Democracy and free markets bring prosperity and many people in the West who brought that message in Europe in the ninety's really truly honestly sincerely believe that and I think that the evidence including you know the European Bank for Reconstruction development they struggled for a long time they saw things were going to go much better than they did and you know this latest report actually you know they they feel real I think for the way things have gone and they're talking about the political ramifications of increasing inequality in the region and they're very concerned about the rise of the right wing the underlying thought for a lot of these technocrats who Super has a transition was that capitalism should be natural about it and that this Communist thing was an artificial imposition from outside take that away and things will naturally just like plants spring absolutely Oh yeah and you know I was in Bulgaria and travel in your effort in the ninety's and you know tent that there was corruption and that there was you know just outright theft of resources otherwise would have been distributed or equitably to the populations of essentially people would argue that well that's a proverb Aaron era of capitalism there has to be an initial distribution of wealth and then eventually markets sort of self-regulating equilibrium and you'll have good growth that is equitably distributed and so on and so forth but capitalism you know requires a fair amount of state regulation and certainly requires strong institutions to protect private property and it doesn't you know left to its own devices it's actually quite a brutal and I think you have mafia you know the profit incentive force and all sorts of ways and one of the stories in the book is about organized crime and trafficking of children which you know is also a market supply and demand the other organs Yeah. That's the most horrible thing about it they were there was really very shocking distressing organ harvesting carry an orphanage Yeah they were Italian couples who had children if you believe the reports could essentially place orders for organs and you know some kind of Albanian again this was this is a news report that I read at the time there were criminal underworld into camps that were basically arranging for the organs of Bulgarian orphans to be sold in the West and I don't think any capitalists would advocate for that kind of market obviously but without a street without strong institutions that's what you know can happen and I think that the big thing that's important to realize in the Eastern Europe is that the Communists There's a joke that said you know everything that communists told us about communism was wrong but everything the communists told us about capitalism rights and a lot of these people grew up believing that capitalism was an immoral system where people who were willing to lie and cheat and steal in jail would win and now it was while that's how the Communist justified all of the oppression of oppressive measures associated with the communist state so when capitalism can email you had these populations of people who understood that that's what capitalism was capitalism would be immoral and they looked around and they saw that the most immoral people were making the most money and they thought Ok this is how capitalism works you know there was very little in the way of kind of local control from the point of view of Western institutions like the I and after the World Bank or the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development they wanted to dismantle the communist quickly as possible because they were afraid of course of resurgent left movements that with the national eyes state assets and then the cold war wouldn't be over so it was. The moment an opportunity where the West get it done what it did in Germany after World War 2 or in Japan and try to rebuild these countries and make sure that the strong democracy. And they didn't well of course they did those things at the end of World War 2 because they're afraid of communists throughout. Without the Communist threat they're going to act in their worst impulses you know with the dismantling of the welfare state and a lot of Western Europe and what little one we had here without the threat of communism you know just let it rip exactly I mean I also think that you know the Marshall plan especially in Germany was a response to the failures of the Treaty of Versailles there was an understanding that you could not just read. Economics but you're absolutely right that threat of communism a threat. Or even democratic socialism if you like that I am certainly there that you had to make concessions for the workers you had to expand the social safety net you had to have things like the New Deal in order to save the workers revolution and I do think there's a way in which the history of the 20th century was profoundly shaped by communist ideals even in the West where we were completely 100 percent communist people embraced policies of redistribution precisely to prevent the kind of revolutionary caste happening in Russia in after $97.00 and then the fear of communist domination in Eastern Europe opposite world or you write about the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall from our from. West Berlin toward Berlin yes yes. Yes it's. Still cause of Leningrad. But it was all triumphalism and yeah there is no sense of what. Last. November 89.0 in East Germany sure the 89 percent of the population supporters from Paris formed the marketer socialism 5 percent wanted capitalism yet in the completely rolled over popular opinion in the name of democracy in in 40 years it was you know for complete. The sense of war in East Germany were one of the Germans think about what happened today and maybe maybe not yet and that's something that for me it was really profound the personal because I've been doing most of my ethnographic work down in the. Earth the majority of my career I've worked. For her in area and then I had the opportunity to live in serve any preparation years