Your humidity in august but this fear of my friends isnt coming from the thousands of protesters that have descended on the imaginal mall or Lafayette Square or the d. C. Residents navigating both the covert 19 pandemic and the black lives matter protests no no this tidal wave of fear is emanating from the marble halls of the Capitol Building and the old will shape rooms of the white house yes the corridors of power here in washington d. C. Are seeing a nation rise up in one voice and scream enough is enough black lives matter reform and justice are coming and the old ways of oppression and white power are ending how do you know they are as frightened as schoolchildren on report card day well because they are now turning us streets into war zones starting with the Nations Capital as d. C. Is reports the chief of the National Guard bureau confirmed tuesday that an additional 1500. 00 National Guardsmen would join the response to protests in d. C. After 1300. 00 were deployed on monday d
Some who are so great to have you with us in our number 3 years on the moscato im so if you think its merely to an obvious since i saw you last time. And we had quite a discussion and seen peters work on the International Economic forum that but wow now im trying to condense what its time to really rethink and reevaluate everything in life so im going to go straight in and ask you that the world right now is so divided over the code 19 condemning there are some that say that its just another condemning condemning this and current ones in every century for humanity to source purify itself and there are others who really believe that this pandemic is some sort of a lesson to teach. And to sort of make us reconsider our future. Where do you stand. If your neighbor and i say. Maybe youll think its beautification or a lesson to learn but if you die on your children i have somebody merely or dies i dont think you will think this is a lesson or beautification thats a very cruel way of looking
Hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle the spiral downwards depending on who you believe in the media the civil unrest in america is the result of systematic racism this explains protests and rioting but does it the commanding heights controlling the Financial System the media and the Business World are loath to admit it its the economy stupid for them race always trumps class. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Jason Nichols in l. The cut city is a professor of africanamerican studies and in new york we cross to Margaret Kimberly she is the editor and senior columnist at the black gender report as well as the author of the book prejudicial black america and the president s all right cross up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok lets 1st go to margaret here in my introduction i said that race always trumps class and if you look at Mainstream Media particularly the liberal media tha
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We and nbc decided it be smarter to not have an audience in order to do our part to help decrease the spread of the coronavirus. So the shows gonna be a little different than it normally is. Like you, im watching the news and im just as confused and freaked out as you are i know that speech last night didnt help. But what i do know is when were there for each other, were at our best. And i am here for you. We are here for you. I want to thank your staff and crew, many of them who worked from home [ cheers and applause to put on this show tonight. I really appreciate you guys were gonna try to entertain you. Were gonna have dr. Oz on here in a little bit to walk us through whats going on and what we can do so if you want, maybe put your phones down and enjoy an hour of mindless entertainment. Its going to be a fun show. The roots are here [ cheers and applause higgins is here. Now lets start the monologue. Here we go [ light laughter ] steve budget cuts. Jimmy could we get smaller cards