Little bit about mark c johnson. Hes the author books and a u. S. Senate history and a frequent commentator on american and political history. Mr. Johnson is also a fellow, the Mansfield Center for the university, montana. His work has appeared the new york times, the Washington Post, the bulwark, california journal, politics and public policy. Montana. The magazine of western history and the indiana magazine of history. He is a columnist for the lewiston tribune. Idaho, and writes regularly on the blog many things considered. His previous books for the university of Oklahoma Press are tuesday massacre for Senate Elections and the radicalization of the republican party, a study of how independent campaigns upended american politics after 1980 and political hellraiser a biography of montana new deal era senator Burton K Wheeler and that is a spur Award Finalist by the western writers of johnson served as a press as the press secretary and chief of staff to idahos longest serving governo
my heart is with this 8-year-old little boy. i don t care if he was here legally. i don t care if he was here illegally. he was in my county. five people died in my county, and that is where my heart is. yet another gun rampage. this time in texas. governor greg abbott, who has done much to boost the nra culture of guns before kids in that state, wasted no time reducing the murder victims, including a 9-year-old child, to, quote, illegal immigrants. also tonight, e. jean carroll was back on the witness stand today, facing cross-examination about her allegation that donald trump raped her. where was trump? well, he was 3,000 miles away in scotland, digesting the news the judge had rejected his motion for a mistrial. and roy wood jr. is here to talk about his best zingers against clarence thomas, tucker carlson, and the president himself at this weekend s white house correspondents dinner. we begin tonight with america s gun crisis on full display once again with unim
china cutting ties with key diplomatic issues as retaliatio retaliation against nancy pelos continues our foreign policy experts weigh in as tensions escalated. and what washington, d.c. new york will not be getting any help from the national guard in dealing with the influx of migrants being best in from texas. the defense department denying what she calls a human internin crisis great what helpings next in the nation s capital. would begin with that complicated u.s. economy. good numbers today. it doesn t get in line up with the most americans struggle wit the effects of inflation. the u.s. job growth, unexpectedly shot up in july battling the forecasted amounts. employers added 528,000 jobs only expected to hit 250,000 th unemployment rate also a downward trend at 3.5 percent which is the lowest it s been since the pandemic started over two years ago. breasted biden still testing positive for covid 19 in his second bout in two weeks following the reports released, the pres
beijing has stopped cooperation with the u.s. on military operations and climate change. meanwhile, russia indicates it is ready to discuss a prisoner swap, one day after a court sentenced brittney griner to nine years in prison. we begin with the increasingly complicated state of the u.s. economy, after a string of not so great data on economic growth, inflation, and consumer sentiment. a sign that things may not be as bad as many think. the government says employers added 528,000 jobs in july, more than double what experts had predicted. the unemployment rate fell slightly to 3.5%, and when you break down that number, the numbers fell for minorities. president biden state more people are working than at any point in american history. that s millions of families with the dignity and peace of mind that a paycheck provides. he goes on to say there s more work to do, but today s jobs report shows we are, quote, making significant progress for working families. with us now to
Yesterday, the house passed a series of foreign aid funding bills, including 60 billion for ukraine and 20 million for israel as republicans pushback on some of the pending. We want to know what you think about the bills. Here are the lines. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. If you would like to send us a text, you can do so at 202 7488003. Make sure to include your name and city. You can post on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. And you can also post on x, cspanwj. We will get to your calls in just a few minutes, but first to tell us more about those bills and yesterdays vote is congressional reporter stephen neukam. Welcome. Guest good morning. Host what stood out to you about yesterdays vote, especially the more contentious votes on ukraine and israel . Guest yeah, i think the number one thing that stands out about the vote yesterday was when the ukraine a vote speaker johnson got less than half of his conference to vote with him. Less than