last week in southern borders causing traffic jams back into italy ignoring the ignoring the justice commission ows to warn that it could lead to. being disrupted this now considers the member states at the time it were all what the point of trying to make before you interrupted me. is precisely that we are given the interdependence of our single markets the integration of our supply chains we can do thinks together only we can do things better only if we do them together and this is happening as we speak and again let me tell you that from borders to public procurement to pulling money for research to buying vaccines all this is part of a common european response which is working well you say it's working and i've quoted you people who don't think it is working how do we know for instance that there won't be a repeat of the january 30th fiasco where your commission panicked about the shortage of vaccines and threatened to kick a clause in the northern ireland protocol but would have blocked the vaccines from reaching northern ireland the decision was rather reversed after 10 days and an intern

the commission is therefore chosen direct means, justice thomas, like tax certificates and distress saleshat's how the commission promoted those interests. and it just has never done that ever with respect to the structural ownership limits. and that is what this case is about. >> so what do you think, other than diversity of viewpoint, what other interests are being advanced by in rule? >> the traditional public interest rationales for these rules are, urn wsh viewpoint diversity, localism and competition. those three rationales underlay the adoption of the rule and the commission has consistently relied on those. we think those are appropriate factors. but on our proffered reading of the public interest in in statute we don't think the commissioner comment esper can draw in brand-new rationales as an excuse to keep outdated rules or worse, to make more rules. that turns the statute completely upside down. >> so as this interest -- as these interests become somewhat less important with the rise of other platforms, particularly the internet platforms? >> yes, urn, and i think your questio

last week in southern borders causing traffic jams back into italy ignore limbo ignoring the justice commission ows the warn that it could lead to. been disrupted this now considers the member states at the time it were all states what the point i was trying to make before you interrupted me. is precisely that we given the interdependence of our single market the integration of our supply chains we can do thinks together only we can do things better only if we do them together and this is happening as we speak and again let me tell you that from borders to public procurement to pulling money for research to buying vaccines all this is part of a common european response which is working well you say it's working and i've quoted you people who don't think it is working how do we know for instance that there won't be a repeat of the january 30th fiasco where your commission panicked about the shortage of vaccines and threatened to kick a clause in the northern ireland protocol but would have blocked the vaccines from reaching northern ireland the decision was rather reversed after 10 days in an in

residential centers are not saying anything but it's mostly the criminology professors and joint justice commissions reaching out and saying we want to learn more about this. we have heard a lot and want to look into them more and i apologize to to thissenners, i fell like -- listeners and i'm rehashing the last two weeks into much more that is going on and this book is a great way, troubled is a great way into understanding this industry and getting just like an on the ground glimpse before even unraveling this whole other criminal justice issue. with the treat our kids this way, imagine how we're treating people we care much less about. >> truly. and the lobby, the industrial -- the financial side of it is crazy. so, just sort of talking pout the first two weeks after a book, for our audience here and we already have a question which is amazing and we'll get to those in ten minutes so keep submitting questions. that's awesome. chat in, all of that. but i think the first two weeks of pub for a book, your book comes out on a tuesday and you do a lot of -- at prepublication to get people excited and

police officers, whose every action is scrutinized by inspector general's, the criminal justice standards commission, state attorneys, and grand jury's." what is the reaction? >> police have a difficult job. they are overseen by all those people, and yet we see time after time after time unarmed people, mostly black people, are brutalized, maimed, and killed. obviously something is not working. the only people who benefit from qualified immunity are bad cops. the good cops don't need it. police already have strong constitutional protections without qualified immunity. they are protected if they make reasonable mistakes, if they make well-intentioned mistakes. the only thing that this would harm is if they are intentionally breaking the law. host: mr. cohen? >> yeah, what he said. the police are the only element of our society that we authorized to use lethal force in our name. right now they are held less accountable. we just need them to be held as accountable as you or i if we were to shoot someone in an unjustified way or brutalized somebody unjustifiably. you know, what this police officer says

