Granddaughter of the late Strom Thurmond, the longterm South Carolina segregationist, governor, and senator who ran for president in 1948 opposing civil rights. It simply means just another effort on the part of this [indiscernible] to dominate this country by force and to put into effect these uncalled for in these them noble proposals recommended under the guise of socalled civil rights. Amy after his death in 2003, it was revealed Strom Thurmond had secretly had a child with his black maid. Their granddaughter will join us today from the capital of South Carolina. Then to new york were Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Police Killings of unarmed civilians. This situation we are addressing is a crisis, a crisis in the state and a crisis nationwide. It is a crisis of confidence in the criminal justice system. Amy we will speak to gwen carr, the mother of eric garner who died a year ago in Staten Island after being placed in a poli
Granddaughter of the late Strom Thurmond, the longterm South Carolina segregationist, governor, and senator who ran for president in 1948 opposing civil rights. It simply means just another effort on the part of this [indiscernible] to dominate this country by force and to put into effect these uncalled for in these them noble proposals recommended under the guise of socalled civil rights. Amy after his death in 2003, it was revealed Strom Thurmond had secretly had a child with his black maid. Their granddaughter will join us today from the capital of South Carolina. Then to new york were Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Police Killings of unarmed civilians. This situation we are addressing is a crisis, a crisis in the state and a crisis nationwide. It is a crisis of confidence in the criminal justice system. Amy we will speak to gwen carr, the mother of eric garner who died a year ago in Staten Island after being placed in a poli
Too often it is one party power and sticks it to the other party. And then secondly i know you mentioned geographic concerns. We try to putt some other limitations on the map drawing process by requiring districts to be drawn more according to county lines or natural geographic features rather than just these crazy districts that squiggle around. Thats not you know not easy to do but one thing it does is makes it possible impossible for people to be too key yative. Some of the districts are very, very creative and having little bit more limitation on the process, open process about how to redistrict we are for. We werent willing to go as some people say to go to california or arizona which have models which are more completely out of the political process. They have turned it over to citizens. They dont want the legislature or the parties involved. Our commission really believed that having both parties have a say in those maps made sense but we did agree with you in many ways redistri
We want to keep using our military do go into the other countries, take a bill with us figure out what its going to cost and tell them that you pay half when we get there and half when the jobs done. We cant keep affording to go and police the world and some of the social programs like Social Security so easy to fix. When the kid comes out of the Social Security on year one, start taking taxes out. Dont wait 18 or 20 years. Take a little bit out of earned Income Credit and not miss it. It would fix Social Security and probably give a little bit of money there for health care that the whole country needs. Okay. Caller i think those are a couple of good things to start with. All right. John fortier the budget. We with respect taking positions like wars and entitlement. Those are functions for congress to address. I think if youre getting at the budget process, thats something we made recommendations about and the Bipartisan Policy Center has additional recommendations out of an economic
Roy dable care act and moores victory last night in Republican Senate primary. He goes to general election in december. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. 2027488002. What does it all mean . Story do you want to talk about . Both . Give us a rang this morning. The star this morning out of alabama. Senate ps strange in runoff there. Roy moore with his mother eading to the polling place in alabama yesterday, ahead of that Senate Republican primary race. Nominee to face emocrat doug jones in the december general election. Then lead story, front page of New York Times this morning, to undoans drop measure the Health Care Law short of votes, mcconnell says g. O. P. Shift to overhaul of the tax code, those are the two pages of a ng front lot of National Papers today. Let us know what you think. Fort lauderdale, line for democrats, youre up first. Caller thank you. With republicans is the only thing theyre interested is in tax cuts for is what is going on now. They are being thre