We have all long operated we covered the white house together, weve done that. We know how all president s and their Communications Team try to throw information out there because they want us, they want us to echo that. They want to put that out there. In an amendment such as this that so challenge with the subject of the continued influence the fact, do you change the way you put that information out there . How do you address that reality . You are muted, mara, sorry. This is a really, really, really tough problem. Because were so tribal, because of the tribalizing effects of social media, you know, whatever we do to discuss a piece of misinformation or disinformation, we putting that piece of this information out there and by definition i guess were giving it more life for airtime. Npr is a mainstream News Organization. We try to surround this piece of misinformation or disinformation with as much context and Fact Checking as we can, but what we found, maybe we can talk about this,
Coverage. Blake burman at the white house. Edward lawrence in washington. Well start with you, blake. Reporter jackie, last night during the Coronavirus Briefing President Trump first floated this idea of him potentially going down the path of trying to get a cut on capitalgains taxes going forward. Here is what im told according to sources. Right now the white house is exploring that idea, looking into it and doing so via the form of an executive order because there would be little to no appetite within washington, d. C. Right now of doing that legislatively, especially when you consider what the grand picture is with everything. Weve just heard some of it from Mitch Mcconnell within the last half hour or so. Both sides, democrats, republicans, still 2 1 2 trillion dollars apart. Both side right now not even talking. They are also acknowledging that this is going at least for the moment, nowhere. Watch. We are i will two sit down as long as it is a serious negotiation. Thus far it has
Some temperatures are cooling. There is not a screaming delta wind. It is not as hot as yesterday. We have 50s and 60s on the temps. We have fog and low clouds. The highs today are near average for some, slightly above for others. All right, over to allie, you said you had a minor blip, or is that better now . It is getting better. I am talking about south bound 238 before westbound 580. You can see it on the maps. It is no longer coming up as a crash on the maps. There is still some towing that needs to be done for this single vehicle crash. It is not causing too much backup. If you are taking i880 past the coliseum, you will see no problems to worry about. It is a short drive macarthur maze, 16 minutes. Once you get to the bay bridge toll plaza, things are pretty clear it is nice and easy on this monday morning commute. Lets go back to the headlines. Happening today, Oakland School students have the first day of school. There is still no deal between the Teachers Union and Oakland Un
Joined once again by Energy Editor of crystal ball at the university of virginia has sundered for politics. Lets start this morning in the battle for control of the senate. Three months out if you had to pick the hand to play right now, would you rather be in the position of democrats or position of rubble goods. Id be rather be with the position of the democrats for joe biden is in a better position than with Senate Results are not correlated but they have more bearing on than they did a generation or two ago. Back in 2016 that was the first election [inaudible] in which every state had a senate race ntalso voted for same party for president. Thats not guaranteed to happen this time but it does show president ial connections to the senate but basically the democrats are probably going to lose alabama where doug jones won that special election in 2017. [inaudible] the good thing for democrats is i do believe it will look good in four senate races, arizona, colorado are outright favored
19th. 19th news. Org is the upside. A first time guest, welcome to washington journal. Guest thank you so much for having me. I am so happy to be here. Host thank you for watching. We look forward to hearing about your new organization. Tell us about the 19th. How did it get started . What is the mission . Just the 19th began before the iowa caucuses. The idea was born about four years ago right after the 2016 elections. Had anraham shaw election where we saw in juice issues of gender on full display. Nomination and yet the narrative around gender was with that election were the same as they have been for so many cycles. Questions around electability, likability. Four years later, we started to see, even with six women and a certain number of women running for president , the same narratives and tropes again. Factoring their way into the election cycle. Emily felt an urgent need to create a newsroom where women were discussed, not just as a special Interest Group but as the majority of