Going through a genocide against muslim uighurs and we should talk about china s record on human rights or any other country, but this also points to another bigger problem we actually agree on that our media is controlled by a huge giant companies and billionaires that control what information we are allowed to see. in 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of american news. in 2000, the number had fallen to six and today it s five, so what happened? under reagan the authority to block media mergers was guided and then under clinton the telecommunications act of 1996 removed the remaining legal barriers against consolidation creating this problem with absolutely bipartisan and i hope we can fix it. mike: americans are concerned about the chinese regime of the uighur minority and then they bring out a uighur athlete to deliver the flame. is that the chinese
Jake sullivan offered this pep talk. take a listen. we need to believe in ourselves, confidence in ourselves. the u.s. and the west collectively comprise more than half the world s g.d.p. russia and china comprise less than 20%. china s most brazen act yet over the weekend, using an uyghur athlete as a torch bearer at friday s opening ceremony. intelligence sources report that as the games proceed, the chinese communist party s genocide of ethnic minority uyghur has continued unabated, just about 1700 miles away from the games. today china s foreign ministry defend the the torch bearer, saying people of different ethnic groups of china are one family. john. john: gillian, thank you. sandra. sandra: republicans calling out nbc for refusing to air an ad critical of china. the world s greatest athletic showcase. just outside the show, rape,
martha: so will president biden get germany to choose between russia and nato and the united states and our allies. that s one of the big questions that s asked at this news briefing. it s a very important moment in this russia-ukraine story. the president meets behind doors with olaf scholz. we ll take you there when it gets underway. everybody is gathered about it s about to get going shortly. the genocide games, that s what republican michael waltz of florida is calling the beijing olympics in a tv ad. he says nbc won t run the commercial because it calls out u.s. corporations sponsoring the game. the world s greatest athletic showcase. just outside the show, rape, genocide, slave labor, american companies are drunk on chinese dollars. entangled with communist
Mike: the world s greatest athletic showcase, but just outside the show, rape, genocide, slave labor as american companies are drunk on chinese dollars with entangled communist dictators committing atrocities and profit eating on the genocide games. mike: that was congressman mike waltz from florida slamming china for human rights abuses calling out major us companies endorsing the beijing olympics. walt says nbc has refused to air his add. back with us is our political panel with reaction, ashley davis and sarah norman. many americans want to support athletes in red white and blue, but are uncomfortable with the chinese reviewed regime hosting the olympics. actually, start us off on the paid advertisement controversy. well, i m always sensitive to calling things genocide and using that term just that well, so i pause on people using that, but my other thought is that
Run by representative michael waltz and cantor freedom takes on the genocide games. here is the ad that they wanted to run nbc is not running, watch. the world s greatest athletic showcase. just outside of the show, rape, genocide, slave labor. american companies are drunk on chinese dollars. tangled with communist dictators committing atrocities, propping up these genocide games, staged by the chinese communist party. and what can we do? stand for freedom. stand up to dictators. when you say made in china? put it down. will: that ad has been rejected by nbc. now why? according to congressman michael waltz, he said this is equivalent of holding olympics in germany in 199 40s or rwanda in the 1980s.