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ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"rutherford b hayes" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"Robin, you're absolutely right. And with that, we're going to leave it there. Where can folks go if they want to follow you on the socials? Do you have a place you want to direct folks? I'm going to have to get back to you on that because I'm in the process of updating it all. Okay. And I guess we don't have time for that other topic that I thought so much about the other day. You know what, Robin? No, let's hang tight. Robert, don't go anywhere because we got to take a break when we come back though. I do want to talk about Justin Pearson, who is a Tennessee state lawmaker. We got to get to that story so hang tight. Robin, I want to go to the phone, though, because we have some folks that want to try their hand at our trivia question. Let's go to Cindy in New York, Cindy here's the question which U.S. president banned alcohol from The White House at the request of the First Lady. I'm going with the just say no lady, Nancy Reagan. Sidney, that is a correct good try though. Let's go to wa nita in Georgia. All right, junior, what's the answer? Jamie Carter. Oh, juanita. No, it's sadly. That is a great that's a great answer. Jimmy Carter did not drink alcohol and did not serve it, but you got to listen to the question. We want to know which U.S. president banned alcohol from The White House at the request of the First Lady. Was it? We're going to have to get people with some trivia here. Was it Martin Van Buren? Was it Thomas Jefferson or was it Rutherford B Hayes, 8 four four 747 88 68 bets are toll free telephone number that's 8 four four, 747 88 68 will be right back. All right, let's go to the phones. We've got mark and the beautiful metropolitan city of nesbitt, Mississippi. Listening to us on kwa, hey Mark, how are you today? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm doing Walmart. We're going to try to win you a prize here. So the question on the table, which U.S. president banned booze from The White House at the request of the First Lady? Who was it, Mark? Rutherford B Hayes because they called his wife lemonade Lucy. All right, let's see what we got here. Wow. Yeah, lemonade Lucy. Well done Mark. Lucy, Lucy Hayes made one of the most dramatic policy changes in The White House when she banned all booze from the building. I hope that lemonade was good. Absolutely. Mark, congratulations. So we're going to put you on hold. We're going to send you a signed copy of culture Jihad, how to stop a lot from killing they should essentially a funny book so you'll enjoy you'll enjoy the read. Congratulations. Thanks for listening to Kwan. Thank you, pleasure..
History That Doesn't Suck
"rutherford b hayes" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Evening, Wednesday, July 30th, 1902. School county sheriff's deputy, Thomas bettel, and two or three other men are walking through the eastern pennsylvanian borough of Shenandoah. Their path leads them right up to a packet line of striking coal miners. Soon, some of the men picketing start eyeing this apparently police escorted group. A few strikers approached the deputy and his companions. They seize at the bundle, each escorted man is carrying, and from their hands spill work shirts overalls tools and lunch pails. In short, the opened bundles prove that, despite the strike, these men are working for the Pennsylvania and ready railroad. Enraged at this discovery, a striking minor screams. Son of a bitch scab. The strikers move in as the deputy whips out his revolver and fires a warning shot into the air, but to no good effect. The officer in escorted workers are swarmed as this evening's 5000 primarily Slavs strikers, advance on them, undeterred. The now violent picketers kick hit and throw stones driving the group to retreat into the train's depot. While rocks crashed through the windows, the death of his brother, Joseph, who sees his sibling under attack, takes up arms and rushes to help. But the strikers intercept Joseph. They beat him to a bloody pulp. A small locomotive chugs up to the depot. It stops and the strikers can see the engineers trying to help their prey escape. Now a mob, the strikers pour onto the tracks to block the train as burrow policemen cover for the fleeing employees boarding the train. As the last worker climbs aboard, one of the picketers seizes his foot. An officer, possibly the original deputy, shoots the picketer in the leg. His whole brakes and the employee clambers aboard. But not without all hell breaking loose first. Lead flies in both directions as police and armed strikers alike exchange fire. Hundreds of rounds are discharged. 20 miners and 5 officers minimum are injured. Some so gravely, they'll never fully recover. As for Joseph bettel, trying to save his deputy brother, costs him his life. After languishing for two days in a hospital, his broken body and cracked skull can hang in there no longer. He passes away. This injurious, deadly day in Shenandoah, known as the bloody first ward riot. Didn't happen spontaneously or in a vacuum. It is a part of this year's decades in the making labor strike. The coal strike of 1902. Let me give you the background on how we got here. Life isn't easy for eastern Pennsylvania's coal miners. While the minimum working age is supposed to be 12, everyone looks the other way when impoverished families send their sometimes 8 year old sons to ten hour shifts, breaking and sifting coal from impurities as breaker boys. The hours are no shorter for the teens and grown men, going as deep as 2000 feet into the dark damp dreary earth and pursuit of the hard energy dense black rock that powers locomotives and heats homes. Anthracite coal down there, danger lurks around every corner as they blast away and poorly ventilated tunnels. Death is just one undetected vapor, cave in or flooded tunnel away. But despite these risks, wages haven't risen in two decades, not since 1880. Perhaps that's why the heavily eastern and southern European immigrant miners are listening. When John Mitchell says it's well past time for working conditions and pay to improve. Growing up in Illinois, John was both an orphan and one of those kids working in coal mines before he even reached his teens. He turned to unions when his own wages got cut, and despite being shy and non confrontational by nature, his proclivity for reading and analyzing turned him into one of their leaders. Indeed, he became a founding member of the united mine workers of America, in 1890, in 8 years later, its president. Jon gruma membership in Pennsylvania and saw modest gains in the smaller strike of 1900, as senator Mark Hanna and other Republicans leaned on railroad executives to make peace with their employees amid the presidential election. But shortly after the ballot boxes disappeared, so did those temporary 10% raises. Thus, on May 12th, 1902, most of PAs nearly 150,000 anthracite coal miners began striking against the railroads. And yes, I know we're talking about coal. So why on earth am I mentioning railroads? Well, I can't say this nor bring us full circle better than Susan burfield does in her most excellent history of JPMorgan and Teddy Roosevelt. The hour of fate, quote by 1874, most of the coal land in northeastern Pennsylvania was controlled by the railroads. By 1900, most of the railroads were controlled by Pierpont Morgan. Ah, so that's how the powerful New York dwelling book collecting northern securities founding banker connects to this Pennsylvania coal strike. But hang on to that thought. We aren't quite ready to bring him back into the store yet. We are, however, ready for the powerful New York raised book riding northern securities prosecuting president. So how does he connect? He doesn't initially. Not legally, at least. In turn of the century America, this is a state level affair, and therefore none of his business. Those rare strikes in which a president has intervened always reached the federal level in a specific, even if questionably so sort of way. Either governors of any involved states requested federal assistance, as was the case when Andrew Jackson sent troops to end a strike at the Chesapeake and Ohio canal in Maryland in 1834, and when Rutherford B Hayes more famously did so amid the great railroad strike in 1877, or the strike directly touched a federal nerve. This happened in 1835 when, to bring up Andy once more, federal employees struck at Washington, D.C.'s naval yard. It also occurred half a century later in 1894. During the far larger and better known Pullman strike, when railroad owners purposely brought train cars with U.S. mail into the mix to make it a federal issue, thereby pressing Grover Cleveland to take action. Action that invariably favors the companies, not the strikers. Bearing all of that in mind, the coal strike of 1902 isn't directly touching anything federal. This actually frustrates the president, who, rather than siding with the railroad owners, is figuring there's blame on both sides here and took it upon himself in June to ask commissioner of labor Carroll D Wright to investigate. Yet TR is going to have to keep sitting on his hands. Violent as July 30th bloody first ward riot was, Pennsylvania governor William stone says no federal intervention is wanted or needed. His National Guard is now patrolling the streets of Shenandoah and everything's fine. The strike will now work itself out. Looks like this strike is following the usual pattern. Workers refuse to labor, they try to prevent those willing to accept the status quo from working, troops of some sort or hired guns come to back the company's owners and keep the railroad, mill, et cetera running, violence ensues, and justly or unjustly. The workers get blamed for that bloodshed. But then Philadelphia and reading railroad president George bair does something really, really stupid.
