Member for the president s Reelection Campaign, talk about the africanamerican vote. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. This is the federal holiday marking the life of dr. Martin luther king jr. Today is the National Holiday and this is a live picture of the mlk memorial in washington, d. C. After about 20 years of planning and fundraising, this memorial twoopen to the public in thousand 11. The mlk holiday became law in 1983, signed by ronald lakin reagan into law. How are Race Relations doing as we enter 2020 . Are they Getting Better . 2027488000 is your number. If you think Race Relations are getting worse, 2027488001. If you are not sure, 2027488002 is your number. You can send us a text at washington journal. The number is 2027488003. Please leave your name and the town you are calling from. You can post a comment at facebook. Com cspan or a comment at cspanwj. Usa is the fro
Editorial, they are throwing their weight behind two democrat candidates for president. Senators Andy Klobuchar and elizabeth warren, for various reasons. What do you make of this double endorsement . Guest is unique both in how they did it and also in endorsing two candidates, but it is something i have been thinking about for years. It is time for newspapers to stop endorsing candidates. For a couple reasons. First of all, im not sure how many people are waiting around for a newspaper to tell them who to vote for. I think that that time has gone. But also, you and i know that there are walls within the Editorial Board, the reporting side, i think most people either do not know that that exists or they do not believe that that exists. When an Editorial Board makes an endorsement, people assume that the whole paper is in the tank for that candidate or those candidates, and i think that hurts the reporting, the journalism side. Andow it is a big deal in the New York Times is a wellrespe
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Oklahoma congresswoman kendra horn held a town hall meeting with constituents at the northwest Oklahoma City library. She took questions on the cost of Prescription Drugs, health care reform, border security, investment in Public Education and the impeachment inquiry. Color guard, post your colors. Color guard, honor your colors. Please join she in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Color guard, retreat. Color guard, dismissed. Audience, be seated. Thank you very much. Can we give our girl scouts a warm round of applause . [ applause ] so these young women are senior girl scouts which means they are in high school and they represent a few different troops that are working on learning how to interact with the world, to travel, to they do a lot of Different Things, but to explore the world and then to support younger girls, brin
Airspace security project here at csis and general raymond is going to speak first and then they will have moderated conversation following by audience q a. There are very few things that are considered bipartisan nature in washington by concern over space and space threats are one of those and so i hope you will join me in welcoming general raymond. [applause] thank you. Greatly appreciate the invitation and more importantly thanks for your leadership and wise counsel. I always enjoy coming to cis and had to apologize to the cas team because i always get more out of these engagement that idea. A great, id hope will get to that, have a really good conversation and are some things i could take away and continued to work on. I will tell you about three years ago just a little over three years ago before it took the air force Space Command as commander job csis held a dinner series, dr. Hamre hosted a dinner series what we brought folks in to talk about the challenges in space. I always m