Good to see you. That document is so good, and it speaks to how the civil war is taught differently than youd think it is. The whole idea that in many places through the south, they do discuss the fact it wasnt about slavery. It was about states rights and the north invading. But what was really amazing about it is the effect that it has to this day on students in mississippi. I went there earlier this week to talk to some of those students about how they have to get out of high school before they learn real stories about the civil war and about slavery because they dont learn it in school. And its this thing that is so big and so present in American History, you would think there would be an American History about it. Yes. But there absolutely is not an American History about it. And those of us who learned it a specific way because we went to school in certain parts of the country are totally ignorant of how it is taught in other parts of the country and vice versa. Its so, so eyeopening and so shocking. Thats exactly right. And thoughtful. It does give us a different perspective on it. So im definitely very interested in it sunday night. Thank you, my friend. Thank you for that remarkable explanation of what was going on on the set of rust because na what as clear as its been to me all day. Have an excellent weekend and well see you on monday. Tonight we begin with ugly vitriol. Thats how Rachel Gonzalez describes the hate that her daughter libby had to endure speaking out against the texas republican crusade to punish transgender children in order to gin up their conservative base. Donald trump is out of office but what he introduced into American Politics is still infecting our politics and our democracy. He mainstreamed hatred. He created a Permission Structure that let regular people feel comfortable with spewing violent threats and worse at others simply because they disagreed with them. Now, this show has covered that ugly vitriol as it was hurled at politicians, election workers, school board members. But tonight ugly vitriol doesnt seem Strong Enough to describe what were going to discuss because the Republican Base emboldened by trump is targeting children. A tennessee teen was heckled and told to shut up during a School Board Meeting about masks after he shared that his grandmother had died from covid. A 50yearold father in florida who harassed students at his Daughters High School and recorded them Wearing Masks pushed, grabbed and twisted the arm of a High School Student who didnt want to be filmed. And Libby Gonzalez, who i mentioned at the top, is an 11yearold transgender girl. Shes been testifying before the Texas State Legislature since she was 6. She wants to educate. She wants to share her perspective. She may not be able to stop republicans, but shes not going to let them get away with it silently. Here she is earlier this month advocating for transgender kids to play sports on teams that align with their gender identity. Stop attacking trans kids. If you dont want to understand us, at least dont keep our families, coaches and teachers from supporting us. Libby is participating in democracy, in Civil Society. Some people are trying to scare her out of doing that. Heres how libbys mother, Rachel Gonzalez, described the harassment they faced when libby testified earlier this year. Quote, people were yelling at us, calling me a child abuser. Weve been at this for a while, and ive never seen it this bad. It felt really scary. It got so unsafe that libby, her mother rachel, and rachels other daughter were forced to hide in the office of the Texas State Representative jasmine crockett. Representative crockett has opened her office as a safe space to libby and her family anytime that they come to testify, which is great, except no one should need a safe space to hide in a state legislature. It belongs to the people. No one should need a safe place to hide when they come to give public testimony about Public Policy. Republican lawmakers in texas are trying to legislate away libbys rights, and conservative voters want to scare her from calling them out about it. Its a vicious cycle. Republicans are fostering hate with antitranslegislation like this, and that hate fuels another round of disgusting legislative proposals. Now, lets be clear. The hate didnt begin with trump, but it has been amplified by him. It has been made worse. Rachel gonzalez says the hate is worse than ever before. Quote, these lawmakers are emboldening violence by voting on whether transgender people have a right to exist and to live their lives. Dont forget that part. Whatever you think about being transgender, transgender kids have a right to live their lives. So do children wanting to wear masks in schools, and its a blemish on this country that one Political Party has gotten so toxic that we even have to remind people of facts like that. Joining us now is Rachel Gonzalez. Shes the mother of an 11yearold daughter, libby, who is transgender. Rachel and Libby Gonzalez have been act visits on transgender issues in texas for the past five years. And joining us, Democratic Texas state representative jasmine crockett. Representative, crockett, great to see you. Rachel, thanks for being with us. Your daughter is an activist, right . Shes exactly