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Citizens who have died from this pandemic kept a pretty good reason to bits agree with you but you see it wasnt just himself the dominated the President Trumps thoughts this week as he also pointed out on twitter that quote the Fake News Media refuses to discuss how good the economy and stock market including jobs of the trumpet ministration are doing we will soon be in record territory all they want to discuss is covidien i t you know for one side agree mr president lets discuss the u. S. Economy and our friends on wall street in fact just last week the Federal Reserve released its label latest triennial study into consumer and household by nances and according to press news the report found that quote millionaires and billionaires hold a remarkable 79. 2 percent of the United States Household Wealth and that only 11. 9 percent of american households. Have at least 1000000. 00 in wealth to their name only 11 only 12 per cent roughly but what about wall street us that that magical mystical place that realm of power here in the United States well truth is wall street means very little to most americans as political political reports that the reality is that the wealthiest one percent of americans own 50 percent of the value of stocks held by individual households and the top 10 percent control 88 percent. Of the late great George Carlin famously said its a big club and you aint in it remember that the next time one of these professional liars politicians like us President Donald Trump starts tweeting madly about how great the stock market is doing you see thats actually him paying fealty to his owners and lets start watching the hawks. Was on a cd. Player so lets see this is this joyce state. Great city this least systemic dissent says so which. Brings up the old. Welcome were going to watching the hawks are over and im so major wall street hey you know im fresh out of the spittle lets tweets about wall street talk about our great wall street and how great is wall street to how great of the American People just love wall street and i think that your intro was right on point because we know what matters to trump and it is wall street we know the people who invest in wall street arent the people who are crying out for help on main street every day right now we also noticed that today the president has argued that he is not going to push for a copay 1000 really bill that package of money that americans were hoping to get so that they could pay their rent make sure that they could make the. Electric bills and all these other things its just not coming so i think that you know we have a stronger recognition for those who already who trolled cares about the most and its not the everyday citizens it is those one percenters who actually are watching the thought that we day and you know they make their money off of the yeah i mean look at a survey by the Federal Reserve this new survey showed that more than half of American Families 52 percent were invested in the stock market as of the 2nd quarter this year but that was mostly through not through really a lot of direct ownership thats mostly through retirement for a one k. Things like that thats not people out earning money on the stock thats people whose businesses or retirement plans through their businesses put their money or start work youre absolutely correct and today when you have a predominance of the American Workforce that is doing good economy work that means that they are not only in most cases not full time employees and they dont have benefits they also dont have a 41 k. In existence this is it 203040 years ago where people were looking to that you know part of their retirement plans and there are a lot of folks today who dont know what those retirement plans are going to look like and are dont even have enough money in their savings to consider anything related to retire because the bottom half of all earners only one 3rd thats earners as people with a job actually were lucky enough to have only one 3rd are actually invested in any kind of equities or stocks compared to more than 90 percent and 90 percent of families in the top 10 percent of income basically the stock market is a rich mans game and when you look at what how the pandemic has affected all of this yelp reports that the review site yelp reports that 60 percent of businesses have had to close during this pandemic Small Businesses and that are now permanently shut youre never going to get them back so guess what your big your big corporate people who got bailed out the most from congress and donald trump theyre fine every other business struggling more than 60 percent and i think thats important thing to note because it shows what congress prioritize and thats an argument for both sides i mean i we more on the liberal side of things when i think about this that is something that democrats. To have it in the house controlled more than they did what we saw was that stimulus package money the money that was supposed to bail people out in large part went to corporations in it went to the state organization it did not go to the Small Businesses which are the engines of not only American Innovation but also employment for people across the globe and colors a big issue here you know in this in this country right now and when you look at who really has money in wall street im sorry wall street is one of the whitest streets in america when you really break it down 80 percent of the value of stockholm by american households was held by white families compared to get this just 1. 2 percent by black families. To 1. 2 percent just point 5 percent of wall street is held by hispanic families thats a massive gap wall street is a wealthy white mans game and always has been its almost like monopoly. At the end of the day if youre somebody who is not in that range youre not a part of that power structure where you have a quarter of a 1000000. 