ppp small business loans, which then become grants and bridges to canada, environmental justice equity commissions, farmers health care in other countries. now also a budget bailout really from new york, for andrew cuomo gavin newsom in california. this is not a serious thoughtful covid relief package. what this really is is a massive federal payout to everyone and every state who donated to and supported democrat candidates in 2020. even during a global crisis, the left is constantly playing political games. here with reaction, how will republicans fight this? house minority leader kevin mccarthy. that is a lot of misappropriation of tax dollars. a lot of redistribution, red states to blue states. is there anything, you are the minority, but it is a very slight minority. anything that you can do to stop this? >> we can't. remember, we are only five seats away from winning the majority. it is the slimmest majority the democrats have had since the 1870s. this bill is too expensive and too expensive. you listed a lot of things in there. think about this, this is to be a covid bill. only 9% of it goe

states of america murder quickly became the epidemic according to the national commission on code 19 and criminal justice homicides bloomed in 2020 and along with the sharp rise of the rates of aggravated assaults and gun and aggravated assaults and gun assaults rose dramatically as well in fact the commission reports that homicide rates were 30 percent higher than in 2019 and a historic increase representing $1268.00 more deaths in the sample of 34 cities than the year before 30 percent higher wow but what's truly fascinating with this sudden rise in violence was that it was across the board from sea to shining sea according to f.b.i. data journalist rob arthur and jeff asher report in the intercept that quote the change in murders was larger in towns with under 10000 people that was up 31 percent then in cities with over a 1000000 and the murders rose dramatically in big cities like new york and chicago but smaller cities like lubbock texas and shreveport louisiana also recorded their highest murder counts in decades. now of course the question is what what would cause this terrible rise in violence wh

commission. it is led by and named for the deputy chief justice of the supreme court its mandate is to investigate government corruption commonly referred to in south africa as state capture of president jacob zuma has been ordered to testify before the state but i take him up as we are clockmaker constitutional court rulings that you will not write but the commission of inquiry they kept on media companies were not supposed to be at the heart of the investigation but they keep coming up former president jacob zuma has a relationship with the. indian born family that owned a t.v. channel and a newspaper was one of the alleged conflicts that led to the judicial inquiry former president jacob zuma his involvement in the establishment of the news channel was incredible. at bain prior to the commission has since heard allegations that the government pumped money into another major media conglomerate in exchange for favorable coverage disguised as journalism about $1300000.00 u.s. the zuma government funneled through its spy agency the s.s.a. under an initiative called project women's partner on the pr

states of america murder quickly became the epidemic according to the national commission on covert 19 and criminal justice homicides bloomed in 2020 and along with the sharp rise of the rates of aggravated assaults and gun aggravated assaults and gun assaults rose dramatically as well in fact the commission reports that homicide rates were 30 percent higher than in 2019 and a historic increase representing 1268 more deaths in the san. well of 34 cities than the year before 30 percent higher wow but what's truly fascinating with this sudden rise in violence was that it was across the board from sea to shining sea according to f.b.i. data journalist rob arthur and jeff asher report in the intercept that quote the change in murders was larger in towns with under 10000 people that was up 31 percent then in cities with over a 1000000 and the murders rose dramatically in big cities like new york and chicago but smaller cities like lubbock texas and shreveport louisiana also recorded their highest murder counts in decades now of course the question is what what would cause this terrible rise in violence while so

justice department's absence. strong leadership at the commission on civil rights reading back into its mandate i think it will be an important step forward as we think of them not just rebuilding the justice department and apartment of education and hud, but these critical agencies that have played a federal role throughout the day. host: you and other civil rights leaders met virtually with the president-elect and vice president elect. what did you want them to do on civil rights? what did you learn what they plan to do on this issue? guest: we talked about a number of issues we collectively deemed amongst the priorities for this administration. i spent my time underscoring the importance of breathing life back into enforcement of the voting rights act. if there's one thing we've seen for sure for the past few years is that voter suppression and voting discrimination are problems that are alive and well across the country. we've seen in georgia, past and present. we seen it texas, north carolina and so may places across the country. we've got a justice department that hasn't brought many cases at all. they have

