That are keeping smarter, which won by morning. Got it. Got abbas, daughter. Youve got this close captioning is brought to you by skechers hands free slipins snoop though, told me about handsfree sketches slipping harry less money is spent Alia Buttlift demonstrate slip beams. I just step in and there all Try Sketches slipping morning. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin this hour in the Middle East where a series of deadly attacks targeting hezbollah has the organization vowing revenge. Its leader is calling the attacks, quote, Massacres Lebanese official say please 37 people have been killed and thousands more injured after pagers and walkietalkies exploded across the country. They are blaming israel for the attacks. Israels Defense Minister theres claiming a quote, new era of war is beginning a move that threatens to push the region back to the brink of wider conflict. Joining me now, for more on, this is former Cia Officer Bob baer. Bob good to see
The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. The presiding officer madam president , last week the Judiciary Committee held its hearing on judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination and it was easy to see why judge barrett is held in such high regard by her colleagues, students, and peers and why the American Bar Association gave her its highest rating of well qualified. We knew well before the hearing that judge barrett possesses an extraordinary intelligence and comprehensive command of the law. After three days of testimony americans got to see her qualifications for themselves. They saw why she has been described as a jurist, a formidable intellect, a brilliant and conscientious lawyer and staggering academic mind. Even the democratRanking Member on the committee couldnt hide the fact that she was impressed. Judge barrett understands the proper role of a judge in our system of government. As judge barrett made clear, she understands the job of a judge is to interpret the law, not
Gloom out there. Were following the Airline Industry very closely as you know. Theyre looking for more aid, this time in the form of direct government grants here. The talk is how are they going to get that . The question, how much. Jetblue, robin hayes, what the significance of the flying industry is going through now. Jetblue has been able to fly over the turbulence. There is something that must be going on that were missing. Were looking what is happening at colleges now. The university of North Carolina at chapel hill. Kids were congregating, going to bars and parties. Not exactly social distancing. Now that university among some others that goes from inperson to virtual classes. Iona colleges president is with us, how that school is avoiding all of that. Meantime were focused on day two of the Democratic Convention as stuart was highlighting. The president has his own plans, continuing to visit battleground states that could turn the tide on this contest, still 76 days away. Blake
Chairman the committee will come to order. The department of health and Human Services, everybody is sitting six feet apart. All Witnesses Today are participating in person. We thank you for that. Participatingare by videoconference. I would like to say a word about masks. The office of attending physicians advised us we may remove the mask and talk to the microphone as long as we are six feet apart. Msak imask isy off. When i am walking the senate floor, i am wearing a mask. Simple clothsd, help from transmitting it to others. Unfortunately this practice has become part of the political debate that says if you are forced from you do not wear a mask, if you are against trump you do. I suggested the president occasionally wear a mask even though, in most cases, it is not necessary for him to do so. The president has plenty of admirers. They would follow his lead. End this help an political debate. The stakes are too high about this to continue. Masksrs and staff wear because we do not w
A great job and now our country is opening up again and i think its going to be very very successful i think that malarias here we talked about it we talk about it all the time i think that 3rd quarter its obviously a transition quarter but i think its going to be ok maybe better than ok larry things better than ok i think even more so than i do and then i think 4th quarter will be great and i think next year is going to be a tremendous year for this country. Jennifer. What ching a president giving some details of his coronavirus his governments governor us response insisting that he thinks so weve done a great job as we were early this was referring to shutting the borders to china for instance and hes looking into apparently testing on airlines of flights coming out of International Hotspots lets bring in mike hanna whos been watch watching from washington so mike in some ways similar similar kind of themes with the insisting that countries doing well on testing and and doing broadly