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But paid communist cuba has fewer than 200. 00. We speak to copresent of cuban covert, 19 Public Health and solidarity about fighting about endemic with internationalism. Oliseh more going on today is going on the ground offensive. Joe biden ever becomes us president. In january, he will preside over a country with the highest prison population in the world, 26 years after he supported a crime bill. The critics claim was responsible for a system of mass incarceration that imprisons more per capita than stalin or mao. , joining me now is the criminal defense lawyer of a 25 years with scoria, 18 k. , and us Justice Systems in his new book, justice on trial, radical solutions for a system at breaking point. Chris dorky pres, welcome, do going underground. A lot of people talking about britain, possibly breaking International Law or over a break said, but your new book is so beautiful and eloquently written about Britains Justice system. How difficult was it even to write a book such a dam
Stimulus for months but have remained far apart on the amount necessary to combat the pandemic so lets waste no time and bring in towson investigative journalist ben swan and tobin smith c. E. O. Of transforming research to discuss thank you both for being here ben i want to get right to you here since lawmakers from both sides have been saying for months that another round of stimulus is needed why are they so far apart on the details. Or is the cost of this whole thing i mean democrats of come down a little bit this latest you know bill that they put forth about 2. 00 trillion dollars thats about a trillion dollars less than where they had been so there are some compromise there hard to believe that 2. 4 trillion is a compromise but lets take a look at some of the things they want to do here because obviously this includes as you said a new round of 600. 00 stimulus checks but on top of those that new out of 600. 00 stimulus checks comes another round of 1200. 00 stimulus checks for