3. Dollars or more coming up in todays going underground 1st in the next 48 hours derek cho vinay Police Officer charged with the murder of george floyd who sparked a global protest will make his 1st Court Appearance in minneapolis but what can charging a handful of Police Officers really do when u. S. Authorities have responded to protest with the factor martial law by tear gas rubber bullets and Armored Vehicles joining me now by skype from nashville in the United States is david a professor of africanamerican and the asper studies at Vanderbilt University david thanks so much for coming on im going to ask you actually the other day the New York Times published a call for military intervention it was written by a senator from arkansas tom cotton a call for overwhelming force and the use of the insurrection act which of course would mandate federal military troops across the United States i saw that piece and like most americans you know and i think this cuts across racial lines was. Donald trump playbook d is one of divisiveness one that plays to. The racial. Legacies that has long player the United States and really to this whole discourse underground or maybe not even so underground discourse of White Supremacy he completely denies that saying that actually he is being the nest for people of color it is its baffling in a certain kind of sense because there was a piece in the end nothing like it was the Washington Post about the ways in which. Donald trump will Say Something. You know Say Something in one moment thats caught on camera and literally turn around and the nih that he said it in the next it would be laughable and bizarre if it wasnt so utterly dangerous ok well youre in Republican National convention territory there in nashville joe biden after all is the president ial candidate for the democrats in november i mean what do you think about him making Political Capital whilst being known around the world for mass incarceration of africanamericans an opposing desegregation i think a lot of times africanamericans are stuck. In situations where you have to make the best choice within a given field and i think what we have and by like we have in a lot of politicians is an imperfect politician but when you consider the alternative biden its by far. The better candidate to engage with with these issues and at the very least to stop the bleeding we would not be facing. Tanks and tear gas if we had say for example Hillary Clinton in the white house right it doesnt mean that these folks dont have deeply problematic legacies as we know with hillary clue. And famous. You know quote about bringing people you know these super predators to heel we know that and biden has many many have said many things that are deeply problematic i mean in saying in africa obama is known for destroying africas richest per capita country i mean im sure about libya there and as far as i know donald trump doesnt launch any wars on nations of people predominantly have a why is it these participated certainly in the perpetuation of White Supremacy in the United States when there were White Supremacy nazis rioting in virginia over the confederate minute minute he said there were good people on both sides when it was when the other side was clearly a group of nazi White Supremacy hate crimes have exploded it was not too long ago that donald trump was was was was calling african countries all countries so you know when you start this kind of but there must be a difference between words and bombs from obamas era planes falling on these countries you know thats i mean i think theres some ways that thats the republican playbook right instead of talking about the realities of the Current Administration the impulse is to try to retain their rate presidency of obama as a way to distract from the utter lie corruption of the Current Administration obama was that impeached okama wasnt you know a perpetual liar other people have doubts about that impeachment as you know well over here we had there Rudy Giuliani the former mayor of new york trump advisor now claiming that. This is all a left wing conspiracy about george floyd and no one is covering the death of a retired Police Officer in st louis Rudy Giuliani was one of the orchestrators stop and frisks frisk campaign in new york city which has now been proven to be unconstitutional because it clearly targeted black and brown people ringback. So when you invoke Rudy Giuliani as your war as your source of insight i find that to be deeply deeply flawed hell definitely deny that what is the role of police and thats what you know im sure thats exactly what you do well what is the role of police today in the United States because i mean many socalled liberal cities like minneapolis de blasio is new york 5000000000. 00 budget on police in oakland half its money and its budget spent on police even in these supposedly progressive Cities Police seems to be the number one priority often stated as why is it given so much more priority than i dont know homelessness and. How that on or about that excellent thats an excellent question the mayor of l. A. Just announced that a significant portion of the budget that was going to Police Officers is now going to be redirected into certain communities of color to support these very kinds of efforts now i would say that is a good starting point but i think part of what has happened is over the course of the years there has been an increase in political rhetoric around safety and around. Crime which as this part of the larger Prison Industrial Complex right you ramp up this this kind of idea that everybody is unsafe and we need more policing because theres such a huge threat and of Course Police unions and such benefit from that. And the coffers start to feel right and what we what we know is that crime in the last 10 years has actually precipitous league gone down but you would not know that based on the political rhetoric and the hype around criminality that persist so it makes it very so any politician whether youre on the right or the left that invokes a certain kind of reference for the police or reverence for increasing security actually built up a lot of points right so it becomes very difficult it becomes very difficult to argue yet those types of funding for those departments when they now have so much not only presence and power but now because of all of this money thats flowing into their coffers they also have a lot of lobbying power so that part of what youre seeing police as i understand it were created in the south to track down runaway slaves as it will is it time now to hand the police i think what we need is radical reform i dont think you can expect to change any of these kinds of dynamics of violence in the policing system if you dont have levels of accountability studies have shown that many white lease officers have more racist and racial insensitivity issues than the general white. Population we see that its almost impossible to convict a Police Officer for the killing of africanamericans i think in minnesota that only happened like once and so yeah with that the end of the police i think the end of policing as we as we understand it now i think there needs to be a policing that is accountable to those key. Unities that the police what we know now is that most Police Officers do not live in the communities that they policed so we need to change those those kinds of policies theres no real talk of reparations being paid to black communities that have been systematically underfunded over over generations but one morning with the institute survey claims that of the people who responded 54 percent thought it was possibly justified to burn down a Police Station thats white and black people being told what exactly is going on in the United States weve heard people in the boat more than 3 kings statement that a riot is the force of her im sure by now though the world has seen that horrendous video of what was a public lynching. And so people are outraged and rightly so little when you can take somebody who is not convicted but who was unarmed acute mind you he will