History That Doesn't Suck
"rutherford b hayes" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"War and reconstruction and the first parts of the twentieth century. Both of which are some of the most interesting of american history with some of the biggest figures. You have lincoln and teddy roosevelt. Both on mount. Rushmore and rutherford b hayes and chet. Arthur are nowhere in sight. Make the cut off. And i couldn't tell you why i mean i think we could. I think we probably right. No dude you nailed that that is so true guilty. I mean it it is that you've got the great drama right. That is the civil war. This quintessential redefining moment. Rebirth of the nation. So many ways it's only competitor or perhaps only you know while he not only american revolution civil war world war two yup right like boom boom boom. Those are the three things that like. Those are the three big events that people even. If you're not a history you know about those tend to be most interested. Yeah and fish perhaps a slightly dated reference these days while they had a reunion recently. So i guess it was friends. I love that. Show rewatching it right now. Are you okay. So there was an episode..
Unreserved Wine Talk
"rutherford b hayes" Discussed on Unreserved Wine Talk
"List of every wine that he served while he was president. And you can see you provided on this date. The specific date what was served. How much of it was served ranging from madera to the ryan's of roan. I mean all the different wines if he served the volume that was served each occasion. It's a phenomenal historic record to show you how much attention a president of the united states would stand on the winds it. He was serving to his guests at the white house. I so meticulous i. I'm surprised at time for writing policy in that well and drafted the constitution. So i guess it was a man of many talents. So let's look at this. Oh this is next related to jefferson alluded to it in my intro. Tell us what's engraved on this bottle. Yes it's a very old state bottle from that period and it has the date seventeen eighty seven feet all in grave on the side. There's no paper level of course and then at the bottom. It has t j and that bottle had a very interesting history in the mid eighties as you may recall this collection of undiscovered rare wines was made by a fellow over in paris and he indicated that he was doing some construction work on his house and knocked out a wall behind the wall. Where these bottles of lafitte. And other top wines from the eighteenth century and this one particularly had tj on the side defeat and it turned out that was the same year that thomas jefferson was there and it was known that he enjoyed the feet and he would use the initials tj so. This wine was reviewed by all the experts at went to auction and malcolm forbes great american publisher and his son kip forbes. Also tremendous wine enthusiasts a great business person decided. They wanted to buy the bottle of wine and it had been certified. As original christie's auction was taking place in london so the forbes had a museum in new york that they wanted to put it on display so kip forbes flew to london he bet on this the bidding went back and forth and back and forth got out of hand in the end he paid a hundred and fifty five thousand dollars for the single bottle of wine. Now put it on his private plane. He flew back to new york. Put it on display in the museum and unfortunately the curatorial staff in the museum had really not considered the delicacy of the item. They were displaying. And after it had been on display for a while the court loosened and sunk inside the bottle and the contents were destroyed. So is a very expensive investment that was lost and then to compound things. Another wine collector purchased some bottles that were believed to have been from thomas jefferson and he wasn't sure so he hired a team including former fbi forensic agents track the bottle in to find out what was happening in turned out. They discovered that the graving was not done by hand. It was done by a power tool and no power goals existed of course in history and the bottles were fake and the are that the other bottles as well. we're fake and that word got back to mocking forbes so he had a great line he just dismissed the whole thing and he said i just wish thomas jefferson had drank the damn bottle. I hope. Gosh that's a great story. Oh my gosh one of those bottles. Is that the basis for the book. Billionaire's vinegar exactly greener vinegar talks about this bottle and other ones that. A fellow named coke from florida. Who is an incredible line collector who would purchase number of these bottles and he was determined to get to the truth and he's the one who hired the experts to trace this. Get to a final decision on. Well if you have the means to buy the mine. I'm sure you have the means to investigate it so on him all right. Well let's keep going to the seventh president of the united states. Andrew jackson tell us about the inauguration and his love for wine. Well jackson was considered a kind of a frontier common man. That was kind of a term used to describe him. He decided that he wanted to have an open inauguration so they basically get to open. The gates of the white house opened the doors. The white house in that anybody who wanted to and it turned into a drunken brawl. People were jammed in the place. They were pulling drawers out to see what was in there. They were crawling in and out of the windows. It was a absolute masks. It was out of control end smartly. The path in the white house decided the only way to end. It was to take the alcohol out of the white house was being served and put it in the front lawn and that would move the crowd outside because they wanted to drink more so they finally were able to get things under control by moving the alcohol outside so the crowd could drink it there but despite his reputation as a common frontier man jackson was ranked pretty high when it came to the president and the amount of wine they served in the quality of line they served. He made sure his guest for after the inaugural were well entertained. Well as he himself was did he. Die of gout steph over the president's Died of doubt into roasted the liver so there may have been indulging a little bit too much alcohol time very dedicated to making sure everyone had a good time at the way gus. Now we get the opposite. Extreme with rutherford b hayes. The nineteenth president eighteen seventy seven to eighteen eighty one. His wife had a nickname. Well i think a lot of us know that prohibitions took place. The united states and that was nineteen twenty and eighteen thirty three where the constitution lod alcohol. But before that there was a movement called the temperance movement and it was kind of somewhat religious driven and woven and out of politics and different regions of the country but the temperance movement gained strength the different periods and rutherford b. Hayes was president during a time when the temperance movement was strong and his wife. Lucy hayes was one of the temperance leaders and they had a dilemma. Because at the beginning of his administration in eighteen seventy seven there was a very important state visit. There was coming to the white house it was. The son of the russians are who at that time that was very important relationship. The united states and the diplomats were saying. Of course you must serve alcohol. This is a visiting head of state. It will be full pau if we did not and she was hesitant but the haze is finally relented and allowed the alcohol to be served. It was the only time during the entire presence for four years at alcohol is allowed in the white house. And this hayes. Lucy hayes took this beautiful glassware that we're talking about earlier these decanters and beautiful glasses and she used them only for their service to fruit juice so she was given the nickname lemonade. Lucy differ fruit juice. That served at the white house. Well that would be no fun there you go. You have all types. This whole range is just amazing in terms of presidents in their relationships to wine. now president. Woodrow wilson what did he do. The vol stock act was the one that enacted prohibition but what did he do on the first. I guess reading if you call it of the bolstered at what was his approach. That's as far as we're talking about a moment ago. That's when prohibition officially began which was constitutional amendment was passed and then the allston act.