and I spent some time in the former a lot of sermons about the transition process and it was devastating and certainly remarkable how many ordinary people I could just ask a question about like you know what were the into schools in your town for a night and they could cite every single state owned enterprise and enterprise and how many employees had been employed there prior to 89 there was a great sense of loss in terms of the West kind of carpetbagging East and selling are basically taking up buying all of the valuable industrial enterprise and then selling are selling down all those that were competing with Western. Pensions in between eastern and western Germany have not been equalized the people who spent their entire working years under the old. Pension wages are much higher in the West so you have a lot of out migration of young people from eastern Germany into western Germany so it's a very palpable feeling of law still in the. I mean I know. Germans will say no we don't want to go back to communism the way that it was nobody loved tonic or the I mean everybody is quite aware that it was nobody wants a while back but many of them and certainly many German interactions that I have spoken to and a lot of ordinary Germans will say there could have been a different way we didn't need to take on this whole package of western capitalism we could have had a more sort of democratic socialist model I mean of course compared to next Germany is pretty democratic. But compared to other countries they can you know and I think it's important to remember that if you look at like do check in before the Prague Spring or even in the Soviet Union in the many of many people in the Communist Party themselves themselves reformers they understood that they were fundamental problems with the communist system and they wanted to fix them and I think a lot of these Germans who wanted to fix the deficiencies of German economy isn't and then as you point out boy they reintegration agreement signed and by October serve as 1990. 2 exist as a country and people really felt that in a profound way as a law. We just heard the 1st part of my interview with Kristen Ghodsee and a professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania her book Red hangover is just out from Duke University Press. T.V.'s a g.p.s. The in Berkeley K.F.C.'s in Fresno and the web to keep the s. I dot org My name is Doug Henwood in the program was behind the news that got from his little break. Some of the 1st member of the string quartet number 6 by Dmitri Shostakovich a composer who embodied all the contradictions of homo So if you had to guess is performed by the quartet another can have a my interview with Christian God author of Red hangover just out from Duke University Press. You wrote about the historians battle in Germany some years ago in which there is no target to someone who got it going but they're trying to make an equivalence between Stalin and Hitler and serve the goo I was the equivalent of the Holocaust that of course with a fight with grated and have logical implications what were you thinking as the only logical implications of that attempted equivalence Yeah well I mean you know I think no point was that class murder rape murder how he phrased it right so that Hitler's policies were somehow his mind in reasonable reaction to bolster their class politics the New York Times published an op ed the other day of the universe through the the Russian Revolution as if there had been no one and there would be no Hitler and that certainly I think many people with would argue that yes that the era but I mean certainly if you think about the Reichstag fire right allows declare Russia line you know really. Our. Public. Fear of communism right that Russia was supposed to love the German Bolsheviks our revolution and. Our So you know it's a complicated history I think that in Germany very very very good because of course there were many in the biomarker Republic who were very much opposed to the rise of Hitler and Nazi and many Americans don't realize that the 1st. Camp prisoners in sermon e. Were communists some of them elected officials in the bush so there was a nasty purge in fact one of the greatest story that I heard of a young man in eastern Germany today grandfather and his great uncle had been communists. In airport during of I am a republic and as Hitler was consolidating power there wasn't a big here that there was going to be a communist person so many communists were thinking about the Soviet Union and many German communists in fact did. But his great uncle believes that the German Communists had date in Germany and cited Hitler because somebody had a letter from the inside and his grandfather decided to flee into the Soviet Union and of course the great uncle was killed in a concentration camp by Hitler and the Nazis and his grandfather survived in the so the union eventually came that you are and lived and had grandson and so on and so forth and the question that this young man asked is you know what is the right decision should we have if more people had left more people so I had stayed would they have been able to prevent Hitler or was his grandfather made the right decision because they were that they were all going to get wiped out so I think there's you know that it's and many young German East Germans who talk to his German who have grandparents or great grandparents who were communists during the Weimar period are very proud of that here and very proud of that heritage so this is a debate that's very very in Germany how do you make the equivalence between Stalinism and Hitler Hitler is and which is often called. The interest of the even hunted Iran's herself in her book that outlines. Serious and does not make that equivalence between the Nazis and Soviets you know. Lately different model there but for territory and but they're very different in her mind but today those 2 ideologies collapse and I think that I argue in the book for emperor the political purposes that have very little to do with the actual history of the