John lewis will be lying in state at the u. S. Capitol all day today for the public to pay their respects. Well be streaming this live all day on our website at cspan. Org. Wednesday night on American History tv, beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Congressman john lewis, the 17term democrat from georgia recently died at the age of 80 and will be buried on thursday. Before joining congress, he was influential in the 1960s civil rights movement. In 2019, congressman lewis gave the keynote address at a ceremony to honor arthur ashe. Watch American History tv tonight and over the weekend on cspan3. Cspan has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the Supreme Court and Public Policy events. You can watch all of cspans Public Affairs programming on television, online, or listen on our free radio app. And be part of the National Conversation through cspans daily Washington Journal Program or through our social media feeds. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Pu
American enterprise institute. Can i start with the headline in the washington post, sevenday averages for new virus cases hit fresh highs in over a dozen states. Why do you think we are in this situation that we are in right now . Well, thanks for having me this morning. I think were going to have a rotating series of regional epidemics in this country. What were seeing happen is as soon as a region starts to cool down and get control over the epidemic, a new region heats up. I think were in this position because we have a lot of infection all around the country. We reopened not just early but aggressively. And so that instigated more spread. And now you have a situation where theres just so much infection that its going to get into other parts of the country. We never fully crushed the virus in any part of this country. The sunbelt is showing signs of improvement. Thats the epicenter of the u. S. Epidemic right now, states like, arizona, texas, florida, southern california. There are
A period of time when it was out there but i dont think numerically there were as many athletes who had a political bent a seem to have today is going to so many instances i know you will for and for a long time i wish to what do you make them washington finally dropping the redskins. Well as i said a week ago theyre not doing it because they saw the life theyre doing it because theyre feeling the heat Daniel Snyder the owner had been adamant ill never change the name never and you could put it in capital letters but now when fedex when they play his name fed ex field fed ex says we dont want any part of it if you consider you with that name nike pepsi others hundreds of millions of dollars involved there along with the social pressure thats been building since the death of george floyd the murder really of joe which way thats the reason they did it not because they actually change their point of view are we going to see a lot more teams doing it. I think youve got to go on a case by c
As we both remember were of very very contentious period of time yet tommie smith and john carlos with the race facility the 1968 olympics in mexico city a lot of Young Athletes protested the war in vietnam some were part of the counterculture bill walton d an extremely likable man nonetheless had some countercultural ideas which many agreed with so that was a period of time when it was out there but i dont think numerically there were as many athletes who had a political bent a seem to have today lets get to some of the instances i know you were for and for a long time i wish to what do you make of washington finally dropping the redskins. Well as i said a week ago theyre not doing it because they saw the life theyre doing it because theyre feeling the heat Daniel Snyder the owner have been adamant ill never change the name never and you could put it in capital letters but nothing will when fed ex with a players name fed ex field fed ex says we dont want to be part of it if you consid
In getting your citizen tree where masks masks are important as part of the physical distance physical distancing is the most important but practically when youre living your life and trying to open up the country youre going to come into contact with people and for that reason we know that masks are really important georgias governor is urging people in his state to weather but he refuses to back down on his ban on local authorities making masks mandatory and public. Many well intentioned and well informed georgians want to mask manda and while we all agree that wearing a mask is effective im confident the georgians dont need a mandate to do the right thing our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett has more on why its become such a contentious issue. Well this is a country that is really founded on revolution its also unique system of government its not a federal system but instead its one that has strong states rights so in many ways the United States is like 50 countries all jo