A historic thing we would have lost millions of lives and you wanted to take one easy step that would send a powerful message or a mask on actually i had a misconception like the way i look like the lone ranger. Also coming up tonight could germanys handling of nazi symbols today be a guide as america removes icons of the confederacy a question to ask the people in mississippi where the confederate emblem in the state flag is flying no more this isnt a maze and we need to write this day down in our history because after 100 years in 2016 we are retiring the splash including in a place in the newseum but people can be educated and law and be able to interpret with an interpret that flag for they. Want to be over viewers on p. B. S. In the. States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the United States closer than ever to losing control of the coronavirus when the pandemic began it took 2 months for the us to reach 50000 cases as of yesterday america is reporting 50000. 00 cases per day and there are no signs that the numbers will fall anytime soon more than a month ago Public Health officials warned americas governors of the risks of reopening too soon and they knew what they were talking about the states which reopened earliest such as florida and texas are now where the virus is spreading faster than ever most states have stopped reopening and some such as california are shutting down their economies again if june was the month when the virus flared up again in the u. S. July could be the month when we see the consequences hospital intensive care units in texas are almost full doctors say theyre seeing younger and younger patients being hospitalized with more severe symptoms and all this as america is about to begin its long Independence Day weekend many towns have canceled july 4th fireworks amid warnings that a long weekend of get togethers in parades could be a perfect storm for spreading the virus and yet that is not the message that we heard today from the u. S. President as we prepare to celebrate the 4th of july let us renu our devotion to this nation to its citizens and the eternal values that define our past and shape our future im going to Mount Rushmore on july 3rd well have a tremendous evening its going to be a fireworks display like few people have seen its going to be very exciting going to be beautiful theyve been wanting to do that for years fireworks they used to do it many years ago in. For some reason they were unable or unwilling to do it they just werent allowed to do it and i opened it up and were going to have a tremendous july 3rd and then were coming back here celebrating the 4th of july. Us president obama trumps approval numbers they have fallen and the election is just 4 months away polls show that Presumptive Democratic challenger joe biden enjoys a double digit lead over trump now that is music to the ears of some very well placed and media savvy republicans and independents including my 1st guest tonight reid galen joins me from Salt Lake City reed is a political strategist hes worked for former president george w. Bush the late senator john mccain and former california governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reid is cofounder of the Lincoln Project reed its good to have you on the day the chances are many of our viewers have seen the t. V. Spots created by the Lincoln Project which all targets u. S. President trump but just in case lets show a segment from one of your latest videos take a look for of americas greatest president s are carved into the living rock of south dakota is like you know. They are a memorial to those who served with honor lead with courage took this great nation into the future their words deeds and legacy will survive time it will be americas worst president will neither be remembered nor revere Lincoln Project is responsible for the content of this advertising. Now thats a very clear message theyre read and i want to get this clear you are you know you are belong to a group of republicans and some independents who want to see joe biden a democrat win the november election right. That is right that is correct. And. Explain that to me how does a group of republicans decide we want to help a democrat win the White House Well 1st and foremost thanks for having me on and i think 2nd you know what weve seen in the last 3 and a half years is a president who is neither able nor fit to serve in the oval office at the white house and so from our perspective you know many of us moved away from the Republican Party after dont trip was it 2016 and we have seen what he has done both to the party that so many of us worked for for so long but now what hes done to the country and so from our perspective when we started last late last year we decided its time to put our country over our Political Party and so we have spent the last 6 months prosecuting the case against President Trumpet we do so under 30 its. And who is the jury and for you i mean whose motto is are you hoping to change when we look at the at the poll numbers we see that you still have a majority of republicans saying that they support trump and say that they will continue to do so so if thats the case whose minds are you going to change. Who look were looking for a very small number of soft republicans that is republicans who maybe never liked president trip to begin with and conservative leaning independents again who might either have never liked him but did feel like they had another choice or have been turned off by him either by his failure to respond to the coronavirus were creating this country or you know with with his actions and words around george floyd so from our perspective this is again a very