Senate Dems Walkout, GOP $9B Aid & NPR/PBS Cuts, Prison Phone Fee Outrage & Wild Tuberville Rant
#RolandMartinUnfiltered
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
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7.17.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Senate Dems Walkout, GOP $9B Aid & NPR/PBS Cuts, Prison Phone Fee Outrage & Wild Tuberville Rant
Senate Democrats stage a bold protest--walking out as Republicans push through yet another Trump-backed judicial nominee.
Next, major funding cuts are on the chopping block. GOP lawmakers vote to slash $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting--threatening the future of NPR and PBS. We'll break down what these cuts mean and why they matter.
In Louisville, outrage intensifies as the Justice Department recommends just one day in jail for the former officer convicted in the Breonna Taylor case--a decision that echoes the pain and protests of 2020. We'll hear from the Taylor family's attorney.
Tonight, we're also talking about the high cost of prison phone calls in North Carolina, where Black residents are incarcerated at four times the rate of white residents. A former FCC Commissioner joins us to discuss.
Plus--Senator Tommy Tuberville says, "If you don't want to be deported, don't hang around illegals." Seriously. We've got something to say about that.
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| 0:57.6 | Folks, today's Thursday, July 17, 2025, coming up on Roland Martin on footster streaming live on the Black Star Network. |
| 1:00.7 | Democrats in the Senate walk out of a hearing. |
| 1:04.1 | Republicans won't even allow them to share their thoughts about one of the most despicable |
| 1:08.8 | federal judges Donald Trump has ever appointed. |
| 1:11.9 | We'll show you what took place. |
| 1:13.5 | Also, Senate Democrats vote 5148 to cut funding for NPR and public broadcasting PBS. |
| 1:21.0 | Republicans are ecstatic because they've been crying about, oh, my God, they're so against us for so long. They're idiots. Also, how dumb is |
| 1:30.7 | Donald Trump's prosecutors? They literally won a cop who was found guilty of the death of |
| 1:35.8 | Brenda Taylor to serve one day in jail. One day in jail. Yeah, that's real. |
| 1:45.3 | Also, Tyler Tupperville, we know he's an idiot. |
| 1:48.8 | He literally says if you want to hang around legal, you should be deported, too. |
| 1:51.9 | This guy's just done. |
| 1:53.1 | We'll show you that whole deal as well. |
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