Federal response to the coronavirus pandemic in a recent interview with former president barack obama. The conversation was produced and released on social media by the bite in president ial campaign. When we came into office, even before inauguration, we had seen a historic financial crisis, irresponsibility on wall street had spread out to main street prayed we had to move fast not just in 100 days we had to move in the first month to get the recovery act passed. We are now in a situation were not only driven economic crisis, we also have a Public Health crisis to boot. Tell me a little bit about how you are seeing the current economic crisis and how you are think about the economy right now. So well mr. President theres three pieces i see. One, weve got to sustain and keep people from going under forever. There are already 10000 businesses not likely to open up significant a number of Small Business and minority business number two, when they are able to come back they are not only
We are now in our third week in this course, and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover today, because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. Now we touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself was born in hodgenville, kentucky, in a log cabin, yes, quite literally. He doesnt stay in kentucky. In 1818, his parents uproot from kentucky and move northwards across the ohio river into southern indiana. That is where lincol
We hear arguments number 18, roe against wade. Quite often our most famous decisions are the ones the court took that are quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically have vielgsy what it means to live in society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspans new series landmark cases. Tonight and the next 11 weeks were going to be looking at cases that developing the development. Its also interesting because it all came about after two Founding Fathers who developed differing views how the country should be governed. We have guests to help us understand the story. A Yale University luprofoaw pro and hes the author of several books including americas constitution, a biography. To start were going to listen to the current chief justice talking about the importance of this case. And then after we hear his point of view well like to hear from both of you on why this case is
All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonish to give their attention landmark cases, cspans special history series, produced in partnership with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12th historic Supreme Court decisions mr. Chief justice, former mayor please the court quite often, in our most famous decisions, theyre one that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate, very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stick together because they believe in the rule of law. Hello and welcome to landmark cases. This is the first of 12 historic Supreme Court cases that we will look at this season. Mcculloch v. Maryland is our case tonight, and we will learn more about this significant case in the people and issues behind it and why it is so important in our American History process. Later,
Even before inauguration, we had seen a historic financial crisis, irresponsibility on wall street had spread out to main street prayed we had to move fast not just in 100 days we had to move in the first month to get the recovery act passed. We are now in a situation were not only driven economic crisis, we also have a Public Health crisis to boot. Tell me a little bit about how you are seeing the current economic crisis and how you are think about the economy right now. So well mr. President theres three pieces i see. One, weve got to sustain and keep people from going under forever. There are already 10000 businesses not likely to open up significant a number of Small Business and minority business number two, when they are able to come back they are not only able to keep their folks employed on the payroll, but they are able to cover overhead, cover the additional expenses paid for the example you can open without social distancing, masks, test all these things cost a lot of money.