Our special guest allie larson is a professor of law and director of the institute of the bill of rights law, since she joined the faculty in 2010, she has received many awards including the statewide outstanding faculty award and the in the rising star category. Offessor larson is a scholar constitutional law and Legal Institution for the focus on how information dynamics affect the votes. Her work has been featured multiple times in various publications and these are just a few of her accomplishments, please help me in welcoming allie larson. Our discussion may be about an hour long and it may feel uncomfortable at times, that is ok, you may feel angry, that is ok. You may feel sad, that is also ok. All of these feelings arose for me when i was researching for an event and it is ok to feel something. This reminds us that we care. While slavery is not the beginning of the story, for the purposes of trying to dive into large topics in a very little bit of time we will start our evening
Ater, Susan Ferrechio takes look at how the next senate is shaping up. We also take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host the shape of president elect Joe Bidens Administration will begin to take shape today as he names a covid advisory panel. While cabinet choices may be a week or more away, he could name his chief of staff this week. Good morning, it is monday, november 9. Welcome to washington journal. Our first hour of questioning asking you what is your top priority for the Biden Administration . Here is how you take part. One line for democrats, one line for republicans, one for independence and others. Independents and others. We welcome your texts. Please include your name and where you are texting from. And on facebook as well. We will also keep you updated on some of the legal challenges that are continuing in several states to the election by the Trump Campaign. We will tell you more about those as we look for
election. Continues. Host we are joined by scott long with the hill newspaper, covering congress for quite some time. You have a lameduck session coming in here shortly in the u. S. But before we get to the next congress, tell us what the next few weeks or month looks like on the u. S. House side in particular. Guest the house of representatives will come back to washington after this historic election to hold their leadership elections. It looks like democrats are moving forward with their leadership elections next week. That favors nancy pelosi. The quicker the election, the less time there is for their to build any momentum in opposition against her. Nowe is some chatter right from moderates who are just crumpled about the number of seats that have been lost by democrats in a very surprising fashion. At least seven vulnerable democrats in the house went down to defeat. That has caused some andternation in the party has incited some chatter about whether or not there should be a chal
Streaming on cbsn bay area we are looking live out at the city. You see the flag on the left hand side. You can tell its windy out there. Yeah. Feeling chilly. Not your imagination. Good morning. Its tuesday, november 17th. Good morning. Lets get a check of the weather with mary and the changes on the way. Windy and rainy too. Yeah. Watching the rain that will be pushing in to the bay area. Just a few hours. Watching that rain to our north. Its all because of a cold front that will move through the bay area and the winds starting to kick up for us ahead of the front. Here is High Definition doppler. You can see dry for now. Quiet for now this morning. Changes are coming as i widen this out here and you can see that rain well up to the north near far northern california. Eureka catching that rain. That will slide into the area as we head through later in the morning and afternoon. Here is a live look with the sutro camera. You can see the camera shaking a bit. Temperatures all over the
Some of the legal challenges that are continuing in several states to the election by the Trump Campaign. We will tell you more about those as we look for your calls and comments momentarily. Here is the reporting on the incoming Biden Administration. The headline biden plans to move fast on the pandemic and the economy. President elect joe biden and his advisers planned this week to demonstrate a far more assertive strategy against the coronavirus then President Trump. Biden may take a more proactive role in the coming weeks and congressional negotiations over an economic stimulus package. Bidens proposal, some of which were posted on his new transition website, include aiming to secure funds for ramping up coronavirus testing, requiring additional protective equipment such as masks and gowns, and investing 25 billion in vaccine and manufacturing and distribution. His aides say they recognize the United States has one president at a time, nonetheless, hope to seize on the momentum fro