Land of the free is looking more like a viral super spreader america land of the infected im burnt off in berlin this is the day. Weve implemented an aggressive strategy to vanquish and kill the virus come clean with the American People admit the threat of this virus we understand this horrible disease right now we didnt understand the disease at all at least have the courage to admit what everybody else already. You were wrong weve done a historic things we would have lost millions of lives and you wanted to take one easy step that would send a powerful message or a mass. National you know ahead of me as commissioner like the way i look like the lone ranger. Also coming up tonight could germanys handling of nazi symbols today be a guide as america removes icons of the confederacy a question to ask the people in mississippi where the confederate emblem in the state flag is flying no more this isnt a maze and we need to write this day down in our history because after 100 years in 2016 were retiring display and putting in a place and a new scene with people can be educated and law and be able to interpret with an interpretive plan for the. One survivor viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the United States closer than ever to losing control of the corona virus when the pandemic began it took 2 months for the u. S. To reach 50000. 00 cases as of yesterday america is reporting 15000. 00 cases per day and there are no signs that the numbers will fall in the time soon more than a month ago Public Health officials warned americas governors of the risks of reopening too soon and they knew what they were talking about the states which reopened earliest such as florida and texas are now where the virus is spreading faster than ever most states have stopped reopening and some such as california are shutting down their economies again if june was the month when the virus flared up again in the u. S. July could be the month when we see the consequences hospital intensive care units in texas are almost full doctors say theyre seeing younger and younger patients being hospitalized with more severe symptoms and all this as america is about to begin its long Independence Day weekend many towns have canceled july 4th fireworks amid warnings that a long weekend of get togethers and parades could be a perfect storm for spreading the virus and yet that is not the message that we heard today from the u. S. President. As we prepared to celebrate the 4th of july let us renu our devotion to this nation to its citizens and the eternal values that define our past and shape our future im going to mount rushmore. On july 3rd will have a tremendous evening its going to be a fireworks display like few people have seen its going to be very exciting so going to be beautiful theyve been wanting to do that for years fireworks they used to do it many years ago and for some reason they were unable or an all out to do it they just werent allowed to do it and i opened it up and were going to have a tremendous july 3rd and then were coming back here celebrating the 4th of july all right he was president Donald Trumps approval numbers they have fallen and the election is just 4 months away polls show that Presumptive Democratic challenger joe biden enjoys a double digit lead over trump now that is music to the ears of some very well placed and media savvy republicans and independents including my 1st guest tonight reid galen joins me from Salt Lake City reed is a political strategist hes worked for former president george w. Bush the late senator john mccain and former california governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reid is cofounder of the Lincoln Project reed its good to have you on the day the chances are many of our viewers have seen the t. V. Spots created by the Lincoln Project which all targets u. S. President trump but just in case lets show a segment from one of your latest videos take a look for of americas greatest president s are carved into the living rock of south dakota is like. They are a memorial to those who served with honor lead with courage it took this great nation into the future their words deeds and legacy will survive time in the americas worst president will neither be remembered nor revere Lincoln Project is responsible for the content of this advertisement. Now thats a very clear message there read and i want to get this clear you are you know you are belong to a group of republicans and some independents who who want to see joe biden a democrat win the november election right if that is right that is correct and. Explain that to me how it does a group of republicans decide we want to help a democrat win the White House Well 1st and foremost thanks for having me on and i think 2nd that you know what weve seen in the last 3 and a half years is a president who is neither able nor fit to serve in the oval office at the white house and so from our perspective you know many of us moved away from the Republican Party after dont get it 2016 and we have seen what he has done both to the party that so many of us worked for for so long but now what hes done to the country and so from our perspective when we started last late last year we decided its time to put our country over our Political Party and so we have spent the last 6 months prosecuting the case against President Trumpet to do so for the next 130. 