Neighborhoods up ended stores looted and buildings burned trigger happy thoughts with badgers are shooting down or kneeling on the next of one are men and women because they live in fear of anyone with a skin tone darker than white americans now all more than 21000000000 in unpaid rent while mr amazon themselves jeff bezos is worth more than 200000000000 alone cope with 19 is now claimed to close 2180000 lives and is infected almost 5800000 others here in the United States even the National Basketball association the association and the w n. B. A. Has decided that enough is enough with players going on strike this past wednesday. And amidst all of this strife and turmoil murder and injustice the great 2 legacy parties here in the United States of america yes our old friends the democrats and republicans put on their latest song and dance act on the way to the 2020 president ial elections last week the democrats kicked things off with a National Convention that bought hard to gain right
Anna good morning. Im anna palmer, coauthor of the politico playbook and i am joined by jake sherman. Welcome to a special edition of the playbook interview. Joining us now is the Senior Vice President of the Milwaukee Bucks. He has previously worked in Democratic Politics and his family owns the bucks. Jake for a connecticut kid like me, vin baker is a legend. In the summer of 1998, i met him. Baker went to the university of hartford and had a 13year career in the nba, mostly with the bucks and seattle supersonics. He is a four time nba allstar, olympic Gold Medalist that is quite the resume and is currently an assistant coach with the bucks. We have a little news. This makes it a very timely conversation. The president of United States moments ago tweeted, people are tired of watching the highly political nba. Basketball ratings are way down and wont be coming back. I hope football and baseball are watching and learning because the same thing will be happening to them. Stand tall for
Gavel in for a brief pro forma session. No votes are expected tapered live to the floor of the u. S. House, here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. September 4, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable david j. Trone to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Haplain conroy let us pray. Lord, god, father of us all, we thank you for giving us another day. As the nation enters into the labor day weekend, we give you thanks for those whose labor has been in the addressing of the coronavirus plague. Bless and keep safe those who are on the frontline of caring for the sick. Bless and inspire those who seek treatments and cure. Lord, have mercy. Keep all americans safe this weekend. May we all do our part to be mi
Broadcast. You know, just so you know. Now, a bit of background. President trumka hails from southwest pennsylvania and comes from a proud family of coal miners, working his way through college and then through law school. He started his union work with the United Mine Workers and became the unions president at the age of 33. And then, since 1989, he has been working on the aflcios executive council and was like a and was elected president in 2009. We are on the record. Please no live blogging or tweeting. No filing of any kind mother breakfast is underway. While the breakfast is underway. The embargo is lifted when the session ends. Here are the important instructions for how to do this on zoom. We are hoping to make this as much like in person event as possible. That is collegial, conversational and informative. We ask all of the reporters keep their video on an audio muted unless you are speaking. To ask a question during the q and a, please use the raised hand function on zoom to h
Would put. In that 10. Greetings and sell you teach. You know things are things are looking mighty grim here in the land of milk and honey the bright shining city on the hill was no longer bright it certainly has lost its shine and that hill was looking less like a mountain and more like a no. This is things directly to Climate Change and our lack of respect for the damage we have rocked on mother earth of in california is burning the gulf coast is once again decimated by unprecedented and by and precedent in their size hurricanes city after city across the United States are seeing streets neighborhoods up ended stores looted and buildings burned trigger happy thoughts with badgers are shooting down or kneeling on the necks of one our men and women because they live in fear of anyone with a skin tone darker than white americans now all more than 21000000000 in unpaid rent while mr amazon themselves jeff bezos is worth more than 200000000000 alone cope with 19 is now claimed to close 21