Steve greenhouse, thank you so much for coming in to talk about your new book, beaten down, worked up. It was a real pleasure to read it and i look forward to having time to talk to you about it. Guest thank you for your kind words, congressman. Great to speak with you. Host when i think about this book i think of it as having three major parts. After you introduce the situation now you do a really good job, i think, of talking about, through stories about how workers struggled, really they themselves built the middle class in this country to a great extent by organizing, by striking, by bargaining and through diversity and by demanding policy changes and then you go through a lot of the hard times of what i call the reagan era which i think we are still in where companies and starting with the president of the United States really have attacked workers all hot and their unions and then you tell hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organiz
For the next hour we will be focusing on one aspect of covid19. Its impact on education for teachers for students for parents through preschool through college. If you are a professor or college administrator. 20288 800 o. For all others 2024788002. Send us a tweet at cspan w. J. Or join us on facebook at facebook. Com. Good friday evening. We thought it would be important to talk about the impact on education. But first we want to begin with the numbers. Courtesy of John Hopkins University which has been keeping track of the vie us are. We are now at 1. 1 million cases across the world. Here in the United States quickly approaching 275,000 cases. And now with more than 7,000 confirmed deaths in our country. His is the headline from the wall street journal as u. S. Employers cut off 700,000 jobs. If we continue with these kind of figures it could show the largest ever onemonth decline. Thanks for being with us on this friday evening. These really are stunning numbers. Yes, they are. Th
Beaten, worked up. Guest thanks for the kind words, congressman. Great to speak with you. Host when i think about this book, i think about it as having three major parts after you sort of introduced the situation now, you do a really good job of talking about three stories about how workers struggle and built the middle class by organizing and bargaining through a lot of adversity and demanding policy changes. And then you go through a lot of thhard times is what i call the reagan era that we are still in where companies and starting with the president of the United States who attacked workers a lot in their unions and then you telling the hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways and make some policy recommendations. A lot of books like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendations i hope we get into that because you paid quite a few interesting suggestions on what might be done to restore the voice of power and workers in this country
Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, President Trump says he does not want to go to war following the attacks on saudi arabias oil plant this weekend. Mr. Trump said it looks like iran is to blame. Meanwhile attacks sent oil prices surging. Gas prices here at home are expected to jump 10 to 25 cents. Laura podesta is here in new york. Laura, what is the president saying about all of this . Well, when asked about it yesterday, the president essentially said not to worry, that they havent risen very much so far and the u. S. Has Strategic Oil reserves for situations like were in right now. He said well dip into those reserves if necessary. President trump downplayed the saudi oil attack last night in new mexico. But a few years ago they would have been in a panic. Today weve got a lot of oil, weve got a lot of gas. Earlier at the white house, the commander in chief suggested iran is behind last
San jose. 80 in morgan hill. Its going to be slightly cool er than what were used to. Well talk about whats ahead. Its a different start for the trivalley. Only a little bit of slowing, which is not a big deal. We have a little blip in both directions. A nice drive as well out of the area. But note between Bethel Island and okayly, theres a car fire reported. Just a few hours, President Trump will arrive in the bay area for a fundraiser. Bob redell is live for us where air force one will land later this morning. The president has been here before, but what makes this visit so significant . Reporter staff is not getting his exact location. The white house is staying vague in order to throw off protesters. This is what happened last time trump visited the bay area during the 2016 Campaign Rally. Hundreds of people protested. Actually delayed his arrival. This is video from yesterday. They are gearing up and testing out the inflatable trump chicken. Protesters have been looking on the pen