Starr hopkins. Followed by commentator Armstrong Williams. And john dicken talked about infections in Nursing Homes. Washington journal is next. Join the discussion. Host one week ago today, africanamerican george floyd died at the hands of the Minneapolis Police. Protests, civil unrest, and violence and reaction to that expanded to some 75 u. S. Cities, building to a crescendo over the weekend. Good morning, and welcome to washington journal for this monday, june 1, 2020. Well start the hour asking you this hour about the president s leadership in response to the unrest, the president largely communicating, commenting on the issue saturday, some at nasa, and largely leaving his response to twitter. What are your thoughts . Republicans, use 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. And independents, all others, 2027488002. You can also send us a text, that line is 2027488003. And make sure that you leave us your name, tell us where youre texting from. cspanwj. , were, your comments welcome on
I Guess Campaign ads are included. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to save texas. Good morning. This is a first alert for this friday, september 2 a 5th, 2020. Police have declared an Unlawful Assembly overnight in louisville as protesters seen smashing windows and at buildings. Ainsley 24 people were arrested during the unrest including a state lawmaker. Brian you got Mark Meredith who has saw it all. He toured it all. He lives in louisville. He is live in louisville, i should say. Were not going to make you move there, mark. But you took a tour. I was going to say. Brian you took a tour of the area. Steve, ainsley and brian good morning to you. Thats right. It was another wild night in louisville. You are right i dont live here but i certainly have seen what this has done to this town. There is arson Investigation Underway at a business fire broke out here. The business was empty. That man sitting right there i is the Business Owner. Is he convinced demonstrator
As democrats look to expand the map, what we know about the wild finish in the senate. Its not just that youre a crook, senator, its that youre attacking the health of the people that you represent. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. With five days left until the end of voting, the dynamic of this race at its most essential core level has come into sharp focus. It is a battle between a prodemocracy majority and an antidemocracy minority. This is a fight for majority rule in this country, to rest control from the minority of trumpists. A minority that has governed with disastrous and corrupt consequences and that principle at the heart of this race is on display every day in the actions of the two campaigns and the two parties and the two coalitions. Everywhere you look, the Democratic Party solution to the problem of trump and the ongoing crisis in this country and the crisis of american democracy is to have everyone go vote. Make it as easy as po
Is often what we talk about in this weektoweek comparison. This is the number of people dying from coronavirus from week to week with the sea of red lighting up the country. A vaccine is likely to be approved soon, possibly this week, Health Experts say the dangers right now could not be greater. I think it could be more of a challenge than what we saw with thanksgiving. So i hope that people realize that, and understand that as difficult as this is, nobody wants to modify, if not essentially shutdown their holiday season. But we are in a critical time in this country right now. We have to not walk away from the facts and the data. This is tough going for all of us. We need you to hang on just a little bit longer because we have vaccines coming but we want as many people to be alive to get them as possible. And a lot of that is going to depend on your behavior. That is such a sobering statement of reality right now coming from the outgoing surgeon general. President elect joe biden ann
First americans started to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Also today, the most radical attorney general since the watergate era, when one attorney general went to prison, today trump attorney general william barr finally resigned, or was fired. Hard to tell. All of those things happened in one day. A vaccine, a new president and Vice President , and the northbound of a southbound attorney general william barr. How was your day . All at once. Everything happens all at once. In just a moment, we will be speaking here with the Incoming White House chief of staff. President elect biden tonight gave a big, serious speech on the occasion of the electors meeting in the various states and officially casting their ballots to make biden and harris officially the president and Vice President elect. Ron klain is going to join us live in just a moment to talk about that speech from president elect biden and also to talk about this historic moment that we got to see play out live today all o