many years ago with payment a paramedic i worked in washington for governor riker when he as senator and then governor. and he used to say the mark of a country is note how well it treats its richest people but how it treats its most vulnerable citizens. and i think that's a principle we need to live up to. and the immigranty the surgeon journal and now it's at -- are we able to live up to that most fundamental obligations we have as human beings to care for one another? so, peace to all and thank you for listening to my presentation. hope i didn't go on too along and aim happy to answer any questions you might have. >> thank you so much, peter. such a compelling and very enlightening presentation, and i have a couple of questions for you and i just -- withbe get to those i want to encourage our audience, if you have a question for peter, if you loo like characterization on his he went over in his presentation, go ahead and either put those in the chat or in the q & a and i'll filter them up to peter. i just -- it's such a heart-wrenching circumstance and the book is -- the stories a

us trade representative and to introduce her you will have elizabeth riker was the interim senior vice president or global public policy and vice president for external affairs of general motors. liz, thanks for joining us. ask for your support. >> thank you eric and good morning everyone. i'm honored to have the privilege of representing general motors and introducing ambassador catherine tai. trade is an important issue that vital to our success as a company and one we believe is vital to the success of every economy in the americas . over the past year and a half we've also seen trade is essential to ensuring our populations have access to life-saving care equipment and the enormous contribution trade makes to our economy. given that experience, is more important than ever we have a us trade representative will understand the power of trade . we were very pleased to see ambassador tai elected to be president biden's carry representative and take charge of shepherding progress for key areas for the economy of north and south america i also want to recognize in particular as this is a

n n drugs just before i got in are one of getting caught with possession and i went i'm going to rikers island for a little bit of. it knows daisy was it was a zoo you can get anything you need a knife or a anything needs one great one term the guy had a gun in there it was like. gladiator school every day and so when i got short short means that you're going home you don't have a lot of time left in your stack and they gave me a job in hard trial and. next thing you know they put some shackles on you and you end it a big you know little boss and then they take you on a boat i'm a little skid could i'm in handcuffs i'm on the book to get the boats going to go down i think the worst or whatever and they take you to harsh on him and. i still didn't know that hans i was promised feel i heard a polish through in movies and stuff like that but i didn't i didn't even know what what it meant. and there's only 2 officers no friends no nothing and there was a smell and i don't know what the smell was so the next morning is raining and they tell you we're going to go with it or go to work. we wan

when we had a group of researchers waking 247 for older moms trying to assess what exactly is the riker human rights issues in columbia? and according to our numbers, elise 63 people, 63 in the last month, die in the context of the, of these demonstrations. we have pretty much confirmed 28 cases of those 63 as victims of security forces and any time. so for those ones who are missing, we are investigating that. that issue is obviously very probably the good news is that the numbers are the, the original number of people who wear allegedly disappear is, is dramatically reviews. so we have content, we're working closely with that local officials to establish that. and we'll record of those ones missing in columbia. i'll say, because you vancho, executive director of the americas division of human rights watch. thank you. thank you very much. let's take a look now at some other headlines making news around the world. police in canada have found the remains of more than $200.00 children at the side of a former school for indigenous children. the school, as part of a system closed down 3 dec

us trade representative and to introduce her you will have elizabeth riker was the interim senior vice president or global public policy and vice president for external affairs of general motors. liz, thanks for joining us. ask for your support. >> thank you eric and good morning everyone. i'm honored to have the privilege of representing general motors and introducing ambassador catherine

if trump goes to riker's island, the next person up is going to try to be his mini-me.desantis or something else, correct? >> you have to dig pretty deep into the earth's crust to be more pessimistic about the republican party than me. so, credit to eugene. donald trump is uniquely sociopathic, and desantis may try to pass the same laws, but would he be so shameless to go on for a year, two years after, to say it's fake, it's like venezuela, it's the voting machines, but i generally agree with eugene's point. >> let's take a quick break. >>> coming up, the mother of a fallen capitol police officer speaks out about creating this january 6th commission. she's asking to talk to republican senators. how many of them will do it? this is the greatest idea you'll ever hear. okay, it's an app that compares hundreds of travel sites for hotels and cars and vacation rentals like kayak does for flights. so it's kayak. yeah, like kayak. why don't you just call it kayak. i'm calling it... canoe. compare hundreds of travel sites for thousands of trips. kayak. search one and done. this

if trump goes to rikers island, the next person up is going to try to be his mini me.t's desantis or somebody else, correct? >> yes, look, you've got to dig pretty deep into the earth's crust to be more pessimistic about the republican party than. me [laughs] so congratulations to jean. [laughs] again, there's some unique things about donald trump. he's uniquely sociopathic. and he is unique in his lack of shame. i think that if you had iran desantis on the front end of the election, he might try to undermine the democracy the same way that trump has. but would he be so shameless to go on for a year, two years after? telling people that oh it's fake, it's like venezuela. the voting machines? trump is a sociopath that is unique, that i generally agree with eugene's point. >> i love when our guests get along. let's take a quick break. both gentlemen are staying with us. coming up, the mother of a fallen capitol police officer speaks out about creating this january 6th commission. she is asking to talk to republican senators. how many of them will do it? do you have a lif