00 days. And who is the jury and for you i mean whose minds are you hoping to change here when we look at the at the poll numbers we see that you still have a majority of republicans saying that they support trump and say that they will continue to do so so if thats the case whose minds are you going to change. Sure who we are looking for a very small number of soft republicans that is republicans who maybe never liked President Trump to begin with and conservative leaning independents again who might either have never liked him but did feel like they had another choice or have been turned off by him either by his failure to respond to the coronavirus trading this country or you know with with his actions and words around george floyd so from our perspective this is a game of very small numbers. The margins that President Trump won by in 2016 in places like michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania where very narrow my guess is most of those margins are gone and so we want to ensure that those folks who believe that the United States can and should be better and must have better leadership as we try and traverse 3 crises simultaneously that they come and they say for this one time were going to vote for joe biden or you know if they cant get all the way across they say were not going to vote for joe biden were not going to vote for donald trump either and we believe that thats a very compelling message we believe that more and more americans are here to get every day and we believe that our advertising is is finally able to illustrate many of the things that the president has been guilty of for years but we have now found the time and place to do that very effectively what you really have to see your your videos are very well done very very effective but critics are going to say that its one thing to have a video that gives viral on social media its another thing to change voter behavior and theyll say that most of the voters are not going to be found on twitter for example what do you say. Well i would say a couple of things one is that im sitting with you here tonight so we must be underground at somewhere evidently determining but we have a lot of fans there secondly though you should understand that really this is just one part of our strategy we also a very comprehensive strategy to target these voters directly in the states as i mentioned previously in the upper midwest of the United States or errors on earth carolina but i understand that you know getting inside the president s head is is the it that it could be fun but theres a means to that in which is taking him off message taking his campaign off message and giving the Biden Campaign the time and space they need to wage their campaign on behalf of the former Vice President to ensure that come november 3rd you know he not only wins but was decisive and i can tell you read youve got lots of people watching you in the us too with this show is shown on p. B. S. Whos giving you the money that you have whos funding most of our contributions the vast majority of our contributions have come from individual americans most of our contributions i believe our average contribution i should say is about 40. 00 so that means that you know it is americans from hawaii to maine and florida to alaska give you know repeatedly small amounts and so you know yes we have had some larger contributions but the vast majority of our fundraising to date and whats made this effort possible has been the organic and growing support of individual americans and we could not be more flattered by the Lincoln Project says it wants to defeat donald trump and trump ism i want to talk to you in a moment about what trump is and is but 1st i want to take a look at part of the t. V. Spots you produced which focuses on trumps alleged ties to russia. Someone one of. The temples youll do that is the situation is not something good to. Be chill michael you know tell us what the dismantle. The military is must see a little dismayed because on the streets you get you can. Be somewhat of a me. Youll take these situations thoughts of the. National media. Like the. Blood of the uprooted in russia you dont hear that on Us Television very often. Talk to me about trump ism what is it and are you trying to cleanse the Republican Party of trump ism. I think it will trump ism is what weve seen the Republican Party transform itself into since his ascendance which is you know a party of grievance a party of vision a party party of nationalism a party of a cult of personality one that you know hues to the worst instincts of its supporters and president supporters rather than being you know a place where people can go because they share ideology or shit in what can and should be a better tomorrow for the United States and so from our perspective beating donald trump and a lot of his collaborators in the United States senate is just want we believe that you know once we once we have excised from the american political system there still will be work to be done because from our perspective you cant have a healthy democracy when one of the 2 major parties in your country a spouse is the kinds of ugliness and as they said division that the g. O. P. Republican Party Donald Trump does today you know a many members of the g. O. P. The Republican Party in congress theyve been exceptionally quiet recently despite the things that have been lodged towards the president you remember what happened during the impeachment process as well i mean why do you think the Republican Party should be saved at all. Well look i think thats it thats an argument that Republican Office holders and leaders sorting you know next year have to make for themselves to the voters i think that your point about the United States senators is a good one if you watched during the impeachment trial they could not get to a reporters microphone or camera