A lot of republican senators who feel as though they are no longer part of the conversation what trump is done in this and i think that you point to some interesting things here. Hes using this to basically circumvent congress and congressional powers but also i think to bolster this authoritarianism that he personally believes that he thinks that the buck stops with him and hes fine with doing that this is the same president who when obama was in office talked over and over again tweeted over and over again about his use of executive powers about him signing so many executive orders and how much of a problem it was and now were seeing him do actually more than what obama did and he is trying to make sure that he basically sizes things up for this election he knew that it was going to take a long time for anything to get through congress the deliberations were not anywhere where people expected them to be and i think that he is using this to say ok well maybe im doing something for the American People even though that something is outside of his powers in the exact. Something of the group forget about executive you know executive orders there and theyre not laws theyre not passed by congress theyre not things that like every citizen has to obey or every u. S. Business has to but in truth theyre really just for Government Employees at the end of the day theyre really just like heres the president s kind of idea of the direction the this government is going to go in but and that does eventually filter out the citizens but theyre not like youre going to get in trouble lets say with the ticktock ban thats a private company and to go that way its not like you can ban tick tock its absolutely ridiculous but when you dig into what these things you know whats what some of these executives really its you know its not what they appear to be especially movie mirrors their years ago and you know trump is a great advertiser hes a great marker of himself and i think that hes selling things that the general public doesnt understand know one of his new orders allows employees that make less than 104000. 00 thats the majority of america to delay their payroll tax until january he no january is obviously x. After election day but to do that you would also have a massive bill postelection doesnt care about the delegation was already over these of the 1st payments meeting rental you do have to pay them exactly but his argument is he can change the federal laws to make those those into a permanent tax cut that would permit tax cut only happens if he were elected and the payroll tax funds would come directly from Social Security and medicare has been wanting to pull away from payroll taxes since before he got elected he doesnt believe in Social Security or medicare and hes fine with getting them both its interesting too because the other order that he talked about thats a great great point information brought up the other order of the 400. 00 a week which is in the 600. 00 extra that were getting the word we were getting but now the 400. 00 extra that would come in federal unemployment is up to pay for that though hes going to pull from the 44000000000. 00 in federal funds that have been set aside for Natural Disaster relief while were in the middle of Hurricane Season or about to be where experts are now predicting over 2525 named storms named storms not little ones may. Are going to be hitting the Atlantic Coast and possibly the pacific this is not something you want to do plus states are going to chip in as much as 100. 00 about 400. 00 as well and states are broke from fighting coves they are cash strapped already there are so many states florida being one of his favorites that has only paid out 2 percent of its Unemployment Benefits already i dont know how this is going to actually be helpful for states where does the money come it really is and at the end of the day weve got to get away from this executive order obsession because look the Bush Administration started the start of the obama ramped it up hugely in his administration and outro slowed clearly taken it even further down there we got to pull back from that because at the end of the day were not were not governed by a king or Queen Congress is there to do that we dont executive orders are being abused you know 3 president s no then we have to start using congress for what its for yes. With covert 19 numbers surging in cities across america round about now many local leaders are faced with some tough decisions ship they reversed course on the openings of Restaurants Stores and nail salons and hair salons how can they begin interstate travel effectively and what will people stop having house and beach parties even with the news of rising coronavirus cases american still seem to be living their best lives this summer is that the pandemic is a joke my hometown chicago seems to be fed up with the lack of vigilance tourists are taking during this time chicago is known as the jewel of the midwest for its skyline its downtown area fine dining shopping and beaches summertime shy brings thousands of tourists and more importantly poorest dollars last year alone chicago a tourism record of 58000000. 00 visitors generating over 140000000. 00 in Hotel Spending alone. The tourism is big bucks but with coated its also risky business. In walks the Chicago Department of Health PublicHealth Authorities shared an update this week stating officials may start checking social media profiles to collect evidence on. This is supposedly meant to help track their behavior because many travelers post pictures and videos of their gatherings on Facebook Twitter and instagram. But privacy advocates are already calling foul the American Civil Liberties union a. C. L. U. Is prepared to file a lawsuit against the city of chicago for any application of social Media Monitoring that threatens liberty and privacy. Privacy on digital platforms isnt the only issue kobe 1000 is bringing to light and us as vaccine drug makers are fighting against the clock to get a vaccine ready and on the market the big legal question is could the government requires people to get it or will people actually do their jobs if they dont get the vaccine and the answer may startle you legal precedent dating back to 905 allow states the 40 to