The post on facebook or twitter. If you want to send a text include your name and city 202 7488003 is the text number and we will be reading those later in our live coverage from miami. Joining us now the author of unfollow an mri leaving the westborough active Baptist Church burka where did you grow up and how quex. I grew up in kansas at the westborough Baptist Church started by my grandfather and almost my entire extended family at westborough we had a normal life in some ways. Public school, video games, made cookies with my parents with all wonderful memories but then our lives were organized around a picketing ministry from the age of five i would protest gay people originally and then from there to everyone outside of the church was headed for hell and we had a duty to go with them of the consequences of their sins and our whole lives were organized around the ministry. Host how does that begin if you talk about this loving family that you have and a normal childhood when did th
the world. when we look at where we are economically and we are a stronger economically we have been in history. steve: historic. best in the world. maybe in their world but not in the real world it is the reality this labor day weekend joe biden america is working. yes it is true the unemployment rate is low but the main reason the rate is low because so many americans stopped looking for work just this week we saw the latest figures for job openings way ahead of expectation nearly an all-time record spinning this with good news people are hiring. no. they cannot find people to do the work one of the reasons why we have runaway inflation. look at this we keep focusing on this because it is so important the labor participation rate is still the lowest outside of the pandemic shut down for 45 years is just over 60 percent that means 40 percent of americans of working age are not working. that s not just an economic disaster but social disaster study after study has shown hav
the world. when we look at where we are economically and we are a stronger economically we have been in history. steve: historic. best in the world. maybe in their world but not in the real world it is the reality this labor day weekend joe biden america is working. yes it is true the unemployment rate is low but the main reason the rate is low because so many americans stopped looking for work just this week we saw the latest figures for job openings way ahead of expectation nearly an all-time record spinning this with good news people are hiring. no. they cannot find people to do the work one of the reasons why we have runaway inflation. look at this we keep focusing on this because it is so important the labor participation rate is still the lowest outside of the pandemic shut down for 45 years is just over 60 percent that means 40 percent of americans of working age are not working. that s not just an economic disaster but social disaster study after study has shown hav
Opportunity to stand up and fight for the values that we know to be absolutely absolutely fundamental to american democracy. Ms. Brawner representative elect, thank you very much for talking to cspan. Rep. Elect jayapal thank you so much. General jack bergman. You are here for orientation week. How has it been going . Great meeting all of the staffers who will be doing all the organizational work. Talk about your military career. When did you begin it and talk about moving through the ranks . I joined thean marine corps through an officer flightte program, did training and flew helicopters in vietnam and then got out from active duty, but i stayed in the reserves. While i was a reservist for the 1880s and 1990s, i flew airplanes for Northwest Airlines and started a couple of Small Businesses in the medical equipment arena. Byoved up through the ranks just doing what good marines and other Service People do, taking on tough missions and getting them done. You were commander of the marin
Advantage to trump who has been touting his rising poll numbers. The polls have been amazing. Rasmussen 3 points up nationwide. We are leading in ohio. We are leading in iowa. We are leading in florida. We are leading in new hampshire. We are leading all over the place. Its a great honor. Melania trump giving us a glimpse in theish awe see sh pos will pass on as first lady talking about Cyber Bullying. Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough especially for children and teenagers. Donald trump praising his wife for her performance. This may not be the last we hear from melania. Last week trump said she will give two or three more speeches before election day. Is it tlae more . Two to three more. She is going to be busy. The Clinton Campaign as hundreds more deleted emails are released. Key swing states hoping to distract from the growing fbi investigation. We have the latest. Do you think she can distract people from all of this . Thats going to be a hard thing to do with all of t