Debate on reopening schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. At 8 30 american conservative , union chair matt schlapp on campaign 2020 and President Trumps reelection strategy. Host good morning, this is the washington journal for july 21. You are looking at scenes from portland last night, between a local police and people protesting against balance on africanamericans. It is the latest scenes that have prompted the Trump Administration to send officers to places like portland and seattle. In our first hour, we will show you more of what the president said about the process and get your thoughts on whether you agree or disagree with the deployments. 2027488000,call if you disagree, 2027488001, you can text us at 2027488003 or tweet us cspanwj. Websiteonian on their discusses a bit of the events from yesterday. This story saying parent groups marched in droves monday night to join the protests in response to repeated and nicely use of force by federal agents on demonstrators. They first
Infrastructure investments, trade, and the economy. But we begin this morning on the topic of immigration. After President Trump laid out his fourpoint plan on Immigration Reform, we want to hear from you about what you took from the state of the union when it comes to the immigration debate . The phone lines this morning. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. 002. Pendents, 202 748892 forave a special line Illegal Immigrants as well, 202 7488003. You can start calling in it now. We want to get your thoughts on the president s statements on immigration last night, but first, a few stats from the state of the union yesterday. 4. 5 million tweets, this was the most tweeted state of the union or joint session address, surpassing the three bs record previous record of 3 million tweets in 2017. As we pointed out earlier, it was a little over 80 minutes long, 80 minutes and 32 seconds. It was not the longest state of the Union Address ever, but it was close, and definitely the lo
Lets release the memo. President trump no worries, 100 . Clip from our cspan twitter page where we are tweeting out. You can go to cspans webpage, cspan. Org to watch the entire event yourself and watch any of our events here from cspan. A few minutes left to keep talking about the president s push for a one point 5 trillion Infrastructure Investment that would include 200 billion in. Ederal dollars caller i dont care which president may be in office, but it seems the last ace up their ,leeve is infrastructure plans may it be obama or go on forever, but it seems like every time the United States gets in trouble and we are out of jobs, normally they pull this out and then war comes eventually. What scares me is who is going to do the actual work . Anybodyf we dont have coming over like the chinese did with the railways and not i am a little worried about the kids nowadays because most kids dont know what work is, because they are so used to being babied thanks to the Obama Administratio
26 inches of rain in 24 hours. It is every bit as bad as it. The volunteer navy back in action. They just showed up when word got out that the texas Louisiana State line was in deep trouble in deepwater. The flood came suddenly and those suddenly and though sukarno could take very little with them. This is a new wave of evacuees. Another spike in gas prices. You are paying more at the pump right now as we go into the labor day weekend. For since more than yesterday but the wholesale price of gas, rising sharply youll be paying even more next week. It was just one week ago today when word of this disastrous storm for surface. Meteorologist janice dean shot everyone went on this program she forecast 25 inches of rain to south texas. Many places eventually got double that. What a week it has been. Jam pack show for you. The stock market continues to rise in the north korean throttle rocket and threaten to bomb again. Varney company is about to begin. Train to now come in about half an hou
It is our identity. Today it is in doubt. There are millions of americans who are started to believe we are no longer that country. You either know them or you are them. You are living paycheck to paycheck. Now the jobs do not go far enough. They literally live one unexpected expense away from disaster. The young people who did everything we asked, and other cannot find a job. The person trying to start a business out of their home, it is in violation of zoning codes but it is a good business. [laughter] they are struggling because of government regulations. As a result, our identity as a nation is in doubt. Why is this happening . The answer is, because we have leaders trapped in the past. People who think it is the 20th century. People who think yesterdays ideas will propel us to tomorrow. They never will. America is a nation out of its history but it has always been about his future. Our future has the opportunity to be better than our history. We must confront challenges and embrac