the office for racial equity and this commission's initiative on racial justice. the first comes from the legal mandate of the city's office of racial equity. at the end of december, we submitted our plan to the city's office of racial equity. to implement this work, we detailed in our plan we must start by adding additional resources, developing a core racial equity team, and deploying new systems to support the delivery of the items in our plan. as you know, we have 2300 staff over seven counties with very different needs and experiences when it comes to racial equity. to best serve our large and diverse staff, we need to bring on racial equity leads for our large enterprises to facilitate the work of our enterprises and bureaus and to coordinate with the agency wide plan. requirements that this commission adopted go beyond the office of racial equity requirement right side in three different areas: access to water as a human right, affordability, and equitable land use, and each of these is reflected in our budget proposal. second area that i wanted to highligh

commission. he believes justice is biased against him, and allegation thejudge and allegation the judge denies. and still some public sympathy for him. zuma is a freedom _ is a freedom fighter of everyone. he fights for this country to be what it is today. so for me to say tabernacle is to be sent to prison for three months, ah, i don�*t think it�*s an easy thing to say. —— sent for prison for three months. the means they are calling for him to— the means they are calling for him to do— the means they are calling for him to do it is questionable, but i — him to do it is questionable, but i guess we will see. this is a volatile _ but i guess we will see. this is a volatile period _ but i guess we will see. this is a volatile period for- but i guess we will see. ti 3 is a volatile period for south africa�*s governing anc. other powerful figures also implicated in corruption are trying to regain control of the party in the country. president ramaphosa is still widely respected here, but with corruption still rampant and an economy battered by the pandemic, the anc�*s shadowy power struggles could yet

when apartheid and south africa went through an exercise in the storage of justice a truth and reconciliation commission the documented human rights crimes committed during that era but the commission never reveal the identities of the journalists who took the money so innocent reporters ended up staying reputations suffered. if the country's news media are to have their credibility restored then more contemporary crimes against journalism must be documented and dealt with the zundel commission will have to us knowing which journalists sold that exactly who put their independence and objectivity on the market is the place to start we need to see the paper trail so that we can know what's journalism which media houses with boards to what extent. so that we can satisfy ourselves and understand it and actually literally to rate an industry of their ropes so that becomes an important point for the entire media industry inside africa. this past week egypt finally released al-jazeera journalist mahmoud hussain he had spent 4 years in prison. no charges were ever laid no trial was ever held you had to hose has

is it through the department of justice, through a 9/11-style commission? how do you bring about accountability and justice to the victims that we saw and to our democracy and its institutions? >> yes. this cannot be the last of what we've herd about january 6th. it's one of several avenues that our government should pursue. there needs to be a thorough in-depth investigation into what transpired piggybacking off the amazing investigation that the house managers and their staff did in a short amount of time. we need a deep type in understanding what sort of the brew that was took up by donald trump in the weeks and months leading up to january 6th, what that was all about. i do think that a bipartisan commission independent of cook and with subpoena power, significant subpoena power and authority as representative quigley pointed out should push forward into getting to the bottom of what occurred. there were security issues and lapses no doubt, but we also really need to do -- have a full undertaking to understand what precipitated this hand who these people

justices have through june to issue a ruling. >> we will hear argument first this morning in case 191231, federal communications commission vs. nsolidated case. mr. stewart. >> mr. chief justice and may it please the court. section 202h of the telom

would go down from the company wasn't the greatest thing, that's looked at by the exchange commission. justiceations, going back the sec and vice a versa, i don't think it is a huge issue here other than to say they are going to look at this and probably are not going to find anything. look up the last time they brought the case, very difficult. on another level, their congressional hearings taking place next week on the whole game stop read it robin hood trading frenzy. maxine waters, the chair of the house financial services committee, it's an interesting group of people they are trying to get to go to the hearing. i believe it next wednesday. one person definitely going is robin hood ceo. the other appendices are interesting. they got bailed out by the credit robin hood traders, their ceo is likely to show. the ceo of citadel investments, a key player that bailed out also allows robin hood to trade for free by buying its order flow and paying them for the order flow. he's likely to be there as well as read it ceo, huffman, i am told by sources those names are not set in stone. that's likely

