Behalf of the more than 19 Million People in our nation and half a Million People in michigan who show us every day what service and sacrifice and love of country is really all about. These patriots landed on beaches in normandy and their pacific theater, crept through jungles in korea, shed blood in vietnam, survived attacks in iraq, and fought terrorists in afghanistan. These people are heroes. They love our nation so much, theyre willing to put their lives on the line for our democracy, our people, and our way of life. Thats why it is so incredibly shocking and infuriating to hear the president of the United States, the commander in chief of our armed forces, disparage our veterans. President trump called them losers and suckers. Losers and suckers. He said he couldnt understand why anyone would join the military, because whats in it for them . He said veterans who have lost limbs shouldnt be in parades. Why . Because he couldnt handle seeing them, didnt think people would want to s
Not an option. The world was already struggling to come to grips with educational inequality now the United Nations warns the covert crisis is making it worse disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable and threatening to wipe out decades of progress for this generation and possibly beyond. This is the w. s covert 900 special im paid for it a phone thanks for joining me at the height of the pandemic schools in some 190 countries closed their doors many have since reopened but the experience of lockdown heightened major inequalities in education and even richer countries like germany have struggled with the challenges of going to shuffle. Pence owns a shop and books are out in students back in the classrooms but it seems not much of the Digital Learning put in place during lockdown has survived here at the phillips causeless school in berlin. Teacher says many of the challenges involved in Digital Learning for main. The foundational problems are still there a lot of parents dont un
What people know about most is the biggest one, the cares act. I think it got 97 votes here on the floor of the senate. 970. Weve in the past been able to figure out a way to come together as republicans and democrats, as americans to be able to address this crisis. We need to do it again because we still do have a crisis. We still do have unacceptably high levels of people getting infected, hospitalized, being in the i. C. U. , fatalities, and of course our economy is not where any of us would like it see it, although it has improved significantly in part because of the legislation we have passed here. Im convinced we would be at over 10 unemployment still if not for the legislation we passed here. Instead were beginning to come down, 8. 4 last month. Thats faster than anybody thought it could. Still, of course, unacceptably high. So more help is needed, and we cant let the upcoming election and the Politics Around that keep us from getting together and continuing to do the work that
On slowing the spread of the virus. New cases of it on the decline in major hot spots including new york. Dr. Tony fauci saying the death toll in the u. S. Could be 60,000 versus earlier estimates of 240 people dying. Donald trumps Approval Rating hit alltime high for him amid coronavirus pandemic and also showing an overwhelming majority of americans are concerned about a recession. The virtual opec plus meeting which included saudi arabia and russia ending in a tentative agreement to temporarily cut production by about 10 millionbarrels per day. But mexico could derail the plan. Oil declining near the trading session over concerns about the Production Cuts that they wouldnt be deep enough. U. S. Markets are closed today in observance of good friday but yesterday u. S. Stocks rallied, dow, nasdaq, s p all up more than 10 for the week. S p having the best week since 1974. In asia overnight markets were mixed, you can take hang seng and hong kong closed for good friday. European markets
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 its one of the best things you can become. Right there. Thank you. If you become one in your neighborhood you get a 15 increase on average turnout for the president. We had 3,000 of those in 2016. Were on pace right now for 90,000 in 2020. Thats awesome. On top of that, we were about six, seven states strongly this time. Were in 17 states. Weve increased and doubled our budget pretty much of our ground operation across the country. Let me give you a great thing about expanding the map. There are several states last time we didnt win, new hampshire, minnesota, nevada, new mexico. If you look at new mexico and minnesota our budget for those two states was 25,000, one staffer, sent them to colorado because we didnt think we were going to win it. This time were talking about tens of millions more staff on the ground than the entire 2015 ground game and you already have them in those states fighting for it. We only lost minnesota b