Biden in your new book or the main troll biden is that he has been very conservative throughout his entire career and really kind of. Created the conditions in many ways that led to trumps roys. Which i think is kind of. The main worry with him is is is he going to be able to step up to the plate and meet the mormon theyre not just with the pen demo can be and there is a tradition thats having that also as you say the Climate Crisis which is easily the the greatest threat facing human civilization the question is going to be radical. And going to be bold enough to take the kind of steps and styluses you have to be doen to meet those crises you know at the moment trying to simply is not not there at the spinal the endemic. Courses. Just putting a fuel on the fire of the all the Climate Crisis mess i think for that reason people are kind of looking at biden and and saying that he was isolated a easy thing in the pause thats not doesnt specifics i mean he seems to be able to guarantee through the pollsters havent mass time out from africanamerican communities in the u. S. Just tell me about his record was he for racially segregated schools or a not because i know you say by 980 back every racist anti busing measure including bill from jesse helms why didnt change agent paul 6 just at the center christening of the new deal with the political order that had been put in place by Franklin Roosevelt and survived for you know a good 34 decades maybe 5 depending on what was the definition you want to use by the 70s that starts a kind of full pot because of a variety of factors and all the body came in and then 70 eights are running a campaign that was what you might describe as kind of broadly economically populist you know running and protecting its spending Social Security analysts other kind of stuff chris as a corporation for avoiding taxes by nice 75 he sense of the winds was shifting the political winds were shifting and so he sharply turned a whole host of issues on one of which is things like crime and particularly bussing which people are familiar with that bussing was a form of receipt to show for a cigar geisha in decades of segregation that aims to take kids black ants and black neighborhoods and bus them on it suited only white schools and also some cases through the offices of us white kids the black schools there was a lot of. Anger and tension about those conservatives really made it a key issue and a kind of a wedge issue that they used through. Attack the new deal order and by then realize particular in delaware which is a conservative state kind of a its a Northern State but it was a slave owning state has a. Deep legacy of racism he face a lot of pushback from his conservative constituents in the like that their kids are being bused to black schools and he has said you know well look i can see which way this is going and he so it became a sort of very vehemently. Parsing politician and its not just by saying he also or really was one of the chief architects of the mass incarceration system that has of course the dominantly. Black communities and then its the its theres a whole host of other things you know as a as a decades war on the economy a liberal consensus that reagan into place deepened and became more entrenched and i hated i mean using having to be careful welfare reform to b. K. He voted for reagans landmark a budget to cut or eliminate Health Education and social Services Programs you know saying by the mean a things hes writing a plan to cut 100000000000. 00 more more than reagan slashing medicare and Social Security i mean how is it that he has now seem hey how is it that someone like angela davis could be on this show saying vote biden i know hes not great but you know hes the best hope you say that he had a friend that strong thurmond was his friend thats the racist spin that it repressed and segregationist. Yeah thats part of bidens kind of view of the senates in the senate told this hes kind of clubby culture where the ideas the political differences are really important even if theyre really vile and terrible political differences whats really important is is kind of being civil to each other and so he made a big point and a big show of the fact that he was friends with strong of them and when thurmond died he was one of the few that actually went to his funeral. That the reason that people are saying now you have to have a biden is not because people have any sort of illusions about revivalism was regulars and you know. Certainly people have tried to make the case that actually hes going to be the next Franklin Roosevelt which i you know if im very doubtful but thats not the case and they the case is that in the lord political system of the United States you really only have 2 choices you either have a choice of trunk or bind and tribe is really as bad as viners trump is worse than actually every issue now obviously the United States has been watching the Supreme Court of the United States at hearings for a a macone barack i mean as as a Supreme Court nominations and joe biden why is no one ever talking about his support for Clarence Thomas even after the anything else sex allegations little known his support for judge scalia. Has in my opinion been a bit of a unofficial can in a lot of the Mainstream Press the United States on reporting. Very critically about biden or scrutinizing him a mean. Hes really use the coronavirus and demick to hide away from the press to not take questions to avoid interviews its something that people are now starting to talk about a lot more than lena for a long time because the mention this of this is a very smart strategy its very clever the way hes avoiding us for his unwitting answer me i just dont its a matter of that just. He about im not packing the court not about his history lawyer not liking the court but theres a lot of stuff theres a lot of things in this record that people have kind of politely avoided talking about in this election has really become a trump and not really about biden you