00 for the most part you are not watching stop daily youre not getting your investment youre not your investment portfolio isnt that you most americans are just worried about keeping food on the table making sure there are enough cover for the next month they are not have attempted to the stock market because the stock market doesnt necessarily affect their day to day work no it does not William Spriggs a professor of economics at Howard University and the ceos chief economist of the basically said quote when the stock market goes up that exacerbates wealth inequality for blacks and for hispanics because they just dont own stocks and thats thats the honest to god truth and thats whats sad because we talk about wanting to get money into those communities stable real money into those groups but guess what this is interesting all that money that should be going to the people is going upwards as we know jeff bezos the big dogs little theyre all just sucking up the wealth of this country but thats not just true for the u. S. Thats around the world in fact a report out of scotland found that the richest 20 families have as much wealth as the bottom 30 percent of the population this is a global issue that we need to start addressing now. Another day another headline of an unarmed black man being murdered by a Police Officer though 31 year old Jonathan Price lost his life on saturday lou the News Coverage spoke of the murder until today because today officer sean lucas was charged with murder of course of events that actually happened swiftly considering in most cases it takes weeks or months for an officer to be arrested and charged after a fatal shooting. Could this incident turn the tide lets dig deeper Jonathan Price was a pillar of his community a City Employee a balance here and well known Public Servant price witnessed a fight at the local gas station and wolf city texas between a woman and a man and he intervened price was attempting to diffuse the situation and reduce any potential harm to the woman and at some point a passer by presumably called Law Enforcement but by the time theyd arrived pryce had already defuse the situation. Price was truly a hero that likely prevented a complete stranger from suffering from Domestic Violence but when Police Arrived on the scene price was given anything but a heros welcome body camera footage showed Police Officer lucas tasing price even though there was no aggressive or threatening posture that would have supported that level of force price was actually walking away when he was struck by a lecture wave of the stun gun and after that already unnecessary use of force the Police Officer then proceeded to shoot price in the back 3 times price was unarmed according to an official statement from the Texas Rangers with camera footage the rangers now say the preliminary investigation indicates quote the actions of officer lucas were not objectionably reasonable. Officer lucas has since been arrested and charged with murder his bond is that for 1000000. 00. Wow well well well that is a credible lead what were looking at with this because it just it just boggles my mind at her it was happy to see that we might like you said we might i mean what do you think do you think that this is a turning point whereby only some departments across this country are saying a rather than a long day at this hour rather than claim the like in a say you know were going to fight it were actually going to charge someone with a charge an officer with murder when they act over the line like this i think this case presents its own bit of differences from some of the other ones that weve seen 1st and foremost there is some. Body who is still who was there on the scene who also witnessed this happen the woman who actually got involved in engaging in disrupting that fight where it looked like she was being threatened by a male but the other thing that is very interesting here is that the Texas Rangers and the Police Officers have already you know the police force has already come out because they had to the video had already been released. Showing that this man posed absolutely no threat not even for the stun gun much less him actually being shot in the back 3 times this was somebody who is technically a pillar of the community he had come in and he had tried to stop a fight which is something we would expect or at least hope for if i am is just passing by and sees that a woman is being threatened but the interesting note i want to make here was that this is the type of hero conservative tried to make rittenhouse remember the young man who decided he was going to take a gun and travel you know to a whole nother state. And wound up killing multiple people and conservatives talked about it is though he was somebody who was protecting his community and that wasnt even a community in this case this is where Jonathan Price was born and raised this is his place this is a place where he is known this is a place where he is respected he works for City Government a place where all of his neighbors know who he is he saw something he decided to do something tried to intervene and wound up losing his life well. Its interesting when you really look like when you point out that this was somebody who you know is well if you put all the chalk marks that you know you see a lot of times and white Media Literacy like White Conservative youre like well this person was clearly you know a bad guys so somehow they deserved to get choked out or this person had a criminal record so somehow they deserved to get you know to get shot 6 times in the butt but as you pointed out this wasnt this guy so theres no excuse for this but why is that somebody has to have this pristine record to actually see charges correctly brought against the police when the record shouldnt even come into play it should be the actions of police right well of by somebody you mean black peep. Yes exactly you know the translation i think that part of that is how america sees black people specifically black men is always having to prove themselves innocent 1st and thats not something that you know that that happens when white men are involved in this type of thing so i think that in this case were seeing quite frankly an expeditious process in him being charged this happened on saturday so just a few days later there are already charges hes already been arrested that is unheard of and Police Involved shootings it so i do think that thats a very important point to note i think it is a good point to note i mean i would hope that were going to see. You know how many cases we see it even with body temperatures and things like that roll over and over and over and over again where its costly like you see the police union step in and everyone then let the gears of justice just stop and roll slowly it may be this is that i hope its a sign that later you know what will people shoot people or who are trying to help people in our community that maybe we should actually hold cops accountable when they step over bounds like this absolutely and there is a Facebook Post that that price did just like 4 months ago that is now being brought to light may think that its important for our viewers to see that as well youre in the Facebook Post price that there were times i should have been detained for speeding outstanding citations outdated registration dozing off at a red light before making it to my garage Downtown Dallas after a long night i passed a sobriety test after leaving a bar while a texas by 2 white cops and they still let me drive to where i was headed and by