5 billion in lost wages and economic activity in the country annually, if we do not do something about it. >> those are staggering numbers. david, as the ceo of the black economic alliance, an organization focused on improving outcomes for black americans, i would love your perspective on the pandemic's effect on people of color? david: i appreciate the question and thank you for having me. mary touched on, and we have heard in terms of inequities in the past year that i have in my lifetime before that. where it has been a persistent -- where there have been persistent racial inequities and disparities in housing, education, health care, and in just about every american institution that it made americans of color more vulnerable to the economic impacts of the pandemic. so it has created a dangerous combination of black and latinx workers in particular being more exposed t

battles for the next 20 years not the last 20 from consumers is a senior fellow at the center for american progress and he says the troop withdrawal signals the boy administration's approach to foreign of us. i think america has changed our priorities have shifted to where i think president biden is taking foreign policy which is to address coded climate change and china the big 3 cs back then in 2008 he was still just a senator and the head of the senate foreign relations committee he knew a lot about afghanistan and pakistan we were speaking in pakistan and he knew a lot about what would take to do diplomacy to try to end the war in afghanistan here we are 1213 years later i think many people democrats republicans have ever realized that simply keeping troops in places for or a long period of time isn't the solution so i think he's doubling down on diplomacy in afghanistan but then importantly he's trying to shift america's agenda to the broader competition in the world we'll see whether he sticks to that timeline it i'm very interested in seeing the fine print of what's actually left behind to p

. >> according to the center for american progress only 1 percent asserting circuit judges spent the majority of their career as public defenders or within a legal aid setting. in light of this fact i am very pleased we are considering to nominees with extensive service as public defenders. there are some critics thatis claim wrongly that a public defender can't function as an impartial judge. how do you respond to this question? >> i have been a judge eight years. and as i mentioned at the outset, i think actually having defender experience can help. not only to judge him or herself in considering the facts and circumstances in the case but also helps the system overall in terms of their interactions with defendants in the way the proceed in the courtroom. and then to do what the law requires. and then to decide the cases. so i word just say that i wouldn't see any distinction of prosecutorial backgrounds or defense backgrounds to stay true to their oath. >> judge jackson i was impressed to learn according to the alliance for justice you have a reversal rate of less than 2 percent o

according to the center for american progress, only 1% of sitting circuit judges have spent the majoritytheir career as public defenders or within a legal aid setting. in light of this fact, i just want you to know that i'm very pleased that we're considering two nominees today with extensive service as public defenders. so i want to ask you this question. there are some critics who claim wrongly, in my book, that a public defender can't function as an impartial judge. how do you respond to this question? the judge may go first. >> thank you, senator. well, i have been a judge for eight years. and as i mentioned at the outset, i think that actually having defender experience can help not only the judge, him or herself in considering the facts and circumstances in the case, but also help the system overall in terms of their interactions with defendants and the way in which they proceed in the courtroom. i would think that there would be no difference between defender experience and prosecutorial experience from the standpoint of whether or not someone can do what the law requires, and man

according to the center for american progress, only 1% of sitting circuit judges have sent -- have spent the majority of their career as public defenders or within a legal aid setting. the light of this fact i want you to know that i am very pleased that we are considering two nominees today with extensive service as public defenders. i want to ask you this question. there are some critics who claim wrongly that a public defender can't function as an impartial judge. how do you respond to this question? the judge may go first. judge jackson-akiwumi: thank you, senator. i have been a judge for eight years. as i mentioned, i think actually having defender experience can help, not only the judge, him or herself, in considering the facts and circumstances in the case, but also help the system overall, in terms of their interactions with defendants and the way in which they proceed in the courtroom. i would think there would be no difference between defender experience and prosecutorial experience from the standpoint of whether or not someone can do what the law requires. many, many prosecuto

young kim and so with the center for a new american security do we on tell us a little bit more about what it means for security in the region whether a conservative or progressive party is in power in south korea thanks for so much for having me you know it will be a delicate dance for the u.s. and south korea in the remainder of this year because the current president the current progressive south korean president has about a year left because they are already yet odds on exactly how to achieve the shit shared objectives on north korea now we can expect they will try to work together but i would not be surprised if they experience some tension along the way you know it's too early to predict what happens next year in south korea's presidential election but if a conservative candidate is elected we can expect the eye of the allies to be closely aligned in dealing with china north korea but if a progressive wins again then we can expect some discord and and some tension in the alliance when they're trying to deal with north korea and china and our north korea the associated press just quoted kim jong un of knowledge ing the country is facing its quote worst ever

young kim in seoul with the center for a new american security do tell us a little bit more about what it means for security in the region whether a conservative or progressive party is in power in south korea thanks for so much for having me you know it will be a delicate dance for the u.s. and south korea in the remainder of this year because the current president the current progressive south korean president has about a year left because they are already yet odds on exactly how to achieve the shit shared objectives on north korea now it can expect they will try to work together but i would not be surprised if they experience some tension along the way you know it's too early to predict what happens next year in south korea's presidential election but if a conservative candidate is elected we can expect the eye of the allies to be closely aligned in dealing with china north korea but if a progressive wins again then we can expect some discord and and some tension in the alliance when they're trying to deal with north korea and china. and our north korea the associated press just quoted kim jong un of knowledge ing the country is facing its quote worst eve

young kim in seoul with the center for a new american security do tell us a little bit more about what it means for security in the region whether a conservative or progressive party is in power in south korea thanks for so much for having me you know it will be a delicate dance for the u.s. and south korea in the remainder of this year because the current president the current progressive south korean president has about a year left because they are already yet odds on exactly how to achieve the shit shared objectives on north korea now we can expect they will try to work together but i would not be surprised if they experience some tension along the way you know it's too early to predict what happens next year in south korea's presidential election but if a conservative candidate is elected we can expect the eye of the allies to be closely aligned in dealing with china north korea but if a progressive wins again then we can expect some discord and and some tension in the alliance when they're trying to deal with north korea and china. and our north korea the associated press just quoted kim jong un of knowledge ing the country is facing its quote worst eve

some of the groups that signed on to the letter include the senate for american progress, the electronic frontier foundation, the centeremocracy and technology, and others. if you want to read that reporting from axios this morning. host: thank you for all of your work. lots of details and added information for our listeners and viewers. the wall street journal opinion writers saying, "the cradle-to-grave government, the latest plan rejects the old social contract of work for benefits." you can read more on their website. in norman, oklahoma, this is leo on the republican line. caller: good morning. you're doing a good job. you let people call and give their opinion and is greatly appreciated. two subjects i want to talk about. i'm a 73-year-old environmental chemist. i want to address the oil and gas. and the second will be worldwide environmental issues. i have conducted audits across the united states, mexico, venezuela and communist china. but i look at the facts, you can clarify this if you go to the energy information administration's website, there are 93 countries that produce oil and gas. the u.s. produces 11