Its been another busy one. Have a good weekend. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Im Lizzie Greenwood hughes. The headlines tonight willettss woes, as the reigning masters champion looks set to miss the cut. Meanwhile, Sergio Garcia is the Clubhouse Leader in augusta, on four under par. Rodgers commits his future to celtic, signing a four year deal as manager of the scottish champions. And Great Britain are one defeat away from going out of the davis cup in the quarter finals. So a busy day of sport. Lets start with golf, and the masters is well into its second day in augusta. And the course is really testing even the very best, including englands reigning champion, danny willett, who is on the verge of missing the cut, after a horror story eight on the first hole. Spains ryder cup stalwart Sergio Garcia has been the days big winner. He is in the clubhouse on four under par, joint leader so far after a second round of 69, in a three way tie for the lead with americans Charley Hoffman and
Digiacomantonio. I wanted to end the series with something instructive, of course, but also, not light and frothy by any means, but something a little less serious. For those of you to respond to competitiveness, i have a couple door prizes i will give out at the end to people who can answer a couple questions that might occur during the talk, but mostly this is going to be visual. We are going to wade through two centuries of works of art, mostly paintings, some statuary of George Washington portrayed in art. I should say a little bit about myself. I said i am chief historian, i am not an art historian, but anyone who appreciates the of doing city history, understands you have to work with art understands that is how people express themselves when they are at their best and sometimes their worst, as well see. When i taught a course at Gw University on George Washington, i made sure there was one lecture on George Washington in the art and i refined it a little bit for todays purposes,
Black members of the jury. We want to talk about your confidence level in the criminal Justice System. If you are in the mountain , andic, 202 7488001 experience with criminal justice, we want to hear your story this morning, 202 join us onu can also twitter or facebook. We will get your calls in just a minute but lets kick off the conversation with president recent weekly address he made about the criminal Justice System. Some 2. 2 Million Peoples behind bars in america and millions more are on parole or probation. Papernd 80 billion tax doll taxpayer dollars every year to keep people locked up. Many are serving excessively long sentences for nonviolent crimes. 60 have Mental Health issues and 70 were drug users. The population is disproportionately black and latino. Plenty of people should be behind bars but the reason we have more people behind bars than any other country, it is because we have criminal justice laws that need to be reformed. Simply locking people up does not make Co
Paying taxes on almost all of it. , for corporations instance, hedge funds, use a gimmick in a loophole in the law called. Interest, which allows the big ays at the hedge funds to pay lower tax rate than people who work for them. It is a loophole in the law. We showed literally tens of thousands of americans were hiding their income and their. Ssets overseas illegally a lot of them in swiss banks. We went after a lot of swiss banks aiding and abetting american taxpayers to avoid paying taxes. After we showed that, the irs your back on in, pay taxes, we believe you amnesty, but we will argue interest. Over 55,000 americans who had hidden Bank Accounts came in. We collected about 6 billion. There are a lot of gimmicks used to avoid paying taxes. But tax havens, the Cayman Islands for instance, have been soaking up huge amounts of our money that really is needed in america for the things we need to do, whether it is infrastructure, education, reducing our deficits, defense, you name it. H
We proved 56 of our children, over half of our children were born with birth defects. Over half our children had three ears, extra fingers, extra toes and mentally retarded. We thought thats enough evidence, the United States government, the place that were so proud of, we pay taxes, we go to church, my husbands a union man, i teach sunday school. This has got to work. And it didnt. What they said the reason we had birth defects of that rate is we were a random clustering of genetically defected people. My point of telling you this part of the story is that when i realized that it isnt about science, it isnt about facts, although all those things are critical for making your case and making sure youre right, its about political fight. That was the moment that it dawned on me that we are not going to fight this just proving theres Climate Change because we proved it. It was proven years ago. Decades ago. Were only going to win this if we get involved politically. And for that reason, i