860AM The Answer
"rutherford b hayes" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"Richard Norton Smith, pre eminent presidential historian in his own right, always love this park is we're doing the Ohio president the Buckeye State If you discount Virginia because that was really English soil, the Buckeye State's produced the most of them. Let's move to another son of Ohio Rutherford B. Hayes himself the first presidential library. Think about Rutherford B. Hayes. It's run by a private consortium. His great granddaughter called the program the other day, actually family. Basically endowed this in Fremont, Ohio, rather behave had. I guess you could say brief revival of sorts following the 2000 election because the parallels were so striking pays and Children Samuel killing the Democratic governor of New York on Hayes ran behind in the popular vote, and that night, basically one thought that Children for the electoral vote And there was this long drawn out controversy, and in the end, Hayes was declared the victor by one electoral vote. And guess what? The state of Florida provided him with his margin of victory sound familiar, And so he came into office under a cloud. In fact, he was called his fraudulent. See? On. Yet he managed to establish his legitimacy in no small part because he was going to take on his own party over the issue of civil service reform, and when he did leave office at the end of one term, he also by the way, said he would only serve one term hey, was much more popular, much more respected figure than when he took office, succeeded by another Ohio and Ah, very short lives. Presidency James Garfield. Your girl field had been in many ways. A very impressive figure in the House of Representatives. He was a great order is great Scholar. You know, he'd he This was used to get he had a party trick. He would entertain friends by writing Latin with one hand and Greek with the other. I mean, how many presidents you know could do that? Hey, was he was narrowly elected president 18 80, then just six months later. He was shot by a disappointed office seeker. Remember, this is the gilded Age, feverishly inventive period. And at one point doctors came to the White House and they actually created the world's first air conditioning system. Um, group of Navy engineers were someone there They brought six tons of ice, and they blew cold air through event in the president's sick room. Um, it didn't work. He died in September of 18 81, and he was succeeded by his vice president. Chester Arthur, and frankly, a lot of people were concerned if they thought it was a joke. Arthur Woz of a spoiled Zeman extraordinaire. He was the collector of the port of New York. He was an old guard Republican. He was thought to be the personification of machine politics and ruined behold. He became president. And there was a road to Damascus conversion, and he became in fact, a great champion of civil service reform, in part in memory of James Garfield rather like Lyndon Johnson, supporting civil rights legislation in the name of John F. Kennedy succeeded by Grover Cleveland, the first Grover Cleveland. Yep, he's the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms. He was a conservative Democrat. A man of real political courage. He took on the For example, the union of the lobby, the soldiers, the old soldiers lobby after the Civil war, and perhaps because of his political courage. He was defeated for reelection in 18 88 take on that lobby. What do you do? He vetoed he vetoed pension bills. And he also was known he was the only president to be married in the White House. There are other presidents marry during their presidencies. He married a young woman, the youngest first lady American history. 22 years old. At the time, she had been the daughter of his war His ward. He referred to his uncle Cleve, and she became a great Great celebrity, but he was defeated in 18 88 by Benjamin Harrison and in fact of the day that they left the White House, Frances Cleveland, his wife told the staff that they would be back in four years. And indeed they were Richard Norton Smith before we run out of time. I just want to thank you on behalf of everyone who's listening. It's been a magnificent three hours. Thank you. Let's finish with some thoughts on George W. Bush and the presidency itself. What do you make of this man? Well, clearly it's a story that is being written. But again, we already know this is an important president. I will. I won't embarrass the journalist by naming his name, but I remember right before the the midterm elections, reading a story in a national magazine whose author talked about the strange small presidency. Of George W. Bush. Well, strange, I suppose if you want to call it strange, but there's nothing small about this presidency. 39 11. It never happened. This was a president who came into office with a very ambitious agenda. But certainly in the wake of 9 11. Remember during the 2000 campaign when there was this kind of Well species debate over does character count right character counts and character counts, especially in times of supreme testing. When people do look to the president to rally them and to give voice to their aspirations and to provide, frankly, as in this instance. To provide credible assurances that they are safe. What a remarkable time Richard Norton Smith to be talking about the presidency because, as we take this in 2000 and three at the world is on fire and their crises everywhere in America is under threat of additional huge attacks. The presidency is remarkable institution of genius institution. It is, it is flood tide when it needs to be flood tide. It is small when it needs to be small. Did they have any idea that the framers that they were creating such a wonderfully elastic office? Well, they certainly hoped that they were creating a system. Which this was a part. I think that would prove to be flexible and could evolve with time. I do think the framers would be surprised at the amount of attention that the executive office over over the years has received. And perhaps more now than ever, given the mass media, they did not intend for the president to be the dominant Player on the constitutional chessboard last minute of our talk If you've devoted your life to the presidency, people who've been in it and men who would have been president. Is there any similar institution in the world? Perhaps the English monarchy that could have been so vast a a play field for you. Well, I am a royalist. You know, I don't I went when I was. I went to London last year for the Jubilee and was there with a one million people in the mall singing You'll never walk alone. What? Remember what sets the monarchy upright. What sets the president's your pride. What's unique about the American presidency is that it is a hybrid. The framers of the Constitution created an office that was both head of state. Head of government and it works. It works most of the time. Richard Norton Smith, My Hat is off to you. Ah, wonderful day of reminiscing about the presence who have been there. The one who's there Now in the future of the office. Thank you very much. Richard Norton Smith and thank you America for listening to this very special President. State broadcast. Hi, This.
WLS-AM 890
"rutherford b hayes" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"These are the tools that he already has under his Rick, and there are plenty of people in his administration that are just waiting for the green light. And thankfully I will say, you know, optimistic. A. We've already seen indications that they're following through on this. Whether it's the national security advisor prioritizing this, whether it's DHS or FBI, or, you know the administration, the White House itself prioritizing this in terms of the rhetoric. We just got to make sure there's follow through. That's the second big lesson of the Grant administration toward the end of Grant tenure. The will just wasn't there. It wasn't grants fault, necessarily. The public was just tired. Tired of fighting the retired Getting him back by. You Can't let that happen. His allies and White House and elsewhere can't let that happen. There's got to be followed through this time because he gives you give the insurrection of finance. You know, they're going to take a mile. That's what happened. The 18 seventies. Can't let that happen again. Here in the U. S. Well, the wheels of justice grind slowly but they do grind. And it appears that the FBI thanks to the self incrimination nature of a lot of these people. Do you know where they are and slowly are picking them up And I'm not like I don't think it was a white supremacist mob that attack the capital. I just thought it was a mob. So I want to differentiate between The reconstruction era and what happened on the sixth of January clearly, but that being said anybody that broke through and broke in in my mind is a criminal and has to be punished The six or 800, or however many there were and out of that. 150 members and attack the police to go to prison for a real long time. That's my opinion. Now, Since we do have a couple extra minutes. Why did this entire effort fail? I know there was a fatigue aspect to it, but describing my listeners. The compromise was in 18 76 and made Hayes the Republican president, and that was the end of reconstruction and the beginning to Jim Crow. Yeah, That's exactly correct. I mean, there was a couple different ingredients that ended up unwinding grants efforts. I mean, the biggest one, perhaps bigger than any was the panic. The Depression of 18 73. Which up to that point was the major economic catastrophe in the US, and I mean, you know, and all the listeners know when an econ economic catastrophe comes through. It completely got The incumbents political capital themselves, So anything else that they're trying to do any other policies they're trying to affect are just completely sidelined on. They have to focus their entire energies on giving the economy back up to steam. And because that's what happened in 18, 73 and Grant second term, there was a lot of what would have been previous support for his efforts in the South completely waned. So instead of white northerners, saying No. Yes. You're exactly right. We've got to continue crushing these former confederates continue making sure that they know who won the civil war. They know who is the proper government in this country. They started saying, Look, we are spending way too much money trying to get the Southerners these white southerners and lines in a decade of us fighting. There were sick and tired of sending our boys down there. Why won't you do something for the economy? And look, Grant Woz? Um you know, one of the one of the history professors. I hired you for this. You said, you know, great was a political realist. He could have kept going. You could have kept these insurrectionist that day. And he did it Certain points could've kept sending troops in. But that was only going to continue eroding his support More and more and more. And if that happened, then you wouldn't be even having Rutherford B. Hayes, who was grants, um, preferred successor. In the White House. You would have had a Democrat who had changeable Tilden or something else. Who would have been even worse. Then Hayes and obviously significant force than the grant was. So there's one reason it is the Depression. 18 73 the pack 18 73, which led directly to this just just exhaustion, especially in the white northerners who was saying, Look, we've been active for a decade. And what's changed, hasn't it? Yes, Slavery is gone, but these guys are still fighting us. We've got bigger priorities. We got other things to do. Come on, President Grant. Why did you pull back and that's what ended up undercutting Grant support when I ended up meeting directly to compromise, 18 77 and how many ballots in the House of Representatives for Hey, so a number of them? Yeah, Yeah. Look, this is the other thing that, uh, kind of backroom deals way had our issues. And 2016 certainly had her issues and 2020. But, boy Oh, boy. Nothing like that Six election? No, Casey, when you add it all when you write about Grant, do you automatically smoke cigars? I don't try to smoke cigars. I think my wife might have something to say. You know, we're still pandemic time. So we're a little cramped here, boy. Hey, I stroked my beard right there. And I say, you know, it would be nice if we had a president. I don't know if I was the one. We haven't had a beard in the White House in a long time. Maybe it's time to bring some facial hair back. On it. Maybe that changes things. Is that your endorsement for Ted Cruz? Oh, I don't know if I'd go that far. I will say I don't begrudge in his facial hair. I will say by seeing in person sometimes. Who knows? Maybe I'll even compliment them on it. Casey, Michelle. Thank you, sir. Nice meeting You all look for your book, American kleptocracy coming out October of this year. We appreciate your historical document, sir. Absolutely. Thank you, sir. Any time Take care of Casey Michelle Joining us here on Double D ls now it's 5 49. We're late for traffic..
