On this mornings washington journal the duties of the office on which im about to enter, so help me god. At the white house last night, Amy Coney Barrett becomes a 115th justice to the Supreme Court and the fifth woman to the court in its 231 year history. This happened hours after the senate voted 5248 to confirm the 48yearold justice, President Trumps third nominee to the Supreme Court. Your reaction this morning, republicans democrats and us on twitter as well remember you can text us with your first name, city and state. Lets begin with Amy Coney Barrett at the white house yesterday. She delivered rare remarks for a justice just sworn into the high court, he or she is. The confirmation process has made ever clear to me one of the fundamental differences between the federal judiciary and the United States senate. Acute isps the most the role of policy preferences. Of a senator to pursue her policy preferences. In fact, it would be a dereliction of duty for her to put policy goals as
Hello there just gone 6 oclock here in moscow youre watching r. T. International might be the morning after the Election Night before but the race for the white house is still on a knife edge and results hanging in the balance in a few key states that are yet to declare now within the last hour joe biden has taken the lead in michigan although the votes are still being counted we have to say in fact kind thing is not finished in several key states they are in great on this big map up here and a sea of red you might look at and think that trump has actually may have won this election that just indicates hes actually won more states but biden is actually more electoral votes at this stage which is of course what counts big. Population states like california for example did actually give him 55 votes and so far biden is 238 to trumps 213 with 270 the magic number needed for victory so lets bring in our u. S. Correspondent Maccallum Orkin who joins us from new york areas a good evening kel
Now, tonights program is unlike any other president ial debate in history were making history now and its pretty exciting. An independent polling firm has selected an audience of 209 uncommitted voters from this area. The candidates will be asked questions by these voters on a topic of their choosing anything they want to ask about. My job as moderator is to, you know, take care of the questioning, ask questions myself, if i think there needs to be continuity and balance, and sometimes i might ask the candidates to respond to what another candidate may have said. Now, the format has been agreed to by representatives of both the republican and democratic campaigns. And there is no subject matter that is restricted anything goes, we can ask anything. After the debate, the candidates will have an opportunity to make a closing statement. So, president bush, i think you said it earlier, lets get it on. Pres. Bush lets go. Ms. Simpson and i think the first question is over here. Yes, id like
Welcome to the program the coronavirus keeps pummeling europe. Italy and spain have tightened restrictions as new infections are surging across europe italian Prime Minister tzipi conte on sunday ordering all bars and restaurants to close by 6 pm for at least a month the government in spain has meanwhile imposed a curfew on bars and restaurants from 11 pm to 6 and lasting until may last weeks they became the 1st western european nation to surpass 1000000 confirmed cases. Lets get more now from our financial correspondent conrad boos in frankfurt conrad bad news coming out of italy bad news coming out of spain we have the german chancellor just yesterday giving her very grim outlook speaking of a very difficult winter ahead what a market is making of all of this. Well chris more and more economists on the markets are giving out all pissant mystic outlooks for example the chief economist of the o. E. C. D. The organization for Economic Cooperation and development says that this years slu
And Donald Trumps coded adviser is forced to apologize for giving an interview to r. T. F. For being criticized by the Mainstream Media outlets was branded as a russian propagandist for warning against tough containment measures. The argument designs and i have a lot of downs are killing people. Those are your headlines for this hour ill be back in about an hours time with another look with us now for the kind. Oh either a match ties or this is the kaiser report you know often we talk about the big reset its comin the big reset is coming space yes well of course weve said this was coming for quite a while but we imagine it in a different way than maybe Time Magazine might be. Imagining it and that is their cover and the reason i bring this up is because of course today is election day in the United States of america where choosing between 2 of the brightest best most vibrant of americans out of 340000000 is between trump and biden and you know the Mainstream Media seems to be betting o