impose fines and other wish if a vaccine is refused this all begs the question when do individual rights and liberties outweigh Public Health. That is the question that has been on the tips of peoples tongues since the start of the pandemic better is what you always hear whenever people talk about whether they want to wear a mask or whether this is going to happen my individual liberty mine the virtual liberty its a hard question as do i think the state should be fining individuals for not getting vaccines and things like that thats a tough question to answer thats one of those ones words like well once we actually get a vaccine its good to think about it ahead of time but once we actually get it once its no longer mysterious and magical bring down the road then maybe well cross that bridge but as far as the state or city of chicago monitoring tourists what tourist whos traveling to chicago right now in the midst of all this craziness with cobra to go take pictures in front of the great lakes you would be surprised really there have been thousands of people who have traveled to take pictures in front of the bean which as a chicago i dont understand the fascination with ben metal thing but ok and they are flooding the beaches as soon as the mayor reopened the beaches they were closed for the 4th of july but they opened immediately that next week more and more people showed up but then with this digital monitoring is that we see city governments and state governments try it for various things and when you open that pandoras. Its hard to close it better so theres a reason why a lot of the advocates are pushing against the digital and social Media Monitoring because no one can tell we dont know how far this Data Collection is going to go and even if its said to be used in a Public Health crisis who knows how long its going to be mined or if it will affect people long term or you know what could actually happen and how does that open the door to future abuse over things not as important as a pandemic you know where we need to monitor everyone social media because of the excesses then you get like a trickle down effect you know there has 5 to be clear consequences for violating surveillance rules and pasta and and policies in the tragedy is theres not a lot of surveillance rules to begin with you know theres not a law protecting the constitution was shredded with the patriot act when it came to light and you know for the 4th and 5th amendment so were kind of in this dark area right now where were going to really know what the rules of surveillance by our government will be and its pressure and because social media is one of the easiest ways to surveil someone and in all honesty Companies Businesses peoples employers are already doing that without the permission of individuals themselves so i think that you know what they use it for is more of the question than whether or not theyre surveilling because were getting some every day and i mean i think thats the big question i want to kind of ask you because its like are we really that bad as a society that we need laws to tell us to be civil but we need laws and need government watching our social media just to make sure that were not out spreading the disease but i dont think were going to a level of big brother isnt that scary because its a certain point we have to believe that the public is going to do we tell them to do people are dying there is this virus thats spreading around everywhere in order to decrease that you need to social distance that should be all that we have to tell people you know clearly it isnt so i think that you know cities and localities they are grappling with this because america unlike a lot of other nations who literally follow the rules and seems to have a very hard time putting other people ahead of its head of themselves you know we were very selfish. I think the pandemic is kind of exposed to selfishness its interesting when you get into the like the legal precedent for vaccines because mandatory vaccines because this all goes back to as you mentioned 1005 which was the Supreme Court case of jacobson versus massachusetts and that set the legal precedent for mandatory vaccines through fines and loss of social access due to the spread of smallpox smallpox was no joke back then now we have a vaccine no one really gets that that often we hope states have the authority to mandate vaccines but this could create a patchwork of states that require them but then some dont so then it becomes like well if i go to town to see i got to get the vaccine but if i go to illinois suddenly i dont and that creates a big problem when it comes to trying to contain this thing now absolutely it would end up looking the exact same is the mandates and you never know where you have people in places where its absolutely mandatory for you to wear them and then you have some where its not i think that its hard when you dont have a federal mandate or you dont have states that are all on board with a Public Health crisis and were just not seeing that theyve turned this into a political football and states are choosing it and when they want to mandate anything and you know we could avoid mandating back scenes and we could avoid all of this mess or monitoring tourism social media by simply being civil to each other and wearing a mask and staying away from each other 6 peat thats all it takes that are you know all right as were going to break remember that you can also start watching dogs on the man do that brand new portable t. 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Readings in salyut a shim well well well well well my friends we have a big nose today as russia has developed a possible back 1 scene for covert 19 reuters and other news outlets around the world now reporting russia has indeed become the 1st country to grant a Regulatory Approval to a covert 19 vaccine after less than 2 months of human testing a move moscow likened to its success in the cold war era of the space race and apparently russian president Vladimir Putin is so high on the efficacy of subjects even that he had one of his own daughters take it. Theres no. Actual word yet on the u. S. President donald trump has put obama tiffani on an intravenous drip of madrox a clerk queen and lysol in an effort to outdo his russian counterpart will keep you and keep you abreast of that does happen and while asked by experts and political politicos will now dust off the old cold war 2. 