not to people living in enterprise or promise zones. using capitalism to fix the racial gap will work only if there s a means to transfer assets, wealth or housing. what s the practical application of that, how does that apply to policies we are developing now? so what we have done for 30 or 40 years, when we are talking about formerly red line areas that again were created by federal mortgage policy, all we have done is give tax cuts and incentives, from the clinton era, through obama, now comes opportunity zones program. we say big investors, private equity firms will give you a tax cut if you invest in this red line area, we call an opportunity zone. what it means is if you re going to be an investor and then you make the neighborhood better or revitalize it, you get the equity. best case scenario is people that live there maybe get jobs and things like that. talking about the racial wealth
now, getting under his skin or not? certainly i think think appreciate it when the president talks about them. it seems to elevate them. obviously the biden folks believe he is reinforcing the vie that biden is the front-runner by talking about him a lot. i think other democrats see that, that it s helpful to biden in terms of making him the issue and sort of central, but i do think the president s got a bit of an issue in not having figured out a couple of these other candidates. in talking to democrats and reps there s theories on that. one of them is the president has a sort of visual view of the world. he think being tv a lot, somebody who was on the celebrity apresentition and the apprentice as the central character, so harris and buttigieg may be a sharp
information to work with. scott, let me ask you this. that said, what is economic property expert, and houf of a motivator is it, for so kim jong-un has made it clear that he wants to make slur that he s developing the country s defense capabilities, but also wants to develop the economy this is something different from what we saw under his father and grandfather who were most interested in dolphing to defend the country again u.s. and other enemies.
over the place. right. but in fact we fully support another regime in the middle east that does that. we are fully on board with saudi arabia that does very similar things. that s right, but this is the economic relationship that the u.s. has had with saudi arabia, whether it s owl, whether it s arms sales over the year. iran has been a threat to those countries, saudi arabia, the united arash emirates. what the u.s. has always been fighting is iran taking its rightful place in the region. the u.s. has said in order to do that, you ll have to stop using your proxies to stop destabilizing it. that s something that iran has never wanted to do. i think if there s a larger conversation between the u.s. and iran, it s going to have to talk about those type of activities. i think the nuclear situation, iran really, the whole idea of nuclear weapons is to continue to have dominance over the
votes in the house. i do. and we need border security. nancy, nancy. garrett, who s right? i think back to republican in texas, will hurd, who has said before, a wall, nobody wants it or needs it. yeah, republicans have been projecting confidence on this. i just talked to jim gordon of the freedom caucus as i was waiting to go on the air, and he said, of course, we have the votes. of course jim jordan would say that. there s a couple of truisms of capitol hill here, if you have the vote, you take the vote. yesterday, he said, why bother if we know the senate won t pass it. now they may have to call up a vote just to back up the president on this. but if they had the votes, you would have thought that republicans in the house would have passed this a while ago. just to put more pressure on the democrats, to prove that they could do it. and the second truism is, do not question nancy pelosi as a vote counter. she is still the best in the business at this. and if she thinks that