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"howie klein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Hotels because you find people that speak english and i got a guy at a hotel who was willing to talk to me as a human being and during the pandemic i'd call people in different countries to connect. Because for the first time i think ever in history on a global scale we're all experiencing the same thing so i reached out. I spoke to people from denmark to south africa to new zealand and australia. All over the world who were in the same boat we were the world gets a whole lot smaller and i find that when regular people connect on a human scale. We don't have the differences that they do when the leaders talk. We can solve the problems if we reach out human being to human being. I think but. I did something like that the other day because know. It's so strange to say that siberia is burning irate right and i know the editor of the syria times who speaks english. I speak some russian but it was to interview someone. Who's they're a person i do. Think there's a humanity that gets stripped out of our coverage to i. I'm always believing we should really talk to as many people as we can because the nation can get a little lost in though for different kind of style. But i do think the nation. You're talking about the magazine. I'm talking about the country. But i get both ways sometimes get but i do think speaking of people like for example. What's going on in west. Virginia i mean you know there's you want to speak to the people who don't have healthcare who could use dental vision care who have families who have died just just it's not radical. It's about putting something at the center of people's lives all this talk about centralism moderation and then everyone gets hooked on the language you know without but i do believe people and i do think. The citizen mobilization is great. I think twitter is complicated. I liked i use twitter. Do too for news. But i would not get into some of my colleagues do into wars on twitter. I know and i'm i'm trying not to. I do 'cause i'm as fiery scorpio and i lash out and then. I think that don't do that. So i tried to pull out but it gets to everybody. It just does right but yeah you know but you brought up used to work to two terms. They're moderation and centrism or centrists. And i think we we couch are words. Because when you're talking about a joe manchin or kirsten cinema. There's nothing centrist or moderate about them. They are far right. They are as my friend. Howie klein calls them the republican wing of the democratic party. I just could serve dems right. They're not centrist. Older dino's dino's or dying of wrong. I was i did. Tv with howard dean. The other day. I thought how he was credited with the democratic when the democratic party but it was remember. Paul wellstone all scores degrade senator from minnesota. But he But i do think there's a there's a quickness to latch onto the terms that a mainstream media whatever that means gives you now well. I won't call them moderates and i won't call them centrists first of all. I don't think we have centrists anymore on in either party but moderates is used for somebody who doesn't stand with the the loudest voices in the party. That's not moderate joe. Manchin is not a moderate. he's a radical right now and he's preventing from or the obstructionism mitch mcconnell obstructing. But one thing you know. It's hard to follow what's happening in washington. Sometimes it's easier for the movements to understand movements but you know roosevelt. We talk about him. And johnson yes had had working majorities had working majorities which is why you know. North carolina was so important. But when you got one or two and you have a party. That's a coalition party. Got all kinds. It's it's hard then. i don't think john nichols of. The nation was on program last week and we had a great discussion about you know. Joe biden is surprising. All of every so pleasantly surprised. I didn't expect it. I was bernie sanders supporter in both at the last two elections in and i voted i voted for hillary clinton and i voted for joe biden because of the alternative. But i really didn't expect him to step up the way he has. And i think that's a great thing But but but he needs to. I don't know mobilize right. I'm sorry in years to get tough way does and he needs to invoke some lbj. Energy lyndon johnson. Would y'all get. He had more in congress working with but he would. He would make deal he would. He would sit joe manchin down in his office. And say you're gonna do this. You'll wanna bridge in in west. Virginia or do you want health care for your people or he would make them do it and i want to see a little bit. Lbj and biden. I think there's some of that going on. I mean one hopes when they when he withdrew the atf nominee the nra opposition. You hope that in that he got something out of manager. Yes but it is the case you can do transactional deals to a good extent. And he shouldn't do some of that i. I also think the way he's a he's a better president at this age then he would have been as over. Snap at sixty i think whippersnapper sixty two but i do think the transactional piece is critical. But i do come back to when you have more comfortable margins unless you're gonna do something. Systemic like filibuster. Really go for the you know. Which is you know. I think the courts listen my. I grew up in a family where we never called court packing. We called court reform now well every on the case so their systemic things new nikolai were deeply about. What's going on in arizona. Pennsylvania to some extent wisconsin. Maybe florida where arna they're testing. The state legislatures are contesting the twenty twenty vote and so democrats may win but the d. legitimization in the contesting of votes is worse than voter suppression almost because it's going to linger and they're already doing us in california the votes election days until tomorrow but they're already setting it up saying well. If gavin newsom survives the recall it's just because it was fixed it was not fixed. They gas like the country and why the media does not just cut it off. Just shut it down because you know to be honest nicole. You said you're right there. You know they're different media right. There's you know. Fox cnn nbc. Then there's local ice still think right wing. Radio is powerful than to ask. Come from radio. So i know it so it you know you people getting and then from the internet yup and got a lot of motion and a lot of disinformation A lot of people who wanna believe it's it is tough it in that sense. This country's resilient has been through tough times but the media landscape. I mean roosevelt. Had father coughlin. You know the right wing radio preacher but the dissemination was not as the internet is everywhere and for the last eighteen months many of us have been at home and people who may be used to go out to work and didn't have eighteen hours a day to spend online all of sudden online for eighteen hours a day and being led down this rabbit hole. Thanks to places like facebook and youtube who will keep feeding you more of that stuff the more you look at it the more they give you and it plays driving offered platforms. Yeah i know it's not so there need. I do take some hard. also though it's going to be hard biden. Appointed some great antitrust. Yes trust is just business. It's about political power. But lena con is someone who she's awesome prospect. Cathy wu ran. Lieutenant governor was efforts. Your yup so the people many.
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"howie klein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Five which is very relaxing. And i'm working with the ninety nine. I'm thinking do. I have to start wearing this thing again. I didn't even know there wasn't end ninety nine. I thought that the and ninety five was the highest ninety nine the tire. They're they're expensive and hard to find People people don't wear them because you know and then ninety five question anything and ninety nine does right so and what about my glove. Do i start wearing gloves now. What was well. I left in the house in the house. The possible right and we still don't go out much occasional regard to this saturday. Finally we're going to the the van gogh thing. Have you heard about these. Immersive van gogh exhibits own. My god are everywhere. In fact there are two different competing ones in miami right now. It's like a. It's like a virtual reality whole room projection. That you're inside. Van gogh's paintings. It looks really cool so we're finally going this weekend. Yeah you just. Google you know immersive van gogh and i'm sure there's one in la because they're everywhere their touring around the world. Oh how fantastic. Yeah i could really see being go You know being a big thing in miami because of like there's a certain coldness to both the city and his work man. He just seems like you know. Miami's real art center And trying to sort art basle as there are capital. Yes for love. Latin america so i could see why it would be big thing there but it's not only here check it out. Yeah you should definitely. I'll probably google while we're talking. Because i'm a multitasker so how he when i asked you this morning What do you wanna touch on. You sent me to articles. One of them was sort of about. Who's going to replace. Nancy pelosi as speaker because hopefully this will be her last term. What are the odds on that. What are the policy retired already has promised that this is a lester. Okay all right. Well i mean it is possible so breaker problem. But i don't think so. Okay so the article you sent me was from axios. And the headline reads. Catherine clark's friend filled path to speaker. She seemed to have come out of. I was gonna say left field but more like right field and into leadership. Who is she well. She's a progressive math. So all right now. The conventional wisdom is that The person who's gonna get this is going to be hakim. Jeffries said pelosi picked him to be her successor to keep Steny hoyer out of the job about tom. We have a black person. And that's true what he is. He's a very Cocky jeopardy the very very very ambitious young guy right. Who doesn't you know this week. I'm living by Something that alan grayson said on tv show Which was we need to elect people not who want to be something but people who want to do something well. Hakim jeffries is the opposite of that. He wants to do something he doesn't really stand for any he's a good speaker. Is it not really. He's no he's not really a good speaker he he's he's actually a pretty bad but he but he's a hustler. Knows he knows how to say things occasionally that sound right. but he's really about himself he's a careerist when he was in the state legislature in new york. He was a hustling careerist. And that's what he is now and he's got himself into. I think it's the number five position in the democrat acquire rocky and the number four position is katherine clark. So she is. She's she's got a different bali wick his is like he's he's a black guy he's he's a phony progressive in the progressive caucus. But you know he's not he's not really progressive he. He says the things that you have to say to vaguely progressive. But it's not what he is and he now that he wants to be speaker he is put out. You know really strong. Feelers to the republican wing of the democratic party to the new dams and the blue dogs and he's pals with them and he just started an anti progressive pack to help right-wing incumbent serious aggressive hakim. Jeopardy's is known for now to. He's he say he's really really bad. Plus i've always thought of hockey jeffries. And i have an illustration of it on my blog. That just went up a little while ago an hour ago. Something that shows him. As he's the democratic version of kevin mccarthy to empty suits jeffers empty suits suits right. You go to my blog full albright right on the top to see a wonderful piece of art that my art director did this morning as soon as he did it ahead to get it right up right. I'm putting. I put it up on the screen now. So anybody watching one of the video streams as seeing. It's empty suit with. No head. Says a kim jeffries empty suit. So it's showing right now and then after that it says Kevin mccarthy empty suit. Right kevin mccarthy. Mtc yep it alternates between the two. Yeah they really very very similar. I mean obviously. There are some differences. How jeffrey's backs Choice women kevin mccarthy is against choice women so the the things that signify their teams each one of them has that so the the different in that way but in terms of character and the kind of people that they are in the kind of leadership that they're offering or not offering the same the hakim jeffries and kevin mccarthy or two of the same so anyway and then cast katherine clark is actually kind of a progressive You know. I don't know i don't know her personally. I've never met her and she i ran. She ran against someone who is definitely to the left of her. She beat that person but she she. She has a voting record. And i have no reason to believe that. She is in for real. I spoke to a number of members of congress today. Only one of them would even allow me to use their quote anonymously rearrested him wouldn't even let me use what they had to say. Honestly they just didn't want to say it But you know she's you know they. The point that everyone was making is that she was just too friendly. She doesn't have what it takes the one guy who did let me use. It said that she would be A lot like paul ryan who just stepped on and he was like you know. Everybody stepped over paul ryan. He was so nice. When i say everybody. The republicans stepped all over him and he didn't last and that they said this she would be the same. She doesn't have Just really nice. That's her thing okay nice. Everyone likes her shift. Lots of friends. Although when i was looking at the list of her friends at which she defined by saying these are my roommates and my best friends. They were horrible. Cherry boost guy. I mean the. They're all terrible. The best of them was lowest frankel. Oh god i..