WMAL 630AM
"rutherford b hayes" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"So the president Sally was live on television, So we had the timing that we could follow. And so the president's helicopter watch him at Andrews Air Force Base for his final remarks before boarding Air Force one heading to Florida. To Palm Beach International Airport, and the president will will spend the night at Mar a Lago, his lovely oceanfront estate slash club in in beautiful Florida in Palm Beach, and, um And, well, gosh today, his last day as president, United States a half day it's only half day. Then you get the afternoon off and then lunch bucket. Joe staggers his way into the presidency and bumps into the furniture and probably, you know, ends up with a band aid on his forehead. Within a couple of days, The Washington Post is all glowing about the The incoming by the administration. I've got a whole section dedicated to the to the incoming president. The president elect and the picture of my got to say they've got a whole page color photo profile of Joe Biden and I guess this is as good as it gets with Joe Biden, but it looks like he's growling and standing on his porch with a rake yelling at people. Hey, doesn't really look particularly presidential in this thing. And then they've got story after story on how wonderful this is and how great it is in the changing of the guard and the A listers returned to BC and, AH look that it's them with pocket squares and pearls. Joe Biden, Camilla Harris stylishly display their common ground. They have no common ground. So Robin give on who spent the last four years attacking the most beautiful first lady. United States of America or any country has ever seen in the history of humankind in the history of the world. Robin Givens back to fluffing the Democrats because she really isn't a journalist at all. She's just a hack and without the balls will miss the same old song and dance there. No inaugural balls because and we've got this kind of weird inauguration going on. On the mall. No people read. Practically no people are invited. It's going to be the smallest crowd ever for well since Rutherford B. Hayes or something for an inauguration, but they put a bunch of flags and the ground. They're They're American flags, eyes him later, they're splitting up among the Democrats, and they'll burn them all because of what they typically do. It looks a little like North Korea. They studio kind of a parade ground in North Korea, with all the flags and That's except their American flat. I don't know where they found them. They must have sent to China for them or something. Maybe maybe Hunter Biden has friends there something like that. That can make make flags for them. We are at 88863096258886309625. Speaking of which, you know if this were a Republican presidency, incoming presidency what we would be seeing his headlines. About entering the White House under a cloud of criminal suspicion and criminal investigation because you may recall Hunter Biden is the target of an FBI investigation into international money laundering, among other things, and you were Tony B. Tony Bo Belinsky, who explained to us that the emails show That big guy is Joe Biden and he gets a cut of these contracts, the international contracts and remember that Hunter Biden is crackhead and the stripper and the Knocker upper and the widow and his class act. The media. They got it covered for him. They got his back on. He is right now under investigation, a cloud of suspicion. FBI investigation, money laundering, international chicanery business dealings. And all of it. Beats of path right to Joe Biden. So forget about Teapot Dome and Watergate. Because this administration again that those would be the headlines if they were Republicans coming in because it's all true that he's under investigation, they pretended that the Trump Boys air One of them was under investigation for meeting with Russian at Trump Tower. That was all just fake. That was Hillary Clinton's distraction from her destruction of the e mails. We learned that from penitentiary face Communist voter John Brennan. But setting that aside for the moment a great great deal to get to and the president last night delivered a a farewell to the nation address. It was about 20 minutes long. And any had a lot of stuff to say. And I got to say, you know, he talked about his record and his accomplishments and I was watching it thinking, you know, if I could have written this speech for him on the campaign trail, I think I would have Was texting with my friend Pat and I said if he had given some variation of this speech for a couple of months before Election Day, I think he you know, would have broken even more records in the vote on Election Day. But the president, of course, will not be joining lunch bucket Joe on Capitol Hill on It is a lot of Peculiarities. A lot of strange elements incorporated into today's inauguration. The passing of the torch to an old generation. You know, that's the Kennedy of thing. John F. Kennedy was passing a church from Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy of passing of the torch to a new generation. And now we're passing it back to that generation. I thank you, sir, has not exactly a new generation of the old generation. Joe Biden won his first election in 1970. Say 1970. He won his first alleged City council in Delaware took office in 1971 and then right onto the Senate, where he's been since, um you know Biel's above was young. He's been there for a long time. Not exactly a new generation. And then they got comma La who I think is as befuddled by her presence there as I am. She can't figure out why she's there. She'll What am I doing here? How did I get here? This is crazy. But the news media naturally upset with President Trump. To the end. He made some remarks at Andrews at joint base. Andrews, just outside of Western do see where Air Force one lives and and all of that in the president while he still he still had nuclear codes and their little upset over it. CNN He's got the football the briefcase that links to the can lunch all the nuclear weapons. Really? As I sit here very little time left for the president to launch an all out global thermonuclear war on Ben the then the football is transferred to the control of lunch bucket. Joe Biden, who will every day ask what that briefcase with the antenna sticking out of it is because he will..
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"Matter, whipped out the binoculars saw the president Sally was live on television, So we had the timing that we could follow on. So the president's helicopter watch him at Andrews Air Force Base for some final remarks before boarding Air Force one heading to Florida to Palm Beach International Airport, and the president will will spend the night at Mar a Lago, his lovely oceanfront estate slash club. In in beautiful Florida in Palm Beach, and, um and, well gosh, today, his last day as president, United States a half day it's only half day. Then you got the afternoon off. And then lunch bucket. Joe staggers his way into the presidency and bumps into the furniture. And probably, you know, instep with a band aid on his forehead. Within a couple of days, The Washington Post is all glowing about the incoming Biden administration. I've got a whole section dedicated to the The incoming president, the president elect And, uh, and the picture of my got to say they've got a whole page color photo profile of Joe Biden and I guess this is as good as it gets with Joe Biden, but it looks like he's growling and standing on his porch with a rake yelling at people. Hey, doesn't really look particularly presidential in this thing. And then they've got story after story and how wonderful this is and how great it is. And the changing of the guard and the A listers returned to BC and, ah look that it's them with pocket squares and pearls Joe Biden, Camilla Harris stylishly display their common ground. They have no common ground. So Robin Gibb von, who spent the last four years attacking the most beautiful first lady, United States of America, or any country has ever seen in the history of humankind in the history of the world. Robin Givens back to fluffing the Democrats because she really isn't a journalist at all. She was just a hack and without the balls will miss the same old song and dance there. No inaugural balls because and we've got this kind of weird inauguration going on. On them all. No people read practically no people invited. It's going to be the smallest crowd ever for well since Rutherford B. Hayes or something for an inauguration, but they put a bunch of flags and the ground. They're They're American flags. I assume later they're splitting up among the Democrats, and they'll burn them all because of what they typically do. It looks a little like North Korea. They said. You're kind of a parade ground in North Korea, with all the flags and That's except their American plan. I don't know where they found them. They must have sent to China for them or something. Maybe maybe Hunter Biden has friends there something like that. That can make make flags for them. We are at 888630962588639625. Speaking of which, you know if this were a Republican presidency, incoming presidency what we would be seeing his headlines. About entering the White House under a cloud of criminal suspicion and criminal investigation because you may recall Hunter Biden is the target of an FBI investigation into international money laundering, among other things. And you remember Tony B. Tony Bo Belinsky, who explained to us that the emails show that big guy is Joe Biden and he gets a cut of these contracts, the international contracts and remember that Hunter Biden is crackhead and the stripper and the knocker upper and the widow and the You Know his class Act the media. They got it covered for him. They got his back on. He is right now under investigation, a cloud of suspicion. FBI investigation, money laundering. International chicanery, business dealings, and all of it beats a path right to Joe Biden. So forget about Teapot Dome and Watergate. Because this administration again that those would be the headlines if they were Republicans coming in because it's all true that he's under investigation, they pretended that Trump Boys Air. One of them was under investigation for meeting with Russian at Trump Tower That was all just fake. That was Hillary Clinton's distraction from her destruction of the e mails. We learned that from penitentiary face Communist voter John Brennan. But setting that aside for the moment a great great deal to get to and the president last night delivered a a farewell to the nation address. It was about 20 minutes long. And any had a lot of stuff to say. And I gotta say, you know, he talked about his record on his accomplishments. And I was watching it thinking, you know, if I could have written this speech for him on the campaign trail, I think I would have Was texting with my friend Pat and I said if he had given some variation of this speech for a couple of months before Election Day, I think he you know, would have broken even more records in the vote on Election Day, But the president, of course, will not be joining. Lunch bucket Joe on Capitol Hill on and it is a There's a lot of peculiarities. A lot of strange elements incorporated into today's inauguration, the passing of the torch. To an old generation. You know, that's the Kennedy of thing. John F. Kennedy was a passing a church from Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy of passing of the torch to a new generation. And now we're passing it back to that generation. I thank you, sir, has not exactly a new generation of the old generation. Joe Biden won his first election in 1970. Say 1970. He won his first alleged City council in Delaware took office in 1971. And then right onto the Senate, where he's been since, Um uh, you know, Bail's above was young. He's been there for a long time. Not exactly a new generation. And then they got comma La who I think is as befuddled by her presence there as I am. She can't figure out why she's there. She'll What am I doing here? How did I get here? This is crazy, but the news me and actually upset with President Trump to the end. He made some remarks at Andrews. Joint base, Andrews just outside of Western D. C. Where Air Force one lives and and all of that in the president while he still he still had the nuclear codes in their little upset over at CNN. He's got the football the briefcase that links to the can launch all the nuclear weapons. So it really as I sit here very little time left for the president to launch an all out global thermonuclear war. On Ben the then the football is transferred to the control of lunch bucket. Joe Biden, who will every day ask what that briefcase with the antenna sticking out of it is because he will forget. Yes, he's going to forget, they said. Now the guy's got Joe Biden plans on signing 17 executive actions and the hours immediately following the inauguration. He's gonna do all kinds of things that are bad for America, you know, trying to reverse President Trump's four years in office as president Trump sought to reverse Barack Obama's eight years in office. Barack Obama did so much by executive order. That a great deal of it was easy to reverse on President Trump's certainly did a lot of that. And and they had these fake treaties that work treaties like the Iranian nuclear thing that guarantees they get nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. While they're screaming about wiping us out and wiping out Israel all that good stuff, so it is kind of a return to the status quo. A restoration of the status quo ante. Uh, the status quo as it existed before Trump in Washington, D C. Much of it will not be reversible. I'm happy to report Middle East peace, among others, the economic progress Even he's got some high bars to meet lunch bucket. Joe does, And that is a phrase that confuses him got some high bars to meet there. But we we will. We will survive this. We will. We will thrive. We are the United States of America. We go through this stuff. Um, you know, you got your good days and your bad days. You're good years and your bad years. You're happy elections and you're unhappy elections..
