President of the United States thought the Confederate Flag was okay. That cant be overstated. She didnt touch that issue, didnt come out and denounce it. And another tweet saw the president weigh in about the nicknames of washingtons football team, the cleveland inians in baseball and took a shot at senator Elizabeth Warren while doing so. This is a fight the president wants, even though a lot of people around him and most people in his own party dont. As you say his chief of staff mark meadows was on Morning Television moments before the tweet of Bubba Wallace saying were looking at the economy, china and joe biden. Then comes the tweet. Well dig deeper into everything the president was saying yesterday but more importantly cases of the coronavirus continue to surge nationwide. So far the United States has confirmed nearly 3 million cases, at least 131,000 deaths. The seven day averages in a dozen states have hit new highs with the u. S. Adding nearly 300,000 cases in the first week
Nonviolence, the way of forgiveness. Reporter by 1963, he was dubbed a leader in the civil rights, helping plan the march on washington. I have a dream. Reporter 1965 when he helped spearhead one of the seminal moments of the Civil Rights Movement, leading 600 Peaceful Protesters against the Edmund Pettus bridge, marching in civil rights of voting. It became known as bloody sunday. I lost consciousness. 50 years later, i dont recall how i made it across that brven bridge to the Little Church we had left from. Reporter news broadcasts and photographs of the cruelty helping to hasten the passage of the Voting Rights of 1965. We were taught never to become bitter, never to hate. Reporter his activism continued in congress. We have losts hundreds of thousands of innocent people to gun violence. Reporter in 2016, after a mass shooting at an orlando nightclub killed 49 people, lewis led a house sitin, trying to force a vote on gun legislation. John lewis often spoke of the good trouble he ca
Says the fbi agent who delivered the briefing used it as a cover to monitor thencandidate tromp and soon to be National Security advisor, michael flynn, and any mentions of russia. The president reacted in an interview with our own sean hannity last night. Watch the president. This is illegal as can be. This is treason, this is many things, you can call it. They spied on the campaign, both before and after victory. Both before and after. Never been done before. It is so bad, and if it were the other side, they would have been in jail for two years and it would have been a 50year term. But obama and biden knew everything, and they spied on the campaign of the opposing party using intelligence. Harris the document also states former fbi official peter strzok was one of the two agents who approved the notes. Strzok, of course, became known for the antitrump Text Messages he sent to his then paramore during the russia probe. Former white house secretary Sarah Sanders is here to weigh in on
The tapes first aired friday night on the reidout. But first, more than 180,000 people have died of covid19 in the United States. The pandemic continues to unfurl across the nation. Impacting every corner of american life. Forcing both democratic and republican parties to host virtual and wildly different conventions and americans are spilling out into the streets to demand to demand justice for black lives in a way we have never seen before. But what has not changed is racial bias and racial injustice. So insidious that once again an unarmed black has been shot by police this time in kenosha, wisconsin. Jacob blake was shot seven times in the back and in front of his three children. As he tried to get into his vehicle. Police say they recovered a knife from his car after the shooting. His family says he is in stable condition and paralyzed from the waist down. They also said blake was handcuffed to his bed. But on friday, blakes attorney said officials removed the cuffs and vacated th
A new task force, will investigate. And saracens are through to the semifinals of rugby unions european champions cup, after beating leinster. Good evening. In a sign of the governments increasing determination to tackle a steep rise in Coronavirus Infections in england, there will now be stiff financial penalties for anyone failing to self isolate after a positive coronavirus test. From september 28th, the fine will be £1,000 and up to £10,000 for repeat offences. But those on low incomes who cannot work from home, will be given a £500 lump sum. The news comes as borisjohnson considers whether to tighten covid 19 restrictions right across england, after saying the uk is now seeing a second wave of coronavirus. Heres our political correspondent, iain watson. Here in preston, households are already banned from meeting other households in their homes, gardens or indoor venues. From tuesday curfews will be imposed and tighter restrictions have already been imposed in other parts of Nor