the way they consider wiley texas to be very racist ive never got that kind of energy from the popo not saying black lives no matter but dont forget about your own or your experiences the road and waking up. So its coming to light that. It seems that price wasnt necessarily somebody who was going the whole about to be a Limb Movement he himself had necessarily experienced a lot of Police Violence or police a. Ation the past and felt as though he was in a Safe Community so now it is even though these times are clearly pointed out by him himself and in his own words he felt as though he was treated fairly by Police Officers or may have even gotten off from something that he might not have thought that he would have there still comes that point where you could lose your life you know theres always going to be that point where its going to be the wrong. I hate to say that i had to say that but its true its like that that can be brought the point that up perfectly its like hey you might not experience these kind of ills on a day to day basis that you hear other people talking about that your other people marching about but that doesnt mean im going to come around and affect you at some point absolutely and i think about something we all have to remember i couldnt agree with you more could not agree with you more all right everybody as we go to break remember that you can also watch. The new portable t. V. Is available. Again thats portable t. V. And want to check it out coming up our producer. Joins us to discuss the latest controversy concerning americas favorite pastime baseball and men trying to chavez will bring us the latest. Battle over 19 so you definitely want to stay tuned to watch it. Become a battleground in the u. S. Is right now my focus because its a very dangerous. Plan that was attempting to run the reactive beyond its operational limits. Just sort of puts a magnifying glass wheres the power in this country wheres it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of traditional. Power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real way. The struggle. The world is driven by shaped by one person. Who dares thinks. We dare to ask. The United States economy resembles to a large degree the economies of countries that the United States typically makes fun of you know the us or the United Nations will send aid and theyll send money to countries like say in africa for example not to pick on africa but it does happen where the money never gets distributed it just ends up the leaders of that particular country and then they become fabulously wealthy. The u. S. Supreme court is in the spotlight again and this time it has nothing to do with the Controversial Supreme Court justice boys to feel the seat left vacant by the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg nope this time the highest court in the land is making news for taking all one of americas favorite pastimes baseball. The Supreme Court recently been requests to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to increase wages for Minor League Players this could be a watershed moment for wage parity but it doesnt come without hurdles here to tell us more is our team Sports Correspondent said you know how welcome were doing. What were doing up this lawsuit by Minor League Baseball players was given the green light to go ahead and trial court even though the Supreme Court denied a request to take the case can you give us the cliff notes version about lawsuit its pretty basic when you drill down to it meaning that Minor League Baseball and 2014 decided they werent being paid enough and major League Baseball said yes you are thats the nuts and bolts if you want to dig a little bit deeper into it they were getting paid less than 7500. 00 a year to put that in perspective the poverty line in the u. S. Is 12760 dollars a year and some of these statistics you see on salaries on the menu League Baseball structure are shocking if youre a rookie or youre playing a short season 290. 00 a month i think they spend that money on gas so players decided they needed to have a better advocate and to actually make a livable wage 20. 00 b. Actually snuck in a little bill and some federal legislative action that is called the save americas pastime act and what that did is argue that they were Seasonal Workers they did not deserve to be paid a wage they would pay a yearly worker so this isnt a 6 Year Court Battle to get some sort of wage parity and mannerly baseball is still fighting paying a livable wage to arguably its farm system or this is where youre up and coming stars are coming out of and theyre like you know what youre seasonal we dont pay a much thats the round of it its interesting because you know weve heard over and over good news Horror Stories about how major League Baseball is kind of shown their face with their inability to support their 4 teams and now you have this kind of attempt to subtly disregard fair pay for these players who arent in the big league spotlight could be called up or spend their entire career there the league wants to know. Do you feel your teams from the Minor Leagues from basically small tone baseball is this common this shows a blatant middle finger disregard to your farm system which is essentially where youre getting every year your next crop of potential superstars or just players absolutely if you look at the fact that Minor League Baseball and major League Baseball they have their talks of falling apart to kind of form a new p. P. A. So essentially major League Baseball it would take over everything and there are 160. 00 farm team system it starts a single day goes up to aaa which is pretty much one step below the majors they would get a 40 teams now that is 40 teams with dozens of players personnel coaches staff that youre just telling you know what we dont care that you exist and the fact that you wont pay these people need a livable wage even minimum wage and i think the minimum wage when your average major League Baseball star that like 2019 makes 4000000. 00 you can barely pay them 15000. 00 and yet youre like you know what lets tighten the belt lets tighten the belt lets tighten the belt and youre telling these players we dont care about you and even players on twitter sometimes joke like a life of a minor league or my kitchen is in my bedroom at my 900 dollars apartment that i have maybe 50. 