Is res ipsa loquitur and that if the thing speaks for itself and donald trump speaks for himself. The concern i have is that the republicans value power more than they do integrity and values. They should be denouncing donald trump. Nobody has come out, republican, on the record to do so. Christine . Tam, as we were saying, theres it seems as if we havent hit a bottom. We havent found the bottom to hit yet, and i do believe he said it. And i think republicans and democrats should both be this is a bipartisan offense, and we should all be upset about this. And im particularly hurt because the one africanamerican female representative in congress, mia love, is a haitianamerican, and her family fled the duvalier regime they were refugees and she doesnt deserve that. You know, during the armymccarthy hearings, there was a young lawyer named joe welch who sort of historically said to senator mccarthy, have you no decency left at long last . And we need a joe welch and among republicans to s
Well go through some of the details. Whats your initial blush on this . Is your reaction that its politically motivated . He is a democrat. The president s a democrat. Much of the administration is democratic appointees, and others. Why would they be doing it, and if so, what is the point . Well, my initial take is that its not politically motivated its that when you read the indictment, theres a real case here. Now, obviously, the congressman is presumed innocent, but its gonna be a tough climb for him because theyve got a lot of goods. Theres a lot there. He did say hes gonna stay in office. He will not resign. He stepped down from a subcommittee appropriations level appointment in the house so that he wouldnt have to be dealing with money issues. But nonetheless, hes staying in office. And well read a statement from him, saying that he has as i previously stated, ive never participated in any illegal activity or misappropriation of taxpayer dollars as an elected official. He says th
Che guevara made 1961 the year of education. They had an illiteracy rate of 27 , which is ours, as well. And within a year, they dropped it to 4 . Howd they do it . They had the political will to attack Adult Literacy. And they closed the schools. Brigades of teachers and students went out into peasant fields, taught reading, taught writing. And within a year, it was turned around. And not only that, but today, cuba has the greatest literacy statistics in the world. And i talked to Michael Nutters the director of the Mayoral Commission on literacy, and she said, we could do that here. We have the plans to do that here. We dont have the political will to do that here. It would cost 56 million to really make a dent in Adult Literacy. 550,000 adults in philadelphia lack basic literacy skills. We cant get to job creation if we dont deal with this issue. And how would that begin . Explain once you do that part, what does it move within education for our kids to change how we see that system
Who are looking to profit . You know, i think that theres a difference between a septa issue. And if there are only gonna be 500,000 people in town, those tickets were going to go quickly. I mean, so the ticket but i do think that the city has done the Convention Visitors bureau, visit philadelphia, and the administration have done a better job over the last several weeks toning down peoples sense of how challenging its going to be to move. Its gonna be challenging. But how challenging its going to be to move around in the city, and i think theyve done a pretty good job of it. And i think the people have discounted the problem. They understand its going to be difficult, its gonna be crowded, and theyre gonna have to figure out, and theres gonna be some negative behavior that goes on. But i think people are going to be here in big numbers. I think george is right. Its the timing of this. At the beginning, the city and septa, there were, you know this was like the popeocalypse, the popea
Included, and maybe even some smaller cities such as wilmington, which we have seen have some problems with violence, sit on a powder keg just like the one that blew over in baltimore . The short answer to that is the potential exists in all these cities because we have conditions that are similar in all these cities that were discussing. And to be frank, because this is such a somber topic, we are not gonna have enough time to really delve into this. But what were looking at are when you have an intersection of poverty, of fear, of crime, and prevention all the way around. We have the fear on the sides of both the residents, as well as the officers that are supposed to be protecting and serving and doing all of those matters, and the unfortunate incident is, when there is a death in police custody, it sets off a chain of events of fear, a chain of events of past history, of trauma, and traumatic experiences. And through that, we see horrific things that are happening, but what strikes