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"howie klein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Let's try dialing again. I've a feeling he'll probably say i was on the phone with you. Know alan grayson or somebody howie. No and now it's not it doesn't even look like it even ringing right now. What the hell is going on. I might be you know. This might be a gremlin thing. Mercury's not in retrograde right. Now all right let me let me try it again. I'm having one of those days. I didn't even know always having one of those days until we came on the air all right. Let's try it again all right. Let's call howie klein okay. Now i know it's ringing all right. Let's let's see if he picks up one ring. He dinghy there he goes. Hello art able to cure you. You didn't hear. I didn't hear you now. There was something funky on this end so good. I'm glad you're here. Hi how are you. i'm good i. I'm suffering from dilemma. Maybe like people in your chatroom could help okay so you know everybody knows that in in recent days has been talking about And she's not. The only one is a lot of the media is talking about bringing these afghans who served as interpreters and other jobs who worked for the americans while the us was occupying afghanistan. Bring them to the united states bringing them getting the hell out of there Congress people most of them conservative. Congress people both democrats and republicans. Are you know chomping at the bit about this. You know we've got a rescue our allies etc. So i was thinking about it. You know and i lived in afghanistan a couple of times When i was much younger and my overall experience of the afghans who. I met where that they were really noble and wonderful people. A family sheltered me for a whole winter when i hurt my leg up in the hindu kush by falling off a horse so so i have a really good experience of these afghans. But we're talking about people like think of it like this before the americans Invaded and occupied afghanistan There was a brief moment of independence before that the russians had invaded and while the russians were occupying the country. There were certain afghans who work for the russians. They were interpreters. They will cook. They were they were they. They work for them. And what do you think about an afghan who Worked for the russian occupiers and is it fair to say that afghans who worked the american occupiers are the same in some ways character. Was you make the same kind of generalizations. I'm thinking we're about to were about to bring maybe fifty sixty thousand people. 'cause it's not just the twenty thousand Who worked for the us. But it's also their families. We're bathroom bring them to this country. I'm sure someone's gonna teach them how to use toilet paper and all that kind of stuff. That's just a matter of time before they you know. Learn how to be americans but I'm just worried. I'm just thinking i just think like they were kind of traders to they're not necessarily briton. I'm gonna talking about bringing bringing them here. They're saying bring them to guam. Bring them to a territory. Where they can acclimate and go through all the paperwork and wait and do what they need to do to get out of there because they're in danger now if they were traitors to an idea i love. I love that idea right. But i mean bringing them to guam or another territory. That's great but that's just a waystation before they bring them here and not. Everyone's going to get to come here. I would think they'd have to go through the screening that anybody would have to go through before they come to this country there is a screening whether they're going to have some form iowa screen them. Do they help not now. No there's gotta be there's a there's a procedure when these these are refugees. These are wartime refugees. That's who they would be. They would be People escaping a a horrific situation. These are the people who helped the americans while we were there And the taliban will likely kill and i torture horribly before they killed them if they stay behind doesn't necessarily come to the us but the fuck out of their way to look at it refugees. I mean the the taliban already killing. That's right yeah so that so that that. Actually that lens is very helpful because when you look at it that way. That's that's that's pretty good. I've been watching meadow every day. You know talking it up in a different way not really talking to talking about them where you just did as refugees but more is like roic. Who helped the americans. And and you know when i thought about that a little bit i was thinking. Yeah but there were people who helped the occupiers right. They were right but we allegedly allegedly working with the army's going into other countries who who who helps them right. The occupiers in france who germany invaded france. Who were the people who helped them. Who were the who were you know. Ah what kind of character think. You've gotta fame okay to move a broad brush. But some of them May not have been you know the kind of the noble Wonderful fabulous generous people. Like the one the afghans that i met kruschev who saved my life right but think but remember we were working with the official afghan government these were people who were allegedly well karzai or whoever the as such as much as there was an official afghan government we fighting the government allegedly. We're fighting isis and al qaeda and the taliban knowing what i i can't har- isn't that far. You can take a taxi long taxi driver. You taxi from canada in kabul And can't the second biggest city when you talk about afghanistan. They laugh at your face. They had there was no thin. That's the king of kabul right. So there is no government for them to be despoiled to then how things right. Okay go national identity at least ninety nine. Maybe there was one eventually. I don't think so well as much as they tried to say. There was one look. You know they call and it was. After sixty-nine that russia win the soviet union and that the soviet union ended that broke them. That's why they call afghanistan. What the graveyard of empires we would have gone broke. Had we stayed. I mean we we did. It broke us. We shouldn't have been there bin laden. Got exactly what he wanted. He wanted this nation. Broken in this nation was broken after that attack and most like because of what we did not because of what he did and so I don't. I don't look at those people who helped the americans as traitors to their country. As you just said how there really was no country and they were extensively working against al qaeda back then and then isis and then the taliban or whatever combination of the three.
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"howie klein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"George loyd's murder. He and his wife know we're we're so afraid of the black lives matter. Protesters marching down their street that they came out of their house and pointed guns at them. The guy whose name escapes me for good reason was ordered by the court to get rid of the gun and then he so he did and then he thumbed his nose at the court and turn around and bought another gun. he's running for the senate seat as well. Yeah yeah man. Martin mccloskey with his palace actually on the central west and saint louis thinks he's a cowboy and you know it's embarrassing. He's just an asshole and we've been you know. We made it funny video making fun of him to win. Viral of science chock full of criminals that you got him he supported by michael. Flynn for you eric. Writings are disgraced former governor. Who had to resign when he was impeached by the republican legislature. For essentially sexually assaulting someone and stealing from veterans charity was founded to help people like me and my buddies coming back from iraq and afghanistan and so he's supported by rudy giuliani another truck and several others. So that's what we're up against. You know what i mean. We are rushing at our message is really resonating dislike. We've almost raised a million dollars and just over three months. Howie thank you for some help with that. And and we did that without taking a single san from corporate pack. Our average donation is thirty dollars. And we got like. I think we're like twenty five thousand donations so we have a large grassroots movement is the way to do it. We wanna stay pure on that. Never going to take a dime from corporate pag. In fact i want to polish them all together. Because i know that not everybody has the willpower to run a campaign. Well that's right. Before i brought you on and how he before i got you on the line. I was telling the listeners. For those. Who don't know a little bit about blue america and when you talk about a pack a political action committee there are they run the gamut. There's all kinds of them. Blue america is on one end of the spectrum. And you've got these corporate pacts on the other Blue america helps candidates raise money. But you they don't take any money. All the money goes right into the campaign coffers and so those are the kind. If if you're gonna give money to a pack it's a blue america. You wanna go with otherwise you wanna go directly to the candidates that right howie well sort of right. The thing is that you don't give money to blue america. you giving. We have a page. Blue america page on their. You give money directly to the money that you give Doesn't go to us for us to then give to the candidates the money that you give goes directly to lucas. Not not through us. I don't see it. I don't touch it just goes right into lucas's at blue page at blue. A bank account right So look as though one. Why don't you tell us that Aside from donating which is very important and I'm sure we're going to tell people how to do that. at the end of this. But what else can people do in missouri and in other places who are listening to us. Now what can they do to help. Grassroots movement follow us on twitter. Follow us on facebook and spread the word. I mean. that's what that's what this race is all about. If we're going to fundamentally change you has power is going to have to come from the bottom up and You know the good thing there is. Nine percent of americans are Myself included and then we got these crazy. You know super make maker rich people you know making trillions of dollars during the pandemic off of the rest of us who controlled the rest and so all of us Normal everyday working people need to band together. Talk about this talk about the message you know and help spread it so really everything right now is about reach reaching as many people as possible if you got family in missouri. Tell them about the campaign. If you've got friends they're telling about the camping with you lift or not and then just follow what we're doing. We're doing great things awesome. You know why reminded me of something that i didn't even think of when i was I went i went to the The galapagos one. Time and i met The dean of of one of the schools at the At george washington. University in st louis and i just thought i shouldn't rush you. Call him and his wife and tell them that your campaign and i will. I'll do that today. I'm talking about how we deliver it. Yeah right that's how it works. I mean and that's how it works. We all know people in other parts of the country. In fact you know. Brad friedman who hosts the brab braodcast at the brad blog. His family's from st louis. His mother still lives there. His sister lives there. And so why. Don't we introduce Brad and lucas. So that lucas can be on his show as well. You know brad is more. He's he's a stray journalist so he doesn't you know here's the thing i'm i'm thrilled. I think it's really important during primary season to bring on the great candidates. Because frankly that's when i'm most involved you to howie because in primary season that's when we can find the best candidates the most progressive the ones who aren't afraid to put their platform on the website. Who said this is what i stand for. And i'm proud of it and and i want you to know that there are some shows that won't like thom hartmann for instance won't talk to anybody during a primary season. He waits for the general election bud by that time. I think it's too late. So i will certainly introduce you to brad. But i don't know that he'll have you on your show just because he to be more. The journalists and neutral goes family will still be exactly that that's not on the air that's talking to his family about the best candidate and i have every reason to believe he would do that so i have lucas on the air. Okay i think so too. But because he's from st louis so we'll try good so lucas peculiar question but if it was up to you which of the republicans would you prefer to running. Well the thing is that run against all of them right now. So we're going after. All of them with with was different says it advertising different comments different sort of sort of venues. I honestly. they've all are so flawed that i'm ready to just rock and.
