Overseas. We are, looks like we are, completely start this segment in the summer of 1921 and in that summer, soviet russia is the scene of a catastrophic famine, as george nash mentioned. Millions are threatened with starvation and disease most of them as you will see are situated end and coming on the oval g. A. R. River valley. The soviet government is unable to cope with the disaster on its own, so its forced to allow an appeal to go out for foreign assistance and, at that time, and that day, in the summer of 1921, theres only one man on the planet in position to answer the call and that is the man you see here, herbert over, as chairman of the American Relief organization. As george nash told us, the era is a private Relief Organization, relief agency, but i would say, early, at least for this part of the hoover humanitarian story, we should say its quasiprivate, whoever is, after all the secretary of commerce and that will play a role and the story as it spins out in the next few
Okay, here we are, it is 9 00 p. M. On the west coast, and i am jen psaki, and the midnight shift is the best shift to talk politics here at that time big table to break down everything that happened tonight. Were going to learn more tonight, too, and we do have a lot to talk about, because results from 16 states ask one territory, dont forget that one, just brought us one big step closer to a General Election rematch between President Joe Biden and donald trump, and trump has unsurprisingly won a bunch of states bringing his total degrees to 900, so if we take a look at trump with the numbers, to catch everyone, four indictments, 91 criminal charges, two impeachments and on the democratic side, President Biden has swept every state so far and to jp, and another frontrunner that hit the magic number, those that need to clinch the nomination, but theyre both pretty darn close. Now a major outstanding question coming into tonight we still have, not about trump or biden but about nikki ha
payment of $5 million to eligible black adults. at the payment are estimated to top $100 billion and that s much more than the cds $14 billion budget. and my saying is going to be a solution to fix all the social ills that racism created, no, but i think it could provide some economic equality is a city and as a country, definitely. san francisco is one of many cities considering reparations on a state level, california is home into the first in the nation state reparations task force, under its recommendation. $1.2 million. critics say reparations could be fiscally irresponsible considering california is facing $23 billion budget deficit. proposals, caused would be absolutely enormous. also in california, community leaders are pushing for reparations by family who were forced to move so that dodger stadium could be built back in the 1950s. majority of those displaced were latino families, as for the state reparation task force report, scheduled to go to the governor
It all comes down to a matter of votes. Paul ryan is close, according to his team. Mark meadows disagrees saying the speaker doesnt have the votes. Kevin cirilli is on capitol hill with the latest. I cant figure out whats going on. I hear they will have it, theyre not going to have it. Im not sure what the president of the United States thinks. Kevin every person ive spoken with doesnt know, either. The president s position seemingly at odds with his Senior Administration officials. He doesnt think the sixyear extension of the Childrens Health Insurance Program should be included. Is at odds with what Senior Administration officials are saying. Lots of confusion on capitol hill. Listen to what Mitch Mcconnell told reporters yesterday. Im looking for something that President Trump supports. Hes not yet indicated what measure hes willing to sign. The house ofaid, representatives expected to vote at 7 00 p. M. Tonight. Theres division amongst House Republicans and not enough votes for dem
Lived in ohio, although they had immigrated from england and scotland. But the wilsons lived here in augustine and they were the only ones on his side of the family who were in the south and took the Southern Side of the conflict. All of his brothers and sisters his mother was of norse of the time up north at the time it. They created a bit of a division. The civil war affected the wilsons like it did most people. The modern part of the civil war the latter part of the civil war, the south was subject to a huge inflationary situation with money because of course, the confederate currency was getting more and more worthless. And we see that demonstrated in the church records, president wilsons fathers salary was 3000 a year when the war started. That was given to him quarterly in 750 installments. The latter part of a 264, the first part of 1865, they paid him in regular installments and they started shoving money at him, thousands of dollars at a time, 5000 here, 3000 there, of course,