lockdowns and pandemic was prevalent but thomas abbott director of the national commission on covert 19 and criminal justice bill he observes it lightly it likely takes more than one factor to create a spike of this size that means it wasn't just the pandemic or police violence or more guns it was all of these things happening simultaneously and perhaps more. so what does the violence of 2020 mean as we now start the year of 2021 well the only way to find out is when we start watching all this. on a cd you want to. see this is joyce. gray's. slaves systemic deception. which. brings the old. world order and watching the hawks roll or i'm an. incredible rise in homicides and violent assaults and things of that nature across the board from small towns to large towns what do you think is the role the where why how do you think that these things have risen so dramatically what do you what's your take on this well i think we've watched a precipitous fall in people's financial safety and security particularly around jobs more and more people have been laid off some people don't know if their jobs are coming back a

i think that the department of justice and the federal trade commission will move and i think you'reration that we have gone through especially in the obama administration. hundreds of mergers with these major tech companies that really were not scrutinized very carefully. i don't think that's the case at this point in time either in congress or certainly not in the trump administration. charles: okay. i really hope what we don't get out of this but nothing but a moat that protects big businesses. maybe they will pay a couple fines here and there. it makes it harder to compete. unfortunately we've seen that in banking, oil industry and other industries. the other side, democrats are moving ahead with nearly two trillion dollar stimulus package is the fact that they rejected this notion of having this income threshold, 50,000-dollar income threshold. in fact moments ago president biden reiterated he thinks it should be 75,000. just looks like this whole package, which is called a rescue package is more and more like a progressive christmas tree. it doesn't seem like the republicans ca

police officers, whose every action is scrutinized by inspector general's, the criminal justice standards commissione attorneys, and grand jury's." what is the reaction? >> police have a difficult job. they are overseen by all those people, and yet we see time after time after time unarmed people, mostly black people, are brutalized, maimed, and killed. obviously something is not working. the only people who benefit from qualified immunity are bad cops. the good cops don't need it. police already have strong constitutional protections without qualified immunity. they are protected if they make reasonable mistakes, if they make well-intentioned mistakes. the only thing that this would harm is if they are intentionally breaking the law. host: mr. cohen? >> yeah, what he said. the police are the only element of our society that we authorized to use lethal force in our name. right now they are held less accountable. we just need them to be held as accountable as you or i if we were to shoot someone in an unjustified way or brutalized somebody unjustifiably. you know, what this police officer says that y

you had won the most votes, and you actually went to the belarus electoral commission to demand a clean count and demand justicehat it was then that you were confronted with the reality that if you did continue your campaign, you would face very serious consequences. you've never talked explicitly about what was said to you. can you tell me now? you know, i can't tell everything, but ijust can tell you that i was put in front of choice — to go to the jail or to go to my children who were already in lithuania because i sent them before, just to feel them safe, and... i made my choice at that moment, though i knew that i will not give up, even if i'm in exile, that i will continue my role and fight, that i will support belarusian people in their fight. and so i was made to flee. were you told — i know it's difficult, but were you told that if you carried on with your campaign, you might never see your children ever again? er, because i would be jailed that very moment. because they told me i'm... you know, it was on the 10th of august, and because we didn't have internet in belarus at that moment, and i couldn't

in his place the final member was a republican justice named joseph bradley. the commissiontened to arguments in february 1877. in the 19th century inauguration took. . place in march not january ultimately, they awarded the dispute to republican rutherford b hayes in a series of strict party line 8-7 votes. it was a truly unprecedented crisis, but i will close with one comment. in thinking about 1876 and 2020, tilden did not file lawsuits for the outcome in the same way the trump campaign did. but there were actually dozens of state-level lawsuits filed by representatives of both political parties challenging the results and the decisions of these candidacy boards. after the federal commission decided hayes, they said you should challenge the final results. there were scores of white southerners writing to tilden and swearing to use violence to challenge the results. i have been thinking about that a lot in the context of what we saw wednesday because what happened on wednesday is exactly, exactly what people in the winter of 1876 and 1877 were afraid of. but tilden refused

commission. he's fought for civil rights and social justice, an advocate for economic justice. i believe he has the commitment of the -- he has the credibility within the community and he has the stature to be able to reach out to leaders and other communities in san francisco to build those bridges and to resolve the issues that need to be fixed. i also want to say that i understand supervisor mandelman's concerns in regards to the police not reporting. it's been an issue in the asian-american community for quite a while. they like to say that it's underreporting from the community and for the longest time i think it's a disregard for the police. i believe larry will address these issues. i would like to -- i hope that this committee will advance his candidacy. thank you. >> chair: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am a native san franciscan, third generation, and i am the current president for the asian-pacific american alliance, the san francisco chapter. i'm here to support larry yee and believe that he would do a fabulous job for our community. when i s