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"howie klein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Our future streets in the forgotten. Lucas cones paid for by lucas coons for missouri It's beautiful it it's I it says everything when you when you say we. It's time to. Marshall plan missouri. What do you mean what i wanna do. I think we need to make a huge financial investment in the mid west and the places that had been left behind why specifically wall street and big tech industry and and disadva- jobs creation program here and honestly like one of the idea. The reason i called the marshall plan is because you know after world war two We spent a bunch of money in western europe building that area up and then i watched a spend all this money in iraq and afghanistan trying to build that country to and i think it's time we spent some money and invested right here in the places that have been left behind by our economy that doesn't work and so you know we just crazy thing. Is i noticed this. When i was negotiating with russians i would over to nato and it was sometimes hard to get our nato allies on board with our harder positions against russia because they rely on russia for natural gas and petroleum products. And so so. What we have is the situation where we are. Essentially funding or western europe is funding russia's nuclear weapons program all its military misadventures and things like that because they're hooked on their hydrocarbon Chemicals and so i say why don't we invest that money in building renewable energy right here in the mid west ship at to europe and then we save a ton of money trying to deal with russia russia nuclear weapons everything like that and cut a few right out from under him. I mean they're just so many benefits to to investing here in america in something like renewable energy on the marshall plan including saving the planet right. And how do you think you know we're we're in we. Congress is in the midst of these two alleged infrastructure bills. The bipartisan one. And then the reconciliation. One what do you think of how. That's all coming together or not. I think we need to be aggressive. I think we need to go l. out on this. I think that the reason you have people voting for people like you have voters voting for people like donald trump in the mid west or all of these states is because they left behind by our economy and he knows how to take advantage of first of all he acknowledges that you've not seen democrats acknowledging now for a very long time. We kind of became the party of big tech and wall street for a while there. Republicans better. i'm not saying that at all. They were worse but But like just the fed just acknowledging that is important and that spoke to people. But but i don't see why democrats democrats can't become aggressive and become the party. That actually does something about it. And so i. I say we need to be raza. We need to do something about it. We need ignore anybody who's trying to obstruct us that we need to win this next round of elections so those investments are made. That's absolutely howie klein. We need to win this next round of elections. How are we going to do that. And we need to win them not with corporate conservatives like cair cinema but we need to win them with progressive and populace like Lucas that that's that's the really really big difference And you know when you when you said a minute ago. The bipartisan infrastructure bill. It could be misleading to people who aren't paying attention. It's bipartisan because there are some conservative republicans and some conservative democrats who got together and came up with some conservative plan. But it's it's not bipartisan. If you wanna think about you know Both liberals and conservatives got together. That's not there are no. There was not one single liberal. Who had anything to do with it. It was all conservatives all care cinemas and Joe mansions those are the kind of people that were on that Little self appointed committee put together this awful Infrastructure bill that the establishment is trying to push through with the help of the media. I hate to call it bipartisan. I always call a conservative. 'cause that is a description of what it is right anyways. Joe biden said he won't sign it without the other one in tandem and that created the whole firestorm. And that's what what i'm asking. Lucas is is this a way to do it. You said we need to be more aggressive. I agree with you absolutely. We needed to be aggressive. We need to deliver for people. i mean. that's the main thing we need to live for deliver for working people in this country and if certain democrats and most republicans are willing to do it then we need to shove down the throats make it there so lucas. I liked all of the stuff that that isn't your platform and like i said earlier. People just go to your website and read the whole platform. it's very clear and simple But the people who have been voting for these really crazy right-wing republicans in missouri. They going to How are you going to make them how you gonna convince them. This is something. That's good for them. I mean here's the thing you know when this when this was last up. We had a republican incumbent. Roy blunt and we had another veteran running against him. Jason candor in a huge trump here and jason candor only lost by two point. Eight percent points of trump was not a ticket. That year and jason cannabis senator right now and i wouldn't be running for reelection. We don't have trump on the ticket. In the meantime we missouri his past four very progressive ballot measures by huge percentages. You know the state pushback right-to-work by sixty seven to thirty three huge margin pro pro union measure we expanded medicaid we've past medical marijuana and and and a minimum wage. That's five dollars above the federal level. So people want things that deliver a. We have to actually stand for that and show them that. This is what we stand for. And what we're gonna do the other thing we've got you know after my thirteen years in the marine corps. I left to work at a nonprofit that fights corporate monopolies and so we're talking about the big companies that crush missouri. Farmers have the mount for for about a generation. Now we're talking about the big. You know the big pharmaceutical companies. That will take the price of insulin from twenty five dollars to two hundred and seventy five dollars just because they can talking about big defense industry and and several others like big tech and so what has that message but everyone missouri knows the reason. Our economy is the way that it is and the reason we make in crushed is because of corporate consolidation and is because of the way that the system doesn't work for us. So what i'm saying is i'm acknowledging the system is broken and i'm gonna deliver on how we can fix it and so far we you know. Most people are really. They're not doing both of those things they're either saying the system is broken like donald trump and then hiring the you know the goldman sachs guide around his economy or they're not acknowledging that the system is broken like a lot of democrats are doing so. We're gonna do both those things we're going to show how it it's a pretty crowded primary field Both i think on both sides of the aisle but some of the people running and the seat is going to be vacant because roy blunt is retiring. So that's who seat this is. Unfortunately josh holly still has a couple of years left but one of the people running on the republican side is the guy who would during the the marches surrounding..
