That is of course the area that saw that horrible race massacre 99 years ago in about three weeks. Theyre headed back there which is frankly good news. Its taken the temperature down a lot here. We were concerned about those two groups meeting after the president s rally. It happened very briefly. There was about a tenminute moment where they sort of clashed. I know my colleague and friend Morgan Chesky is going to talk a little bit more about this. There was a very, very brief moment where the police went in and sort of broke up that group and tried to separate those two groups out. I do think we caught a break with that black lives matter group having left the area. It is important to note that yesterday on juneteenth a celebration that was supposed to be canceled because of covid wept ahead anyway. Local leaders said they felt like they had to counterprogram the president. They said he intention al piley picked that date to drive a wedge. He moved the rally to today, but that wedge
Outer perimeter of the bok arena. As you said, that black lives matter group has been sort of circling the arena for the last four to five hours. They have finally pushed off to greenwood. That is of course the area that saw that horrible race massacre 99 years ago in about three weeks. Theyre headed back there which is frankly good news. Its taken the temperature down a lot here. We were concerned about those two groups meeting after the president s rally. It happened very briefly. There was about a tenminute moment where they sort of clashed. I know my colleague and friend Morgan Chesky is going to talk more about this. There was a very, very brief moment where the police went in and sort of broke up that group and tried to separate those two groups. I do think we caught a break with that black lives matter group having left the area. Yesterday on june 19th, a celebration that was supposed to be canceled because of covid went ahead anyway. Local leaders said they felt like they had t
1 15. Up until then from this mornings washington journal, senator sanders from vermont. Host senator bernie sanders, senator from vermont, here. Thank you for being here. You served on the Budget Committee. We saw senator patty murray, the chairman, introduce her budget plan. Heres the headline in the Washington Times there are no sacred cows that calls for 1 trillion in new taxes. Whats your takeaway . Guest well, what it does is also call for substantial cuts, but it deals with deficit reduction in a balanced way. What the republicans want to do is do deficit reduction simply by cutting, cutting, cutting. Doing away with medicare as we know it. Right now converting that into a voucher system which we very, very onerous for senior citizens, making devastating cuts in medicaid which means that millions of millions of American People and kids will lose their Health Insurance. Massive cuts in education, in nutrition. Basically every program that in the middle of a terrible recession wor
We are the worlds policeman. The other socalled world powers are either too cheap, morally indifferent, or happy to sponge off of us as they have neglected their duty to keep some semblance of order. We are unwilling to let crazy people romp through our neighborhoods. But we are not is the world social worker. To the extent we take it upon ourselves, the goal or the obligation to bring universal selfridge, make sure people can listen to madonna, bring about democratic elections. That is not our job. We are not good at doing it. We are good at building roads, crushing opposing armies. No government is good at the work of nationbuilding. [bell] we will alternate. Tucker, you will go first. Federal debt does it matter . We can simulate our way to prosperity. You are insane for suggesting it. It matters because i believe in math. Here is what i know, which is saying i believe in science. You often hear we are for science. We do not believe in evolution. We are on the side of science. Anybo