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Its called the other wes moore and then his book the work came out in 2010 and his most recent book is about baltimore during the arrest and death of freddy gray. It just came out five days is what that is called. In your book the work, you write that the military saved your life. What do you mean by that . Well, i think the military plays an incredibly Important Role in my life where, you know, some of the most important times in my life have not been when i was wearing a suit. They happened when i was wearing a tshirt and jeans k but when i was wearing a uniform on this country. I was first introduced to the military system actually when i was about 13 years old. I was actually sent to military school. I had a mandatory year in military school. And it was i got into some issues, some challenges, and when i was younger, my mom threatened to send me away to military school when i was 8 years old. Every year she would say im going to send you away. I kept blowing her off. The first time
Burning statewide. And the Toronto Raptors defense of their nba title officially begins this afternoon. They are among eight teams playing on the opening day of the pandemicdelayed playoffs in orlando. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 17th. Thank you so much for joining us on this monday. Happy to have will reeve here, as well. Glad to be here. We begin the half hour with the Postal Service crisis in a dramatic move by House Speaker nancy pelosi. She is calling for the house to get back to work. Critics say those costcutting delivery of mail, medical prescriptions and paychecks and they could have a huge impact in november. Abcs got more. Reporter the battle over mailin ballots in the u. S. Postal service intensifying. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cutting the august recess short to deal with the unfolding crisis. We have to do everything that we can to get rid of the new postmaster general who is a Campaign Contributor for trump trying to undermine the Postal Ser
Scandal. Government buildings are being targeted. 2020 race with less than 100 days to go to election day, major Bernie Sanders supporters say they cannot get behind former Vice President joe biden, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley will join me on more on 2020 race. Bringing critical supply chain back to america. Assistant to the president for trade and manufacturing, pete navarro with big announcement coming up plus latest tensions with china. Folks on earnings this morning, we will hear from 3m, mcdonalds. Jetblue among the names reporting before the name this morning. Futures searching for firm direction, we are expecting decline at start of trading, dow futures down 75, nasdaq down 40 and the s p lower by 8 and 3 quarters. U. S. Markets kicked off the week with gains yesterday finishing with near session highs as vaccine trials moving forward. Dow industrials up 115 points and nasdaq up 173 and s p higher as well, covid19 slamming the sports world meanwhile days into th
Things are looking pretty grim here in the red white and blue land of enchantment and tater tots yes on the eve of its 244th birthday a majority of folks living inside the United States say that things are definitely not looking up in fact according to the hard working stat junkies at pew research their statistics and findings and polling has found that about 7 in 10 americans 71 percent say they feel angry about the state of the country these days while roughly 2 thirds 66 percent say they feel fearful angry and fearful. And who can blame us weve got code 19 exposing our for Profit Health care and our for profit elected officials as nothing more than broken down systems of charlatans frauds and grifters are once vaunted system of justice where originally you were supposed to be innocent until Proven Guilty as fallen into a steady diet of racism and classism in fact a new reuters investigation has recently revealed that thousands yes thousands of us judges who broke laws or old use hav