Almost a decade ago, obama s reelection campaign that said it loud. They want you beholden to government, from cradle to grave. As bill bennett wrote, julia s life is defined by her interaction with the state. Government is everywhere and each step of her life is tied to a government program. Notably absent is any relationship with a husband, family, church or community except a community garden where she works post retirement. Instead, the state has taken their place and is her primary lelationship. The left is using the pandemic to make permanent the lives that they want you to leave. We ve seen churches close. Neighbors reporting on each other for unity. We re all in this together so long as we stay in our homes and don t socialize. Teacher s unions are the most powerful in american life to the point of wrecking the lice of the students if the teachers don t want to work. Local small businesses have to close but walmart can stay open. Don t fred, fauci knows best. If you conflict wi
Workers have turned down jobs to stay on unemployment. We discuss the decline of hard work with the rise of free government handouts. And lawrence. Big losses at the olympics for team usa as americans break streaks that they probably didn t want to break, and viewers are tuning out. So what is happening to the competition this. We re going to try to answer that. But first, to the crisis at our southern border. A new report out from a group of republican senators finding that 2 billion of your tax dollars are going to the biden administration s efforts to stop construction of the border wall. $2 billion. That s $3 million spent every single day to prevent the wall from being completed. Meanwhile, the biden administration also spending money to bus migrants to their chosen destination in the u. S. All joe biden had to do was nothing, and he could have just sat back, and it would have been finished, it would have been completed. But you have these small sections of wall where you have the
Black and brown americans who look very much like washington d. C. s nearly 60% majority minority population. Many of them serve on the capitol police force and were beaten with flag poles and fire extinguishers as well as maysed by the angry, trumpcrazed crowd. They also worked on the maintenance crews tasked with the cleaning up the vandalism, trash, and feces left behind by rightwing hooligans. One republican lawmaker would call normal citizens. Many washingtonians found it shocking but not necessarily surprising. After all, president trump used their fair city as a prop during his most overt turn at dictatorial cosplay casting a crowd of peaceful black matter protesters so he could flaunt a bible in front of a church he had never shown any worship in though it had been the favorite place of worship for dozens of presidents who preceded him. Even now republicans stand in the way of d. C. s third s statehood even though the population exceeds that of wyoming and vermont, states wit
Stop turned into an hourslong standoff between police and armed gunmen shutting down part of an interstate. And there is a new ransomware attack. What we are learning about how it s spreading and who might be behind it. Welcome to sunday, the fourth of july. We are so grateful to have you with us, as always. Thank you for getting up so early and happy holiday to you. Yeah, we appreciate you sharing part of your india independence day with us. We start this morning with a race against mother nature. Search and rescue crews in surfside, florida, have temporarily had to stop work at the site of the champlain tower collapse. They are standing by as preparations begin to demolish the building s emange units. Engineers have been keeping a close eye on it, but an approaching tropical system escalating concern about the safety of the crew working there at the site. Tropical storm elsa is nearing the coast of florida. Potential impacts are expected earlier in the work. States of emergency have
College. This is not what i was taught at home, et cetera, et cetera. It s unclear precisely what cosby is referring to there. However, if he is suggesting the court freed him because he did not know what he was convicted of doing, that s not the case. The ruling hinged on due process and a promise that the local d. A. Made, at the time, bruce castor. Bruce castor says he made that promise. The kind of criminal immunity for cosby, in exchange for him testifying in a civil case. Cosby did testify in that civil case. And years later, a different prosecutor brought charges and used that testimony against him. The court said this violated his constitutional protection against selfincrimination. Which, of course, came as a tremendous blow to andrea constand and more than 50 other women alleging abuse dating back to the 1970s. In a moment, we will be joined by one of those accusers. First, cnn s jason carroll is near the cosby home just outside philadelphia. Jason, what s the scene like toni