creating something unintended consequences in the global market we don t know about. that s the risk in the near term. it is frightening to think about and the politics at play here when there is so much at stake. debt ceiling we raised it 60 times since world war ii. they do this, you know, over and over again. they need to talk about what the debt ceiling is really for if they re going to blow through it all the time. if you re going to have spending restraint. i ve never seen spending restraint in my career of covering washington. and the economy. it is just too bad that they start talking about it always at the last minute when it could really hurt real people. seniors, the troops, working families. absolutely. christine, appreciate it as always. thank you. lawmakers are putting a lid on bipartisan efforts to overhaul america s policing laws. president biden now slamming senate republicans, considering a new path forward. this is after six months of failed negotiations.
cleared the protesters after the george floyd killing. we saw some eruptions of violence across the country and you report that he told general milley that he wanted to use the military to crack down on them saying they should shoot the the soldiers should shoot the protesters. tell us about that moment and what it means bigger picture of how trump was trying to use the leverage of government and the united states military to keep his hold on power. this is one of several examples in the book of people talking to me because they wanted to explain how dangerous they thought trump was behind the scenes. and just for, you know, they the his advisers wanted to put national guards on the troops to take care of protests. these are folks who are trained to handle protests. the people that trump wanted to put on the streets are uniformed military, the difference is, those people are trained to kill and take land. it would have been a very
theory. which is a complete racist ideology, a theory that is rooted in evilness and anti-american principles. so i think that these leaders should be ashamed of themselves what they have done to the police department. steve: well, and, brandon, aren t they taking money out of other departments to pay for that? well, i think what s happening is that when you are responsible for leading a city and budgeting, you do divert funds from other resources to put them in different places so diverting millions of dollars from the police department is going to lead them at incredible deficit. when you defund the police it s not a simple we take this money and put it over here. it s that the police officers are going to have to make some crucial cuts. that s going to be to investigative units and all of the above that really create a violent environment for police and also make the city unsafe. steve: you know, brandon, summer 2021 is much dish than summer 2020 last year after the george floyd k
to death as he tried to drive away from police the video showed him fleeing, not attacking. just those last two videos were part of six police shootings that came within 24 hours of the chauvin verdict in the floyd killing which was deemed a murder. this is all within the last year. all points on the chart, the literal chart you see of america s policing problem. now, these are the facts that many were trying to bury after the chauvin verdict. these facts are the sad rebuttal to that conservative s rhetorical question i showed you earlier. how many black unarmed people were killed by police officers? it s a massive distraction. mr. vance says it s a distraction. by the way, he s running for the united states senate, so people can assess his record. it s not a distraction. like a lot of propaganda, that bad faith formulation by mr.
does and ever since the george floyd killing, you can listen to npr and almost be guaranteed that the theme of npr will be some culture war issue about race, they almost flood the zone of coverage. so everything they re saying about ben shapiro is true about them, the only difference being that ben shapiro is candid about his views and npr pretends superiority. howie: ben shapiro reacted by saying npr is selling outrage over everything trump related. if the daily wire isn t publishing falsehoods and is completely upfront about the conservative ideology, what is the problem with his success? the problem is his success. that s exactly the problem. which is that, you know, i think people have foreof gotten that prior to forgotten that prior to trump s arrival on the political scene, most of these outlets were really struggling. msnbc was on the verge of firing