Afterwards. High everyone, my name is brittany kerr. ,deputy director of events at politics and prose and id like to welcome you all. A few housekeeping items before we again, first i will be dropping links in the chapter you can purchase copies of both speakers books today, straight from pmpyou can also ask the author question today by clicking on the q a button at the bottom of the screen and we will try to address everybodys questions near the end of the program but if we dont get to your exact question we apologize, i have a feeling there will be lots of questions today. It is my pleasure to introduce todays speakers, first, Maya Rockeymoore cummings, the former chair of the Maryland Democratic party and wife of the late congressman Elijah Cummings. In were better than this, congressman cummings details the formative moments in his life that prepared him to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his actions while in office. s final words are a call to action for us all to rema
And now a new projection that we could lose another 30,000 americans to the virus by labor day. One officers view. For the first time were hearing from one of the men charged in the death of george floyd. Hear what he remembers about that day, plus see his body camera footage in the moments leading up to the deadly encounter. And wild attack. A biker gets too close to a bison and her calf while riding through a state park. Details on her injuries and why park officials had to track down the animal after the incident. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 secon secon seconds. I guess harris could be bigger than you think. But in the end its not going to matters because were going to win. Reporter the democrats hit a milestone in the race for the white house. Just 80 days to go, and the Democratic National Convention Starts next week. Joe biden had the audacity to choose a black woman to be his running mate. How incredible is that . Reporter the
Now. I am so pleased to introduce tonights speakers. Dr. Clarence lusane is an author, activist, scholar and journalist. He is a professor there and former chairman of Howard Universitys department of politics science. Dr. Lusane earned his b. A. In communications from Wayne State University and both his masters and ph. D. From Howard University and political science. Hes been a political consultant to the Congressional Black Caucus foundation and a former commissioner for the d. C. Commission on African American affairs. He frequently appears on msnbc and cspan and was invited by the obamas to speak at the white house. Author of many books, including the black history of the white house. Lusane lives and works in the washington, d. C. Area. He is joined in conversation tonight by Phillip Martin Senior Investigative reporter for the gbh news center for investigative reporting. Phillip is a multi Award Winning journalist and was part of a team of reporters that was honored in 2002 with
with across the globe. i run the clock, this is r t from the team and myself unit o neill, hello and welcome to then use our we begin with the latest. busy the ukraine conflict, there has been an explosion of an oil refinery in the russ stuff region of russia. after a drone was apparently flown into it. the moment was caught on camera on the circulating on to be delivered to the regional emergency services said nobody was injured, found the fire has since been extinguished. reports also suggest there were 2 strows involved, both ukrainian law. russia claims up to 500 ukranian soldiers have been killed in a strike on a shipyard near the city of nikolai, of military equipment was destroyed as well. the defense ministry claims key of forces are suffering heavy losses and that one battalion reportedly fled without orders having lost more than half its troops. and fighting continues in the city on sir. rude, danielle, it s in the lou gant s republic bottles. there have been raging
Is aljazeera. Her answer to us and this is the news out live from london coming up in a gobby defiantly embattled zimbabwean lady vows to stay in power and preside over the ruling partys Congress Despite being sought to by is all ok yeah. Preside over its procedures which must not be prepared. By unique acts because clearly you choose. To undermine a new beat. A special Arab League Meeting in cairo condemns iran and calls has a terrorist organization. Polls close enchiladas election with former president Sebastian Pinera favorite to win. I knew hopes of finding argentinas missing submarine after investigators received satellite signals. And im peter stammering with all the days sport Grigor Dimitrov has won the a. T. P. Finals tournament in london and earlier henry consonant and john appears triumph in the doubles tournament that whole nature of the program. Is ruled zimbabwe for thirty seven years and it seems president Robert Mugabe is reluctant to give up his power anytime soon that