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"C. Your nation's capital, My Best girl and I saw the president's helicopter. Fly away from the south, one of the White House today from a distance. We weren't invited to the White House or anything like that, but from from home. For that matter, whipped out the binoculars saw the president Sally was live on television, So we had the timing that we could follow and So the president's helicopter watch him at Andrews Air Force Base for some final remarks before boarding Air Force one heading to Florida to Palm Beach International Airport, and the president will will spend the night at Mar a Lago, his lovely oceanfront estate slash club in in beautiful Florida in Palm Beach, and, um And, well, gosh today, his last day as president, United States a half day it's only half day. Then you got the afternoon off and then lunch bucket. Joe staggers his way into the presidency and bumps into the furniture. And probably, you know, ends up with a band aid on his forehead. Within a couple of days, The Washington Post is all glowing about the The incoming Biden administration. I've got a whole section dedicated to the to the incoming president, the president elect And, uh, and the picture of my I've got to say they've got a whole page color photo profile of Joe Biden and I guess this is as good as it gets with Joe Biden, but it looks like he's growling and standing on his porch with a rake yelling at people. Hey, doesn't really look particularly presidential in this thing. And then they've got story after story and how wonderful this is and how great it is. And the changing of the guard and the A listers returned to BC and ah look that speech them with pocket squares and pearls Joe Biden, Camilla Harris stylishly display their common ground. They have no common ground. So Robin give on who spent the last four years attacking the most beautiful first lady, United States of America or any country has ever seen in the history of humankind in the history of the world? Robin Givens back to fluffing the Democrats because she really isn't a journalist at all. She's just ahead and without the balls will miss the same old song and dance there. No inaugural balls because and we've got this kind of weird inauguration going on. On them all. No people read. Practically no people are invited. It's going to be the smallest crowd ever for well since Rutherford B. Hayes or something for an inauguration, but they put a bunch of flags in the ground there. They're American flags. I assume later that split him up among the Democrats, and they'll burn them all because of what they typically do. It looks a little like North Korea, They said, kind of a parade ground in North Korea with all the flags and That's except their American plan. I don't know where they found them. They must have sent to China for them or something. Maybe maybe Hunter Biden has friends there something like that. That can make make flags for them. We are at 88863096258886309625,.
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"Shortly after the outbreak of the civil war in 18 61. Rutherford B. Hayes signed up to fight for the union. He became a major in the 23rd Ohio Regiment and was seriously wounded during the battle of South Mountain in Maryland by the end of haze and promoted to the rank of major general. So that was our correct answer. And Richard from Chatham had the winning answer The correct answer and winning answer. Today's Congratulations, Richard. You're taking home are $50 gas card trivia is brought to you by the Armstrong Advisory group. If you didn't review your financial strategy at the end of last year, now may be the perfect time to do just that call right now for a free portfolio review at 803 934001. Anything to add on the workplace, Michael many any further thoughts as they relate? Yeah, I'm just trying to kind of imagine what it might look like like if I am If I'm J. P. Morgan or even a smaller company, Right, Let's say I am You know, a company in New York City that hires 100 people in one of our offices. I'm trying to envision a scenario where other than a few key industries like you know if you are a laboratory, you know if you're a drug company testing things out, then, very obviously you're going to need to maintain your office space, maybe even increase it. But I'm trying to envision a scenario where, For instance, the financial sector, which employs a lot of people in the Northeast, would keep the amount of real estate that they had prior to the pandemic. Can you? Can you even in that envision a scenario where that would be the case anymore. Well, they'd have to have rapid growth here. You think about a company like draftkings thing right. But for the most part of Let's just say, Let's say that your company is in the position where you're having been normal growth rates that you were beforehand, which is, you know, maybe 5% growth of your global workforce per year, which would be quite high, actually considering the amount of automation that happens in these industries. But, you know, I just keep going back to a number of these jobs. Accountants, you know, corporate finance workers, even traders, uh, like equity market traders who spend all of their time just in front of a computer screen. Yeah, right. Like you know, most if you're an actuary, all of these different jobs. I'm having a tough time envisioning why any of these companies would go back to what they were doing before which is paying primo rents in Manhattan, Boston, San Francisco even areas like Austin, Texas, which have seen massive growth. I just don't see it. And so, yeah, this story that you're talking about before you start ups that do short term housing they were talking about in San Francisco mainly because Airbnb has effectively been banned there. So these are companies that operate more similarly toe, you know, shorter term hotels. But I can see that being, you know, incredibly attractive it. It doesn't apply to me because I'm going to be going into my office. Like what? We You know our office. We might make some of these changes and I can't envision us upgrading our office space anytime soon. But, yeah, I'm gonna be remaining here for having your employees around you like you could go back. You could just say, Oh, we're gonna permanently work remotely. Would you like? Would I would think from a team building perspective, a sharing of ideas. It's better to do that, in my opinion in person than it is digitally. But at what cost? Right now, you know, at what cost per square foot. Is that worthwhile? Yeah. And at what cost of employee satisfaction? Is that worthwhile, right? I mean, how many of your people that you have worked with over your 40 year career? Berry, would you? No, not want a job because of the commute or, you know, would take a Hey, you know it would take a job with a lower salary if they didn't have to commute like, yeah, I think about, you know, people that we typically would entire in the past. Because, you know, making the shift to you know, commuting a now hour and a half a day just wouldn't make any sense them, but they're very talented people well, If that's all that matters for the role, then forget it. I don't care if I have to hire the person down in Washington D. C. Even though I'm a New York based company. I'm just going to make it. Work s. Oh, yeah, Look, we've talked about how that's going to impact things. The easy The easy conclusion is, Hey, there's going to be changes to the corporate real estate market. You know, there's going to be a lot of stuff to be worked out in areas like Manhattan, San Francisco in Boston. I think that's true because the companies that own this type of real estate are highly leopard. And probably can't afford dramatic drops and rent and they don't need to be all that dramatic for these companies to be in tough water, But I think the the other interesting scenarios around demographics across our country where people decide to live to commute from, and then you know this story about short term Housing and office rentals are really, really interesting, really fascinating to watch the next couple years, folks, estate planning and asset protection are critical. If you want to enjoy your retirement years, and most of us probably don't think about where will be at 75..
