A dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor davis coming on going underground can i just ask you right at the beginning theres a lot of quoting of the great writer James Baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open letter to you what did he mean when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridor to the gas chamber. Well of course James Baldwin was. Not only with a scent writer but also he was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open letter to me and. Argue that if they did not protect my life the same would be next if they come for you and the morning he said every do not prevent them from taking you we will be next so that is actually. That is actually very seem of the mass movements have developed against racism against the signage and any against climate injustice etc of course the words reverberate starkly today because of the use of the word gas chamber in the state of
Hashtag need to movement meanwhile ladies and gentlemen across the atlantic pond the extradition hearings began for wakey leaks founder and publisher julian a son of a son just facing 18 charges here in the United States of america violating the espionage act and hacking if convicted the sons could face up to 175 years in prison but 1st the british courts will have to extradite him to the United States and this is worse than just lawyers are trying to draw the proverbial line in the sand assads attorney edwardss jerald argued that essentially the u. S. Is persecuting julian a songe not prosecuting him telling the packed courtroom today that julian a son just being made an example of President Trump and his administration decided to make an example of julian a son. So with Harvey Weinstein now legally a rapist yes horribly it was indeed rape no matter how much you claimed it was not and now the legal future of the freedom of the press hanging in the balance i think its time to do a litt
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Democrats, democrat votes 216, republicans 64 in favor of this, totalling 280. 150 people voting against. This is over the budget deal that Speaker Nancy Pelosi worked out with the white house that earlier today, had a lost House Republicans skeptical whether or not they could support it because of the price tag. It did reach a spending cap agreement for two years and suspended the debt ceiling until july 2021. It has passed the house now so that means they kick it to the senate and the senate has its own batch of skeptics but sources i talked to familiar with gop leadership on the senate side tell me they are confident they too have the votes, at least a broad consensus among republicans and democrats to get it through the senate and then put it on the president s desk, who was a wild card really until this morning, when he encouraged House Republicans on twitter to vote in favor of this bill, saying he is totally in support of this budget deal. So we are expecting if everything goes
On cspan2. Okay. We went right to okay. Well, i think thats the tone for what we want to talk about today. So welcome, everyone, with that to our first readiness subcommittee hearing of 2024. Hopefully, he will be able to join us. We have a new member joining the subcommittee this year, representative gooden of the 5th district of texas. I look forward to working with him and hopefully when our other subcommittee members free up from their obligations, we can get everybody over here, but i look forward to working with all of you as we go forward through this next year. Unfortunately as you can see from the photos todays topics is not a new issue, infrastructure across the department and the services continues to age and the deteriorating conditions at military facilities, obviously, have brought us as you well know. The neglect, the disrepair, the underfunding of our military facilities doesnt just harm our operational readiness capability, it does have significant impacts on everythin