host: to vicki in gainesville, texas. good morning. caller: hi. i have an issue with recruitment of police officers. i attended police academy here in town and they were all pretty nice but i was the only black person that was in that class. the classes they had were few in the past that had attended. they talked about the hiring process and they started with this 35 question application preceded by several other things that the applicant had to, you know, be able to get by in order to be hired. my whole concern was that the questions were pretty pointed. they were, how would i say, culturally biased? the interviewers were all of the police force which i can understand, but they also had biases. as a result really no minorities were hired. i was concerned about that because i was really kind of treated cruelly for even being there and gone through the experience. host: chief? guest: first of all, it is unfortunate you were made to feel that way and secondly, come to buffalo grove and put your application in here. [laughter] i will tell you this an

providers and policing agents in the city and college towns all across the country not just madison in gainesville and ann arbor but new york and chicago portland, major metropolitan areas that play a much more modest role. so how did we get there? everyone is familiar with white flight or white people chasing that capital. they were allowed to in the way black and brown could not do that so let's be clear about that. is that happened in we find diverse in the central cities because the size and the bureaucracy made it so one of the few institutions that stayed in the fifties and sixties if you talk about being fortified and then to take advantage of the urban renewal policy selection differently face of urban renewal we talk about highways and bulldozers but we don't talk enough about the fact the housing act of 1949 and ten years later that offered two dollars for every dollar supplied by a city that was created by those urban universities to be the friendly face of urban renewal. this is real. so the fortification was to demolish black and brown neighborhoods and businesses and get them evicted

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and this is from gainesville, georgia, go ahead. gainesville, virginia, go ahead.aller: hi, good morning, c-span. my name is soca, for the last two or three decades, we have been talking about infrastructure, but no progress has been done, only because the republican party is a standing block. anytime we talk about infrastructure, republicans throw a wrench at it. when trump gave a tax cut to the $1.9 trillion, republicans jumped at it. and out of that $1.9 trillion, which is borrowed money we do not have, $1.2 trillion came from the richest americans, and the rest goes to trump. i do not understand why people cannot see the hypocrisy of the republican party. the second question i raise is for the last two decades or three decades, the middle class and the poor have been stagnant. when the wall street is running $33,000 on the dow has not gone to the americans but to the very top. when someone tries to correct that anomaly, republicans want to say, no, no, no, i want people to understand the hypocrisy of the republican party, and biden, you can call it whatever you

the beginning, you know, of their careers, when nobody knew who they were, to little ole me from gainesville>> yeah. >> jimmy: is country your thing? or, what was your -- >> yes i mean, yes. it definitely is i think more of soul country, if i had to put a little spin on it. >> jimmy: yeah >> but, i just love the -- the instruments of country music i love the story telling of country music. so, you know, it's hard to pick a genre. i don't know if you know me, but it's hard to pick a genre. >> jimmy: yeah, you can do -- you can do everything. >> but, yeah >> jimmy: there was a song i heard you sing, i saw the video for it was it called "good boy" or something? or >> oh, maybe gabby barrett's cover of "good ones," maybe. >> jimmy: yes, "good ones. >> yeah. yeah >> jimmy: you crushed that >> oh, that's very sweet thank you! >> jimmy: you're so good, i was like, "man, you can sing." it was so beautiful. it was amazing i would go, "oh, my gosh." it was fantastic yes, you did an acoustic cover of "good ones. it was so well done. but anyways, you know i'm a fan. but that one you -- you knocked out o

in my home town of gainesville, at the university of florida there has been taxpayer-funded researchrom chinese nationals adjunct professors, taken the research given it to the ccp under the guise of 1000 talents programs. we know he is complicit in these relationships. so of course he is going to downplay the fact that the w.h.o. and the chinese government have been complicit in manipulating the data from the word go because they knew that if they were honest and transparent about this from the outset, that it would have completely changed the dynamic and world view of china. now we're starting to uncover these layers. we understand he is complicit in covering for his buddies in china. now more than ever, time to fire fauci, hold him accountable for his roll in covering up the covid pandemic origins sky will leave you with final chilling thought coming from state media in china. the editor of "the times" there, prepare for an intense showdown between china and the united states and unfortunately that could be where this is going. congresswoman, thank you very much. nice to see you.

in my own hometown of gainesville at the university of florida, there have been taxpayer-funded researchm chinese nationals, adjunct professors, that have actually taken that research and given it to theiv ccp under the guise of the thousand talents program. we know that he's complicit in theseic relationships. so of course he's going to downplay the fact that the w.h.o. and the chinese government have been complicit in manipulating the data from the word go. because they knew that if they were honest and transparent about this from the outset, that it would have completely changed the dynamic and the world's view ofof china. now we're starting to uncover theseer layers. we understand that the he is complicit inn covering for his buddies in china. now more than ever it's time to fire fauci and hold him accountable for his role in covering up the covid pandemic origin. jackie: and i will leave you with this final chilling thought, from china, quote: prepare for an intense showdown between china and the united states. and, unfortunately, that could bebe where this is going. congresswoman,

hackers had attacked the colonial pipeline while a hurricane was coming ashore at gulfport, mobile or gainesvillerecently the entire state of texas as was mentioned earlier was shut down because of a snap of cold weather. it was a product of years of insufficient failure effects and modes analysis. it killed almost 200 people, along with arctic the cost assessment at $130 billion. these measurable outcomes could have been avoided for a fraction of what we will all end up paying. the pipeline hack was a mean-spirited thing and a lot of trouble. ms in texas was a disaster but the next time or the next times may be much, much worse. back in 1977, and as you may have heard i took a course a course from professor carl sagan that eventually led to my day job as ceo of the planetary society, and doctor sagan often spoke of what he called comparative planetoid g, by comparing earth atmosphere with those of mars and venus, scientists can't understand the importance of carbon dioxide in the greenhouse effect. you may have heard researchers have at exxon invested this to and wrote about the potential for di

stephen is joining us from gainesville, florida. caller: thank you for having me on.army-navy surplus store and license to sell weapons. i was very careful about making sure everyone i sold firearms to put their drivers license down. we looked through the florida department of law enforcement did the background check. no firearm ever left me. my problem was they were not registered by our law-enforcement agency. it is not so much the firearm. it is violence. look at all the police shootings on tv, where it is nothing but guns and shooting people in revenge and hate. bring back happy days. i am serious. our schools. we have a governor in florida that has taken money from our public schools and put into private institutions so they have popped up like you would not believe. you get people being taught ideologies instead of altogether at the public schools, black, white, brown. it does not matter. that is where you get a real education, when you mix it up with people about not segregate yourself from people. i graduated. we had one last kid coming to school with us. i fi