Good day from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Welcome, everyone, to weekends with alex witt. Developing this hour, President Bidens 1. 9 trillion plan is one step closer to becoming a reality. In a new excerpt from cbs news, the president giving a new insight into where key provisions like Minimum Wage Hike Stand as lawmakers work to get the bill to his desk. Its somewhere between an individual making up to 75 and phasing out and a couple making up to 150 and phasing out. But im wide open on what that is. You also want to raise the minimum wage to 15. Is that something you would be willing to negotiate on to get republican support . Apparently thats not going to occur because of the roles in the senate. Youre saying it will not be in it . My guess is it will not be in it. Today marks one month since the attack on the u. S. Capitol left five people dead. The Impeachment Trial will start just days from now. Trumps defense team confirming he will not testify under oath. Congressman
Impacts much of Silicon Valley print our guest reporter is Emily Birnbaum of the protocol. Thank you both for being on the communicators this week. Thank you for having us. Host congressman, as the representative of Silicon Valley how would you describe the reputation of some of the Member Companies in your district right now in washington . Guest well, i think on one hand there is a lot of positiv positives. If you look at the polling the Tech Companies pull about 60, 70 of their approval and there is a sense that these are companies and some are working on vaccines and companies are working on antivirals and they are allowing for remote work, for remote calls that they are engaged in allowing us to have good medication in the time of a pandemic and allowing them to get groceries or information but that said there are a lot of other ethical issues in a sense of essential workers being paid appropriately and are these doing enough combat hate speech and Voter Suppression and are they d
Colonist, contributor to the wall street journal at the manhattan institute, fox newsey contributor among your books i want to begin where your book concludes because you say the following quote, liberalism as succeeded tragically in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims. Yes, i believe that is a big part of a political strategy actually. They have been added for some time and unfortunately they have had a lot of success in painting blacks as primarily f victims ad as defined by their demise asian first and foremost and then thei followup of course is that we have a Government Program or government solution to help you overcome your victimhood so its a political strategy. Your book writes about this and they have been a number of essays in Lyndon Johnson in the Great Society and wasnt a failure or success . I think if you look at the actual track record of the program and if you look at the goals that the objectives that were stated at the time you would hav
Time you come from and i come from a small little town in oregon and i just ponder how, and your traveling the world, youre living in a different environment completely but you have reported on World Affairs from all kinds of Different Directions in the worst tragedies on the planet but you chose to really focus on small town in oregon, wife . We were running around the world, covering crises and free would periodically go back to my beloved hope town on the family farm and we saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my school bus are now fallen from drugs and alcohol for suicide. I tried to process that, kids who got on the bus right after me, and for her sister, smart and talented kids. He died of drug and alcohol abuse, he died in house fire when he was drunk. In one blew himself cooking method regina died from hepatitis, injectable drug use. Once arrived because he survived his intricate for a while, we wondered, is there something about my bus,
Who though they were being told it would improve at the time. In your book you talk about, ronald mason. Who was he and buys it no go. I think the issue there was whats the kind of these institutions. Since the Civil Rights Act. And a lot more education in the country. Integration. Because blacks didnt have in the first half of the 20th century, they are not the bus to the extent. But they have more options nowadays. So it was troubling, how to stay viable both economically in terms of Higher Education. And this has been resisted by some who want the schools to remain retain their independence. Its often for nostalgic reasons. For someone whos pushing for this plan, we got a lot of pushback. I think if they are producing good results, yes. They should stay in existence. The problem is that a lot of them are not there and theyre being keptafloat primarily for federal dollars. My point is if a school is for filling his promises then, it doesnt matter if its an all black or white school.