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. Actually i had a misconception of 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 in. This in the maze and we need to write this day down in our history because after 126 years and we are retiring this planet including in a place in the newseum with people can be educated and lon and be able to interpret it on interpret that flag for them. Which of our viewers on p. B. S. In the. United states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the United States closer than ever to losing control of the corona virus when the pandemic began it took 2 months for the us to reach 50000 cases as of yesterday america is reporting 15000. 00 cases per day and there are no signs that the numbers will fall in the time 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 week in 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 we dont have a tremendous evening its going to be a fireworks display like few people have seen its going to be very exciting so going to be beautiful theyve been wanting to do that for years fireworks they used to do it many years ago and. 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 all right u. S. President Donald 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 read its good to have you on the day chances are many of our viewers have seen the t. V. Spots created by the Lincoln Project which always targets u. S. President trump but just in case lets show a segment from one of your latest videos take a look. 4 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 immemorial 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 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 it 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 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 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 you know our country over our political ari and so we have spent the last 6 months prosecuting the case against President Trumpet we do so or there it is. And who is the jury and for you i mean whose mind are you hoping to change here 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. Sure the look we are looking for a very small number of soft republicans that is republicans who maybe never liked President Trump 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 the death of george floyd so from our perspective this is a game a very small number of. 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 here to get 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 videos 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 residence somewhere but at leat 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 that 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 and 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. Spot you produced which focuses on trumps alleged ties to russia. Some of. The temple if you will devoted to the situation is not something that the. Russian leader of the cio might call thats why some of them dismantle the others must see the little display because its too easy to get you can. Be somewhat of a. Chill if the situation is not such a. National if you can push like. A lot to be uprooted in russia 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 of its supporters and president supporters rather than be you know a place where people can go because they share ideology or shit in what can and should be a better tomorrow for the United States and so from our perspective beating donald trump in a lot of his collaborators in the United States senate is just want we believe that you know once we once we have excised dump truck from the american political system there still will be work to be 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 i said division that the g. O. P. Republican Party Donald Trump does to 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 it 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 your choice 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 ministers 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. Regaling cofounder of the Lincoln Project 3 kids good talking with you and please come back and talk with is 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 towards passed a law last sunday to retire the flag. A black lawmakers have fault for decades to remove symbols of the confederacy one of those attending the flag lowering ceremony was former lawmaker robert clark whos grandfather was a slave in the confederacy it reminds me of what my grandfather reached to tell me. That at the end of slavery remember. He had never have had he known his to be good never laid out of. The oldest or would only to him respect. The he had never had a collar bone the head of something felt around him. Like what you write patents that. This means to me. The later jane hall is for. The play a representative from that. Fair. 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 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 now you though 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 are if it did before the flag was revote about the legislators and unfortunately in the floor it may well have been finished off just by what he did not done because of his tragic death you know freedom 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 the here which is that they are proud of is the heritage of slavery free labor i believe they are proud of they use the land of 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 the vision not its we stand divided we fall if we continue down the path that we are going to drop and others like him people like the government they by the end of that in a century and if we continue. Down this path there will be another civil war. So that was quite a prediction in 2016 judge moore a lot has happened in the us 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 so after george floyd there were Mass Immigration across the country across the world because platt lived same not 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 that stand back and just have the right drop of. That last Medicine Movement believe that standing up for justice and we have liberal and progressive like this around the world and others other races and ethnicities that have stood with us and have decided to stand with us for justice and so we believe that against another war well win again and weve been victorious want revenge victorious twice now with taking a flag down to see if it will be victorious again and i think if we have a lection and get somebody at the helm of this country of america i think Race Missions will get a lot better. I want to talk a little bit about your life we when you became a judge i understand one of the 1st things you did was to order the removal of the Mississippi State slang from your chamber and thats a bold move talk to me about the resistance that you have faced in your career and youre life trying to have the state flag changed. To 27. 00 and out of the bench for the 1st time in clarksville as the 1st africanamerican for the church or town i 1st part of it was removed because i would not want to come to a minute suggested and front of the stumble 80 percent of the people that appear before me have been american and i just dont see how you can defend. In front of such a treacherous and open the planet so i had to remove it in the end if they ever found in my courtroom a courtroom or the chambers and so because i didnt that i received Death Threats everything is great deference a reason for removing the play from my courtroom and ill go with the i have to for it or challenge of the governor and follow him up against down to remove him. Do you think you would not want to be deterred. Do you think people 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 896 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 certain generation with no that i would imagine young people probably under 35 may not realize it but people of artifacts are realizing its been in the news so much that you cannot afford it and i think. That the flag was. The host on the flag that was 70 years after the confederate civil war of the confederacy and so it was put there to be a reminder of slavery was put there to be very offensive it was put there to subjugate africanamericans to be a 2nd class citizen that was very intentional and after just not. As a father and just allow that to continue to rise upright supremacy has to go it has been defeated i mean. At least in the symbolically. 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 its nonsi icons and symbols you may find them in museums you will not find them the 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 that 13th amendment not only out about slavery but. Investiture relic of slavery all of those confederate my comments are relics of issues of slavery and i need to come down im glad to see this Movement Across the country to bring these Confederate Monument down not with these town squares i will propose legislation i have my Congress People to propose legislation to rebuild them. Because i believe it does not like starting to manage ok judge carlos moore joining us tonight from mississippi to talk about the states retiring that state flag which contains the Confederate Flag and judge moore we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you. Some 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 and more critical look at their own history. A campaign to honor what would have been in the unstressed 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 long overdue 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 f one of the black community and anyone is mixed race up feeling of being left out or not picked for example hes a great footballer from foggo they picked him that but 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 cup and its fans want to honor his legacy of their set up a crowd trying to raise around 100000 euros in order to build a statue of him. Its recognition not just of one of the greatest players you know to see jerk later the shorter term struck to the credit screwed 137. 00 girls but its much more a statement about the scripts attitude towards racism. An attitude that in football isnt moving fast enough it would take another 53 years until good anderson became in and suppressed black players in 1978 making the story of jack leslie the unheard black trait plays are 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 g. W. 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 never got. To the point strong opinions clear Position International perspectives. 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