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"howie klein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"How klein you. There i am. Hey howie klein sorry. I got a phone call just a moment before it was going to call you and i thought i was gonna make a quick and it was somebody who is talking so we got off on a tangent. Anyway i'm here you're there. How are things the good thank you. Everything's great i. I thought we were going to have a lot of banging. Because i'm getting a roof put on i house But they just left. I'll good and i'm here in. The whole house has been shaking for the last two days and the noise has been unbelievable. Oh my okay. Well i'm glad it ended. Thanks and you know. I'm in the middle of a torrential downpour. Thunderstorm. lightning everything. and i'm amazed you know florida power and light every time it rains. The lights flicker so. I'm i'm thinking we're going to get booted off the air but so far knocking on wood. Laminate here so we're we're still on and the rain appears to have been letting up a little bit so that's good and we have our guest standing by so before before we bring him on. What do you want to tell us about lucas. And how do you pronounce his last name. Well he he brought me better like the you would be a double o coons right. That's what i thought because you gotta be careful k. Unc right you know anyway. So missouri is usually used to be sort of swing state and in more recent years. It's it's a really really red state. They're going through. You know some really tough times right now because there are so. Many trump is there that The state has very very low vaccination rate and hospitalization daily caseloads and hospitalization rates are skyrocketing So you know it truly kind of time to get like a sane person in office of the state is very very red and i look really closely at the people who are running for this open. missouri senate seat And it's open. Because roy blunt is retiring definitely the one who can win the seat and you know. We'll let him talk a little bit about why but i. I was very very very impressed by his platform and the way he's trying to reach Missouri voters very very different from the establishment democrats who run before and in fact who are probably going to Challenge him in the primary. Okay well you know what he's standing by so let's not wait any longer. Let's bring him in. Hey lucas welcome to the show and do tell us how to pronounce your name properly. Thanks for sure. Thing is lucas. Doesn't have it like a double awesome. I liked the author but who spells it differently dean koontz exactly right exactly. There's actually like sixty for ways to spell it and it just depends on who who you got when you roll the dice coming through ellis island interesting. And we're where is your family from. Who went through ellis island. It's originally like on. The border of germany and france and the original spelling is k. u. n. z. Interesting interesting but you. you are from missouri. Yup they from alsace lorraine it less. Yeah well it's like freiberg and then kind of around there. Do you know that how he has been everywhere how he is. The most traveled person. That i know next to alan grayson right. That's right so he has done some travelling as well in fact. Weren't you stationed in afghanistan and iraq. My traveling has been very glamorous. Iraq wants afghanistan twice. And then i actually. Us arms control negotiations for the joint and stuff at the pentagon with nato and russia. So i spent a lot of time. flying to nato to sorta organiz the allies in vienna austria to negotiate with russians. Wow now so let me ask you now that we're pulling out of afghanistan. What are your thoughts on that a long time ago. Probably like within the first year. I suspect but should we even gone. In the first place they kind of made sense to to knock kind out of their stronghold but that happened very quickly and then you know could've just left. And if the taliban let them come back then we would just do it again and it would have saved us a lot of time a lot of money. It was tough watching people that i work with. Get killed over there and You know why. Spend six point four trillion dollars in the middle east for absolutely nothing. Wow and that's hard. I was really I'm real. I am really eager to talk with you about Your your Your domestic platform. But since we're talking a little bit about afghanistan now. I just want to say that Although republicans get all the blame and they deserve lots of blame after the after the first year in afghanistan. When you say we should have dropped out. There were a lot of democrats including liberal democrats. Who were saying. Well we've got to save the women and we've got to build a democracy and we've got to change this place. That's been the same for two thousand years or more. And i was like i was like fighting with people who i usually allied with. Who telling them we're not going to change it. It's not going to happen. We can't do it and you can't do it in the barrel of a gun and like forget it and here we are decades later and nothing's changed nothing and i don't know if you saw that press conference today running I don't think that's what's motivating you to run I get the impression from talking with you and talking with people on your campaign and reading your campaign website. That you motivated by Something very very different. Which is basically giving average. Ordinary american citizens affair break And taking away some of the power from corporate america. Do i have that right. That's right. How i so i want to do. Is i want to fundamentally change. Who has powered our country. And i think that's what most of us should want to do because the system's not working for us. And i don't i don't think that if you work No or try to live your life. In a decent way. You should be living paycheck to paycheck. One disaster from bankruptcy right. And i say that because personally. That's what i mean. I watched my mom right. Both my parents worked. And i remember watching my mom. Write the check at the grocery store and asking the cashier not cash until the end of the month. Five seven days ahead of time so we could make it and and then when my little sister was born and had to have an open heart surgery. Our family went bankrupt from medical bills and You know it's hard and but but you know what we were talking about. Iraq and afghanistan earlier in and i mentioned that six point four trillion dollars and that actually is a huge motivation for me to run because because you know just a willingness to spend that kind of money or absolutely nothing and then seeing what's happening in states like missouri where we've had the worst economic recovery from the great recession and no essentially capital his left our state and our country has been unwilling to put it back in there and i saw that coming home from my deployments i came back from iraq in two thousand nine to visit my parents in my old neighborhood and walked down the street. Four doors down to see the old house that i lived in before that and it is falling apart bulldoze down now empty lot come from afghanistan awhile later that house that i was talking about before my parents had to leave because my dad couldn't find a job and it's now vacant vanden the corner..
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"howie klein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Senate two years later against the you know the for the seat that's held by rand. Paul what's interesting and And i think not widely reported at this time is that Schumer is not doesn't schumer doesn't appear to be Doing to booker what he did last time. Last time schumer sabotage booker is savagely in the primary in the primary alone Schumer's candidates spent forty times. What booker spent and just beat him. Very very narrowly peter anyway. If it had been if the if the election had been a week later chances are he would have won. the candidate. was that woman the female fighter pilot. I can't even remember her name anymore. Amy mcgrath mcgrath. She was a horrible candidate lost. She lost her congressional race which she spent gigantically on. She was that that congressional two years earlier in the second most democratic district of kentucky. If she can't win the second most democratic district how does she think she's going to win. The whole state realize especially just being a republican light candidate now booker inspired people. He's not a republican like all the way. Progressives people were extremely Inspired by him. And then when when you know when schumer basically bought the the nomination for her people just lost any inspiration and she she. She got slaughtered. She couldn't even get to forty percent. That's right Mukalla just florida mcconnell. The most unpopular senator in the united states for over a decade. And she could. She couldn't make the case ranked you try to make. The case tried to be a little bit less republican than him. Charles taylor abso- charles. Sorry about that charles. Booker's running again. A lot of support is coming his way. And i and i very very high expectations That this guy is gonna make a really really Cogent and powerful case against rand. Paul extremely excited about it. Blue america of course is going to endorse him. We've you know we're just go go. You know going through last minute stuff. But yes he's great. Can i take two and a half minutes and play his kickoff video. Because it's really good. Let's do this. This is the campaign kickoff. For charles book are four. Senate running against rand paul from kentucky.
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"Doing today. Oh you know. I'm i'm struggling feeling like you know we need to listen to rem today. It's the end of the world as we know because you know i'm watching the news getting past what the supreme court did today watching you know. I'm in south florida. So it's nonstop coverage of the building collapsed. And then i see a news item. That a building collapsed in washington dc today but it was a building under construction and only one worker was trapped underneath the rubble. What is going on they were. They able to save the work. I don't know this happened. Not long before i came on the air so i don't know i think it said one worker was trapped and four others were there but a building under construction. Came down We i know this is not directly infrastructure but it is our entire nation is crumbling around us and and you know all the republicans seem to care about is money except if it's their money they don't want you to know where they're spending it thus the ruling in the americans for prosperity today it's just astounding and so i was just talking to lisa grave. Do you know lisa. no okay. She was she. She's been in the justice department. She's a legal person and she was in assistant Associated deputy assistant attorney general under bill. Clinton she worked in the justice department of patrick layhee and now she runs this true north research. Her group or last group was the one who did the coke exposed investigation and Alec exposed. she really is the one who brought them into the mainstream. So we knew who the coke brothers were and we knew what alec was doing with all the model legislation and stuff so she kind of explained to us what went on today at the supreme court and and what she said is her solution is we need to reform the court. We need to reform the senate. We need to do away with the filibuster and we're going to move on in a moment but i found this piece of video the other day that i know you how go way back with Kirstin cinema this video of kirstin cinema back in two thousand ten talking about The filibuster and how you know people like joe lieberman kept the democrats from doing all the good important work they were supposed to do. I want to play this for you. It's only it's a minute long but it is mind blowing. So here's kirstin cinema. So what does that mean when the senate we no longer have sixty votes someone argued. We never had sixty. Because one of those joseph lieberman. But that's whatever hypocrisy nelson to nelson true So so now. There's i think the president so eloquently wednesday. There's none of this pressure this pressure to get sixty. So what that means is that the democrats Can stop kowtowing to joe lieberman and instead seek other avenues to afford with health reform. And so it's likely that the senate will move forward with the process called reconciliation which takes only fifty one votes and by the way is not unusual. You may recall that. The democrats took the senate in two thousand eight that the republicans control the senate for quite some time in fact since around nineteen ninety four. They never had sixty votes and they mentioned a lot of really bad things during that time. So the reconciliation process is still quite available and we will use it for good rather than for evil.
