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Ant thetical to what they believe. every one of the races this year, you will not have a guy like that on the other side, like moore. you got to have more than a message of the other guy is bad. why are your candidates good? whats the message? what is the message? >> sure. when we field good candidates and we have a clear message, we win. doug jones was a good candidate. ralph northam and justin fairfax were great candidates in virginia. what they did, reverend sharp ton, they talked about the i...

Medicine, they cant bathe themselves. this is a health crisis in the city of detroit. while you are shutting off people who are 60 days late and owe $160, you dont have the accountability for corporations. ford field, $55,000, palmer park dpofl course $500,000. city of detroit, $20 million. >> wait, wait a minute. youve got people owing $50,000, half a million dollars and their water isnt disturbed but you have mothers who cant boil water for their babies because they couldnt pay a bill after we...

Hockey stadium that most folks who live in the neighborhoods will never see the inside of. to add insult to injury, 125 communities are supplied water by the detroit water system. the suburbs have their own accounts and so why are they trying to act like somehow the detroit customers are the reason why the entire system has debt? we need to look at the other communities this system supplies and make sure they are paying their bills as well. >> reverend williams, what will make snyder and the oth...

I dont want to get emotional on camera, but this is my life. youre taking everything that i have worked for. >> water is a basic human right. it should be available to everybody, not just for those who can afford it. its time to restore services immediately. joining me now live from detroit, reverend charles williams wi williams, ii, president of the national action network. reverend david alexander bullock, national spokesman for the change consortium. thank you for being here. >> thanks for jo...

5% pay increases to all of the employees that make almost over $100,000 a year. its also wrong for the state of michigan and the city of detroit to give a half a billion dollars, not a million. half a billion dollars in tax subsidies so they can build a new are red wings stadium while at the same time folks at the bottom are being pushed further by cutting off their water. this is wrong. weve got to fight and stand up against this. we want to thank the national folks who came in to help us. were...

Today we are marching and fighting for not race segregation but now class segregation. where people arent getting access to basic public services because governor snyder decided to dehydrate detroit. >> the poverty rate in detroit is over 38%. unemployment is high as 14.5. they just increased the water bill rate by 8.7. the detroit water rate is plus 119% over the past decade. something seems wrong with the picture. >> thats right are. something is wrong. >> we have a race to the bottom instead ...

Im joined by the president and ceo of the naacp and the reverend al sharpton hosting "stronger america, the black agenda" with ed schultz who also joins us live now. whats the special going to be about in 30 minutes? >> its happening at just the right time. we are now discussing real draconian cuts that will affect african-americans in this country across the board. the numbers you reported on will be even at a greater distance if this budget is to go through. at this hour as jim mcdermott said ...