justice in our immigrant communities. sarah will be the first undocumented person to serve on a san francisco commission, and this will be historic and it's past due. sarah is an inspiration to us young leaders who care about social justice issues. sarah has broken the systemic barriers and opened up doors for immigrant families to make and to be part of the decisions that affect our health, families and future with self-determination. sarah's experiences allow her to empathize surrounding life as immigrants in san francisco. in and having people who readily understand and who are directly impacted -- excuse me -- is vital to ensuring actual progress. we need these community leaders to be appointed today. with this i yield my time. thank you for your time and consideration. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller, please? >> caller: hi, my name is daka and thank you for all that you do. i have been undocumented for the past 17 years and i'm so grateful that the immigrant commission exists to represent the voices of people like me and my community. but let me be very real. and this may shock you all. again, there'

so they create a special electoral commission composed of five senators, five representatives and five supreme court justices. and in the results that had come back, there were three southern states that had disputed returns. so what shows up is two different groups. one for tilden, one for hayes. the commission comes back and finds in favor of hayes, awarding him those votes. but as part of the political negotiation that struck, to make him president, the southern states manage to, democrats manage to push republicans to end reconstruction formally. that happens in 1877, and once that happens what you see over, ah, really a decade, a decade and a half is a process where african-americans are gradually excluded from the political process in the south. it's a combination of state laws that go on the books and local laws that go on the books. such as poll taxes. but by the 1890s, both through law and through custom in the south, african-americans largely are no longer part of the political process. and that plays out in congress in that post-1877 period because you see the numbers really drop off by the 1880s.

it so they create a special electoral commission composed of five senators, five representatives. and lots of supreme court justices. in the results, that come back, there were three southern states. that had disputed, returns so what's shows up is two different groups, one for tilden. one for hayes. the commission comes back, and finds favor of, hayes awarding him those votes. but, as part of the political negotiation, that struck to make him president. southern states managed to -- democrats managed to push republicans to and reconstruction, formally. that happens in 1877, once that happens. which you see, over, really a decade, decade and a half is a process where, african americans are, gradually excluded from a political process, in the south. it's a combination of state laws, that go on the books. and local laws that go on the books. such as poll taxes. but our by the 1890s. both through law, and threw custom in the south, african americans largely are no longer part of the political process. and that plays out in congress, in the 1877 period. because you see the numbers really drop off. by the 18 eighties. t

in a sample of 34 american cities from new york, norfolk, virginia, national commission on covid-19 and criminal justice said the murder rate increase in 2020 has, quote, no modern precedent. for example homicide rates from 2019 to 2020 were up 30%, which translates to an additional 1200 killings. the study said oddly the murder wave didn't fit usual crime patterns. usually homicides increase during summer months and decrease during the fall and winter. but the 2020 murder rate, steady throughout the year though it did peak during the summer riots. gun assaults and aggravated assaults also went up. the commission said the reasoning for the increase is that the pandemic disproportionately affected vulnerable populations, putting at risk individuals under additional physical, mental, emotional and financial stress. the situation was further aggravated, says the report, by a lack of outreach to those who were most affected. >> laura: unreal. trace, thank you very much. the media are ignoring this on going crime wave. instead, they're focusing on kneecapping successful gop governors ahead of 2024. few have

disrespect toward a superior commissioned officer is made punishable by article 89 of the uniform code of military justiceit may be punished by a bad conduct discharge and hard labor up to six months. disrespect may consist of acts or language that may refer to the superior as an officer or private individual. similarly, article 91 provides any warrant officer or enlisted member who treats with contempt or is disrespectful toward a noncommissioned officer while that officer is in the execution of his office may be sentenced by court-martial to bad conduct discharge and confinement or hard labor for six months. convictions for rioting, 10 years confinement and a dishonorable discharge while breaching the peace may bring confinement or forfeitures up to six months. willfully disobeying a lawful command of a superior commissioned officer, article 90, may be punished by a dishonorable discharge and confinement and hard labor for five years. any assault is, of course, punishable under article 128 of the uniform code. with maximum sentences varying with the gravity of the offense. it is interesting to note you

