Im tony woods, it is my pleasure to moderatetonights book talk. With my friends jordan and chris. Its what happens when a liberal and conservative jump into a car and drive across the country and thats the question of this book union by the friends jordan blashek and christopher haugh. Jordan is my coworker, conservative and a former marine. Chris is a democratic speechwriter. The this unlikely pair met at lost and became friends but they couldnt stop arguing about politics and in 2016 those arguments got worse and worse though they decided to take a road trip to see america. They did it again and again. They but union is the story of their friendship and how that union changed the way they see themselves. Its also the story of the people they met and the lessons they learnedabout what it means to be an american. In the end union is a story about hope for a betterfuture and a better united states. Offer a warm virtual welcome to chris and jordan and give you a moment to say hello to th
And there was a great deal of jealousy the right spring for the song the fit why wont it be more like oh they have hugh seems all for. Instance when he. Says my. Records. For. Me have Julian Assange was in solitary confinement in the prison for terrorists await you know how its a live person. I dont see him dying. And i. Know what hes facing. Greetings and salutations yes put another candle out on the cake as the United States of america celebrates another birthday with this years coming and going of the 4th of july but. There is not much room for celebration because well my friends things are looking pretty grim here in the red white and blue land of enchantment and tater tots yes on the eve of its 244th birthday a majority of folks living inside the United States say that things are definitely not looking up in fact according to the hard working stat junkies at pew research there are statistics and findings and polling has found that about 7 in 10 americans 71 percent say they feel a
The 4th of july but. There is not much room for celebration because well my friends things are looking pretty grim here in the red white and blue land of enchantment and tater tots yes on the eve of its 244th birthday a majority of folks living inside the United States say that things are definitely not looking up in fact according to the hard working stat junkies at pew research there are statistics and findings and polling has found that about 7 in 10 americans 71 percent say they feel angry about the state of the country these days while roughly 2 thirds 66 percent say they feel fearful angry and fearful. And who can blame us weve got code 19 exposing our for Profit Health care and our for profit elected officials as nothing more than broken down systems of charlatans frauds and grifters are once vaunted system of justice where originally you were supposed to be innocent until Proven Guilty as fallen into a steady diet of racism and classism in fact a new reuters investigation has r
Moratorium on evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. Later, the moodys analytics chief economist joins us to talk about the state of the u. S. Economy. Host the house and senate are one week into what should be there august resource recess. Negotiationsld and between Democratic Leaders and the white house appear to have yielded no result, certainly, no agreement on additional coronavirus pandemic relief measures. Good morning. It is friday, august 7, 2020. This first hour, we will ask you your message to congress, in particular, congressional leaders on pandemic relief. Here are the lines. We welcome your text messages. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. Ur handle on twitter we also welcome your comments on facebook. A very similar sentiment expressed in headlines and reporting of capitol hill publications and other publications on those negotiations which ended last night well into the evening. This is roll call. Show you the report just out from the A
Have live members of congress who will speak. I thank you for joining us. We have another halfdozen senators and representatives with record remark we will play once we are done. This is the 20 eighth edition of the congressional pics and follows two days after the Congressional Budget Office, and 854 billion, the record was 234 billion in the 864 billion would be the sixthlargest annual deficit. Since the supposedly earmarked moratorium, members of congress have set a record for the amount of spending according to citizens against government waste cry to which we develop back in 1991 with the bipartisan congressional pork busters coalition. The amount spent was 15. 9 billion, a 3. 0 increase in fiscal year 2019. The numbers may adopt a little bit from 282, two to extend for, decrease of 2. 8 . Since this league in 1991, cagw has identified 111,417 earmarks costing taxpayers 375. 7 billion so yes, those little projects due at up over time. The increase in porkbarrel spending occurred b