Everybody in america. Everybody. But today i want to focus on one aspect of American Life that remains particularly skewed by race and by wealth, a source of inequity that has ripple effects on families and on communities and ultimately on our nation. That is our criminal Justice System. [applause] now this is not a new topic. I know sometimes folks discover these things like they just happened. There is a long history of inequity in the criminal Justice System in america. When i was in the state legislature in illinois we worked to make sure that we had videotaping of interrogations because there were problems there. We set up racial profiling laws to prevent the kind of bias and traffic stops that too many people experienced. We talked talked about how too many cases of criminal Justice System comes from a pipeline of underfunded, inadequate schools to over crowded jails. [applause] what has changed though, in recent years the eyes of more americans have been opened to this truth. Pa
Reports of armored russian columns crossing the border has nato on edge and watching closely but not doing much more than that while leadership in kiev said its top priority is building an army Strong Enough to halt any russian aggression. G20 gathering in brisbane this weekend are saying enough is enough and are threatening further sanctions against russia. For his part president Vladimir Putin is not backing down. The g20 summit is said to start in brisbane, australia, this weekend, and all eyes are on one v. I. P. Guest, russian president Vladimir Putin. He arrived friday with his navy trailing behind parked off the countrys northeast coast. Australias Prime Minister tony abbott reacted. One of the points that i tried to make to president putin is that russia would be so much more attractive if it was aspiring to be a superpower for peace and freedom and prosperity, if it was trying to be a superpower for ideas and values rather than recreate the lost glorious of czarism or the old
4,000 people have been killed. Reports of armored russian columns crossing the border has nato on edge and watching closely but not doing much more than that while leadership in kiev said its top priority is building an army Strong Enough to halt any russian aggression. G20 gathering in brisbane this weekend are saying enough is enough and are threatening further sanctions against russia. For his part president Vladimir Putin is not backing down. The g20 summit is said to start in brisbane, australia, this weekend, and all eyes are on one v. I. P. Guest, russian president Vladimir Putin. He arrived friday with his navy trailing behind parked off the countrys northeast coast. Australias Prime Minister tony abbott reacted. One of the points that i tried to make to president putin is that russia would be so much more attractive if it was aspiring to be a superpower for peace and freedom and prosperity, if it was trying to be a superpower for ideas and values rather than recreate the lost
4,000 people have been killed. Reports of armored russian columns crossing the border has nato on edge and watching closely but not doing much more than that while leadership in kiev said its top priority is building an army Strong Enough to halt any russian aggression. G20 gathering in brisbane this weekend are saying enough is enough and are threatening further sanctions against russia. For his part president Vladimir Putin is not backing down. The g20 summit is said to start in brisbane, australia, this weekend, and all eyes are on one v. I. P. Guest, russian president Vladimir Putin. He arrived friday with his navy trailing behind parked off the countrys northeast coast. Australias Prime Minister tony abbott reacted. One of the points that i tried to make to president putin is that russia would be so much more attractive if it was aspiring to be a superpower for peace and freedom and prosperity, if it was trying to be a superpower for ideas and values rather than recreate the lost
Money. The new cold war, russian president Vladimir Putin lashed out at u. S. Foreign policy, defending his countrys action he in ukraine and crimea. That speech l followed the announcement that russia is scrapping a pipeline project, instead russia will boost gas supplies to turkey, using current pipelines. Now, its asafe to say that russias relations with the west are at their lowest point in year s because of the action he in ukraine. Many of the issues that played out there are the same as what were seeing today. Go back to 2003 thats when georgians electricked mikhail sakasvi rvetio svili as president. In 2006. The south esetians went one step further, two years later , w. Bush started lobbying his nato allies, that angered moscow. So when sakashvili unleashed his are, r , russian jets bombed the main city, they only stopped when french mediation ended the conflict. In about 5 days of fighting, 130,000 were displaced from their homes. Sure, the United States and nato denounced rus