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"I think it's because i think it's because this is an outcome a harbinger case Canarian a coalmine case so the issue here was whether the information could be disclosed or required to disclose to a government agency. And so you know it's not like there's a constituency out there that's like hey make sure that protect the rights of government agencies. You know that's not a thing that is among all the things people are fighting about. It's not the top of the things that are you know sort of on fire. But the fact is is that it's a case that is designed to to basically take down the next level of of closure laws and so the voting rights case in meat have sort of an immediate effects in terms of The the the issues that were being challenged in that case and also the future. This case certainly affects the ability of california other states to require this information. But it's the state that doesn't get their not the people However what we know has happened through the push of the coke network and with the help of the trump administration is that the irs stop requiring this information basically at the urging of charles pokes groups during the trump administration and not only that but they And that was. That was the rate that was provided to the irs. There was a public portion of that information. Which didn't disclose the name just disclosed the amounts so it would say this this non-profit had like let's say it had million two million dollars in revenue and one point five million dollars of it came from three sources. Five hundred thousand dollars each. Then you go to this nonprofit really represents like three people right claims forever that millions of people but in reality it's backed by three big donors. We don't know who they are. And this is not a hypothetical case. This is actually what happened. In the in the supreme court nomination process where one big group group that was called wellspring committee. That has close ties to leonard. Leo who is on leader. A leader of the board of the federal society was formerly by president that group wellspring committee had like one huge donor of like over twenty million dollars. Oh my i was. The name is not disclosed and then it turned around and gave almost twenty million dollars to the judicial crisis network j. c. n. Which then turn around and spend billions of dollars to help get Brett cavenaugh confirmed. Wow so we know true. The guys will be which is this type of disclosure. We don't know the name. The government would know the name but we don't know that in the public school you know the fact that one huge donor really bankrolled a huge portion of the campaign to get that one justice confirm And so it's a. It is a big issue even though it may not appear to be that way because what was blocked was this disclosure the confidential disclosure to the agency. But already what's happened. Is that coke. And trump changed the landscape to rent groups like mine from even seeing the bare fact in the twenty twenty filing of the amount not the identity. They were trying to protect the amounts. Not the people's names. Oh wow Okay hold that thought. And let's for just a moment talk about the other case which was brnovich versus dnc and it was like i think arizona republicans versus the dnc was to cases brought into one and basically this we are already in last big challenge to the voting rights. Act the court gutted section five which is the pre approval section. Where a state. Who'd been guilty of violations in the past. Say georgia before they could make any changes to their voting system would have to run it by. I'm guessing the justice department and get preapproval because they've been shown to violate voting rights before oversimplifying it. But i think that's the gist of it. This time. They got at section two of the voting rights. Act which says you can't discriminate on the basis of race When it comes to voting. I i know i'm over simplifying. It's the lisa. Why don't you tell us the better explanation of what happened. no i agree that description nicole. I just add to it which is to say that there were like you said this was about another part of the voting rights. Act that the court had never taken up meaning it had never restricted its application but in an opinion by justice alito. Who was named to the court. By george w. bush If the in his second term definitely the guy who's famous for sneering at president obama. About turning the statement that i write on yeah he he wrote the opinion and in the opinion he basically tried to you. Know narrowly construed that protection Despite evidence that there is discriminatory impact of Of these provisions. And and let me just describe why so one of the one of the main there were two primary versions but one of the the main one was this question of Wind ballots are collected And so you know and Collected by other by other people to help someone Who can't Who can't get the polls vote and there was evidence of the democratic party. Showed that you know this. would this change in. The rules would disparately impact native american reservations where people live in more remote areas than the ability to vote It could affect A a number of people Had a disparate impact racially And also the other part of the vision that the That the law Aim took aim at was Let's say you wanted to vote. And this this has been your precinct you basically always done that precinct and then The political party basically got the precinct moved around And you went and voted that day at what we thought was your precinct right but it was the wrong precinct and so the republicans wanted that vote thrown out not transferred to the right precinct. Because you're still in american. You're still going to vote exactly accord along with them. The court said yeah. You know what if you vote in the wrong precinct. Your vote gets tossed that unbelievable you know there are three tweets that i saw today that that rings true for me. So let me share. Ellie masao of the nation wrote. I'm unclear how a person is goes to argue that voter suppression laws are racist now according to alito that doesn't seem to exist anymore. So there's that ari berman. Who writes about voting laws for mother jones. I think he summed it up beautifully. He said skoda's conservative majority is quite literally making it easier to buy an election and harder to vote.
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"Late. But i warned you i told you i'm working You know and i know what you were doing was very important right and what. What an amazing man. Manuel oliver is. I don't know that i'd be standing if my daughter was in that school and killed. I don't know that i could have survived that. And he's got not only survived but he's using his talents in such an important productive and meaningful way that video. I know. I put it out this morning and you were one of the first to re tweet it so i know you saw it at. How powerful was that. Oh my god really like incredible. I mean who would. Who would it seem that coming right right so and again. This is my neighborhood. And so i've known him. I feel like. I know him but we had never really had a conversation. I met him once. I shook his hand once but we didn't really get to talk. So this is the first time i i spoke to him and and the the emotions aurora and i gotta tell you what he said is You know the community park land. By the way there's park land in coral springs parkland is the more you know the more the wealthier the bigger more expensive homes or in parkland and apparently the community. The park land community wants to move on. Because it's not good for property values. Well fuck that shit. I'm sorry this happened there. Do you believe that. Then that's such a parkland thing. So i'm glad that he also has that attitude kind of you know a fuck that shit kind of attitude I don't give a damn about the property. Values and also businesses still have the big ms de strong banners hanging in their windows and stuff. So they want to take part in the community minded. Let's all come together thing but a but again. There's that icky business money side of it that needs to just stop. You know what i'm saying. He was talking about the banners that local businesses can buy banners that hang on the around the schools and sure enough there there on marjory stoneman. Douglas and that to me is kind of i. Dunno sacrilegious ugly but so interesting day. Today how klein. So i wake up and i you know first thing i see. Is this building collapse on miami beach which is terrifying. You heard you saw this right. Yes and who knows what what brought that down. But that's frightening. And then i watched this video and it brings up whole floodgate of emotions. But then there's other stuff going on too. So i gotta ask you at the hearings that ended today but started yesterday antitrust markup monkey about anti the antitrust big Investigation right so amazing and all and so so they did this Like i said this this has been going on for sixteen sixteen months. They really worked hard on it. It's the most Bipartisan thing. I've ever seen i mean and the funny or of important bills the the the thing. That's amazing is that it was bipartisan. In terms of who is Supporting it but also bipartisan. Who's opposing it right because you have you know the sort of mainstream ish Very corrupt republicans. Like who around mccarthy you just about money right there against it. They don't want any anyone interfering but on the other hand. The republican party the grass roots is so angry with Big tech because of You know throwing trump on twitter facebook and everything else right so because of that. That anger is. This is a very very popular thing. So a lot of republicans before it and and that includes the lunatics so the lunatic fringe likes it. But also a lot of just like you know Mainstream republicans who who actually see what's wrong with With these anti trust issues because if you wanna talk about having competition in any real sense which the republican party supposedly stand for you want business competition. You can't have you know. Companies like google and facebook dominating across platforms and buying out there there And this not just buying out but also ing their their rivals so anyway this sixteen month. Investigation and questioning people away at the top. Even like you guys like those Led to a report and then Six individual bills and all six of them pass today. Only now i gotta ask. You did my congressman. Do the right thing. What will congress will. I think it'll pass the house whether mcconnell will no doubt sensor it there they're definitely i mean Filibuster it's right there are definitely People in Republicans in the senate who like it right. It's going to be interesting to see which democrats go against it. I mean a club which was not. I'm not a big fan of. She's a big fan of this bill and she's running around really hard and pushing it. It'll it'll be it'll it'll be interesting to see what happens. Wants to get to the senate because there are definitely democrats you know all the progressives afford of course obviously but You know some of the more conservative democrats especially some of the democrats who take a massive amounts of money from a big tech. They're going to be interesting. Big tech is pulling all stops to get this thing Killed their lobbyists. This is all this is all lobbyists want to talk about. You want to be our friends. You want us to continue donating to you. You know this has to be stopped. I mean to them. This is like the end of the world even though it's not in the long run that'll help them. But you know they don't wanna hear that right. But how the other so this. This was in the house judiciary committee. That's where they did the markups. And that's what it passed. Out of water in the in the antitrust subcommittee right that went to to which david cecil is a champion of and pramilla giant policy. Vice-chairman nice And they and they. So that's where the sixteen months comes in. They have been working on it and then nadler liked it so he brought it into the full committee for vote today and yesterday some of the bills passed yesterday from the past today and it goes to congress to the floor of congress with a recommendation that congress pass it right now but i was asking was the other day. You sent me a message and said can you. Can you talk to your congressman ted deutch. Because he's not on board with this. So i tweeted at him. He's still at the end. He didn't vote for it or do you know i'm not one hundred percent sure. He voted on yesterday. He voted yes. But those are the easy bills that everybody's four so that wasn't the problem. The problem was that the The two bills one by cecil cellini one by dr paul and those those two bills can be used to break up Big tech monopolies if if they if they keep breaking the rules and they and they do and they do Yeah keep undermining competition. Those two bills are the ones that can be used To break them up and those are the ones of course that the lobbyists are going nuts over. It's really then. Yeah that much about the other ones but those those two and they those two passed but there were there was a flu were. There was a flurry of amendments. At the last minute that would kill them And i am not one hundred percent sure where to was on that later today but it hasn't been published. You got you all right. We'll be interesting. i mean i did. I tweeted at him. And then. Of course i had to tag it with stop hanging out with the new dams and blue dogs so there are a bad influence on him. Yes yes those are the people who Those are the people who who were putting putting those those amendments today right. I all right so that happened then today. We also get the news that there's a deal and there's a deal on infrastructure okay but it's part of the it's gotta be the way that employs between the parties who is a deal between who between five democrats five republicans in the white house. No no yes but five conservative democrats and conservative republican and a conservative white house. That's who the deal. So the how come. They was. Not one progressive included outcome..
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"howie klein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Where you can find the video you can share it. You can sign the petition because we do need universal background checks. That's the least of what we need. We need to get rid of those guns. We need another assault weapons ban this time permanent and more but this is the first step. I guess towards from today on You have a lot of friends here. Even many that you've never met and don't don't know but we know you and and it's a pleasure to meet you in person My heart goes out to you and patricia. A pleasure being in your program. Thank you so much and Thank you we'll talk again. Thank you so much. Bye bye a well i. It's hard to move on from that. Because i have sort of known that man for Four years now although we met once in front of that wall mart when there was that a gun rally that anti-gun rally in front of the walmart I'm a little emotional but that it we should be. We should be my neighborhood. Lost seventeen people and another seventeen were injured and they don't talk about them but the damage that an ar fifteen does to the human body is horrific and so the you hear about the people who lost their lives rightfully so but we don't spend enough time talking about those who were injured who were horribly injured who will have feel the effects of that day every day for the rest of their lives And the fact that if you look at the last couple of weeks these gun shooting incidents have been on the rise to the point where there two or three or four and a day madness. It is absolute madness and it's gotta stop checkout. Do some research and manuel oliver. He's a brilliant artist. So if you go to The loss class dot com but also go to change the ref dot org. I'll put all the links on the blog at nicole sandler dot com slash six dash twenty four deaths. Twenty one. that'll help you get there but You know this is a man who was a prolific and successful artists before his life was turned upside down in two thousand eighteen and now he's using his talents to help try to change the world in a better way. I have so much respect for that man and My heart just goes out to him and his wife all right. Wow this is going to be a weird segue but we got howie klein on the line so take a deep breath and let's move.