which is a very complicated history depending on where you are. Are in Europe at the time we were supposed to riches one star before he went on like Hitler with Stalin you're at least got the idea who's betrayed something. Frankly But the you know the. North Koreans were trying to put that equivalence tumors to argue against any kind of leftist politics today Oh absolutely yeah and what's so interesting about the her starter state of course at that you know how her mother and other prominent western German intellectuals completely managed to get German West German at the time public opinion let a line again. And this idea that there was an equivalence between Communism and Nazism It's only after the collapse of the Soviet Union and communism in Eastern Europe that that that narrative of emerging again and I think that that again the left the narrative serves cunt temporary political purposes and you know that it's almost a kind of technical debate when you go back and you look at history which dictator was more brutal and people on the right wanted to be about the numbers of people killed under one system and the other obviously Iran had a completely different idea of you know totalitarian forms of government and how they operate well they're comparable or not but I think interesting it's again you know Fox News or you know some of these right wing websites and blogs you know. As if it's never been questioned as if there was never a debate about it. And why going back and revisit the historical Strait in Germany in the late eighty's how very the history of this debate is and I think that that's something that like contemporary American readers would really benefit from understanding you know that the deep history of this discussion rather than. Sort of under the you know excepting at face value and equivalence that has a very political particular political agenda today why do you think so much of the reaction to the dislocations Far East has been to turn to the far right more why are the neo nazi party so popular in Germany Poland Hungary what's up well I think it's an absolute duration on the part of ordinary people with neoliberal capitalism in Eastern Europe and the way that it's implemented they're really angry I mean obviously at the e.u. But they're angry more broadly the whole global calculus which their countries have been really to value fall for a little while and the Soviet Union and very clearly Russia and so there's a desire for some kind of alternative and I don't and I don't think that that's alternatives I mean it's starting to appear in these countries but it's been so devalued for so long that people are too risky in suggests an alternative and let's face it people in eastern Germany aren't going to you know radical Islamic. Religion may not be the best place for them to express their frustration with capitalism so they're looking for political ideologies and here is where they store straight discussion is really important because communism and Nazism are equivalent is Stalinism Stalin and Hitler are clearly right and you have to. You know sadly has whether they're going to go to the far right or the far left in you around the world this incredible polarization that starts to happen in democracies and if we look at the same Republic insert many as an example it's at that moment of polarization that democracy really tense now your an economic elite in one of these countries that are experiencing this kind of polarization and nonsense and. For far right politics and far left parties are the same when you're going to choose the one that's in a protect your property the best and so what I fear about this incredible in. The left and right is that it's actually justifying the resurgence of the right for many people just you know saying you know your butt but why. A lot of people you know in the eastern part of Europe why is that not taking a more you know contemporary or free form but if you actually look at some of the powers that are that are under the rubric of these right in power party some of them are actually quite leftwing they're just not using the language of the left in the same way and part of that has to do with racism because the left generally tends to be internationalist and inclusive of foreigners and immigrants and ethnic and religious others for a day of reasons countries like Poland and Hungary and Germany are not tolerant of that kind of increase in either the left encourages although I do think it's important to recognize that at least in Germany the Left Party does have a constituency and there are many people who vote for dealing with the left in interment So it's complicated but you know the country that I know the bad. Area and the right wing party there attack after attack if you actually look at their political platform you know other than there's a phobia and the sort of religious sort of ethno national glorification of you know and Bulgarian identity that the actual platform their political and economic agenda is very very left and so I think what happens in these countries is that there's this weird blurring as a left and right so that you kind of take it from the left things that you want but you don't call it the left. Because politically and you know I don't know if this is true in the United States I might argue that it is politically it's easier for people to be nationalists these days and it is for them to be leftists left politics require a kind of you know you focus your frustration on the actual economics that is sometimes very hard to understand that the operations of capitalism and right part of. The immigrants are in the women or in the minority that are taking your jobs away and for many people that's an easier message. And that's why people like you know in Germany the alternative project during. The party or the Peace and Justice Party in Poland they use that language to mobilize people in support of what are kind of redistributive policies but only in a very narrow narrow. Also with a kind of partnership or have to take on elites want to further Yeah