00 debate over moscows potential vaccine on cable news channels and social media to no end the virus itself continues to flourish here in the u. S. Especially inside the walls of United States prisons work order analysis by the u. C. L. A. School of laws code 19 behind bars data project and john hopkins the novell coronavirus is now infecting american Prison Inmates at a rate more than 5 times higher than the overall u. S. Population and thats climbing in fact at the Federal Correctional Institution in c. Go bill texas the federal bureau of prisons reports that more than 1300 of the approximately 1750 prisoners held there have tested positive for covert 19 these brutal statistics of lead to multiple uprisings among the incarcerated populations across the United States just last week in georgia violence broke out of where state prison where the Atlanta Journal constitution reports that quote tensions were running high due to cope with 192 people incarcerated at the prison have died of the disease while 22 inmates and 32 employees have tested positive so with covert 19 on fire inside us prisons exposing even more horrors of our Prison Industrial Complex i think thats a good place to start watching the hawks. Whats going on in a city. That is so lets see this is this joyce state see a. Great city displaced systemic dissent says they so wish. So when you feel. And welcome everyone watching the harks i am tyrone and i want to hear from and joining us today to discuss the state of u. S. Prisons as we get deeper into the 1st year of the covert 19 pandemic is the president of the young w. C. P. N. Georgia mr james wood all and dr andre m. Perry author and fellow with the metropolitan policy program at the Brookings Institute thank you both for coming on today. So look over probably have overcrowding lack of proper medical care or unsanitary Living Conditions were already major issues in the u. S. Prison system how is covert 19 exacerbated these existing issues dr perry your thoughts. Well if you mentioned it there were looted prisons art. That. Were its product. Areas. Are. Areas where. There are also. Areas people have little recourse and so we need to look or examine the conditions in prisons in and we need to socially distance people and create the kind of conditions that enable people to thrive and so. The short of it is that prisons are in the main places that that are conducive for virus spread and other illnesses. And james here in washington d. C. A family of an inmate recently died from kobe while being held in North Carolina wasnt informed of his death by the Bureau President until over 100 days after it occurred when we talk about coping in prisons we often only focus on the guards the staff and inmates but how has this crisis affected the families and communities surrounding the u. S. Present system. Well thank you for that question and as a son of a father who crow. Serving the sentence in a Georgia State prison ive known too well what that impact does my father got colvin on t. V. We were not able to know really know what the status of your health was you know Legal Counsel is not able to visit these inmates we have complaints of people not even being able to get the kind of reputation it accustomed to serve and. So you know this situation is exacerbated if ice is on the wire many of ways which is what between izing just i frankly just and so there must be action taken action taken now to not only save a lot of ours but also to save money every Single Person in this country the prison system in this country you know has been has been damaged and broken for a long time thats why i agree with a lot of people that say you know we need to abolish the prison system as we know what rebuild it from the ground up find a turn of the new a place of reform rather than incarceration but i also want to talk about Something Else because gentlemen if we cant keep covert from spreading like wildfire and a lack of bearing secure environment like a pub or a penitentiary how can we begin to expect to contain covert in our schools james i want to start. Well what we have to look at really what this disease is actually doing and i honestly believe that we have done ourselves a disservice when were not honest from a state and National Level as to what are the risk factors involved in the situation if we as a Community Programs as economy and money commerce over the actual real lives of people who live in our communities big we can actually defeat this disease this virus and so as we as it relates to school and we talk about opening up colleges and universities we talk about open you go well im a very nervous we you know what were talking about is not good. So help of equal rather how can we keep money flowing into peoples pockets how can we keep the bottom not up in margins secured in such a basket and we dont lose billions of dollars for me economic standpoint but also i think as they are so the 1st step is actually our thought he was lobbying not money but in the 2nd part of actually being make sure that people have access to Health Resources dr perry we are what are your thoughts on that i mean the schools even stand a chance if we cant even keep covered from from turning our prisons into even worse like marriage than they already are. Well 1st of all i want to cosign what the double a c. P. President said my father also he died in prison and i just want to be clear that the the that Structural Racism that actually put us in position to be in prison the Structural Racism that robs School Districts of the resources needed to protect children come from the same racist street and so no we wont be able to protect children and communities because one that the federal government have have not passed a spending bill that enables School States and School Districts to purchase the p. P. S. To socially distance in in classrooms and on buses to provide the technology so when you do have to shut down a school they can do Remote Learning and so and they not been able to get those resources to schools because they simply do not care about black people and so for me its