what we want out of a democratic society. She from the age of 6 has been testifying. I have spoken to her before. But this is sort of being transgender is sort of part of this. Part of it is that republicans in texas have made everything a battle to the death. Everything is Black And White and binary if you will, not to use that expression. Its oversimplified into if youre not on our side, we need to shut you down. Yes, exactly. Tell me a bit about how this is different from what it used to be because youve seen this. Youve watched this now for five years. Right. So my familys been doing this very actively since before the bathroom bill battle in 2017, and this year has been unreal the way that people have been emboldened to scream at us in the halls, in the rotundas, with my kids, their friends crying, taking photos, taking videos while telling me that im the child abuser, and getting so bad that we felt like our only safe space, especially with kids, was to be in representative crocketts office. And were so deeply grateful that she has provided that safe space for us, and not just my family but all females of trans kids that are there to testify against this horrible discriminatory legislation. Representative crockett, you and i have spent many a segment discussing whats going on in texas. Ive been in texas twice in the last three times probably in the last month. It is hard to get my head around whats happened in texas, why everything has become an existential fight, why there is this remarkable effort by republicans to simply shut down anything that does not conform to their life view. Yeah. First of all, its great to see you, ali. Im sitting here like getting emotional because this is a family that i love probably more than words can ever truly express. It just so happens that theyre my constituents until redistricting, and then they will not officially be in House District 100. But i remember this specific incident, and i couldnt believe it because usually when theres a big testimony day, i only get 500 square feet of an office because, you know, as a freshman, you dont get the Biggest Office in the building. And i remember getting a message from my office about what had happened. And i was flabbergasted. I usually give my office up, and i believe i was either in Committee Hearings myself anyway. And to know that these people had gone so far and been so emboldened that they would attack children was ridiculous, especially children in their capitol, right . Its sad that little libby has to come and testify in the first place. But this is the world that we live in after trump, right . I think that the hate has obviously always been in their hearts, but hes allowed them to say, hey, i feel this way. And they found all the rest of the haters, right . So theyre having like a hate party. Its really sad, especially coming from the party that claims to be all about christianity and loving one another. So, you know, at this point in time, all you can really ask of many of them is what would jesus do . And something tells me that none of these actions would be approved by jesus. Rachel, libbys not with us this evening, but what does libby think about this . She has put herself out there for a very long time. She would have a difficult time in the society in which we live anyway being a transgender child. But what is she feeling about how this has all unfolded . You know, shes very its a mixed bag of emotions, i guess. She feels a deep sense of responsibility because she is well supported and loved and valued exactly for being who she is in authentic existence. And not a lot of kids or you know, theres lots of kids that are not experiencing that level of support from their families, their teachers, their neighbors, their classmates, their friends. So she feels a really deep sense of responsibility to show up for all those kids that cant be there. But shes also crushed. I mean shes had some sleepless, very tearfilled nights. Seeing this last bill pass was really incredibly difficult for all of us, especially because she really felt like she made good points, that she was heard in a hearing that was held in the light of day, which hasnt often been the case for us in the past. And she was just crushed that after 10 1 2 hours of testimony, 84 of the General Public that came out to testify against this bill, it was immediately passed out of committee. And its really hard to feel like you have any ability to be heard when its very clear that the agenda revolves around the governors Reelection Campaign and not actually whats best for the people. This is interesting, and i want to ask you about this representative crockett. But first i want to hear from libby because she hasnt been able to be with us this evening. Lets listen to what she said after the testimony in april in which she was unable to deliver this testimony because she was cut off due to time. Lets listen to libby. Who am i supposed to be if these bills pass . I told my mom and dad that if this law passes, i want to disappear. I dont know how im going to go to school and pretend that everythings okay. Why are they so against our existence . No kid should have to worry about this stuff or have to go to austin to ask their lawmakers to let them have the health care they