exactly you can believe elites are very quick to get on board with National. Their economic interests are threatened whereas leftist politics are always going to be an tightly in eloquently right they're always going to be about some kind of redistribution and. Really requires redistribution right if you can especially if you have frustrated working class people it's so much easier to distract them with talk about building a while or talk about those immigrants who are taking our jobs our you know challenging our civilization our religion or ethnic identity taking our country away whatever let me this different for us in different places but that that's so easy and it's the it's based on fear it's very immediate popular and populist right in the right populous and we know from history that it's serious actors it's a very difficult situation because as. Momentous and it becomes harder to rein in the debate and talk about like the history of these ideas are or why it is that people are sort of being hoodwinked by their leaders you know I'm certain through and you know it's a self telling there is no room for simple life everything is Twitter trolls and you know vitriol and outrageous and nobody sitting down to actually have a discussion about our democracy or the future of the world that we're living at and the real problems. And economic inequality and you know other issues that are very pressing sounding it. Big with questions also of Redhill over from Duke University Press. Of the book you take on the Hersey of questioning the sanctity of liberal democracy parliamentary democracy go way back but no person seems to have been intensified since 989 the use of democracy as a ploy to sell capitalism and people are finally saying there was a real big switch operation how should we think about democracy in this current environment. Absolutely I mean and I and my answer is we really need to spend a lot of time thinking about tomorrow. So that last chapter is you know. Observing Nations about people who are really starting to question whether democracy and capitalism are compatible you know there was an idea particularly ascendant in the 1990 s. That democracy and capitalism together were going to bring prosperity to the world and you know all boats. And that didn't turn out and he came back what we've Thomas Piketty his work is really important here he said capitalism Ashley increases inequality in the long run rather than decreasing inequality it was interesting post-war blip and of course as you pointed out in our interview and that might have to do with the communists and. The threat that communism posed to force the west and western capitalist countries to be distributed a little bit more and then once the threat was taken away 9 or 91 suddenly we could give up on democracy I was at a talk at the University Pennsylvania a couple of months ago with a guy called Thomas Carothers who is at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who was a democracy promoter he does. Promotion and he was you know very openly saying that yes democracy in the United States is a poor and policy tool and you export it and it serves American foreign policy interests and it didn't for a long time now that doesn't mean that a lot of people didn't really believe that it was the best form of government as was better than all others but once it becomes a kind of cudgel that the United States can make it over the head of countries that really want to dominate they're not democratic and then it's about the ideals of democracy and it's more about like you do what we say or else you're not democratic and therefore you don't have a legitimate government reaching in your vehicle even in the whole policy of regime change based on this and that you need to have a democracy so I think it's important to say. Think about what. Democracy if it's about empowering people on the one hand politically and on the 2nd hand about creating conditions social and economic growth or social and economic social economic rights of the majority of the population unfortunately at least in the way that you know history on an almost 30 years I think the ideal democracy and departed from the practice because of this weird conflation with capitalism so that capitalist free market goals have freedom of the market and freedom of choice have to. Like that ability to live a free life in an open and Dana Paul and you know more socially just polity so that to me has come to the polity. You know libertarians are going back to. Confront response or the present and people ready for the Cato Institute or Peter Till are very explicit in saying that democracy and liberty are different things are and they were they mean by a liberty is really the freedom for rich people who do support Right exactly and that's where I think. You know if you go back in any remark you know. That capitalism you know. Errantly and equal it creates this inequality. Resource the people who start with the most money and it never really can correct for that with and without. Social control over the market and that social control should be a democratic state I mean and that's why libertarians are totally opposed to the state because they understand that one of the roles is to even the playing field right under the economy so that the people who start with the most don't. Well it's also supposed to enforce contract. Please lika Yeah probably Right right I mean of course it's got to do that well but but but the problem with contemporary discourse around you know liberty and democracy being 2 different things democracy doesn't guarantee liberty because democracy and market regulation it can mean taxation it can a lot of things that the rich areas are opposed to that idea of like enforcing property rights for instance I mean that's not necessarily help certainly to people who have property more but people who even people who have a little bit of property are protected by those rights but the kind of thing like you know tax cuts for the billionaire doesn't help ordinary people probably right so kind of