Policing during the coronavirus pandemic. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 eastern monday morning. During the discussion. Host there are so many aspects to this story, and joining us from des moines, iowa is paul pate, the iowa secretary of state and the president of the National Association of , and ofies of state course one area is politics, both at the state level and president ial levels. Mr. Pate, thank you for being with us. Guest it is a pleasure to be here. Host you have a primary and iowa slated for june 2. For iowa in particular, will that go on as scheduled, or will you delay that even further . No, that will be as scheduled. We have already started preparing for it, getting voters comfortable with the new processes and procedures, and we are set for it. Host and those new procedures include what . Guest well, we have had to adapt them of course, with the safe distancing, to protect our voters and our poll workers. We have extended our early voting, o
Host there are so many aspects to this story, and joining us from des moines, iowa is paul pate, the iowa secretary of state and the president of the National Association of , and ofies of state course one area is politics, both at the state level and president ial levels. Mr. Pate, thank you for being with us. Guest it is a pleasure to be here. Host you have a primary and iowa slated for june 2. For iowa in particular, will that go on as scheduled, or will you delay that even further . No, that will be as scheduled. We have already started preparing for it, getting voters comfortable with the new processes and procedures, and we are set for it. Host and those new procedures include what . Guest well, we have had to adapt them of course, with the safe distancing, to protect our voters and our poll workers. We have extended our early voting, our absentee voting from also,s to 40 days, and we ill what will have a no excuse absentee, which means you can just request an absentee ballot wit
Pacific and mountain, 202 7488001. We have a line for medical professionals, we would love to hear from you. Its 202 7488002. We are also on twitter and facebook. We are taking your text messages. That number is 202 7488003. Tell us your first name and where you are texting from. We begin as we always do with a look at the sobering numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. More than 1. 2 million confirmed cases. The number ofs. Cases are approaching 330,000. 65,000 deaths around the country. Around the world, i should say. The u. S. Is leading the world in cases of coronavirus. That from Johns Hopkins university, which has been keeping track of this since the beginning in january. The president says a lot of death is coming. It will be the toughest week in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and he said this on saturday. He said this as the total number of coronavirus cases rose to over 300,000, with the number of deaths host at the Daily Briefing yesterday, deborah birx, o
They voted to send the articles of impeachment to the senate. Greg lee is in the newsroom with the latest developments. Greg. Reporter good afternoon. The house voted to impeach President Trump on december 18th. Now, nearly a month later they will deliver the articles of impeachment to the senate. It will pit his defense team against these seven managers and this is the third trial in history. The yeas are 228. The resolution is adopted reporter the house voted to send the articles of impeachment against President Trump to the senate, approving the house managers. The seven democrats will argue for his removal in the third Senate Impeachment trial in history. We invited for interference into our elections. Heat jeopardize national security. He did this for his personal political gain. The only emergency here is that there is a 2020 election in which the democrats cant stand to see this present is going to with again. Reporter this morning, House Speaker nancy pelosi revealed the manage
Has ever had the opportunity to vote for. He laid out Hillary Clintons plan on making College Affordable and practicing inclusive politics. Hillary appears to be in good shape heading into the primary here. In a big lead in front of challenger Bernie Sanders but her campaign is not running up with more stops on the calendar including one tomorrow night in the city of colombia at bay plaza where he of course, president clinton, will be joining the candidate for a rally at 8 00 and into this speech live when the president takes the stage, these people here in the jim are here right now. Live in the news room. There are 53 democratic delegates up for grabs in south carorona. A ater saturdays vote, things only intensity as we head into tuesday, sam explains why the over yet. To get the democratic nomination a candidate needs more than 2 thousand delegates is weekend Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton will have 53. Hillary is ahead with 58 delegates and bernie coming in behind her at 45. Wi