In america are currently seeing a decline in new daily cases of covid so bad in wisconsin, theyre now setting up a field hospital. And its 14 years since president bartlet sat behind the resolute desk, but fans of west wing are in for a pre election treat as the entire crew returns for one special episode. Hello, im Laura Trevelyan in washington. Christian fraser is in london. The fbi says its uncovered an extraordinary plot to abduct michigans democratic governor, gretchen whitmer. This spring, the governor was criticised by the president and his supporters when she imposed tight restrictions, to try and limit the spread of coronavirus. The fbi says the six men involved in the plot, had conducted surveillance on ms whitmers holiday home and planned to take her hostage before novembers president ial election. Their goal was to try her for treason. The men belonged to a milita called the michigan wolverine watchmen. On their website, they describe themselves as a well armed citizens gro
Prosperity to the black community, to the hispanic community. The fact is that ive done more for the black community than any president since abraham lincoln. I say it. Nobody can disagree. And were watching bi inin i bidens plane arriving in pennsylvania. Well be watching for that as soon as he comes off that plane, well show you, and some of the comments hell be making throughout the hour. So the president focusing on law and order at the white house. His opponent is focusing on jobs in erie, pennsylvania. We want to start with an unprecedented rebuke of the handling of the pandemic and the countrys most prestigious journal getting involved in politics for the first time in its history. The new england journal of medicine called for americans to vote out leaders who have not done enough to address the pandemic. The 35 editors who signed the editorial did not mention President Trump by name but said, quote, when it comes to the response to the largest Public Health crisis of our time,
Im just asking you, you gave ma tenyear outlook here. Its a simple question. I mean, Ronald Reagan and tipnef retirement for Social Security back this the 80s. Should we look at doing that yet again and harmonizing medicare with Social Security age retirement as a nation . Should we be doing that, republicans and democrats . I think the question is coming together on what are the first order things that people should change well, these are we propose what we believe are how about this as a good answer, yes, we should . Republicans and democrats need to make structural changes to entitlements. Together, theomers a day aree country would be better off. Why dont we just admit that eventually were going to have to adjust the age of retirement to save these programs from to on the means testing point, i think you know it is in our budget. On the cpi issue, i think you know that is it generally true that entitlement reform has to be adjoined by revenue increases . Its called the grand bargai
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Jerpthe question we should e asking is, is our complicated reality well served by these simple statistical wonders. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corp