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that is what my colleague edward kamani asked young sewell unions in this we st. pete, yes. what he say, ah, hello and welcome to the 77 percent were here at the prince of wales school in free town, the capital of cyril yawn. and in this country, 8 out of every 10 people is under the age of 35. i had to look that number up again because it's unbelievable. 80 percent of the population are within the 77 percent. but the question we want to ask today is, is the government doing enough to not just empower this youth but also make them competitive globally? and i want to begin with harder because you've had the opportunity to not to study abroad, but also have an enterprise here. so perhaps you can give me based on your experience . do you think that the youth in this country have been enabled or empowered enough to basically be part of the global community? well, as of a few months ago, there were only 3 disciplines in sierra leone when you go to high school. so there's the arts, the commercial and science. so i ended up in a science because every smart person is supposed to be

during this evaluation during the news conference that the coven was using, stormed in there, said to st. pete correction. it just looks like someone who was trying to look tough to -- trying to look tough, say tough words. i don't know if it comes across as sincere. >> in this day and age, it comes across -- if he was doing this 20 years ago, but not political stunts and attention seeking behavior is the norm. look at social media. it's what he's doing. he has lost everything he's gone after recently, so he is just trying to do something where he is passionate. >> finding him in all of these situations, which is interesting. weeks after fans lashed out at disney, they are increasingly woke narrative, the entertainment giant, some say, is at it again. the "washington examiner" putting out this story. it reports that "rupaul's drag race," along with -- will play a role in the upcoming disney+ series "iron heart." what say you? >> congratulations to her. the marvel franchise is a great franchise. anytime you have this opportunity, let's just hope that it's based upon the entertainment value and

s&p st. pete gain -- s&p 500 gained a third. i want to first begin by reminding the folks at home what the jobs report look like for the month of july. s to have robust to put it mildly. i wanted to get your reaction. 528,000 unemployment rate down to 3.5%. it would seem to me that we're talking about a likelihood more interest rate hikes. your thoughts? >> first, thank you so much for having me on the program. this job market report suggested the economy is still strong. at least in the labor market. we are seeing signs of slow down in spending as people respond to rising interest rates. as i think what's up next for interest rates i still think that we need to move them up. we don't need all the support we've been giving the economy. we don't need to be too aggressive. interest rates rise. takes a while for them to move through the economy. good news is, people can get jobs. bad news, that inflation remains too high. our number one priority is to get that down. >> what about raises in whole. why do you think that's the proper

the one more expensive, the one in st. pete. it's unbelievable how he's let it go.. >> your ad that we just played is a character attack, and democrats don't often run character campaigns against republicans. it's a real jujitsu, but his character has been revealed in the merciless attack and weaponization of gay and lesbian students and teachers, his don't say gay bill, chasten buttigieg tweeted that people will die because of this. talk about the effects of his really craven political moves on the people of florida. >> well, he's mean. i mean, he's just a mean spirited guy, and you know, i'm the opposite of that. i'm a happy warrior. i love people, and he spews hate all the time. i mean, you know, we've literally had, you know, neo-nazis running around the state carrying his flag, and he doesn't denounce it or address it in any way, and there's all this anti-semitic material that's being distributed throughout our state and others, and it's horrible, and the notion that this guy who went to harvard and yale has no more couth than he does, i mean, he made a commerc

as a member of congress i rented an apartment in st. pete, one in washington. guess what was more expensive? the one in florida. that's what desantis has done. he has taken his eye off the ball of florida and the issues that concern them, the inflation we're suffering from, the economy we're suffering from. middle income floridians are squeezed and crushed and the governor is more focused on the white house. >> let me just jump in. you had painted the picture starting early on in the answer to my question that florida is a swing state but the bottom line is there are more registered republicans than democrats now in florida. i mean, does that concern you? >> well, what concerns me is the fact that there are a lot of registered democrats and a lot of registered independents that outnumber that. let's not forget there are some moderate republicans that still live in florida that i think we have a great chance to get their vote. republican women by and large don't like some white guy in a governor's mansion in tallahassee telling them they don't have a right to ch

. >> he primary opponent is former republican governor, charlie crist that voted in st. pete. he switched parties in 2012. despite state republicans out registering democrats this cycle, he doesn't think florida is totally red yet. >> you plan to prove them wrong. we're going to beat ron desantis. we're in it to win it. >> florida republican governor ron desantis has now begun running ads preparing for november's likely costly general election touting himself now as the nation's top gov. and anna luna is runned for crist's open seat hoping to flip it red. she lost to crist by six points two years ago and is expected to win her republican primary tonight. gop representative and trump loyalist matt gaetz under investigation by the justice department for alleged teen sex trafficking is facing mark lombardo, a retired fed ex executive. marco rubio also is unopposed on the primary ballot. so he's been very quiet waiting for november. there's four democrats vying to run against him. the leading contender is congresswoman velocity demings, the former orlando police chief that raised

i'm joining us raska with us for desi, craning box. alexander is st. pete's anthony joshua and saudi arabia to retain his heavy weight titles on an emotional night. the best fight. ah, welcome to the news or we begin in russia. police have lost a murder investigation of the daughter of a pro kremlin commentator was killed in a car bomb explosion near moscow. unverified social media footage showed daria doug gina's, father alexander, at the scene shortly after the bombing, both of supported rushes, invasion of ukraine. well, alexander dugan is a russian philosopher, political analyst and strategist. he was the chief editor at the pro kremlin sat. a grad tv station. diggin was reportedly helped to shape vladimir putin's expansionist foreign policies and has been called, often hooton's brain, that he was involved in the russian president's initiative for the annexation of crimea. and considered the invasion of ukraine inevitable. doogan has previously called for the eradication of ukrainian identity, while samuel romani is an associate fella. the royal united services institute enjoys m

pete on that on those couple of journalism that time. but that was not the case. and they wouldn't say that you said that mr. castillo been in st. petersburg, the deputy prosecutor general said in a 994 interview that i did with him. that organized crime was infiltrating all the judicial organs. the police counterintelligence the courts. suddenly the crime rates rose very sharp, he said, and we weren't ready for it. in short, crime was out of control. that was the deputy prosecutor general. valerie both shook off said it in 1994 of them. if you're dead, then i think that i'm just people in law school in the government do eventually to these or just they didn't take us as important information. maybe it was the judge of i don't know, i was not responsible for that. just judging those report. so for debbie to general general prosecutor of son, because whatever never got this name and i said, and that missed against believe to put him is a good man. and he, a good, i would say in the success of a continuation of those changes, missed to get some stuff. and when, when the, this edition comes to me came to me whether i would die when

tries to cancel our towning fathers,st time for us to uncancel and explain exactly why they deserve to retain a place of esteem in the united states of america. peteon. of course you know george washington who we oft refer to as the father of our country because unanimously -- yeah, they weren't formal political parties back hen, per se, but sides of every issue generally understood that george washington first as access, then as general, then again as citizen was the leader of our young country. will: an effort to take out him by the virginia education department, and why wouldn't he be called the father of the united states? in my estimation, one of of the most, one of the characteristics, one of the actions hard place george washington mt. rarest of company, declining to be the emperor or king of the united states of america. pete: that napoleon said it would make him the greatests of men if he actually gave up the leadership, and he did. he won a revolution against a country we never should have beat in the first place and, map, a -- a man of few words. the next one, of course, thomas jefferson. will, you know this, they're trying to can semih