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"howie klein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"They'll buy you out if they don't buy you out the predatory price you out of existence. They have most favored nation status with all of the local farmers. So you they get their food cheaper than you. They clone your menu right. And you can't talk politics at the dinner table anywhere in town now. The government never pass to rule saying no politics at the dinner table but the government's forbearance on regulating markets led to a circumstance in which they might as well have passed it and the only differences that if they had passed that rule you would have standing to go to court and ask for a first amendment judgment striking down the rule but the forbearance in competition law means that you have no such remedy and so the there's always going to be a speech policy and competition policy because because Markets implicate speech. Right if you have monopolies on transport then you could have as we had with the far right. You could have someone saying we're not gonna let anyone fly to the city where a big demonstration is is plan. Now i i would be glad if the demonstrators who are kept away were opposed to the causes. I believe in as those january six demonstrators. The rioters were. you know. i'm i'm happy to see anything. That stands in their way. But i'm also keenly aware that when that power has been exercised. It's mostly been exercised against people. I agree with. that's right. Anti pipeline activist trans rights activists anti nuclear proliferation activists that a civil rights workers. That's what i've seen the organiz power of transport monopolies to restrict access to demonstrations. And when you see media concentration there's obviously dimension to it but you see telecommunications concentration right if someone says what we're just not gonna we're gonna cut off your internet if you if you are doing something we don't like which you know bart shut down the internet stop the bay area rapid transit the subway system in san francisco a big demonstration about police violence. They shut off the wifi right. So you stream the demonstration. So there's always going to be in competition policy. There's always going to be a communications policy and that isn't to say that communication should always trump competition that we should our competition should trump communication. But it is to say that like when you when you regulate one or forbear from regulated one. You have to attend to the other after. Think well in allowing this to happen in allowing the merger of sprint and t mobile for example what are the speech implications not the first amendment implications right because the first amendment is narrow but the first amendment seeks to achieve a pluralistic place where different viewpoints can be. Heard right where we can all of us access each other form groups express our will try and win other people to are causing. So what is the speech implication for that merger and when that doesn't get a look at right when we don't ask ourselves about the communications implications of of competition policy. Communications suffers than the restaurant decisions. Become decisions about who can talk politics. And that's a real problem right now. You've said that you believe copyright laws should be liberalized to allow for free sharing of all digital media. And in fact you. I don't know if you still think people say a really. It's a little more nuanced okay. But you did make your books available under creative comments for digital. it's not free sharing a role bachera commercial. I can share my pdf of your book. As long as i'm not making money off of it or or capitalizing on it right yet most at most of the books the last couple of my publisher has baulked at to be honest. It didn't make a difference in the sale. So maybe they'll maybe they'll reverse there. I mean i've had books that were new york times bestsellers ibooks that flopped it. They're not real that the the license arrangements seems to be a relevant to that or at least not determinative of it. So you know. I i'm not But but for me it was just about about establishing the idea that if you have to understand copyright to read a book right then not like that's like having to understand finance law to spend money like crazy they just that's just it brings. It brings the regulation that i need to form a framework for how i negotiate with my publisher. My editor my agent. You know the booksellers and so on it brings that whole enterprise into disrepute because it makes it seem like nonsense right right right. If you have to understand all this business about fair use to write harry potter fan check you know. That's that's bananas right like just just tell that to Apparent of twelve year old. And they'll tell you that your rule is stupid and no one should pay attention to. And i don't want that. I want people to pay attention to that rule so that we can make it better so that i can use it to extract higher value for my creative labor from the other actors in my value chain. You know corey dr thousand. I screwed up by not a allotting full hour to talk with you. Because i we could i. We've barely scratched the surface. We're getting to the bottom of the hour. But i gotta ask the You know i said i. Come from terrestrial. Radio i i. I'm i'm sort of spanning the two kinds of technologies. And i remember so clearly sitting in my apartment in one thousand nine hundred ninety five ninety six in santa monica getting notices from after the union saying they're looking at passing this thing the telecommunications act of nineteen ninety-six and everything's gonna change and sure enough everything changed and it. It has not been updated since then but it destroyed my industry of radio that i love that i've worked in since you know not too long after you're born seventy one. Yes seventy nine. Since i've been in radio and and my industry doesn't exist anymore it's been destroyed and it's because of regulations and talking about you know the supreme court just unanimously did away with local ownership rules. You know they should have been brought back to where they were pre telecommunications act and instead they said no limits one company can own two newspapers to television eight radio stations in a market. It's okay well. It's not to be fair. That wasn't just regulation was the lack of it right. So it's the forbearance of regulation. The lack of merger scrutiny. So the history radio very interesting because you know in the first sheet music came out and that the only people who had music industry where people who wrote songs because performing song is not an industry it was the craft In industry it has have reproduction right and so when performers became an industry as well through recording the sheet music publishers said. What do you think you're doing. You're stealing our work. You don't you're not creators You are trained monkeys. Who performed the instructions that we write down sheet music. John phillips sousa went to congress and said if these infernal machines these talking machines are allowed to continue will lose our voice boxes as we lost our tails when we came down out of the. So what you got was was a compulsory. Licensed mechanical license that allows anyone to record any song once. It's been released as a recording. That's how seditious recorded my way. Didn't get paul anka's permission. The statutory licence fee and then along came radio right and started taking these phonograms and putting them on the radio and photograph producer. So what are you doing when we took that sheet music. That was progress when you play our records. That's that's right. We're telling cards for you right..
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"howie klein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"One video was blocked from Let's see if i can find it was from like two thousand ten or something And i got to copyright claims and we'll get into the second from a show from november of two thousand nineteen and one from january of two thousand fifteen. The thing i got blocked for that. I got suspended for was a show from two thousand fifteen. In which a a feature that. I played bumper music that happened to be from don henley and six years later they come to and say not only. Are we blocking the video. You're suspended from livestreaming for ninety days. And they don't even tell you what the offense was so i actually you know i have audio podcast too so i went back and listen to the show and the minute. I heard heavily. I knew that was it. Because he's notorious for this and that's what got me suspended the first time but this is this is an abuse of power. Far as i'm concerned in my way off base here yeah. I think you've got the right shape of things. There are some. There are some particular that i think are technical and in the realm of copyright and kind of complicated but what the dmca says is that the people who host content are not liable for copyright infringement. If when they're told that there's an infringement they remove this stuff it's called expeditiously right so what that means. Is that the if you are too. And you get a notice from rightsholder that says this infringes my copyright you get to make some determinations right you can. You can look at the work and you can say. I don't think it infringes copyright. I think that that's fair. use right. that's that's fair. uses not thirty seconds. It's actually a really complicated analysis that you need on a human who understands the law for fair use creates exemptions for things like parody and criticism. Yes no one's ever invented a computer that can tell parody and criticism from verbatim reproduction. It also asks that you do things like evaluate whether or not you're going to undermine the market for the underlying work It asked whether you're the uses proportionate whether you've taken more than you need. These are things that software can evaluate. These are things that you really need are complex. Human evaluation and various is really important in in a couple of landmark supreme court copyright cases in the first part of the century where the court took up the question of the of the intersection between copyright and free speech. So you know if you know your first amendment you know it starts. Congress shall make no law and it says congress shall make no law regarding restrictions on speech on expression. And so. Then you have this other thing. Copyright which is also in the constitution since then called the progress clause To promote the progress of useful arts and sciences congress may grant monopolies of limited times right And and copyright is the government making a law that says that some words can't be repeated unless you got permission from someone else right and so this is kind of. It's there two priorities that our intention look. I make my living from books. I'm not gonna say that. We don't need any copyright. I like the idea of copyright as set regulations for the supply chain of my industry. According it's kind of silly to ask you know a twelve year old. Who wants to put some harry potter fan frick to to navigate industrial regulation. Like i like finance regulation. But i wouldn't ask you know parents to file with the sec. When they give their kids allowance. I'd right like you know there's there's The most important thing about regulation is actually what the rule say. It's who you apply them to you. Know parents paying out allowance or not banks kids Posting harry potter fan are not in the entertainment industry. You know like as someone who who wants my industry to be a well. Regulated unfair one. I wanna make sure that the rules are crafted so that they have the complexity and nuance to capture those industrial relations. You can't make them simple enough for a twelve year old to understand if you're also gonna make them suited for my purpose so anyway. That's like by way of background. So the supreme court took this up and they said look resolving. This tension is Is result between free. Speech and and copyright and exclusive rights of authors is captured by fair. Use the fear uses isn't like a nice to have various the judges. They called it the escape valve for free expression that allows commentary criticism. All kinds of things. And you know yeah. They implicate judges. You need people to make subtle legal two fences but you know just because they're hard to figure out. It doesn't make them irrelevant. It actually the reason. They're hard to figure there so important. You know so. For example an author a black woman took gone with the wind and rewrote it from the perspective of the enslaved people. She called it. The wound gone. Wow i'd love to mitchell. State sued her and she won the supreme court found in favour even though she took the whole book even though she took the heart of the book even though she competed directly commercially with them and even though she made a commercial use of it. The supreme court found that the free expression value of her use trumped all of those other riders in that various analysis. Great so when you then turn a computer loose to make determinations about fair use right to say well as that ten seconds thirty seconds is too much too little. Those a critical is it. Scholarly is.
