Trevor lets kick things off with the bad news. Or as it is known these days, the news. America surpasses 150,000 deaths. The staggering toll with florida, california and texas breaking single day death records. The u. S. Economy shrank at a 32. 9 annual rate in the april, june quarter, the worst quarterly plunge ever. The Labor Department says 1. 43 million americans filed jobless claims last week. Its the second straight week new unemployment claims have risen. Lawmakers are still at odds over another stimulus bill with added Unemployment Benefits expiring tomorrow. Talks are actually going backwards, not forwards, two months after democrats agreed on their plan, republicans still cant seem to agree on what they want. Trevor guys, i dont want to overreact but im starting to worry that trump is not going to make America Great again and i think i could see what the problem is here, guys. See, the economy is cratesserring. But the covid deaths are rising. So clearly what America Needs to
Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. The event will begin momentarily. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the chairwoman of the Republican National committee. Hello this convention will come to order [cheers and applause] 2020ates, welcome to the Republican National convention. Offering todays invitation, invocation, please welcome from vermont, j sheppard. Thank you, ronna. My name is jay and i am a republican. I am also a catholic donald trump republican. By the grace of god, i am an american. So let us pray. Thank you, o lord, for all the gifts you provide us, not because we deserve them, but solely through your grace and mercy, let us acknowledge the many gifts that god has bestowed upon us, starting with a president and Vice President that reflect the values of our founding fathers. And are willing to fight for those values, starting with life, knowing that all life is precious, from conception to natural death. There is no choice to f
Texas. Mr. Caro is the author of a four volume biography of the 36th president. Here is the 2003 tour of the lbj library. First time i came here, i was looking for the papers and came around the corner like this. This is what i saw. The only moment in my life, the moment in my life when i felt my quitting. I was really overwhelmed. What you are looking at here the papers of Lyndon Baines johnson, the 36th president of the United States. Pulitzer prize winning author robert caro has been sifting through the millions of papers of Lyndon Johnson for 26 years. Recently booktv joined mr. Caro to learn how he conducts research for his multivolume biography, the years of Lyndon Johnson. During our visit robert caro also spoke at the lbj library for the first time. Over the next two hours youll see parts of thats beach interspersed with abof that speech interspersed with a id be happy to take questions if anybody has a question they would like to ask. Keto is how you came to write about Lyndon
University in washington dc. Good evening. This thing has got to come down lower for me. How are all of you . Happy new year, thank you for being here. I am one of the coowners of politics and prose bookstore, lissa muscatine. Thank you. Along with my coowner and husband brad grant who is somewhere in the front and our fabulous wonderful staff, welcome all of you to tonights event in our Nations Capital and on the campus of George Washington university. I mention our location because think about it, we are at an Institution Name for our nations first president and only blocks from the Nerve Centers of american government, the white house and congress so what better venue for a conversation with tonights guest speaker, senator Kamala Harris spends her days on capitol hill and you are not alone if you think in a couple years she might be taking up residence at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. Since her election to the United States senate in 2016 senator harris has emerged as one of