william barber, good to see you, sir. thank you for being with us.ersary of the march in selma, what i want to draw my viewers' attention to with you is you have been trying to and working toward and engaging in conversations with the presidential candidates about poverty in this country. it is the scourge, the intractable problem in the world's richest country we have, have a million people on the streets every night, 40 million people who are food insecure, and we have remarkable wealth inequality between african-americans and people of color and white families. you're trying to make this a priority for presidential candidates. how are you doing so far? >> well, we're pushing hard. we're headed toward june 20, 2020, the march on washington. we must do more mobilizing, organizing, registering people to vote. we have 140 million poor people in this country, 62 million people who work every day without a living wage, millions without health care. that's 43% of this nation. we cannot continue to have a political discourse that only talks about the midd

william barber is with us in washington, d.c.e is co-chair of the poor people's campaign and president of repairers of the breach. and via democracy now! video stream, we're joined by elie mystal, the nation's justice correspondent and author of the magazine's new monthly column, " objection! his recent column is titled, black voters didn't vote for biden in south carolina because they "lack information." wewelcome baback to dedemocracy! >> i think it is pretty amazing how much t the blalack communitn thee south, the older black community, has really rallied behind joe biden. they have been with biden from the start and it looked like he was shaky. itit looked d they might even go mike bloomberg butut that all ce back to biden and it has provided him a a firewall that i am surpris that bebernie sanders has not yet been able to break through, right? work k onive years to this proroblem. this is what happened to him in 2016 against hillary clinton. i think it deserves serious analysis to try y to figure out whatat his messasage is

a revolution against poverty joining me now from atlanta to discuss this is the reverend dr william j. barber co-chair of the poor people's campaign and national call for moral revival and president of the nonprofit repairers of the breach william barber thank you for joining me on up front thank you so much and great to be with you the president of the united states. says quote no president has ever done what i have done for evangelicals all for religion itself do you agree with the. no i do not so don't agree that even evangelicals are supporting him i think oftentimes in the media we use these terms that have been thrown at us i'm an evangelical if you look at the true meaning of revenge or localism which means to preach good news to the poor or care for the broken hearted and care for the oppressed what we see is a false kind of religion a distorted moron there a way evangelicalism has been hijacked we have been forced to use these false framing is like left vs right there's no such thing as a left christian versus a right christian and you're either a christian or you're not an author du

. >> reverend william barber, he's on the phone with us. are the co-chairman, our viewers know of you because you are the co-chairman of something called the poor people's campaign. maybe in this dark cloud there's a silver lining and that's we have an opportunity to take this emergency that we are in, the fact that our economy is now grinding to a halt and we got to do something to stimulate it to do it in a way that actually helps the poor, the decity institute, the underemployed, less educated among us, the homeless. what do you want to see done in the course of the next days and weeks as we try repair our economy to make it less unhe' call. >> thank you very much. before this crisis, the last crisis of 700 people dying a day from poverty. we did not call that an emergen emergency. so we were planning on having it. in june we'll see how to do it in different ways. we just the other night had people on moveon.org and said poverty a pandemic a response to covid-19. first of all, we have to stop saying the emergency started with covid-19. t

reverend william barber of the poor people's campaign tweeted -- "overnight they found $1.5 trillion for wall street, but they can't find money to provide healthcare & living wages for 140 million poor & low wealth people in america." the trump administration is facing w widespread criticism fr its handling of the coronavirus outbreak. on thursday, dr. anthony fauci, the director of the national institute of allergy and infectctious diseases, said the u.s. is s failing when it t como testing for the vivirus. >> the system does not -- it is not really geared to what we need rigight now, what you're asking for. that is failing. it is a failing. let's admit it. the idea of anyone getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we are not set up for that. do i think we should be? yes, but we are not. amy: the bbc reports nearly 20,000 people are being tested for coronavirus every day in south korea -- far more than the 11,000 tests d done in thehe und states sinince the outeaeak beg. on capitol hill, house speaker nancy pelosi said she is close to reaching a deal with t

william barber of the poor people's campaign tweeted -- "congress must go back & pass another bill thaters all workers. they cannot leave out millions by exempting some low-wage workers from paid sick leave. these workers will not be exempted from the disease." this comes as the trump administration said tuesday it will support a plalan to inject more than $1 trillion into the u.s. economy to fight the unprecedented drop in economic activity. treasury secretary steve mnunucn said the stimulus package would rapidly deliver a $1000 check ko most american adults, with more direct payments likely in the months ahead. for more, we are joined by two guests. joining us via democracy now! video o stream in berkeley, california, is saru jayarahman, the co-founder of the restaurant opportunities centers united, president of one fair wage, and the director of the food labor research center at the university of california, berkeley. we're also joined in york by damani varnado, a restaurant worker who has been working in catering, fine dining, cocktailing for the past 20 years. he was wororking at t

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reverend, thank you very much william barber and pastor michael rusina. thank you both very much.ical medical supplies and that shortfall grows nationwide, "the washington post" reports nearly 1.5 million n95 masks are sitting unused in a u.s. government warehouse in indiana according to multiple sources. the emergency stockpile is being held by the u.s. customs and border protection and has not been used because they are past their expiration date. this comes despite the cdc's guidelines that has been issued that states it is, in fact, safe to use the expired masks during this outbreak. the post reports dhs officials decided to offer the respirator masks to the tsa whose workforce has been clamoring for more protective equipment and has no plans to offer the masks to hard-hit hospitals or hand them over to fema. we have a huge situation, willie, with the hospitals. so final thoughts from willie geist and jon meacham? in light of our last segment, i'm praying for the president. i'm praying for his team, the reality from the front lines is bad. the data from johns hopkins shows ame

tutored by samuel williams, pias barber, and the late dr. martin luther king, junior, dr.rown has seen the issues of society as separate -- has never seen the issues of society as separate from the mission of the church, especially when members of the church are directly affected by systems of evil. born in jackson, mississippi, in 1941, dr. brown had a fire for activism and justice from a very early age. reverend brown organized the naacp, and criticized segregated schools. he met with dr. martin luther king in 1956 and was hand-picked to attend a social philosophy sem maseminar taught by doctor king. he earned his master's of divinity and doctrine. before accepting the call to lead san francisco's third baptist church, he seived as pastoserved as pastort chester pennsylvania and as pastor in minnesota. starting in 1976, he began his life's work of pastoring for third baptist. as a scholar, the theologian, he has remained for all of his time. they have established a summer school program, created an after school academic enrichment program, "back on track," and partnered

new law opens the door for business owners like william byrd he came up with the idea for a mobile barbershop while in prison where he worked as a barberittle nervous because i didn't again don't know what to expect but i think is more excitement than it is nervous trying to hold back tears. >>that's awesome burr hopes it brings services to the underserved people of waterloo like children in low income households and veterans with disabilities said that wraps up kron 4 news at 9 under prime time coverage continues at the top of the hour, pam moore and ken wayne are here with part. >>and thank you both next at 10 the nba season suspended indefinitely after a player tests positive for coronavirus and new tonight at 10 we will head out live to sacramento where tonight's game was postponed there because a raft came in contact with that player earlier this way possible breaking down president trump's plan to try to protect americans in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic including banning travel between europe and the us and measures to try to help those whose paychecks are affected by coronavirus concern and also hear from a bay area na