Ahead of election day 2020. At 9 00 a. M. , dr. Howard editorinchief of the journal of the American Medical Association discusses the u. S. Response to covid19. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Camera shootings of africanamericans at the hands of police has caused unrest in the United States for the past few years and has turned into a Major Campaign issue in this years president ial race. Whether it is black lives matter, defund the police or other slogans and movements, how Law Enforcement relates to the communities they protect is on everyones minds these days. Morning,ion to this what is your view of Law Enforcement in your community . We are going to open up regional lines. That means if you are in the eastern or central time zone, you have a telephone number. You are in the mountain and , you have a zones number. And if you are Law Enforcement watching this morning, we want to know what you are seeing and hearing. We have a special line for you. Keep in mind, you c
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Billion. In total, republicans are willing to spend a little over a trillion dollars while democrats are at 3 trillion. Speaker pelosi just made a new offer, meet in the middle at 2 trillion. And if we take down a drill, and they add a trillion, well be within range. Reporter republicans dont like the proposal. Thats a nonstarter. I dont know that thats a reduction as much as she just change this time frame. Reporter the president s Economic Advisor said the administration is developing plans for multiple executive orders have a bipartisan deal cant be reached. That could include a payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits, and eviction protections. It comes as the white house is touting the new jobs report. 1. 8 million jobs were added in july, and the Unemployment Rate dropped to 10. 2 . This is a self sustaining recovery, and the job numbers are stronger than anyone thought possible, and were climbing our way back from the awful pandemic contraction. Reporter we are told that any exhib
And you end the. Five i cant contact got 50 i to i visited in the and that officers did not respond for 15 hours. With some of the Violent Crime that we get daily, it takes our officers away from responding to this property crimes. Reporter he says police need to do better. Every time they give you some reasons. We are busy, we had shooting somewhere. Thats not a public service, because i am a citizen. Reporter the owner tells me he would like oakland to hire more Police Officers who live in oakland so they are invested in the community. In the meantime hes considering moving out of state. Staying in oakland right now, firefighters are trying to figure out what sparked a house fire that destroyed one home and badly damaged another. Crews responded to airport of a fence on fire around 5 45 near sycamore street and dr. Martin luther king jr. Way. The fire started outside and quickly spread to two comes. One person was rescued from one of the homes and taken to the hospital for treatment.
Up next on the presidency, a talk about the marital and Political Partnership between james and dolly madison. We hear from the Vice President for museum programs, and curator for montpelier, she discusses their early lives, their marriage, and how Dolley Madisons political skills bolster the career of James Madison. Hello, again. Is the sound good . Ok. Im not going to introduce myself. [laughter] i will just kind of start talking. What i am planning to do today is to talk about james and Dolley Madisons lives before they were james and Dolley Madison. Then consider their partnership and how it worked to both of their great advantage, because of it being such a wonderful partnership. So these are the Gilbert Stuart portraits of james and dolley painted when james was secretary of state. Its actually my favorite portraits of the two of them, i think they capture the sort of sense of personality that i see in them. And they have, i think, in large measure sort of created images that we