Now reporting russia has indeed become the 1st country to grant Regulatory Approval to a covert 19 vaccine after less than 2 months of human testing a move moscow likened to its success in the cold war era of the space race and apparently russian president Vladimir Putin is so high on the at the casie of said vaccine that he even had one of his own daughters take it. Theres no actual word yet on a u. S. President donald trump has put a banker to put me on an intravenous drip of my drug sequoia queen and lysol in an effort to outdo his russian counterpart will keep you and keep you abreast of that does happen and while us back sports and political politicos will now dust off the old cold war 2. 0 debate over moscows potential vaccine on cable news channels and social media to no end the virus itself continues to flourish here in the u. S. Especially inside. The walls of United States prisons work order analysis by the u. C. L. A. School of laws code 19 behind bars data project and john hopkins the nobel coronaviruses now infecting american Prison Inmates at a rate more than 5 times higher than the overall u. S. Population and thats climbing in fact at the Federal Correctional Institution and see go will texas the federal bureau of prisons reports that more than 1300 of the approximately 1750 prisoners held there have tested positive for covert 19 these brutal statistics of lead to multiple uprisings among the incarcerated populations across the United States just last week in georgia violence broke out of where state prison where the Atlanta Journal constitution reports that quote tensions were running high due to cope with 192 people incarcerated at the prison have died of the disease while 22 inmates and 32 employees have tested positive. So with covert 19 on fire inside us prisons exposing even more horrors of our Prison Industrial Complex i think thats a good place to start watching the hawks. If you want to know whats going on a city you street you want to see. The missiles you like see see the crisis you always state ill see you drone strikes mass graves suggests least systemic deception is to late show which with some pretty tough job. And welcome everyone watching the hawks i am to roll them and im going to try and joining us today to discuss the state of u. S. Prisons as we get deeper into the 1st year of the covert 19 pandemic is the president of the n. W. Slepian georgia mr james wood all and dr andre m. Perry author and fellow at the metropolitan policy program at the Brookings Institute thank you both for coming on today. So look over probably have overcrowding lack of proper medical care or unsanitary Living Conditions were already major issues in the u. S. Prison system how is covert 19 exacerbated these existing issues dr perry your thoughts. Well if you mentioned it there were looted. Art in. That. 5 years where its product. Areas. Are. Areas. They are also. Areas people have little recourse and so we need to look for examine the conditions in prisons in and we need to socially distance people and create the kind of conditions that enable people to thrive and so in the short of it is that prisons are in the main places that that are conducive for virus spread. And other illnesses. And james here in washington d. C. A family of an inmate recently died from cobain while being held in North Carolina wasnt informed of his death by the bureau of prisons and to over 100 days after it occurred we talk about coping in prisons we often only focus on the guards the staff and inmates but how has this crisis affected the families and communities surrounding the u. S. Prison system. Well thank you for that question and as a son of a father who currently serving the sentence in a Georgia State prison ive known too well what that impact does my father got colvin and see we were not able to know really know what the status of your health was you know Legal Counsel was not able to visit these inmates we have complaints of people not even being able to get the kind of recreation. Accustomed to servants. So you know this situation is exacerbated. I was just on the wire really of ways which is well between izing just i frankly just and so there must be action taken action taken out not only saved not ours but also to save money every Single Person in the prison system in this country you know has been has been damaged and broken for a long time thats why i agree with a lot of people that say you know we need to abolish the prison system as we know what rebuild it from the ground up find the turn it into a place of reform rather than incarceration but i also want to talk about Something Else because gentlemen if we cant keep covert from spreading like wildfire in a lock and barrel and secure environment like a pub or a potential how can we begin to expect to contain covert in our schools james i want to start. Well what we have to look at really what this disease is actually doing and i honestly believe that we have done ourselves a disservice when. Or not honest from a state and National Level as to where the risk factors involved in this situation if we as a Community Power does the economy in money in commerce over the actually all the lives of people who live in our communities big we can actually defeat this disease this virus in so as we as it relates to school and we talk about opening up colleges and universities we talk about opening up well probably very nursery you know what were talking about is not the actual helping people rather how can we keep money flow into peoples pockets how can we keep the bottom on margins here in such a basket and we dont lose billions of dollars for me economic standpoint but also as a as they are more so the 1st step is actually our time was loudly not money but in the 2nd part of actually make sure that people have access to you know resources dr perry or what are your thoughts on that i mean the schools even stand a chance if we can even keep covert from from turning our prisons and even worse nightmares than they already are. Well 1st of all i want to cosign what double a. C. P. President said my father also died in prison and i just want to be clear that the the that Structural Racism that actually put us in position to be in prison the Structural Racism that robs School Districts of the resources needed to protect children come from the same racist street and so no we wont be able to protect children and communities because one that the federal government have have not passed a spending bill that enables School States and School Districts to purchase the p. P. Easy to socially distance in in classrooms and on buses to provide the technology so when you do have to shut down a school they can do Remote Learning and so and they not being able to get those resources to schools because they simply do not care about black people and so for me its clear that this is an epidemic well have more epidemic so there are always some type of tragedy it will repeat itself time and time again until we sure are eradicate the Structural Racism that continues to put black people in in a vulnerable position. Powerful and very true and my heart goes out to you i also lost my mom in a prison as well she died from cancer. Nearly 100000 kids 100000 kids in america have been affected with kobe 19 in just the last 2 weeks of july states like georgia are refusing a math mandate for students even though experts like dr anthony 1000 recommend all schools mandate universal mask wearing our schools across the United States truly ready to handle in Person Learning at the. Stage in the pandemic or do you think there is an alternative and at since you know