small numbers. The margins that President Trump won by in 2016 in places like michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania were very narrow my guess is most of those margins are gone and so we want to ensure that those folks who believe that the United States can and should be better and must have better leadership if we try and traverse 3 crises simultaneously that they come and they say for this one time were going to vote for joe biden or you know if they cant get all the way across they say were not going to vote for joe biden but were not going to vote for donald trump either and we believe that thats a very compelling message we believe that more and more americans are hearing it every day and we believe that our advertising is is finally able to illustrate many of the things that the president has been guilty of for years but we have now found the time and place to do that very effectively but what you really have to see your your videos are are very well done very very effective but critics are going to say that its one thing to have a video that goes viral on social media its another thing to change voter behavior and theyll say that most of the voters are not going to be found on twitter for example what do you say. Well i would say a couple of things one is that im sitting with you here tonight so we must be having resident somewhere it at least terminal but we have a lot of fans there secondly though you should understand that really this is just one part of our strategy we also a very comprehensive strategy to target these voters directly in the states as i mentioned previously in the upper midwest of the United States or errors on earth carolina but i understand that you know getting inside the president s head is is the it that it could be fun but theres a means to that end which is taking him off message taking his campaign off message and giving the Biden Campaign the time and space they need to wage their campaign on behalf of the former Vice President to ensure that come november 3rd you know he not only wins but was decisive and i can tell you read youve got lots of people watching you in the us too with this show is shown on p. B. S. Whos giving you the money that you have whos funding most of our contributions the vast majority of our contributions have come from individual americans most of our contributions i believe our average contribution i should say is about 40. 00 so that means that you know it is americans from hawaii to maine and florida to alaska give you know repeatedly small amounts and so you know yes we have had some larger contributions but the vast majority of our fundraising to date and whats made december possible has been the organic and growing support of individual americans that we could not be more flattered by the Lincoln Project says it wants to defeat donald trump and trump ism i want to talk to you in a moment about what trump is and is but 1st i want to take a look at part of the t. V. Spots you produce which focuses on trumps alleged ties to russia. Some of. The tornadoes youll do a lot of the situations not something good to. Be sure michael you know plus were going to dismantle. The military is must see a little bit of smoke because its too easy to get you can. Get someone to me throw fuel to the situations lots of the. National media pushed lucky that a. Lot of people would sit in russian you dont hear that on u. S. Television very often. Talk to me about trump ism what is it and are you trying to cleanse the Republican Party of trump ism. I think it will trump ism is what weve seen the Republican Party transform itself into since his ascendance which is you know a party of grievance a party of vision a party party of nationalism a party of a cult of personality one that you know hues to the worst instincts its supporters and president supporters rather than being you know a place where people can go because they share ideology or shared in what can and should be a better tomorrow for the United States and so from our perspective beating donald trump and a lot of his collaborators in the United States senate is just you know mama we believe that you know once we once we have excised dump truck from the american political system there still will be work being done because from our perspective you cant have a healthy democracy when one of the 2 major parties in your country a spouse is the kinds of ugliness and as they said division that the g. O. P. Republican Party Donald Trump does today you know many members of the g. O. P. The Republican Party in congress theyve been exceptionally quiet recently despite the things that have been lodged towards the president you remember what happened during the impeachment process as well i mean why do you think the Republican Party should be saved at all. Well look i think thats a thats an argument that Republican Office holders and leaders sorting you know next year have to make for themselves to the voters i think that your point about the United States senators is a good one if you watched during the impeachment trial they could not get to a reporters microphone or camera fast enough with a big cheshire cat you know grin you know basically saying look we got away with it were going to let him off the hook for his actions around ukraine and now he cant get them to say a word about you know it again is catastrophic response to covert the ongoing economic crisis that were seeing anything around george floyd and now that revelations that the president and the white house knew that the Russian Security services were offering bounties on the heads of american soldiers and marines in afghanistan did nothing and said nothing and i think that you know