Welcome congressman al green of texas who represents part of the houston area. Joining us to talk about the protests in the wake of the George Floyd Death and whats ahead for policing across the country. Congressman al green, thanks for being with us this morning. It is my honor to be with you this morning. I believe that we will break some ground this morning. I think that we have some legislation that we are proposing that will be for reaching. And im honored to bring this to cspan first. Tell us about that. Well, thank you. As you know, on may 27th, i called for a war on poverty excuse me, a war on racism. I mentioned poverty because quite frankly we declared a war on poverty, on drugs. We have declared wars on various things. We have never declared a war on racism. The question became, how do you do this . When president johnson declared his war on poverty, it was congress that passed the legislation that helped him to get Social Security through, medicare, medicaid, head start. Wh
W. H. O. Warns governments around the world against abandoning lockdown restrictions to early. And concerns about a 2nd wave of infections in parts of asia its recovered patients tested positive for a 2nd time. The number of corona virus cases is approaching 2000000 worldwide and the us President Donald Trump and his top disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci say cases of new infections and not growing as fast as before more than one 1500. 00 americans have died in the past 24 hours bringing the total number all dead to over 23000. 00 the highest anywhere in the world turning to europe spain has taken the 1st step an easing and nationwide lockdown hundreds of thousands of nonessential employees have been allowed to return to work if its also easing restrictions on some businesses from tuesday while the nationwide core intake remains in place until may the 3rd meanwhile frances president a man you walk on has extended them all down there until may 11th. The World Health Organization says count
The defenseliams on act and its use in the government. On this boat, the yaeah the bill is passed. Host good morning the Senate Approved a third economic aid package with a price tag of 2. 2 trillion dollars and it goes to the house for a vote scheduled on friday. And then, to the president s desk. We will get your thoughts on action to respond. 202737,000 you can text us with your first name, 2027488003e at or join the conversation on twitter and facebook. Let us begin with the action in the house. , democrat ofleader maryland sent a letter out to the rank and file members saying that the house will convene at 9 00 a. M. On friday to consider the bill in order to protect the safety of members and staff and prevent further threat, the republican leader and i expect the houseboat will be done by voice house vote will be done by voice vote. Members who want to come to the floor will be able to do so. We are working to ensure that those who are not able to return to washington may express
We came up with policy recommendations and issued a 2019 thatjanuary of laid out those recommendations. We went on the road and traveled the country again to conduct 14 public hearings with subject matter experts, again allowing the public to have an input to vet the policy recommendations. During this whole time, it was an exhaustive and Extensive Research process under way in which we look at all of the Data Available on these two issues. Once that was completed, we came up with a list of policy recommendations which have been released in our report yesterday. The report is titled inspired to serve. The vision of the commission is that every american would be inspired and eager to serve, and forth four put recommendations on Selective Service and how we can encourage and incentivize and increase awareness of more Service Opportunities in the military, national, and Public Service sectors. Host the headlines from politico . Guest one of the questions we were charged to look out was an
Thats important to all of us that are here and so many of our colleagues. Information is power today, and we see it all over the globe when its used improperly it is used as a weapon. Democracy requires wellinformed electorate to function properly but to undermine the principle through socalled Disinformation Campaigns designed to mislead voters and in doing so delegitimize the democratic elections. Actors like russia systematically exploit the media and to distort the truth to an unsuspecting populace with regards to the coronavirus and this information is being spread is a high degree and anonymous and again if left unchecked it could be devastatingly effective. I established this organization it could help lead to the global disinformation effort and work with International Partners. The Bipartisan Legislation within the state department is now the law and to get it up and going we will hear more about that today but we are pleased that we are making progress. They lead, synchronize