william barber as he campaigns against poverty and racism across the country. rend barber, it is great to see you again. talk about what happened monday and where you're headed now is we bring out this latest report on extreme poverty. you expand that to poverty them all poor people in this country. >> indeed. thank you for having us on this morning and on behalf of my cochair liz theoharis and the activists in over 40 states around this country. there were actions last monday in over 40 states simultaneously at 2:00. the numbers have gone up to over 2000 persons have engaged in nonviolent marches. and thousands have committed an been witnesses in planning to come on june 23 to d.c. when we have those people arrested in washington, it happened -- it was happening across this country. we have done a study called the souls of poor folk, auditing people after the first poor people's campaign. the audit says there are 140 million poor and low wealth people in this country. 73% of them are women and children. that is 43.5% of all of the people in this country are poo

william barber. people likereating and corporations like people. rabbi, the imam, and the christian minister standing together in solidarity. something is happening. and on this campaign, we also andeve something dr. king many others talked about, and that is a basic aaron tete income. -- basic guaranteed income. if banks are too big to fail, the people are too important to fail. not be dying on our streets in the richest nation in the world. and we know that not paying a people a living wage and undermining union rights and cutting social safety nets for thepoor in this country, wealthiest country in the nation in terms of money, is unconscionable. it is a moral sin. it is a violation of our constitution's promise to establish justice. ofn we have these realities 250,000 people dying -- and i know it today some say, we have std out here in our. but imagine what living all the outside for 24 hours. imagine having to worry about health care 24 hours a day. job thatorking at a does not pay you a living wage day in and day out. imagine not having a ba

no no there are no masters lose thier howrah send william barber are leading the camp. now thousands are heeding their call for civil disobedience i'm. sorry. for. people who are poor sick or disenfranchised are determined to have their voices heard. there's a fire raging our society and. ignore the red lights. and. it's sunday evening in the heart of washington the people here are warming up for the mass rally many have come a long way from michigan alabama even alaska. the campaign is financed with donations otherwise many couldn't afford the journey this country is a mess this is not a great country we have over one hundred forty million people that are in power. and. the original poor people's campaign was launched by dr martin luther king in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight according to lose thier how hours since then the gap between rich and poor has grown she believes that with donald trump as president the situation is only growing worse and she insists that something must be done. take away our poverty not our children and. we're. just. hours to spend twen

joining me now bishop william barber.ghts, you've been traveling around the country, particularly to rural areas where people desperately need health care. what do eyou make of the trump administration that says they will not defend the preexisting conditions. >> it's for me and thousands of other organizers, this is exactly why we organize. think about it what kind of commitment to greed and injustice allows a politician to get up in the morning and work to destroy the affordable health care, to vote to defund children's health care, and to allow insurance companies to deny people with preexisting condition? i mean, it's just mean. imimmoral. in a country that life expectancy is increasing with 31 million people don't have health care. where thousands of people are unemployed or underemployed, who can't afford it. the bible calls it sin. the evil, legislative evil. when you rob the poor, it's regressive and politics of rejection. and now we have the attorney general saying i'm not going to defend voting rights and i'm no

william j barber.roup of a powerful poor people and moral leaders and activists and organizers and freedom fighters. , on mother'sgo day, we launched this campaign. our work has only just begun. because over the past 40 days, people of all races, colors, and creeeeds, have joined together o engage in nonviolence, moral fusion, direct action to demand that we lived all f families up, we left all people up. we don't break them apart. ands unjust, immoral, unnecessary to have millions of poor people in this lanand. immmmoral, and unnecessary that we have children warehouoused across ths theiry because of immigration status, because of their homelessness, because their families have no access to water. we need a poor people's campaign. so we are building one. -- wegather to the gay gather today for a call to action. we gather here declaring it is time for a moral uprising all across america. we are in the same moral tradition of the prophets of israrael who challenged kings ad rulers to stop legislating ev

