program marc morial, the national urban league president. the annual report that the urban league has released since the 1970's. the name is democracy in peril, confronting the threat within. why that name? guest: let me thank you for having me. it good morning to all of the viewers and listeners. when we look at the last several years, we witnessed an effort to undermine american democracy. yesterday, four people were convicted in a federal court of attempting to overthrow the united states government by blocking the transfer of power after the election. any number of people have been indicted, they have been convicted of an effort to undermine democracy. we decided to dig deeper into this significant question. hundreds of bills introduced in state legislatures across the country have no purpose whatsoever except to make it more difficult for people to vote. to put a target on black people, latinos, young voters, disabled voters. we dug into the hate crimes numbers. we saw an alarming spike in hate crimes in america directed at like people,

we >> we marc morial is our gas, the topic is the state of a black america. the annual report that came out recently from the national urban league has been coming out every year since 1970. phone, lines if you want to join the conversation, they are as usual, the democrat is 202, 748, 8000. the republican's 20, 2748, 8001. independent is 202 -- we will have this conversation until the end of our program, 10 am eastern. if you talk about participating in democracy. the freedom to get a job. in this country, a new jobs report came out about an hour ago, the unemployment rate is 3.4% down from 3.5% in this country. the unemployment rate among blacks in this country is still significantly higher, 4.7%. >> these unemployment numbers are significant because i think the lowest unemployment rate in american history. that means that the economy is having no problems? what it means is, the directionally we have come back from the covid recession in an impressive way. we are now having its record numbers of americans working. you have lower unemployment among blacks wh

host: let me stop you there and give marc morial a chance to jump in.thanks for the memory of my late father and the kind words about our service as mayors of this great city. the gop and republicans consistently supported voting rights bills up until the election of barack obama. in 2005 and 2006, when i first joined the national urban league and we had a long fight to extend the voting rights act, we had george bush support. 97 votes in the u.s. senate, 300 votes in the house. it was bipartisan. back in the 1960's when lyndon johnson proposed voting rights it was a senator from the state of illinois, a republican leader , who joined with president johnson to insist in passing voting rights and civil rights through the congress of the united states. the gop has flipped its position on voting rights. it has fractured the bipartisan, long-standing coalition that existed in this country in support of fundamental voting rights and nondiscriminatory voting rights. the roberts supreme court is at great fault. in 2013 they issued a decision which i think will

washington's shadow is cast over wall street and it is there to stay we have former new orleans mayor marc morial, to weigh in today as rates continue to climb, are some millennials losing hope in the housing market a new report from b of a shows they expect to pay even more for homes down the line. and the market could have far reaching consequences, we'll speak to the analyst behind that report >> looking forward to that, tyler, thank you hi, everybody. on the market front, look at the dow up 460 points, that's close to session highs, driven by the previously mentioned jobs report s&p up to 41.29. nasdaq up more than 2% now the banks rebounding today check out some of the regional names led higher by pacwest surging 85%. that puts it at almost $6 a share now. western alliance up 50%, zion up 18%. making hay out of any signs that could mean a fed pause apple up almost 5% after its earnings beat showing that hardware and hard numbers are more important than big promises cigna up 7% on beat on results thanks to lower costs and higher growth in health insurance speaking of which, it is official, th

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and we the national urban league president marc had some morial and others will be of the finest testifying before the senate african american physicians -- who examined the messages and the scientific reliability and verify ability. this investigative journalists trying to throw a wedge in this conversation. the fact of the matter is that too many people died during the pandemic. fact of the matter is that the vaccine was not necessarily forced unless an employer required you. i supported the vaccine. i took the vaccine. but i didn't take it, nor would i encourage anyone to take it until after the best scientists and people recommended it. so the effort to throw a wedge in the contributors and the people who supported our work. it's not our practice to list donors on the website. >> paul, minnesota, this is lauren, and independent. good morning. >> good morning. it's the monarch of the house asking this question. one of my concerns is in the county, in st. paul, 88% of black children are being born into a single family homes with no father. this is definitely a path towards poverty, crime,