And the aflcios Richard Trumka talks about Union Members and campaign 2020. Then priorities usa chairman guy cecil talks about his super pacs role in the election. Washington journal is next. Ccept yours i a nomination for Vice President of the United States of america. That was californias democratic senator, kamala this is the washington journal for august 20. Joe biden will accept his nomination. You can see that starting at 9 00 this evening. For the next hour your comments on the event of the Democratic Convention including senator harriss acceptance speech. Yo if you support joe biden, 202 7488000. If you support President Trump, 202 7488001. If you are undecided, 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003. Cspanwj, and you can post on our facebook page. Our coverage starts at 9 00 tonight for the final night of the Democratic National convention which you will hear from joe biden and senator cory booker and the former mayor of south bend indiana, former president ial candidate,
A look at the week ahead in washington and to do that this week we are joined by Daniel Strauss, a senior political reporter with the guardian and steve dennis, reporter with bloomberg. Now that supplemental is passed, the money is on his way out the door, what tools does congress have left in its toolbox to respond to the coronavirus p what should we look for on that front . Talking aboutre assorted other things to get done. Everything from paid sick leave for workers, a quarter of the workers the United States on have sick leave and there sort of other things they want including making sure testing is free, the treatments are affordable, that sort of thing. It will be interesting to see if they can get any of this on the floor this week. Theres a lot of other things going on this week. With markets plunging this morning and all the futures, you might hear more talk of doing some kind of stimulus. The last time we had this market shock was 2008. Remember what happened then. There were
Harris, california democrat and cory booker, new jersey senator. They are scheduled to appear with the former vp tonight as this rally, get out to vote rally, under way in front of tomorrows primary election in michigan paid michigan 125 delegates for the democratic nomination for coverage continuing our 2020 Campaign Coverage continues here on cspan2 and we will have this for you when it gets started. In the meantime, lets go to todays washington journal in a look at the week ahead here in washington. On mondays on washington journal we like to take a look at the week ahead in washington and to do that this week were joined by daniel, senior political political reporter with the guardian. Senate reporter, steve dennis. Now that that 8. 3 emergency supplemental has passed and the money is out its way of the door what tools does congress have left in its toolbox to respond to the coronavirus . What should we look for this week on that front . Guest democrats are talking about a sort of
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