accuse of something right that taney and put him in the police car like were he to take his hand in a police car you take him out of the police car wrestle him to the ground and literally kill him as people around are watching saying and filming saying the guys dying why dont you get the knee of his neck and literally put your hand in your pocket and literally snuff the life out of him. The fact that there is that type of violence that we see in response to that is its highly predictable given that the issue is not so much the way in which people are looking at Property Damage on that is the problem is how is it that weve tolerated this type of violence and destruction of human life not physical property but human life for so long they want to be in charge as i say and as you know very well many politicians equating. Human life with property has turns i can understand it and thats true and thats our White Supremacy and hopefully people are finally starting to carve that out for what it is but with a chance has allowed. Well it just has allowed obama and of course black lives matter started under obama obamas rhetoric arguably let it fizzle out likewise matter whats going to happen with these protests are going to fizzle out to the black vote Matter Movement started because a White SupremacyPolice Brutality in ferguson. Black obama happened to be the president under that particular machine and unlike what is happening today there was actually a conversation about what is going on there was actually engaged minute in terms of whats going on. Keep going because you keep bringing up barack obama i will remind you that when he was and i have written a book that had been very critical of a lot of policies that he did so i am certainly no lol you know im not riding for a bombing in a kind of a but facts matter so when he was a senate it illinois he was part of a chief sponsor of appeal to address Police Brutality that put cameras in cop cars to address issues of racial profiling that proved to be very substantial donald trump his legacy is of accusing those young black men in in new york in that central park rape tragedy of doing something that now we know they did not do a column for the Death Penalty of these men that is his legacy a legacy of racist profiling in his businesses and al this stuff is well documented i think the question that you asked i think that is a very good question is will will the movement feel so i think theres something thats going on here that we have not seen before and one of those things is a kind of racial participation if you go when you look in places like Salt Lake City that has a black population of less. And 5 percent and theyve got major rallies where you are or there is a there was a major rally and princeton new jersey for example there are rallies in maine and some of these rallies are mostly white people mostly middle class white people so youre seeing this is this is not like a ferguson this is much this is this has much more reach across racial lines i think that in and of itself. Means that there will be some traction beyond the protests on this at least that is what my code is professor david buik i thank you. Thank you off in the right Stanford UniversityNobel Prize Winning professor Michael Leavitt on why the pandemic may be over much sooner than we think and why nationwide lockdowns and social distancing have nothing to do with all this going on but through going underground. Very building never great was founded on the rapes in the murder. Nothing changed so we said in. Response to these situations that were dealing with. People get sad every day he is just people killing each other blacks are killing children. Still is just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. This country doesnt work for us it doesnt function for us. This is cant be happening in america we call from the streets weve got to deal with why this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on ill show you whats the reason for any type of enhanced u. S. Military presence in this area rush up. What is it suddenly about the South China Sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. Take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have Nuclear Weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so thats why were going to drill down on the story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly its time to do news again. Welcome back the u. S. And the u. K. Have been among the countrys worst hit by coronavirus with some of the highest death tolls in the world but the trumpet ministration and Boris Johnsons government have been criticized for acting late but Nobel Prize Winning by a physicist at Stanford University professor Michael Leavitt who accurately predicted apparently the slowdown of coronavirus cases in china believes the nationwide lockdowns imposed were propelled by panic rather than signs he joins me now via skype from tel aviv thank you so much michael for coming on the start of 1st principles if we may every day in britain were told of how the nort number signalling the rate of infection basically dictates how society should operate i understand you claim that north is the not what were being told well firstly what youre being told is r t or are affected which are not never change they are theyre telling you is basically how at any point in time. One case in fact how many other cases so it does change with time its not on or its r t or any more effective. I am not a fan of this number. Because its actually very very difficult to calculate and its not it a very easy number. The reason is is that basically if you need to. Calculate going back a certain number of days usually 7 or even more than that and this means that theres no way to get any information early on in the epidemic i must say ive talked to many of the glee ologists and offered to give me their computer programs to come get our 0 they really arent easy or talk and i prefer a much simpler measure which anybody can understand and that is the ratio of the number of cases today the total number of cases youre right about the total number of cases yesterday if you want to ask about new cases new cases involve differences of 2 numbers new cases the pending the day of the week it depends on your collection procedure so basically this whole fixation on our is really not a good idea and just so our viewers know youre a pioneering. Scientist in molecular dynamics in protein structure itself why would our chief scientists medical offices here in london the downing street then tell us that it depends on north whether we can go out of doors or see our relatives. What they really mean is this whether the number of cases are increasing or not and i think that any one in 2 to 3 which say that if the number of new cases today is less than 100 new cases yesterday were going to before then we are not growing rep a sickly sorry down and theres been a case in britain for many many weeks now lets just get to the fact that obviously we have more than 60000 that certainly excess death figures may be here and before Boris Johnsons top scientific scientific model or Neil Ferguson left his position he claimed that without social distancing. Basically the deaths could be 250000 deaths here in britain in the u. K. He actually actually came out over estimate well i think the difficulty here is that you know. That number was based on various assumptions i got to a Different Number based on observation without any assumption that sort of what has happened in other locations such as the city of lacan in china the dominant princes cruise ship and they gave numbers that were about 110th the numbers coming out of Imperial College the fact remains that we dont have to really speculate switzerland had a rather mild lockdown trains continued people could travel freely sweden has a much milder lock on than anybody the predicted numbers to sweden where around 60000. 00 sweden it looks like its going to stop at 6000. 00 at the most so basically you know you dont have to worry about resting in the usa this myras really does seem to be limiting it gets