Includes universal vote by mail, more Polling Places and protections against Election Meddling among many other things. And in a rare move, Vice President harris presided over the senate vote. Just goes to show that it is important to democrats. The bill was cosponsored by every democratic senator except joe manchin who did vote yes to at least start debate on the bill. That gave the democrats a united front but little to show for their efforts on a key priority. This vote im ashamed to say is further evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. The republican leader uses the language and the logic of the southern senators in the 60s who defended states rights and it is an endefensible position for any senator. So what now . Cnn has learned that democrats have georgia on their minds, pushing new legislation and spotlighting gop efforts at the state level to make it harder to vote after the growth of mailin voting this 2020. Mean team
What mailin voting might look like in the covid era with so much on the line, we did an experiment to see if every vote really will be counted. And name game. First on cbs this morning, well talk to the head coach of the nfl franchise now called the Washington Football Team. Say what . But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. I looked at my team and i said, the timing for this event is not right with whats happened recently. The flare up in florida. The planned celebration for President Trump to accept his nomination in jacksonville, florida, is now off. The announcement comes as covid19 cases in the u. S. Surpass 4 million. Its impossible really to stop the virus. And even when we try to do our best, even when weve locked everything down, it still leads to a mountain of dead people. Alexandria ocasiocortez criticized republican congressman ted yoho on the house floor after the two lawmakers had a verbal confrontation. Representative yoho called me, and i quote
The plug on an interview that wildly claims dr anthony was responsible for the nations coded 19 outbreak were going to discuss all that and more coming up all right its time to boost your news i. Have the latest oh good 1000 numbers worldwide cases almost at 16300000 with about 650000 reported deaths the top 3 countries with the most cases the u. S. Still leading the way followed down by brazil and india right here in this country the u. S. Cases topping 4200000 with about 147000 reported deaths so as cases continue to search president Trumps National security adviser Robert Obrien has now tested positive for the virus the white house saying there is no risk of exposure to the president or Vice President mike pence argues john hardy is joining us from miami for more on how the president is responding to this outbreak. President trump is actually scheduled to tour a facility where theyre working on a vaccine for cobra 19 its called the bio press a process Innovation Center at fujifilm d
On the ground in berlin to break down the new developments and why the u. S. Is pulling out all the stops to halt the project. Amid rising social pressure something passionate sports teams are looking to change their mascots but what could the economic consequences look like we take a look at the issue and the sponsors putting pressure on the team to change with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And china is the greatest long term threat to the United States those words are from the f. B. I. Director Christopher Ray who bless the Chinese Government in a speech made at the Hudson Institute race comments about beijing are wide reaching and include everything from accusing china of attempting to become the worlds only superpower to claiming that china has engaged in a campaign of theft and malign influence. Its now reached the point where the f. B. I. Is opening a new china related counterintelligence case about every 10 hours of the nearly 5000. 00 active f. B. I. Counterintelli
While u. S. Secretary of state might bump aoe has been visiting denmark on the agenda bus waiting copenhagen to backtrack on the controversial nord stream to pipeline denmark has just given the go ahead for construction work to resume but from pale hopes to get the danes to change their minds the u. S. Believes the pipeline will make germany too dependent on russian gas. Last week on paper Want Companies working on the project they would be subject to u. S. Penalties if they didnt and that involvement. In the baltic sea gas pipeline north stream 2 is still moving forward albeit slowly the u. S. Has threatened sanctions for Companies Participating in the project so right now there is just one russian ship laying the pipes for the remaining 160 kilometers. The pipeline runs parallel to the north stream one pipeline from russia to germany 1200 kilometers across the baltic once complete it will allow russia to supply double the current volume of gas the United States says germany is making