Of joe biden as the 46th president of the United States. Tonight as we move ever closer to a second Covid Vaccine we are also on the threshold of a sad new milestone. Almost 17 million confirmed coronavirus cases in our country. Sadly, over just the past 24 hours, weve lost another 3200 people, roughly one death now every 27 seconds in america. The onslaught of the virus has hospitals in this nation under siege as coronavirus admissions are reaching new record levels. Consider this. Exactly six months ago today in an oped piece for the wall street journal, do you remember . Vice president mike pence downplayed what was then the summer surge as we referred to it back when medical experts were warning everyone of the risks of not getting the virus under control. Heres what pence wrote back then, and we quote. The media has tried to scare the American People every step of the way, and these grim predictions of a second wave are no different. The truth is whatever the media says our whole
Host weve been talking with tim gay, author of assignment to hell. Thanks, tim. Guest thank you very much, appreciate it. Next on booktv, paul dickson presents a collection of words popularized by american president s. The authors collection includes warren g. Hardings Founding Fathers invoked during his 1920s president ial campaign, Theodore Roosevelts use of the word muckraker in a speech critical of specific journalists, and military Industrial Complex delivered by president eisenhower during his final president ial address to the American Public in 961. 1961. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you very much. Ive been playing around with words for a long time, and i think when i was a kid, one of my i wasnt that athletic, and i wasnt that, you know, smart in various ways, but i could always go home and memorize a couple words, so i would learn words like ap nettic and things like that apathetic, you know, which for the third grader was a lot of of fun. And as i got to
make other nations free. franklin roose svelte once described the dedication of a library as an act of faith. i dedicate this library with unshock bl faith unshakable faith in the future of our country. it s the honor of a lifetime to lead a cup as brave and as noble a country as brave and as noble as the united states. whatever challenges come before us i will always believe our nation s best days lie ahead. god bless. [applause] [applause]
0 museum and library itself every single year. today all of the pomp and circumstance, it officially opens to the public on may 1st, jon. have as you re speaking the first lady and the four other surviving first ladies are being introduced to the crowd. a round of applause there for them. casey stegall there at the opening of the bush library and presidential center, we will have more of the live festivities just ahead. thanks, casey. jenna: you wonder how much small talk takes place within the groups. jon: wouldn t you love to hear it. jenna: a little fly on the wall to see what the conversation -gs are like. we are going to continue on with a few of our other top stories today. there are new concerns the boston terror investigation may have hit a major snag. here is the picture that is slowly coming together for us. officials were apparently questioning the surviving suspect at the hospital where he was being treated, and that interrogation came to a screeching halt when a judge ar
spending on the mean tested programs and now come to a trillion a year. what are we getting for it? all it does it perpetuate poverty. we need pro growth policies and not hand out from the government. is this money wasted? if you want to take on poverty address the real cas. people don t have jobbings. if we want to deal with poverty. we deal with jobbings. the only way we deal with jobs is if republicans in congress stop using it as a way to defeat barak obama. barak obama had four years to stop it he puts forward jobs bills and ther ignored. rich, i got to agree with one thing. isn t lack of growth one of the worst things for those in poverty? when you don t have a growing economy, you have more poor people? well, sure, if we had a four percent gdp economy unemployment would be around five percent and not around eight percent as it is now. i would love to get the 15 trillion back. that is the size of the national debt. here s why we are afraid to discuss poverty