To the chorus demanding the Police Officers responsible for his death face justice. I keep finding myself taking that mr. Floyds death wasnt just a tragedy and it wasnt just a crime, it was a failure. It was our failure. Systemic racism is built into every level of our society and for 400 years black brown and Indigenous People of paid the price. Racism isnt just evil though it is, its dangerous and racism isnt just a moral issue, though it is, its a Public Health issue and the deathlo of mr. Fld like the death of so many black and brown people before him is an indictment of our failure of policymakers to fulfill our first and most important duty which is to protect the lives of the people that we serve. Black lives matter. We need to say it loud and often with strength and with purpose. If we truly mean it that we need to be very clear about why it is that so many whack an bromides are being c stolen and that meas we cant just point to systemic racism writ large. We have to talk about
Them in a minute. I wanted to start just by saying that we are gathering at a time where we all as country, as these leaders in particular, are leading us as we go through moments of deep pain and anguish for so Many Americans. That has come to the floor in the last few weeks. A product of t is years and decades and even really centuries of unequal and unfair treatments. E murders of george floyd, breyonea taylor, ahmed arbery and Many Americans to shed light on systemic racism that is pervasive in our country. Black people are not safe here not when they go out for a job, not when they go out to church, not even when they stay in their own home and they are too often killed at the hands of police. Right now, our country is dealing with two diseases. One of them dozens of vaccines are on trial, medical professionals are working around the clock. And it is a global effort to become a common enemy. And still so many people are suffering and dying. For the other its a disease thats riddle
Weekend. We starteddown early. We come all the way back as we look forward to a nation that is rebuilding and an economy reopening. Plus the next hot tech stocks, folks that are absolutely rocking. Well tell you what they are and how much more potential they have. All that and so much more on making money. Charles while we await the White House Press briefing protests are happening in new york city where businesses are trying to clean up from overnight riots, bracing against further looting. Fox businesss Kristina Partsinevelos is at union square where the protests are underway. Kristina. Reporter charles, im on the west side of union square and this is the sixth day where you have businesses awakening to just destroyed property. Im standing in front of a reebok store. Theyre putting wooden planks all around on plywood. The planks need to be 10 feet. What happened yesterday on several storefronts, i dont think we can call them protesters, they literally yanked down the plywood and brok
An awesome day i wanted to get with you first so thanks so much. Youre very welcome look forward to talking in the future. David, well see you later. Thanks for that. Good morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt coming to you live from separate locations. Interesting price, but not dramatic, another alltime high on the ndx for a second day. S p really about 100 points from going green for the year vix below 25 the 10year yielding 0. 8 very busy morning in terms of critical levels, morgan. Absolutely. I think the headline numbers are milestones you put out there, put night focus in terms of how swift the selloff was and plunged into a bear market and now how swift this rebound, this rally weve seen in recent weeks, has been as well. That being said, there is a lot and i feel like we say this every day, but so much for the market to digest right now, whether the ecb and the Bond Buying Program announced this morning, whether the initial jobl
thank you. congress returned from a two-week recess, just in tim for the jim jordan showed to hit the road house judiciary committee le by ohio congressman jim jordan arrived in new york city today with a hearing that they calle victims of violent crimes in manhattan. the hearing was not to propose or advance any republica policy to combat violent crime in manhattan, the purpose of the hearing was to examine how it manhattan district attorney alvin bragg pro crime, ant victim collett - and dangerous community for ne york city residents. by attempting to undermine the new york prosecutor who charge donald trump with 34 felonies, jim jordan is making it clea that the victim that he trul cares about is donald trump. jim jordan is all in on th trump defense fund raising grift. he was pitching republican donors on his tax against th district attorney bragg in tennessee last week. and thankfully, for the quote, hard earned money. in tennessee, last week, day after 39 year old child