Pepper spray rubber bullets and tear gas on peaceful crowds. In order for nonviolence to work your opponent must have a conscience Stokely Carmichael warned and if your opponent is bereft of a conscience and state violence is an evitable a met with counterviolence tyranny takes the place of reform the danger of widespread sectarian violence in america is now very real. Joining me to discuss the protests that have erupted in over 140 American Cities is glenn ford executive editor of black agenda report so glenn i i would think that you would argue that this has been a Long Time Coming. This isnt the 1st horrific murder of a black man by police. How do you read the site geist of this moment well its been a Long Time Coming but the actual explosion was caused by several factors coming together and not just the system getting more and more raw you know thats not really the way revolutions happen and that there is some kind of smell coming from the system and that turns people that its time
Shouldnt sutra lindiwe. The ruling elites no longer have legitimacy they have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state what the roman philosopher cicero called a commonwealth a raise public up public thing or the property of a people has been transformed into an instrument of naked pillage and repression on behalf of a Global Corporate oligarchy we are serfs ruled by obscene lee rich on the potent masters who loot the u. S. Treasury pay little or no taxes and are perverted the judiciary the media and the legislative branches of government to strip us of Civil Liberties and give them the freedom to commit financial fraud and theft. The loss of control over our system of rulership the misuse of all Democratic Institutions the electoral process and laws to funnel money upwards into a handful of oligarchy while stripping us of power ominously means that the ruling elites can no longer claim the right to have a monopoly on violence violence employed by police an
The committee will reconvene. I want to thank all of our extraordinary witnesses who have come to be with us today. Michael breen, president and ceo of human rights first. Thank you for coming. Hope frye, the executive director of project life line. Clara long the deputy direct for Human Rights Watch. Dr. Carlos gutierrez, a pediatrician in private practice. And ronald vitiello, who is the former chief of u. S. Border patrol and former acting director of i. C. E. I will begin by swearing all of you in. Please rise and raise your right hand. If you would. Thank you. Do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god. Let the record show that all of the witnesses answered in the affirmative. Thank you. Please be seated. Please speak fl the microphone. Your written comments will be received without objection. And mr. Breen you are invited to give an oral presentation. Thank you for the tune to be here today an
president donald trump. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, august 25th. i m willie geist. with us, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. the president of the national action network and host of politics nation, reverend al sharpton. and white house editor for politico, sam stein. let s dive into the story that has everybody talking right now. 43 million people in line to have at least a chunk of their student loan debt erased. as many as 20 million people could clear all of their student debt. those are the figures from the white house following an executive action yesterday by president biden. the president pushed back at criticism that debt cancellation will make inflation worse. by resuming student loan payments at the same time as we provide targeted relief, we re taking an economically responsible course. as a consequence, about $50 billion a year will start coming
Herself in her jail cell days later. The credit card, you could take over. Where identifies are stolen and sold and lives destroyed. What our investigation understand covers. Plus childs play. Our first report on childs play. Playgrounds from around the world. President obama getting the nuclear deal with iran was one thing. Now comes the hard part, making the case for it with americas eye lies in the middle east. That was the job for defense secretary ash carter. He was in israel where anger in israel is rising. Al jazeera correspondent jamie mcintyre. Ash carters goal was to convince israel that it is ready. There was its obligatory handshake and photo op as u. S. Defense chief met with israels Prime Minister, who hasnt announced the nuclear deal as a mistake of historic proportions. Ash carter told reporters traveling with him he did not expect to change any minds in israel. Carter met with two hours with Benjamin Netanyahu in jerusalem and left without any formal joint statement. A