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February 23, 2021 Lyna Mohamad His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam has set zero poverty as a top goal for the nation to achieve. The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCYS), with its expertise in dealing with issues of poverty, implemented profiling for its welfare programme, with the aim of identifying the demographics of recipients to th...

To it. just like society has changed on drunk driving, society has changed on gay marriage, they can change in terms of parenting. i know this is in political. it gets into political correctness issues. but this is why we are doodling in the margins of poverty issues. because nobody is doing with the things that matter most. >> jillian: can i share this real quick? if you dont mind. this is in the baltimore sun right now and its eye-opening. it says this kid, he escaped trouble as a baltimore ch...

Happy with what senator scott had to say when it came to issues of race, but he listened, nonetheless, but hes taken a beating. he knows hes taken a beating on this. and he listened. tim scott brought up issues of charlottesville, but he also brought up issues of the fact that this administration does not have certain times of african americans in leadership. when i say certain types, republicans, high ranking republicans who know how to work washington, who know how to work both ends of pennsyl...

Entirely to make. i really dont have a horse in that fight. and so the dnc members will have to make that decision. >> you want to lead the democratic in the house. you must have a position. >> thats not my position. my position on guns and gun violence is not to get rid of the second amendment. we need people who are sportsmen and can hunt and fish. we need background checks. we need to close the gun show loophole. we got make sure terrorists dont have guns. i was on the house floor when we wer...

>> thats not my position. my position on guns and gun violence is not to get rid of the second amendment. we need people who are sportsmen and can hunt and fish. we need to have background checks, we need to close the gun show loophole, make sure terrorists dont have guns and close the charleston loophole. i was on the house floor. thats an important discussion we need to have but not to give away the second amendment. i dont think thats appropriate. on the issue of gun violence, why do we have ...

Of some of those voting rights at their discretion. lets talk more about the reflection and the work still ahead as youre hearing from a number of civil rights activists. with me right now is political commentator for cnn, van jones, back with me. so we have heard over and over again, you have heard in many discussions you have had with civil rights leaders throughout the state and really throughout the south, that there is a lot of work to be done. but its not a monolithic task. there are many ...

Situation like that. if you can broaden the populous message to be really about trying to help peoples economic interests, i think thats the best chance they have. >> i dont get the paul ryan fixation. marco rubio who is very likely to run for president. theres a reasonable shot he could be the republican nominee, hes come out for a wage sub c plan to raise wages for low income workers. its not the democratic solution. thats a huge move forward on poverty issues. we could focus on that, too. mik...

Back with us, coal akin, former director of the congressional budget office. and christian dorsey, director of ex-sternnal government affairs from the economic policy institute. christian, before i rudely interrupted you you were making a point about fairness and raising minimum wage and get folks in poverty out of poverty. what do you think about that? >> well, if youre coming to me, jenna, i think there are important things the presidents highlighted. with a bad economic recovery, we have a lo...

>> or that you can intimidate those who do to make people thing there must be something to what they say because these people who i otherwise would admire are all being fingered or brought to peoples attention, so they must be nuts. >> i wish we could agree this is a big country, range of different values and perspectives and policy ideas, but we have lot of serious challenges ahead of us right now. high unemployment, we have poverty issues, education crisis, health care problems. it would be ni...

Poll showed they did not care about the middle class and understand the problems of evident people. thats why you see potential republican presidential contenders like rand paul as the president mentioned and the economic freedom zones and marco rubio zones stream line federal poverty programs. this is something they can talk about with the president and in fact probably pass a legislation to deal with the poverty issues. it only will help the american public believe they care about the people o...