need. They keep telling kids like me that we dont matter, but i know that i matter. Please stop trying to convince me that i dont. Representative gonzalez, thats hard to watch, but let me just ask you this. At what point does everything that texas is doing, all of their efforts to curtail civil rights this is your area of expertise because youre a civil rights lawyer. At what point do even republicans and conservatives say, yall are just mean . This needs to stop. You cant be our government. Youve tweeted many times about the fact that redistricting in texas does not make it likely that republicans will be thrown out of the texas legislature. No. Well, theres a lot of them vacating their seats, though. I dont know if they just dont want to live up to this terrible record that they have, you know, from this session or from the numerous sessions that we have, right . I dont really think that theres a bottom right now. I think that these are people that are legislating not because they are doing what they believe is right for the people, but they are trying to figure out what do i need to do as far as what it is going to take to get me through my primary. To have lawmakers come up to me and tell me, hey, i had to change my vote on this or that because im concerned about somebody from the right coming and running against me, you know, thats ridiculous. That is not how we are supposed to legislate. Were supposed to legislate because we are doing what we truly believe is in the best interest of the majority of texans, or at least in the best interest of our districts. But instead, they are catering to a very small group, and they dont have trump to bring out these farright extremists. So theyre like, okay, well, weve got to figure out how we can get those people to show up because thats how we win. Right. Thats where the excitement in the Republican Party is now. And now the bait is transgender kids. Its kind of amazing. Rachel gonzales, thanks as always. Please give my regards and my thanks to libby for participating in democracy and Civil Society as we hope all our kids do. Jasmine crockett, great to see you again. Texas state representative jasmine crockett. Joining us now, democratic Congresswoman Marie Newman from illinois. She became a target of representative Marjorie Taylor greene after her daughter came out as transgender. Representative newman, i guess its a continuation of the same conversation, but Marjorie Taylor greene is the manifestation of somebody who we didnt likely think was the kind of person you elect to congress. But people get to make their choices about who they elect. She represents, i think its fair to say, meanness and hatred in congress, and youve been a target of it, and your daughters been a target of it. Thats absolutely true, and i think we have to remember is that is indicative of who she is, not what the movement is about. She is all about hate, hate campaign. We often say in my office when we walk out, we see a wall of hate because its not just lgbtq and transgender folks. It is shes a white supremacist. Shes an insurrectionist. She has a lot of hate. And thats the larger context here that there used to be you know this as a legislator. There used to be reasonable, rational arguments that were happening and should have been happening between democrats and republicans about social policy, about economic policy. That seems to be absent from the discussion. What id give for a straightup conversation about whether minimum wage should be 15 an hour or 12 an hour, you cant have that because were having these major conversations about social issues that rile up a base that doesnt want to talk policy. They they want to be they fear for their existence, and so they want to fight. Well, its indicative when all you have is ginning up on social issues and you dont have policy. Whats happening sadly in congress and im sure in the Texas State Legislature is that youre not talking about health care and how it can boost the economy and crush the vaccine. Were talking about these ridiculous hate campaigns. So lets get back to that. I spend all my time talking about build back better and how were going to fix roads and bridges and bring child care and create a Better Health care system. So lets get back to that. How do you do that how does that translate to your Republican Voters because in theory, youre trying to make the point that there are things in this bill you may not like. You may not like the size of it, every part of it, but its actually going to benefit you far more than arguments about transgender kids and lgbtq and black lives matter are going to benefit your kids. Heres the funny thing. We do agree on this. Whether youre a republican or a democrat, we all use roads and bridges. Theres only american roads and bridges. Theres not republican, democrat or independent. Lets make sure those roads and bridges are fixed and we bring our infrastructure back to number one. Were 13th in infrastructure right now in the entire world. Thats ridiculous. And similarly, we have one of the highest Maternal Death rates. Thats ridiculous too. So and ill just go back to texas. In a state where they refuse to expand medicaid, where they have a huge electrical grid problem, where they cant take care of their own mothers, i would think that they would think twice about going after a solution that doesnt have a problem, and thats what this bill is about. Its a hate bill. Thats exactly right. Thank you for your time today, Congresswoman Marie Newman. We appreciate you being here. Coming up, there is something really important thats often left out of discussions about President Bidens agenda, particularly its price tag. How much should we be investing in ourselves and our future generations . Never left out of conversations with stephanie kelten, and shes standing by. Shell join us next. Nicorette knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard. You get advice like just stop. Go for a run. Go for 10 runs run a marathon. Instead, start small. 