Announcer now, the director of the group right on time discuss the decline on the use of the Death Penalty and the potential for the Supreme Court to in the practice. This is from the aspen ideas festival in colorado. It is about an hour. Thank you for being here. One of the greatest decisions a Society Makes outside of going to war is to whom apply the Death Penalty to. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where it is going. I cant imagine a better group of panelists. Steve is the president for the center for human rights. In my mind, the leading Death Penalty litigant in the country and has been for a number of years. Traveling throughout the country to bring these cases to fight. He had a big win in the Supreme Court a few weeks ago. He has been teaching at yell law school since 1993. Mark does really interesting work and is making the case for a conservative case for limits on things like mandatory minimums or the over criminalization not on a defendant perspective of indiv
Hospitalizations which almost always sadly then sends the death count up still more. The president cheering this morning what might be a glimmer of hope in this dark coronavirus summer. Modernas vaccine candidate produced immune responses in all who volunteered to take it according to those published in the new england journal of medicine, a fully vetted and readily available vaccine is still a good ways off. The Coronavirus Task force meets today in private and with the soaring summer case count come new warnings about whether its safe to reopen schools and new debates about the only way to stop the spread now is to roll back some of the economic reopening. The moment is urgent. The issue is quite complicated and very consequential and from the president another simplistic and not to mention, a ridiculous attempt to explain it all away. Frankly, if we didnt test you wouldnt have all of the headlines. Think of this, if we didnt do testing instead of testing over 40 Million People, if w
Along with joe, willie and me, we have White House Reporter for the associated press, jonathan la mere. Cofounder and ceo of Axios Jim Vandehei and conservative lawyer, cofounder of the Lincoln Project and contributing columnist to the Washington Post, George Conway joins us this morning. Well, a lot to get to, joe. I think the first we should start with is that donald trump is expected to become the first u. S. President to be impeached twice after Vice President mike pence informed at this point the House Speaker nancy pelosi that he would not go forward with the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. In a letter to Speaker Pelosi just hours before the house passed a resolution urging pence to invoke the 25th, the Vice President wrote that such action is not in the best interest of our nation and would set a, quote, terrible precedent. I question his oath of office at this point, but that is what he did. The house convenes at 9 00 a. M. Debate on the impeachment resolution is se
And they said that super tuesday would be over, well, maybe it is for the other guy. Well, good morning to you on this saturday. Were grateful for your company. Im christi paul. Im amara walker in for victor blackwell. This morning, 3500 people are stuck on a crew ship after a case of coronavirus was confirmed on board. 21 of the 46 people tested on the grand princess have tested positive. A passenger tells cnn, a helicopter, take a look at this, airlifted a passenger back to San Francisco for medical attention. Cnn reached out to the cruise ships Parent Company for details. Havent heard yet. But across the u. S. , take a look at the nap here, at least 333 cases of covid19. States like utah, connecticut, hawaii, theyre seeing their first cases. A total of 17 people have died. The majority in Washington State. Concerns about the virus are leading to highprofile events being cancelled including the south by southwest in texas. And a danger to elderly and people with severe medical condit
On Thursday the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will allow the federal public health emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic to expire, but not everyone sees it as a cause for celebration. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra had renewed the emergency for 90 days in February, signaling at the time that this would be the last extension.