there be a rejection of wanting to get involved in foreign affairs? it s hard to wrap my mind around it other than what you said, if they believe in the ideology of the communist cuban regime? you know, there is no good explanation. explain it, i think it s sad that the united states has left the cuban people, essentially abandoned them. i have spoken to the administration about this, about my feelings about it and about how, you know, historic live the united states has been a beacon for freedom, not just in this hemisphere but across the world. you know, we have to think deeply about who we are it and who we are going to be what happened is our identity. we will have people suffering 9t what we have here in this country, it s very sad and i think a failure of american leadership. pete: very well said. mr. mayor, congratulations on your re-election on election day 2021. and you made a pledge as well
drugs. which just, you know, you have to ask the question, is that part of why we saw such incredible loss of life? obviously, this was a hectic, chaotic situation where there were a mass of humanity crushing into each other and that can certainly lead to the loss of life and fatalities. there were many, many injuries that were a direct result of that, but i think the question that probably a lot of us have right now is were these injections, alleged situation happening, could that have also contributed to the deaths of so many people at an incident like this? one of the other things i think was important what we learned from this press conference was that this isn t the first time this particular festival, the astro world festival in houston, has had problems. there were incidents with people jumping over gates, where there was chaos at incidents in the
that you are going to take your entire salary in bitcoin. i m a huge fan. i love that idea. how does that work? does the city of miami have bitcoin and they will pay you in that? talk to me about it. we use a third party vendor that converts the fiat, the dollar eequivalencey of my salary and gives me directly bitcoin. we had our chief innovation officer test it out a couple weeks ago and it s another way for us to be what i call the bitcoin capital of the world. when you have see places like china banning bitcoin and banning bitcoin mining. you know that the united states has a way to be more innovative and support a store value that s not manipulated that s not subject to the ridiculous overspendings by government or manipulations of currency that we see throughout the world which creates dramatic inflation like we are seeing right now at the pump. so, the beauty of bitcoin is you put it in an asset that can grow
park. so perhaps the plans were inadequate. perhaps they were good. but they weren t followed. perhaps it was something else entirely. the families of those who died and everybody affected deserve answers as to what took place last night and that s why i m calling for an objective, independent investigation as to what went on and how it could have been prevented or how, or if this was a particular situation that was simply out of everybody s hands. and i have directed county agencies to, as soon as we get that underway, cooperate and i expect and hope the same for everybody else involved. as you all are aware, there was a similar incident in 2019 with astro world. there was a breaching of