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Democratic leaders are aiming to bring both biden agenda bills to the house floor by the end of next week, the smaller infrastructure bill, the bigger Human Infrastructure Bill if you want to call it that. After meeting with President Biden this morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi had this to say about what we should expect. Whatever it is, its going to be bigger than anything weve ever done for the american people. Now, the way these bills work, its a tenyear package, and the big bill is dealing with climate, with taxes, with education, with child care, with family leave, by the way, which will be pared down from 2 trillion from its initial cost of about 3. 5 trillion. Stephen dennis found the bigger picture. He says, quote, theres sort of a big fight in washington you may have heard about. Its about whether we send 62 trillion over a decade or 60 trillion. Joining us now is stephanie kelton, a professor of economics and Public Policy at stony brook university. Shes the author of the deficit myth. Professor kelton, good to see you again. Thank you for being with us. Ive never generally speaking met numbers i dont like talking about on tv except this is the one problem with talking about numbers. We put price tags on bills, but we leave the discussion about the value within those bills till later. So the debate is about bringing a 3. 5 trillion to 2 trillion. None of us know most people dont know what the value was in that bill, whats being cut and what were missing out because of it. Yeah, thats exactly right. We get really bogged down because these numbers feel so large, and they are large. And most of us cant wrap our heads around it, and of course the media likes to take advantage of these very large numbers and, you know, give us some Sticker Shock and make it all sound really unaffordable. So, you know, what were really talking about, what the democrats started off talking about with this 3. 5 trillion Reconciliation Bill and they have a framework. They had a framework for this. What it amounts to, we use termed like 3. 5 trillion, but thats the tenyear price tag, and its a weird sort of thing to do, but its budget speak. Everything is sort of costed in tenyear terms. Right. What it amounts to, ali, as you know, this is about 350 billion a year over the course of the next decade. Its about 5 more than the government would already be on track to spend. Right. So if we as individuals decided not to think about our monthly or annual budgets for food or for cloting or for housing or heating and we thought about it in tenyear terms, wed all be quite shocked actually by what these things cost us. But were not sort of made to think about the fact that i buy this food because that will feed me and my family for a week. I pay this rent or this mortgage because thats what houses me. What do we do to get people back on track about thinking about what we need to invest in versus just the price tag . We have to talk about our values. We have to talk about what is in the bill and why its in the bill. Why do democrats want to extend the child tax credit, for example . This is a single provision that is lifting almost half of all the kids in this country out of poverty, and its going to expire because its a temporary provision. Democrats are saying, why would we want to allow this thing to expire when it is doing so much good for so many families in this country . Lets extend it. Theres a discussion about whether to extend it for a period of years or whether to make it permanent, but that is meaningful. Lets talk about what it means to aspire to go to college and not be able to afford to do that. Lets talk about the struggles that families have finding Affordable Health care, finding, you know, a prek program to put their kids in so that families can, you know, deal with child care issues and people can return to the workforce if theyre dealing with, you know, caring for an elderly parent, caring for a sick child, paid family and medical leave. These are lifechanging programs, you know, policies that democrats are talking about putting into place or extending. And we lose track of that because we get bog the down in these debates about the price tag. Youve studied other countries that do this. Most developed countries do child care, family leave better than america does, and its sort of built into their systems. But they look at it as a return on investment, right . You just mentioned lifting children out of poverty. Its a return on