Since july. Tell us, what has happened with your campaign from july until now . Your campaign is going. Guest well, the first thing weve focused on, july is when we got the national nomination, me and my running mate Angela Walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and in the end we got on 30 ballots representing 73 of the voters, 381 electoral votes, you need 270 to win. And then you count the writein states were on and were 96 of the voters and 514 potential electorate votes out of a possible 538. That was july and august. Even more difficult barrier is gettin
Their platforms to help fight for social and racial equality. Well catch up with members of the Players Coalition who have spent years successfully lobbying lawmakers to enact reforms, ranging from voting rihts to juvenile detention. And inside jobs. On this unofficial last weekend of summer, well explore how many are falling back into a bit of normalcy. From states opening Indoor Dining to schools overseas and the workplace of the future. See how designers and scientists are helping figure out our return to work. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Lets just try and get through this one weekend and social distance, wash your hands, and were rounding the turn. Reporter a key model is forecasting there will be 410,000 coronavirus deaths in the u. S. By january. I keep saying over and over again weve got to be very careful, particularly as we enter this Holiday Weekend. Reporter the president is suggesting that former chief of staff jo
Developing news now, the debate on whether to open schools this fall is heating up across the country with coronavirus cases still surging in a number of states. Here is Andrew Dymburt. Reporter california to florida, cases are on the rise. The sun belt is now the global hot spot. Arizona alone meanwhile reporting more new cases than any other country in the world. The Health Care System is in crisis levels of support right now. Reporter dr. Debra birx pleading to push back reopening in several states seeing a spike in infections and hospitalizations. It is really asking the American People in those counties and in those states to not only use the face coverings, not going to bars, not going to indoor dining, but really not gathering in homes either. Reporter this as President Trump says that he wants schools to reopen in the fall threatening to pull funding to t School Districts that dont open. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo not taking it. Oh, really . Do you know, mr. President , bet
Infrastructure bill today. Voting procedures will be in effect. Live coverage here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of us all, thank you for giving us another day. Coronavirus diagnoses and deaths continue to mount throughout our nation. Please bless with healing and comfort those whose lives have been so severely disrupted. Continue to protect and empower those who tend to the sick and those who seek medical solutions to this dangerous pandemic. Unfortunately, there are many other issues pressing upon us. Bless the members of the peoples house whose responsibilities press them to address such seemingly overpowering challenges. Help them and help us all to trust that you have
Between gold and big point for safe haven supremacy with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with an escalation in tensions between the United States and china the trumpet ministration on friday announced new measures to block shipments of semiconductors from chip makers to while away technologies in announcing the move the u. S. Commerce Department Said they would be changing the export rule to strategically target while ways acquisition of semiconductors that are the direct product of certain u. S. Software and technology adding the announcement cuts off while weighs efforts to undermine u. S. Export controls under the amendment to the rule Foreign Companies that keep that use chip making equipment originating in the us will be required to obtain a license before providing the chips to walk away or any of their affiliates earlier this week the us president and donald trump extended an executive order originally signed in may of 2019 which stopped u. S.