Sanders lets start right n now. Martha good afternoon everyone, i Martha Maccallum and this is the story, a lot going on today and ricky right now former President Trump confirming that he will participate in what could be the first debate of this cycle but definitely one with Vice President harris just two weeks from today on september the 10th. Rnc culture lara trump will answer questions about what that is going to look like coming up shortly. Also with also with sap texas and Jason Chaffetz under remarkable transformation in the new message from Mark Zuckerberg who now says that he regrets giving in the white house pressure. Both on covid and the president ial campaign of 2020. This is a stunning turnaround from Mark Zuckerberg, one of the most powerful people on messaging that happens in this country. So we are going to get that in on all of that for you. But first this also very president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces a successful test of the first Ballistic Missiles that is made
House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Matthew ifill. We are standing in the old house of representatives, what we Call Congress hall. Originally it was billed as a town courthouse for philadelphia, from worst of its history thats exactly what it was. But in the use of the city of washington d. C. Is being willed built, philadelphia serves as the temporary u. S. Capital. This room serves for the house of representatives, the second floor of the building they will get him out it, was we the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population, who first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members in the house, who would sit in this room. And eventually from 16 say states. Mr. Philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are talking about a new constitution, and adding new states to the original 13. Also, the bill of rights, would become part of our c
Colleague, michael holt. Michael holt is the professor of American History here at the university of virginia. He was educated at princeton and learned his ph. D. At Johns Hopkins university. With time offer visiting professional ships at cambridge, yale, stanford and other institutions. He has been at the university of virginia since 1974. He has written widely and deeply about 19 century political history. For many years his writing focus on the years before the civil war. Both the political crisis of the 19 fifties has become the standard for advanced college courses. His 1999 book, the rise involve the american w. H. I. P. Party, draconian politics in the onset of the civil war, was the runner up for the lincoln prize, his most often described as magisterial. And that is not just because of his 1296 heft. More recently, he has written of the reconstruction period following the war. By one vote the disputed election of 1876, it tells the story of americas closest election which perh
A Tropical Storm but the damage has already been done. Because german football is abuzz ahead of one of the years most anticipated clashes well preview this weekends top of the table does make a match between don and a woman and. Im rebecca it is welcome to the program more than 3 days after the ball polls close in the u. S. There is still no official winner of the president ial election but just a few hours ago democratic president ial candidate joe biden made another public announcement he told supporters democrats would win this race and with a clear majority pulling ahead of President Donald Trump in case states lets listen to some of what he had to say. Were going to win this race to circle what has happened since yesterday 24 hours were behind in georgia now are ahead and were going to win that state 24 hours ago we were kind of pennsylvania and we are going to win pennsylvania an hour ahead but were winning in arizona were going to vote out and in fact our lead just doubled in n
Although originally it was a county courthouse of philadelphia. But in the years that washington, d. C. Was being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population around 3. 75 million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of