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Like china. >> all right, kaitlin collins, a potentially historic achievement announced today. lets bring in cnns ryan nobles whos live on capitol hill for us. the other part of this puzzle of course is whats called a reconciliation package. its a budget blueprint that democrats are putting together. it could have a price tag of $6 trillion. do we know whats in that? >> reporter: we have a general idea what both the white house and democratic leaders here on capitol hill would like to see in tha...

Idea he was embracing that internally and sweeping history in doing that. we also remember he was not the most progressive candidate in the democratic primaries. if you look politically about how he won the nomination and how he won the general election, it was a laser focus on two things. one, the african-american community and a lot of the kind of steps hes announcing today are geared toward empowering the african-american community, providing more after school and internship job programs for ...

>> well look, first of all, defund the police means different things to some people. some folks, it means abolishing the police, other folks means to cut the police. for folks that need us most, communities of color, it means less safety for them. you saw in atlanta where a rich neighborhood saying were going to create our own city. this defund the police, lets not invest in good policing will not impact affluent communities. i can tell you having worked in the most diverse city in the country, ...

(U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Sara Grooms) The national unemployment rate spiked to a high of 14.7% in April 2020, and veteran unemployment wasn’t far behind. It jumped from 4.1% to 11.7% that same month, according to the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University. Almost a year later, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that things are looking up for America’s veterans. The rates have dropped significantly as the economic fallout from the gl...

Case to make those voters go i need to reconsider. but if they cant, they will lose because we already know how they lost the last time. if cay cant pull enough voters to their side like, okay, trump theyre going to lose in 2020. >> the woman we just interviewed is an interesting case. she wrote in someone else. thats a vote thats essentially a blank vote in terms of the ledger. but the question is like if she does that again, how many of those people, right, are actually motivated to make the a...

Job programs have been good for lgbtq people. but last week the president propagated a proposed labor department rule and a statement to the supreme court that would make it easier for businesses, federal and private, to discriminate against lgbtq people with impunity. so it may come down to people reading between the lines and saying what does everything that the administration has done, and does it behoove me to vote for him again. >> thank you both. next, a trump administration that has see...

But how do you respond to those kinds of questions? >> i just talk to my record. van, first of all, you know i still live in that community. im the only person in the united states senate that lives in a black and brown minority community below the poverty line. these are my neighbors, my friends. >> im giving you an opportunity to respond to it. >> we didnt wait. we found out stunning data that the majority of the murder victims were people who had been incarcerated before. an average of about ...

Crack powder cocaine disparity so its 1-1. too many african-americans have been put in jail for it. and prisons. what i dont get, we just got to make the case. if you make it for ordinary people, they figure it out. in prison, you should receive an education, not how to be a better criminal. but you should learn how to read and write. there should be job programs in there. we should be training people. we should be training them. automatic restoration of their rights once their sentence is serve...

Disparity, so its one to one, no different. too many african-americans are put in jail for it, and prisons, what i dont get, and we just have to make the case, if you make it to ordinary people they figure it out. in prison, you should receive an education not how to be a better criminal. but you should learn how to read and write. there should be job programs in there. we should be training people. we should be training them. automatic restoration of the rights, once their sentence is served. i...

The crack powder cocaine disparity, its one to one, no different. too many african-americans put in jail for it. prisons, what i dont get and we have to make the case, if you make it to ordinary people they figure it out. in prison, you should receive an education, not how to be a better criminal, but learn how to read and write. there should be job programs in there. we should be training people. we should be training them. automatic restoration of their rights once their sentence is served, in...