Consecrate with your presence the path you desire our lawmakers to take. Lord, kindle in the hearts of our senators the true love of peace and guide them with your wisdom. May the faith they questions with their plips put courage an hopes in their hearts that they may live each day in the spirit of your love. Cleanse them from every thought displeasing to your goodness that with pure hearts, clear minds, and calm hope they may honor you. And, lord, have mercy upon our wartorn world. We pray in your powerful name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge alonance to the allegiance to the United States of america, one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. Ing officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , february 29, 20 24, under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3 of the rules of the senate i hereby appoint the honorable senator with a warnock. The presiding officer und
with way too early. yasmin vossoughian picks up our coverage now. good morning. on this memorial day, i m yasmin vossoughian. at this hour we re breaking down everything we know about tentative deal between the white house and the republicans on capitol hill to raise the debt ceiling, avoiding what would have been a cats trovg debt default. in iowa, crews are frantically searching for survivors when a six-story apartment building partially collapsed after residents reportedly complained about the state of the structure. over in ukraine, new explosions in the capital city after another brutal round of russian drone attacks. we ll bring you a live report from the capital city of kyiv. also, on this memorial day, tens of millions of americans returning home as the long weekend comes to a close. we ll bring you what you can expect on the roads on one of the busiest travel days of the year. hey, everybody. good to see you. we re going to begin with a critical breakthrough in
prevents the worst possible crisis, default for the first time in our american history, economic recession, millions of jobs lost and protects key priorities, accomplishments and values that congressional democrats and i fought long and hard for. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy have a deal to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts. we will go through what is in the agreement and the reaction from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. we have new reporting on the evidence that manhattan prosecutors have in the hush money case against former president donald trump. also ahead, the latest from the war in ukraine following the largest drone attack yet by russian forces on kyiv. good morning. it s 8:00 a.m. on the east coast on this monday, may 29th memorial day. i m jonathan lemire. joe, mika and willie will be back with me live tomorrow. let s dive into the news. in washington, a deal has finally been made over the debt ceiling. we have goo
Then we are going to zero in on women in the labor market after the war, and follow that through the late 20th century. Today isimportant task to dispel the notion that american women went home after world war ii. American women workers did not go home after world war ii and we are going to do our best to wipe that notion out of our minds. Primary goal. If we can accomplish that we have done a lot. Before we dive into the arguments, i want to do a Free Association exercise. This is going to involve having you close your eyes, relax for a second, and im going to speak a phrase. I want to see what images walked into your minds eye. What images pop up . Is american women in the 1950. 50s. Can women in the 19 do any images come into your mind . Would you share . June cleaver. Great. We will come back to that area . Housewives. Anybody else . A different picture. How many of you thought of suburbia . Whennk it is the most we asked that question of most americans, we ask that of most america
After roosevelt died, the president who had been president for 12 years, the new president issued a statement of the white house of bereavement recognizing the death of ernie pile, a reporter. He said the nation is saddened by the death of ernie pyle. No man has so well told the story as American Fighting men wanted it told. Theecame the spokesman of ordinary american in arms. To nevers genius obscure men who made them. There were lots of other eulogies. Maybe the best of them was written by a famous poet of the era, randall gerald. We could not help realizing that s work was an aesthetic triumph. Most people will in the fullest emotional and moral sense some of the had never happened before , that they could never have imagined without it, a war. This isnt ernest hemingway. This was just a working newspaperman turning out six articles a week, week after week. Yet he achieved a kind of closeness with the American People that no other writer did. Died, manypyle people thought they had l