homogenous policy for who can and can t get through. there s this furiously ticking clock as to how many hours or days are left for evacuees to get there. it appears that when they re there, they re able to get out. i m getting the impression that this military operation is winding down, that they re realizing the actual extraction of their soldiers will be a phenomenally difficult task surrounded by an insurgency they ve been fighting for the past 20 years. i m sure the minds of those on the base are slowly switching towards making that a safe task for the u.s. soldiers. a source close to the situation said to me they want to get as many people off as they possibly can. they ve aware this is not an indefinite process, one ending very fast. and far from easy. it s dangerous. the facts, as you know, nick, and i described outside that airport, it s a dangerous,
the country is vaccinated. our country has millions more vaccine doses than we need. there is this headline. to protect americans and help the world, the united states needs to give more covid-19 vaccine away more quickly, experts say. should we be doing more, dr. hilton, to help the global vaccination effort, especially considering how much surplus we have? right. it is a tricky spot. i do believe we have to start thinking globally. we have 73 million doses of vaccines in our stockpile. there s estimates that s going to be upwards of 300 million by the summer. when we have massive deaths in india, massive deaths in brazil, we have to start thinking, how can we help our global community? we have to remember in the united states that our vaccination has not been homogenous. in the northeast, doing fantastic. down south where we are from, in south carolina, 34% fully
aren t as homogenous. there s teachers who live next to garbage men, who live next door to people who work at mcdonald s, because that is the way redlining worked for most of the history of this country. so first of all, that s a lie. i mean, i don t know what else to call it. and the other thing is, right, when we attack these problems, right and if you even mention the lack of role models before you get to the 54 other things that precede that, that are more important than lack of role models we talk about school funding. we know that poor white poor white children get $1,500 on average per student more than poor black students, right, than the average black student. so, we know that black schools are underfunded. we know that the way that schools are funded in america is based on community wealth, which is insane to me, right? yes. so, to not even address these factors and talk about role
in part, quote, there is no way i can know if he s genuinely interested in engaging black voters. there are an infinite number of candidates who have waded into black barber shops or sashayed into black pulpits to assure us they were on our side when they were only interested in our vote. i am not smart or pregsed enough to know the difference. the whole thing i know is that he is a white man but pete buttigieg listened which is all you can ask a white man to do. that s michael harriot from the root. is that enough? it s not enough. there s a lot that bothered me about the way this ordeal played out. i understand the anger of black americans and black voters and the frustration that comes with time and time again for years seeing yourself blamed for
lawyers briefed president trump on the complaint. september 9th is when the president talked to ambassador gordon sondland and said, quote, i want nothing, i want no quid pro quo, tell zelensky. then on september 11th, low and be hold, the laid is released. michael steele, they ve been arguing this couldn t have been quid pro quo because the aid was released. democrats argue that he released the aid because he found out about the complaint. are republicans going to have to find a new defense? they know they do. but they don t care because of what s already been said. they re so confident of a number of things, one, that they have so muddied the waters on this conversation that no one knows exactly what happened. so when you re resorting to timelines from their perspective, that s a win. number two, so what? what are you going to do about it? what are the consequences?