what they have shown is that they have violated their oaths they piloted their consciences and you know in our constitution article one sets up the congress of the United States at least they were they violated that article as well. As one question about Foreign Policy before we run out of time earlier this week the German Foreign minister said that people are kidding themselves if they expect a democrat in the white house after november will be able to repair the damage done to the Transatlantic Community under President Trump what do you say to that. Well i would say that i could understand how that level of pessimism would exist especially after the last 3 and a half years but i can tell you and i would tell him as well the minister that certainly it will be repaired until and unless we drive down the term from office this new coomber and see joe biden sworn in as president the United States next next year. Reed galen cofounder of the Lincoln Project 3 d. Its good talking with you and please come back and talk with this especially as we get closer to election day in the u. S. Thank you. Thank you. The u. S. State of mississippi has retired its state flag a flag which 426 years included the confederate battle emblem it was the last official flag of the United States to contain symbols of the confederacy officials held a ceremony to remove the former flag from the State Capitol building on wednesday mississippi has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks to remove the flag after a wave of protest over Racial Injustice focused on confederate symbol a Broad Coalition of legislature was passed a law last sunday to retire the flag. Black lawmakers have fought for decades to remove symbols of the confederacy one of those attending the flag lowering ceremony was former lawmaker robert clark whose grandfather was a slave in the confederacy it reminds me of what my grandfather reached to tell me. That. In slavery and never knew. He had never have even known his to be good never a. Week old it would only to him just like. He. Never had. A collar bone the head of something around him. Like what you write patents. And this remains to mean death for. Change was for. The play president of the that. A. Lot to me. Now you can see there people have a lot invested in these symbols and removing them with the removal of the confederate emblem has special meaning to my next guest tonight judge carlos moore is from mississippi and he had tried to use the legal system to change his states flag he sued to have the confederate emblem removed im happy to welcome judge moore to the day judge moore its good to have you on the program we just saw that video of the flag being lowered for the final time tell me what went through your mind as you watch that happen on wednesday. It was a momentous occasion i got chills down my spine actually being in the capitol on saturday when the 1st vote was taken and the house of representatives removed the flag and so there was just a flood of emotions going through my mind and i was just so relieved that they had found a comment that my daughter has not yet although no longer has to live under a symbol of oppression and slavery i want to ask you if george floor had not died at the hands of a white Police Officer in minneapolis do you think that the state flag with the Confederate Flag would still be flying today i think it would i always knew pretty much that it would take a death or if it death of a floor or the flag was revote about the legislators and unfortunately of mr floyd they raised him finished off just like what he did not done because of his tragic death you know freedom and because if. Its just more 4 years ago you spoke to 2 of my colleagues in his poll and Richard Walker about the flag and about your efforts to change it i want to play what you told my colleagues back then in 2016 take a listen. I believe that here it is that they are proud of is the heritage of slavery free labor i believe they are proud that they used to mentor people for entertainment on the county a public square. Thats the here today im proud of the biggest threat to the future of america is division not it we stand about how we fall if we continue down the path that were going. And others like him people like the government to say by the end of that in this country and if we continue. Down this path this will be another civil war. And that was quite a prediction in 2016 judge moore a lot has happened in the u. S. Since then especially in terms of Race Relations are the chances of another civil war in your opinion are they greater or less today. It depends on a particular day as you saw after george floyd there were a match immigration across the country across the world because saying not to have mattered and people were telling. The world that black lives do matter and this time out of all this foolishness and so this new generation of black people they are not going to just take stand back and just have the right drop of. Medals movement believe that standing up for justice and. Progressive white around the world and others other race is going to have to live with us and have decided to stand with us for justice and so we believe if it gets another war going again and weve been victorious once weve been to victoria twice now its going to flag down and see if it will be victorious again but i think if we have a lection and get somebody at the helm of this country of america i think Race Relations will get a lot better i want to talk a little bit about your life we you became a judge i understand one of the 1st things you did was to order the removal of the Mississippi State flag from your chamber and thats a bold move to talk to me about