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"howie klein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Always expect boca to say who picks up the tab for this. Why howie klein of down. Tyranny on the nicole sandler but he doesn't thankfully hi. Howie low how are you. I'm okay how are you doing good. It's good it's been. I realized it's been a few weeks since we've spoken. Because i was out to three weeks ago because it was david's birthday. You were out last week because you had a hospital day and so we haven't spoken in a while and you know i guess it's just more of the same happening but it seems like so much has happened since we last spoke. Yeah what has happened. what has happened more of the same. I guess i don't have a list in front of me but shiva's happened. I couldn't tell you offhand what it's not like in the days of trump whereas like every day there were twenty things and i had to pick and choose but you know we're plugging away. We're moving along. Joe biden disappointed me in a couple of ways. I'm sure you're not surprised to hear that. But for instance in his he put out this ridiculous budget but a few things of of his campaign promises from the from the campaign have disappeared like very important things. Yes i know weren't enough to convince me to vote for other. People voted for him. Because of some of these promises that you never hear of anymore. Yeah well and some of us voted for him to vote against donald trump because as bad as joe biden ten. Be he's still is is light years. Better than trump i i. If trump had won reelection. I fear for where we'd be today and you know things may not be great today but they certainly be a lot worse if he were still in office to look what he's doing so yes we agree on that. So i you know before you came on how he had just changed gears. I don't know if you heard about the story or not. Do you do remember though that back in november Some of us were surprised at how republican florida went especially miami dade county right well. Big story in the miami herald today that a few groups media watchdog groups did an investigation into spanish language. Radio in miami and go figure they found to to give you the real reader's digest version. They lied about every goddamn thing. The first the first paragraph of the article says thousands of dead people in non-citizens voted in the twenty twenty presidential election. There were more votes cast than registered voters. Black lives matter and antifa infiltrated the deadly storming of the us capital. And then it says these are just some of the conspiracy. Theories compiled in new media. Monitoring report published wednesday revealing the extent to which misinformation pervaded the airways of miami's spanish language. Talk radio but wait a minute but these will these. It sounded like he was saying things that would have that reported on the election. Right this did. They also influence the election all. I'm sure they did well. This study only. It followed the january six insurrection so they took a week like january sixth through the thirteenth and studied just analyzed that programming but the lying in the misinformation didn't start after the election. This was in full swing throughout the campaign and my point is it. Seems like there's nobody monitoring what's going on on spanish language rio in south florida. Well.
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"howie klein" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Public airwaves. And they do this shit on the the the the frequencies owned by the public again the the radio stations that operate on those frequencies are licensed to operate on those frequencies. They do not own those airwaves. Ostensibly we do and you know what i say to that. Bullshit yeah so anyway. Do come over read that. I'm going to try to get in touch with the people who did this. This study. who did the research and get them on the show. Because if you can't tell on behind a pissed in fact. I'm livid that that shit goes on. Where's the regulation where overly regulated. Now when i was doing music radio working on big goofy morning shows the fcc instituted a new policy that if you were to let god forbid a bad word get through and you can just use. George carlin seventy words a guide that the not just the station would get fined but the actual on air host could be liable for a fine of up to. I think it was like three hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars or something ridiculous like that. I promise you radio hosts don't make that kind of money unless you're rush. Limbaugh howard stern or mark and brian but the perusing producer. Didn't your general regular run of the mill disc jockey so there's a problem here and if you wonder why miami went so far right. That's why they're using our so-called public airwaves as propaganda machines. It is stunning. I'm going to work on getting one of the people who worked on that report on the show. But i've been talking so long. I didn't even realize y- and univision which owns one of those channels was asked for a comment and they declined. They just didn't comment. Nor did mario diaz balart or any of the other congress. People who went on their online miami herald called them for comment and they had no comment. And i'd say i'm surprised or i'd say you know it's unbelievable but as i say all the time i use that word unbelievable wrongly. It's totally believable. It's just shameful and truly fucked up and really wrong but it is totally believable. All right i see. I've been talking so long that we're late in mixing up those dirty. Debbie's who's got him anyone and you'll.
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"Reasons These two stories. I have here for you today. One is and it's the front page of miami herald today Desanta or death sentences. I call him to santa signs floridas first hundred billion dollar budget. But what's not in. The headline is that he vetoed about nine hundred thousand dollars in funding for state programs geared toward serving the lgbtq population including. You'll love this one. One that provides mental health programs to survivors of the pulse nightclub shooting from two thousand sixteen. So he did that. On the second day of pride month on june second now told you on the first day of pride month. June first disentis. He's that's when he signed this contentious law saying that transgender girls and women cannot participate in scholastic sports way to way to support the lgbt community. Yeah it's just just horrendous and it goes on. I'm not going to do all the yeah. Santa's cuts two point seven million dollars budget for south florida projects. So it goes on like that. And it's the typical. It's what you would expect. Yeah so there's all these. Lgbtq program cuts and it came on the fifth anniversary of the pulse nightclub shooting but spokespeople for desanta say. He's an advocate for mental health. I just had to leave that there for a second. The other story that i want to share with you goes a little deeper because there's nothing deep about more on death sentence do you remember. Of course you do back in november the election and this in south florida mostly miami-dade It it went the election. Went to trump. Now miami miami dade county and broward county where i am which is fort lauderdale. The county just north of miami dade are generally blue counties. You know it's pretty democratic here. Now the rest of the state not so much there are pockets. You know orlando tampa. You know are our democratic strongholds but Northern florida is the. You know crazy country. That's not gates country. That's nutjob city but down here. We're usually more sensible. But we have the hispanic community hispanic community latino hispanic whatever you wanna call that group. See here in florida. it's different than in texas and arizona and the southwest california where there's a big mexican population here. Its its little cuba. I mean miami is little havana. It is cuban territory and there's a lot of spanish language radio and in fact they are what i meant to pull up the ratings. Let me see if i can do this. As i as i multi task but generally speaking the top rated. Oh no another stir cox media group which owns a bunch radio stations streams and e mail or down as reports of ransomware attack surface. This is getting really outrageous. So that's an aside. I was gonna pull up the ratings miami. The top rated stations are usually at least most of them Spanish language And it happened in l. A. too but here in miami i mean even more so So let me see. I'm going to log in here. I'm gonna pull up those ratings. But there is a story into it was published last night by the miami herald and i couldn't find it in the in the paper today but i have the i have the The i have the the printout in front of me and the headline reads up is down and down is up. Sounds like they're describing opposite world doesn't report examines misinformation on miami spanish talk radio so while people were trying to figure out what happened in south florida. Why did miami go for the orange guy. This answers the questions and it is astounding. it's astounding mostly because you know what they're talking about. Terrestrial radio over the air radio which is under the jurisdiction of the of the fcc where they get to keep You know they. They oversee they regulate over the air radio. They don't regulate the internet. Fcc has nothing to do with what i do. But yeah they they they are supposed to keep tabs on what the over the air stations are doing. they are the ones who you renew. The licenses used to have to jump through a lot of hoops in order to get a broadcast license because remember these are allegedly the public airwaves. They are not owned by the companies who broadcast on those frequencies their frequencies on the dial on am or the fm dial licensed to accompany but never owned by them. Allegedly the public owns them. All right i'm looking. I'm guess i'm wrong. So the number one station in miami fort lauderdale is Hot one zero five urban. Ac that's like you know. Black urban music is is is the The the the what's the word i'm looking for the student. Am i guess for a black music. So urban is like for older people Then there's it followed by t this florida. The land of the old people followed by two adult contemporary stations. Easy ninety three and light one. Oh one point five. The next one. Spanish contemporary the nets one spanish contemporary Then there's a classic the classic rock then tropical spanish talk is in here so the spanish contemporary. I'm going down the list. Spanish contemporary spanish news. So all these spanish stations are on the public airwaves. But apparently nobody who's monitoring them speak spanish. So let me read you a some of this article. From the man. Miami herald it begins. Thousands of dead people and non-citizens voted in the twenty twenty presidential election. There were more votes cast than registered voters. Black lives matter and antiques. Infiltrated the deadly storming of the us capital. Those are just some of the conspiracy. Theories compiled in a new media monitoring report published yesterday revealing the extent to which misinformation pervaded the airwaves of miami spanish. Language talk radio in the immediate lead up to an aftermath of the january sixth in direction lovely and just know we can extend it further back and know that this shit was happening before the election to it didn't just happen after trump won in miami but lost the presidency So it continues. Scrutinizing a week's worth of to mid january prerecorded programming. The report titled disinformation in miami after the capital insurrection shows how a group of radio hosts across to local. Am stations radio mambi. And actually actually dodd..
