Of reagents which is one of the kind of nine steps in the processing. Starting to feel like its march and april he says. Bring boo the conversation, dr. Larry brilliant joining us, epidemiologist, cnn medical analyst. Starting to feel like it did back in march and april. Is that your assessment looking at the numbers . Might see evidence of a plateau at a high level if thats the case. John, it is my assessment that were back in march or april. But if i might just say a word and add some praise to john lewis. When i was a teenager in 1963, he was the leader of the march in washington as part of the big six and snik and i joined them and watching the coverage i remember sitting on lunch counters in woolworth in detroit, michigan, when the snik nonviolent activists come up behind us and hit us to remind us if we were going to be an activist we needed to gracefully fall off that stool because they wouldnt kick us but hit us on the stool and i have fond memories of him today. Brings things
Returned from the march on washington and he began raving about a speaker, Young John Lewis who had electrified the crowd. And so imagine when i finally met him in atlanta in 1976 as a young law student, it was a transcendent moment like meeting a historical figure Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin who wrote the declaration of independence but yet here was someone who had made america live up to those noble words. Right. Along with dr. King and reverend abernathy and andy young and Joseph Lowrie and ct vivian and another lion we lost on the same day as john lewis. John had an incorruptible integrity and an ideological purity which was like a halo. Somehow this extended to everyone who was in his orbit. Myself included. And thats the reason the nation has paused from pandemic and protests and politics to bid him farewell today. Virtually every News Organization has hailed john as a civil rights hero. But john was a womens rights hero. A gay rights hero. A Senior Rights hero. A worke
Marching to change history. A day when the voices of the movement echoed across america. We are of a massive moral revolution. How long can we be patient . We want our freedom and we want it now. A call to action and a call for peace. The words that inspired a people, a nation, and the entire world. Free at last, free at last, thank god almighty we are free at last. Tonight, a special twohour edition of politicsnation. The march on washington. The dream continues. Good evening. Im al sharpton live from the Lincoln Memorial here on the national mall. 50 years ago hundreds of thousands of people stood where i am. Right now watching history. Millions more watching at home seeing the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, call for justice and equality. Powerful speeches and powerful music from singers like lahalia jackson, bob dylan. Tonight well hear those voices. Well also hear from congressman john lewis. I talk to him today from the exact spot on the Lincoln Memorial where he spoke 50 y
Marching against injustice, marching to change history. We are the moral revolution. How long . We want our freedom and we want it now. A call to ask and a call for peace. A word that inspired a people, a nation and the entire world. Free at least, free at least. Thank god almighty we are free at least. Tonight a special hourhour toll particulars nation. The march on washington. The dream continues. Good evening. Im al sharpton live from the Lincoln Memorial here on the national mall. First years ago hundreds of thousands of people stood where i am right now watching history. Millions more watching at home, seeing the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Call for justice and equality. I talked to him from the exact spot where he can spoke 50 years ago. And well hear some of the young people who traveled hundreds of miles to help change the course of history. Im honored to begin the show tonight with Martin Luther king iii and reverend joseph lowry, who mean call the dean of the Civil
The rapid spread of covid19 shows no sign of slowing with the United States now the focal point of the global pandemic. Infects in the u. S. Have soared past 100,000. More than 400 people died on friday, the countrys highest one day total yet. Globally John Hopkins University says close to 600,000 people are inspected and more than 27 thourkts ha,000 have lost their lives and millions are out of work. On friday, donald trump signed a stimulus package that dwarfs others. 2. 2 trillion. It includes measures to send cash directly to Many American families. The president also said he is invokingen an old cold war era w to get manufactures to crank out ventilators. Asked if it will be enough, he would not commit. Weve distributed vast numbers of ventilators and were prepared to do vast numbers. I think that were in great shape. I hope that is the case. I hope that well have leftovers so we can help other people, other countries. Anyone who needs it can get a ventilator . Dont be a cutie pie