know biden thats probably at this point one of the least scrutinized candidates in history at least i can remember and i think its a bit of a hangover from the 2016 election where i think the media in the United States saw themselves as the reason that Hillary Clinton lost in the trump war and that because they were so are critical of her and lets be clear they have a lot of things to be critical of him for but because they are a sore critical of they feel that they ended up having trump image and i think that there is a feeling that they have to avoid doing so at this time and so youre right things like his support for Clarence Thomas there and you mentioned things like his support d for example welfare reform which said welfare reform in the mid ninetys that does not get a mention either you know has his role in voting for nafta and supporting it a whole host of things you know even as his policy on the war on terror he was really key. In that entire infrastructure being built thats been left in a way senator think again its going to want to essentially a referendum on trial what specifically on welfare i know this book goes into detail about his support for the for the failed war on drugs he was a kind of a. Trendsetter for the failed war on drugs oh where was he coming from on the on welfare. So im probably in the United States really became hillary racialized from sixtys on was and there was this idea and that was really cemented into place into being as large by the reagan in the marine 180 s. That welfare d disproportionately was it was a thing that only really helped black people and that it made people lazy and that actually all just 7. People and again that in the popular measure africanamerican people were taking advantage of the system and there was a need to reform and to make a list ringback generous so that people would not be avoiding work that was the theory was is completely bunk its a good its a completely left but that was what conservatives consoled to the public through the eightys and ninetys and i 6 of bill clinton finally signs and series of isis welfare reform that basically says the federal governments going to take care of offering more its going to give money to the states and states can figure out how they want to implement welfare and buy them but just voted for that but he was actually one of the key democrats who was pushing for that in the mid ninetys. You know as a in the thats harmless very conservative period and it was seen as advantageous true to what people triangulate to kind of approach right wing positions and this was actually welfare reform that was one of the positions in rich who was the architect of the kind of republican comeback in the ninetys ok with the race and all perhaps it means that when obama. Presumably choosing him to be Vice President he ignored the comment from biden saying obama is the fust mainstream africanamerican who is articulate and bright and clean biden. I think was picked for a lot of reasons has been really prominent one is that basically not only do you want someone whos already been think is going to run for president and sort of have his own ambitions of course and not be. Wrong. In the chagrin but also was that if he picked someone who was kind of white and more consume them all that were considered meant that he would get some people bored you maybe a bit spooked at the idea of having a black president true much attention is paid to siri martins comments and you know they get me wrong they are also. Offensive. But i think people its a pain more to the actual polls i think the problem with biden and frankly with trump is not their rhetoric its all of the things as say as the things that they do its a way that the whole season theyve implemented respectable careers that really hurt africanamericans and latinos and the whole who are sick or something that is that the big issue. Stuff you that more from the author of yesterdays man the case against joe biden after this break plus photography for the mass of an unsaved. And it was a very nice offer from president putin that i could have said no thank you or i could have said thank you and i said ill take it and now its time to introduce might as bestial mr nestor dont challenge thank you says it very much for the. Name whatever you want to name i mean i dont know how when i come that news thats dishonest tell an icon that a recorder or a network thats totally dishonest c. N. N. Has sensed you know some 100 percent negative i can read this change fast changes so fast sometimes ill say thats going to be a great story id be a pretty good reporting. That is good as you. Will see what happens. I always say who knows what well see on the film will be a success. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Median government is bleak if you disagree with the official narrative youre called a conspiracy theorist never mind many official narrative actually martys news it. Is big war with. Welcome back im still here with the author of yesterdays man the case against joe biden bronco market which some may know the name dupont to because of agent orange that was dropped on vietnam in the us war that killed millions that was bidens relationship to dupont what is his relationship to corporations even before he supported the destruction of the glass steagall act that arguably created the 2008 crisis you know delaware is the corporate state and spin as you say dominated by the jubilant family for generations youre really trying to find politics if youre cross to dupont valley recent delaware. And biden he drew on employees to stuff a sin alvas he met regularly with the typical person he was actually even at when he criticized corporations oh is great you always want to make sure to say well the ducal company those different dailies pay the tax and next to nothing and its all just appalling i mean the thing that people have to understand that that came in by his career as a result of this was the bankruptcy bill that he supported that was signed