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2 Giuliani associates connected to Ukraine probe arrested — live updates
"Big breaking news story today because there was at least one day to foreign business associates of Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have been charged with a scheme to route foreign money into US elections this according to a newly unsealed indictment their names are alleged Parnis and eager fruman they were arrested last night at Dose International Airport as they attempted to leave the country and what we learned from the the FBI's announced in today is they were in the possession of a one way ticket out of the country interesting by the way they lunch yesterday in DC with Rudy Giuliani I wonder who tipped them off about the indictment I'm guessing someone's going to investigate that someone tipped them off because they were getting ready to flee the country just saying they have been under investigation by the US attorney his office in Manhattan and they were in court in Virginia today actually I the last I checked before we came on the air the judge had said something along the lines of okay so the judge is holding them over oh they're so every time I look on twitter there's more stuff like this Chuck Schumer said there are now new reports very troubling that the two Giuliani Associates are being indicted on criminal charges by the Southern District of New York Giuliani has been involved to his neck in this entire mess he has an obligation to testify under growth so he can be asked questions okay Rebecca Ball Haas from the Wall Street Journal says Rulli Rudy Giuliani tells the Wall Street Journal that they were headed to Vienna for business reasons year right he says they've traveled there between three and six times in the last two months and that he was scheduled to me with them and they were turned in the coming days then why didn't they have a return ticket you know by an open ended ticket if you don't know when you're coming back just saying the judge I guess was deciding on bail or or something yeah I mean every almost every tweet I feed is about them let me go back to the indictment according to the indictment parnis fruman and other defendants conspired to circumvent the Federal Laws Against Barn influence by engaging in a scheme to funnel foreign money to candidates for federal office so that the defendants could buy potential influ silence with them the indictment says partisan fruman committed to raising twenty thousand dollars or more in two thousand eighteen for a quote then sitting US congressman well we'll identify that person in moment from whom they also sought help in removing the US ambassador to Ukraine who is removed not too long ago by the trump administration she's the one who supposed to be testifying tomorrow but although she's no longer the US ambassador Ukraine and she's still works for the State Department therefore their prohibition on anyone cooperating with Congress will probably come into play but of course they haven't said what's going to happen tomorrow yet anyway back to the indictment Fruman donated twenty seven hundred dollars to this congressman identified in the indictment has congressman one and also gave in Parnassus name both of them donated to Dallas area were public representative Pete Sessions who actually lost in twenty eighteen and is trying to make a comeback in in a waco based district and is believed to be congressman one as referenced in the indictment that would be pete sessions no relation to although they seem to share the same amount of brain cells to simplify Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut tweeted out let's be clear about what just happened the two russian-born ringleaders of the Ukraine scandal just got arrested for making hundreds of thousands of dollars of illegal contributions to trump's really Shen F. Y. I. None of this is on the level so that's what that's what Chris Murphy said here's Bill Sweeney he's the assistant director of the FBI's New York field office in their little press announcement of the indictment just about an hour ago last night at Washington does International Airport the FBI live in Eagle on campaign finance related charges as they attempted to leave the United States Andre Kukushkin was arrested in San Francisco shortly thereafter David Korea the fourth individual charged in today's indictment is in our custody campaign finance dance laws exists for a reason the American people expect and deserve an election process that has not been corrupted by the influence of foreign interest and the public has a right to know the true source of campaign contributions laws make up the fabric of who we are as a nation these allegations are not about some technicality a civil violation or an error on a form this investigation is about corrupt behavior deliberate lawbreaking you hear that the FBI takes the obligation tackle corruption seriously there are no exceptions to this rule we gather evidence we collect facts and we will act on them when appropriate as Jeff mentioned our investigation will continue the investigation will continue so that's the official word from the FBI now I recorded this update from NBC News a few hours ago things may have changed since then but this is Tom Winter on the arrest of these to what you know all the news reports are identifying them as russian-born they are but from what I can gather what I understand is they're both American citizens now according to the indictment outer about may or in June of two thousand eighteen partisan firm and the two people that were talking about committed to raise twenty thousand dollars more for them sitting US congressman identified as congressman number one in addition to that they were going to raise some funds here I'm just going to kind of skim through this As far as another account that he had at around the same time foreignness infirm and committed to raising those funds for Congressman Parnasse met with Congressman one in soccer Congressman's assistance in causing the government to remove or recall the then US ambassador to Ukraine parties efforts to remove the ambassador were conducted at least in part at the request of one or more Ukrainian government officials moreover in an effort to reach their contribution commitment to congressman one of their political goals in about June two thousand eighteen after Framingham already made the maximum seventy twenty seven hundred dollar contribution a congressman one paid for another minimum twenty seven hundred contract Asian to congressman that was made in reported in Parnassus name essentially what we're talking about here is that these people were donating directly in illegally into a den sitting US Congressperson lovely clear if that person is still in Congress they're not identified in the court papers in order to remove a recall the bastard or something that actually did occur dishes that they describe how money came from a foreign national through these men as part of their conspiracy it'd be donated to those political causes mentioned before as you stated both are expected to appear in court later today I'm just going through the indictment now it's twenty one page and diepen that's been handed up and has just become unsealed that's why we have a copy of it this is now the second time that a foreign national or foreign nationals have been able to you basically flow of money through US persons into a political account or campaign account or some sort of a grow president trump fund that's Tom Winners from NBC News since that a report there's been more developments just just coming one after another after another here's a couple a kaitlan collins of CNN tweeted the US Attorney said the three hundred and twenty five thousand dollar donate shen get that amount that partisan firm and made to committee one I think that's congressman one it should have been one of the largest donations it had received CNN has ident- Oak Committee CNN has identified that committee as America first action it's chaired by Linda McMahon the former head of the small business administration oh I didn't realize she was already out okay then Rudy Giuliani's indicted UK Ukraine henchman gave thousands of dollars to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Oh and the dragnet gets wider and wider lovely there's all kinds of stuff empty wheel our friend Marcy Wheeler tweeted so three days ago doubt he's the attorney represent joining these two guys who used to be trump's attorney member the Chunky Guy Anyway three days ago dowd says Parnasse and Fruman won't testify then the White House releases Cipriani's letter that a page letter refusing to cooperate and DOJ says USB Nixon was wrongly decided then Rudy lunches with the accused criminals then they try to flee the country oh what a tangled web we weave yeah
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Democrats grill Wilbur Ross on census citizenship question
"Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross Wilbur Ross testified today before the house oversight and reform committee about his controversial in court challenge decision to add a citizenship question to the twenty twenty census Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was also testifying today. He before the House Ways and means and Senate finance committee's answering questions about Trump's fiscal twenty twenty budget proposal. And more. Yeah. Trump's education department budget released on Monday calls for ending a loan forgiveness program and would alter other student loan policies House Democrats, of course, are unlikely to approve those proposed
The Nicole Sandler Show
On anniversary of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans mourn, look back
"Today marks the one year anniversary of hurricane, Maria hitting and devastating, Puerto Rico, demonstrators are planning an event outside Trump's moral, go property in Palm Beach. This weekend, Puerto Rico, Governor Ricardo Rosero was on CNN this morning. What is the number one thing? Puerto Ricans need from the Trump administration right now. Given this stark reality, think of you things in the one eliminate the excess bureaucracy. The FEMA of has imposed certain processes in Puerto Rico. They're not imposed in other states and the main. You know, the reason why this this happens is that Puerto Ricans are treated as second class citizens. We're of territory of the United States. We're not a full state. It's about time that we have this discussion. If you are. Empathetic about the treatment that Ricans have received that US citizens have received input the Rico. Then we need to dive into the the main route cost of the problem with chase colonial territory in the twenty first century. So my petition all the makers to Halley purpose on this to let everybody know if they stand with Puerto Ricans that have equal rights to transition into statehood, which is what the people have asked or if they're going to support this on democratic form of of colonialism moving forward. I think it is important also to cover the progress. You mentioned nine percents on employment rate, right? I know it seems the United States, but that is the lowest unemployment rate we've had in the history of Rico. It typically hovers around twelve to fourteen percent of the past seven months, have been a steady, inkling, tourism coming back. Prime rates have gone down. So while there is there are many challenges in China. Buying away from them. There's also a lot of reason to cover the progress, and I know you're focused on the present in the future, but I do have to ask you, is there any doubt in your mind that those three thousand Puerto Ricans those three thousand Americans lost their lives as a result of this storm? No, there isn't look. I'm my formal training is is very much value science and well-done. Science debt was the aftermath of the storm came over here. We have a, we had a very on satisfying, broke all due to get to the death toll number. We realized that we look for an independent study Washington step in and they took their time. I value added everything that they did, and it is my view that it was a very well done estimate of the death toll numbers. Of course, this juncture we can talk about and it's certainly it's in the ballpark, and that's why I have a thinking myself to that number the two thousand nine hundred seventy five excess death number as the official total got Ricardo Rossello the governor of Puerto Rico speaking on CNN last