Well take you live now to charlotte, north carolina, where joe biden is holding a Campaign Stop today. Its being called a biden for president black economic summit. Its just getting underway. Live coverage is here, cspan3. Mr. President , i was kidding. Hardest thing, only thing harder than being president of a union is being a mayor of a beautiful city. Folks, thanks for taking the time to be here today. I really appreciate i. And we even have an astronaut in the house and thats pretty cool. Look, first of all, i want thank chris and the mayor for being here and all of you for being here. And you know, these are tough times. Over 200,000 americans have passed away. 200,000. And the numbers still rising and impact on communities is bad across the board, particularly bad for africanamerican communities. Almost four times as likely to, three times as likely to catch the disease, covid. And when its caught, twice as likely to die as White Americans. Its the sort of emblemmatic of the ineq
So, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Robert merry, this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed halls of the kansas city public library. Five star library this week from the public journal. Thank you. Hes a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor, executive editor and editor in chief of Congressional Quarterly and more recently, the american conservative. The american conservative, he says its collaborative, but it sounds like robert merry. This is a description of their philosophy. We believe in constitutional government, fiscal prudence, sound monetary policy, clearly delineated borders, authentically free markets and Foreign Policy mixed with diplomatic acuity. We adhere closely to institutional max um, principles over party. One could wish there were more of that kind of true
Yes, one for you. Your friends dont forget you when you are sick. No, but i wish i could go outdoors again. I like to go around with the mailman already. All day, glenn . He mailman has a long day he gets to the post office before 7 00. First, he picks up the mail that is ready for him. He brings it to his own worktable. Above the table, he has a case for sorting the mail. Our mailman is mr. Dolan. Other mailman are sorting the mail they will deliver. Soters are most important, mr. Dolan sorts them first. He puts the letters for each family in their own place. Now, mr. Dolan sorts the magazines and newspapers and packages. It takes about an hour to sort the morning mail. It must be done before 8 00. Mr. Dolan is on time. A strapping his mail into bundles. He makes each bundle a size that is easy to handle. He takes the letters out of the case in the same order as the houses on his route. Letters up in bundles so they wont get out of order. Now they are ready for him to hand out. The ma
I think thats why were here. [applause] mayor lyles but before i talk about the seriousness of this conversation, what id like to do is make sure that everyone recognizes where we are. We are in camp north end, but more importantly, were in a place where creativity flourishes. The artists that have worked on the art that youre going to see today, we have to recognize them. Theyre people that give so much, and they dont get paid enough. And thats the kind of thing that were beginning to see. In a pandemic, we ought to be rewarding people that are doing the work that makes us better people, and thats what artists do. So i want to recognize dammit wesley. Is dammit around . Okay. Gianna mccantz. Wheres gianna . Gianna . Marcus,w as, garrison, frank, and john harrison. They have done a mural that says camp north in charlotte, north , carolina build back better. And we all know whose plan that is. So thank you very much for being here this morning. I am going to say that i would like to int
Make the American People see why this is a gigantic mistake. Mayor lyles good afternoon. Or good morning. Its still good morning, i believe. I want to say thank you for coming out on this fabulous charlotte fall day to have a very important conversation with a very important person that we will hope to see in january, on a stage, being inaugurated as the next president of the United States. I think thats why were here. [applause] but before i talk about the seriousness of this conversation, what id like to do is make sure that everyone recognizes where we are. We are in camp north end, but more importantly, were in a place where creativity flourishes. The artists that have worked on the art that youre going to see today, we have to recognize them. Theyre people that give so much, and they dont get paid enough. And thats the kind of thing that were beginning to see. In a pandemic, we ought to be rewarding people that are doing the work that makes us better people, and thats what artists