Bill gates sr. And i know you and everyone at the foundation is feeling that loss. He was a tremendous man who i think many of us in philanthropy had a chance to get to know in various ways but not as much as you probably did. I think we feel his loss greatly. Let me just express that loss to you. Thank you so much. He was a remarkable human being and a remarkable humanitarian. Thank you. Indeed. So we are here at this unprecedented moment, and that word gets overused but it is kind hard to imagine that we could have as many crises facing us all now. We have got obviously the health crisis. Er with got the economic crisis. We are going through a reckoning on social justice. Many of us are experiencing the wildfires and other signs of Climate Change that are striking the country. And thats only the tip of the iceberg. Your foundations care about some of these issues and working deeply on them and of course education is why we are here and it is central to what you all do. How do you wei
About to talk about Social Security. Tell us about the health or lack of for the Social Security program. Trillion has a 2. 9 that can pay all benefits in full for the next decade and 87 after. It is more important than ever providing not Just Retirement which is important but benefits from a life insurance. Host what is the best way to make of that shortfall you mentioned . Guest there are a number of ways to do it. The balance is a means to an end, the end is what level of Economic Security to be want to provide ourselves collectively. We think the benefits are too low. The number will expand the and have the wealthiest contribute more to Social Security. Host have there been changes made to the Social Security program during the last four years ring the Trump Administration during the Trump Administration . Guest there been regulatory changes that have made it hard that have made it carter that have made it harder to collect benefits. There are a no bird of radiations that have been
You can text us, 202 7488003. Include your name, tell us where you are texting from. On twitter, we are cspanwj. We will look for your posts as well on our facebook page. We start this morning on the modernage of usa today, applied monday for an emergency use authorization from the u. S. Food and Drug Administration after receiving more good news about the safety and effectiveness of its covid19 vaccine. They are the second vaccine maker to request authorization from the federal government after similarly positive results from pfizer host we will start by asking you, when the back in comes out, will you get back native . Tell us your thoughts on that. F you will, 202 7488000 if you wont, 202 7488001. What are some of the next steps . We have a look at that and what you need to know about astrazeneca, moderna, and Pfizer Vaccines, in the third such announcement in as many weeks. Pfizer, moderna, astrazeneca, the headline from last week, the chart onated what happens next. Resultss repor
Most well litigated. One legal tracker is already following around 400 lawsuits filed. It is not just the white house and congress. Americans will be voting on everything from the gig economy to marijuana to taxes. Joe, we all know, after brexit, after the 2016 election, pulls, you have to take with a healthy dose of salt, but we are going to look at them anyway. Joe even in the absence of perfectly reliable data, we will tell stories on the data that we have. Polls all seemhe to be saying the same thing. Most people seem to think that joe biden is going to win. You can see how similar trumps pulling his versus the same time last year. The polling is, similar. Not sure what that chart tells me. Should i panic . Joe sell everything, by and back in the morning. Up a lotwhat tripped of people in 2016 was not the popular vote, it was the Electoral College trumps into thosereally go swing states and dominate there. We just had ed ludlow talking about what is going on in arizona. Us, keeping
Historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice may appease the port. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions, once that the court took quite unpopular. Let us go through a few places that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of different people who helped stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Good evening. Tonights landmark cases, 1960 fives griswold v. Connecticut, with a seven to two decision, the justices in this case establish a constitutional right to privacy. Its set in motion the expansion of privacy rights that continue till today over the next several decades. To give you a sense of continuing importance in our society, we put together a short video that is a modernday reference to the grizzle case. There is wild v connecticut, which recognized a right to privacy in the constitution i agree with the griswold v. Connecticut that marital privacy extends to contraception griswold v. Connecticut griswold v. Co