excessive isolation when he took his young life in 2015 after remaining in solitary confinement in rikers island even to the point of being in his own feces for simple allegations of taking a backpack. i might add that it was determined that the owner of the backpack was not in the country and it wasn't an offense in the first place but he cannot get a lawyer cannot get representation and remain there for a very long time. we are at an infection points where we can no longer sit on the sidelines and hope and pray that things get better but we are slumbered by our better angels to take up this task and to do what we are sent here in congress to do, to act. i pay tribute to caleb with the legislation named after him tha we must do more and i lookus forward to hearing your testimony and how we can help the states address these pivotal issues and thereby saving our children. it is my privilege now to recognize the ranking member's opening statement for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. thank you to all the witnesses for being here, both in personll and remotely.. at today's hearing the

started making 89 when i went to rikers island and i taught, trained and found employment for first-timeent offenders. in 1993 as rudy giuliani, the first republican mayor that we had 20 years ago, came into office we were able to get thousands of guns off the city street. in 1999 we form new york state federation of taxi drivers and we saved thousands of lives of cabdrivers that work our city streets. and in 2,002,002 we did the same for the data owners are getting shot, , rob, looted, murdered. we were able to change lives of so many people in new york city. i am compelled to run for mayor of new york city because it's the right time. we need a mayor like me. we need a that going to great change, a eventually going to crack down and bring our police department to where it needs to be. bail reform, defund the police was my opponents responsibility. he is partly responsible for bail reform and defund the police because he supported and endorsed every single democrat that voted for those laws. and today we're going to take the mask off his face censure every republican out there who the t

the rush to close rikers island, emptying the jails, putting dangerous criminals with lengthy rap sheets on to our streets. governor's parole board that has released over 16 cop killers. and other murderers, and other rapists. once again putting people who are dangerous back on our streets. eliminating the nypd plain clothes unit, tying the hands of our police, and then lastly, cutting $1 billion, 1/6 of the nypd budget. as i mentioned, the 4-year-old girl who was shot this weekend, she was just one of 43 individuals shot in the last week. 169 increase over the same period last year. and there are nine murders last week in new york city, up 350% over the same period last year. but the trend is not just starting now, it's not just a result of defunding the police, it's the other policies, as i have mentioned. whosides in 2020 soared 45%, shootings doubled. with 1,868 people shot in 2020 up from 923. in 2019. this is a result of an abdication of responsibility for my colleagues from the city and state level. now they want to take away the qualified immunity from our police officers, someth

>> bill de blasio counted that we have the lowest rikers island population since world war ii. have a parade down broadway but that's not the case. this is a direct correlation. speaking of bill de blasio, we had this horrible shooting in times square just down the street from her studio stomach to make your studio and the response was to flood it the area with officers and send officers down to florida to catch the perpetrator. this is only stuff you can do when you have enough police officers to below the stomach patrolled streets and detectiveo catch these people. if we are going to continue down this road, we already don't have enough police officers to flood the streets. all of these other shootings happen and times square is times square. the majority of the shootings and the ones that account for the bulk of the volume increases, those are happening on lesser-known intersections around the five boroughs and we don't have enough cops to flood those streets. we need to but week won't because a progressive democrats. >> john: it's always good to talk to. you. the majority o

stephen riker prepared a letter responding to her questions, they called them accusations from everythinge handling of the ballots so whether a database was deleted. that they were delivered to auditors. in each case they said either the information is false or they cannot provide what she wants. each official, who also lashed out at phan, including the senator prescott, they says she has effectively given over the senate powers to cyber ninjas, an outside firm that has no audit experience, but is now using the audit to raise money. "i want to make it clear i will not be responding to anymore requests from this sham process." that was the chairman of the board. you can find that on the tucson news. now we have robert from pennsylvania. caller: people in charlottesville, i was born and raised there, and the people know nothing about it. i was raised as a steel worker. we went down to the capital to meet representatives. how did these people know where these offices were? i do not know how they did that. why didn't the republicans, they say they were such wonderful people, why were they hid

excessive isolation when he took his young life in 2015 after remaining in solitary confinement in rikerssland , even to the point of being in his own feces for simple allegations of taking a backpack. i might add, that it was determined that the owner of the backpack wasn't in the country and it wasn't an offense in the first place but he couldn't get a lawyer. couldn't get representation. he remained there for a very long time. we're at an inflection point where we can no longer sit on the sidelines and hope and pray things get better. we are summoned by our better angels to take up this task and to do what we are sent here to congress to do -- to act. i pay tribute to kalief with legislation named after him. we must do more. i look forward to hearing your testimony on how we can help the states in addressing these pivotal issues and thereby saving our children. it's my privilege now to recognize the ranking member's opening statement for five minutes. mr. biggs: thank you, madam chair. thank you to all the witnesses for being here, both in person and remotely. in at today's -- at today

our next guest, maricopa county recorder, steven riker responded to the former president's continuedy tweeting, this is unhinged, and adding that he was literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. right now, we can't indulge these insane lies any longer as a party, as a state, as a country. and steven richer joins us now. thank you so much for being on the show. >> steven -- >> go ahead, joe. >> i'm sorry, mika. i'm still behind. steven, so talk about unhinged. you have people here who are grifters, who have been pushing conspiracy theories, and they were selected to come out and look over your shoulders. talk about how this bad idea at the beginning has seemingly gotten worse since it started and has really moved out of control >> yeah, well, thank you very much for having me on, joe. their procedures and their lack of experience and their conspiracy theorys and their bamboo papers and their uv lights are one thing. but what was really the final straw for me is when they started defaming my audience, defaming the good people who work in maricopa county a