Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and Historic Places and up next we travel to philadelphias Independence National historic park to learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place in the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Michael ifill. For we are standing in the house of representatives Call Congress how and was originally most of the history that is when it was but in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that we will see in a moment if the United States senate. The house of representatives each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population in our first sense of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house would sit in this room and then eventually from 16 states. And the story of philadelphia
From the dean of the Miami Harvard Business School and we have a lot to get cute but. We begin with the unemployment numbers as weekly jobless claims took an unexpected turn for the worse now for the week ending september 19th Labor Department reported 870000 americans filed for unemployment thats up from the week prior with 166000 the Labor Department remains stuck at a pretty high level here still above their peak 65065000 during the Great Recession that was between 20072009 the data comes as u. S. Lawmakers still havent come to an agreement on a new round of stimulus something the Federal Reserve argues is needed for economic recovery earlier this week Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell and u. S. Treasury secretary Stephen Newton well they expressed concerns over more need for aid. Password will depend on keeping the virus under control and on policy all see actions taken at all levels of government we continue to work with congress on a bipartisan basis to pass a face for Relie
[question inaudible] their party is in shambles right now. They have the squad leading their party. Take a look at so many of the people that were the most outspoken, and they say this was a devastating day for The Democrats, and you know it, john, and everybody else knows it. This is a devastating day for The Democrats. A very dumb and unfair question. If you look at his correction, he took that totally out of play. He made his decision based on the facts, not based on some rule, so you shouldnt even ask
that question because you know it is a phony. Go ahead. [question indiscernible] pres. Trump The Democrats had nothing and now they have less than nothing and i think theyre going to lose the 2020 election very big, including congressional seats because of the path they chose. Now who knows where it goes, from what i hear, theyre giving up. I just say, i know them too well, they will never give up. Theyll go back in the room and try to figure something out. This whole thing has been h
Entire cities overgrowth violent occupiers and people get pulled out of cars and stopped. The media sees evil in trump and his supporters who are doing this at all. So 2020 offered two events. The pandemic and this unending chaos. The first revealed a profound unity, a country banding together at great risk to its economy to fight killer. We all put on our masks. Whats the opposite . Youre seeing that now, the mob. Mindless indulgent rage camouflaged as protest. Instead of banding together to solve a problem, the mob celebrates the idea of no solution, only turmoil. Hence the daily distraction. And the media, which is irredeemably stupid, encouraged this by promoting the idea that america is irredeemably racist. Two movements. One is about protecting the vulnerable. The other tearing down anything in its way and of the two, who is the manipulative media backing . Those who destroy. Its not really about statues at all, its about the great unraveling. We are watching the left get a hold