so floyd brown who's doing the counterpunching? so the counterpunching is the unlikely alliance and you know my wife daughter is getting married in in october and she's marrying a guy by the name of chris escovedo. okay. he is of mexican origin, but he grew up in california. so he he made he made the transit. and a few years ago, based on losing some family members in the in the opioid crisis, he made the transition to trump. my daughter met him working in the trump campaign to me he is an example of what's happening in the history. anex all over the country include shooting in california and hispanics are not going to be a reliable demographic for the democratic party if they continue to push these hard core progressive anti-family policies. so that's one group, i think black are another and there are these i think asians are a third. okay, asians, they love their families. their families are very close in family oriented. people educate is really important to them. and so these are all constituencies that have traditionally been

good to be with floyd brown is an author who has appeared many times on book tv and on c-span. his most recent book is, counterpunch an

the author is floyd brown the book is called counterpunch, and unlike the alliance of americans back for faith and freedom, thanks for your time on book tour. i'm pleased to be speaking with judge amul thapar, who sits the u.s. court of appeals for the sixth circuit. his new book, his first book, is titled the people's justice clarence thomas and the constant fictional stories that define him. judge departure, thanks for joining us. john thank you for having me. so let's start out with why you decided to write about justice in particular. there are several members of the court that espouse originalism and they're jurists, prudence. why justice thomas? john, i originally trying to just in originalism. so my goal was to write in excess possible interesting originalism book is in is you know as an author is someone who writes a lot you often throw out your first draft and what i discover in that in drafting i kept coming back to justice. i thought his brand of originalism called the original public, meaning originalism, was one where he consistently his entire career laid out what i was

floyd brown discusses his book "counter punch<" in whi he calls for an indendtopist movement to counteru.s. court of appeals justice discusses clarence thomas in his book "the people's justice." watch book tv every sunday on c-span2. ♪ >> washington journal continues. host: welcome back to washington journal. it is open forum. i will take your calls for the next 15 minutes until the top of the hour 9:00 a.m. eastern. jan is next. caller: i have not called in for a while, but this week there was a caller who called in about a so-called geriocracy in our government. i don't agree often with mitch mcconnell. like him i had a fall several months ago and had 2 ct scans. i am over 70. the caller who talked about that group of people should be removed and all the 15-year-olds should be in government, i can only say to him that with age comes wisdom. i admire president biden, former president trump, even mitch mcconnell for their ability to get things done. i was not happy with the caller who came in and said we needed to remove the older generation from our senate, our house, are presidency, b

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we have arrived at this point since both michael brown, george floyd, that somehow under the guise of to arrest criminals. there was a video of this man the other day, he had called the police because a black man had a knife on him and was threatening his family. he was so -- that this man would get arrested. we have arrived at this place that somehow it was criminal, somehow wrong to arrest criminals. i don't know how you change a culture, society aspect. i think it's going to be more difficult to change. >> emily: especially under this administration. >> it's par for the course. remember we are in overdrive or was murdered. he was a marine, had served in multiple -- it's devastating to hear people that have risked everything for the security and safety of our american freedom and our allies, only to be murdered in cold blood under the approval, the tacit approval of the person in the white house running everything come of okaying this all. >> there are so many layers to impact. number one, our armed forces are not taken care of by this country. the fact that this -- he was 31 years

the pandemic, combined with the racial reckoning -- again -- george floyd's murder, subsequent murder of many, many other black and brown people throughout the country for no reason other than the color of their skin, has provoked in us the kind of crisis that heals very much the same. as i mentioned before, those other crises, except in particular moments and areas, did not have with it the idea of free and fair elections being challenged or peaceful transfer of power. we had a national election in the middle of the civil war and the incumbent won and he was not expected to. nobody cried foul. and also the independence of the judiciary i think has added to a sense of pessimism. if you can't look for some umpire who is going to look at it and see that the guy is out at first but calls it because of he knows the runner, you get a little bit concerned about the whole structure of things. i think this is very much, as existential as it gets in the united states. at the same time, there is violence against other people. we have not murdered 750,000 of our own. we're not in the midst of an economic situation in which some am

called the george floyd effect or blm effect, cops pulling back from normal policing, making it less likely a bad guy will be caught, convicted and incarcerated. excess deaths are black and brown people living in the inner city that left proport to care about. >> laura: nypd is entering a settlement with rioters in new york after the floyd killing and it is 13 million going to a thousand people who were arrested? what? >> every time there is high profile shooting there is settlement to make peace so people don't riot and yell and scream and tear up things. we talk about chicago being violent city. when you look at per capita homicide rate in st. louis and baltimore, two times more than chicago. they are all run by black mayors, chicago on second consecutive black mayor and we are talking about structural racism? the solutions are forever elusive. all the kids need mentors, that is one reason i am running for president. go to larry elder.com. we will talk about this epidemic. >> laura: like to see you on the debate stage, larry. i have not seen you since l.a., it was boiling hot, we were pounding the pavement. up next mayor eric adams with serious walk-backs, plus if you need a

floyd was murdered, keep doing the work. don't backslide. now is not the time to retreat. nothing can deprive us of our race conscious student and nothing can deprive us of black and brown students of the future they deserve. >> thank you. best buy said that diversity is our nation -- president biden said that the diversity is our nation's greatest strength. the court made it more difficult for us to tap into, leverage that strength to make a safer and stronger, -- to make a strength -- to make a safer and stronger and to make us a more perfect union. the court undermined the auburn -- opportunity. they have said it is lawful, they said it is consonant with the poker session clause. the only change was the composition of the court. it is now a conservative majority that dictates the policymaking that is coming out of the court and today's decision in the diversity of north carolina and harvard admissions policies is a demonstration of how far a field the cortes gone. as my colleagues have said, we will not let this be the last word and it is important we recommit to the work of diversity equity and inclusion and today's decision makes that moral imperative that much more critica

broadcasting reported that brown either granted commutations or pardons for more than 48,390 people over the seven years she was in office. most of those were made after the death of george floyd the guise of social justice. at the time, critics warned they would be tragic consequences. jesse calhoun has not been charged with the deaths of these women, and they haven't even been called murders yet, but the police don't have any evidence yet to present to a court. they have time, they have a year now while he is in custody filling out the rest of that form a prison sentence to bring charges to him. john? >> i assume they will do a meticulous job with their case. dan springer for us. thank you. sandra? >> sandra: joining us now, mark eiglarsh, criminal defense attorney. good to have you here. this is a remarkable change of course by the portland police who now believe the deaths of these four women may actually be linked to this possible serial killer. what do you make of all this? >> well, they haven't decided yet whether he is going to go from person of interest to a suspect to someone who's actually placed under arrest. so let's not make that leap. it is possible they say the

brown people living in the inner city that the left purports to care about. laura laura larry, the mpd is entering the settlement with the protest rioters in new york after the floyd it's $13 million going to, i guess, what 1,000 people who were arrested? what? >> almost every time one of these high profile shootings there is a settle the. the reason for this is to make peace so that people don't right and yell and scream and tear up things. we often talk about chicago being a violent city. when you look at the per capita homicide rate in st. louis and in baltimore it's almost two times more. >> laura: baltimore is a nightmare. >> all run by black mayors. chicago is on second consecutive black mayor. it's insulting. if you continue to misanalyze the problem the solutions are going to be forever allusive. all these kids need mentors that's one of the researchers i'm running for president and asking people to go my website larry elder.com and get me on the debate stage in milwaukee. >> laura: i would like to see you on the debate stage. >> i appreciate it. >> laura: haven't seen you since l.a. pounding the pavement together boiling hot. of course climate change grea