On saturday and again on sunday. And here we are again on monday, and this senate is virtually a ghost town. A few people here, but for the most part everybody was sent home by the majority leader, by senator mcconnell. He told senators go home until further notice. Go home. Were going to put the senate on standby. No need to b be here doing the peoples business. Mr. President , the coronavirus is not on standby. The coronavirus is very much alive and well, and spreading throughout the country, more severe in some parts than others, but spreading throughout the country, and with it has, the spread of economic pain and economic harm. So covid19 is not an standby and neither is the economic pain and fallout that its caused. I here in the United States senate, the republican leader, majority leader has said go home and be on standby. Mr. President , that is not leadership at any time. It is certainly not the kind of leadership that the American People need and should expect during a Globa
All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonish to give their attention landmark cases, cspans special history series, produced in partnership with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12th historic Supreme Court decisions mr. Chief justice, former mayor please the court quite often, in our most famous decisions, theyre one that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate, very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stick together because they believe in the rule of law. Hello and welcome to landmark cases. This is the first of 12 historic Supreme Court cases that we will look at this season. Mcculloch v. Maryland is our case tonight, and we will learn more about this significant case in the people and issues behind it and why it is so important in our American History process. Later,
From International Mediators calling for demonstrators to return to the streets challenge on his claims on crime and the coronavirus the fox news interview that didnt go as planned for the us president. And in sport chelsea have beaten Manchester United to reach the english f. A. Cup final a 31. 00 semifinal win at Londons Wembley stadium setting out the title decider against arsenal. We begin the news hour in brussels where negotiations over the European Unions long term budget and Coronavirus Recovery Fund the are continuing but hopes of an agreement appears to be faltering after 3 full days of talks leaders are at loggerheads over the unprecedented spending proposal which is aimed at Holding Europe out of its deepest recession since world war 2. On the table is a budget of 2. 00 trillion dollars to be spread out over the next 7 years it includes an 857000000000. 00 fund to help countries recover from the pandemic but members cannot agree on how the money should be distributed needs
Australia, part of the report examined japan and australia and how chinese influence works there. Todays conversation is to look at how russian influence works in the United Kingdom as part of that broader work, we also looked at germany. The reason that malcolm was so important was because we used his framing of influence activity. We looked at covert, coercive and corrupted influence factors. Many reports have certainly examined the supply of influence activities, but very few look at the demand side. How democracys use and except these influence activities. So i record and focus much more on the demand, how democrats in the government in societies influence that activity. This report was made possible by the u. S. State Departments Global Engagement Center during the Information Access find and administered by the institute and we are grateful, of course, for their support of these views. Of course, the authors and not the state department if i may, let me briefly go over some of th
Crisis, we will also touch upon the European Union, european commissions, broader Economic Policy agenda as we hopefully recover from the crisis, it has been evolving fiscal institutions, its management of the european macro economy. It should be an interesting conversation, obviously of particular importance given the worldwide economic crisis we are suddenly found ourselves in. Let me introduce my guests today, director general for economic and Financial Affairs in the european commission, prior to his current job, he was director general for structural reform support a topic we will touch on a little bit as well i imagine, prior to that he was Deputy Director general for economic and Financial Affairs. He also worked extensively on the socalled fund which we will talk about as well. Anyway, with that introduction out of the way, i want to start out with talking about the way in which the crisis has unfolded over the past few months in your especially what actions have been taken to