, 27, we welcome you to the primetime addition of cspans washington journal. A number of states beginning the process of gradually reopening. Congress set to return with the house and senate back in session one week from today on may 4. As new numbers indicate, about one third of the coronavirus cases in the world are in the u. S. Return with the house and senate back in session one week from today on may 4. As new numbers indicate, about one third of the coronavirus cases in the world are in the u. S. We will get the latest on the research and learn how the pandemic is affecting how you shop for groceries. Join in on the conversation our phone lines are open. Good monday evening, a lot to get to, but we will begin as we always do with the numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Northern 3 million confirmed cases around the world, 185 countries and regions. 210,000 deaths in the u. S. Deaths. Death toll athe about 55,000. Joining us from philadelphia is the director of the vaccin
Nancy pelosi. The president was introduced by housing and urban developing secretary, ben carson. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, the honorable, dr. Ben carson. Cheers and applause] mr. Carson thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you for your courage to be here because in the society that we live in today, it takes a lot of courage to say that youre supporting President Trump. Its rally quite interesting how people have tried to manipulate people and sbi date people and change their minds. This has been going on since weve been in america. You go back to the days of slavery, you know, and lot of the states there were more slaves than there were owners. So what did they do . They had to divide the slaves. So they told the ones in the house, youre better than the ones in the yard. And the once in the yard, youre better than the ones in the field. And then after it was over, the ones, ned one, youre better than the dark skinned ones. Today they say if you are a con
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage the honorable dr. Ben carson. [applause] dr. Carson thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you for your courage to be here because, in the society that we live in today, it takes a lot of courage to say that youre supporting President Trump. And, you know, its really quite interesting how people have tried to manipulate people and how to intimidate people and change their minds. This has been going on since weve been in america. You go back to the days of slavery, you know, and a lot of the states, there were more slaves than there were owners. So what did they do . They had to divide the slaves. They told the ones in the house youre better than the ones in the art. The ones in the art, youre better the yard, youre better than the ones in the field. The lightskinned ones, youre better than the dark skinned wants. On and on, they tried to divide people. Today, they say if youre a areervative, then oyou somehow an uncle tom,
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, the honorable, dr. Ben carson. Cheers and applause] mr. Carson thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you for your courage to be here because in the society that we live in today, it takes a lot of courage to say that youre supporting President Trump. Its rally quite interesting how people have tried to manipulate people and sbi date people and change their minds. This has been going on since weve been in america. You go back to the days of slavery, you know, and lot of the states there were more slaves than there were owners. So what did they do . They had to divide the slaves. So they told the ones in the house, youre better than the ones in the yard. And the once in the yard, youre better than the ones in the field. And then after it was over, the ones, ned one, youre better than the dark skinned ones. Today they say if you are a conservative, youre an uncle tom. Youre a horrible person, youre a demon. What a bunch of crap. You k
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