among those arrested included the reverend william barber and david goodman, the brother of slain civil rights worker andrew goodman. thursday's action took place on the anniversary of the 1964 disappearance of james chaney, michael schwerner, and andrew goodman, whose bodies were found buried in a dam in philadelphia, mississippi, a august 4, 1 1964. the poor people's campaiaign is holding a major march on the u.s. capitol on saturday. reporters without borders has called on n the israeli parliamt to reject a new bill that would criminalize the taking of photographs and videos of israeli soldiers. violatioions could result in jal sentences ofof five years if the photograph or video harmed the morale of israel's soldiers or 10 years in jail if it harmed the security of the state. the bill was introduced in april aftevideo ememerged showing an iseli soldieier cheering after shooting an unarmed palestinian in gaza.a. in other news from israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu's wife, sara netanyahu, has been indicted for fraud and misuse of state funds. she is accused of ordering $100,000

william barber speaking at the rally just before he, too, was arrested. >> how many the understand how supreme court justices get on the court? they get nominated by who? >> the president. >> how do senators get into office? you understand why voting suppression is an labor issue? it is not just a black issue, it is a labor issue. it is support people's issue. because if you suppress the vote, you undermine the ability to elect people. if you undermine the ability to elect people come you get people elected that will give you a regressive supreme court. you cannot separate voting rights from labor rights. is that the black folk are all better be fighting for of r rights. amy: religious leaders, led by nine reverend liz theoharris, who were arrested at the supreme court and have been held overnight in jail by capitol police. they were among dozens of people arrested in nationwide protests staging a moral revival, 50 years after martin luther king, jr.'s original poor people's campmpaign. in dowowntown boston, prototests blococked traffic toto demand a higher minimum wage. in libya, wash

reverend william barber, reverend sharpton, victoria, thank you all. joe. >> again, i got another text from someone involved, a friend i've known for some time, in the black site programs where we held al qaeda. talking about the parallels between what's happening now with these children being hidden from the press and the black sites that we use against al qaeda. people who actually killed americans. not 2,300 kids. unknown location. unknown individuals. no outside observations. >> how in the world -- >> that has to end. and perhaps other media organizations will be more interested in finding out the truth about where these 2,300 children are than they are blindly defending the president. >> that does it for us this morning. stephanie rule pick ruhle picks coverage right now. >> good morning, everyone. good to be back in new york city. we have to start with this. dramatic 180 or is it. after days of claims that only congress can stop families from being separated at the border, the president reverses course. >> you can't do it through an executive ord

bishop william barber of the poor people's campaign, thank you so much, bishop michael curry, frank shafferhank you so much who tole us about the vote common good. >>> here is today's cover of the new york daily news which captures the heart attack. this is heart breaking of the young children being separated from their moms and dads at the border. as the paper says this policy is callous, soulless, craven. trump. that is their headline. we'll be right back. alice is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. she's also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus letrozole. patients taking ibrance can develop low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infections that can lead to death. before taking ibrance, tell your doctor if you have fever, chills, or other signs of infection, liv

poor people's campaign under the incredible leadership, the visionary leadership of reverend william barber and a huge coalition to fight against racism, poverty, inequality and ecological devastation that continue to plague our country still today. and i am proud to join you, representative raskin and others, as we tell their stories today. i'm proud to stand with these courageous soldiers for peace and for justice as we fight for equity. and i thank them for leading with love, with generosity and with abundance. one of those people is reverend sarah monroe from my home state of washington and i want to read her testimony. i wanted to start by speaking to the context i'm in. 'm speaking as a christian theologian and working in one of the least religious parts of the country and speaking as a pastor and episcopal priest. this is a rural community on the pacific coastline of washington state and i grew up in this county. we face a post-industrial economy. timber was our main industry and today it's gone. we live in a context where 46% of our people are on public assistance and one out of 25

reverend william barber, reverend sharpton, victoria, thank you all.ext from someone involved, a friend i've known for some time, in the black site programs where we held al qaeda. talking about the parallels between what's happening now with these children being hidden from the press and the black sites that we use against al qaeda. people who actually killed americans. not 2,300 kids. unknown location. unknown individuals. no outside observations. >> how in the world -- >> that has to end. and perhaps other media organizations will be more interested in finding out the truth about where these