Please leave your name and the city you are calling from. Also, social media, cspanwj is our twitter handle. Com giving thell. Basic contours of what happened yesterday. On saturday President Donald Trump signed a series of executive actions intended to extend and expand covid19 relief, including extending payroll tax collection and boosting unemployment benefits. It is not clear the Legal Authority under which the president was acting, which came at a News Conference in his in new jersey at his country club in host those are the basics. We will get to the details in a moment. From the president yesterday at this event in new jersey on why he did this. [video clip] democrats are actively blocking the things we want and what we want is good for people. Support for k12 schools so that they can open. Inc. Of that. The, direct payments at 3400 for a family of or bang. Ofs, funding for family four. Plus, funding for Mental Health care and you need that when you have so much of a lockdown. R
Right now, all we really have in terms of Public Safety is one system, and that is policing. People are going to be scared to create a new system of Emergency Response and i think its going to take a lot of conversations. Judy all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by consumer cellular. Johnson johnson. Financial Services Firm raymond james. The womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems. The lendl son on the web. Supported by the macarthur foundation, committed to a more just and peaceful world. And with the ongoing support of these institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy new milestones tonight in the covid19 pandemic. In Public Health, the world has topped 700,000 deaths. In politics, Democrat Joe Biden has decided ag
Soonnelists with us, three to be members of the u. S. Congress who are going to take. He progressive banner and into conflict with the establishment politicians and corporate elites who represent the working families of this country. These are great people who have had great campaigns. Let me introduce them. In acted last night landslide victory, they told us it would be a tough race, rashida. 6633 . S it, 69. Tlaib thank you. I appreciate everything. Is you did about you not become the democratic nominee, but you did not give up on the movement and you continue to support so many of us who are putting people before profits. I cannot thank you enough for not giving up on the movement and continuing to support people like us. Sen. Sanders how can i give up when we have people like you guys . You inspire the American People. An incrediblewon victory. He took on the entire political establishment. A 16 term incumbent and won by not quite as much as rashida. Much,wman not quite as but 15 p
Ok. If you can hear me we can. Loud and clear. We love you, cori. Ms. Bush let me just say i cant do anything without first thanking, first ive got to thank god. I would not be here. [applause] he has been on my side since day one. Ive got to start with that. I have to give honor to god. And to my family, my father who has been my example my entire life. [applause] and my family, my mom, my sisters, my children, over here, and nephew,my niece my family. And then my movement family. And to my team, oh my goodness. My team. [applause] that counted us out. They called me just a protester. Just an activist. No name, no title, no amount of money. That is all they said i was. They are not saying that today. [applause] we are going to go on. Think someto organizations and groups that stood by us. Justice democrats. The so live movement. The democratic socialists of america. And our local. Were with us from the jump. Also weve got the next Generation Action Network here with us today. Revoluti
It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. It has been done is the greatest achievement of organized signings science and history. , 1945, the u. S. Detonated the first atomic bomb over japan. Japanys later, surrendered, bringing an end to the second world war. Have a message from the japanese government. This is a full except as of the potsdam declaration. Through the work of cspans cities tour, we will share stories of people who contributed to this world altering event. We begin in new orleans. We are here on the road to tokyo exhibit. That will take up the war on the pacific and asia. Aspectshe interesting is how quickly the turning point came in. Just about six months later, after the japanese ran wild through the pacific, the battle of midway was fought. That was a major portion of japans strength. Whatever chance that japan had disappeared in 1942. , thereally into the war big victory at midway. It is a big ocean. That is a relatively brief time. The war would go on