Sen. Sanders good evening, everybody and welcome to what i think will be a really exciting discussion tonight. We have three fantastic panelists with us, three soon to be members of the u. S. Congress who are going to take that progressive banner full standing into conflict with the establishment politicians and corporate elites who and represent the working families of this country. These are great people who have run great campaigns. Let me introduce them to you. Reelected last night in a landslide victory, they told us rashida, it was going to be a tough race. What was it, 6633 . 69. Really . But who is counting. Thank you also much. Thank you, bernie. I love about you is you didnt become the democratic nominee, but you didnt give up on this movement and you continue to support so many of us who are seeking truth, who are putting people before profits. I cannot thank you enough for not giving up on the movement and continuing to support people like us. Senator sanders how could i gi
History. So if you will join you for just a second and reflecting together on that. And then we could start a little belated. [silence. Alright thank you. So this is a book that began, i began writing this book in the fall of 2014. And i began writing because i was invited to st. Louis to give a talk on washington university. I felt called to talk about the murder of Michael Brown in the protests on the uprising. So i was invited to october, went there and felt that i had to go out and present what was happening because i am a missourian and i felt that was a history in which i was both one i knew very well, and one that i was implicated in. And so with the particular kind of turn of mind, that i have, i started to look at the political economy with a particular simple straightforward riddle which is how could it be that the city of ferguson that has a 26 billiondollar corporation within the city limits, 26 billion a year, emerson electric, how could that city the funding poor black mo
Those that were hit hardest early by the pandemic continue to hire back and the Unemployment Rate has declined to ten. 2 percent but we have a long way to go despite the solid job gains last month the past three months we are still down about 13 million jobs we still have not recovered about half the jobs lost. Ten. 2 percent unemployment is pretty tough. Just for context to go back to the financial crisis ten years ago the highest Unemployment Rate was 10 percent on the nose and that was for one month. We have a long way to go. Then to point out what makes me nervous is the rate of improvement have slowed the june job number four. 8 million jobs added. The rate of employment is flowing and that it will take a long time to get back what we lost in march and april. Host do think that rate of improvement to the numbers we are seeing do not show theme effect of the states have to shut down again . Yes. It was reflected in part because its we saw these gains and then the re intensification
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The viewers. There theme is unity, and when im watching tonight, what im most going to be wer looking fo, can they bring the Democratic Party together, which is what they are hoping to do with the speeches tonight. They have everybody from pay new york governor, something of a moderate, andrew cuomo, doug jones from alabama come all the way to burning centers Bernie Sanders, and john kasich. I want to see if theres any sort of interparty squabbling, as the case may be, given how big of a tent the Democratic Party is today and how joe biden and Kamala Harris are trying to bring everybody together. I think its going to be a big task. The big question is for what . Are they against President Trump or are they for something . I think thats exactly right. One thing that they do agree on from all sides of the party is that they want to get rid of donald trump, remove have power office. But i think your question is on point. Can they agree to what comes next, should biden win. I was struck by