00 or i left its sad its disgusting and these are suppose they are you know some are heroes yet were like you know what you really dont matter. Do you think that kobe 1000 has an impact here is this lawsuit a result of kobe 1000 in the economic stress of that and what impact or is there an impact this has on it and has this lawsuit been brewing for a lot isnt brings us right 14 but i think over it exacerbated the issue you have the appalachian leave for example that is a 10 team squad owned by Minor League Baseball and major League Baseball major League Baseball says you know were going to make you now not really part of this Minor League System were going to make you independent baseball which is so arguably very fun to watch but now theyre saying you know youre going to be for the top 300. 00. 40 collegiate players in a wood bat Summer Season so now theyre even getting around paying them at the minor league a wage so koven 18 is ravished Minor League Baseball it shut down the season didnt play one at all compared to major League Baseball who played this year and a lot of teams economically are going to suffer players like that play for the Oakland Athletics they were told they were going to get paid period not even a salary not even any sort of site but for their season being canceled and youre going to see a lot of teams fold because of this and its going to ravage the landscape of baseball and thats because a lot of the Minor League Teams are where a lot of you know theyre in cities that dont see Big Major League clubs come in a lot of them and theyre sometimes the only baseball the only entertainment for those communities nearby who can afford to go pay for the big time 1200. 00 ticket to go see the Major League Team play what about other Minor League Teams got a little bit of time left but like the shell of the g. League in the n. B. A. Are they facing similar issues or are they being treated as far as wage and all of this they seem to have a little bit more of an equal footing not exactly equal obviously these are still their Developmental League but its a little bit higher and livable then Minor League Players the gili they have an elite prospect contract essentially and what that means you have to be a team you play for 5 months guess how much you get paid 125000. 00 for your little boy players that is beyond a little ill bet you dont even know for sure you know 2 for 3 at burger king. Has a Simple Program you cant you know 18 you cant play in a Junior Hockey league but these players a lot of the go on to play in the n. H. L. They even go on to play at the olympics so youre seeing that these leagues invest in their Minor Leagues or l. B. Is pretty much saying you know what fend for yourself all right well gee that thank you so much for coming on always a pleasure given the giving us that sports update on whats happening there. All right as we mentioned earlier u. S. President donald trump is back in the white house a policeman Walter Reed Medical Center on monday night to much fanfare and showboating and while the brand name in chief appears to be back in campaign. Mode blasting controversial tweets and videos left and right front and center it appears the coburg 19 budget is linked to the president and his inner circle continue to grow despite the president s cavalier attitude about group or to americas tradition as the latest. Fresh off his release from Walter Reed Hospital President Trump walked off marine one and all the stairs to the white house residence and then he did this and the president who was still contagious removed his mask and put it in this pocket and then saluted posing for pictures for a whole 2 minutes a white house staffer told her 1st standing right next to him even though hes supposed to be in isolation. Just like this as Police Brutality and Racial Injustice protests continue across the country video capturing a black Militia Group called the f. A. C. Armed with assault rifles body armor and tactic gear marching through the streets of lafayette louisiana more than 400. 00 armed demonstrators with the coalition seeking justice for trade ford pellerin a 31 year old black man who was fatally shot by Lafayette Police in august leaders for the group said that they also decided to go to the southern Louisiana City after seeing a Facebook Post allegedly from u. S. Representative clay higgins who represents the 3rd district stating that he would drop 10 of you where you stand the post since has been deleted the n. F. L. You see says that its goal is to help the black Community Stay safe and teach more black americans about their gun ownership rights and how to be responsible and while militias are not a new phenomenon in recent months they have gained increasing attention as they are taking part in more high profile demonstrations including black lives matter supporters and counter protests the United States though is facing increasing divide just weeks before the president ial election in november reporting in new york Trinity Chavez r. T. And that is our show for you to remember everyone in this world we would love to. But we are loved enough so i tell you all i love you i am tyrone winter of keep on watching those hawks out there another great day and night everybody. And it remains unclear who will be the occupant in the white house this january what can be easily predicted is the state of the economy for tens of millions of citizens it appears what is called the recovery is permanently dividing the country into house and have nots this seems to be acceptable for those who are the house. While the pandemic no certainly no board is just lying to nationalities. To close as a march we told them with the we dont look actually the whole world needs to be. Judged. Come in a crisis at least listen to the times we can do better we should be. Everyone is contributing each of their own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is creating the response has been much so many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that were in it together. World is driven by a dream shaped by one person. Thinks. We dare to ask. Is wrong with us as american citizens in a divine talk thats why. We are asked to die and i dont think. I would vote for a republican or trump i would vote for anyone who does not want and has half a brain defeat. The future yeah. Yeah my 2nd wife. She can handle it. She and i divorce because our trouble is elected president and i floated for her and she cant stand for. That when the most important election. In our history list of the months to go before the next president ial election is the atmosphere in the us now i. Want to the highest priority problems how will they vote which they do next. Just some of the questions we put to the american. Global chemical weapons watchdog confirms germanys findings that. The kremlin critic. As fighting rages with. Russias intelligence chief says mercenaries from terror groups are traveling to the. United states for. The season to factions once again. In new york starting with a shutdown of the citys schools. Following massive riots. The weekend is disputed parliamentary vote. In the Central Asian states