a sample of 34 american studies from new york to northern virginia the national commission on covid-19 and criminal justice murder rate in 2020 has "no modern president." homicide rates in 2019 and 2020 up 30% whichch translate to 1200 killings. the study says audley the murder rate did not fit usual crime patterns. normally homicides increased during summer months andbu decrease during the following winter, but the 2020 murder rate steady throughout the year though it did peek a bit during the summer riots. and aggravated assault and gun assaults went up. the commission said the reason for the increase is the pandemic quoting "disproportionately affected vulnerable population at risk individuals with physical, mental, emotional stress." and further aggravated, says the report by a lack of outreach to those most affected, laura. >> laura: and real, trays, thank you so much. the media are ignoring this the media are ignoring this they are focusing on the capping g.o.p. governors ahead of 2024. and few have gotten worse treatment than my next guest kristi noem of south dakota. speak with these leaders partic

authorizing $300000000.00 increases to the annual budgets of the department of justice and to trust a vision and the federal trade commission which in force antitrust laws how much of an impact is that big budgetary increase going to be. if you look at it it's going to make some impact obviously when you move $300000000.00 into any agency that obviously their main focus would be you would think on tech companies it doesn't guarantee that it would be but you would think it would be there something interesting go to the siri story that you told a minute ago and that's an important story but there's another cabby out to that which is that when apple 1st bought up the company that created siri they actually didn't buy them to use the technology they actually bought it because they saw serious a threat and they shelved siri for several years until one of their workers found it and said hey this might actually be good to include it in the phone and that's the other part of these big tech companies like google and facebook and apple and amazon that a lot of people aren't aware of is that one part of the strategy is to acquire comp

going to run the story i think they just ran it, this is according to the national commission october 19 in criminal justice the victims are disproportionately african-american. at least 8600 black lives were lost the homicide in 2020. don't those lives matter? >> we asked that question all the time, here we are in 2021 in baltimore city we had 31 murders and their all-black individuals. i see billboards in baltimore right now by the fbi and the local fbi asking about the information on those that reach the capital on january 6 but there's not one billboard asking about a murder that has hurt somebody's family member in baltimore. we don't have our cases being closed it's about a 30% rate that were closing cases and witnesses are not coming forward which is the biggest impediment in all these cases. when are we actually going to enact this black lives matter, i just don't know. >> we had you as missouri senator josh hawley's wife filing a criminal complaint against the man who organized the protest outside the home in virginia. aaron holly filed a criminal complaint, basically senator hawley and his wife an

justice department somehow gets involved. we don't have any indication of that. and 9/11 style commission takes time to set up. it would be bipartisan in nature. it won't be the center of the political universe. i think those things, the commission and the potential prosecution may be relevant to mitch mcconnell's effort to arm wrestle donald trump for some of the near-term control of the party heading into 2022. don't think it's likely to effect joe biden all that much. >> ron, the north carolina gop censuring senator burr for his vote to convict trump. this is his response. he says my party's leadership has chosen loyalty to one man over the core principles of the republican party. in your new piece you ask if the gop's extremist wing is too big to fail. you have an answer for us? >> it's big, and you're seeing the influence it's exerting not only in the way the members are behaving. so few in the house voting to impeach. so few in the senate voting to convict. in the state parties censuring those who stood up to trump after he literally directed a mob or incited a mob to target them. the challenge republica

the office for racial equity and this commission's initiative on racial justice.the first comes from the legal mandate of the city's office of racial equity. at the end of december, we submitted our plan to the city's office of racial equity. to implement this work, we detailed in our plan we must start by adding additional resources, developing a core racial equity team, and deploying new systems to support the delivery of the items in our plan. as you know, we have 2300 staff over seven counties with very different needs and experiences when it comes to racial equity. to best serve our large and diverse staff, we need to bring on racial equity leads for our large enterprises to facilitate the work of our enterprises and bureaus and to coordinate with the agency wide plan. requirements that this commission adopted go beyond the office of racial equity requirement right side in three different areas: access to water as a human right, affordability, and equitable land use, and each of these is reflected in our budget proposal. second area that i wanted to highlight