we mentioned georgia ill start with you james. Well i think thats a very difficult question because one we as a community we dont need the government to tell us whats right or wrong we have a state we have a nation that has not done the right thing but we at the Community Level we know was guess what so regardless if government mandates we mandate mask or not we need to tell our people to make sure that they wear a mask thats one of the reasons why in executive order myself as a state president in which all of our members all of our supporters all of our friends and family all wear masks when theyre on public because i dont need the governor of the state of georgia to tell us what is in the best interest of our people if we are on the community in the grass roots level we know what it takes to say black people slops im not im done waiting for. Government officials to do was in best interest of our people in this you know more than ever to save peoples lot because were going to stop you. Know schools are not ready. You see the schools on dont even know what day to open schools its endemic the lack of preparedness that schools and School Districts have the congress had 5 months to prepare for this 5 months and its almost as if the pandemic occurred a few weeks ago and so intil schools have the resources to open safely and meet Safety Standards as well as educational standards they will not be ready in what was pointed out earlier that as School Students congregate in crowded spaces there since these facilitating the spread those kids go back to their homes and spread. The disease of the illness more and so kids dont live in schools they live in communities schools are not some kind of bubble in which they are sheltered from the rest of the community and so we need to protect the community and the schools and till they are. Returned safely i would not advise a parent to send their child to a place that is simply not ready to take on on kids safely. Thats a great point you bring up and very quickly i just want to ask ask you both a bit at the end of all this is that what what do you believe believe colbert has truly shown as far as the truth of the american system whether its schools or just a story i think you know you guys a bit more going in the trenches for a long time i mean realistically covert is not just exposing that the idea of american exceptionalism was always a myth to begin with dr perry you could start with a little bit of time well. Yeah i was going to say that it really revealed the Structural Racism that is present in our country black people are dying at a higher rate and can speak because not because of cove it. Attacks black people but it it attacks the conditions in which we live and those conditions were set in generations ago and theyre set every day and so racism is the preexisting condition that we need to get rid of not and not blame it on asthma or diabetes and all those other things that its Structural Racism that is making us vulnerable Structural Racism that it will destroy the resources needed to make our schools say the Structural Racism that puts black people in prison at higher rates and keeps them those conditions unsafe and so all this is doing is revealed playing the person issues policy that attacks black people every day in this country. And not had that its not just you know i and im the president in it was me i get it but its not just white people this is displaying it well in many ways what black you have known for a while to me is that the institution the empire of America Western civilization is here is not here we can see more of our work if i seem in actual law and so we talk about. Let me talk about the Unemployment Insurance benefits they are not going to talk about us yes literally becoming bankrupt because the people that are in leadership care more about your bottom line unwilling elections actually live ones. We have a system thats committed more to preservation how are you. So privileged in actual peoples lives in so that is it racism yes like i said. Its a case of the negro is so on so what do you go down a lot. Outside of james this powerful stuff but i hate to cut you off got to go to break but excellent excellent stuff mr james wood on dr andrea perry thank you so much for coming on and educating our audience always a pleasure having you both on and the good work that youre doing thank you so much. All right as we go to break over whether you can also still watch knocks on demand for the brand new portable t. V. Which is available on all platforms and coming up the battle over Public Versus Private Health Care is magnified in the time of coverage tonight stay tuned to watching the hawks. Now look forward to talking to you all. Should work for people. Must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such a conflict. With Artificial Intelligence something. The obamas protect its own existence as the excuse for. The sudden forced and illegal takeover of a government by a small group. 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Because that requires resources the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become invisible comes. Health care remains one of the primary issues at the top of voters minds across america with coronavirus in our midst the concern for Health Insurance is only heightened access to Quality Health care has never been available to everyone your ability to pay determines the quality of health care you receive and your outcomes add race to the mix and things tend to get a lot worse politicians have been grappling with how best to serve Americas Health care needs for over 5 decades now notably Hillary Clinton 1st lady in the ninetys attempted and failed to bring hillary care and universal Health Care Package to fruition providing health care for everyone was loud it is a Big Government takeover in 1903 fast forward to 2010 and president Barack ObamasAffordable Care act attempted to pick up where hillary care left off. 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Private Insurance Companies pulled out prices went up the cost of lifesaving pharmaceutical drugs like insulin are well beyond the reach of most pocketbooks rule medicine is on life support and Community Clinics across the country are closing rapidly and have been for the past 12 years all of this meanwhile the Racial Disparities in care continue to grow and cold at night late Americas Health care crisis bayer everything from overcrowded hospitals lack of access to testing wait times over a month for test results show complete chaos and few people trust the system would a single payer option be better is universal healthcare or medicare for all a better route is government even equipped to handle the challenges of americas growing Health Care Needs and infrastructure a recent opinion piece by libertarian commentator hannah cox provides a few insights hanna joins us now to share more welcome than. Or am i your piece new yorks bill your to use emergency hospitals as another reason to distrust Government Health care is a gaping critique of the thinks response to cope with 19 arguably you promote removing government from the business of health care what that look like and how with the private sector deliver better service. Well i think one thing that were seeing during komen 1000 is just how intertwined government already is in our Health Care System right from the get go we saw government start removing certificate of need laws certain deregulating start taking away some regulations that they had around telling Health Services and things that were actually preventing people from accessing faster cheaper and <