Moratorium on evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. Later, the moodys analytics chief economist joins us to talk about the state of the u. S. Economy. Host the house and senate are one week into what should be there august resource recess. Negotiationsld and between Democratic Leaders and the white house appear to have yielded no result, certainly, no agreement on additional coronavirus pandemic relief measures. Good morning. It is friday, august 7, 2020. This first hour, we will ask you your message to congress, in particular, congressional leaders on pandemic relief. Here are the lines. We welcome your text messages. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. Ur handle on twitter we also welcome your comments on facebook. A very similar sentiment expressed in headlines and reporting of capitol hill publications and other publications on those negotiations which ended last night well into the evening. This is roll call. Show you the report just out from the A
Enjoy American History tv tonight and every weekend. Next, we visit a hiroshima nagasaki atomic bomb exhibit at American University in washington, d. C. This american Artifacts Program was recorded in 2015. Hi, im peter kuznick. Im professor of history at American University and director of the Nuclear Studies institute. And i began our institute back in 1995. And the institute was born in the midst of the controversy around the inola gay exhibit which was going to be held at the Smithsonian Institution and it got cancelled. This was an attempt to do an honest and balanced decision about the decision to drop the bomb. This was in the 1995, so this was the 50th anniversary. And in the midst of that, i decided with one of my students whose mother and grandmother survived the atomic bombing in hiroshima, she and i decided we were going to do Something Special to commemorate the 50th anniversary. So, with goerg to teach two courses on campus plus bring students to kyoto and hiroshima. So,
Organized science and history. Announcer on august 6, 1945, the United States detonated the first atomic bomb in history japan. Roshima, later, ondays nagasaki. Six days later, japan surrendered, bringing an end to the second world war. I have a message from the japanese government. From the secretary of state on august 11. Declaration potsdam that specifies the unconditional surrender. Announcer through the work of cspans cities tour, we will share stories of people who contributed to this worldaltering events. We begin in new orleans, at the National World war ii museum. We are here on the road to tokyo exhibit. That will take up the war on the pacific and asia, 1941 to 1945. What are the most interesting aspects . One of the interesting aspects is how quickly the turning point came in. In are just about six months later, after the japanese ran wild through the pacific, the battle of midway was fought. That was a major portion of japans strength. Whatever chance japan had of winning
U. S. Troops, and the debate over military bases named after confederate leaders. This is part of the Aspen Institute annual security forum. This is part of the Aspen Institutes annual security forum. Welcome. Thank you very much, thank you for everybody for setting this up, what a great way to adapt to our troubled times. Troubled times, im glad were doing this evening for nonaspirin, i wish we were all there obviously, thank you for joining me and taking the time, congratulations to you on taking over the Hoover Institution, i hope congratulations is the right way to look at it. I cant imagine how you will squeeze in figure skating in the golfing with all of that but if anybody can, i know itll be you but thank you and nick for helping without book on james baker, you are both generous with your time and recollection to help us make there we got that right, i just wanted to throw that in there too. So im going to start off with some pretty big stuff, this is a tumultuous time in our
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