investment. What do you get for the dollar that the government spends today or over the next ten years in terms of development of a child, in terms of all of these other things . Other countries tend to do this well, and they tend to have Better Outcomes than we do. They do. I mean you look at a thing like investments in Early Childhood education, and youre exactly right. For every dollar that you spend investing in Early Childhood education, the Research Tells Us that we get more than 7 in terms of the return on that investment. But, again, you know, that sort of gets us back to talking in terms of the numbers and making the sort of fiscal or economic argument for some of these. And i think, you know, its just the right thing to do. Do we want to live in the kind of world in which were supporting families, in which people who get sick have a right to see a doctor, in which people who aspire to go to college have the ability to go to College Without leaving, you know, with millions of dollars trillions in the aggregate in debt, but deeply in debt as a result of these things. So it is a moral issue. Its about the kind of society that we want to live in and the investments that were willing to make to make that a reality. I know youve written lots and lots of pages on this and spoken about it. But whats the simple answer to people who say, we cant spend on things we cant afford . Well, look, the federal government, as it proves time and again, is able to fund whatever it deems, you know, a priority. So, look, we just spent about 5 trillion supporting the economy through the pandemic. From March Of 2020 to where we are today, the federal government has stepped up with about 5 trillion. Your viewers probably know there was a vote taken just recently to authorize defense spending, to fund the pentagon budget. Right. You know, senators came in, and they said, listen, you made a request. You asked us for money. Were feeling generous today. Were going to give you 10 billion more than you even requested. So money is no object. The barrier to entry is the votes. If the votes are there, the money will go out. Stephanie kelton, good to see you as always. Thank you for joining us. Stephanie kelton is the author of the deficit myth. Coming up, they are putting their lives at risk to save us from wildfires, but many cannot afford a place to sleep. Youre not going to believe this story. Firefighters are facing grueling conditions while being underpaid and not having benefits. Congressman joe neguse of colorado joins us next to tell us what he wants to do to protect the firefighters. But then paul went from no to know. 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These courageous women and men take an incredible risk of running toward a fire, and they deserve to be paid and paid good wages. You know that old expression, god made man. Then he made a few firefighters . Well, its true. Theyre incredible. Federal wildland firefighters are responsible for combating all major wildfires in the United States, but shockingly, most are paid an hourly wage of 13. 45. Thats because wildland firefighters are classified as, quote, foresty technicians by the federal government. Theres no classification that takes into account the dangerous work that these men and women to. A Bipartisan Group of House Members want to change that. Congressman joe neguse of colorado, congresswoman katie porter of california, and congresswoman liz cheney of wyoming introduced legislation. The bill would raise their hourly pay to at least 20 an hour to run into a forest to tackle a fire. And their salaries to at least 20,000 a year. It would guarantee these firefighters receive health care, including Mental Health support. It would improve paid leave and Retirement Benefits and secure funding for housing and tuition assistance. The bill is called the Tim Hart Wildland Firefighter Classification and pay parity act. Its named for a smoke jumper from wyoming who died earlier this year while parachuting into a wildfire in new mexico. Tim harts widow, michelle, has been among those speaking out about firefighters unreasonable conditions and sometimes Michelle Hart said the Housing Shortage is so bad that they have nowhere to stay. Quote, tim lived three summers out of his truck because there was no Housing Available at his base in idaho. Joining us now is the democratic Congressman Joe Neguse of colorado. Hes a member of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and the cochair of the congressional bipartisan wildfire caucus. Congressman, you and i have had a lot of conversations, but weve never talked about this one. And i guarantee there are a lot of americans who do not know this. We only sadly hear the stories of these people when one of them perishes and we realize how brave they are and how they go across the country chasing fires, dropping into fires, doing what they have to do to keep our forests from burning, a problem thats not going away, and they earn 13. 