Text us with your first name, city and state, to 202 7488003. You can also post your comments with a tweet at tweet,. Cspanwj, or facebook. Com nancy pelosi spoke to reporters after the times noted that she regained the gavel and became the first person in 60 years to return a speaker after losing the majority. Here she is. [video clip] i wish you could have seen the nominations and acceptance speeches. Then you could have seen the Common Thread, the unity of our caucus. The values and the vision, the knowledge of our subjects on the Strategic Thinking. You hear me talk about that all the time. Theof it is connected to hopes and aspirations of americans and working families. That is what unifies us. Im honored and was emotional earlier because of some of the things that were said in nomination, but also listening to the other nominations as well , not only to the vision but the depth of the commitment, the values of our caucus. Im thrilled, im excited, i to be working with the new pres
Thank you for joining us for what i think is going to be a very interesting discussion. Let me thank the workers that have participated in that video and our panelists. Youre going to hear from them in a few moments. I dont have to tell anybody we live in crazy times. We are in the midst of this terrible pandemic. So many people have lost their jobs and income. We are worried about climate change, systemic racism. We are worried about so many things. Tonight, we are going to be asking, how does this happen . In the richest country in the history of the world, half the people are living paychecktopaycheck. Well the billionaires are doing well. Does that make sense . How does it happen in our great country, we have millions of workers earning starvation wages. You just heard that on the video. You cant make it on 10 an hour. You cant pay your rent. You cant feed your kids or take care of yourself. How does it happen that the United States of america, our nation, is the only major country
Announcer Senate Democrats also spoke to reporters about the Supreme Court vacancy, expressing their opposition to moving forward with the confirmation before the november elections. This is 20 minutes. Sen. Schumer okay, whoa [indiscernible] good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. I am proud to be joined by my , dickgues in our caucus durbin and patty murray. There, thousands have come to the steps of the highest court to pay tribute to justice ginsburg. Is was an amazing lady and in a male dominated world of legal giants. She was smarter than they were, more persistent, and she accomplished much more than they did. I admire her. I come from her neighborhood. She did so much in our neighborhood. We both went to James Madison high school, brooklyn, new york. So many have paid tribute to come to the steps of the highest to justicey tribute ginsburg. My Senate Colleagues have paid tribute as well, but in words only. Empty words, because their actions havent. Republican major
Again, i feel like america was great, and it is no longer great. Huge fightnd i am a and supporter. I feel like there is so much unrest, and it needs to be happening in these communities because there is so much Police Brutality happening, and it frightens me and we have got to take down the establishment. Host when you say take out the establishment, what exactly does that mean . Caller defunding the police, starting from scratch, getting rid of all of these establishments that promote Police Brutality and anarchy and hatred toward black people. We have got to rip it down. Protests inou had overland park, kansas or kansas city . Caller we have. We have. They have not been tearing down the city like some of the other but there have been, and police have gotten involved, and it is just it is a problem that needs fixing, and i think the only way to fix it is to dismantle the entire police department. Host did you watch all four nights of the democrats and all four nights of the republica
Defund the police. Thats what im hearing from democrats all across america. This comes on the heels of a previous battle cry abolish ice. Thats what the democrats are calling for today. Leading democrats, radical left wing lawmakers like alexandria ocasiocortez are pushing these very dangerous ideas. Let me say it again, liberal democrats all across the country are asking all of us to defund Law Enforcement in america. Mr. President , if we did that, if we did that crime would go through the roof. School safety would cease to exist. The most vulnerable in our society would have no one to turn to or call in case of emergency. Yet, democratic mayors across the country seem to be on board. Last week the democrat mayor of los angeles said he plans to slash the l. A. Police departments budget. New york city blare deblasio has vowed to cut funding for the new york Police Department. The Minneapolis City Council announced sunday it would vote to disband, disband the citys Police Department an