its actions are hard right and that s bad news not only for america but them. we ve never had a hard right government. we ve never had a president, house and senate that are hard right. it s so far away from the views of average americans and i would posit the views of most trump voters that they ll have a real hard time. chuck schumer, thank you for your time. i know it s been a week of late nights already. i m filled with energy, i m invigorated by the fight. thank you, sir. a quick programming note. i mentioned senator richard blumenthal the senator meeting with neil gorsuch and made the comments that the president s attacks on judges were demoralizing and disheartening. senator blumenthal will be a live guest talking about that and other matters on the last word after this show so you should stay here after me. although there s more me. i ll be right back. busy your life can be. how
we have strong values, it s what america should be about and what happened is the donald trump presidency moved so far to the right it s hard to see compromising with them on almost anything because they are not what donald trump campaigned on. as i said to you last time, if he were to say i ll abolish the carried interest loophole yeah, of course we d support him but they re not close to that. this administration still occasionally talks populist but its actions are hard right and that bad news not only for america but them. we ve never had a hard right government. we ve never had a president, house and senate that are hard right. it s so far away from the views of average americans and i would posit the views of most trump voters that they ll have a real hard time. chuck schumer, thank you for your time. i know it s been a week of late nights already. i m filled with energy, i m invigorated by the fight. thank you, sir.
on anybody publishing those photos. but russ kick in arizona, he figured it out. and he filed specifically for them. he placed a freedom of information act for, quote, all photographs showing caskets containing the remains of u.s. military personnel at dover air force base. he crafted it just right and he was the one who got them. when he got them he published them on his website, a website called the memory hole. once russ kick published the photo, newspapers and shows all over the country also published them. but it was russ kick who thought about this harder than anybody else did. he changed the way americans saw the iraq war, literally with those photos. he purposely got them out of government imposed oblivion and published them in 2004. now, get this we reported as our lead story that the usda under the new administration just disappeared data from its
this was not, like, in the 1940s. the federal government sided with bob jones university on their race ban for dating by their students and even at the time in 1982 it was seen as a pretty radical thing for the federal government to be doing. there were people inside the reagan government, there were people inside, for example, reagan s solicitor general s office and the justice department who objected, who didn t want anything to do with defending the racial dating ban but the reagan administration took this radical line on it and took it all the way to the supreme court and when it got to the supreme court they got destroyed. the court ruled against the reagan administration and racist bob jones university by a vote of 8-1. anthony lieu lewis wrote in the york times the 8-1 decision was worse than an embarrassment for president reagan and his lawyers, it was a humiliation. how couldn t president be given such incompetent legal advice? how could lawyers for the u.s.
to fight, issues to go forward. how will you and the state legislators that are committed to fairness and equality how will we go forward now telling people is not enough just to take the flag down. we still have to deal with other issues. thank you, reverend sharpton. you re exactly right. we have to deal with other issues like economic development, health care. in south carolina state government is the biggest contributor to slave wages where african-americans are not paid fairly. they re paid less than their counterpart. when i go in gas stations and buy gas and i see young african-americans buy lottery tickets. and they educate young white kids not to promote african-americans at a fair pay zale at the