fast enough with a big cheshire cat you know grin you know basically saying look we got away with her and let him off the hook for his actions around ukraine and now he cant get them to say a word about you know it again is catastrophic response to covert the ongoing economic crisis that were seeing anything around your choice and now that revelations that the president and the white house knew that the Russian Security services were offering bounties on the heads of american soldiers and marines in afghanistan did nothing and said nothing and i think that you know what they have shown is that they have violated their oaths they piloted their consciences and you know in our constitution article one sets up the congress of the United States and i believe they were they violated that 3 article as well. As one question about Foreign Policy before we run out of time earlier this week the German Foreign minister said that people are kidding themselves if they expect a democrat in the white house after november will be able to repair the damage done to the Transatlantic Community under President Trump what do you say to that well i would say that i could understand how that level of pessimism would exist especially after the last 3 and a half years but i can tell you and i will tell him as well the minister that certainly it will be repaired until and unless dr donald trump from office this new member and see joe biden sworn in as president of United States next next year. Regaling cofounder of the Lincoln Project 3 d. Its good talking with you and please come back and talk with this especially as we get closer to election day in the u. S. Thank you. Thank you. The u. S. State of mississippi has retired its state flag a flag which 426 years included the confederate battle emblem it was the last official flag of the United States to contain symbols of the confederacy officials held a ceremony to remove the former flag from the State Capitol building on wednesday mississippi has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks to remove the flag after a wave of protest over Racial Injustice focused on confederate symbol a Broad Coalition of legislative wars passed a law last sunday to retire the flag. A black lawmakers have fault for decades to remove symbols of the confederacy one of those attending the flag lowering ceremony was former lawmaker robert clark whose grandfather was a slave in the confederacy it reminds me of what my grandfather reach to tell me. That. In the slavery of the revenue that he had never had had he known his to be good never laid out of. The coldest and would only to him this not to be he had never had a collar bone the head suffering around him. Like what you write patents. And this means to mean. Change dollars for. The plague represented the that fell full at that with unfair. Well. You can see there people have a lot invested in these symbols and removing them with the removal of the confederate emblem has special meaning to my next guest tonight judge carlos moore is from mississippi and he had trying to use the legal system to change his states flag he sued to have the confederate emblem removed im happy to welcome judge moore to the day judge moore its good to have you on the program we just saw that video of the flag being lowered for the final time tell me what went through your mind as you watch that happen on wednesday. It was a momentous occasion i got chills down my spine actually being in the capitol on saturday when the 1st vote was taken and the house of representatives removed the flag and so there was just a flood of emotions going through my mind and i was just so relieved that they had found a comment that my daughter now you though no longer has to live under a symbol of oppression and slavery i want to ask you if george floor had not died at the hands of a white Police Officer in minneapolis do you think that the state flag with the Confederate Flag would still be flying today i think it would i always knew pretty much that it would take a death or if it did before the fact was revote about the legislators and unfortunately of mr floyd they would have been finished off just by what he did not done very good this is tragic you know freedom and this is it. Its just more 4 years ago you spoke to 2 of my colleagues in his poll and Richard Walker about the flag and about your efforts to change it i want to play what you told my colleagues back then in 2016 take a listen. I believe the here which is that they are proud of is the heritage of slavery free labor i believe they are proud that they use the land of people for an assignment on the county a public square. That the here today im proud of the biggest threat to the future of america is division not it we stand about if we fall we continue down the path that we are going to drop and others like him people like that of a mississippi and about in this country and if we continue. Down this path there will be another civil war. So that was quite a prediction in 2016 judge moore a lot has happened in the us since then especially in terms of Race Relations are the chances of another civil war in your opinion are they greater or less today. It depends on a particular day as you so after george floyd there were mass demonstrations across the country across the world because let live same not to have mattered to people or tell them the world of black lives to matter and this time out of all this foolishness and so this new generation of black people they are not going to just take that stand back and just have the right to trumpet. That last Medicine Movement believes that standing up for