refusing to leave the coffee shop. the regional director who was overseeing that store says she was fired in the aftermath just because she was white. and a jury agreed with her. awarding her more than $25 million for the ordeal. i m john roberts in washington, that s the way we start off a friday eve. sandra: a big development. great to be with you, john. this is america reports. shannon phillips oversaw several areas for starbucks, including philadelphia at the time of that 2018 incident. the two men were handcuffed and escorted out of that store after they declined to leave because they were waiting on a business associate. phillips was not at the store at the time but claims starbucks used her as a scapegoat to prove it was taking action in response to the controversy. the company says phillips was fired because she demonstrated an absence of leadership during the crisis. a new jersey jury sided with phillips, awarding her $25 million in punitive damages and $600,
about this agreement. but his primary audience is actually going to be that undecided swing voter in the middle, and really try to sell it to that voter. right, and chris hayes, this is a strange thing for biden. is that the fundamentals of the economy are good, and yet people feel bad. and so he s constantly in this position of trying to sell reality to people who are sort of defying reality with their sort of feel, their sort of feelings about things. to lawrence s point, i was a little surprised, precisely for the reason you enunciated. okay, we nade it. like not a speech giving occasion, but i think what it s going to be, to your point, it s going to be about the biden economy. i do think, look, inflation has been bad for lots of people. it has eaten into real gains. people also had a higher level of personal disposable income and that s come down as the sort of recovery has happened, as that money has sort of been spent down. there s a lot of reasons people do feel u
if you wanted to go to harvard or yale, you had to be at the top of your class. they demanded greatness from their students. if you wanted to walk the runway at fashion shows and have your face placerred on magazines and billboards, you had to be in tip top shape. stunning enough to make somebody stop in their track. if you wanted to run nasa, ibm or exxon you had to be the best in the business. they demanded greatness from their employees and that demand formed generations of excellence. the weak were weeded out. the strong were rewarded with money and status and a sense of fulfillment. our society doesn t have standards anymore. everybody gets a trophy. you re not allowed to judge anybody. nothing s taboo. the people we revered yesterday are despised today. weakness is rewarded and strength is punished. we traded excellence and achievement for diversity and inclusion. it s happening all across the country. in new york, the nypd s neutering the physical fitness test. they ar
Today is december 7th, a most appropriate day to welcome the authors of surprised again, the covid crisis and the new market bubble. Ive read this book cover to cover twice, once in its early stage before it was in print and again in the past week. Its not only an excellent account of the financial crisis that gripped the country as it recognized the severity of the covid crisis. But a very interesting discussion of the Government Policies enacted to counter the economic consequences of the pandemic. After the authors discuss their new book, chris demuth, distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute and i will react to some of the issues and events. Alex howard discuss in surprised again. Then well turn to the audience for questions, including the online audience who can send in their questions. And if my past interactions with these scholars, any guide, i would not be surprised at. All if we have a lively discussion. Alex pollock is a senior fellow of the macys institute. Between nove
Also in the house today a vote to override the president s veto of legislation repealing a rule waiving tariffs on solar parts from china. Later, members will begin debate on classified sentinal and related watch live coverage of the house when lawmakers return at noon eastern time here on cspan. We continue our live coverage on capitol hill. Take you to a house education subcommittee hearing on the Biden Administrations student loan policies. We join this hearing in progress. His performance. Is delivering the service on time in a timely manner to 17 million american families, is that part of your performance criteria . Well, im very confident in mr. Cordrays ability to manage this transition. What congress has assigned us is substantial overhaul of the form, the formula, terminology. It will be substantially simpler for families and schools, but its a major transition not only for us in retiring major data systems im afraid my time has expired. 17 million families will have a lot of