this is tom for jeff cohen of rootsaction.org. like jeff, i was for bernie sanders when he was a congressman or senator from vermont, long before he ran for president. definitely will not be voting for the biden-harris ticket. you cannot get two more corporate, cozy members of the corporate class, buddy buddy, than kamala harris and joe biden, and that is not going to change. kamala harris, she is an absolute joke. bragged about smoking marijuana, meanwhile puts tens of thousands of african-americans in jail for marijuana. so i think the platform that needs to be adopted by both, either trump or biden, is the andrew yang $2400 a month. that is not unemployment money. that is survival of the nation money. because the next -- guest: what estate do you live in? caller: i live in pennsylvania, and right now trump is winning big. he is winning big here. host: ok, thank you for the call. guest: the reason i asked as he makes some good points. i also like the minimum income that andrew yang has put forward. i think i agree with a lot of

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jeff bennett asked president trump about his circle of friends. have a listen to what he had to say. >> it's roger stone, it's michael flynn, paul manafort, michael cohen about your judgment -- >> well, there was great lawlessness in the obama administration. they spied on our campaign illegally and if you look at all of the scandals they had they had tremendous lawlessness but i was not involved. i was not involved in the project. i have no idea who was. >> i was not involved in the project. can the president continue to feign ignorance about the criminal activity around him. >> well, he can, because that's what he does and he won't change. his formative years are over. but what we see in this administration really is corruption run amuck and almost no patriotism. and that's what this has in common with everything else. let's just say -- look at the people who gave this money. i don't have happen to agree with them, but many of these people genuinely thought they were building a wall and steve bannon has been spouting off that he, you know, became this populist here row because of the way his father was treated in life and he was going to help these p