50 an hour. Youre precisely right. Good evening, ali. Its great to be with you. Thanks for having me on. Look, we are pushing our federal firefighting workforce to a breaking point, and it has to change. I think the president is right when he talks about the need to ultimately ensure that these firefighters who are sacrificing so much on behalf of our communities, that ultimately they are well compensated. And as wildfires grow across the west, they become more intense, they become more dangerous, exacerbated by Climate Change as you know, federal firefighters are leaving behind their lives, their families for months at a time, Working On Average 16hour daily shifts, as you said in some cases literally sleeping in the dirt with incredibly limited time off to reset and to reconnect with loved ones. These are highly skilled individuals, and their Vital Services support literally every major Wildfire Response in the United States. I represent northern colorado, a district that is larger than the state of new jersey. Over 50 of it is federal public lands. And we had the first and largest wildfire in the history of colorado, 137 years, both happen in my district last year. And we relied on these federal firefighters to ultimately protect our communities, to save lives, to save homes, to save businesses, and to save our state. We owe them this. Im grateful to liz cheney and katie porter and my colleagues for joining me in this effort to ensure that we take these steps. You are all from states where this idea of Climate Crisis is very real for people. Its not even a political distinction. They get it. This problem of wildfires is growing worse. Nbc reporting more than 47,000 wildfires not acres wildfires have burned across the United States this year, destroying 6. 5 million acres or 15. 5 acres burned every minute. Thats according to the fire, weather, and avalanche center. This is not going away, congressman. So this problem about this almost informal firefighting source, the fact that we have not until now taken seriously these federal wildfire firefighters, our need for them is only going to grow at a time when we dont pay them enough, we dont give them enough support services. Thats exactly right. I mean, look, colorado is no stranger to wildfire historically. But the wildfires are becoming more intense, more pervasive. We no longer have fire seasons in the west. We have fire years where literally you could have wildfires raging in january and in december. And those fires are ultimately here to stay. Its important when we talk about Climate Change that we also talk about climate adaptation, which means making investments in wildfire resiliency, in mitigation through programs like the climate conservation corps, which were fighting for right now as part of the build back better plan with President Bidens support. But that we also invest in our workforce because at the end of the day, we are going to rely on federal firefighters for many, many years to come. Thats why these steps such as bumping the annual salary by 20,000 to 57,000 annually as the floor, not the ceiling, and guaranteeing housing, guaranteeing Health Benefits and Mental Health benefits are such important first steps in terms of investing in this workforce, as i said, for many years to come. Thank you for this work, sir. 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This could be trumps latest failed business venture, but in all seriousness, it could be a huge problem for democracy itself. Social Media Networks are probably the most powerful nonstate actors in existence right now, and governments have failed to understand them, to hold them accountable, or to regulate them even as social Media Companies do things that boost their profits but undermine democracy. Now, if youre competing to be the most undemocratic force in america, Donald Trumps also in the running, and now donald trump will control a social Media Company. He and his supporters and Conspiracy Theorists will have a truly unfettered space to spread their lies. It could also put money into Donald Trumps pockets with very little work on his part. We saw what happened in 2016 when the russian government used social media to interfere in the american president ial election. Now, imagine that scenario with not facebooks mark zuckerberg, not twitters jack dorsey, but the truth socials donald trump actually in charge. Joining us now, clint watts, a former special agent with the fbi and an expert in counterterrorism and misinformation. His book on the subject is messing with the enemy surviving in a social media world of hackers, terrorists, russians and fake news. Hes a distinguished Research Fellow and Foreign Policy Research Institute and an Msnbc National Security analyst. And on the right of your screen is roger mcnamee. Youre the perfect guys to talk to, gentlemen, tonight. Roger, it never leaves me that you have said that you believe social media is incompatible with democracy, or at least social media the way we have it today. I think there are a lot of people watching this show who think donald trump is incompatible with democracy and now the two have paired up. Ali, theyre perfectly made for each other. If you think what facebook in particular did, they connected 3 billion people on one network with no barriers, and then they enabled advertisers to target literally anyone individually with perfect data. The result was something that transformed the world of scammers and extremists. They can recruit their marks and then fleece them or radicalize them on facebook at will. And facebook did a lot of things to empower them, and this was hugely important for trump. He used facebook to suppress votes in 2016. He used social media to radicalize maga and enrich himself from them. He undermined the countrys response to covid. He tried to suppress votes again in 2020 and then organized stop the steal, which led to the insurrection. And the latest scam is his Media Company, which he pitched to his followers and which theyve now bid up by a factor of eight so its not got a market value of 3. 