justice. that is what h.r. 40 is about. this commissionwill probe into the facts of the long-standing impact of disparities that slavery brought about in this country. we still experience them today. when this committee last met to discuss is legislation we required three overflow rooms to contain the scholarships and the passion displayed in support of this bill. i am very t pleased to say thate have had over 170 cosponsors close to that now and those members of congress i want to thank them personally because they are a wide perspective in spectrum of political views and progressives, moderates, to conservatives coming from all regions of the united states. all racial backgrounds, that is america. that is what repair is all about, reparative justice. since that time we have seen a pandemic sweep the country taking more than 500,000 souls in its wake and devastated the african-american community. according to the latest estimate from the u.s. senate from disease control black people get covid-19 at a rate nearly one and a half times highe

last year a study released today by the national commission on covid-19 and criminal justice. >>suggests the pandemic and racial injustice unrest were 2 key factors. the study looked a crime rates in almost 3 dozen cities. homicides rose and 85% of those cities. there was a 30% overall spike in homicides in 2020 compared to 2019 other violent crimes also rose including aggravated assaults and gun assaults, one of the study's author says many officers were forced to quarantine last year and maintaining social distancing kept them from the sort of community outrage outreach rather that's needed to try to stop violence before it happens. >>here in the bay area advocates for a long-term care residents in assisted nursing homes. they say that after a really tough vaccine. rollout there has been some progress that's the good news, however, there is some bad news still plaguing the most vulnerable in this pandemic the state says are working on improving the system. >>this conference theresa that's a tells us advocates say the location of the facility is playing a part in who's gettin

packing or reaching a fever pitch the meat of theng after justice barrett's confirmation and made this announcement that he would have a commissionand a commission after the federal judiciary and the commission will soon be announced for the membership in its mandate and what to anticipate an agenda will look like? is is really just about two or three small handful of reforms and it really does ultimately come down to the procedural issues that molly has addressed in the politics of it or should wee expect the commission to really, really side these questions and come up with some novel solution and what is your expectation of what their agenda will look like? >> i don'txp think we totally kw what to expect because we don't actually really know why the commission is being created. when these questions were coming up i thought biden or i thought it was a pretty good feint to get the issue off the table and kick the can down the road in a way that can do not necessarily alienate everyone but there was a question in which does biden actually want to do anything about the problem of the courts or is it not his priority? and guess wha

i fail to see how $1 billion for an equity commission and other assistance to advance racial justice and farming has anything at all what to do with covid-19 emergency relief. this is a wish list for the radical left. that's all this is. this is a pelosi-schumer pay-off and a pay-off to blue states and radicals in the democratic party. now tonight, even some democrats finally getting to the bottom of the bill are, yeah, beginning to get uncomfortable with the bill because they have to answer for this in less than two years. >> every bill that has $1.9 trillion, there will be one line that will probably be somewhat embarrassing, right? this is -- >> it's embarrassing. 101.5 million of taxpayer money. i'm just saying, are you comfortable with it? >> the answer is no, i'm not comfortable. i'm never comfortable with it. >> sean: let's stop here. it's not just the pork and the payouts, democrats are trying to use the bill as a trojan horse for their $15 minimum wage, which according to the cbo, that would cost 1.4 million jobs in the middle of a pandemic, not a good idea. in the middle of

commission has flourished as a proud beacon of justice but to understand the i will pakistan look at the annual day of celebration. i have been many times. every third monday of january, more than 1500 come to recognize local students and recommit to the unfinished work of dr. king. they are focused on one of dr. king's quotes. one of these events the commission selected, quote, out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope and invited bernice king to address the group. the m.l.k. commission of michigan is that stone of hope for so many. for 42 years, the commission has shown what is possible when folks from all walks of life come together under the ban of equality and justice. may it shine as community leadership for the next 42 years and live on in the firl record of the u.s. congress. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize a father and son duo who have lembd lansing for over, james riley senior and james riley junior. when the elder riley moved to michigan after graduating high school and took a job at ford plant but left to go to the military. he met his future wife of 70 years a