G20 meeting early this morning and the biggest subject was covid. Yeah, no kidding. Saying covid is the biggest topic at the g20 is like saying, i was at the oscars, and the big subject was movies. And then, he skipped the session devoted to Pandemic Response to play golf again. Theres the caravan of carts. And there he is, aintdoin, jack nicklaus. As graceful as a dumptruck. He golfed on saturday and sunday this weekend. Ive never seen a guy try so hard to keep a job he doesnt even do. This is his schedule today. No Public Events again. Just some eating and private screaming into a mypillow. On friday, he did do something. He attempted to personally interfere in the election. He invited the Senate Majority leader and speaker of the house for the state of michigan to the white house. For some bigly buttering up. That didnt work, because today, the michigan board of canvassers certified the results, officially declaring joe biden the winner. Trump had another big loss in pennsylvania to
First Vice President ial debate. What to expect, coming up. Markets are higher, take a look at futures, a gain in the triple digits this morning, the dow industrials up 129 points, nasdaq up 43, s p 500 higher by 13. This after markets fell yesterday after President Trump walked away from the stimulus talks with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The president tweeting no more stimulus talks until after the election. Causing an afternoon reversal. The dow industrials down 376 points at the close, the nasdaq lower by 177 and the s p 500 down 47. Briefing bracing for impact, hurricane delta churning toward the gulf coast now, some Southern States declaring a state of emergency. Raining reining in big tech, lawmakers weighing whether or not top tech firms should be broken up. Getting away from it all during election week, the 5 underground adventure to get away from it all making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning look like this on the heels of ga
Cases unjust way and you dont have those that pick up the fruit that falls d from the tree and make jam out of it and i have in my role as an activist been more were tree shake that one that picks up a fruit and becomes one a leg to the office or head of a corporate entity in the private sector and i think theres a legitimate role for both i feel my calling is to be the one shaking trees rather than picking up fruits trying to make jam out of lets get to the jam eaters in a 2nd this book in this book you blame yourself and others becoming complacent under the Obama Presidency at tell me a bit about that and how you see that complacency is creating donald trump well i think that many of us were very supportive then are still supportive of many of the initiatives of president obama during his presidency from health care to Police Reform to other areas and did not do as much as we could to hold the opposition accountable and to hold even some aspects of his own administration that was res
National Action Network the initials of behind you that running joining the Obama Presidency i know time and time again in the book you talk about it is a model of grassroots action at the very local level to help a civil rights and social justice no i have we definitely were very active during is 8 years Trayvon Martin we were out on the front lines of that from the beginning as well as the ferguson killing in ferguson missouri Michael Brown in aragon all of that happened during the obama era what im saying is that we could do even more and i think that thats what i challenge that we should never even modify what we do and i think we were very active but i think we could have been more active while everyone knows you did you did a lot because we had we had one of the top trumps pastas. A guy called Darrell Scott he said that trump has been the most pro black president ever and of course he reminded us how black lies might have began under the a bamma presidency when those horrific Pol
Eulogy to george floyd killed by a us police i think british broadcasting regulators may allow me to say what a profound privilege it is for you to be on going underground but of course im going to ask you why is it not you rather than biden who is running against trump why do you call yourself a tree shaker in this new book of yours. I think that the history of dealing with movements in this country and even globally is that you need those of us that shake the tree in the sense of shaking up where a society has dealt in an unequal and unfair way and in many cases unjust way and you dont have those that pick up the fruit that falls d d from the tree and make jam out of it and i have in my role as an activist been more were trees shake their wonder picks up a fruit and becomes want to lead to the office or head of a corporate entity in the private sector and i think theres a legitimate role for both i feel my calling is to be the one shaking trees rather than picking up fruits trying to