clear that this is an epidemic well have more epidemic so there are always some type of tragedy it will repeat itself time and time again until we sure are eradicate the Structural Racism that continues to. Black people in a vulnerable position. Powerful and very true and my heart goes out to you i also lost my mom in a prison as well she died from cancer. Nearly 100000 kids 100000 kids in america have been affected with kobe 19 in just the last 2 weeks of july states like georgia are refusing a math mandate for students even though experts like dr anthony 1000 recommend all schools mandate universal mask wearing our schools across the United States truly ready to handle in Person Learning at this stage in the pandemic or do you think there is an alternative and at since you know we mentioned georgia ill start with you james. Well i think thats a very difficult question because one we as a community we dont need the government to tell us whats right or wrong we have a state we have a nation that has not done the right thing but we at the Community Level we know was guess what so regardless if the government mandates we grant a mask or not we need to tell our people to make sure that they wear a mask thats one of the reasons why i issued an executive order myself as a state president in which all of our members all of our supporters all of our friends and family all were mass when theyre on public because i dont need the governor of the state of georgia to tell us what is in the best interest of our people if we are on the community in the Grassroots Level we know what it takes to say. Im done waiting for our government officials to do was in best interest of our people in this you know where that number to save our peoples lot were going to knock. It out that there are not ready. You see that the schools on dont even know what day to open schools its endemic the lack of preparedness that schools and School Districts have the congress has that. 5 months to prepare for this 5 months and its almost as if the pandemic occurred a few weeks ago and so intil schools have the resources to open safely and meet Safety Standards as well as educational standards they will not be ready and it was pointed out earlier that as School Students congregate in crowded spaces there are since these facilitating the spread those kids go back to their homes and spread the disease of the illness more and so kids dont live in schools they live in communities schools are not some kind of bubble in which they are sheltered from the rest of the community and so we need to protect the community and the schools and till they are. Returned safely i would not advise a parent to send their child to a place that is simply not ready to take on on kids safely thats a great point you bring up and very quickly i just want to ask ask you both a bit at the end of all this is that what what do you believe believe colbert has truly shown as far as the truth of the american system whether its schools or just the sort of thing you know you guys a bit more can in the trenches for a long time i mean realistically cope what is it not just exposing that the idea of american exceptionalism was always a myth to begin with dr perry you can start with a little bit of time well. Yeah i was going to say that it really revealed the Structural Racism that is present in our country black people are dying at a higher rate and been speak. Not because of cove it. Attacks black people but it it attacks the conditions in which we live and those conditions were set. Generations ago and theyre set every day and so racism is the preexisting condition that we need to get rid of not and not blame it on asthma or diabetes and all those other things that the Structural Racism that is making us vulnerable Structural Racism that it will destroy the resources needed to make our schools say the Structural Racism the puts black people in prison and at higher rates and and keeps them those conditions unsafe and so all this is doing is revealed playing the person issues policy that attacks black people every day in this country. And out had that it is not just you know it and im the president in the us we dont get it but its not just white people this is displaying very well in in many ways what black you have known for 100 years is that the institution the empire of America Western civilization is here is not here about its people we care is more about our work if i seem to be in actual law and so we talk about are all of us when we talk about the Unemployment Insurance benefits theyre not going to talk about us yes literally becoming bankrupt because the people that are in leadership care more about their bottom line and willing elections than actually lifting up that was how its. We have a system thats committed more to the preservation of how are you seem to privilege in actual peoples lot in so that is reflected in racism thats reflected by supreme see that is reflected in black in the midst its a case of the negro in so on so what we can go down a lot. Of outside of james thats powerful stuff but i hate to cut you off got to go to break but excellent excellent stuff mr james wood dr andrea perry thank you so much for coming on and educating our audience always a pleasure having you both. And the good work that you do thank you so much. All right as we go to break or that you can also still watch knocks on demand for the brand new portable t. V. Up which is available on all platforms and coming up the battle over Public Versus Private Health Care is magnified in the time of cold night t. V. Stay tuned to watching the hawks. On the local. Issues that few of. Us live. In this contest among them to laugh and ask for the past 70 and seen and done today for that. Commission so you know where to just shoot on disk in the. Asian community. Teach it mom. You know im going to go so said im not going to much to be mama its just that yanno. Bellerose unders a 10th day of antigovernment rallies as more factory workers go on strike demanding fresh elections after the bell russian leader made an offer to protesters saying a rerun of the disputed president ial vote can take place but only if the constitution is amended. Also this hour with covert 1000 infections spiking across europe and governments across the