by george w. Bush which was really done at the behest of Cricket Companies like in b. N. A. Which was as biggest dorna hired as sun i want to since it was actually more at my dads house at one point. And their piece of legislation made it more difficult or middle class families particularly to declare bankruptcy because of it imposed a means test on who could file for us then type of bankruptcy and start. You know things are gloss to go as well there was definitely i think with an eye on the war with benefits banks and Credit Card Companies and elsewhere and you know we can see that an increase occurrence here is took 5 unseats and is now poised to play a really Important Role in his administration potentially chris chris really does the bidding of the Big Pharmaceutical Companies of delaware. That stake context i think is really key to understanding not just biden but maybe some of the policies that will be pursued an r. C. M. P. And they deny any wrongdoing dupont denies that any wrongdoing usually settles with no liability and it always act appropriately but you go so far as to suggest that it was biden who personally told obama to water down the much criticized on the left let alone the right obamacare in a way that would benefit more Big Pharmaceutical Companies. Well barton i think has always other than the one relationship with the idea of Health Care Reform in the ninetys ringback when when clinton began during his term to Health Care Reform as is during the 2nd health care for biden as one of the people there was a bit of a thorn and sorry i was even and documents produced by the Clinton Administration that was noted as a as an issue that biden taken lots of money from Health Insurance cover sitting behind to commence by telling a bomber comes along. That he runs on the public option of the next Health Insurance option i think its not an idea that bio was really enthusiastic about we are not there was a bombing really and in the end of course they ended up dropping it. Because of Health Insurance other Health Care Industry opposition to it strangely biden is now running on the public option and its kind of unclear whether hes actually going through all or through on it he has hes hes obviously been in the primary saying im going to have a public option in place since i was taking a lot of money from pharmaceuticals which of course this is it remains to be seen what exactly bidens Health Care Policy will be once he gets into trouble i say tom things they know trump obviously has said he wants to get the one Big Pharmaceutical Companies he certainly did pay back arguably maybe not on purpose the weapons industry in the United States you say he he stacks the Senate ForeignRelations Committee with pro war voices before the iraq war but but you say in the book he backed reagan strikes on libya that killed scores of civilians the invasion of the British Commonwealth island grenada the war on panama he even back money for death squads he backed of course the destruction of yugoslavia what sort of Foreign Policy can we expect from a man who actually on the record has said he wants to make putin pay for russias Foreign Policy during this campaign. In some ways i think we can expect a return to bomber impulse if you look at the people who are surrounding biden in terms of the phone policy advisors i think those are really the key. The key indicator of whats actually going to happen in his administration and a lot in a film about what people might think biden has shown some at least of late some great tendency towards not intervention the a powers for example the invasion of libya and. The cessation sound a lot and for instance. Where saddam had been of course although he was also a firm proponent of obamas counterterrorism policy which was and its a combined drone warfare with kind of special forces strikes you know which is still obviously very aggressive function of chaman as a someone who was skeptical all titian d running on the going to use of our trying to get used to and out and saying im against the vietnam war by the eightys when reagan comes in he saw the turn to the right in the National Politics they said well you know we just we have to become more like reagan and so he decided system not just supporting reagans various military actions but as he said the ninetys hes for the morning and of course the iraq war when people say that bidens kind of been in the party generally i think that the secrete i think hes always been on the conservative in the party however there is truth a fact that he has kind of fall d in the political winds quite a bit particular Foreign Policy so are you know it remains to be seen we may see a more noninterventionist President Biden if he wins even one whos more instant nons mentions than obama was but i would not stress it is going to be that much difference between you and the fight in Foreign Policy ok well hes chosen to modernise who was making fiery not ations inviting about a sexual impropriety during the primaries. Whos become democratic candidate just tell me given that Julian Assange is the founder of wiki leaks is up the road here in belmarsh prison what is his view about leaking information in the public interest. The idea of a transparency and the and the very idea of the patriot act which you now have in the United States. You know unfortunately when it comes to leaking or it comes to really Civil Liberties in general there has been a longstanding bipartisan mist and deference hostility to all these things biden has been no exception he supported some pretty draconian crackdowns on lekas in the seventies and the 80s i think you see in the book some say that he when he went by didnt want to go further than the cia did he took some stance is that even the cia chief said well you know we dont want to go quite that far because under obama biden was pretty. As far as ive seen i dont see anything to conjure his reasons bordered by bombs war on whistleblowers. And and was very hostile it was true in signs from wiki