History on the red planet we asked alan stern who is leading the 1st ever mission to explore pluto about how high the stakes are when it comes to space all this more coming up in this lockdown edition of going underground but 1st lets go to portland to Gregory Mchale hes the vice chair of the Oregon Democrats black caucus gregory what on earth is going on in portland were seeing images all over the internet of tear gas of warfare not seen even in even in countries where are the u. N. Is imposed sanctions on. Yeah its really appalling to see in the streets of berlin its right downtown in the heart of our city and every night appears to look like a war zone we have troops in camouflage police deploying tear gas and flash bangs and its absolute chaos down town portland and its hard to see in a city that i love so much now you know the child was the boss of the department of Homeland Security says youre all violent and i casts on the streets of poland apparently theyre using george w. Bush
Valid advocates yeah i mean im not a violent man i care if they have never committed violence at a protest much of what they say is violent anarky is actually graffiti. I know that many people are appalled to see that graffiti but i think that image is such as george floyd getting the life choked out of him or even the flash bangs and rylan that weve seen at these protests as much more appalling than any graffiti that my occur at a protest and i also think it is a very small amount of individuals who may do that graffiti and it does not make sense in a country those opposed to be a free country that they would be deploying indiscriminate weapons against entire nonviolent crowds just because of the actions of some small amount of individuals while the nato nations are supposed to i dont know media in countries that washington may see as enemies the pictures of have to be on the internet mainly theyre not headlining the news what have you witnessed and what have you heard from the street
Over we ask longtime protest organizer vice chair of the Oregon Democrats black caucus gregory. And his nasa launches its historic perseverance rover to mars to look for signs of life is at the end of us a gemini and rocking the secrets of the universe after chinese attempts to make history on the red planet we ask alan stern who is leading the 1st ever mission to explore pluto about how high the stakes are when it comes to space all this more coming up in this lockdown edition of going underground but 1st lets go to portland to Gregory Mchale hes the vice chair of the Oregon Democrats black caucus gregory what on earth is going on in portland were seeing images all over the internet of tear gas of warfare not seen even in even in countries where are the u. N. Is imposed sanctions on. Yet its really appalling to see in the streets of berlin its right downtown in the heart of our city every night appears to look. A war zone we have troops in camouflage police deploying tear gas and flas
seeing is the toll it s taking on bipartisanship. because what we re entering into now is more of a parlitarian kind of government where people vote party rather than person. and back at the turn of the 21st century, we had 30 senators who represented states that the presidential candidate of their party did not win. so you had blue senators in red states and red senators in blue states. now we only have six of those. and one of them of course gets a lot of outside attention, joe manchin from west virginia, as does susan collins from maine, because they are such an anomaly. volatility is the new normal. there s a lot of really interesting information in terms of the flips in the house and the senate and the white house. but thing i want to point out is particularly in the house. you write that democrats controlled the house for 40 straight years from 1954 until 1994. democratic control of the senate lasted uninterrupted for 25 years from 1955 to 1980. 1952 until 1988, repub