Period of time. Today, i am identifying houses of worship, churches, asagogues, and mosques, essential places that provide essential services. Some governors have deemed Liquor Stores and abortion clinics is essential, but have left out churches and other houses of worship, its not right. So i am correcting this injustice am calling houses of worship essential. I call upon governors to allow churches and places of worship to open right now. If there is any question, they will have to call me, but they are not going to be successful in that call. These are places that hold our society together and keep our people united. The people are demanding to go to church and synagogues, for a mosque. Or a mosque. Worship as an essential part of life. The ministers, pastors, rabbis, and other faith leaders will make sure that their congregations are safe as they gather and pray. I know them well. They love their congregations. They love their people. They dont want anything bad to happen to them o
Californians who have filed has fallen to the lowest rate in two months. The Labor Department says 212 thousand workers in the state filed for firsttime Unemployment Benefits last week. The Development Department is looking to boost staff to handle the flood of unemployment claims brought on by the shutdown. The department is looking to hire 1800 people along with the 3000 workers on the job. The edd needs people to help process claims and handle phone calls. They are looking for people with accounting and auditing experience. Demanding justice for george floyd. The unarmed africanamerican man who died while in Police Custody in minnesota. An officer seen with the knee on his neck. Protests are planned right here for today and tomorrow and all this taking place after demonstrations from los angeles to minneapolis turned violent and William Montanez has the story. Reporter smoke was out of building of minneapolis after another night of calling for justice for george floyd. The black man
Our group and then we will get started. 22 ago, there is a switch. Thank you. There is a switch on the mics. In a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted religions continuing importance in 20th century american politics deserves sustained attention and analysis. Scholarship in american religious history has proliferated over the past 15 years. In political history, religion has retained a jackinthebox quality, colorful, surprising, anomalous, idiosyncratic, but left on the periphery to pop up occasionally rather than systematically. Today, our roundtable will inress how religion matters american political history and we will do so in three ways. First, i blast each of our panelists to focus on a way in which religion matters, in their own research, how religion plays that they arees working on, but also how centering religion gives us a different narrative, different story than if it
Bible in his hand. What do you think the president s message at that moment was . Guest i think the point the president was making, this is one of the most historic sacred sites in our country. This is a place where president s have worshiped. It is known as the church of president s. I was very privileged and honored to be with the president and his family and friends at st. Johns, the morning of his inaugural, to pray for him, for his family, to pray for the Vice President and his family, and to have a service dedicating his administration to the common good of the people and to the glory of god and the building of his kingdom. I know it is a special place of the president and all americans, to see rioters attempting to burn that historic structure, with all of its symbolism, to the ground, i dont want to speak for the president but as an american, i was glad that he went there. It was symbolic, that is important. The things he does with the bully pulpit of his office conveys a messa
Republicans need strong federal leadership to combat this deadly threat. Help to get the protective equipment and supplies they need to protect their frontline medical workers and essential employees. Thertunately, administration is leaving it up to the states, forcing them to compete against each other in order to purchase equipment and supplies from the private sector. This is leading to higher prices and greater shortages. We need the federal government to use the existing authorities to efficiently, effectively, and citiesly help states and that need them the most. This committee has heard from Bipartisan Health experts that cities and states need a comprehensive nationwide plan to safely reopen the economy, including detailed plans for tracing, andact containment. Have been forced to develop their own testing ineffective,cient, and inequitable patchwork that will only prolong and exacerbate the crisis. Local governments are facing financial crises. Expectt survey shows budget shor