the resistance that you have faced in your career your life trying to have the state flag changed. This july the 18th of 27 famous at the bench for the 1st time in clarksville as the 1st africanamerican. First sort of business was removed because i was not going to talk to mr justice and front of such an offensive 80 percent of the people that appear before me are African American and i just dont see how you can dispense justice in front of such a treacherous and press the flesh so i had to move and i have never found my courtroom a courtroom or the chambers and so because i did receive Death Threats i was these 3 deferential wrist for removing the flag from my courtroom out of the 5 different 4 challenge of the governor and followed a lawsuit against town to remove the flag. Do you think people would not want to be deterred. Do you think people who know the history of the flag the history of mississippi as well as they should i know even researching this story a lot of people found out that i was talking to that the confederate emblem 1st was put on the state flag in mississippi in 8096 do you think if i were to walk down the street of any town in mississippi that people would say yes they knew that people of a search generation would know that i would imagine young people probably under 35 may not really. Think of other to perhaps it will have been to do so much of it you know in a fortnight it sticks with the flag was. The flag that was so many years after the better civil war d of the confederacy most yes it was but theres again a reminder of slavery was but it would be very offensive to subjugate africanamericans to being a 2nd class citizen that was very intentional and i could just. As a father and it allow that to continue to write the crying by supremacy have to go it has been defeated i mean. And theres nothing in the least about it. I want to ask you since im talking to you tonight from Berlin Germany came up with a way of dealing with its nazi past and with nazi icons and symbols you may find them in museums you will not find them though on display anywhere in public do you think that could be a model for the United States as it removes its confederate statues and symbols today. I believe it should be a model i believe the 13th amendment not only about slavery but. Accorded and investiture rather play for all of those the favorite might humans are relics of this is of slavery and if you come down yes im glad to see to move it across the country to bring these defender moneyman down up a New Town Square i will propose legislation i have my congresspeople so proposed legislation to a bill them to allow because i believe it would violate the charging to memory ok judge carlos moore joining us tonight from mississippi to talk about the states retiring that state flag which contains the Confederate Flag and the judge moore we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you. Cards and sporting history now and a name that you were probably unlikely to have heard of jack leslie nearly 100 years ago he was denied the chance of being englands 1st black footballer on the National Squad heightened awareness of Racial Injustice is now forced Many Organizations including those in english football to take a closer in more critical look at their own history. A campaign to honor what would have been englands 1st black player jackie as he was caught up to the National Team in 1025 but its believed that when members of the f. 18 English Football Association saw that he was blocked the invitation was dropped for his family the exposure is not over do it and i just hope that a lot more stories of people you know and how they were treated also come out as a feeling that synonymous with i mean theres mixed feeling of being left out or not picked for example hes a great footballer from the fog all they picked in the. England is a bit too much for some less he went on to have a successful career with English Football Club plymouth argyle in the 1920 s. And thirtys. Now the club and its fans want to honor his legacy and theyre set up a crowd fund to raise around 100000. 00 euros in order to build a statue off him. This recognition not just of one of the greatest players you know to suggest later the shorter term struck to the credit score a 137 girls but its much more a statement about the scripts attitude to his racism. An attitude that in football isnt moving fast enough it would take another 53 years until good anderson became in and suppressed black player in 1978 making the story of jack lesbian the unheard black treaty blazer all the more important in the fight against racism. Or the day is almost done the conversation continues online join us on twitter either at the news you can follow me at brant goth t. V. And remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day well see you then have a. Strong opinion clear Position International perspectives. The corona virus continues to spread relentlessly in this the poor who are suffering most both in better off industrialized countries and in the global south so how should the International Community respond join me and my guests on to the point short flight. To the point. Next to the t. W. A. Mine. Like. The devil she painted me. And. My destination of those who look at me. The secret of mona lisa. And 45 minutes on d w. Like. Oh. My god says love was food for the russian soul. It comes to. So many different walks of life. Some are on pain. Oddly tried but all of them come straight from the heart for see you because theres no more delusion the mush put in trucks. From the 1st of the last to their final resting place the russians w. Documentary. 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