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"Some use and understanding, trumpism and other expressions of white supremacy, they may also help us to figure out what to do or not to do next. For instance, Republican Senator Ted Cruz thinks there are lessons in the contested election of 18 76. When Southern Democrats, then the party of slavery. Alleged fraud in the election of Rutherford B. Hayes. Hayes and his Republican Party, however, alleged massive voter suppression of Southern blacks. And so, Cruz told his Senate colleagues Wednesday night in his attempt to delay certification of Biden's election victory. Why not do what his 19th century predecessors? Did this? Congress appointed an electoral commission to examine claims of voter fraud. Five House members. Five senators, five Supreme Court justices. Sam and the evidence and rendered a judgment they sure did. But nobody in Congress paid the slightest bit of attention, resulting in a slapdash compromise on the advent of inauguration. In which Southern senators withdrew their electoral objections. So long as hes withdrew federal troops from the former slave states. The compromise of 18 77 meant hes got his presidency. And the old South regains the freedom to oppress black Americans without federal interference. White Southerners called it redemption to Kimberly Williams Crenshaw, executive director of the African American Policy Forum. It was a catastrophe of appeasement and an object lesson in the politics of reconciliation. Some extent, there might be vague awareness that the.
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"So i wanted to talk a little bit about what should be happening there today. I know should we. Should we hit the senate race first or do you want to hear a little back story on the electoral stuck over the. Let's hear the backstory. Okay so when did this ever happening. We were talking a garland yesterday. And he mentioned. Rutherford behaves a couple of times and i looked into that this is the election of eighteen. Seventy six i guess eighteen seventy seven. That's when the inauguration happened and Tilden of new york democrat in the smithsonian article. I was reading. Democrats were white supremacists. This was after the civil war is in reconstruction. He won supposedly. There's a lot of talk of fraud and back and forth intimidation and stuff. But he run the popular vote by four point. Four million versus rutherford b hayes. Getting four million and there were three states with disputed electoral votes louisiana south carolina and florida and again. This is a lot of racial intimidation stuff like that. And the difference speech so those are disputed votes and hayes had to get all of those electoral votes in order to win. If tilden got even one of those days one o'clock tour vote he would have won so but the difference between that which is very similar to what we're talking about right now. Is that at the state level. The states themselves. I think maybe even the party's hassle check that sent competing delegates to congress. So they say competing slates of electors to congress and congress was supposed to sort out which ones to accept whereas in this case congress the states sense the electors. So it's really the the place for congress..
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"There's been so many topics we know you watch surveillance all morning. We've talked to so really about Georgia. We've talked to so really about the Treasury Department, The Executive Order of November in the New York Stock Exchange. Forget about it. History time with our chief Washington correspondent. Kevin. I'm thrilled to do this with you because I think it's important. The mess of 1800 the mess of 18 76. And now the mess of 2021. It is wrapped around the 12th amendment. Precisely And in fact, you have to go all the way back to Rutherford B. Hayes, who was the governor of Ohio of Republican Anabel Ishan ist offended slaves in court on witch. He was able to win that election, the last really contested election that set up the political playbook. That lawmakers tomorrow in both chambers of the Congress, in which Vice President Mike Pence will be overseeing. These are the rules of the road, so to speak from 18 87 because of that 18 86 election. I bring this up because there's a lot of speculation about what Vice President Mike Pence has to do. The 12th amendment is very clear. He has two counts. The electoral votes. He doesn't have to decide he doesn't have to interpret. He's simply has to count the votes. So, for example, if there are five votes before him, his only constitutional obligation is to say that is five votes. And that's incredibly important, given the political pressures of the moment will come in was so interesting here and I don't want to go all founding brothers on you here and Joseph Ellis, but More than any other position in our government. The vice president has been variable since the advent of the nation, whether it's president and vice president from a different party or the vice president of 18 76. How is Vice President? Pence's position different from always seen in other election battles? Well, the difference now is that he's doing so not just with every microphone and camera on him, but with social media feeds, and so the dynamics of this moment and which tomorrow at about 1 P.m., New York time is when these Joint session of Congress will be convened and that you'll have to have a house member as well as a senator. Jointly bring about a an issue with the swing state in order to set up for the two hours of debate on this particular state. And then you'd have to have both chambers have to advance that and so virtually there is zero possibility of the results. Being overturned as a result simply of Democrats operating in one house and Republicans controlling the other. But for vice president Pence, there's 2024 rumbling. So you've got his greatest political asset in the 2024 primary is his allegiance with President Trump from the base perspective. And as a result of that, you've got senators right now who are pushing this photo finish for the vice president in which he is the one that is certifying the election results when quite honestly, the Constitution is very specific about What precisely his role is Kevin, given the fact that we're talking about this in historical terms, what has been the impact on what will be the impact on the Republican Party going forward if some of the incumbents are using this and using their support of Trump as part of the reelection bid is part of their argument. Voters. Well, look, I think Meghan McCain alluded to this on the view. And I'm Yeah, I'm going to bring that up in which she said you had 70 million Americans who were Who voted for President Trump. And so the idea that this was a blowout election is not rooted in fact, and so Republicans are aware of that I would even go one step further, and I would note that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in his proposal last week did include a commission to be looked into for the electoral process. That is now a Republican, Uh, policy proposal coming from the Senate majority leader. The president might not like the mechanism in which the leader proposed that, but it is still on the table. I bring that up because it will be openly debated every which way in in the next 2 to 4 years from Secretary Pompeo should he choose to run for president from the vice President, Senator Cruz? Josh Holly, and the list goes on and on Kevin so really a delicate question. And you're good at this is the vote tomorrow, going to be affected by the pandemic. I know Senator Produce has been sick of Georgia. But are there literally going to be different Mathematics? To what? Is trying to be accomplished by Mr Trump in his Republicans and the certification because people are sick and can't vote in chamber. It's a very important question. I mean, we saw just on the Senate Banking Committee, just a zwelling with regards to the Supreme Court of the United States pick how that played out, which Jamie Cockney Barrett and how members of the judicial committees Had had contracted covert 19. So it's It's a totally real question in the house. They've been voting by proxy and being able to vote Elektronik Lee and so that, to some extent, might be able T o minimum, mitigate some of the risk on that front, but in terms of descended, I mean, it's a very fair question and the IRA just quickly add They've actually set up on set testing site on the Capitol campus toe help go forward with this, because not just for this, though, mind you. But in weeks past that I'm doing this to help mitigate some of the health risk, just like companies all over the world are having to grapple with how tow how to bring back employees and whatnot. In a safe and healthy Web.
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"The selection of president and that is when the Congress Certifies the election now that is scheduled to take place on Wednesday. We now know that several senators led by Ted Cruz and Josh Holly, to separate approaches here. Are going to file objections to the certification coming in from the states. What does that mean? That means that what we will see happen is that As that's The envelopes are opened is a call for certification. I let them walk through the particulars. On that moment, there's going to be formal objections filed by the way, not the first time in history. That's happened in fact, in the Bush versus Gore Era, the George Bush won the presidency after Supreme Court challenge it went to the Senate for the certification, and Barbara Boxer led an objection. So this happens. We're gonna walk through what that means. But here the objection is going to be that an emergency Electoral commission be appointed to conduct a 10 Day audit. And then those states that after the audits complete Think they need to change their electoral college status can do that now. What's interesting about that, Frankly, is that There's right now 12 senators talking about this, so the get it to where it would actually happen. You have to get the house and the Senate fan to agree on that, not a likely scenario. Not a likely scenario J. But what is gonna happen when these 12 senators objected, joined more than 140. Members of the House of in Objecting is both Chambers will have to debate the marriage, so they will then recess back into their own individual chambers, and they will debate for a couple of hours. The objections and Jay you mentioned that this is not unprecedented that it happened during the George W. Bush. Election J. They're actually been four times were Democrats have objected in one chamber or the other? And by the way, While there wasn't a senator that joined the last time around J. There were members of the house that objected to the very last presidential election of Donald J. Trump. In fact, Sheila Jackson Lee repeatedly objected during that. So this is a process is laid out in the Constitution. We now know that members of both bodies will object. There will be debate and J on this Wednesday. We'll see this process play out. The American people will watch this debate in both chambers, and it will come to resolution. The objection is going to be the appointment of Electoral commission and you work next thing that will get into the Particulars. Excuse me on that, but as it relates to As it relates to history. There is a history on this is not the first time it's happened. We'll get into it in greater detail. But there is history on this. Yes, there is history, and it goes back to the 19th century in the race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, where the electoral college votes were challenged, and the commission appointed by the soup consisting of Senators and representatives and members of the Supreme Court voted along party lines and Rutherford Hayes was elected president, United States by 11 electoral vote in that election, so these are not new things. It's just that we know more about them. Now we hear more about when we see more about them. They're more in front of us in the media and the things that we are more aware of. Then we were in the middle of the 19th century. The latter quarter of the 19th century. Yeah, I think Look, this is going to be We want your comments all this and 868 4 31 10. The legal challenges are pretty much done. You don't relate. There's no real path there. This isn't a constitutional approach. Will it be successful? The numbers just don't don't look like it will be. I mean, just based on the numbers that are out there just does not seem possible. Anything's possible, though, when the body politick.
