Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And this is bbc world news america. Europe has overtaken the United States in the number of new covid cases. The continent is heading helter skelter into a second wave of covid infections. Governmes respond with a stricter measure. There is a curfew in paris coming up. Restaurants are shut in barcelona and more mass mandates across the continent, but is it all too little too late . Few politicians have done well during covid, but new zealands Prime Minister has in hopes this weekends election will reward her with a second term in office. Ot police in thailand clashed with demonstrators protesting against the king and Prime Minister what has been said by this movement cannot be unsaid. They are out there in a surprising number and are saying they agree with them. Katty welcome to w
Will ask as many questions as time permits. To submit a question, please ha email headliners press. Org. The two candidates, incumbent President Donald Trump and former Vice President joe biden are spending millions on advertising to spread their message and turn the tide in battleground states. But this election is unusual. The covid19 pandemic is squelching the usual meet and greets and rallies and then theres the Lincoln Project, a Political Action committee founded by several current and former influential republicans including george conway, jennifer horn, mike madrid, and john weaver and our guests here today, rick wilson and steve schmitt. A republican pac doesnt sound that unusual, but unlike traditional republican pacs, theyre spending millions to defeat the republican president ial candidate. Today, the two Lincoln Project founders, rick wilson and steve schmitt, will give us an update on the state of the 2020 race and the Lincoln Projects home stretch strategy. Rick got his
Who kicked off tonight with a keynote. Plus two former president s, jimmy carter and bill clinton. And one of americas most prominent republicans, general colin powell. It is also a night for some traditional Convention Business and like Everything Else this year, its being done in a brand new way. The roll call of the states from the states. Starting with alabama, in selma. Delaware will secure the nomination for favorite son joe biden at the close. Lets check in now with the state of nebraska. A lot of us dont have paid sick leave or even quality protective equipment. We are human beings, not robots, not disposable. We want to help you feed your family, but we need a president that will have our backs. Nebraska casts 33 votes for our next president , joe biden. Nevada. Working people are the backbone of our economy and the key torecovery. Joe biden knows its not enough to praise them, we have to reward them. So, lets raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour, empower workerss and safer wo
Quarter of 1 . The backdrop to this is the Republican National convention that kicks off today. We are going to have more on that later on today. Ags investments will be joining us. I want to stick with the president and politics. We know the virus is related. Yesterday, President Trump making an announcement on a has to tracking of convalescent plasma treatment. Listen to what he said yesterday. Pres. Trump through this study, over 100,000 americans have already enrolled to receive this treatment. It is proven true tease to reduce mortality by 35 . Joining us is tobias levkovich. Thank you for joining us. How should the market price of vaccine and a treatment differently . I think the market is looking for both, in many respects. In other words, vaccines that are being discussed are more about protecting the person from getting the infection, but not transmitting the infection. On the other hand, therapeutics are treating the actual infection. We need a mixture of both results in orde
Now its time for The Last Word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. So im wondering is this more or less homework for you . Because back when you couldnt get the cdc director you would still have to do stories about it, and youd have to try to figure out certain things that were not easily apparent. Tonight you could actually go into that interview not knowing the answers to the questions because youre going to get actual answer tuesday the questions. Well, the thing that i mean the thing that changes that you dont have to anticipate what the interviewee is going to say, what they think or what was their motivation because you can ask them directly. But you still need to know about the issues and you know how to follow up and press them on it. It is just being able to interview dr. Fauci and dr. Wolensky and, you know, youve been talking to the white house Chief Of Staff ron klain, and andy slavitt has been on chris show. Being able to talk to the peopl