Whose political life is based on the principle of whatever keeps him in office. And now, facing increasingly gloomy reelection prospects in his contest with joe biden, he has just over three months, 100 days, to do even a symbolic about face. Or far more likely, the president will just continue to burn the house down. Biden Campaign Senior adviser Karine Jeanpierre joins me later to talk about how her candidates surge in the polls plays into the president s strategy. And psychology. Because there is no reason to believe that this surreal topdown violence by the state will abate. If anything, it will aim for more conspicuous and darker skinned targets. If only for the president s reelection ads. For the last two months, its been portland, and last night, violence erupted as police and black lives matter protesters in several cities clashed over the president ial dragnet, and of course, the lingering anger over various police shootings. But the president s white well of racism has always
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approach, the violence interrupters. the cure violence movement where neighborhood folks go and address problems before they occur. they know there s a beef happening, they know there s a gang problem, they ll intervene. i m talking about civilians, unarmed, who have relationships and legitimacy at the community level. we funded, in new york city, these grassroots organizations, and in the areas where they were active, we saw shootings go way down, because to some extent, again, police can take you so far. to some extent, the very best solutions to violence are community-based solutions, but as a city, we ve started down this path. as a country, we haven t. joe biden, to his credit, actually was trying to move this as part of build back better and i think it s an idea whose time has come, because violence, you know, the very best police leaders and police reformers i ve known will all say to you, in the end, it s a series of
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