Moscow. And on this show, from the parents of one of The Americans being detained in russia, were live with them in just a moment for an interview youll not want to miss, all of it as President Bidens domestic agenda seems to pick up steam. Infrastructure and voting rights. Whats happened in the world while the eyes are fixed on geneva. And its decision day in the Supreme Court. Its on obamacare, lgbtq rights, and free speech. Any second we get word from the court, were going to break in as it happens. Im Hallie Jackson with Josh Letterman at the white house. Leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill and an msnbc contributor. Good morning to all of you. Josh, let me start with you. The president returns home from overseas. Then the sales job begins. Frankly, theres a pretty long list of unresolved issues here. Reporter what the white house is saying, hallie, is the president achieved what he cement out to do, not some grand detat or where moscow becomes a u. S. Alley, but instead trying to ke
A couple days of electing our chairs. Yesterday we approved 18 chairs which is pretty exciting. 3 contested races, following in the footsteps of the first woman to serve in that capacity. The chair of the Foreign Affairs committee, greg meeks of new york, another new yorker, elliott angle, and the chair of the ag committee, david scott from georgia, first africanamerican chosen to be the chair of the Agriculture Committee following in the footsteps of the leadership of colin peterson. Greg meeks also africanamerican, prehistoric woman, pretty contested races but throughout, women or people of color, more chairs to be announced but these were the ones that related to rules and budgets related to steering and policy committee, two of the speakers announcement that were made and others follow. We held the house, pulled the gap 132 of them starting with 18 that were chosen yesterday. I am excited, when they made their presentations over several days this week it was a demonstration of valu
Addition to the pandemic relief and fighting the coronavirus, what else should be a priority. Republicans, one line, democrats, one line, independents and others,. One line you can also send us a text. Include your name and where you are texting from. And onter, cspanwj facebook. We will hear from a couple of members of Congress Later in the program. We will ask them both about the status of a potential pandemic relief bill. We will also show you some of the highlights from last nights cnn interview. First, a piece from page of washington journal using data from johns hopkins. The whole front page, if you go online, you will see the interactive map showing the spread of the virus across the country. The april 17 spring peak, july 25 at summer peak, the low point between the summer and fall of september 19. So far, in the fall, the fall peak to describe, two weeks in november, over 2 million cases. Over 12 million cases. The bottom line is how the surge engulfed. They write today, about
Hughes. The issues were large. They included the problems of a peoples industry, its people, its agriculture, its agriculture, its resources. But the immediate battlefield of the struggle was the constitution with its checks and balances. Its division of power between executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. This is the struggle known as the Court Packing fight. On august 14th 1935, president franklin d. Roosevelt signed the Social Security act. Its provisions included old age benefits and payroll taxes to help finance them. The president made a brief statement. Pres. Roosevelt to millions of our citizens who will reap direct benefits and unemployment age pensions old and increased services for the protection of children narrator the payroll taxes were to start in 1937. But months before that in boston, massachusetts, in Federal District court, an action was begun for attorneys for george davis, a shareholder in the Edison Company in boston. He was suing for an injun
There are a lot of people who disagree with Charlie Hebdo theres all this thousands of what you would call is the list is a mystic stream ists. Its very few more terrorists theres very few people who actually do deal if the Charlie Hebdo was so offensive was so horrible surely they could be thousands of people on the streets starving one another its not its a tiny tiny minority what is it about the tiny minority that distinguishes them from all the rest of us and thats why you have to look at this that the individual level when one starts it almost gives legitimacy to the others so the reason that france has raised its terrorism level is because it takes one and its kind of like a rally around the flag now were all going to go because it becomes rational you know when you think that you will get legitimacy for it. To ation in france on our website r. T. Dot com and get the latest updates by following us on twitter ill be back with more news in just about half an hour thanks for watchin