3 billion, having done absolutely nothing with a you know, a shell inside of it, it made turn out to be dangerous. Lets talk about that, clint. You and roger come from different places on this, but you both arrived at very similar conclusions. That is unfettered social media can be subject to being a distributing mechanism for disinformation and misinformation. Did this new development of donald trump pairing up or developing a social Media Company alarm you . It alarms me, but its completely expected. I think for any campaign and thats what this is its a campaign. For any campaign, you ultimately want to bring your users and close their minds by bringing them to an app of your own design. That way you can deliver them content that they like from people that look like them, that talk like them. It is literally an extension of a Propaganda Machine over time. The problem with this is all of it distorts what is reality. People will then go there for their news, which will be shoveled to them by news outlets that are confirming their beliefs, which are largely false with a mixture of truth. They will then go there to organize so that they can then facilitate Information Distribution to other applications, which will make it harder for them to fleece false and misleading information. Ultimately it can lead to things like mobilizations. What the users dont realize is theyre oftentimes giving up a tremendous amount of personal data. We already know this about social media. But when you look at whats going on with this app, how its administered, how its already been rolled out and essentially compromised instantaneously, we dont have any protections there, and it definitely wont be policed in a way thats sufficient to stop things like a Mobilization We Saw on january 6th. Roger, we have ongoing grievances from conservatives that their voices are squelched on mainstream social media, and yet day after day, including tonight, there are more reports about what some of these social Media Companies, particularly facebook, actually knew about the extremism that they were spreading about the misinformation that they were spreading. But the bottom line as you write in your book is this is by design. Its not a bug. Its a feature. They make money out of this stuff, Moss Information and Salacious Stuff gets more clicks. What should be done at this point . You both have called for a degree of regulation, of which none has happened. Yeah. Ali, thats the fundamental problem. The issue is not with social media per se. It is with unfettered social media, with no regulation. We really need regulation of three kinds. We need a food and drug administration, an fda for Tech Products because today without any regulation, many of the products are incredibly dangerous, not just facebook, but if you think a. I. , if you think about, you know, whether its cryptocurrencies or facial recognition or deep fakes, a lot of these things should not be allows at all and all of them need to be regulated. We also need to regulate the Business Model itself. There have to be rules to protect people from being manipulated by people who have perfect information about them. And so you have to prohibit the use of private data like health and location, things that are so intimate that give us away. And lastly, we have to allow for competition. The hardest Problem Trump will face with his new platform is that facebook and google are monopolists and can block his access to new people. But i do think trump has advantages there, and as clint says. Thanks very much for your analysis tonight. 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Democrats ambitious domestic agenda could be voted on next woke now that democrats are close to an agreement with the two holdout senators. At a town hall last night joe biden tried to explain some of joe manchins opposition, for example, to a climate provision. Joe manchins argument is we have coal in my state. You are going to eliminate it eventually. We know its going away, but dont rush it so fast that my people dont have anything to do. We are not rushing anything so fast with coal. Its an economic argument that will hurt people in his shat short term. West virginians still have it live on planet earth. But how about Free Community college . In West Virginia, 21 of the population is educated. But what a child tax credit, in West Virginia 16 of the population lives in poverty and onethird of West Virginia children lives in households that dont have enough food to eat or behind on their rent. Joining us now is the Bishop William j. Barber of the poor peoples coalition, president of repairers of the breach. Wex expert on all the ways that the democratic agenda could help people economic. Good evening to you. You are really going out of your way