Special. The day of the freedom truckers protest ride, where they were going to bring washington to its knees with a massive convoy style protest that was going to shut down the washington beltway. Remember that movie, convoy, from 1978 . I loved that movie. The Fox News Channel has been hyping the trucker protest all week. The organizer said that i expected thousands of truckers to take part today. One radio host who was helping to hype the trucker protest in the conservative media said he thought if 3,000 truckers turned out, that would inspire a nationwide general strike of 100 million americans to quote get out on the street, get out on the roads and demand our legislature follow the constitution. That did not happen. Just a few guys showed up an they have thot yet inspired a general strike of 100 million americans. Virginia state Police Spokesperson said today, quote, it was pretty much a nonevent. A maryland state Highway Administration said the same thing. Their spokesperson tol
Radio partners statewide as well as w. Jdl and batteries kpbs in shreveport cspan in the pbs newshour for sharing this Evenings Program with our viewers and listeners. I am very earned present the council for a better louisiana or cable and thank you for being with us tonight. Over the next hour we will delve into many issues of importance to our state and country with their three invited candidates. Participating tonight our commerce and bill cassidy retired colonel rob maness and senator mary landrieu. Thanks to all of you for being with us this evening. A panel of journalists include Shauna Sanford coanchor and producer of lbb louisiana the state we are in, allen english editor of the Times Newspaper here in shreveport stephanie grace a columnist for the advocate and jeremy offer editor and publisher of politics. Com. We drew names to determine the seating in order of questioning and the format this evening is designed to learn more about where the candidates stand on key issues fac
Thats a disaster. Our College Graduates need to go to those jobs that are sustainable longterm jobs. We would be creating those jobs. Not just in certain parts of the state but all over the state. I have also supported the hero at the Higher Education reform opportunity act that will spread accreditation in the state and increase the market and competition drive costs down. Moderator senator landrieu. Landrieu those amendments would be very helpful i believe to the 600,000 people in louisiana that have outstanding Student Loans. Its a serious burden and a serious challenge to all of us. Its not just a private luxury. Its a public good for people that have strong education. The frightening thing is to think about one or two of these gentlemen being in the senate than standing in line with Governor Jindal to raise education the state to 700 million the largest cuts in the state of the union. I have fought against those cuts and ive done a lot to make sure at least we support hundreds of
Protesting the Police Shooting of jacob blake. Two people killed, one wounded in the chaos. The alleged gunman arrested, hundreds of National Guard members being deployed tonight. And the other Major Development late today, in an unprecedented move, nba teams boycotting tonights playoff games over blakes shooting. The bucks not coming out to the court, the magic players walking off. Tonights playoff games now postponed and we have late reporting. The cdc under fire at this hour for its sudden covid testing aboutface. Amid new guidelines that now say if you may have been exposed to the virus, you no longer need a test if you have symptoms. And dr. Anthony fauci did not sign off on this. He was under anesthesia after undergoing a surgery himself. Night three of the Republican National convention. President trump heavily criticized for using the white house as a backdrop. Tonighten, the elaborate stage going up now for the president tomorrow night, after the first lady used the rose garde
There are 68 different types of cancers that have been diagnosed while from the dust when the towers collapsed. Officials say they have taken the lives of survivors because they were given underlying conditions from that dust. Theres a move now to try to get coronavirus classified a as a 91 related ailment because the thinking is if these people did not have those underlying ailments from that day 19 years ago today, they wouldve not gotten so sick for being so susceptible to coronavirus. Yet again later tonight, the tribute in light, the beams that pierced the night sky will again be illuminated. A very stark and emotional reminder, melissa, of what happened here nearly two decades ago. And about the threat that sadly still exists. From ground zero. Back to you in the studio. Melissa those images arent any easier even after all this time. Thank you, eric. This is outnumbered and i am melissa francis. Here today is harris faulkner, fox news correspondent gillian turner, the host of ken