leaks out expect thats of concern you i mean trump has really carried on obamas legacy of of aggressively taking also blows and i dont see why that might ministration do any difference the one thing that we could say is that obama ultimately shied away from really fully trust securing assad because i think he realized what that would mean for press freedoms in the United States and i expect why he would do the same however it will be years before theres a question of whether george should be prosecuted in the United States meantime a songes unfortunately i have to say going to be can change we be tortured in the u. K. s legal system in the way he is now and asking a question on the patriot act this is also he says has been found on biden was a really key supporter of that actually several provisions that ends up being in the picture. Actually brag analogy thousands the people that you know i was the guy who wrote the patriot act and that site in the ninetys he wrote some legislation that was and still is was a slush is really really a trigger county and for example it limited heavy a school. Space sharply and some of Something Else and ninetys it was a recycled and 2000 when sept 11th happened as part of the patriot act right to mock additional thank you well the last 2 decades of the us patriot act have arguably shown populations that none of the data is safe from predators a Government Agency so why do so many of us still share our deepest secrets through our mobile devices this is the subject of a new collection of works hash tag n. Y. C. By Award Winning your base photographer Jeff Mermelstein going on the ground deputy and to charlie cook caught up with him to discuss that hi jeff thanks so much coming on going on and on just by telling me about your new book my new book hashtag n. Y. C. Is the. Culmination of approximately 2 and a half years of work rendering. Images of peoples. Phone screens in which there are Text Messages i came upon. The the idea and the entity of the images on phone screens as being terribly interesting on many levels. But especially has now a communication so much through often through this pandemic what do you learn about the way we communicate and sat by looking at so many different massive crosssection of people phone screens theres a lot to learn and theres a lot more to learn and ive learned a lot and i will learn a lot. But some of the immediate thoughts. Would include a kind of interconnectedness the humanity of us people that i came upon texts from very many different times and very many different individuals that kind of had a similar. Point to it be it relationships or ending of relationships they need a word it comes to my mind is a further delight. And the current ness of energies and and and the construction of Text Messages as being reflective. Of ideas and thoughts that we make to each other and its just a very in the moment thing and i dont know how long its going to last but that moment is still d there right now do you think is a point to be made about how much we shall because we know from people like Edward Snowden even the government can can access all Text Messages that exist on t. V. Set about how easy it is for all information id say to a very private lives to be out in the open i definitely agree when youre out in the public on the street. We are being observed and not only that out in the public on the street but even when were on our phones or talking to syria in our own homes we are being observed in some kind of technical way i think im sure youve been asked before about the ethics of the walk when you were beginning it this project how do you square the kind of potential idea that youre invading peoples privacy with with creating the images well it wasnt an easy. Ingredient d to engage with but as a street photographer for so long in a way now that theres a little bit of hindsight to the project. In ways theres a lot of relatedness to making pictures people of people you know of peoples faces and gestures and bodies from the front without asking permission prior so as as a street photographer or at least with the kind of street for talk risky that i have that i have primarily partake in and so many of my colleagues as well there is the ingredient of voyeurism and. And that is either something that it a particular individual can embrace or not and i can embrace it in part because i believe of instinctive reasons natural inborn reasons and also because of intellectual curiosity photographic photographers curiosity an interest in finding out about us i got close and compositionally created a more or less a continuity especially as the project progressed is this something you would consider doing anywhere else or is it something specific to new york do you think is most interesting to the streets of new york and the populous of new york has been the thrust of my investigation for a long time and the same reasons that i have had that pursuit here i merrily not entirely would hold for this project there is a density a cosmopolitan mixture and a kind of. Inherent craziness if not neuroses that permeates the streets and people of the streets of new york it is dissimilar from any other place in the world jeff thank you so much Deputy Editor charlie cook last week to Award Winning photographer Jeff Momo Stein and thats it for the show will be back on wednesday 5 years since then Vice President joe biden announced he would not be running for president in 2016 against fellow new liberal democrat Hillary Clinton whose political career would terminate with trump off today i think d. N. C. Tricks against by the sound is until then you can catch all our interviews on our you tube channel and join the underground by following on from Twitter Facebook instagram its not. So small seems wrong. Why dont we all just dont call. Me lol yet to see palin just become educated and in detroit because betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Americans love by and. 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