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"Mobility features to run their businesses from anywhere more. It 00 m a dot com From NPR news. This is all things considered. I'm Elsa Chang and I'm Audie Cornish. The leaked call between President Trump and Georgia election officials is something of a greatest hits of the president's frequent election related grievances. Allegations of voter misconduct and fraud. Without evidence. Many levy dead counties were black voters showed up in force. In Georgia. Fulton County has drawn his ire. Much of Atlanta is in Fulton County in Pennsylvania. It was Philadelphia in Michigan, Wayne County home of Detroit. Just a few examples there. Jelani Cobb is a staff writer at The New Yorker and professor of journalism at Columbia University. He's here to talk more about it. Welcome to the program. Thank you. So you draw our attention because of a tweet last night where you said this is an attempt to take us back to the post Reconstruction era. On. Of course, is that the time after the civil war when the federal government had pulled out of the south? What, specifically? What is the parallel that you see in this moment? Whoa. I mean, it's exactly the things that you were talking about. You know the grievances around who won the election. Call back to 18 70 fix, which was the disputed election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, and the result of that was the deal that was cut. It allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to assume the presidency. But also ended reconstruction and ended the period of democracy that the newly emancipated black people had experienced. And that was when we saw the onset of things like Violent voter suppression. And you know what I was saying about what we're seeing now is the specificity of those concerns in the counties and cities were overwhelmingly black voters came out And this past presidential election and those of the places that are being targeted those of the votes that being disputed, but they're also overwhelmingly Democrat right. So in which a responsive to a Republican who is going to say Look, these are places where we have concerned about Democratic votes, not black votes. Yeah, I think that that's a kind of distinction without a difference. We could have said the same thing about black people voting Republican in the south in 18 80 on so it was Maura Matter of removing people from contention politically. Almost no one believes that Trump can change the outcome of the general election right now, But do you see people being rattled on guy won't have you speak for you know all black voters. But do you see something in particular for black voters to be Truly concerned about Sure, I've seen people people I've talked to who are very keenly aware of the difficulties that their family members or even some older people had in their own lives. Casting ballots the point My father grew up in Georgia at a time where Attempting to vote would have got him killed. And so yeah, I think that this is raised echoes of history for people in some ways, and that's simply for African Americans. I think there are lots of people who were looking at the anti democratic impulses We're seeing indulged right now. I'm saying that whatever the policies you favor this behavior is not beneficial to upholding a democracia Don't Democratic society. People have been voting for weeks now in that runoff election in Georgia. Do you think that these attacks on the vote are going to have a galvanizing effect, especially on black voters there or a cooling effect? I think that we've seen this is anecdotal. I don't know that there are hard numbers around it, but there seems to be a boomerang dynamic. Where once people become aware that there are attempts to ward them away from the polling places, it really doesn't sense them, and it makes people more likely to come out and vote. If there is a parallel to the political moment that you're talking about what do you see as a positive, you know, or what are you going to be looking at going forward? Well, I think that the level of engagement that we saw was really astounding and Is now a road map in many places in terms of voter engagement, voter registration, How you move people from being inactive to being active participants in democracy. The other part of it is that there's every four years the discussion of does my vote really matter? I think that is much more difficult for people to raise that question right now. As we're literally counting everything Gle vote in these places. It's hard to make an argument that you don't think your vote matters right now. Jelani Cobb is a staff writer at The New Yorker and professor of journalism at Columbia University. Thank you for your time. Thank you. And now to a surprise announcement today, a surprise, at least for Silicon Valley, a group of engineers and other workers at Google have formed a union. It's a notable breakthrough in labor organizing in the tech industry, where employees have clashed with executives over workplace culture, diversity and ethics. MPR's Alina Cell Yuk is here with us now to walk us through all of this new Development. Hey, Lena. Hello. All right, so we should know that Google for swallows among NPR's recent financial supporters. So what exactly is this union so that this is a union? At the moment, Last number I got was 227 workers at about half dozen Google offices in the U. S and Canada. They're calling themselves Alphabet Workers Union for parent company Alphabet, and there are supported by the communications Workers of America's will be part of that union and to your point earlier it is after growing activism, lots of clashes with corporate executives. These workers have staged walkouts and protests in recent years over Variety of issues, including sexual harassment. Google's artificial intelligence work for the Pentagon Recently there was a firing of prominent black AI researcher and this union uses a big deal of Google. It is a company that's been pushing back against labor organizing and actually faces a federal complaint alleging that it illegally fired surveilled and otherwise thought organizing efforts. You said 227 people that that's like a tiny fraction of Google's workforce. I mean, how much power will this you're gonna actually have you think s Oh, it's it is very small for company blowing over 130,000 workers, so this unit will not have that conventional collective bargaining right over paying benefits, for example. But I talked to the union folks, and they say it's essentially about giving structure to the activism that the workers have already been doing. Maybe more professional support, more structured funding from the dues they will collect and Unified public voice, hopefully hoping that they might even get some workers braising their concerns to Congress or federal agencies. What think these workers didn't try to find try to form a bigger, more traditional union? Well. Google's reliance on contractors and temporary workers might.
