We want you to call 2027488000 . If you are mountain and pacific time zones, your number is 2027488001 . We are opening a special line this morning for people who live in minneapolis. We want to hear directly from you so your telephone number is going to be 2027488002 . Keep in mind you can always text your opinion at 2027488003 . You can always reach us on social media on twitter and facebook. Things are still moving around the country and we are going to go directly to a local newspaper to get the most recent information. Keeping violent contempt on a curfew and widespread please for peace they rampage across minneapolis for a fourth night creating unprecedented havoc as they set towers on fire, vandalized, a shot of police toicers, all in the response a death of an unarmed black man under a White Police Officers knee on monday. By all accounts, Law Enforcement presence was almost undetectable as the violence rapidly accelerated until just before midnight into early saturday, when hu
Still having a conversation about ppe, is it really does blow my mind. Reporter as for the case announced yesterday at the Division Circle navigation center, that facility is now empty. It will be reopened as a shelter for people experiencing homelessness, who have tested positive for covid19, but do not require hospitalization. Reporter but the thinning of the shelter population continue contributes to another problem. You have a situation where you have 50 tents surrounding civic center plaza, all packed, backtoback. Reporter many are still calling for sanctioned camping areas to clear the sidewalk, an idea the city has considered, but not yet tried. You know, why is it that we cant do it . Because we need staffing, but were okay with people being on the sidewalks without staffing. Theres no logical sense. Open up the parks. Let people spread out. Everything is on the table and being considered. Right now, we are very focused on moving people who are unsheltered directly into hotel r
To see you there. We are pleased to have cspan spoke to be here today we ask that anyone participating, please step up too this microphone so your question can be recorded. Afterward, he will be signing books appear at the front. We have copies for sale in the back. I would like to thank you all for buying books from harvard bookstore. Awardwinning authors possible and we truly appreciate your support. Finally, how is your cell phones before the talk begins. Im delighted to introduce the speaker, the executive editor, devoted to this discussion of hard National Security and general counsel of the institute. Prior to this, the office of general counsel of the National Security agency. Benjamin is a senior fellow in the brookings institutions. He cofounded it. Hes the author of law and long work and future of silence as well as a good dripping writer at the atlantic. Jack goldsmith is a professor at harvard law school. Assistant attorney general, office of Legal Counsel from 2003 274 in
The federal government. The only avenue some launched a statewide homeless is toured a shelter in Nevada County today, the governor listen to volunteers at the Spirit Peer Empowerment Center in grass valley acknowledging the homeless issue affects not just urban but rural parts of the state as well state agencies are now working to identify vacant land and buildings which could be used to shelters under the governors latest executive order. The governor says cities and counties which work most aggressive to aggressively on this issue and engage with the state will be first in line to get new supported services. Its those that seek our support that asked for our support and are committing. To bring allow the states bridge support to be handed off to them for longterm support which is also a foundational point of what were trying to do that. Starting in march the state is also set to deploy emergency medical tents in fema trailers to areas in need of shelter. The governor says later this
The latest. Reporter well, the moms right now are inside the home with their families. We were told that locksmiths came here earlier today and soon after that, they expected the sheriffs to come. That didnt happen, but people started descending on this area, locking arms and vowing not to leave. Dozens of people rallying in front of this house on magnolia and spilling into the streets. Moms for housing taking over this home in november, a home owned by wedgewood llc based in Southern California. These large corporations are invisible. Theyre hidden behind layers of, you know, llcs and this and that, and its very difficult for tenants to pursue their rights. Reporter these moms are not traditional tenants. They took over this home and are refusing to leave. They lost their legal battle to stay in the home last week. A judge giving them until wednesday to leave. Moms tonight saying they will not resist arrest, but they will not run away. Me being used throughout this movement is to show