Democrats and republicans are vying to replace him. Tv nine and the gazette, this is the iu second Congressional District debate, your voice, your vote. Welcome to the second congressional debate here in cedar rapids. This is the first of a twopart debate. We are also partnering with the gazette and quad city times. Is october 15. We will focus on different topics. We have plenty to work our way through the next hour. Lynch,ined by james longtime political reporter with the gazette. We are moderators tonight. Because of the pandemic, we are without an audience. We are trying to keep socially distance with the candidates. Now its time to meet our candidates. Rita hart is a former teacher and served as an iowa state senator for six years, covering clinton and scott counties. On the right, republican marion , current state senator. Thank you both for joining us tonight. We appreciate it. You get to lead us off. For 60 seconds, talk about why you are the best choice for this seat in congre
Dares thinks. We dare to ask. The u. S. Economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. You can work 40 hours d in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still has the lead up to the reality of were not financially equality and the lack of Affordable Housing for a living minimum wage gave many people no choice you know thats been a problem with the city knows turn every turn and told to stay away oh miss colton consider that there is no answer because you know its the 1st resource the most vulnerable and abandoned on the streets to become the invisible comes. As election day approaches there are growing concerns whether the outcome will be contested whether the election will be an agenda that we are told this election truly matters were always told this however this time around theres a different feel theres an existential quality to just election how many voters will say not my president after november. A grandmother doing a life f
Oh hi im max foster this is the kaiser report you know there seems to be a bit of panic in the air. Play lets check in with Stacy Herbert i dont more max as you know weve had 4 years of a lot of political turmoil and starting to spill out into the streets everywhere you look not only in the United States but around the world and Rand Corporation might have an explanation for this now remember Rand Corporation a fear if you are around in the seventys they were part of the pentagon papers right it was identical ellsberg released the hundreds of pages of research they had done on the debacle that was the vietnam war and now they have basically done some research on the debacle that is fed policy of creating can tell you nairs since 1971 so the top one percent of americans have taken 50 trillion dollars from the bottom 90 percent and thats made the us less secure this is according to Time Magazines interpretation of the Rand Corporation findings that breaks it down to actual numbers everyb
And the takeover by the economy by financialization wall street commodification and derivatives through salt is just that the money is divert it through Financial Engineering through 0 percent Interest Rates is negative Interest Rates through repo scandals through all the financial scandals the recovery on the show for 10 years every single one of those points to one underlying story in fact that wall street financial engineers the kleptocrats divert the money printing into their pockets at a rate that according to the Rand Corporation equals more than 50 trillion dollars so that is your smoking gun thats why we have social unrest thats why we have incredible wealth and income gap thats why we have such a distorted economy thats why wages are not keeping up thats why weve got inflation raging thats your smoking gun end of story thank you its been great have a great life no kidding as i said the Rand Corporation had revealed through Daniel Ellsberg the the sacrifice of all the young peo
Doubt after donald trump contracts coronavirus. And environmental groups at war no pollution disaster in russias far east as a probe is launched into toxic chemicals killing sea life. Broadcasting live director our studios in moscow recapping the weeks top stories with our Weekly Program this is R T International glad to have you with us i know we start with the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan which has entered a 2nd week the disputed region of not go to no kind of box is it being a relentlessly shelled these are some of the pictures of the latest ones from the local capital showing burning cars residential buildings have been hit across the city and the number of casualties so far is unclear earlier in the week a hospital was hit in an airstrike several residential. Were also badly damaged hostilities are now expanding beyond the disputed territory with several towns in azerbaijan bombed the city of a gun came under fire earlier on sunday as a page on claims one person was kil