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"Mobility features to run their businesses from anywhere more. It 00 m a dot com From NPR news. This is all things considered. I'm Elsa Chang and I'm Audie Cornish. The leaked call between President Trump and Georgia election officials is something of a greatest hits of the president's frequent election related grievances. Allegations of voter misconduct and fraud. Without evidence. Many levy dead counties were black voters showed up in force. In Georgia. Fulton County has drawn his ire. Much of Atlanta is in Fulton County in Pennsylvania. It was Philadelphia in Michigan, Wayne County home of Detroit. Just a few examples there. Jelani Cobb is a staff writer at The New Yorker and professor of journalism at Columbia University. He's here to talk more about it. Welcome to the program. Thank you. So you draw our attention because of a tweet last night where you said this is an attempt to take us back to the post Reconstruction era. On. Of course, is that the time after the civil war when the federal government had pulled out of the south? What, specifically? What is the parallel that you see in this moment? Whoa. I mean, it's exactly the things that you were talking about. You know the grievances around who won the election. Call back to 18 76, which was the disputed election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, and the result of that was the deal that was cut. It allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to assume the presidency but also ended reconstruction and ended the period of democracy that the newly emancipated black people had experienced. And that was when we saw the onset of things like violent voter suppression. And you know what I was saying about what we're seeing now is the specificity of those concerns in the counties and cities will overwhelmingly black voters came out. In this past presidential election and those of the places that are being targeted those of the votes that being disputed, but they're also overwhelmingly Democrat right. So in which a responsive to a Republican who is going to say Look, these are places where we have concerned about Democratic votes, not black votes. Yeah, I think that that's a kind of distinction without a difference. We could have said the same thing about black people voting Republican in the south in 18 80 on so it was Maura Matter of removing people from contention politically. Almost no one believes that Trump can change the outcome of the general election right now, But do you see people being rattled on guy won't have you speak for you know all black voters. But do you see something in particular for black voters to be Truly concerned about Sure I've seen you know people, people I've talked to who are very keenly aware of the difficulties that their family members or even some older people had in their own lives. Casting ballots. The point My father grew up in Georgia at a time where Attempting to vote would have got him killed. And so yeah, I think that this is raised echoes of history for people in some ways and that simply for African Americans. I think there are lots of people who were looking at the anti democratic impulses. We're seeing indulged right now and saying that whatever the policies you favor This behavior is not beneficial to upholding a democracy and democratic society. People have been voting for weeks now in that runoff election in Georgia. Do you think that these attacks on the vote are going to have a galvanizing effect, especially on black voters there or a cooling effect? I think that we've seen this is anecdotal. I don't know that there are hard numbers around it. But this seems to be a boomerang dynamic. Where once people become aware that there are attempts to ward them away from the polling places, it really doesn't sense them, and it makes people more likely to come out and vote. If there is a parallel to the political moment that you're talking about what do you see as a positive, you know, or what are you going to be looking at going forward? Well, I think that the level of engagement that we saw was really astounding and Is now a road map in many places in terms of voter engagement, voter registration, How you move people from being inactive to being active participants in democracy. The other part of it is that there's every four years the discussion of does my vote really matter? I think that is much more difficult for people to raise that question right now. As we're literally counting everything Gle vote in these places. It's hard to make an argument that you don't think your vote matters right now. Jelani Cobb is a staff writer at The New Yorker and professor of journalism at Columbia University. Thank you for your time. Thank you. And now to a surprise announcement today, a surprise, at least for Silicon Valley, a group of engineers and other workers at Google have formed a union. It's a notable breakthrough in labor organizing in the tech industry, where employees have clashed with executives over workplace culture, diversity and ethics. MPR's Alina Cell Yuki is here with us now to walk us through all of this new Development. Hey, Lena. Hello. All right, so we should know that Google for swells among NPR's recent financial supporters. So what exactly is this union so that this is a union At the moment, Last number of God was 227 workers at about half dozen Google offices in the U. S and Canada. They're calling themselves Alphabet Workers Union for parent company Alphabet, and there are supported by the communications Workers of America's will be part of that union and to your point earlier it is after growing activism, lots of clashes with corporate executives. These workers have staged walkouts and protests in recent years over Variety of issues, including sexual harassment. Google's artificial intelligence work for the Pentagon recently there was a firing of a prominent black AI researcher, and this union uses a big deal of Google. It is a company that's been pushing back against labor organizing and actually faces a federal complaint alleging that it illegally fired surveilled and otherwise thought organizing efforts. You said 227 people that that's like a tiny fraction of Google's workforce. I mean, how much power will this you're gonna actually have you think s Oh, it's it is very small for company blowing over 130,000 workers, so this unit will not have that conventional collective bargaining right over paying benefits, for example. But I talked to the union folks, and they say it's essentially about giving structure to the activism that the workers have already been doing. Maybe more professional support, more structured funding from the dues they will collect and Unified public voice, hopefully hoping that they might even get some workers braising their concerns to Congress or federal agencies. What think these workers didn't try to find try to form a bigger, more traditional union? Well. Google's reliance on contractors and temporary workers might.
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"And and there's a that they ended with no action right after the challenge the hypocrisy, of course, the double standard as Aziz, the Democrats are saying another constitutional crisis and you're threatening democracy and all the rest. They have amnesia. Obviously. Because it wasn't that long ago that some of them Maxine Waters and others were doing some of the same thing. Yeah, I think. After the in 2000 and one, the Democrats issued 11 challenges Over specific states and their electoral votes. And in 05, it was Ohio. That was the focus in that one. You can no one. You can kind understand. That was obviously an incredibly contentious, very close race, so you could kind understand what they're doing there before they just five. They just didn't like Bush and so I just sort of carried over. And then course we know what happened. 2016. So many of them didn't think Trump's legitimate for for years. Yes. Oh, they filed the challenges to different times. Most folks are not even aware of the head. I mean, you have to dig deep in some of these articles to see that and write about it. It didn't do any lasting damage to the Republic, you know? In either case, and what was amazing. You know so many times, Senator Cruz in particular, They want to go back to 18 76 that resulted in the compromise of 18 77 that actually gave Rutherford B. Hayes The election that it ended in him getting 20 electoral votes. Yes, and gave him just a lead in the electoral account by one vote Amazing, But there's there's a time when it did make a difference. All right, let's go to 51283605 90 Martin is with us on K. L. B. J and 10 25. Good morning, Martin. Gentlemen. You all of the dream team love having you on there. Well, happy New Year. Welcome aboard. How are you today? Uh, into my end of the line and then my rope 74. 74 million votes. Don't matter. Ah, jockeying for position and 74 million votes. Doesn't matter if Future elections can't be trusted. If somebody the other side the other side, Democrats can cheat and turn election. However, they want to 85 million votes. Nothing matters anymore. That's what I'm saying. You're screener asked me. Okay, So what you want to do about that? I was like, Well as long as somebody's controlling the counting machines. What can anybody do? Pretty much, nothing. It's the end of the line. Unless you can wrestle control away from People control the machines. Um, 100 Million votes doesn't matter. All right, Martin, Thanks so much. You have a good 151283605 90 join us with your comments, Call or text? US News is next on Kale, BJ. Did you know.
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"Facing an election laws. Donald trump turns to raw political power to try to bend. The outcome by brian bennett. This article is part of the debrief times politics newsletter during his failed campaign to win another four years in office president. Donald trump repeatedly used the power of his office to boost his chances in employing. The white house has a campaign backdrop. Having his secretary of state give a campaign speech during an official diplomatic trip and spreading baseless claims about voting fraud. From behind the presidential seal. Now he's using his office to try to reverse his loss. Trump invited a delegation of michigan republican lawmakers to meet with him at the white house on friday as that state is on the verge of formerly certifying. That president-elect joe biden won more votes judges have tossed out. Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud in michigan and other states so now trump appears to be trying to use raw political power and influence in a hail mary attempt to convince sitting state lawmakers to disenfranchise millions of michigan voters. The white house meeting follows tuesday night. Phone call trump reportedly made to a republican member of the board of canvassers in michigan's wayne county which includes detroit after. The board voted to certify. The vote tally hanging over. Friday's meetings is more than the power of the office. Trump is also building a new fundraising juggernaut. As he fights the election results trump's massive campaign fundraising list is sending appeals to donors nominally to help his legal defense but a large portion of the funds is going to a new political action committee called save america that trump can use to steer donations to the campaigns of politicians. He favors after repeated failures to show widespread election fraud in court. Trump's legal team has acknowledged that its current strategy is to delay certification of votes in key states in order to open the door for gop held state legislatures to intervene and send a raft of pro-trump delegates to the electoral college on december fourteen rather than delegates who represent how people voted. That strategy is exceptionally unlikely to work and would mean reversing. The intention of millions of voters people close to trump believe. He's putting up a robust fight as a way to energize his supporters. So they'll come with him as television viewers after he leaves office and bolster his political sway as a kingmaker in the republican party. But he's already doing a lot of damage to the democratic process. Along the way and seeding unfounded distrust in the election results among core parts of his base that could persist for years. Trump added to that damage on tuesday when he fired his top cybersecurity official responsible for securing the election. Chris crabs who had said his team of federal government. Experts had not seen any signs of electronic votes being changed when president. Teddy roosevelt called the presidency. A bully pulpit. He meant it was a powerful perch to advocate for policy agenda but trump has taken the muscular use of office in a different direction using it to literally bully fellow republicans into backing his personal political ambitions and go along with his false claims that the election was stolen from him. A broad and unproven conspiracy. That has been widely debunked and repeatedly rejected in court. He simply trying to steal it through. The levers of power says heather cox. Richardson a historian at boston college. This is unprecedented and not since eighteen. Seventy six has a candidate so flagrantly used political power to try to change the outcome of a vote after election day that was during reconstruction when republicans grabbed the presidency for ohio governor. Rutherford hayes with brute political force by pressing congress to steer the result in hayes his favor. But there's still one key difference between now and then in eighteen seventy six the vote margins were legitimately unclear whereas in twenty twenty biden has clear winning margins in the states. Trump is disputing since then states have voted in reforms to the electoral college system designed to prevent a politician from exerting personal influence over the democratic process as the country watch is trump is testing those reforms to ensure the will of the voters is honored.