universal in a sense as our criminal law breaker or even military defense I mean different libertarians have different views on how much you need to have and then of course there are left libertarians are anarchists and are also are opposed for very different reasons in again political theory and political philosophy around the role of the state is a complicated field and I feel like we should be having I mean I think this is probably just pious guy that we should be having an informed public discussion about these things given the current impasse that we're in politically around the world that it's evolving to increase polarization and you know it's real on both sides and I think that if we're going to prevent a dissolution we need to start having conversations with each other and you know I was hoping in my own very small way that this book would be a way to open that conversation you know often seems like these are the problems of communism or that we're talking about those secret police or consumer shortages. You know central central facts of the system where all the problems of companies democracies like poverty the commodification of everything seems like one issues or imperfections with. Frank. Yeah I mean you know Joe. Right so eloquently about this and her part of the communist arise and I feel like this wonderful argument that the history of capitalism is dynamic and the history of communism or socialism is very fixed and static on the silent era and yeah I mean you can talk about like slavery can talk about the genocide of Native Americans you can talk about all sorts of really negative you know organ black market organ harvesting and all the negative things that happen under capitalism financial crime and corruption and all those things and they're just yeah they're just blemishes they're not you know fundamental laws of where somehow you know especially a particular measure of how life was in the Eastern Bloc under communism it's. That it's always going to be that way no matter you know what time or what culture or what historical period it's always going to be problems I mean it's and I think probably. Because of course we know that there is incredible diversity. And they are operating very differently and they had various levels varying levels of you know direct to pressure me like you know was open compared to a place like many Soviet Union. So I think we need to have a little bit of nuance there but the other thing that I want to say that it's really important is that you talk to some of the right wing kind of cold warriors in this country and in the same breath they will tell you that communism was a totally ineffectual political and economic system that would have collapsed under its own weight and contradictions and then turn around and say But we need to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars and have CIA operatives running around the world in a sewer that communism didn't spread so we had to throw all of these resources against the Eastern bloc during the Cold War But actually it would have fallen down by itself anyway. And it seems to me that that's a little bit of a contradiction. And very few people actually that contradiction which is. Exactly how can you justify some of the you know not so pleasant things that the United States did during the Cold War by saying we were fighting a political and economic system that was going to fall anyway it was just a matter of time because you know consumers that they didn't have and you know they didn't they had these travel restrictions and nobody was working in their economy or inefficient so I just think that it's worth pointing out sometimes contradictions prattle question you have a fantasy obligation for asylum in Germany. Some probably figure cracked out of the u.s. And critical 3rd period. And one of the things held against you were certain you're a Democrat are a lot of Democrats who participate in all kinds of heart of the American system over the last decades so are you still Democrat you know I am definitely still a Democrat I'm on the left of the Democratic Party for sure but you know I wrote that story because where I was living in eastern Germany there were many professors who after in East Germany university after 989 lost their jobs and replaced by Westerners just for that the fact that they had never said that. And some of those people were and now you know I have no idea what a contact whatsoever they were members of the party which you had to be in order to be a university press professor during that time so I suddenly realized that one day. My party affiliation might be held against me and you know I think I realize that you know I would be trying to convince you know and to strengthen. I mean I might be sitting in you know an asylum somewhere in there for trying to describe you know why I continue. In America less why I continue. In the system then be an ember of this party when I see things going the way that they were going I think it's a question that we all have to ask ourselves you know it's not an easy question and it's it's a difficult time to think about political allegiances given that things are getting so rapidly there was a certain of my interview with Christian college professor of Russian East European Studies at University of Pennsylvania her book read hangovers just out from Duke University Press it's really highly readable and fascinating throughout. That from the 1st movement of Shostakovich a string quartet number 9 performer the soaring quartet to last week but. It. Was. Feet. Feel. Good. Enough for this is and I have Pearl for reading and you are listening to a r.n. Community radio Elvis around mountain. 