americans through generations. it s why i proposed the douglas plan. as ambitious as the marshall plan that rebuilt europe but we ve got to invest right here in america. criminal justice reform is important but that s not all there is to the black experience in this country. we have to lift up black entrepreneurs, making sure that federal taxpayer spending and i propose we do this at a 25% target, is going to those who have been systematically disadvancdi disadvantaged in the past and a black middle class of professionals in education, law enforcement, medicine. we need systemic answers to deal with this issue and we need to confront the legacy of discrimination. mayor pete buttigieg, thank you so much for your time today. good luck on the campaign trail. a top republican called senator rand paul a big loser on twitter this week. at least it wasn t president trump. senator paul will join me next. and 2020 candidate andrew
as it is, with all profiteering factions of any bureaucracy, no one wants to lose their piece of the pie. when they call a prison an industrial complex i hate that term. why do you hate that term? don t look at it that way. we re not manufacturing automobiles. no one profits from it. jails don t have shareholders. we re not traded on wall street. the companies, some of them, maybe. the companies that are part of all of it. $265 billion a year in taxpayer spending means a sure profit for companies like securist, who charge hiked-up fees for prisoners to use phones to call their loved ones.
we re not manufacturing automobiles. no one profits from it. we also have shareholders. we re not traded on wall street. the company that s part of all of that. $265 billion a year in taxpayer spending means a sure profit for companies like securisk, who charge hiked up fees for prisoners to use phones to call their loved ones.
he is great, he s been great, i like the work he is doing for the administration. he s making sure that the regulatory agenda is being pushed through, that we are allowing the coal industry to come back as a result bret: he is doing all those things. the president did not talk about the great successes of scott pruitt. the interesting part about today and the information that came out about scott pruitt was the number of sources and different media outlets who had different stories. five different stories on five different ethics issues today in a number of different publications. the question is, who is doing at? who is out to get him? the president seems to allow some of his cabinet members to get away with a few things until they become a distraction. when you have an inspector general report about your taxpayer spending, you become a distraction and people start asking about it on the president has little patience for that. i haven t talked to a single person at the white h
go was tom price at health and human services, then it was rex tillerson at the state department. now we can add this way? this way. three, two, one! ah, there it is. secretary of veterans affairs, david shulkin. like lots of trump cabinet secretaries, including tom price and ben carson and ryan zinke and, arrannd, and, david shulki he, too, had embarrassing ethics problems, including lots of taxpayer spending for what looked like long european vacation for him and his wife. but like i said, there are lots of trump cabinet secretaries who have that particular embarrassing problem, even worse than he does. but now he s the one who s out. and part of this may be just another instance of the president seeming to enjoy doing