To come back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there he and thousands and we followed him as the unofficial detective as he reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. How did you come up with the name . A voice was speaking first person and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and then woman he was in love with of adam made that she is in love with mouse and mouse looks at the person who is talking and thats what he came from. Why voices he supposed to represent . Its interesting because how the africanamerican voice is the choir of america. Did you set out as a vehicle for social commentary . Any good novel that talks about any character talks about how they are incurred and the society and culture and politics. Then you dont have a real character. It seems that everybody does that. Not a lot of people were doing that with black mail he rose to become a Strong Social commentary not because that was my intention bu
The committee will come to order. Good morning thank you to the witnesses for participating in todays hearing we all have the subcommittee will come to order. Good morning thank you to the witnesses for participating in todays hearing we all have a stake to ensure a safe and secure election in november. This hearing comes one week after we lay to rest a giant in Voting Rights. Before he died, congressman lewis reminded us the vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent in a Democratic Society and use it because its not guaranteed we must vigorously defend our right to vote with access to the ballot box and in less than 90 days americans across the country box and in less than 90 days americans across the country will participate in an election unlike any other in history that pandemic for state and local Election Officials to rapidly expand votes by mail and early voting and other policies so no voter has to choose between their life and their health. With the states primary elec
Agent in a Democratic Society and use it because its not guaranteed we must vigorously defend our right to vote with access to the ballot box and in less than 90 days americans across the country will participate in an election unlike any other in history that pandemic for state and local Election Officials to rapidly expand votes by mail and early voting and other policies so no voter has to choose between their life and their health. With the states primary election seemingly administrative decisions related to the number and location have dozens of impacts of peoples right to vote those that are predominantly black and brown neighborhoods and Police Violence to underscore that systematic racism and with those political ends with Foreign Influence Campaign and americans the president does not have the power moreover the Cybersecurity Infrastructure agency released Risk Assessment of vote by mail while there are risks associated with mailin voting just like every other method they can
Its going to be a disease. Covid19. Wand that answer people will mention the need for help for the jobless, the threat to mall sp small businesses, problems paying their rent or mortgage and the need for health care. But you what wont hear will be the need for a space force. Or more nukes or an overseas slush fund for the pentagon. You certainly wont hear about the need for more cost overruns or fraud and abuse from defense contractors. But thats exactly what we have. Weve increased our military spending almost 20 in the last four years, at a time of relative peace. But we have not kept up with our needs like health care, education and, of course, fighting the coronavirus. And yet we spend 90 times more on defense than we do the centers for disease control. 740 billion for the pentagon is a lot of money. And too much of it gets wasted on fraud, cost overruns, and outside contractors. We are literally flushing money down a drain and i mean literally. Due to the design flaw in the new 13
Fears. And companies from roku to Western Digital have been tempering expectations thats hurt sentiment a bit. Gold is at a record high nasdaq set for another record close, comfortably now up a full 1 . Continuing that breathtaking rally, coming up on todays show, the bet on pets. The ceo of the company that makes medicine for pets and l e livestock. And more earnings rolling in today after the bell, including uber, dropbox and t mobile also a first on cnbc interview with mike seifeieve seavert eamon javers has the latest on the stimulus stand offin washington, and phil lebeau is watching the airlines. Start us off with the broader market, mike. Today is a good example of how we are now in a market moment where the threshold for rallies on news is much lower than the threshold for a sell out. Nertsd, the market takes most good news and kind of shrugs off the less good news we got the better than expected but still kind of ugly jobless claims number. That palmback went away. We were fla