to make the point to joe manchin in particular that there are things in this large bill that would be of direct help to many, many people in his state. Youre right. His people have said we want to have a Revival Rally on the Capitol Steps because many of us voted for him. We are tired of the lies, saying he is doing this for us. 40 of West Virginia is either poor or low wealth. The people that want to speak out are those people. So on sunday at 4 00 thats whats happening. Senator manchin has basically become senator no. He is no on family leave, no on the environment, no on seniors having better medicaid, no on students going to community college, no on voting rights. The only thing he is yes to is yes to corporations and the greedy. He is not a moderate. He is really politically mean and immoral. His plan will actually cost West Virginia 17 i mean 10,000 jobs. Bidens plan would bring 17,000. And this man says he cares about working people, but he doesnt even want to people to make 15 an hour living wage. Like firefighters, like the people in his state. So the people have said they want to speak out and tell the truth and say he is not doing this for us. Even the coal miners want the things in in plan because they understand where the country is headed and where the environment is headed. Every time you bring up 15 an hour, thats 30,000 a year. This is not people running away with something. That is a hard amount of money to live on. You make an important point that in all of this discussion the people who dont have lobbyists and dont have representation in the offices of the lawmakers are the poor and lowwealth people of this country and you have worked for the last several months to try to get their voices heard so folks can understand how they actually live. How these things will actually affect them and raise them up. Tell me a bit of what you have learned. Well, i agree with one of your earlier guests that said we should have Drch Democrats should have never im an independent, should never have got tied up in the number arguments. What is the cost if we dont do this . We begged. We pleaded with the handlers at the white house, let us bring some folk, lowincome poor folk from West Virginia, arizona, texas, to the oval office privately, sit with the president , some economists and let them go to the mic and talk about the impact of the plan on them. For some reason, i dont know what it is, it seemed like even some of our democratic friends are afraid of the people that they are trying to help. On the one hand you have manchin lying on the people, trying to claim he is helping them, but then for some reason other people dont want to put the people in front of the mic who are actually going to be impacted. Thats what we are trying to do sunday at 4 00 at the West Virginia statehouse because we need to put a face on this and not just numbers. It is hard. Whether its this or voting rights, its hard for lowincome folk and people who live in poverty to take that time out. Its a privilege for us to protest and get out there. You have warned we must not discount these people. Very think of them voiceless so we talk around them rather than to to them. They are a voting block. They are powerful. If they are rejected, they will remember. Exactly. We better understand, america, that a third of electorate is poor and all of the battleground states, 40 are either poor or low wealth. And we are working to mobilize them into a powerful block around an agenda because thats actually the sleeping giant. We just released a study called waking the sleeping giant, and it shows in all of the battleground states the real power that can turn is poor and lowwealth people. Reverend, a pleasure to speak you to. Thank you for joining us tonight. Before we go, an important programming note. A very big night sunday on msnbc. When you are going to get a chance to see the new peacock original documentary civil war, look at the roots of division in this country. It will air sunday at 10 00 p. M. Eastern and tomorrow morning on my show. I will have a first look at the film, talk with the director, Rachel Boynton and one of the history teachers in the film. I had a chance to travel to jack, mississippi, where i talk about race and education in the country. It was a fascinating and important discussion. That and much more tomorrow morning at 8 00 a. M. Eastern right here on msnbc. And that is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams begins now. Good evening as we bring another week to a close. Day 276 of the biden administration. Tonight the January 6th Committee appears to have scored a win in its fight against Donald Trumps claim of Executive Privilege. That is to say a federal judge has signed off on an expedited hearing for november 4th, about two weeks from now. Trump had sued the committee, you will recall, claiming materials it was seeking are covered by Executive Privilege and, therefore, confidential. There is also news tonight about former Trump Justice Department official jeffrey clark, cited in a Senate Judiciary panel report as a key player in trumps effort to overturn the 2020 election. The report said he was in direct contact with the former president and willingly pushed other justice officials to act on trumps false claims of