justice and we have liberal and progressive like this around the world and others other races and ethnicities that have stood with us and have decided to stand with us for justice and so we believe if it gets another war well win again with them victorious want revenge victorious twice now its going to flag down and see if it will be victorious again but i think if we have a lection and get somebody of the hamiltons country of america i think Race Missions will get a lot better. I want to talk a little bit about your life we when you became a judge i understand one of the 1st things you did was to order the removal of the Mississippi State slang from your chamber and thats a bold move to talk to me about the resistance that you have faced in your career youre live trying to have the state flag changed. To 27 minutes of defense for the 1st time in clarksville as the 1st africanamerican for the just my 1st part of it was removed because i would not want to come to a minute suggested and front of the frontal 80 percent of the people that appear before me who have been american and i just dont see how you can defend it in front of such a treacherous and open the planet so i had to remove it and if they ever found in my courtroom a courtroom or the chambers and so because i didnt that i received Death Threats everything is great deference a reason for removing the play from my courtroom now i have to for it for challenging the governor and all im up against down to remove. Do you think people would not want to be deterred. Do you think people who know the history of the flag the history of mississippi as well as they should i know even researching this story a lot of people found out that i was talking to that the confederate emblem 1st was put on the state flag in mississippi in 8096 do you think if i were to walk down the street of any town in mississippi that people would say yes they knew that. People of a certain generation with no that i would imagine young people probably under 35 may not realize it but people of artifactual realize and its been in the news so much that 89 to 48 and i think. That the flag was. The was on the flag that was 70 years after the federal civil war d of the confederacy so it was put there to be a reminder of slavery was put there to be very offensive it was put there to subjugate africanamericans to being a 2nd class citizen that was very intentional and i could just not sit back as a father and just allow that to continue to rise upright the premise they have to go if they have been defeated i mean. At least in the symbiotically. I want to ask you since im talking to you tonight from Berlin Germany came up with a way of dealing with its nazi past and with its nonsi icons and symbols you may find them in museums you will not find them to on display anywhere in public do you think that could be a model for the United States as it removes its confederate statues and symbols today i believe it should be a model i believe that 13th amendment not only about slavery but. Investiture relic of slavery all of those the favorite my comments are relics of issues of slavery and i need to come down as im glad to see this Movement Across the country to bring these Confederate Monument down not with these town squares i will propose legislation i have my Congress People to propose legislation to oppose them. Because i believe it was about like the 13th amendment ok judge carlos moore joining us tonight from mississippi to talk about the states retiring that state flag which contains the Confederate Flag and judge moore we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you. Sporting history now and a name that you are probably unlikely to have heard of jack leslie nearly 100 years ago he was denied the chance of being englands 1st black footballer on the National Squad heightened awareness of Racial Injustice is now forced Many Organizations including those in english football to take a closer and more critical look at their own history. A campaign to honor what would have been in the unstressed player jackie as he was caught up to the National Team in 1025 but its believed that when members of the f. A. A. P. English Football Association saw that he was blocked the invitation was dropped his family exposure is non will that do it and i just hope that a lot more stories of people you know and how they were treated also come out as a feeling that synonymous with a black community and anyone is mixed race feeling of being left out or not picked for example hes it was a great football for him foggo they picked him that england is a bit too much for some unless he went on to have a successful career with English Football Club plymouth argyle in the 1920 s. And thirtys. Now the cup and its fans want to honor his legacy of their set up a crowd trying to raise around 100000 euros in order to build a statue of him. Its recognition not just of one of the greatest players you know of a sick joke played over shorter term struck in the credit score a 137. 00 girls but its much another statement about the scripts as it should to is racism. An attitude that in football isnt moving fast enough it would take another 53 years until good anderson became englands 1st black player in 1978 making the story of jack leslie the unheard black trade blazer all the more important in the fight against racism. Well the day is almost done the conversation continues online join us on twitter either at u. W. News you can follow me at bryant goth t. V. And remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day well see you then everybody. 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