Us throughout the program tonight. His book is call, its been 85 since debs died. Why do we care about him . Debs is one of the labor leaders at a crucial time and a conflict between labor and capital, but more importantly, he was the central figure in the socialist movement at a time when it was a viable, growing and important part of the american political culture. So is he interesting as a snapshot in time or do you think he has a lasting legacy, do you think . Like many thirdparty candidates he and his fellow socialists managed to move the conversation in very important directions that have affected the development of american democracy ever since. So in that regard he is of his time, but he has also had a long impact on us, as well. We will have time to delve into some of the elections more deeply later on, but of the five bids he made for the white house, are any particularly significant . Two for very different reasons. The 1912 bid represents the high watermark of socialism whe
Terrific rally. But your 401 k has taken a hit. I think election chaos is largely to blame, and well bring you that debate throughout the show today. Look at this, as of right now, well, we had a huge selloff yesterday, and heres where we stand this morning, were way down again. A hot more selling. More a lot more selling. More worries about a second wave in europe, and there has been an uptick in virus causes here. Look at this, the dow down maybe 160 points. Youre back to 26,500, s p down 25, and look at that nasdaq, 10,600, down 150 as of right now. Premarket. Were on it. And heres what youre looking at right now, a uhaul truck in louisville, last night. It had been prepositioned, loaded with protest signs. The Kentucky Attorney general will not prosecute two of the three officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor are. After the decision came down, the uhaul was unloaded, and violent protests began. Who paid for the signs . Who organized this protest . Two Police Officers shot
Have all of you here. I dont need to do much of an introduction because you know our friend alan but i will tell you a secret. He was going to name the book 50 shades of alan but decided against it. He thinks only he can tell jokes. I can tell a couple of jokes. We are happy to have alan here in jersey so lets give him a jersey welcome, thank you very much. I spent a lot of time growing up in jersey. My father had mens underwear and work clothes store on the Lower East Side and his customers were all in new jersey. I would come on springfield avenue and new york and patterson and passaic and after the Second World War the armynavy store so i got to know new jersey. My first wife was from bayonne, new jersey and her classmate in high school was barney frank who i got to meet, he was 16 years old and i knew he would be a politician. I am here to talk about something that happened to me that could happen to you and it could happen to your sons, your nephews, your husbands. I was on top of
Lines. For those of you in eastern and central time zones, 2027488000. Mountain and pacific time zones, 2027488001. You can text us, 2027488003. Make sure you include your name and where you are texting from. On twitter we are cspanwj and on facebook, the post is up. We would like to hear from you, facebook. Com cspan. It is a poll that came out earlier this month from usa today dominated usa today in early december, a poll they did with sauce ipsos. A number of articles in this extensive peace piece. Here is susan page, the Washington Bureau chief of usa today, she writes about this poll, americans are united on this, they are sick and tired of being so divided. , social media,s and the news media have exacerbated and exaggerated those divisions sometimes for their own benefit. She writes more than 9 of 10, about as close to unanimity as a National Survey usually reaches said it is important for the United States to reduce that divisiveness. Some of the reporting from that poll on the
And i cant get the family members to move to well, anyway. They do a good job getting this information out. To certificate holders. One thing i want and i notice it might be off the sur joke, and ive been crying for a number of years, to try and get the grandkids certificates of preference also. We have a lot of them who would love to come back to the community but unfortunately they dont have a certificate. I have one son who was born after we moved and i never used my certificate of preference even though i bought a home. I never used my certificate yet in hopefully if i get mine out, and turn my home inform my daughters name i can get a senior place away from the kids. I whoa love to see some of the grandkids get certificate. Ms. London breed, i used to bring that up then. Maybe you guys could blow in her ear and have get that for the grandkids. But like i said, theyre doing a tremendous job in getting out the information and i know, i have some my wife has some nephews and nieces t