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Thanks for joining me for another real discovery I'm Christian drier a month from make Sudan's dot com There are some people who seem to float through life just getting by never really sure what their next step will be but an easy get the Africa down one aim was young woman gets a sudden wake up call and it causes her to get up and do something for a change is against the African stars Mackenzie Davis is a struggling musician who can't seem to get her life together once a part of a successful do well is he hasn't done much of anything since her sister or Ginia played by Carrie Kuhn decided to call it quits now to make things worse she just learned about her ex and gauge men on social media and she's determined to do something about it that's out on a mission to get across town in Crash the engagement party no matter what it takes is adventure is random and quirky and often strangely action packed. 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The lowdown on science is produced by L.D.L.'s Media Lab in partnership with the University of California Irvine science communication and point 3. On the web. Or. Twitter f l o h d o w n. Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch supply of America's poor democratic principle of much already rule i.e. The will of the people with their plutocratic principle of invaluable property rights also known as Rule by the wealthy minority their notion is that we the people cannot be allowed to tax the riches of the owner class nor set rules on how they treat workers consumers and a whole to set themselves up as the. 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Saying the coconspirators attack on our democratic rights has already regard country's economic and political rules so the rich for the rich can now grab ever more of our wealth and power sharing America's commitment to the common good and creating a sandwich level of inequality in our land to learn more go to the watchdog group Center for Media and Democracy there at expos. Dot org slash co. This is the community calendar Thursday June the 28th they'll be a field trip to Mt Lassen National Parks paradise met. By the California native plants. Enjoy cooler weather plus beautiful wild flowers glass and park passes required and dogs are not allowed on park trails in water and a lunch to carpool please meet at 7 30 am at the Manchester mall parking lot nearest Chase Bank for more and for. Call John Springer at 917-0567. The 10 tabulations and Bell on some concert will be taking place Thursday June the 28th 7 pm at St James Lutheran Church in Redding located at 2500 just if you drive for any questions call 2754770. The North Valley Art league's car house museum member so for the month of June is at their 40 or so Road location in reading gallery hours are 11 am to 4 pm to see through Saturdays for any questions please call 243-1023 or 547-5954. The city of Shasta Lake sponsors Friday nights in the park and this Friday June 29th at 6 pm the music will be that of the California Cowboys will be art and produce by local folks available for sale bring lawn chairs or a blanket and sit back and relax or get up and dance for a fun family friendly evening questions call to 757497. In Weaverville this weekend the trinity alps Performing Arts Center invites you to enjoy their production of Mary Poppins for all particulars please call 739-3897. And you can enjoy the world's largest dinosaurs displayed as a major exhibition at readings Turtle Bay This was organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York and our area is quite fortunate to have this exhibition or any questions about days and hours please call 242-3117. A Blackberry blossom farm and will be performing at St James Lutheran Church 2500 she asks if you drive in reading as a part of the old time fiddlers concert and open mic on Sunday July the 1st at 2 pm. This is when they can hear in community counter Precentor notices in at least 2 weeks in advance to Shane and k.k. Are in Org again s h any any and. Shakier and dot org include a number of questions can be addressed regarding your announcement. 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June in the northern hemisphere that means very nearly the longest day of the year which in turn means it's time for the on the long only dish and the international Americana Music Show presented. By me. Full of tracks all of them over 6 minutes long and this year one of them is over 90 minutes so join me if you can of the usual time for vocally truly epic edition of the international Americana Music Show. And international. 9 am on Tuesday morning. In breathtakingly beautiful passion just like in musical acts these are all words of an expression of how people feel after experiencing an evening out. By dancers. You too can see the beauty of the dance and hear the musical stylings brought in a live concert by flamenco dancer 20 years singer Jose Marino and guitarist Pedro Cortez. Redding School of the arts beginning of it pm Friday June 29th to get tickets for this June 29th culture go to brown paper tickets dot com that's right on paper ticket com and type in the word Shari'a. 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Players to take a name during the national anthem speak with one of the most vocal activists in the league. Michael Bennett the new things that make people uncomfortable. to Democracy Now Democracy Now Dot poor of the war and peace report I mean a good man Defense Secretary James Mattis the u.s. Preparing to imprison immigrants including children 9 to military base. Firm they're all that. Good follower force. But I cannot confirm. Every foreign help will provide whatever or the Department of Homeland Security or our to house. The people that. We all work that out. Week by week the numbers are dynamic so we'll have. More of our logistics for department hammered home charity This comes as the Customs and Border Protection Commissioner has announced immigration authorities will temporarily stop prosecuting immigrant adults with children for crossing a border. Commissioner Kevin Macallan also said his agency and the Justice Department should reach a policy quote where I Dulce who bring their kids across the border who violate our laws and risk their lives at the border can be prosecuted without an extended separation from their children unquote more than 2000 children remain separated from their parents.